Evening star., 1931-10-08
SEEK STAGE COACH
FOR CELEBRATION
Fred A. Emery Wants Vehicle
for Halloween Parade,
October 81.

The committee planning municipal
celebration of Halloween is looking for
an old stage coach to use in the parade
on the evening of october 81, it was
disclosed last night by Fred A. Emery
at a meeting Of the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants Of the District OF
Columbia.
One member of the association sug-
gested where the committee might be
able to find such an old coach, but Mr..
Emery is still looking for further clues
to a stage coach which can be used in
what he calls the Pageant OF Revelry."
On motion of Mr.. Emery, the Asso-
citation Of Oldest Inhabitants authorized
its president, Theodore w. NoyeS, VINO
was in the chair last night, to appoint
committee to arrange for participation
of the organization in the celebration.
The committee was appointed. to consist
of James F. Duhamel, Percy B. Israel, j.
Eliot Wright, B. F. McCaully, Samuel
Altman and Frank Dowling, and was
called to meet next Monday night at
O'Clock. Mr.. Emery requested that any
one having information about the old
stage coach communicate with him, as
president Of the Society OF Natives,
5315 Connecticut avenue.
Good to Have a Little Fun.
In urging all city organizations to
participate in the Halloween festival
Mr.. Emery said 1t would be good
thing "in these days OF seriousness to
have a little fun, a little revelry."
The principal speaker Of the evening
was Richard Thrush, national director
of life saving and first aid, national
headquarters, American Red Cross. Mr..
Thrush traced the history OF the de-
velopment Of the American Red Cross
from its first formal meeting for start
ing the movement here in the home OF
Clara Barton, at 1926 1 street. on May
81, 1881, up to the present, when he
described it as having 1,600 chapters
and branches, reaching every commu-
nifty in the country. All the civilized
countries of the world he pointed out,
are signatories to the Geneva treaty
establishing the Red Cross. The en-
blem Of the organization, he explained,
was derived from the Swiss flag in
honor of the original founder of the
Red Cross in Europe prior to its estab-
lishment in America. The Swiss flag
is red with a white cross. which was
reversed to q white background with
Red Cross, the organization thus taking
1ts name from the emblem.
Traces Junior Body.
The speaker traced the development
of the Junior Red Cross, which, he said,
had a membership of 100000; the
nursing service, with $4,000 enrolled
Red Cross nurses on call for emergen-
cies, first aid and life saving, in which
more than half a million people had
completed courses and 300,o 900 had be-
come Red Cross life savers.
Declaring that the American Red
Cross belongs to the public. Mr.. Thrush
said "the American people have always
expressed their confidence in their own
organization" He was speaking in con-
nection with the 50th anniversary Of
the first formal meeting of the Ameri-
can Red Cross in the Clara Barton
home here.
j. Eliot Wright presented to the as
sociation what he described as the last
brick of old Center Market, obtained at
the site September S. Mr.. Wright also
read an interesting autobiography" of
the Northern Liberty bell. which now
IS located in the old Union Engine
House.
Old Bell Speaks.
I'm looking backward" Mr.. Wright
wrote for the old bell, "I find that I
was the first to raise my voice when