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Headquarters Report Shows
That The Mark Set Has
Been Passed and Much
More Is Coming
Washington, June 26 (Tuesday).
—Tabulation at Red Cross head
quarters at 1:30 o'clock this morn
ing showed $100,313,000 in report
ed pledges ,of which $35,993,000
was from New York City and $64,
320,000 from Jhe remainder of the
country. Reports later Tuesday are
expected to swell the total at least j
$5,000,000 campaign managers
said.
Red Cross officials said they had
no doubt the totals will show that
American generosity has responded
in the same spirit as for the Liberty
Loan, with millions more than ask
ed.
All through the week additions
will be made to the fund, for cam
WÉfeukign committees in a number of
cities gathered so much momentum
that they insisted on con tinuing in
the canvass beyond the fixed time.
Ten million dollars of apparent
over-subscription may be necessary,
it was announced, to make the actual
collections equal $100,00(7,000, ow
ing to the possibility of duplicate
recording of some corporation Red
Cross dividends at their source and»
also in the locality where stock
holders live. The next two or three
weeks will be devoted to gathering
in the money promised in individual
pledges. t
Meanwhile Red Cross officials will
toy to formulate plans for the mos
efficient expenditure of the millions,
large portions of which already are
sought by humanitarian interests in
France, England, Russia, Rumania
and other European war-stricken
countries as well as here in Ameri
ca.
Just as .lie can vaign was closing
tonight the first actual money
reached the Red Cross treasury by
aerial messenger. Miss Katherine
Stinson, a young air-woman, de
scending upon the capital at the end
of a two-day flying trip from Buff
alo, Albany, New York, and Phila
delphia, carried to Secretary Mc
Adoo, treasurer of the Red Cross,
money and pledges gathered from
tiie cities she visited.
Alighting near the Washington
monument at dusk; Miss Stinson was
taken in an automobile by a Wash
ington women's Red Cross motor
corps to the south steps of the treas
ury, where Secretary McAdoo and
a great throng of sightseers were
waiting.
"You have made a remarkable
and daring trip," said the secretary,
as he took the envelope containing
checks and pledges. "You have typi
fied by your act the spirit of the
Bed Cross, which is to dare anything
tnren death itself, for the sake of
bringing relief to suffering human
ity."
The rivalries among cities, which
has been a distinct feature of the
week's campaign, were emphasized
bist night by the scores of messages
•reaching national headquarters here
and saying tomorrow's reports
Would show gratifying totals. Cities
which had not yet reached their ap
tionments reported their canvass
committees were working until
it and would resume early to
morrow in an effort to equal or
Exceed their allotments before re
*Jb>rting. Cities with more than 100
cent pledged sent word they
exert themselves to the ut
most to boost their total higher.
Étriet meetings, appeals to theater
«crowds, torchlight parades, ! and
evening calls on wealthy citizens,
were features of the round-up to
night. Funds were.sought today in
the name of Major General Persh
ing and tiie American forces in
France, for it was designated "Per
riting Day."
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HOW BEO GBOSS WHEELS 60 ROUND
W DISASTER SUES THE UUIO
There Is No Fumbling About During Crisis, Because Trained Workers
Know What to Do and How to Do It—They Accomplish Won
ders in Record Time—Recent Tornadoes in Central States
Examples of Sudden Great Trouble—Help Would Reach
Our Community Very Quickly in Period of Stress.
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other points whence the nurses and
workers were summoned.
An unofficial report said that food
and blankets were needed, and A. A.
Sprague II, director of the Red Cross
supply service, jnade arrangements to
open a great corporation's wholesale
warehouse, and ship "everything they
need," Sunday though It was. Secre
tary Champion of the Chicago chap
ter arranged to get GOO pairs of blan
kets from the chapter's warehouse and
send them on the first train. But the
wires from Mattoon, working busily all
day. Improved long enough, late at
night, for Mr. Davidson to get through
a message that the food and blanket
situation was not just then acute, but
that he wanted disinfectants and anti
septics.
The head of a wholesale drug con
cern was routed out of bed, the firm's
warehouse opened, and at two o'clock !
in the morning a Red Cross man, with
a consignment of iodine, peroxide of
hydrogen, chloride of lime and other |
needed supplies, started for the strick- :
en cities.
Mr. Davidson had been Joined by
W. D. Thurber, field secretary for Illi
nois, whom he placed In charge at
Charleston.
When Mr. O'Connor arrived, with
the nnrses and workers, he found both
his lieutenants on the ground, and
with the Chicago office ready to give
instant support, he began the relief
work. A committee of business men
was organized, a number of smaller
committees told off to take charge of
each detail of the situation, and In a
few minutes the machinery was In
operation.
The injured were given the best sur
gical and nursing care, the hungry
were fed, the homeless given shelter,
the dead identified and made ready for
burial, plans drawn up for rebuilding
the shattered homes, and a fund start
ed to rehabilitate both wrecked cities.
Other communities, struck by
branches of the same storm, were giv
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Mattoon and other cities in central Illinois were wrecked a few weeks
age by a tornado which killed and injured hundreds and wrought enor
mous property damage. The picture shows a poor mother and her four
children in the kindling-wood ruins of their home. The husband and
father was killed. Red Cron directors, doctors and nunes wore In ehargt
at the aeon# of the catastrophe within An hours after the storm.
it
of
en -relief by other workers. For ln>
stance, there was a rumor that In
northern Indiana 17 had been killed
at one place, and great property dam
age done.
"Let Bentley and Loomis look after
northern Indiana, and wire Cleveland
to help," was, Mr. O'Connor's order.
"Let Foster report to me at Mattoon
with all the help he can bring."
A. F. Bentley is state director of
Indiana ; F. D. Loomis is head of the
Children's Aid society of Indianapolis,
and gave valued help at the Newcastle
cyclone; Eugene C. Foster of Indianap
olis la a skilled charity worker. Each
did promptly what Mr. O'Connor want
ed done.
"Many reported killed by cyclone
near Hickman, Ky„ bat help has been
sent,, and we have the situation well
In hand," wired C. M. Boos, chairman
of the Cairo (DL) chapter. He had
seen much experience with the Red
Cross in the Ohio valley floods some
yean ago, and knew exactly what to
do and how to do It.
That la how the wheels of the Red
#ross started going round the moment
the disaster occurred. And that la how
they win start going round for oar
own community whenever It Is struck
by fire or flood, earthquake or pesti
lence.
Rad Croat Membership.
The membership of the- American
Bed Cross on May 21 wee little more
than 1000,000. This Is an Increase
of L97È0OQ, or 7900 per cent, in less
titan throe years.
When lohn J. (KOoaaor was appoint
ed director of the central division, and
«dared to rais» $100,000 for European
war lattM mark In the winter at 1914
18 there ware 8AOOO lawnkere la the
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Just how does the Red Cross begin
work whe^ an emergency arises. Mosl
persons know, in a general way, that
the Red Cross is on the ground very
quickly after a disaster, and rescues
the living, buries the dead and cares
for the destitute ; but perhaps few
know how the first step is taken, oi
who takes it, or what he does next.
This story Is meant to show just what
was done, and how, when the tornado
of May 26 laid waste the cities of Mat
toon and Charleston, 111., with a loss oi
nearly 100 lives, 1,000 persons made
homeless, and property worth millions
destroyed. |
It was late on a Saturday afternoon!
when news of the disaster began to j
trickle from the telegraph wires to the j
newspapers. Offices and shops were j
closed, and Chicago had gone home to j
Its dinner and its Saturday evening
relaxations. The first word to the Red
Cross of the storm came through a
Chicago paper to Charles Lee Bryson
of the central division staff of the
Red Cross. One of the editors called
Mr - Bryson h «s home and told him
what had happened, "feeling sure the
Red Cross woùld want to get on the
job."
It did. Director John J. O'Connor
of the central division was in Wash
ington attending the Red Cross war
council, at which it was determined to
ask the country for $100.000,000. But
Mr. Bryson located Walter Davidson,
another of headquarters staff, who had
remained late at the office to finish j
some work, and they took hold of the J
situation Instantly. i
After wiring Director O'Connor and ■
started for Mattoon on the next train, !
Mr. Bryson remaining in Chicago to i
keep the office open on Sunday and j
the national officers, Mr. Davidson i
give all possible help from there. The
newspapers kept them both informed
of the widening extent of the disaster.
"Mayor Swan is calling for troops,
and estimates the dead in Mattoon at
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100," was the last word direct from
the stricken district before the wires
wow ont of commission.
Next morning telegrams began
pour Into division headquarters.
Davidson, on the scene, reported that
perhaps SO persons were dead in Mat
toon, 400 Injured, 000 families home
less, and private property—chiefly res
idences of working people—to the
value of $1,000,000 destroyed; He
called for Red Cross nurses and work
ers at once. Charleston, he said, was
In but little better case than Mattoon.
John W. Champion, executive sec
retary of Chicago chapter, and several
members of the division staff, realizing
that the Red Cross would be "on the
job,'' hurried to the office, and all day
long, and nntll after one o'clock at
night, the office was reaching ont With
telegraph and telephone, snatching
Red Cross nnrses and workers from
their Sunday diversions and starting
them for Mattoon and Charleston.
Miss Minnie F. Ahrens, head of the
Chicago Red Cross nursing service,
and Miss Myra Y. Van Nostrand, su
perlntendent of the central district of |
the United Charities, plunged into the
work of collecting their nnrses and
workers—no easy matter on a Sunday,
when almost nobody was at home.
Mr. O'Connor readied Chicago from
Washington at three o'clock, and In a
short time was handling everything:
Right and left he Issued orders for
three hours, and when he left for Nat
toon on the next train, help from all
over tiie central division was on the
way to that town. He took with him
Miss Ahrens and twelve of her best
. nurses and fifteen trained social work
ers from the Chicago United Charities,
who had givra Invaluable help In the
Eastland, ateamer disaster. On the
train went six crates of hospital
supplice.
Until after one o'clock that night
the oflea was held open,
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(From The Red Cross Magazine) |
A year ago it would have been im
possible to send across the Atlantic j
Ocean any part of the American I
Army within thirty days after a de- j
claration of war. This year it was J
not impossible, but it was done, for
the Army, in one respect at least,
was ready—that part of it enlisted,
organized, equipped, and trained for
the Army by the Red Cross.
The first six American base hospi
tals have been ordered to the front.
They are the van of the might of
America to be thrown, if need be,
to the last ounce into this struggle.
They are the best we have, and
America can be proud of them.
Six of the leading hospital and I
medical colleges of the nation—
Harvard, at Cambridge; the Presby-j
terian Hospital, at New York; Lake-i
s * de Hospital, at Cleveland; Pennsy
| lvania Hospital, at Philadelphia;
Washington University, at St. Louis;
j and Northwestern University, at-!
j Chicago—furnished the personal for
j these pioneer units. The surgeon
j directors are all men eminent of
their profession, some of them in
ternationally famous—Dr. Harvey
Cushing, of Harvard; Dr, George E.
Brewer, of New York; t)r. George
W. Crile, of Cleveland; Dr. Richard
F. Harte, of Philadelphia; Dr. Fred
erick T. Murphy, of St. Louis; and
Dr. Frederick Besleÿ, of Chicago.
The officers chosen to link these
staffs to the Army, to take military
command of the six hospitals, are all
majors in the Army Medical Corps.
The War Department came to the
Red Cross itself and took Major
Robert U. Patterson, who has ren
j dered excellent »ervice as director !
J of the Red Cross Bureau of Medical j
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! f T lbert T Persons is in commard of j
i B °spital No. 2, ' XT v
j Major Harry L.
'Service, to be commander of Hospi-!
i — No _ 5 '_ the Harvard unit ' Major |
York;'making
com- !
manding the Cleveland Hospital, j
from New
Gilchrist is
4; Major Matthew A. Delaney,
No. 10, from Philadelphia; Major
James D. Fife, No. 21, organized in
St. Louis; and Major Christopher C.
I Collins is the officer in charge of the
Chicago Base Hospiäl No.. 12.
1 The dispatch of these' units illus
trates for the. first time the relation
of the Red Cross to the organized
miliiary forces of the United States,
, a relation not clearly understood by j
! the public. The moment these six !
hospitals were ordered out for ser
vice and their military officers were
appointed, that rrt*>ment the com
mand of them passed from the Red
Cross to thé War Department. The
hospitals, while still bearing the Red
Cross appellation, became in reality
Army hospitals, their personals be
ing augmented from the Sanitary
Service of the Army.
Yet. while the Red Cross lost its
parental direction of these hospitals,
it did not lose the obligation to con
tinue its fostering care of them.
Volunteer funds contributed to :.he
Red Cross fiad organized and equip
ped these units; the same volunteer
aid must now continue to keep its
enlisted creations at the top notch
of efficiency by providing the funds
for incidentals and the little com- 1
fort which the hospitals need but
which are not supplied by the Gov
ernment.
Not understanding this point in
technique of waging war, the rich
er chapters which have given ihe
thousands of dollars necessary for
c -uipping base hospitals have some
times felt that they should ha»'e o
controlling voice in the management
of them, even to the point of select
ing 'he officers. Now that war has
como it must be obvious that the
Government cannot* tolerate the
slightest invasion of its authority
from the outside in its unified ma
chine.
Does the public realize what an
achievement it was to be able to
send these hospitals to war almost
on the instant there was the demand
for them? That they were ready to
go on time was due to the organiza
tion about a year ago of thé Red
Cross Department of Military Re
ly
its
to
the
H e f followed by a year of unremit
ting work on the part of Col. Jeffer
son R. Kean, the director general
of the department, and his aids.
Had it not been for that forethought
at. the Red Cross headquarters, we
could not for several months yet
have complied with the request of
the British Commission for the six
base hospitals.
When the Surgeons General of
the Army and Navy last year made
the request that the Red Cross or
ganise a number of base hospitals at
top speed in peace time in New York
where transportation and comm«
dal factors all favored dispatch, it
took four months to get together
the equipment of two hospitals. Had
this wort been attempted in the eon
fusioa of war, not only would it
ial
aid,
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Patterson Leads Parish In Do
nations to Red Cross
Plucky Little Town on the Teche Raises
$3350.00. Pansh Total Donation Reaches
Nearly $9,000.
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Late returns today from different
lectiou of the parish show that Red
^ PO ** Week in the St. Mary Chapter
netted about $9,000.00 for thé War
Relief Fund. Patterson leads the list
with $3,350.00. Morgan'City second
Some of the items listed below are
not definite but each is approxi
at-! harden City (personal)
mately correct:
Patterson ............. $3350.00
Morgan City ........... 3178.75
Franklin ................580.00
Ramos (personal) ...... 506.75
500.00
Berwick (estimated) ..... 350.00
could not have been accomplished in
anywhere near four months.
As it is, we have to show for Col.
Kean's year of preparation thirty
army and five navy base hospitals
equipped and ready, while others
are in process of formation.
The declaration of war threw
Washington into a tumult of war
preparation. The bustle spread to
the Red Cross Building, too,
there it was not a bustle of perpara
tion but the hurry of organizing the
supply service for a service already
prepared.
The units ordered to Europe did
! not take their eqùipment with them
j That at first will be supplied bv oui
j lish hospital ships in the channel
_____ _______ supplied by our
Allies, the dark-age practice of the
| German submarines of sinking Eng
York;'making it necessary to enlarge the
! surgical and nursing facilites in
j France as rapidly as possible. Yet
j ered with the tentage.
! cost on the equipment,
1
these hospitals could not have ship
ped their equipment, bulky as it is,
with but little delay, as the mobili
zation of the Cleveland base hospi
tal, No. 4, at Philadelphia last Oc
tober showed. There for the first
time the public was shown concrete
ly the extent of a modern war hos
pital—eleven acres, an area 1,000
feet long and 500 wide, being cov
The freight
which was
sent from New York, amounted to
$355.15, while the total cost of the
mobilization was $5,035.75.
An American base hospital with
its 500 beds is regarded as sufficient
to care for the seik and wounded of
one of our army divisions of about
twenty thousand men. Each unit or
dered to the front consists of 23
doctors, 2 dentists, 65 nurses, and
150 enlisted men from the Sanitary
Service, and in addition a reserve
Quartermaster and two officers of
the regular medical corps. The
seniors of these will exercise mili
tary command of the units and the,
units and the juniors will be the ad
jutants and act as Company Com
manders of the 150 enlisted men in
each hospital.
FIRST AID TO THE
UNCONSCIOUS
(By Charles Phelps Cushing)
The surgeon, who is our chief
source of information for the mater
ial contained in this series on first
aid, opened his Red Cross text book
to the chapter on "Unconscious
ness," and carefully checked it, sen
tence by sentence, for accuracy.
Then he turned back to the first
page, spread the book open on his
desk and reached for a pencil and a
pad of note paper.
"All true to the letter," he ob
served, "but I wonder if it's all true
to the spirit? Do you get the im
pression after reading this chapter
that the diagnosis of unconscious
ness is rarely difficult if you know
all the rules? Let me tell you from
experience, then, that cases in this
classification often baffle the most
expert. Don't get it into your head
that the subject is one which is cut
and dried. Sometimes you can tell
what is wrong and sometimes you
can't. Beware «f feeling cocksure
and never delay about calling a doc
tor if you have the slightest doubts
about the nature of the case. In
cases of unconsciousness produced
by severe shocks, suffocation, poi
soning, sunstroke, or bleeding, every
but j
to
or
moment is precious and you muet
set energetically to work yourself,
while the doctor is on the way. But
usually tiie best service the first aid
man can render is to make the pa-!police
tient comfortable as possible and to , a
lean as much as he can about the a
j Baldwin (estimated) ..... 100.00
Amelia ................. 25.20
Charenton .............. 20.25
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$8,611.05
The St. Mary Chapter of the Red
C ros. were a , ked
to raise
$5000.00
as their proportion of the $100,000,
000 fund to be raised in the nation
as a Red Cross War Relief Fund. St.
Mary nearly doubled her apportion
ment. The national drive resulted in
raising considerably more than the
amount asked.
and in
through close observation
quiries.
"Note carefully a choice of words
that the text book makes in speaking
of unconsciousness: 'Perhaps no con
dition which the first aid student
may be called upon to treat may
prove more puzzling!' Sometimes the
condition is more than puzzling—
it is baffling. But perhaps the point
j to emphasize is that to make a cor
rect diagnosis of the cause of the
knock-out is a great deal more dif
dicult than the comparatively simple
operations of administering first aid
treatment. The commonest causes
of insensibility number not more
than a dozen-^Tfleeding, shock, elec
tric shocks, sunstroke and heat ex
haustion, freezing, fainting, fits,
apoplexy (or injury to the brain),
alcoholism and a few forms of poi
soning. ,
"How to detect an,d how to treat
cases of bleeding and of shock are
matters that we have discussed be
fore. Electric shock should carry its
own evidence, and the first aid
treatment is artificial respiration.
The diagnosis of sunstroke, heat ex
haustion and freezing should not he
difficult and common sense dictates
the proper procedure—do what you
can to raise or lower the patient's
temperature towards normal.
"We have another occasion dis
cussed fainting. It should not he
necessary here to do much more
than throu out a reminder that the
cause is a lack of blood to the braia.
Consequently the proper treatment
is not to raise the head. A hint or
two from the tex book is worth re
membering: 'You sometimes can
prevent faintng by having the per
son who feels faint double over so
that the head is between the knees!
If this is not effective at once do
not continue. Air, especially cold
air, and cold water often prevent ac
tual fainting when a person feels
faint. If a person has actually faint
ed put him in a lying-down position
with his head lower than the rest of
his body, so that the brain will re
ceive more blood."
Of fits the surgeon has little to
say except in the way of reassurance
that they or not as serious as they
appear to be and usually are com
paratively easy to treat. They are
not difficult to identify—jerking
movements of the limbs, resulting in
disarranged clothing; the eÿes roll;
the patient may foram at the month
and bite his tongue. "Very rarely
are they fatal. There is little to do
but to wrap a handkerchief around
some object that happens to be con
ventient and place it in the patient's
mouth to protect him from injuring
his tongue. Do not try to prevent
the convulsions. Simply place ( him
on the ground where he cannot
be bruised by his movements."
The treatment for apoplexy or for
injury to the brain is, from the first
viewpoint, ticklish business. The head
and shoulders must be raised, not
lowered as in treatnig a fainting
spell. Make all speed in getting a
doctor; beware of administering any
stimulants; place ice or cold cloths
to the head and take great pains to
see that the patient gets rest and
quiet—"in a dark room, if possible."
Do not make the mistake, our sur
geon cautions, of supporting that
apoplexy is peculiar to heavy-set
pehsons of florid face. Even though
the breath may suggest that the
man has been drinking,, do not make
hasty surmises: "the person with
apoplexy may have been drinking,"
or some one in tiie »crowd may have
given him a stimulant after the acci
dent. In handling many cases of un
consciousness you are on ground
that may baffle the medical
man.
not uncommon,
pa-!police department blotters show, for
a man with apoplexy to be locked up
a "common drunk" and to die Inter
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