Chapter C: K. Edmunds,

Secretary.

To Hon. W. B. Hull, American Vice-Consul in Charge.

AN INSPIRATION

BEING THE STORY OF ST. MATTHEW’S RED CROSS HOSPITAL.

BY NELLIE OLMSTED LINCOLN.

A beautiful thought of a wise and generous woman, like a fruitful seed, has blossomed and borne fruit in an ideal, modern hospital, just completed and given to the people of San Mateo.

Thursday, February 11, 1909, was a red letter day in the annals of this lovely little California town, for on that day was formally opened St. Matthew’s Red Cross Hospital, built and equipped by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid in memory of her mother.

It was a happy combination of circumstances that made it possible for four officers of the Red Cross to be present at the opening: Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Hon. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the California Branch; Mrs. John Merrill, Vice-President, and Mrs. Thurlow McMullin, Secretary. Addresses were made by the Rt. Rev. William T. Nichols, Bishop of California; the Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey, rector of St. Matthew’s; President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, and Mr. Paul Pinckney, thanking the donor in the name of the people of San Mateo.

Two years and a half ago, immediately after the earthquake, Mrs. Reid, feeling the great good a district nurse could do in the community, sent from New York a nurse who could be called upon for emergency cases and also to work among the poor. In providing for her, a house was built in which there was a fine operating room and rooms for six patients. Other nurses were secured, and in a short time one hundred and one cases were cared for. It was soon found that the building was inadequate, and Mrs. Reid immediately took steps to have it moved and on its place erected the one just completed.

This is a charming building, with timbered and plastered exterior, generous porches and accommodations for twenty-four patients, in three wards and ten private rooms. The operating room is entirely in white tiling, with an exceptionally fine light and every appliance for the use of surgeon and nurse. Opening from it are two rooms, one a sterilizing room with the finest of apparatus, and the other the room for anaesthetizing. In the entrance hall is a modest bronze tablet, bearing the date of opening and stating that the building is in memory of Jane Templeton Mills, born August 1st, 1832, died April 26th, 1888.

The halls are wide and well lighted, and the elevator with its electric motor can bring the patients from the lower floor to be wheeled upon the two porches, where they can find new life in the California sunshine. There is a special room for X-ray work, and there, as elsewhere, the outfit is complete.

All the nurses are graduates, Miss Sarah M. Dick, of the Cook County Training School, being superintendent, so that the care offered patients is of the best; and to hold and attract the highest type of nurse, everything connected with their rooms is as dainty as the rest of the hospital. Charming pictures in sitting room and dining room add to the homelike appearance. All physicians of the community are urged to bring their patients, and there is no distinction of creed—everything is offered in the broad spirit of the Red Cross.

Several beds have been endowed. Adjacent to the main building, yet surrounded by larger grounds of its own, stands the maternity house, in which there are also nurses’ rooms and headquarters for the district nurse, one of whose duties is to hold classes for anyone interested in “first aid.”

It seems as if Mrs. Reid had thought of every detail possible to make the gift as near perfect as a mortal may, even providing one of the purest specimens of radium. It is her earnest hope that similar hospitals will be erected throughout the country, so that in times of emergency they may be ready for immediate use for Red Cross purposes.

The affairs of the Hospital are administered by a Board of representative women consisting of Mrs. Ansel M. Easton, Vice-President; Mrs. Charles E. Green, Treasurer; Mrs. Lewis P. Hobart, Secretary; Mrs. Ernest Coxhead, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. A. M. Easton, Mrs. William H. Crocker, Miss Jennie Crocker, Mrs. Frances C. Carolan, Mrs. Walter Martin, Mrs. Laurence Irving Scott, Mrs. William Tubbs, Mrs. E. D. Beylard, Mrs. N. B. W. Gallwey, Mrs. J. D. Grant, Mrs. Mountford Wilson, Mrs. James Otis Lincoln. The president is Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey, whose deep interest and able leadership have been of inestimable assistance.

Mrs. Reid is Honorary President of the Board, and as perhaps it can be said of no other person living, this modest, generous donor has in the completion of this work finished a golden circle around the world of love and service for suffering humanity, for the Philippines, Paris, London, New York and California now share in the ministering care which she has provided.

THE STORY OF THE RED CROSS

WAR’S AFTERMATH.

Improvised hospitals were organized in every straggling village, but by far the largest number of wounded were brought to Castiglione. There was an almost interminable procession of wagons, packed with officers and soldiers—cavalrymen, infantry, artillery—all battered and bleeding, covered with dirt and dust and blood, each jolt of the carts adding to their suffering. Many died on the way, their bodies being transferred from the wagons to the roadside, and left there for others to bury. Such were reported as “missing.”

From Castiglione many of the wounded were sent on to hospitals in other Lombard towns for regular treatment and necessary amputations. As the means of transportation were very limited, long delays were caused and the overcrowding baffles description. The whole city became one vast improvised hospital. The convents, the barracks, the churches and the private houses were filled with wounded. Others were placed on straw in the open courts and parks, with hastily constructed roofs of planks and cloth. The citizens of the town were seen running from street to street, seeking doctors for their suffering guests. Later others came and went with dejected air, begging for assistance to remove the dead bodies, with which they knew not what to do. All the physicians in the place were inadequate and most of the military surgeons were forced to leave with their armies.

By Saturday following the battle the wounded who had been assembled in the city became so numerous that the attempt to cope with the attention they required became impossible, and the most terrible scenes followed. There was food and water, but the wounded died from hunger and thirst, for there were not hands enough to minister to their necessities. There was lint in abundance, but not enough persons to apply it, nor to give it out. To make matters even worse, a sudden panic occurred. A detachment of hussars escorting a convoy of prisoners was mistaken by some of the peasants for Austrians and the report rapidly spread that the Austrian Army was returning. Houses were barricaded, their inhabitants hiding in cellars and garrets, and the French flags were burned. Others fled to the fields, and still others hastily sought Austrian wounded upon whom to lavish care. Down the streets and roads, blocked with vehicles of all kinds carrying wounded, raced frightened horses, amidst a din of curses and cries of fear and pain. Indescribable confusion prevailed; the wounded were thrown from the wagons and some were trampled under foot. Many of those in the temporary hospitals rushed out into the streets, only to be knocked down and crushed, or to fall exhausted from their weakness and fright. What agonies, what suffering, were undergone during those terrible days of June 25th, 26th and 27th! Wounds infected because of the heat, the dust and lack of care became insufferable. Poisonous vapors filled the air. Convoys of wounded still poured in. On the stone floors of the churches men of different nationalities lay side by side; French, Austrians, Slavs, Italians, Arabs, covered the pavement of the chapels, their oaths, curses and groans echoing through the vaulted roofs of the sanctuaries. The air was rent with cries of suffering—“We are abandoned, we are left to die in misery, and yet we fought so bravely.” In spite of the sleepless nights and the fatigue they had endured, they found no rest. In their distress they cried in vain for help. Some struggled in the convulsions of lockjaw. There lay one, his face black with the flies which infested the air, turning his eyes to all sides for help, but no one responded. There lay another, shirt, flesh and blood forming a compact mass that could not be detached. Here a soldier entirely disfigured, his tongue protruding from a shattered jaw, attracted M. Dunant’s pitying attention, and taking a sponge full of water he squeezed it into the formless cavity representing the man’s mouth. There, a miserable victim, whose nose, lips and chin had been taken off by a sabre cut, unable to speak and half blind, made signs with his hands, and M. Dunant brought him water and bathed his wounds gently. A third, with cloven skull, expired in a pool of his own blood on the floor of the church, a horrible spectacle, and those about him pushed aside his body with their feet, as it obstructed the passage.

By Sunday morning, though every household had become a hospital, M. Dunant succeeded in organizing a volunteer corps of women to aid the hundreds of wounded in the churches and open squares who were without assistance. Food and drink had to be brought them, as they were literally dying of hunger and thirst; their wounds had to be dressed; their poor bleeding bodies, covered with dust and vermin, washed, and all this in a terrible heat, in a nauseating atmosphere, and amidst the cries and lamentation of the suffering. In the largest church of Castiglione were nearly five hundred soldiers and a hundred more lay on the pavement in front of the church. In the churches the Lombard women—young and old—went from one to another, carrying water and giving courage to the wounded. From the fountains the boys brought great jugs of water. After the thirst of the suffering men had been assuaged, bouillon and soup were provided. Before any lint had been obtained the men’s underlinen had been torn into bandages to bind their wounds. M. Dunant bought new linen and sent his carriage to Brescia for other necessary supplies, for oranges, lemons and sugar, for refreshing drinks. He secured some new recruits for his volunteer band of mercy—an old naval officer, some English tourists, a Swiss merchant and a Parisian journalist. Some of these soon found the work more than they could endure and withdrew.

Pitiful are the stories M. Dunant tells of individual cases. Man after man would cry out in despair, “Oh, do not let me die,” as they seized the hands of their kind benefactor. “Oh, sir, please write to my father to console my poor mother!” exclaimed a young corporal of only twenty. M. Dunant took the address of his parents and in a few minutes the poor boy was dead. He was an only son, and but for the letter M. Dunant sent his parents they would never have learned his fate. An old sergeant, decorated with many chevrons, repeated with great sadness and with bitter conviction, “If I had only had care at first I should have lived—and now I must die,” and death came to him at nightfall. “I will not die! I will not die!” cried with almost fierce energy a grenadier of the guards, who only three days before was well and strong and who now, fatally wounded, struggled against this certain fate. M. Dunant talked with him, and, listening, he became calm and consoled, and finally resigned himself to death with the simplicity of a child.

On the steps of an altar, which were covered with straw, lay an African Chasseur, wounded in the thigh, leg and shoulder. For three days he had had nothing to eat. He was covered with dried mud and blood, his clothing was in rags. After M. Dunant had bathed his wounds, given him some bouillon and placed a blanket over him the poor fellow lifted his benefactor’s hands to his lips with an expression of infinite gratitude. At the entrance of the church was a Hungarian who kept crying aloud for a doctor. His back and shoulders, lacerated by grape-shot, were one quivering mass of raw flesh. The rest of his body was horribly swollen. He could not lie down nor rest. Gangrene had set in and the end came soon. Not far from him lay a dying zouave, crying bitterly. The fatigue, the lack of food and rest, the horror of the suffering, the fear of dying without any care developed among even the bravest soldiers a nervous condition that reduced many to tears. Often when not overcome by pain the dominant thought of the soldier was for his mother, and the fear of what she would suffer when she learned of his death. Around the neck of one of the dead men was found a locket containing the portrait of an elderly woman, evidently his mother, which, with his left hand, he had pressed to his heart.

On the pavement outside the church lay about one hundred French soldiers. They were placed in two long rows between which one could pass. Their wounds had been dressed and some soup given to them. They were calm, following with their eyes M. Dunant as he moved among them. Some said he was from Paris; others from South France. One asked if he were not from Bordeaux. Each wished to claim him for their own province or city. They called him “The Gentleman in White” because of the white clothes he wore. The resignation of these poor soldiers was pathetic; they suffered without complaint and died humbly and quietly.

On the other side of the church were wounded Austrian prisoners, fearing to receive the care they defied. Some tore away their bandages, others remained silent, sad and apparently without feeling, but most of them were thankful for any kindness received and their faces expressed their gratitude. In a remote corner one boy, not yet twenty, had received no food for two days. He had lost an eye and was burning with fever. He had hardly strength enough to speak or to drink a little soup. With good care he improved, and later, when sent to Brescia, he was almost in despair at being parted from the good women of Castiglione, whose hands he kissed while begging them not to abandon him. Another prisoner, delirious with fever, and also under twenty, lay with whitened hair from the horrors of the battle and his sufferings.

The women of Castiglione, noticing that M. Dunant made no distinction because of the nationality of the wounded, followed his example, caring for all alike, repeating with compassion: “All are brothers.”

All honor to these good women and young girls of Castiglione, devoted as they were modest. They never considered fatigue, nor disgust, nor sacrifice; nothing daunted nor discouraged them in their work of mercy.

RULES FOR THE PREVENTION OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

(Upon the suggestion of a high official of one of the prominent railroads of the country, a poster to be exhibited in railway passenger stations has been prepared by the Red Cross. The poster is printed in two colors (red and black) on white cardboard. A number of railways, in response to a communication from the chairman of the Central Committee, have asked for from 25 to 3,000 copies each. Over 19,000 of these posters have already been asked for by railroads).

The American Red Cross

William H. Taft
President

Robt. W. de Forest
Vice-President

Chairman of Central Committee
MAJ.-GEN. GEO. W. DAVIS
U. S. Army

CHARLES L. MAGEE
Secretary

Rules for the Prevention of Railroad Accidents

_NEVER_ cross a railway at a grade crossing before making sure that no trains are approaching.

_NEVER_ jump on or off cars in motion.

_NEVER_ stand on platforms of cars in motion.

_NEVER_ put head or other part of person out of car window.

_NEVER_ cross in front or rear of standing or moving train without first making sure that there is no danger from some other train or cause.

_NEVER_ disobey the cautionary rules for safety posted at stations, crossings, etc.

_NEVER_ forget that carelessness on your part in regard to these precautions not only endangers your life, but the happiness and welfare of those most dear to you.

“Prevention of accidents and injuries by all legitimate means is a personal duty which everyone owes not to himself alone, but also to his family.”

ISSUED JANUARY 1, 1909, BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

NOTES

CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

With the change in the administration there occurs a number of changes in members of the Red Cross Central Committee who represent the Governmental Departments. It is with the very greatest regret that the Red Cross loses from that committee such men as James R. Garfield, of the Department of the Interior, Robert Bacon, of the Department of State, Beekman Winthrop, of the Treasury, Henry Hoyt, of the Department of Justice, and Major-General O’Reilly, of the War Department. The service that these members have given to the Red Cross cannot be too highly appreciated. Besides the time and thought they have expended at committee meetings, they have done much special work for the Society. Mr. Bacon, at the time of the foreign relief rendered after many disasters in other lands, Mr. Winthrop as National Treasurer, Mr. Hoyt as Counsellor and General O’Reilly as Chairman of the War Relief Board, and to all of these members of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross our people owe a debt of gratitude for their unselfish assistance and deep interest in our National Society.

The new members to be appointed by the President of the United States we feel will soon take a like interest in this great international institution. A sketch of the new members will be given in the July BULLETIN.

The War Department has prepared the following form of certificate to be issued by that Department to such members of the American Red Cross as are accepted for the volunteer active personnel in time or war.

_Field Service Form 58 R_

_Series_ ____

_No._ ____

____________ 19__

_This Certificate is designed to identify
________________________ a member of ____________ branch of the
American National Red Cross, who is attached to the sanitary
service of the Army of the United States and who does not wear
military uniform._

_The bearer belongs to the personnel protected in virtue of
Articles 9, 10 and 11, International Red Cross Convention
and has fixed to the left arm a brassard with a red cross on
a white ground, delivered and stamped by competent military
authority. The number of said brassard is _____

____________________________
_Medical Corps, U. S. Army._

_Seal_

The Central Committee has accepted as an affiliated body the New York Red Cross Hospital, of which affiliation a report will be made in a later BULLETIN.

The Western Union and Postal Telegraph-Cable Companies granted the Red Cross the free use of their wires and cables for all messages pertaining to the Italian earthquake relief, and the Central Committee hereby extends its thanks to these companies for this generous act, which has saved to the relief fund a considerable amount of money.

The action of the South Carolina and Georgia Branches in returning unexpended balances of their relief funds is most heartily to be commended. Nothing will do more for our American Red Cross than such illustrations of careful administration of the funds entrusted to it, and the desire of the State Branches to turn back into the General Emergency Fund of the National Red Cross all balances given for Emergency Relief that such balances may be immediately available for future disasters. The Central Committee desires to express its appreciation of this act and the good work done by the South Carolina and Georgia Red Cross Branches.

CALIFORNIA.

Los Angeles organized a division of the State Branch on February 18, 1909. The following officers were elected: Dr. Rose Burcham, Chairman; Rev. Robert J. Burdette, First Vice-Chairman; Joseph Scott, Second Vice-Chairman; Mrs. Berthold Baruch, Third Vice-Chairman; Mrs. George H. Kress, Secretary; Perry W. Weidner, Treasurer. Committee members will be named by Dr. Burcham next week, when an earnest campaign to make the organization a substantial one will be commenced.

Bishop Thomas J. Conaty and Rabbi S. Hecht were the leading speakers at the organization meeting. In addition to the committees for routine work several of special importance will be appointed by Dr. Burcham on the enrollment of physicians, nurses and a first aid legion.

CANAL ZONE BRANCH.

On representation of Major Carroll A. Devol, Quartermaster’s Department, now on duty at the Canal Zone, that in view of the bright prospects of organizing a Red Cross branch on the isthmus, it would be desirable to have Major Charles Lynch, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, sent there to start the work, the latter officer was detailed for this duty by the War Department on the request of the Central Committee of the Red Cross. He sailed from New York on December 26, 1908, reaching Colon on January 2, 1909. Major Devol and Mr. A. B. Minear, General Secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Canal Zone, had already made arrangements for lectures by Major Lynch. These were fixed as follows:

Monday, January 4th, Tivol Hotel, Ancon.
Tuesday, January 5th, Club House, Gorgona.
Wednesday, January 6th, Club House, Culebra.
Thursday, January 7th, Colon.

Major Devol and Major Lynch appeared at all these meetings, the former explaining the special features of the Red Cross work on the Canal Zone, and the latter discussing the achievements of the Red Cross generally, with some special reference to first aid instruction. The various lectures were well attended and a considerable amount of interest was elicited in the Red Cross.

The Canal Zone Branch was organized on February 28th and on March 2d the President, Major C. A. Devol, reported a membership of 1,020.

IOWA.

The Iowa branch of the American Red Cross has been organized in Des Moines. J. B. Weaver, Jr., was elected President; W. W. Morrow, State Treasurer, was named Treasurer, and Charles Hutchinson was chosen for Secretary. An advisory board of seven influential men is made up as follows: Harvey Ingham, D. S. Chamberlain, W. O. Finkbine, Gov. Warren Garst, Lafayette Young, S. H. M. Byers and George F. Henry. All of these, and others, became members of the Society by paying the membership fee of $1.

MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH.

As a means of raising funds for the Italian earthquake relief the Massachusetts Branch, by authority of the Central Committee, issued a special stamp, a cut of which is shown here. The report of Mr. Walter E. Kruesi, the Stamp Secretary of the Branch, contains the following:

“I hope the Central Committee will make a note (in the BULLETIN) of the ‘Italian Red Cross stamps’ of Massachusetts, issued with the authority of the National Office. I think this is due to the members of the Red Cross as an explanation of the authority for the issue of these stamps. Between $1,100 and $1,200 worth of these stamps have been sold to date (March 15th) and the funds are still being received. The expenses, as I have stated before, were relatively heavy because we expected a much larger sale and feel that we would have had it if other State Officers had been urged in any measure to assist in the campaign. The receipts have been very largely from people who said that they had been given no other opportunity to subscribe.

“The Massachusetts funds were materially stimulated by the use of stamps and by the advertisement the stamps gave to the general Massachusetts relief fund. I send a cut of the stamp under separate cover, and think many of your members would be glad to have a few as a souvenir. They can also get the posters from us as souvenirs. These are very handsomely executed and have been widely commented on because of their artistic merit. The poster was painted by E. W. Kingsbury. We sell them at ten cents each.”

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mr. A. C. Kaufman, President of the South Carolina Branch, on January 18th wrote the National Secretary as follows:

“Treasurer Reeves will forward today a check for $333.21, balance from the Southern Flood Sufferers’ Fund. This fund has been splendidly handled by the Columbia and Marion Committees. The destitute have been largely relieved by obtaining employment for the men, which did not seem possible a month ago.”

BELGIUM.

LETTER TO PRESIDENT TAFT.

Brussels, January 20, 1909.

Mr. President—The Executive Committee of the Belgian Red Cross, at its meeting held on the 15th of December, 1908, decided by unanimous vote to send a congratulatory address to Mr. W. H. Taft, President of the American Red Cross, on the occasion of his election to the Presidency of the United States.

The Belgians rejoice to see therein the sanction, by the vote of millions of citizens, of their universally prevalent desire to have peace insured. The international work of Geneva is a symbol of the union of nations, and constitutes a most reliable guarantee of the maintenance of humane principles throughout the world.

The choice of your high personality, whose generous sentiments are well known, is for all a happy token of the great role which your country will take in future in the domain of charity.

Again have the American people given to the world a beautiful example of humane solidarity in preceding other nations in showing their generosity to the populations afflicted by the Calabrian cataclysm.

Be pleased to accept, Mr. President, the expressions of our highest consideration.

The President,
PRINCE DE LIGNE.

HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT. President of the American National Red Cross.

FRANCE.

As soon as the reports came of the disaster in Italy a meeting was held of the Central Committee of the French Red Cross for the purpose of considering what assistance it could render. Ninety Red Cross nurses were promptly sent to the scene of the calamity.

Reports of what other Red Cross Societies have done for Italy will be given after their bulletins and other publications have been received.

GERMAN RED CROSS.

On January 6th the German Red Cross dispatched for Southern Italy a number of physicians, trained nurses and relief corps men with the equipment of a field hospital. The party proceeded from Naples first to Catania, where the Austrians were rendering efficient assistance and where a number of Greek ships, flying the Red Cross flag, were acting as hospital ships, so it continued directly on to Syracuse, and was there put in charge of a hospital established in a large barracks. In the same barracks the Red Cross of Brescia was in charge of a hospital and another was under a Florentine personnel. By evening the many patients had been moved from the military cots to the comfortable Red Cross beds. An operation room was put in order and promptly utilized, for it had not been possible for the physicians of this small town to care for the hundreds of wounded who poured in upon them.

THE CONGO.

The Congoese African Red Cross, after twenty years of existence as a separate society with headquarters in Brussels, has, upon the annexation of the Congo by Belgium, given up its existence. Its hospitals at Banana and Leopoldville and its sanitarium at Banana, with its remaining funds, amounting to some seventeen thousand dollars, have been accepted by the Belgian Government, which, in its turn, has agreed to maintain these institutions with their personnel.

The Red Cross Needs Members

Will You Not Be One?

Annual Membership, $1.00
Life Membership, $25.00

For Address of Your State Branch, See 3rd Page of Cover

If There is No Branch in Your State, Send Your Application to the National Secretary, Room 341, State, War and Navy Building, Washington, D. C.

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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FROM ORGANIZATION TO DATE

CAPITAL
DEPOSITS Surplus and Undivided Profits ASSETS
Dec. 31, 1891—$ 588,715 $1,320,238 $ 2,159,704
1893— 809,261 1,462,097 2,905,658
1895— 1,266,201 1,533,184 3,777,185
1897— 2,627,182 1,587,455 5,149,138
1899— 3,702,594 1,738,455 5,807,569
1901— 3,943,832 1,838,108 6,012,165
1903— 4,061,215 4,606,856 8,680,468
1905— 5,555,065 4,709,706 10,311,840
1907— 5,753,260 4,904,048 10,712,722

Nov. 30, 1908—$7,450,174 Assets $12,407,298

Amount Paid to Customers in Interest $1,285,735.18
Amount Added to Capital for Protection of Customers $1,750,000.00
Amount Added to Surplus for Protection of Customers $1,967,124.47

From the foregoing it will be seen that the business of the Company has steadily grown from year to year, and, while the shareholders have received a fair return on the capital invested, the directors have always borne in mind that their first duty was protection to the depositors, which they have accomplished by adding over =four million dollars=, making a guarantee fund to its clients, including shareholders’ liability, of =EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS=, a record shown by few banking corporations in the United States.

This statement does not include our =Trust Department=, the securities of which, under the law, are kept entirely separate and distinct from the assets of the Company, and our relations being of a confidential nature, no published statements are made. The growth has, however, been much greater than the above.

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STATEMENT OF

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AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS OCTOBER 31, 1908

ASSETS

Loans Secured by Collateral $2,023,470.08
Bonds and Mortgages 316,643.00
Bonds 3,000,564.74
Ground Rents 18,000.00
Accrued Interest 46,185.86
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures, including
Safe Deposit Vaults 1,358,679.90
Miscellaneous 87,367.33
Reserve—(Cash on hand, in Bank and Municipals) 937,865.33
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Total $7,788,776.24

LIABILITIES

Capital Stock $1,000,000.00
Surplus 1,100,000.00
Undivided Profits 155,631.99
Miscellaneous 2,060.50
Dividend payable November 10th 60,000.00
Deposits 5,471,083.75
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Total $7,788,776.24

Trust Funds—Invested $7,469,022.03
Trust Funds—Uninvested 57,635.91
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Total $7,526,657.94

DIMNER BEEBER, President

JAMES V. ELLISON, Treasurer

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_The Safest Investments_

Are those that do not fluctuate during disturbed conditions of the money or stock markets. First deed of trust notes (first mortgages), well secured on real estate in the District of Columbia, constitute “gilt-edge” investments. They do not depend upon the financial responsibility of individuals or corporations for their stability, and are exempt from taxation as personal property. We can supply such investments in amounts from $500 upward. Send for booklet, “Concerning Loans and Investments.”

_Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co._

727 15TH STREET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C.

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_Huyler’s_

CHOCOLATES

BONBONS

FRESH

DELICIOUS

_Fancy Baskets, Boxes and Novelties filled with our Delicious Candies make most acceptable gifts._

1119 F St. N.W. Washington, D.C.

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Telephone, N 4372

Great Bear Spring Water

Fifty Cents per Case of 6 glass-stoppered bottles

New Warehouse and Office

322 R Street Northeast

Washington, D. C.

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NATIONAL ENGRAVING CO.

Designers, Halftone, Line and Color Engravers

Phone, Main 1679

Office, 506-508 Fourteenth Street, Cor. Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C., U. S. A.

QUALITY DISPATCH

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SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY OF BALTIMORE

CHARTERED EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR

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NATIONAL HOTEL

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street

THE NATIONAL HOTEL, situated about midway on the famous Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, is one of the largest and most centrally located houses in Washington. The principal street-car lines of the Capital pass the door, thus giving quick and easy access to all public buildings and points of interest. This house has just been thoroughly overhauled and modernized throughout. Steam heat, electric light and telephone in every room; new cafe and other modern improvements, rendering it one of the most comfortable hotels in the Capital city.

SCHEDULE OF RATES:

AMERICAN PLAN—$2.50 and $3.00 per day each person. For rooms with private bath attached, $4.00 per day; two persons in room with bath, $7.00 per day.

EUROPEAN PLAN—Rooms, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per day; Rooms with bath attached, $2.50 for one person and $4.00 per day for two persons.