Chapter V: Part 5

Sir Alfred Keogh has so planned his proposals that no one in future will be able to say that he or she can not assist in the duties of the Territorial Force. He takes the village as a unit. In each he places a Red Cross detachment, in which both men and women may share. The commandant may be some one of leading in the place, and the women’s portion of the detachment will have a lady superintendent, a position which, it is hoped, some one of note will always be ready to fill.

_Details of the Scheme._

Every voluntary aid detachment will be so arranged as to admit of dividing into two complete half detachments, thus:

Men—Commandant, medical officer, quartermaster, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, under officer and 12 men; assistant commandant, medical officer, quartermaster, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, under officer and 12 men.

Women—Commandant (medical officer), quartermaster, lady superintendent, ten women (including one trained nurse); assistant commandant (medical officer), assistant quartermaster, lady superintendent, ten women (including one trained nurse).

Under the commandant will be two sections, each commanded by an officer, who ought to be the village doctor. Their under officers will again be the chemist and his assistants. The men of the sections will be made up of tradesmen and workmen. Each will have an assigned duty. The carpenter and the smith would train to convert the church and the school into a hospital, make ready carriages and carts to convey wounded and sick, and fit up railway wagons, coal trucks, and the like for a similar use.

Others would prepare in peace time, so that when mobilized they could go to a house here or a house there, obtain beds promised beforehand, and fit them up in the temporary hospital, procure tables for operations, lay in the necessary food and fuel. Under the lady superintendent is to be the trained nurse, and her associates are to include those who have volunteered as cooks, and others who will look after the cleanliness of the hospital, wash clothing, and do all those thousand and one tasks which make for the comfort and the restoration to health of ailing men. In the larger towns and cities there may be dozens of these splendid organizations for making less terrible the dreadful results of war.

The Red Cross detachments have no place in our regular service. Because our forces serve over seas the War Office itself provides the necessary chain of hospitals and communications for bringing the wounded to the base. But the Territorial Forces are created only for service at home, and the hope is that those who can not for any reason join its ranks may at least render valuable assistance as members of their local Red Cross detachment.

The Central Council of the Red Cross Society will superintend the scheme, and the local Branches in the counties will cooperate with the various Territorial Associations in carrying out arrangements. The main object will be the base hospital, which is even now part of the Territorial Force organization. Beyond that, however, it is hoped that the Red Cross organizations and the general public may provide a convalescent hospital, where the men wasted by war may recruit before, if necessary, returning to the fighting line.

In time of war the organization would be: Fighting line, Territorial Army Medical Service, field ambulances, clearing hospitals, voluntary aid detachment, rest stations, ambulance trains, general hospital, convalescent depot, and homes.

NOTES

CALIFORNIA.

Mr. Steinmetz, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch, who has lately been in California, writes: “It was my desire to study carefully the design of the wood houses issued to the refugees. Mr. Dohman very kindly put me in the hands of Mr. McLaren, Superintendent of the Golden Gate Park, and I went with him in his automobile, accompanied by one of the active workers of their Organized Charities, and visited a great many of the little houses. These wooden houses have been carried away to different permanent sites, where they now form the permanent homes of their owners. As a rule they have been somewhat rebuilt, have been raised off of the ground, front porches and rear kitchens added, and they have been shingled and painted and set in the midst of gardens of blooming plants and shrubs, forming beautiful little suburban homes in which anyone would be content and happy. The woodwork, as far as I observed, was in a good state of preservation. There does not seem to be any rotting of the sills, the roofs seemed taut and, altogether, the wisdom of issuing these houses has more than been proved, showing that really your Central Committee builded better than it knew.”

Palma Cogliandro, the little girl who was brought from Italy by the Red Cross, and who, during an attack of measles, was most kindly cared for by officers of the Massachusetts Red Cross, has safely reached her destination and is with her uncle in California.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The District of Columbia Branch of the National Red Cross Society has finished equipping its relief station in the old Pierce mill, Rock Creek Park, and in the future all accidents occurring in the park will be given emergency treatment at this station.

A complete outfit of first aid to the injured has been installed. No regular attendant will be stationed at the building, but the equipment will be available to all who may need it at any time, day or night. The keys to the room in which the outfit is located, and which will be used as an accident ward until the arrival of one of the city ambulances, have been placed under the glass at the side of the door of the mill. Telephone connection with the city hospital has been made.

INDIANA.

A request was received at Red Cross headquarters from the Railroad Commission of the State of Indiana for some ten thousand of the Red Cross railroad posters, of which some sixty thousand have been distributed. The Commission was informed that the railroads had already asked and received thousands of these posters. The following reply to this communication was later received from the Commission, which also issued a special circular to all the railroads in the State urging them to apply for these posters:

DEAR SIR: Your favor of June 7th was received and carefully
noted.

I agree with you that your system of distribution of the Red
Cross warning posters is adequate, and you will allow me to say
that it is my opinion that they are doing a great deal of good.

Our Commission has been so impressed with the value of these
posters that we desire to go further than you have done in
their distribution, if it can be satisfactorily arranged. We
wish to post them in the schoolhouses of this State. We think
that children ought to be instructed, especially those who, in
the country, ride over unprotected highway grade crossings, as
to how serious is the danger that they constantly incur.

There are 11,000 unprotected highway grade crossings of the
railroads in this State. A great many people, and very often
children, are killed by the trains on these crossings. We think
that the attractiveness of your poster, its large letters and
its colors would strike the attention of the children in the
public schools.

If you can arrange in some way to supply this Commission with
the quantity mentioned in my letter of the 7th, I believe the
result would be satisfactory to your Association.

Yours, very truly,

W. J. WOOD, _Chairman_.

The posters were sent as requested.

MASSACHUSETTS.

The Secretary of the Massachusetts Branch writes National Headquarters as follows:

“Mr. Richard M. Saltonstall, a lawyer and member of the Massachusetts Branch, has been successful in stopping the use of the Red Cross as an advertisement on several occasions, notably in connection with the offices of quack doctors.”

MINNESOTA.

ST. JAMES, MINN., May 31, 1909.

Mr. ERNEST P. BICKNELL, _Of the American National Red Cross, Washington, D. C._

SIR: I got your address from clipping herewith from our _Minneapolis Journal_. I write for a copy of the last report of your organization.

I am, so far as I know, the sole survivor of the original “Auxiliary Relief Corps” of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, a corps organized by the commission in the winter of 1863-64, and taking the field with Grant’s movement on Lee, May, 1864, its first entry into the personal relief work.

In January, 1865, I put the Geneva Cross, now the Red Cross, on our corps of some fifty young men attached to the base hospitals of the armies of the Potomac and the James, its first display upon any organized body of men on any field in the world. The “San. Com.” had already been sufferers from lack of this protective emblem of neutrality.

Such reports, etc., as may give me a notion of the present condition of this now assured success, the Red Cross of America, I shall be grateful for.

I am, sir,

ANSON M. SPERRY.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Mr. Leighton, President of this State Branch, has sent to the editor of the BULLETIN a copy of an excellent essay on the Red Cross, written by a young man of the Antrim High School, and suggests that local Red Cross Divisions offer prizes for the best essay written on the Red Cross in their respective high schools, which seems to us an excellent idea. We regret that lack of space prevents our printing the essay referred to above.

NEW YORK.

A large and enthusiastic meeting in the interest of the American National Red Cross was held in Florence Nightingale Hall, Presbyterian Hospital. Miss Mary E. Gladwin, Superintendent of the Woman’s Hospital, presided, and addresses were made by B. O. Satterwhite, Mrs. W. K. Draper, Mrs. Charles C. Stevenson, and Mrs. F. J. Brockway.

The purpose of the meeting was to enlarge the general membership and to increase the number of nurses enrolled. The speakers especially urged nurses to enroll now, because of the approaching Hudson-Fulton celebration, during which the American National Red Cross expects to maintain twenty-one relief stations, six army tents, and an automobile ambulance service, with nurses in attendance.

It was announced that the Mills Training School had decided to affiliate with the Red Cross nurses’ organization, and the announcement was received with much applause, for, as the chairman explained, there had been a dearth of good male nurses in the Red Cross.

RHODE ISLAND.

The American National Red Cross and the Rhode Island Branch have sustained a great loss in the death of Mr. John C. Pegram, of Providence, a member of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross and the President of the Rhode Island Branch. The Red Cross in this country has had no more loyal and faithful supporter than Mr. Pegram since its reorganization in 1905. At the next meeting of the Central Committee appropriate action will be taken to express the deep appreciation of the Red Cross of Mr. Pegram’s services and its sincere sympathy with the members of his family and the Rhode Island Red Cross Branch.

John Combe Pegram, a member of the Providence bar since 1868, a former Representative in the General Assembly, and prominently known throughout the city and State because of his activities in benevolent and civic work, died at the Hope Club at 6 o’clock on the morning of August 11. His death resulted from an attack of cerebral hemorrhage.

John Combe Pegram, son of William B. and Charlotte Combe Pegram, was born August 26, 1842, at Owensborough, Ky. He was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, of Annapolis, in the class of 1863, and served in the south Atlantic blockading squadron from July, 1863, to October, 1864, on the U. S. S. _Wachusett_ in 1865-66, on various other vessels during the civil war, and on the staff of Admiral Dahlgren. He resigned from the navy in 1866, when he went to Cambridge. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in the class of 1868. He was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1868, and had been the senior member of the firm of Pegram & Cooke since 1885, though he had not been in active practice recently.

Mr. Pegram had always been active in public affairs and had held many offices testifying to his interest in hospitals of the community. He was a trustee of the Rhode Island Hospital, and for several years was Secretary of the Board of Trustees. He was, until last year, a Trustee of the Rhode Island State Sanatorium at Wallum Lake, and President of the Rhode Island Branch of the American National Red Cross.

The Providence _Journal_ says of Mr. Pegram:

“There was a fine blending of Southern chivalry and New England rigor in John C. Pegram, who died suddenly yesterday. His Annapolis training and naval service during the civil war were marked by the same sense of public responsibility as his interest in our local hospitals and charities. He was the leader of the Red Cross movement in Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Hospital and the State Sanatorium especially profited by his loyal and valued cooperation. Independent in politics, fearless in denunciation of everything unwholesome, refined in thought, cultivated in speech, a gentleman of pleasing address, he gave to this community willingly of his time and labor and leaves it in his debt for forty years of good citizenship.”

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE.

Monsieur Moynier, President of the International Committee since its foundation in 1864, has collected in a cabinet all the souvenirs, orders, and testimonials of gratitude he has received during his long connection with the universal Red Cross. The idea of Christian charity is represented by an engraving of Christ dying upon the cross. Photographs of the founders of the Red Cross in different countries fill one album, and the publications of the International Committee form in themselves quite a library. The University of Tomsk, on the 350th anniversary of its foundation, unanimously conferred honorary membership of the university upon Monsieur Moynier, the highest academic honor that can be given in Russia. The Grand Duchess of Baden, in the name of the Baden Women’s Union of the Red Cross, has sent to Monsieur Moynier, with a personal letter, a medal and an illuminated address. The medal bears the indication of the 50th jubilee of this union, which was actually formed before the Red Cross, with a red cross in the center on the one side of the medal and on the other the grand ducal arms and the motto of the society, “Gott mit uns.”

Of the American Red Cross Text-Book on First Aid, by Major Charles Lynch, U. S. A., Dr. Ferriere speaks most highly in the _International Bulletin_, saying that it merits being translated and adopted by other Red Cross Societies.

The _International Bulletin_, in referring to the international relief work done by the Red Cross, says: “The international solidarity is developing and may well some day crystallize into a convention like that of Geneva, for the purpose of organizing specially for international assistance at times of great calamities.”

The American Red Cross ventures respectfully to suggest that this international assistance after great calamities needs no special convention, that the Red Cross Societies of the world, originally organized to render volunteer aid in time of war, have, almost without exception, so broadened their scope of work as to include the assistance necessary after great calamities. The American Red Cross, since its reorganization in 1905, has rendered assistance after some eighteen serious disasters, eleven of which were in foreign lands. If the American Red Cross shall have the honor and pleasure of receiving the Ninth International Red Cross Conference at Washington, it will ask that special attention be paid to this question of international assistance at times of great calamities. Such international cooperation in relief measures would not only bring the financial assistance that does so much to relieve the sufferings of the victims and gives them new courage because of the consciousness of brotherly sympathy the world over, but the experience and knowledge of each and all as to methods of relief after various kinds of calamities, such as fires, earthquakes, famines, floods, and epidemics, could be available for the benefit of those in need of such aid. Much time, money, and supplies are often wasted and unnecessary suffering caused because of lack of experience in how best to proceed with relief measures.

BULGARIA.

The annual meeting of the Bulgarian Red Cross was held at Sofia on May 1. The reports show that the society possesses, in funds and value of supplies, about $336,200. It will soon open a new hospital for the instruction of its nurses. In 1908 it took energetic measures to prevent an invasion of cholera from Russia. Funds were also raised for the benefit of the victims of the fire at Uscub, Macedonia.

CHILI.

The International Committee of Geneva has sent out Circular 123, announcing the receipt of the statutes of the Chilian Red Cross, which are in accordance with the Red Cross international regulations, and therefore the Chilian Red Cross is declared duly accredited to the Central Committees of the Red Cross.

CONGO.

As the Congo has now become a colony of Belgium, the Congo Red Cross, which has done much good work for the amelioration of the sufferings of the victims of the sleeping sickness at Boma and Leopoldville, has been dissolved.

CUBA.

[Extract.]

_Decree No. 406._

HABANA, CUBA, May 10, 1909.

The Cuban Red Cross Society will enjoy in Cuban territory all privileges accorded, or which may hereafter be accorded, charitable institutions.

The statutes and by-laws of the International Society of the Cuban Red Cross, adopted by the Supreme Assembly of the society on March 10, 1909, are approved by the government.

Dr. Diego Tamayo y Figueredo, elected on March 10, 1909, President of the Supreme Assembly and of the Executive Committee of the society, is officially recognized in such capacity and is appointed delegate of the Cuban government, as provided in article 36 of the by-laws of the society.

Mrs. Dulce Maria Perez Ricart de Sanchez Fuentes is officially recognized as President of the Central and of the Provincial Executive Committees, to which she was elected on March 13, 1909.

The insignia, uniforms, banners, etc., of the society, provided for in articles 5, 6, 7, 21, 23, 178, 179, 182, 184, and 196 of the by-laws, are similarly recognized.

Gen. Armando Riva y Hernandez, E. P., and Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales, Inspector General of the Armed Forces, and Dr. Arturo Sonville, Major Medical Corps, R. G., are appointed commissioners of the government for the purpose of drawing up, together with commissioners designated by the society, the regulations contemplated by article 31 of the by-laws for the government of relations between members of the Red Cross and of the official medical corps in time of war.

Dr. Florencio Villuendas y de la Torre is, in accordance with article 13 of the by-laws, designated to represent the Secretary of government in the Supreme Assembly of the society.

The provisions of this decree will be communicated to the commanding generals of the Armed Forces for the information of said forces, and to the provincial Governors for the information of Alcaldes in their respective jurisdictions.

The Department of Government is intrusted with the fulfillment of the provisions of this decree.

JOSE M. GOMEZ, _President_.

NICOLAS ALBERDI, _Secretary of Government_.

FRANCE.

The Life Saving Society of France has asked to become affiliated with the French Red Cross. It has been in existence thirty years, and its object is to provide assistance to the victims of accidents of public calamities and epidemics. This society, in time of war, will place its litter bearers at the disposition of the Red Cross. The French Society of Secouristes, composed of volunteer men nurses, whose object is to install emergency first-aid stations in Paris and other large cities, has asked for a like affiliation for the purpose of placing its 1,000 trained men at the disposal of the Red Cross in time of war. The Navy Department has issued an order permitting the French Red Cross nurses to study in the navy hospitals. Both the Army and Navy Departments have issued orders authorizing their officers to become members of the Red Cross. The methods of discovering the wounded after battle, especially when the search has to be made at night, is receiving particular attention in France; the use of trained dogs and of powerful lights are being carefully studied.

The income of the Central Committee of the French Red Cross last year amounted to $71,162, without including those of the two branches, the Association of French Women and the Union of the Women of France. Legacies amounting to $11,200 were also received. The Academy of Moral Science, in recognition of the Red Cross work in Morocco, awarded the society the Audifferd prize of $3,000, the highest distinction it can confer. As a recognition of the same services, the Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of $3,000 to the Red Cross “as a testimony of the gratitude of the nation.” The society, during the past year, sent to the military posts 6,800 books and magazines, not counting 360 subscriptions to periodicals; 3,612 games were also sent for the soldiers’ use. The French Red Cross presented to the Queen of Italy and to the Duchess of Aosta the gold medals of the society in appreciation of their heroic work for the earthquake victims.

RED CROSS AND AVIATION.—Near the Red Cross temporary hospital stood a man with a telescope, sweeping the whole plain. Beside him was an automobile, ready to start at a second’s notice. As soon as Bleriot fell assistance was rushed to him and he was quickly in the nurse’s hands. His injuries, considering that he had fallen sixty feet, proved slight, but his nervous system received a terrible shock. When he appeared at lunch on the stand his left hand was bandaged and he walked with a slight limp. He was heartily cheered.

In an hour’s time after news of the earthquake in Provence had reached it, the Marseilles Committee of the Association of French Women of the Red Cross had ready a fully equipped hospital with its personnel, which was established at Rognes. In speaking of this work one of the Marseilles papers said: “The promptitude of this mobilization proves to us the value of the Red Cross and the necessity for its practical instructions.”

The French War Department has conferred the gold medal of honor upon Mademoiselle Berthe Clavery, a Red Cross nurse, who, after many months of most devoted service in Morocco, nearly lost her life through typhoid fever contracted while on this patriotic duty.

GERMANY.

By postal regulation all contributions for the Central Committee of the German Red Cross, addressed to that Committee in care of its official bank, can be sent free.

The society reports up to date that contributions for the flood sufferers in Germany amount to $46,185.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The War Department of Great Britain has issued a circular to the officers of the Territorial Medical Corps, recommending that on their retirement they become members of the St. Andrews’ Ambulance Corps of the Red Cross, which now numbers 4,000 active members. In the First Aid Department of this BULLETIN will be found a most interesting article on the plans of the British War Department and the Red Cross for developing the latter for war relief service. In April, 1909, the Canadian Red Cross was officially recognized by the government. It is affiliated with the British Red Cross.

GREECE.

In its report for 1907, the Greek Red Cross states that it furnished antiseptics and other supplies to twenty-three hospitals. The sick and wounded refugees from Macedonia were aided. For a number of sick refugees from Roumelia and Bulgaria tents, linen, and other necessary articles were provided. After the International Conference at London, the Greek Red Cross formulated the following recommendations:

1. To procure, as soon as possible, further legal protection for the name and insignia of the Red Cross.

2. To procure different means for the transportation of wounded.

3. To found a school for the training of nurses.

4. To continue to take part in the anti-tuberculosis campaign.

Its funds and value of supplies amount to $155,285.

JAPAN.

After the Italian earthquake the Japanese Red Cross made an appeal in its public press and $81,800 were received and sent to Italy. In a letter its President, Count Matsukata, says that there were many touching contributions from poor students, sons of peasants, who made great sacrifices to send their modest contributions, which were accompanied by naively cordial words of sympathy.

THE NETHERLANDS.

H. R. H., the Duke of Mecklenburg, a prince of the Netherlands, has been appointed President of the Dutch Red Cross.

RUSSIA.

The Russian Red Cross has again to mourn the loss of one of its most distinguished members, Prof. Frederick de Martens, who died June 20 while on his way to his estate in Livonia. Professor Martens, renowned for his knowledge of international law, was a most devoted and enthusiastic supporter of the Red Cross. In June, 1907, before attending The Hague Convention, where he was the most prominent Russian representative, he represented the Russian Red Cross at the Eighth International Red Cross Conference and carried from this conference some of its important resolutions to The Hague Convention. During the war with Japan he was at the head of the Bureau of Prisoners of the Russian Red Cross, and at the time of his death he was President of the International Red Cross Jury on the Awarding of the Marie Feodorovna Fund prizes. The American Red Cross extends its sincere sympathy to the Russian Red Cross for the serious loss it has thus sustained, and which loss is shared by the International Red Cross.

SAXONY.

The Saxon Red Cross has created a special committee, which has charge of relief measures after great calamities. The society sent $5,000 and a large amount of supplies to the Italian earthquake relief.

SPAIN.

The Spanish Red Cross has received from Monsieur Bayod, pharmacist of the court, two automatic apparatus for the production of oxygen. The contributions of this society for the Italian relief amounted to some $20,000, besides a large amount of supplies.

SWITZERLAND.

The Swiss Red Cross has suffered the misfortune of again losing by death its President, Monsieur Pestalozzi. We desire to express, on the part of the American Red Cross, our sincere sympathy to our sister society. The Swiss Red Cross raised $108,646 for the Italian relief. A number of houses were built in Reggio and Messina, which shelter seventy-four families.

TURKEY.

At the time of the Armenian massacres the International Committee received an appeal from the College of Tarsus for Red Cross assistance for the victims. The Committee telegraphed to the Committee of Constantinople, asking it to render immediate aid. The latter replied by telegraph that owing to the lack of personnel, and because of conditions in Constantinople, it was unable to respond to this appeal. By letter it also expressed its regrets that it could not send aid to Adana, as its stores had been entirely exhausted during the Greco-Turkish war and not replenished. From its small funds it, however, appropriated $400 for the relief at Adana. The letter, which was signed by Fayk G. della Sudda, as President of the Red Crescent, told of the difficulties under the old government, which almost prohibited the society from raising any funds, but states that under the new government it hopes to make rapid progress.

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POCKET SIZE, viii+244 PAGES.

=For Sale by The American National Red Cross, Washington, D. C. PRICE, $1.00 PER COPY=

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GUM GLUTEN FLOUR

GUARANTEED UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30TH 1906. SERIAL NO. 5715 FOR SALE BY ONE LEADING GROCER IN EACH CITY—WRITE FOR HIS NAME AND BOOK OF RECIPES—MENTION PUBLICATION

THE PURE GLUTEN FOOD CO. 90 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

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_Patents_

ALEXANDER & DOWELL

Attorneys at Law

918 F St., Washington, D.C.

(Established 1857)

Procure Patents and Trade-Marks; render Expert Opinions on Patentability of Inventions; Validity and Infringement of Patents. Practice in all Federal Courts. Inquiries courteously and freely answered.

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Army and Navy Academy

WASHINGTON, D. C.

SPECIAL COACHING FOR THE U. S. Military and Naval Service Examinations

Candidates are thoroughly prepared, both in class and by private individual instruction, for the following examinations

WEST POINT, Military Academy, Entrance Examination.
ANNAPOLIS, Naval Academy, Entrance Examination.
U. S. ARMY, 2d Lieutenant, Entrance Examination.
U. S. NAVY, Asst. Paymaster, Entrance Examination.
U. S. MARINE CORPS, 2d Lieut., Entrance Examination.
REVENUE CUTTER, Cadet, Entrance Examination.

_Remarkable Success in all the Service Examinations_

For Particulars Address M. DOWD, Principal, 1410 Harvard St.

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Government Positions

=46,712 Appointments= were made to Civil Service places during the past year. Excellent opportunities for young people. Each year we instruct by mail thousands of persons who pass these examinations and a large share of them receive appointments to life positions at $840 to $1,100 a year. If you desire a position of this kind, write for our Civil Service Announcement, containing full information about all government examinations and questions recently used by the Civil Service Commission.

COLUMBIAN CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

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American Security & Trust Company

WASHINGTON, D. C.

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 shareholder’s 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.

Accounts Solicited

Interest Paid on all Deposits, Large or Small.

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SPECIFY P-W-R CHEMICALS

Ether, U. S. P., for Anaesthesia
Quinine Sulphate
Morphine Sulphate
Bismuth Subnitrate, Bulky, Tasteless
Collodion
Hydrogen Dioxide
Iodoform
Thymol

COMPLETE LIST ON REQUEST

POWERS-WEIGHTMAN-ROSENGARTEN CO.
Manufacturing Chemists
New York PHILADELPHIA Saint Louis

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Buholz Artificial Limb Co.

_1325 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA._

These Limbs are made of Compressed Leather

The Limb you will eventually buy if you want comfort and satisfaction

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ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1, 1843

Thos. Kent Manufacturing Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

WOOLEN GOODS, BLANKETS, FLANNELS, UNIFORM CLOTHS AND WORSTED YARNS

U. S. Standard Olive Drab Covert Cloths, Flannels and Serges a Specialty

SPECIAL BLANKETS

FOR HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS

Union Mills
Rockbourne Mills
Runnymede Mills

Bell Telephone 160, Lansdowne, Pa.

Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania

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(Send for Nurses’ Catalog N)

APPAREL FOR NURSES

_Ready to Wear and Made to Order_

UNIFORMS
APRONS
CAPS
GOWNS
COATS
BONNETS
COLLARS
CUFFS

All Prices
All Styles
Best Value
Excellent Cut
Excellent Work
Superior Quality

FOR Maids

CORRECT UNIFORMS

FOR

COOKS
CHAMBERMAIDS
HOUSEMAIDS
WAITRESSES
ETC., ETC.

FOR Doctors

HOSPITAL GARMENTS

FOR

DOCTORS
NURSES
ORDERLYS
CONTAGIONS
ETC., ETC.

Nurses’ Outfitting Association

52 West 39th Street, New York

“Home Bureau” House Near Fifth Avenue

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Leave Your Wife a Fixed Monthly Income for Life

The Prudential

_Newest_ Monthly Income Policy

Provides a Cash Payment at death of Insured AND THEN a regular MONTHLY INCOME for your wife for 20 years or for life.

_Cost is Low_

Write now for Particulars and cost for _you_. Address Dept. 146. Give your age and age of Beneficiary.

7,731,739 Policies in Force

Insuring $1,434,551,347]

The Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Incorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey

JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. Home Office, NEWARK, N. J.

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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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KNEESSI’S SONS

MANUFACTURERS OF TRUNKS, SUIT CASES TRAVELING BAGS LEATHER NOVELTIES

425 SEVENTH STREET N.W.

PHONE, M 2000

SPECIAL TRUNK FOR NURSES AND MEDICAL PURPOSES

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TOILET AND HYGIENIC ANTISEPTICS

After having tried the various remedial agents for this purpose as a necessity to the toilet of your patients’ hygiene with unsatisfactory success, we would suggest that you recommend a twenty-five cent box of =Tyree’s Antiseptic Powder=, a preparation which both science and practice has demonstrated time and again to be of unfailing value in the treatment of diseases peculiar to the genital organs, in both male and female, as well as dermatologic practice. Prickly Heat, Ulcers, Poison Oak, Tender Feet, Offensive Perspiration, etc. It neither pains or stains. Is odorless and economical, consequently can be used by persons of moderate means, without the all-pervading tell-tale odor of Carbolic Iodoform, and such objectionable preparations.

Our little booklet containing its composition and how to use it will tell you more about it. Free upon application. Specify Tyree’s. Take no other but TYREE’S.

J. S. TYREE, Chemist
Washington, D. C.

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_J. E. CALDWELL & CO._

_Jewelers and Silversmiths_

IMPORTERS OF High-Grade Watches and Clocks

DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF Loving Cups and Other Presentation Pieces

Among which we mention the Silver Services for the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Iowa, Mobile and Mississippi

Makers of the Insignia for Buffalo Homœopathic Hospital, U. of Pa. Hospital, Atlantic City Hospital, Wilkes-Barre Hospital, etc.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

902 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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PATENT SENSE and Patents that PROTECT

yield our clients enormous profits. Write us for _PROOF_. Inventors lose _MILLIONS_ through _WORTHLESS_ patents.

R. S. & A. B. LACEY

Dept. 55 WASHINGTON, D. C.

Estab. 1869

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SAL HEPATICA

For preparing an

EFFERVESCING ARTIFICIAL MINERAL WATER

Superior to the Natural,

Containing the Tonic, Alterative and Laxative Salts of the most celebrated Bitter Waters of Europe, fortified by the addition of Lithia and Sodium Phosphate.

BRISTOL-MYERS CO.

277-279 Greene Avenue, BROOKLYN—NEW YORK.

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Telephone, Main 3495

ADOLF BODÉ, LADIES’ TAILOR

Habit and Dressmaker

EVENING GOWNS A SPECIALTY

908 Fourteenth St., opp. Franklin Park (2d Floor, Bradford Building) WASHINGTON, D. C.

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_In answering advertisements please mention THE AMERICAN RED CROSS BULLETIN._

ADDRESS OF STATE BRANCHES

CALIFORNIA: Mrs. Thurlow McMullin, Secretary, 2200 California street, San Francisco, Cal.

CANAL ZONE: Miss J. Macklin Beattie, Secretary, Ancon, Canal Zone.

COLORADO: Mr. L. L. Aitken, Secretary, Colorado Springs, Colo.

CONNECTICUT: Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, Secretary, P. O. Box 68, Hartford, Conn.

DELAWARE: Miss Emily P. Bissell, Secretary, 1404 Franklin street, Wilmington, Del.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mr. W. A. Slater, Secretary, 1731 I street N. W., Washington, D. C.

GEORGIA: Mr. Allan Sweat, Treasurer, Savannah, Ga.

HAWAII: Mrs. W. W. Hall, Secretary, Honolulu, Hawaii.

ILLINOIS: Mr. Chas. H. Ravell, Secretary, 135 Adams street, Chicago, Ill.

INDIANA: Mr. Rowland Evans, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind.

IOWA: Mr. Charles Hutchinson, Secretary, 916 Fleming Building, Des Moines, Iowa.

KANSAS: Mrs. B. B. Smyth, Secretary, Room 8, 4th floor, State House, Topeka, Kan.

MAINE: Mrs. Anne Morrill Hamlin, Secretary, P. O. Box 732, Portland, Maine.

MARYLAND: Mr. George Norbury Mackenzie, Secretary, 1243 Calvert Building, Baltimore, Md.

MASSACHUSETTS: Miss Katharine P. Loring, Secretary, Prides Crossing, Mass.

MICHIGAN: Mr. Ralph M. Dyar, Secretary, 818 Penobscot Building, Detroit, Mich.

MINNESOTA: Mr. Edward C. Stringer, Secretary, St. Paul, Minn.

MISSOURI: Mr. Leighton Shields, Secretary, 1200 Third National Bank Building, St. Louis, Mo.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Address of Branch, Mr. Wm. F. Thayer, First National Bank, Concord, N. H.

NEW JERSEY: Mr. W. E. Speakman, Secretary, Woodbury, N. J.

NEW YORK: Mrs. William K. Draper, Secretary, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

NORTH CAROLINA: Mrs. Theodore F. Davidson, Secretary, Asheville, N. C.

OHIO: Mr. R. Grosvenor Hutchins, Secretary, Columbus, Ohio.

OKLAHOMA: Dr. Fred. S. Clinton, Secretary, Tulsa, Okla.

PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Joseph Allison Steinmetz, Secretary, Independence Hall Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Mrs. Victorino Mapa, Secretary, Manila, P. I.

PORTO RICO: Miss Josefina Noble, Secretary, No. 9 Tetuan street, San Juan, P. R.

RHODE ISLAND: Professor George Grafton Wilson, Secretary, care Brown University, Providence, R. I.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Mr. A. W. Litschgi, Secretary, 187 King street, Charleston, S. C.

TEXAS: Mr. Raymond D. Allen, Secretary, 483 Bryan street, Dallas, Texas.

VERMONT: Mr. Chas. S. Forbes, Secretary, St. Albans, Vt.

WASHINGTON: Rev. M. A. Matthews, Seattle, Wash.

WEST VIRGINIA: Miss Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, Secretary, Berkeley Springs, W. Va.

WISCONSIN: (Madison Sub-Division) Prof. Eliot Blackweleder, Secretary, care University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

WYOMING: Mr. Chas. F. Mallin, Secretary, Cheyenne, Wyo.

CHINOSOL

(Pronounced Kinnosol)

THE ONLY NON-POISONOUS, NON-IRRITATING, NON-ALCOHOLIC ANTISEPTIC

WHICH IS

“MUCH STRONGER THAN CARBOLIC ACID AND AT LEAST THE EQUAL OF BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY.”

(EXTRACT FROM BACTERIOLOGICAL REPORT FROM THE LEDERLE LABORATORIES.)

A THOROUGHLY RELIABLE DISINFECTANT SAFE EVEN IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN.

There is no longer any excuse for running the risk of poisoning by carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate.

PARTIAL LIST OF AUTHORITIES.

Imperial Board of Health of Germany.
Royal Scientific Commission for Therapeutics of Prussia.
Hygienic Institute of the University of Munich.
Royal University Clinics, Halle a. S.
Dr. Vogelius, Bacteriologist Laboratory University, Copenhagen.

In use in hospitals throughout all Europe.

CHINOSOL

DOES NOT INJURE MEMBRANES. FREE FROM DISAGREEABLE ODOR.

Every physician approves of the prompt application of a proper antiseptic to a bruise, cut, wound or burn, thus insuring surgical cleanliness until he can reach the patient.

CHINOSOL IS PRESENTED IN TABLET FORM. ONE TABLET TO ONE QUART OF WATER PRODUCES SOLUTION OF PROPER STRENGTH.

WE ARE INTRODUCING CHINOSOL THROUGH THE DRUG TRADE OF AMERICA.

IF YOU CANNOT OBTAIN IT, REMIT TO US, IN POSTAGE, AND WE WILL SEND YOU SUFFICIENT CHINOSOL TO MAKE

3 QUARTS FOR 10 CENTS.

Guaranteed by us to comply with National and State Pure Drug Laws—No. 2335.

CHINOSOL CO.—PARMELE PHARMACAL CO., SELLING AGENT, 54 SOUTH ST., N. Y.

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