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Relief Board, six trained nurses selected from a list submitted by the
Nurses’ Alumnæ Association, and three other persons, all to be
appointed by the Chairman of the War Relief Board.
CALIFORNIA.
The lectures of the Nurses’ Auxiliary of the California Branch, of
which Mrs. L. L. Dunbar, President of the Children’s Hospital, is
Chairman, and Miss Frances S. Hershey, Secretary, have continued
uninterruptedly. Miss Katherine Brown, Superintendent of Nurses at
the Children’s Hospital, and Miss Killiam have been very active in
this work, as well as Miss Eisel and Miss McCarthy. The lectures at
the Heynemann Overall and Shirt Factory, at the noon hour, have
proven very interesting and profitable, both to lecturer and the class.
They have found the work mutually enjoyable. This auxiliary has also
undertaken a course of lectures at the request of the Young
Women’s Christian Association. Notices of these lectures have been
posted in the retiring rooms of the large department stores. The
Branch is planning courses in home nursing and hygiene for the
Chinese women of the city of San Francisco.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Reunion Program.
But the old order changeth. New China does not brook the “cycle
of Cathay.” And here, in the Canton Bank Building, under the wing of
the American National Red Cross, has grown a flourishing offshoot
of the Grand Legion of the Red Cross, of the California Branch, that
has, in the vernacular of the street, “made good.” For a while—a
short while—it was contented to be one detachment: then it became
a twin; now its membership has reached about the hundredth mark,
with supporting members. We watch this changeling with surprise. It
needs no nursing.
THE CHINESE RELIEF COLUMN OF THE CALIFORNIA RED CROSS.
Saturday evening, March 27, 1909, saw the hall of the Chinese
Presbyterian Church so crowded that a burly policeman had the
doubtful pleasure of turning away visitors of both races. Inside was
filled with merchants and their families—the men on one side, the
women and children on the other. The Consul, in a robe of biscuit
brocade, followed by his suite, entered and aroused the interested
glances of Caucasian and Oriental alike. Like flowers, bloomed from
the dark blue background of the bloused and trousered women, a
parterre of babies in cap and gown of purple, blue and rose. Tiny
ques and tiny sandals, smiling faces, and not a whimper the long
evening through.
Under the guidance and by the gracious courtesy of Donaldine
Cameron, a noble friend of Chinese womanhood, a choir of Chinese
young ladies sang the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Later the
audience rose to the “Star Spangled Banner,” most beautifully
rendered by Miss Wong in a clear mezzo-soprano. The program—
partly interpreted by Mr. Wong, partly in Chinese—closed in a glory
of flashlight, the sudden burst raising pandemonium among the baby
choir, who were “velly much ’flaid.” A small dog smuggled in under
the blouse of Lee Ching, a real boy, supplied the necessary bass for
the tiny Celestial singers.
Organized by Dr. G. H. Richardson and the writer, the welfare of
this successful detachment has been splendidly nourished by Dr.
Mark Neumann, the Medical Director. From occupying the “parlors”
of the Chinese Native Sons of the Golden State, its members
became ambitious to have quarters of their own. Dr. Neumann
donated his waiting room. On one wall hangs the Dragon and the
Stars and Stripes about a Red Cross on a field of white. On another
the portrait of President Taft; on the third, beautifully written in
Chinese characters, the By-laws of the Legion and the Proposed
Women’s Auxiliary. Often a silk-trousered Chinese lady, with
polished hair ornamented by fine workmanship of jade and gold, sits
before these by-laws studying them seriously, beginning at the upper
right hand corner and reading downward.
Additional Notes.
ILLINOIS
I have the honor to submit the following data about the
organization and equipment of the Illinois First-Aid Corps of the Red
Cross:
The Illinois organization was officially born January 11, 1909—that
is to say, less than five months ago. On that day the reporter was
appointed Director-in-chief of the Illinois units to be organized. Within
a few days after the Illinois Branch was handed about forty
applications as a nucleus.
These new members who joined the American National Red
Cross, and at the same time the First Relief Column, were not
gathered in a few days, but represented a loyal band of men and
women who had joined in 1908 an independent, private first-aid
corps under my command.
All the officers were fully uniformed, practically in accordance with
army regulations. The fact, however, that the Relief Column officers
have no distinctly military rank and that the regulations in Major
Lynch’s text-book would compel them to remove the coat-of-arms
from the cap, the buttons, and the insignia of rank from the straps;
possibly, also, to lay aside their sidearms (there being no mention of
sidearms) produced such intense opposition that for a time I feared
not a single one with whom I had been associated in our attempt to
raise a first-aid brigade would remain with me. And for one man to
do all the work and to look for congenial co-workers all over again
appeared a Herculean task. It was then that I submitted in writing
certain propositions to Mr. Ravell, Secretary of the Illinois Branch,
who agreed to place them before the Central Committee at
Washington. On his return from Washington last December I was
advised that we could retain the caps and adopt more suitable collar
insignia, so that there remained but one objection, viz, lack of military
rank for the officers.
OFFICERS OF THE FIRST ILLINOIS LEGION.