Red Cross Department [pp. 178-191]

RED CROSS DEPARTMENT
needs, and she took patterns and plans, secured rooms,
and has since sent a generous donation of over one
thousand articles.
It will be seen that the flannel bandage committee
has had heavy and laborious work, when we remember that we have received 54,007 bandages and delivered 44,(;70 during this short period of not seven
weeks. Each bandage is stamped, rolled, and tied
with its tape. counted in tens, packed in large bags
passed to the commissary department of the government, and from there placed on the transports when
ready to sail.
The receivers of all donations and purchases, two
ladies who have not missed one day of faithful attendance, are at a table near the door and register every
article that come to the depot. They are then passed
to committees on stores and hospital supplies.
Articles which have been received from May 16th
to June 21st, as donations, are:Comfort and packing bags......................... 9.643
Sheets.................................................. 461
Pillow slips......................................... 1,368
Socks, pairs............................................ 315
Soap, lbs................................ 3,200
Soap, cakes............................................ 392
Pillows............................................... 920
Jamaica ginger, gals............................... 73
Towels.................................................. 1,676
Sleeping and bandana caps........................ 4,228
Coal oil, gals....................................... 40
Fresh fish, lbs........................................ 8,560
Honey, case.......................................... 1
Milk, gals. daily...................................... 15
Broken groceries, packages........................ 109
Thread. spools........................................ 445
Vegetables. sacks.................................. 21
Pins and pin balls, gross........................... 115
Linen and lint, packages........................... 375
Quinine tablets....................................... 1,000
Needles, papers...................................... 69
Lime juice tablets..................................100,000
Eggs.................................................... 50,540
Muslin for work room, yards, 5,217; packages.. 110
Fans for Manila.................................. 27,050
Flannel for bandages, bolts, 70, and yds........ 4
Bread, loaves......................................... 319
Hams................................................... 7
Dried fruit, lbs.................................. 9,010
(5,000 of which were donated by one lady.)
Handkerchiefs........................................ 2,685
Bandages, flannel, esmach, and surgical......... 45,158
Each transport has received from us:
2 cases cocoa
I case condensed milk.
4 cases lime juice.
dozen hospital sized bottles malted milk.
L case alcohol containing ten gallons.
2,) pounds permanganate potash.
I galloni Jamaica ginger.
cases clam juice.
2 pails anchovies.
9) pounds steamed oat meal.
' cases whisky.
l keg insect powder
i dozen bottles brandy.
4 cases jelly.
1 case claret.
6 cases canned fruit.
100 pounds crackers.
1 case figs.
1000 pounds dried fruit.
50 pounds farina.
20 pounds chipped beef.
2 boxes unsweetened chocolate.
5 pounds tea.
3 gallons bay rum.
I dozen bottles listerine.
3 Arab tents.
The dry goods sent from our linen room are:
Pajamas.....................................................36
Face towels..................................................72
Bath towels.................................................24
Handkerchiefs..............................................72
Sheets...................................................48
Slippers, pair...............................12
Negligee shirts.............................................12
Manila caps..................................................70
Mosquito netting............................................70
The active workers at 16 Post street are: Mrs. Theo. E. Smith, Mrs. C. K. Stevenot, Mrs. W. N.
Riddell Mrs. Annie Craul, Mrs. B. Dreyfus, Mrs.
Helen Hecht, Miss Gertrude Burnett, Miss Tiffany, Mrs.
R. S. La Motte, Mrs. M. R. Morgan, Mrs. T. R. Horton,
Mrs. W. Frank, Miss Macomber, Rev. and Mrs. I. H.
Macomber, Miss Amelia Martin, Mrs. Clark and daughters, Miss Susie Russell, Mrs. Elder, Miss Camille Cerf,
Mrs. J. H Henderson, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. G. Francis,
Mrs. Adolf Mack, Mrs. Ordenstein, Mrs. Farnsworth,
Mrs. J. H. Gray, Mrs. Reinstein, Miss L. F. Smith, Miss
Center, Mrs. W. C. Shaw, Miss Mary Taylor, Miss
Eleanor Wood, Mrs. Paul Bunker, Miss May Hoyt, Mrs.
Burrington, Mrs. M. D. Garrett, Mrs. H. C. Watson,
Mrs. Thomas Woodward, Miss Woodward, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Rebecca Jennings, Mrs. N. H. Foster,
the Misses Foster, Mrs J. R. Hanify, Miss
Elizabeth Worrington, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford, Miss
Wolf, Mrs. E. C. Wright, Mrs. R. P. Johnson, Miss
Hand, Mrs. Hirschfeld, Mrs. Rhodes, Mrs. Grampner,
Miss Wright, Mrs. Munch, Miss Winter, Mrs. Eckart,
Mrs. Buckman, Mrs. Firnhaler, Miss Haussman, Mrs.
J. S. Rosenbaum, Miss Rosenbaum, Miss Neuberg, Mrs.
Isaac S. Belcher, Miss Pearce, Mrs. Henriques, Miss
Elsie Hess, Mrs. Wakefield, Mrs. Hindes, Mrs. Kalman.
Words of tender, loving service, hearts and hands
willing but unable to reach out and join in this great and
active M ork sweet, "shut-in souls," that can only daily
plead God's blessing on all, these are all our helpers.
These things cannot be measured in cold columns of
figures, but should rise as sweet incense before the
altars of the faith of our San Francisco Red Cross
Society. Respectfully submitted,
MRS. THEO. E. SMITH,
1 ti Post street. Manager.
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