82 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



that something was wrong with the method in which 

 my husband kept the books and handled the money. 



By this time about $300,000 had passed through his 

 hands. For a long time, in his zeal to economize, he 

 had had no bookkeeper at all. Considering, therefore, 

 the amount of construction work that had been going 

 on in Woodbine for the farmers and the town, the long 

 hours spent in work, and the fact that he was not a 

 trained bookkeeper himself, it would have been re- 

 markable, nay, miraculous if mistakes had not oc- 

 curred. But whenever, in his monthly reports, the 

 accounts did not agree, he had always made good out 

 of his own salary. 



To put an end to this malicious rumor, my husband 

 asked Dr. Goldman to send an expert auditor to Wood- 

 bine, and in a few weeks Mr. A. S. Solomons came 

 down. He was the general agent of the Fund at that 

 time. It may be mentioned here that Mr. Solomons 

 was one of the founders, with Miss Clara Barton, of 

 the American Red Cross, September 1, 1882, at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., and was conspicuously instrumental in 

 organizing this greatest of humanitarian bodies along 

 lines of practical effectiveness. 



He worked five days over -the books, checking up 

 minutely every voucher, and, at the end of the week, 

 telegraphed the President of the Committee that the 

 books were in splendid shape, and that the Committee 

 might be congratulated on having Prof. Sabsovich's 

 sterling abilities at .their command. 



