NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER. 
Miss Mabel Boardman Spoke On 
Red Cross Work at Manches- 
ter Baptist Church. 
The preliminary meeting in aid 
of Manchester’s fund for the Na- 
tional Red Cross work was held at 
the Baptist church, Wednesday af- 
ternvon, and was well attended. Miss 
Mabel Boardman, chairman of the 
National Red Cross Society and a 
summer resident of Manchester, pre- 
sided and gave a very able and com- 
prehensive talk on this great and 
farreaching work. 
It is the object of the society to 
raise an amount per capita in every 
city and town in the country if pos- 
sible to obtain a national fund of 
$2,000,000. Manchester’s amount 
would be $270, or about nine cents 
per capita. 
New York has raised $510,000. 
Seranton, Washington and _ other 
cities have also raised their per capi- 
ta amounts. 
In comparison with the $2,000,000 
it is now proposed to raise in the 
United States, Miss Boardman gave 
the amounts of other countries’ Red 
Cross funds: Austro-Hungary, $3,- 
000,000; France over four millions, 
Italy over a million and a half, Prus- 
sia over four millions, Japan has $8,- 
000,000, Russia $12,000,000. The 
United States has $750,000 of the 
$2,000,000 fund to be subscribed. 
The object of the Red Cross fund 
is to get the society on a permanent 
and efficient basis and have an ade- 
quate income to promote its various 
departments, particularly its nurs- 
ing corps, first aid and the pension 
system. The society has 2,000 of the 
best nurses in the country. 
Miss Boardman alluded to Presi- 
dent Taft’s personal endorsement, 
also read letters of endorsement 
from Ex. See. Root and See. Knox. 
The broad scope of the work and 
its efficiency, in national disasters 
both at home and abroad were most 
impressively and interestingly pre- 
sented by Miss Boardman. Work 
still continues among the victims of 
the San Francisco earthquake. The 
importance of the Red Cross pension 
fund was demonstrated in the 
Cherry, Ill., Alabama and Seranton 
mine disasters, also in the Minneso- 
ta forest fire districts. The Mexican 
refugees to Southern California, also 
to Douglass and El Paso, Texas, have 
been cared for. The pension fund 
also came strongly into play after 
the big New York shirt waist fac- 
tory fire. Help was rendered Mani- 
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la’s voleanic eruption victims, those 
who suffered from the bubonic pla- 
gue in Manchuria and from famine 
in the Yellow River district of China, 
the cholera victims of Tripoli and of 
the fire in Colon, Panama, a world 
wide administration of relief. 
First aid to industrial employees 
both on railroads and with other 
corporations and among seafaring 
men is to be taught. Nineteen thou- 
sand miners have been killed in na- 
tional mines. This first aid course is 
to be strongly advocated by the Red 
Cross at the big mining convention 
in Pittsburg the coming winter. 
Miss Boardman suggested that 
Manchester raise its fund through 
the medium of a bag sale on Wed- 
nesday, August 16. 
The next meeting in behalf of the 
bag sale will be held two weeks from 
Wednesday at the Baptist church. 
Miss Boardman will be in Washing- 
ton next week but will return to be 
present that day, July 12. She has 
engaged the Town hall, Manchester 
for the sale on August 16. 
Much interest was evinced in the 
sale and some 20 varieties of bags 
to be made were suggested by Miss 
Boardman. The ladies present also 
offered other suggestions and took 
material home to make. 
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