Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-05-18 | Page 1 | Red Cross Valuable in Peace as War

RED CROSS VALUABLE IN PEACE AS WAR WASHINGTON,, May U. "The San Francisco disaster, toe Japanese famine, fam-ine, the eruption of Vesuvius' and the recent typhoon In the Philippines have given the Red Cross an opportunity to show its usefulness, and have demonstrated demon-strated to the public that a relief organisation or-ganisation is Just as neoeesary In peace as It Is In war. said Miss Mabel T.' Boardman of. the executive council of the American Red Cross, who has just returned from a three-weeks' - trip through New England, where she addressed ad-dressed many ..meetings la the Interest of the Red Cross movement . "In Connecticut the interest in the Red Cross 1 especially great' Miss Boardman continued. "Six months ago we had onry.SOO members in the State, and now the membership is 864. ' There are 400 members in the city of .Norwich .Nor-wich alone. Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are developing good State , organisations also.? ' . . i -. ' .'' '..' 1 . ;' ' '.' J -,-..''.'.".