Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Red Cross Head Is Active [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Red Cross Head Is Active

Miss Mabel Boardman Is Not Only Chief of Organization, But Its I Directing Spirit. Washington.—Miss Mabel Boardman, the head of the American Red Cross, is not the chief of that organization in name only. She Is Its active director and every move the Red Cross has made to help the sick and wounded in the present European war has had her personal attention. When the war broke out she had jtist arrived at Murray Bay, Quebec, to spend her

vacation with ex-President and Mrs. Taft. Qhe immediately returned to Washington and since that time has been working day and night As a result the Red Cross ship is abo&t to sail from New Yortt with 125 nurses and 30 surgeons, and about thirty oar'oada of hospital supplies. Anothsr

relief expedition has- sailed for the Mediterranean to help in the Balkans.

Miss Mabel Boardman.