The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909)
American National Red Cross
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2,000 metres tent canvas, 4,500 woolen blankets, 250 sheets, 1,400 metres
of sheeting, 1,230 woolen shawls, 2,130 overcoats, ulsters and capes,
1,570 pairs of shoes, 2,100 suits of clothes for men and boys, 3,500
pairs of stockings, 350 skirts, 5,200 metres of dress goods and other
cloth, 5,000 pieces of underwear, 700 shirts and blouses, 300 pairs
pantaloons, 1,400 hats and caps, 5,000 kilograms flour, 20,000 galletti
(hard biscuit), 8,000 kilograms potatoes, 6,800 kilograms macaroni,
3,180 tins of preserved meat, 60 cases of sterilized milk (50 quarts per
case), 1,200 litres olive oil, 530 litres marsala, 210 litres cognac,
etc., 1,350 kilograms cheese, 1,000 kilograms dried fish, 351 kilograms
tobacco, 530 kilograms sausage, 1,225 kilograms of sardines, etc., 550
kilograms lard, 4,000 kilograms beans, 700 shovels, 700 picks, 300
galvanized iron buckets, 1,700 kilograms of rope, assorted size, 100
saws, 10 petroleum stoves, 50 cases petroleum, 1 ton candles, 2,000 cakes
soap, cooking utensils, tableware, miscellaneous tools, matches in large
quantities, 27 cases of medical supplies, 1,200 mattresses stripped from
the bunks of the _Bayern_, 350 sheets and pillow cases, 230 coverlets.
At Catania lumber sufficient for the construction of 25 houses (13 × 13
feet, including flooring) was purchased, loaded on board the _Bayern_,
and delivered to the Italian authorities at Reggio.
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_Lieutenant-Commander Belknap commends in the highest terms the work
done by all the members of this Red Cross Relief Expedition, including
Drs. Bastinelli, Scelba, Egidi and Alessandrini, the nurses, Avvocato
Girodana, Messrs. Hooper, Gay, Cutting, Flint, Captain Mitzlaff, the
other officers and the crew of the Bayern and Mr. Anniser, the North
German Lloyd agent at Rome, for his personal assistance. The Navigazione
Generale Italiana also rendered much assistance at Civita Vecchia.
To all of these the American Red Cross extends its hearty thanks and
appreciation of their valuable aid in this relief expedition._—EDITOR.
OTHER MEASURES OF AMERICAN RED CROSS RELIEF
Besides the contributions to the Italian Red Cross, the sending of a
Special Representative—Mr. Bayard Cutting—the providing of the Relief
Ship, the maintenance of the Agricultural Orphanage Colony, the purchase
of materials for some six hundred houses and the construction of these
houses and those furnished by the United States Government, the American
Red Cross has sent to Mr. Griscom, our Ambassador at Rome, $20,000 for
Calabrian relief and $50,000 to be used at his discretion in conjunction
with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Griscom says:
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