CLARA BARTON J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS FREDERICK DOUGLASS ALEX. Y. P. GARNETT MRS. OMAR D. CONGER A. S. SOLOMONS MRS. S. A. MARTHA CANFIELD R. D. MUSSEY _Committee_ WASHINGTON, D.C., _March 23, 1882_ The response to this appeal was generous. The Red Cross immediately effected its permanent organization; and during the next twenty years it was seldom without a task of some kind. FOOTNOTES: [2] This is not precisely the name which this rival organization assumed. There would appear to be no good reason for recording it; but the fact that there were several such organizations which sprang into being immediately after President Garfield’s recognition of Clara Barton should not be forgotten. [3] Of this proposed treaty of October 20, 1868, the 9th article was as follows: ART. IX. The military hospital ships remain under martial law in all that concerns their stores; they become the property of the captor, but the latter must not divert them from their special appropriation during the continuance of the war. [_The vessels not equipped for fighting, which, during peace, the Government shall have officially declared to be intended to serve as floating hospital ships, shall, however, enjoy during the war complete neutrality, both as regards stores, and also as regards their staff, provided their equipment is exclusively appropriated to the special service on which they are employed._] In the published English text, from which this version of the Additional Articles is taken, the paragraph thus marked in brackets appears in continuation of Article IX. It is not, however, found in the original French text adopted by the Geneva conference, October 20, 1868. By an instruction sent to the United States minister at Berne, January 20, 1883, the right is reserved to omit this paragraph from the English text, and to make any other necessary corrections, if at any time hereafter the Additional Articles shall be completed by the exchange of the ratifications hereof between the several signatory and adhering powers. CHAPTER XI CLARA BARTON AT SHERBORN It will be well at this point to make plain three points which were not clearly understood at the outset, and have sometimes been misunderstood since. The first is that Clara Barton, in establishing the Red Cross in America, was not seeking primarily to provide a place for herself. At this period she had three homes, and money enough to support herself comfortably in any one of them. We have an interesting look into the Dansville home in a letter of her brother David to his daughter, Ida Barton Riccius. He was ill, and she, not yet recovered from her own illness, took him in and nursed him back to health. He wrote: DANSVILLE, June 13, 1880 Clara’s friends met us at the cars and rendered all necessary assistance. I was very weak and tired.