Michigan Forest Fires, 1881, material and money $ 80,000 Mississippi Floods, 1882, money and seeds 8,000 Mississippi Floods, 1883, material and seeds 18,500 Mississippi Cyclone, 1883, money 1,000 Balkan War, 1883, money 500 Ohio and Mississippi Floods, 1884, feed for stock and people, clothing, tools, house furnishings 175,000 Texas Famine, 1885, appropriations and contributions on statements made upon personal investigation 120,000 Charleston Earthquake, 1886, money 500 Mt Vernon, Ill., Cyclone, 1888, money and supplies 85,000 Florida Yellow Fever, 1888, physicians and nurses 15,000 Johnstown Disaster, 1889, money and all kinds of material, buildings and furnishings 250,000 Russian Famine, 1891-92, mainly food 125,000 Pomeroy, Iowa, Cyclone, 1893, money and nurses 2,700 South Carolina Islands, 1893-94, money and all kinds of supplies and materials, tools, seeds, lumber, etc 65,000 -------- $946,200 Only about one-eighth of the above estimates represent cash; the balance represents material. In each of these emergencies something has been added to the sum of human happiness, something subtracted from the sum of human woe; the naked have been clothed, the hungry fed, new homes have sprung up from the desolated ruins, crops revived, and activities and business relations resumed. In a neighboring State and its adjacent islands scarcely two hundred miles distant from this, could to-day be found several thousand human beings, living in their homes, enjoying their family lives, following their ordinary avocations, cultivating the ground, who, if asked, would unhesitatingly tell you that but for the help of the Red Cross, they would two years ago have been under the ground they now cultivate. If the alleviation of human miseries, the saving of life, and the bringing of helplessness and dependence back to methods of self-sustenance and independence are counted among the philanthropic movements of the day, then to us, who have seen so much and worked so long and so hard among it, it would seem that the Red Cross movement has some "significance" in connection with philanthropy.