The Red Cross : in peace and war . ri-:lief work in cub a. 629 to appeal to the governineut. Miss Barton accordingly telegraphedPresident McKinley, asking for the use of a transport, and he promptlyplaced at her disposal the Morgan Line steamer Clinton, which wasthen in the government service. Within the following four days weloaded the Clinton with thirty-four mules that had been sent to usby one of the Red Cross auxiliar} committees of New York, and aboutthree hundred tons of general stores, which we hoped would serve as astarter in the distribution at Havana, other supplies having beenpromi
The Red Cross : in peace and war . ri-:lief work in cub a. 629 to appeal to the governineut. Miss Barton accordingly telegraphedPresident McKinley, asking for the use of a transport, and he promptlyplaced at her disposal the Morgan Line steamer Clinton, which wasthen in the government service. Within the following four days weloaded the Clinton with thirty-four mules that had been sent to usby one of the Red Cross auxiliar} committees of New York, and aboutthree hundred tons of general stores, which we hoped would serve as astarter in the distribution at Havana, other supplies having beenpromised to meet us at that place. We sailed away from Santiago on the afternoon of August 21, andafter a pleasant voyage we arrived at Havana on the morning of thetwenty-fifth. We learned on entering the harbor that we were as much in Span-ish waters as we had been during our previous sojourn in Havana, andthat there was no marked change in anything. The same customsofl&cers whom we had known before the war boarded our boat, and w
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