The Red Cross : in peace and war . purchased outside ofthose we had brought from New York. American Red Cross 636 THE RED CROSS. Expenses included expenses of nurses and hospitals on account ofarmy work, as distinct from Cuban relief work; also the maintenanceof forty mules that had been sent us by that organization. House-hold Expenses covered house rent, servant hire, and maintenance ofthe entire party, which numbered as high as thirty people at times, andaveraged twenty most of the time, making an average of less than$ expense per week for each person. General Expensesincluded work on h
The Red Cross : in peace and war . purchased outside ofthose we had brought from New York. American Red Cross 636 THE RED CROSS. Expenses included expenses of nurses and hospitals on account ofarmy work, as distinct from Cuban relief work; also the maintenanceof forty mules that had been sent us by that organization. House-hold Expenses covered house rent, servant hire, and maintenance ofthe entire party, which numbered as high as thirty people at times, andaveraged twenty most of the time, making an average of less than$ expense per week for each person. General Expensesincluded work on hospitals and other buildings necessary to makethem habitable and comfortable, and all other expenses not properlychargeable to any other account. On an estimated distribution of relief supplies, valued at half amillion dollars, the cost of distribution, covering a period of sevenmonths, exclusive of the charter price for the steamer State ofTexas, amounts to less than three per cent of the value of the goodsdistributed. m^^-f ,vf. RHtUGHhS FROM SANTIAGO. RELIEF WORK IN CUBA. 637 LETTER OF SANTIAGO COMMITTEE. Miss Clara Barton, President of llie American National Red Cross, Santiago de Cuba: Madam:—The undersigned, who have had the honor to form yourcommittee to assist you in the distribution of relief to this city duringthe permanence in it of the Red Cross, desire on the eve of yourdeparture to give an account of their stewardship, presentingat same time in a condensed form an idea of the work that has beendone. It would probably be difficult to cite an instance in which a reliefvessel has arrived so opportunely anywhere as the steamship Stateof Texas arrived in Santiago de Cuba. After a rigorous blockade oftwo months, during which stocks of provisions had run very low, thegreatest part of the inhabitants of the city, under stress of threatenedbombardment, had abandoned their homes and taken refuge in theneighboring villages. On their return, after the occupation of the city
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