Appointed by the President of the United States.—William K. Van Reypen, Surgeon-General U. S. Navy, retired, chairman. To represent the Departments: Hon. Robert Bacon, First Assistant Secretary of State; Hon. Charles Hallam Keep, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon-General U. S. Army; Hon. James C. McReynolds, Assistant Attorney-General; Medical Director John C. Boyd, U. S. Navy.
Elected by the board of incorporators.—Judge W. W. Morrow, Samuel Mather, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Hon. James R. Garfield, James Tanner, Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
Elected by the delegates from State branches.—Hon. A. C. Kaufman, Charles G. Washburn, John C. Pegram, Gen. Charles Bird, U. S. Army; Col. William Cary Sanger, Judge Lambert Tree.
At this meeting the following members of the board of incorporators and delegates from branch societies were present:
Incorporators.—Miss Mabel T. Boardman, John C. Boyd, Noble C. Butler, George B. Davis, John W. Foster, James R. Garfield, George Gray, Frederick H. Gillett, Hilary A. Herbert, A. C. Kaufman, Charles Hallam Keep, Mrs. John A. Logan, Samuel Mather, W. W. Morrow, J. Wilkes O’Neill, Louis A. Pradt, Redfield Proctor, William H. Taft, A. W. Terrell, Lambert Tree, William K. Van Reypen, Thomas F. Walsh, William T. Wardwell, John M. Wilson.
Delegates from branch societies.—George Peabody Wetmore and John C. Pegram, of Rhode Island; William Cary Sanger and Howard Townsend, of New York; Judge and Mrs. W. W. Morrow, of California; John B. Henderson, jr., and Gist Blair, of the District of Columbia; Miss Katherine P. Loring and Miss Louisa P. Loring, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Eugene Hale and Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine; William W. Farnam and Robert T. Huntington, jr., of Connecticut; Henry Stockbridge and George Norbury Mackenzie, of Maryland; Charles Bird and Miss Emily P. Bissell, of Delaware; A. C. Kaufman, of South Carolina; Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Newberry, of Michigan; Samuel Mather and J. G. Schmidlapp, of Ohio; Lambert Tree, of Illinois; Mrs. W. W. Gordon and Mrs. Samuel Spencer, of Georgia; Noble C. Butler, of Indiana.
The central committee elected as an executive committee the following: Hon. Robert Bacon; Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon-General, U. S. Army; Medical Director John C. Boyd, U. S. Navy; Hon. James C. McReynolds, James Tanner, Hon. James R. Garfield, Miss Mabel T. Boardman.
The board of consultation consists of Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon-General, U. S. Army; Surgeon-General Presley M. Rixey, U. S. Navy; Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
The president of the corporation appointed the following as a finance committee: C. C. Glover, president, the Riggs National Bank; Arthur T. Brice, cashier, the Riggs National Bank; Charles J. Bell, president, the American Security and Trust Company.
The American National Red Cross was reported to the Surgeon-General of the Army the enrollment of 30 doctors and 50 trained nurses, as follows: