CIIAS. GODFREY LET.ANT), Chairman, REV. WSt. 11. FURNESS,
WILLIAM V. McKEAN, FRANCIS WELLS,
FROF. HENRY COPPftE, R. MEADE DACIIE,
GEORGE 11. BORER,
CRAIG BIDDLE,
THE FAIR MOVEMENT IN THE LOYAL
STATES.—No. 6.
THE BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND FAIR.
milE Brooklyn and Long Island Fairwasthc
creation jointly of the “War Fund Com
mittee of Brooklyn and County of Kings,”
now consisting of one hundred and thirty of
its prominent active citizens, acting through its
Sanitary Committee, or “Committee on the
United States Sanitary Commission and Hos
pitals;” and of the “Woman’s Relief Associa
tion of the City of Brooklyn,” recognized by
the Commission as its “ Brooklyn Auxiliary,”
to which the Sanitary Committee of the War
Fund is advisory, without whose concurrence
none of its measures can be carried into effect.
Early in October the plan of a great Fair
for the city was suggested by Mr. James 11.
Fkotiiingiiam, of the Committee, and he and
the Chairman, Mr. Dwight Johnson, conferred
with the President of the Sanitary Commis
sion, Dr. Bei.i.ows, and corresponded with
friends in Boston, where great Fairs had been
held with eminent success, on the best mode of
conducting them.
On the 20th of November, the Woman’s Re
lief Association of Brooklyn decided to unite
in the effort, as the Brooklyn Division of the
Metropolitan Fair, leaving open the question
in which city the Brooklyn Division would
carry on their work.
Towards the end of the month, the mana
gers of the Metropolitan Fair, on the part of
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE :
GENTLEMEN,
ASA I. FISII,
CEPHAS G. CHILDS.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14.
the New York Division, had decided that it
must be postponed from the 22d of February
to the 28th of March. The ladies who repre
sented the Brooklyn Division, the Gentlemen’s
Committee coinciding, felt, on the contrary,
that it ivould be entirely bad policy to accede
to such a postponement. The enthusiasm in
Brooklyn ivas at its height; the 22d of Feb
ruary was halloAved and heart-stirring in its
associations, and they could not afford to ig
nore or lose them. That must be the day for
the Fair in Brooklyn city, and it was decided
to cut loose from all connection with the Me
tropolitan Fair.
On the second of January a great meeting
was held in the Academy of Music, in Brook
lyn, to further the interests of the Fair. At
this meeting a large amount of money was
subscribed, and great enthusiasm prevailed,
lion. Moses N. Odell, one of the members of
Congress from that city, thus detailed his per
sonal experience of the workings of the Com
mission in the army. He said:
“ I was at the White House nearly two
years ago, and I remember to-night very well
that before I had been there long, there came
doAvn from Fair Oaks some five or six hundred
wounded soldiers on a train of cars, and then
I discovered the vast resources and usefulness
of this Commission. I found on board those
steamboats numbers of ladies and gentlemen,
ready to go to work with willing hearts and
able hands to administer to the wants of those
Avounded and dying men. Noav the Govern
ment, I have no hesitation in saying, from the
beginning of the war have had a proper appre-
LADIES.
MRS. ROBERT M. HOOPER, MISS SARAH F. CUYLER,
MRS. E. S. RANDOLPH, MISS ANNA M. LEA,
MRS. WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS, MISS GRACE KIERNAN.
MRS. THOMAS P. JAMES, MISS LAURA HOOPER,
MRS. I’IIEBE M. CLAPP, MISS DELIMA BLAIS.
ciation of the needs of the soldier, and have
done all in their power, but under such cir
cumstances as these the Commission was ahead
of them—hours and days ahead of the Govern
ment in the supply of what ivas needed on that
occasion. [Applause.]
“I joined this Commission then at once, en
rolled myself as a working and active member,
and remained there four days and nights, dur
ing which time there were wounded men
received, their immediate wants supplied, and
necessary medical assistance furnished by the
Commission, and they ivere then sent from there
to the Washington and other hospitals. And had
not these vessels been there with their bountiful
supplies to make the soldier comfortable in his
wants and sickness, the suffering would have
been untold. I shall never forget one incident,
occurring during my services there. I had
taken in my hand a pail of iced lemonade,
prepared from the stores of the Commission,
and went out to the cars to distribute it among
the wounded. One poor fellow I saw there
had been left for dead on the field, and the
rebels had robbed him of every thing. They
had taken all his clothes, and he was wrapped
in a blanket. He ivas scarcely able to speak,
but he showed me his wounds, and I gave him
a glass of lemonade, for Avhich he returned a
look of inexpressible gratitude.
“ A ball had taken out his light eye and
came out behind his ear, and he was not ex
pected to live; but two or three weeks after
ward, in a hospital where I went to find some
of the Fourteenth Regiment boys, I found him
with a patch over liis eye, seemingly getting
well, and he said to me : 1 Sir, I wish I had a
house and lot to give you.’ Now, I Avas only
the instrument of the Sanitary Commission;
it was their ice and their lemonade, and I Avas
simply the instrument to carry it from their
boat to the car, to this poor fellow. You may