CIIAS. GODFREY LELAND, Chairman, REV. WM. 11. FURNESS,
WILLIAM V. McKEAN, FRANCIS WELLS,
PROF. HENRY COPPER, R. MEADE BACHE,
GEORGE n. BORER, ASA I. FISH,
CRAIG BIDDLE, CEPHAS G. CHILDS.
No. 12
THE FAIH MOVEMENT IN THE LOYAL
STATES—NO. 12.
rnilE Pittsburgh Fair, of which we gave some
account in our tenth number, closed on
Saturday (18th June.) The proceeds amounted
to the very handsome sum of three hundred
thousand dollars. Every one must say that
our sister city has done not only well but
nobly.
Several great Fairs have been unavoidably
omitted from this history of the Fair Move
ment. We tried to get accounts of all of
them but without avail. Of the Fairs in this
category we were particularly desirous to
present the principal features of those held at
Washington, Baltimore, Albany and St. Louis,
in February, March, April and May of this
year, but wo could procure no satisfactory
descriptions of them. We see it stated in
the journals of the day that the proceeds of
the St. Louis Fair amounted to the magnifi
cent sum of $575,000.
THE SANITARY COMMISSION.
ITS ORIGIN —ITS OBJECTS AND ITS WORK —NO. 3.
[BY W. V. MoKEAN.]
In this last of our series of articles on the
Sanitary Commission, it is our purpose to de
scribe in a cursory manner the organization,
the means, and the work of the Commission.
At the commencement of the present year
the Board was composed of twenty gentle
men, as follows:
EDITORIAL
GENTLEMEN.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21.
Rev. 11. W. Bellows, D.D., President.
A. D. Bache, LL.D., Vice President.
0. T. Strong, Treasurer.
Elislm Harris, M. D. •J. S. Newberry, M. D.
W. H. Van Buren, M. D. | Rt. Rov. T. M. Clarke.
6. W. Cullom, U. S. Army. ; Ilonl R. W. Burnett.
A. E. Shiran, U. S. Army. jllon. Mark Skinner.
It C. Wood, U. 8. Army. |Hon. Joseph Ilolt.
W. Gibbs, M. D. | Horace Binnoy, Jr., Esq ,
S. G. Howe, M. D.
C. R. Agnew, M. D.,
Prof. Fairman Rogers.
Acting in conjunction with the Board were
the following officers:
J. Foster Jenkins, M. D. Secretary.
J. S. Newberry, M. D., J. N. Douglas, M.D.,
and F. N. Knapp, M. D., Associate Secretaries.
Besides the above, there are several hun
dred “ Associate Members” of the Commission
throughout the loyal States.
For the transaction of general business the
Commission meets in Washington quarterly,
but the current business is disposed of by the
President, the General Secretary, and a stand
ing committee of five members, who meet daily
for the purpose in New York. Of the Associ
ate Secretaries, one is stationed at Louisville,
who has charge of affairs west of the Alle
ghanies; and another in Washington, who is
charged with the business east of the moun
tains. All Sanitary Inspectors and Belief
Agents are required to report to the Associate
Secretaries under whose direction and super
vision they discharge their duties. Each of
the Associate Secretaries is also in communi
cation with the branches of the Commission,
and through them with the local Aid Societies.
By these means the demands from the armies
and the supplies at the depots are focalized;
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE :
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. PHEBE M. CLAPP, MISS DELIMA BLAIS.
Ki v. J. N. Heywonil,
;J. Huntington Walcott, E«q.
and a glance at the books will show at any
time both the wants of the soldiers and tlio
means wherewith to meet them.
For each great division of the army (say
each army corps), there is a Chief Sanitary
Inspector, and a Superintendent of Field Re
lief. If the corps is stationary, as at Morris
Island, a permanent lodge is established near
headquarters, in the nature of a hospital and
depot of supplies. If the corps is in motion,
the supplies are issued from wagon trains or
from steamboats in the service of the Commis
sion. In the Army of the Potomao there is a
Superintendent of Field Relief with every
Army Corps. All of the subordinate Agents
of the Commission, who administer “ Relief
(several hundred in number), act in subordi
nation to their respective Superintendents.
The Sanitary Inspectors report to the third of
the Associate Secretaries, who is also Chief of
Inspection.
By means of the machinery thus briefly
described, the bounty of the people contribu
ted through the local Aid Societies, and by
means of Fairs and otherwise, is concentrated
in great depots under the eye of the associate
secretaries, by whom it is sent forward upon
requisition of the Sanitary agents, to the posts
where it is required, when it is by the latter
dispensed to the soldiers in the field, or in the
hospital, or on the way to and from the army
and their homes. This is a convenient place
in whioh to say a word of the branches of the
Commission. There are establishments of
this kind at Philadelphia, New York, Brook-