se with other
needed things we arranged to send back to him from the supplies that had
gone ahead.

Aintab, with its American school, college, seminary and hospital
buildings standing out in relief and contrast from the native buildings,
was a welcome reminder of home; and the greeting of the hundreds of
pupils as they came hurrying down the road to welcome back their own
loved president, became a welcome for the Red Cross. We were most
cordially offered the hospitality of Dr. Fuller's house and home, but as
we were still strangers in a strange land, it seemed best to place
ourselves in a khan, where we could have better opportunity to make an
acquaintance with the people to obtain the varied information necessary
to accomplish best results in the disposition of our relief. Here we
remained long enough to learn the needs of the place and surrounding
country, to obtain carefully prepared lists of those artisans needing
tools and implements for their various trades and callings. Supplies
were left, clothing, new goods for working up, thread, needles,
thimbles, medicines, and surgical stores.

Aintab is favored with its Mission Hospital; with its surgeon and
physician, Dr. Shepard and Dr. Hamilton, and a strong American colony of
missionary teachers, besides the Franciscan Brothers, who are doing
excellent select work. The Father Superior was killed near Zeitoun.
Supplies were selected and made up for Oorfa, Aintab, Marash and other
points, while a quantity of supplies, by the kindness of Dr. Fuller, was
left in storage in the college building to be forwarded as our inquiries
should discover the need. To Oorfa, where the industrial work had been
so successfully established by Miss Shattuck, we sent material and
implements for working, needles, thread, thimbles, cotton and woolen
goods for making up. To Marash and Zeitoun, ready-made goods in addition
to new, with surgical appliances and medicines.

From Aintab, Mr. Wood and Mr. Wistar started by way of the most
distressed points needing help eastward, and then north