 $25,000, from which checks were drawn and left with
  any party needing financial assistance. Miss Barton and her corps of
  assistants remained in Evansville after their return until April 2,
  when the relief transactions throughout the Ohio valley having been
  practically finished, she removed her headquarters to St. Louis,
  Mo., where a relief boat was at once fitted out and similar
  assistance tendered to the sufferers in the inundated districts of
  the lower Mississippi. Miss Barton was further aided on this trip by
  Mr. John Hitz, of Washington, D.C.

On May 25th Miss Barton made a second trip down the Ohio with the
steamer "Josh V. Throop" under charter with household supplies and
farming implements for the recent sufferers. The boat went as far as
Elizabethtown, or possibly a few miles below, and then turning back,
proceeded up stream to Wheeling or Pittsburgh till the supplies were
exhausted.


"THE LITTLE SIX."

It is possible that some readers may recall the story of the "Little
Six," which was locally published at the time, but which I venture to
reproduce, as an extract from the Erie _Dispatch_, of Monday March 24,
1884:

  _Dispatch_ readers doubtless recollect its account some weeks ago of
  the manner in which six children of Waterford gave a public
  entertainment for the benefit of the Ohio flood sufferers; how they
  themselves suggested it; how their efforts were crowned with
  success; and how they brought the entire proceeds, $51.25, raised by
  their unpaid efforts, to the editor of the _Dispatch_ with the
  request that the latter forward it "where it would do the most
  good." The _Dispatch_ complied by forwarding it to Miss Clara
  Barton, president of the American Red Cross Association. The
  following letter tells the story of the disposition of the money.
  The names of the noble little band, of which any town in the nation
  ought to be proud of, are: Reed White, Florence Howe, Lloyd Barton,
  Joe Farrar, Mary Barton, Bertie Ensworth. The oldest is twelve years
  of age.


   