[Illustration: Deming Jarves August 14, 1918]
Since the following article, "Our War Work," was written, Mr. Deming
Jarves has been decorated by the French government with the cross of
the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
The Jarves Family were represented in the Great War by Mrs. Jarves'
brother, Capt. John P. Jackson, U. S. N., commanding American
transports bringing soldiers to France, and the following great-nephews
of Mr. Jarves:
Captain Francesco Marigliano, Duke Delmonte of the Cavalliera di Udine,
Italian Army, received two of the highest awards for valor in the
Battle of the Piave.
Count Pio Marigliano (his brother), First Lieutenant in the Italian
Navy, killed in the blowing up of the battleship Leonardo di Vinci.
Captain Howard Kerr, 11th Hussars, British Army, served through the War
on the British Front in France and Belgium.
Captain Graham Lindley of the U. S. Army.
Eric and John Higginson (brothers), petty officers in the U. S. Navy,
served on destroyers on the Irish Coast.
Charles Higginson (youngest brother of above), took an intensive course
at Annapolis, and then received his commission from the U. S. Navy as
an Ensign, on a Cruiser doing convoy work.
Mr. Jarves' father and two uncles took part in the War of 1812, and his
grandfather in the Revolutionary War.
(From the Paris Edition of the New York Herald of May 12, 1917)
When the wounded from the Marne began pouring into Brittany, there were
no adequate hospitals to receive and care for the thousands of gravely
injured men. Everyone was called upon to give money, supplies, beds and
bedding, lamps and heating apparatus, surgical instruments, bandages,
dressings, hospital garments, all the paraphernalia of great military
hospitals, to be installed immediately. The confusion was great, the
goodwill endless, but the material lacking.
Upon these tragic circumstances everyone, from peasant to American
pleasure-seeker, gave of their best.
Twelve large hospitals were opened in Dinard alone; in the two large
casinos, in the hotels, and in private villas in the neighborhood of
Dinard.
From St. Malo, St. Servan, Paramé, St. Briac, St. Lunaire, all within
walking distance of Dinard, came urgent calls for help.
From remoter convents, where everything had to be provided, came even
greater demands.
Mr. and Mrs. Deming Jarves, seeing the necessity for immediate help,
gave very largely personally, and wrote to relatives and friends in
America for assistance. How generous the response was, is indicated in
the following list of friends who responded at once:
Cases were sent by:
The Red Cross Society of Washington.
Philadelphia Emergency Aid Society.
British War Relief Association, New York.
Vacation War Relief Association, New York.
Junior War Relief Association, New York.
Surgical Dressing Committee, Philadelphia.
Princeton Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Detroit Drug Company.
Princess Louis of Battenberg.
Mme. Jusserand (wife of the French Ambassador in Washington). Mme.
Ekengren (wife of the Swedish Minister in Washington). Lady Swettenham.
Lady Wolseley, of Wolseley.
Miss Martha Codman, Washington.
Mrs. Morehead, Washington.
Mrs. McGowan, Washington.
Miss May Moulton, New York.
Major Louis L. Seaman (President British War Relief Association New
York).
Mrs. C. Wolcott Henry, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Freeman, Wissaluckon Heights.
Mrs. Norman, Newport.
Mrs. Charles Pike, Chicago.
Mr. W. M. Kozmenski, Chicago.
Mrs. G. H. Rowland, New York.
Mrs. Russell A. Alger, Detroit.
Money was sent by:
Mr. George A. Russel, Detroit, President People's State Bank, Michigan.
Mr. M. F. Barbour, Detroit, President Michigan Stove Company. Mr. J. T.
McMillan, Detroit, President Detroit Steamship Company.
Mr. H. H. Campbell, Detroit.
Mr. G. E. Lawson, Detroit, Vice-President People's State Bank. Mr.
Angus Smith, Detroit.
Mr. J. Dwyer, Detroit, President Detroit Stove Co.
Mr. H. B. Ledyard, Detroit, President Michigan Central Railway. Mr. H.
Russel, Detroit, Vice-President Michigan Central Railway. Mr. R. A.
Alger, Detroit, Vice-President Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. C. H. Freer,
Detroit.
Mr. J. C. Hutchings, Detroit, Detroit United Railway.
Mr. Howie Muir, Detroit.
Mr. F. J. Hecker, Detroit.
Mrs. R. S. Mason, Detroit.
Mrs. Butler, Detroit.
Mr. Truman H. Newberry, Detroit, former Secretary of the United States
Navy.
Mr. J. S. Alexander, New York, President National Bank of Commerce.
Mr. Myron T. Herrick, New York, former Ambassador to France. Mrs. Helen
A. Noyes, St. Paul.
Mrs. Coudert, Washington.
Mrs. Thompson, Washington.
Mrs. Julien-James, Washington.
Mrs. C. Howe Johnson, Washington.
Mrs. Lorthorpe Bradley, Washington.
Mr. Gibson Farnstock, Washington.
Mr. Hudnut, New York.
Mr. John Aspergren, New York.
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps, New York.
Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne, New York.
Mrs. John Innes Kane, New York.
Mrs. Edward Walker, Detroit.
Mrs. J. J. White, Atlantic City.
Mrs. Barker Gummere, Washington.
Mme. Ekengren and Miss Helen Patten sent a sum of money, being the
proceeds of a concert arranged by them.