lady managers. The $100,000
would be set aside in the treasury of the company and you would
have a written instrument and the treasurer would have orders to
honor checks made upon that $100,000 in satisfaction of
requisitions approved by the board of lady managers.

Of course, as I said before, if you wish to take that money out
and put it in some depository in St. Louis or elsewhere it is at
your disposal. You could get a check for a portion of the money
or all of it if you wish. Our only obligation in connection with
that $100,000 now is to repay it, as we have no intention or
desire to avoid that part of it.

Now, if you should take the money out and put it in some
depository in St. Louis or elsewhere to your credit you would be
put to the expense of organizing an auditing system, the same as
we have been.

I am willing, speaking on behalf of the company, to give you the
benefit of the auditing system without your incurring any
additional expense, and, if you wish, in order to make you
doubly secure, I will get a letter from the treasurer stating
that he has, in accordance with the instructions of the
president, set aside $100,000 for the use of the board of lady
managers, and that the $100,000 can only be drawn by checks
signed by your treasurer and countersigned by your president.

I only say this as a suggestion, because we all have become
interested, but if you choose to ask us for $25,000 of the
money, or for all of it, we will give it you.

Now, with regard to other expenses you may incur or have
incurred--I find in my report made to me to-day, which was made
at your request--we have paid you up to this time for mileage
and per diem in attending board meetings $16,856. That includes
the $3,000 for which no vouchers have been turned in as yet. You
can keep that, with or without vouchers as you please. If you
want your business in the proper shape, however, it is more
businesslike for you to turn in the vouchers. However, that lies
with you.

Now, previous to the appropriation of the $100,000 the executive
committee had appropriated $15,000 for the furnishing of the
Woman's Building, which building, as you know, cost us $100,000.
Of course, you could have gotten a building erected that would
have answered your purpose as well and cost less than $100,00