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WILLIAM ADAMS DELANOTHE NEW MEDICAL ERA AT ST ANTHONY

lIlu.stralf'd Herbert Tbrelkeld-Edwards"LET US DO GOOD TO ALL MEN" Wilfred T. GrtnfellTHE YEAR'S WORK IN REVIEWA GREAT DONATIONWILLIAM ADAMS DELANOHOW STORES AND SUPPLIES ARE

DLED AT ST. ANTHONYTHE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES fIla-.''''!''NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LABRADORCHILDREN'S PAGE lIlu"',aud

A Rag Doll That Saved a LifeBeverly Makes Chrislmaa for OthersThe; Newfoundl.and FilheryBehind tbe Seelltl .t the Hospital

THE CHILDREN'S HOME AT ST ANTHONY1II1U1,arra Eliubelh Beyer

TWO DECADES AT THE ST. ANTHONYSCHOOL Frances E. Baier

PLANS FOR DR. GRENFELL'S 19'1-38 LECTURE TOURA TENDERJo'OOT IN LABRADOR-II Harry Lawrence WIlburTO VOLUNTEERS-NEW AND OLD The EditorSTAFF AND VOLUNTEER WORKERS-Senon 1917A TRIBUTE TO THE DENTAL VOLUNTEERS. W. T. G.WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE WRITEASSOCIATION ITEMS

New England Grenfell AnociationThe Grenfell Auocialion of Newfoundland

MESSAGES FROM THE NURSING STATIONSANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXPERIMENTS AT THE MISSION 1lI"WI...tNEWS FROM ST. ANTHONY A. C. BlackburnON FURLOUGH.. Dr. Harry L. PaddonSTORY OF THE 19'15 P. & S. UNIT, LABRADOR

/lilLI/mud Marshall SmithTHROUGH ENGLAND WITH DR. GRENFELL

1lIU5lrlll('a "The Man on Ihe Box"FROM DAY TO DAY AT GORDON COVE Frncn W. ConrowNOTES HERE AND THERETHE TALE OF BRICKSFROM THE DOCTOR'S MAILBAG.

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WILUA)I ADA)lS D£I.ASO. A.CHlT£CT OF THE SE..... HO~PITAL AT ~T. Al'THOSY

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THE NEW MEDICAL ERA IN ST. ANTHONY

B~' HUIEllT TIIIIELKEI.D-EDW,\RDS

"WE'LL move tomorrow," Dr. Curtis. said one afternoon the latter part of

January. He said it quite calmly.The remark might have been "lIand me theforceps, Jllease" or "Put on a wet dressing,"but it meant t.he culmination of long }'ears ofhoping. planning, working, and worrying. Itmeant that the old wooden frame hospital wasto be abandoned and the door which had stoodopen for a quarter of a century to r«eh'epatients from the two coasts of North New­foundland and Labrador was to be closed andlocked! But it also meant that the doors ofa thoroughl}' modem, fireproof, up-to-dateho pital ""-ere to be opened. The gray concretebuilding which bad 1;I«n growing steadily

'since ~{a}', 192;. was now fini~hed, and stoodready and waiting for doctors., nurses, andmo~t important of all, for patients.

It is true that Dr. Curtis' words, despitetheir significance. were not greeted with cheersor ~houlS of acclaim. For w«ks everyonehad !.octn at work till late at night, cleaning,painting. and installing new equipment in thene\\ huilding, in addition to their regular work,in a determined effort to move before thewinter finally set in. So that Dr. Curtis'statement meant only morc work and worryfor tho~e who felt they already had hadenough.

But Dr. Curtis, who has managed since thefoundations were started to spend hours everyda}' at the new building, in s{lite of a crowdedh )spital, frequent operations, and tIIlergencycalls, had planned the final moving as thor­oughly as he dou all things. The new equip­ment bad been installed in December. Theheat had hecn on for weeks: lights needed butthe pres.ing of a b:.ttton; steam ",,-as up in thesterilizer, :lOd a ncw bed comJllete with bed­ding stood waiting for each jl<Itient

)anuaJ)' Z1 dawned clear but cold, the ther­mometu marking 25° below' zero. As soonas the early dinner f'r the p3tients had been

cooked, the large kitchen range was disman­tled, Oecallse it too had to be moved. Thegeneral exodus of the thirty patil':nts startedat anI': o'clock, some few walking, the othenwell bundkd lip and carried. Stretcher fol­lowed stretcher, komatik followed komatikbetween the two buildings, and barcly an hourlater e,ery patient had 1;I«n moved and wassafely in bed! Staff furnishings., operatingroom and dispensary equipment followed_ Thekitchen range was installed, and by fi"eo'clock the paticnts were eating their supper,still rather bewildered in their new :lOd so dif­ferent surroundings. The ward is a patient'sworld, and Ihis new 'A'orld of theirs with itsgra}" and !.ouff stucco ,,-ails, its ""'aXed linoleumfloors and wide corridors, had little in commonwith the old dingy w-alls, squeaking boardsand narrow halls.

Like all long expected and anxiously awaitede,-ents it was O"er almost before anyone real­ized it had started. One day e,-ery one wouldtum in at the long familiar gate to the oldhospital; the next day, just as naturally, con­tinue past the old and take the path to thenl':w. It was another instance of "The kingis dead, long live the king:' Another mile­stone had been passed and another erastarted.

There .have been several mcdical "eras" inSt. Anthonl. The first and darkest beganlong ago when the people were depenr!.ent onthe intermillent medical attention supplied bydoctors coming on boats, staying a brief time,and going on to other ,'illages in an effort tocope with an almost hapeless task of serdogthe entire coast. The next period began in1901, when Dr. Grenfell spent :lOother winterin SL Anthony and determined to build histhird hospital there.

The first hospital on the Labndor C03.stw-as opened at Battle Harbor in 1893. Thefollowing lear fGund one two hundred milesnorth on Indian Harbor Island, In his auto-

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biography, "A Labrador Doctor," Dr. Gren­fell says of the building of the first St.Anlhony Hospital: "In the early spring anexpedition into the woods was arranged, andwith 100 men and thrice as many dogs, wecamped in the trees., and at the end of thefortnight came home hauling behind us themateri;p.1 for a J6 x J6 hospital. We werequartermasters and general providers. Ourkitchen "''as dug down in thick woods throughsix fttt of snow."

This first hospilOll consisted of a small ~rdfor m('n, an equally small one for women,operating room. dispensary. kitchen, and threeslaff rooms. Oil stoves were needed to sup.plement the sm;p.ll furnace placed in an exca­,-:ation nnder one part of lhe hospital. Allwater was brought in buckeu and barrelsfrom a spring, and the one bathtub w;p.s filledby hand. The lighting was by kerosene lamps.

The installation of an electric lighting plantin 1908 marked a great advancement, and thatlame year Dr. John Mason Little, who wasthe doctor in charge, raised the needed moneyand greatly increased the size of the building.The wards and kitchen were enlarged and anew operating room and sterilizing room andsix staff rooms were added. Soon other ad·vances were made. Plumbing "''as inSlalled.the heating system "'~ changed from hot airto steam, a sun room and open air porcheswere built. and these ..,..ere followed by anX-ray room and a laboratOf)·. The building,which took on larger dimensions with its new'ft'ings and additions, uill retained many ofIhe original difficulties and inconn·niences. Itwas 2 fnme building. and con~uentl)' 2herageing W2S not water-tight. During dri,·ingrainstorms wat('r would seep in at the windows

and often drip from the ceilings, necessitatingconstant mopping. and in the winter thesesame cracks would allow zero winds to com­pete with the pigmy efforts of the small fur­nace to heat the wards. The cellar. whichwas nothing more than a pit dug into theground under the building. ",-as too small forthe boiler. The only acren to the cellar iorcoal and ashes other than through the hospi­tal proper was a small chute barely largeenough for a man on his hands and knees.

Drainage was so poor that water flooded'the basement to the height of the grates andput out the fires, and in the spring. in Marchand April. men would be emplo)'ed pumpingto kcC")) the «liar clear! Sewerage was aconstant problem, not only because the draimand Wil5te llipc:s all over the building becameclogged, but the main sewer would back upand fill the cellar!

Daily inconveniences were too numerous tomention. A single narrow staircase made thetaking of stretcher patients up or down amatter of almost acrobatic skill. The steril­iting room, where kerosene stoves were usedto heat water and the sterilizer for dressings,was heated by nil oil burner, connected directlywith the operating room, and the fumes ofburnt kerosene and ether made long operatinga matler of piercing headaches and smartingeyes. Thin wooden floors separated the 'II"ardsfrom the st~ff bedrooms directly aOO\·e andthe staff dining and Ih'ing rooms belo..... sotbat when the staff were not disturbing thepatients below, the patients abo\*(' interrurtedthe staff below at their meals aDd while offduty.

All through the summer months the hospi­tal ....as crowded far beyond its capacity.

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Ordinal"}' lb.}S were difficult enough ""ith ried with him pl;lns which Dr. Curtis ;lnd heproblems of the management, proper tare and had drawn up. The architects, ~{eSJrs. De­feeding of forty and fifty patients, but when lano and Aldrich, incorporated in the finalthe periodical mail boats discharged hordes plans everything which was needed. Ted Me­of patients and there were only half a dozen Neil returned in ~Iay, and in live days groundvacant beds, it was a severe tax on everyone's had been broken and the long-hoped-for llewingenuity to care for thirty more. After e\'ery hospital was started Ione supposedly Iud been settled, some sleep· By October of the same lear the basementing on chairs, ~ches, tables, and even on the had betn extavated, the steel frame for thefloor of the reception room, on the examining entire building erected and CO\·ered o\'er, base­tablf:, in the dentist chair in the dispensary, ment floor, walls and first floor slab finished,or in outside tents, the staff would heave a and enough concrete blocks made to completesigh of relid and prepare for their lone de- the building. A stone crusher supplied thelayed supper, only to discover several who had needed gravel, but sand had to be broughtbeen overlooked and for whom accommoda- from North \Vest River and Forteau, bytion would have to be provided in nearby steamers chartered in TwilJingatt. Labor washouses. One night eighty-three patients \'oere supplied by St. Anthony and White Bay men,sleeping in a hospital intended for thirty to and each summer a crew of ten or twelvethirty-five. American college student volunt~rs have

Conditions in t92t were such that it was helped.. In addition., carpenters and two plas­impossible in the old building to meet the terers were brought from St. John's as wellsituation. Dr. Little prepared a paper outlin- as others from Bay Roberts and Twilling-ate.ing in detail the need f(lr a new hospital, and During the winter of t925 the main steamDr. aarence Blake, president of the New and water pipes were installed in the basement,England Grenfell Association, tried without and all necessary windows and doors made insuccess to interest a large foundation in the machine shop. In the spring of 1926 aAmerica, but nothing was done till the fall of steamer was chartered to bring from Newt924. when the directors of the International York the remainder of the supplies, anotherGrenfell Associalion, av.";lre of the urgency of boiler, and hospital equipment, and that sum­the situalion, passed a resolution to borrow mer the building progressed r.tpidly, the entiremoney to build a new hospital. Seyer.tl thou· ulerior and most (If the interior work being~nd dollars were borrowed 10 make the ini- completed before the cold weather set in. Theli",1 purchas.es, and Ted McNeil went to New hospital was finished except for painting Jan­York 10 consult with the architects. He car- uary I. 1927.

THE HOSPITAl. STAYI' IN" THE WI"'"'TD OF 1926-27- noK u:FT TO lliGHT TIlEY AD: ASI"OLLOWS; STANOlXG, MI'IS CUSHMAN", DL SHAra. IlL E'.DWAti!S, .cJlDT 1.. ateBAaDS,till. cuaTIS, MISS GUVELU:; SnTtNG, Mt.<;SES WII-OOX, CAaLSOS", SAS",;f'OIlD (WITH"BIlL"), SCHA£FTEJ:, AND MAn:as

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The building was designed to separate asmuch as possible the staff living quartersfrom the hospital proper. The former arc ina three-story and basement building, wilh anenclosed sun-porch running the entire depthof the building. Directly connected with thisis the hospital, a two-story and basementbuilding, so constructed that viewed from theexterior the two wings are apparently onebuilding and on the interior there is no visibledivision, but the old annoyance of mutual dis­turbance of staff and patients is eliminated.

The boiler room is separate from hut con­necting with the main building, and there isfree and easy access to it from the ol1lside.Another of the old difficulties, that of hea:ingthe hospital, is adequatel)' met by two cight­ton Kewanee locomotive tYlIC boilers. These

is a large built-in incinerator for burning allgarbage and refuse. Adjoining the boiler roomarc coal pockcts capable of holding a year'ssupply.

Coming up f rom the boiler room to themain building, we'll proceed to the westernwing and start our tour there. Two largednlg rooms and janitor's room adjoin thelaundry, which is completely modern, withwashers, mangles, and extractors for drying;it is planned to have special engines for theseappliances. Here, illustrative of the care withwhich the building was planned and the manysmall conveniences for saving steps, we see achute which delivers soiled articles to thelaundry from the floors above. Set into thewall near the laundry is a large sterilizer forthe bedding and mattresses of infectious cases

boilers are equipped with the Kewanee smoke­less fire box. The smoke, by special systemof drafts, passes back through the fire Overa bed of drop coals to the main outlet, whichresults in practically pcrf«t combustion, withlittle gas and smoke. These boilers not onlysupply high pressure steam of from 40-60lb~. to the four sterilizers in the b~i1ding,

but by a reducing valve from the main boilersupply low pressure steam for heating pur­poses. The I'apor vacuum system is used, withmodulating ,control supply valves and thermo­static regulative return vah'es on each radia­tor in the building. This insures a uniform andadequate temperature. The boilers also heat asoo-gallon tank of water, automatically con­trolled by thermostatic element in tank, tosupply the taps. A feature of the engine room

It can be used with eitherformaldeh)'de,

The method of food distribution is the prideof the culinary department. Each diet kitchensends its own containers in dumb-waiters, 10the main kitchen, where they are filled withthe cooked food and returned. These con­tainers arc fitted into asbestos-liued food con­veyor trucks which are wheeled to the pa­tients' bedside, where the food is served pipinghot.

All dishes and containers are washed andstored with the linen in the ward diet kitch­ens and only thc pots and pans used in theactual cooking are washed in the kitchen. Forthis purpose thne afe two large galvanizediron sinks with separate compartments forwashing and llreparing vegetahles. The maids'

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dilling room and the pantry adjoin the kitchen.Three large food storerooms hold the winter'ssupplies. The refrig('rating room is separatedfrom the main building, and is complete withan outside chute for ice.

The Njuipment of the X-ray department,which is also in the basement, consists of astationary X-ray machine, table with Buckydiaphragm and underslung tube box of lIuori­scopic examinations. The intensifying screensand cassettes were given by Mr. StewartBorger. A portable X-ray machine, the giftof the General Electric Company, is a greatcomenienee for ward work. The dark roomis separate and is complete with developingand fixing tanks, view boxes and special wastetraps. Following along the wide corridor, we

which is made extremely attractive with gaycretonne curtains and cushions, and wickerlounging and reclining chairs. The room alsocontains a piano, a victrola, and a radio, thelattcr given hy 1[r. Eldon ~icLeod. This suitehas becn furnished throughout by Miss EmilyFowler. The allractiveness and comfort ofthese rooms and the advantages afforded bytheir separation from the hospital make thema place of real enjoyment and rest for thestaff.

Upstairs there arc ten bedrooms for nurses,each with a ueep closet, reading lamps, etc.The facilities include a shower bath. Thethird floor consists of ten maids' rooms, bathwith shower, two large linen closets, and asewing room.

{'ass a splint room, autopsy rooms, trunkroom, ballery charging room, and large linenstoreroom. E\ery room in the basement hasoutside light, and the floors throughout are ofpainted concrete.

Ascending the stairs which join the mainstaircase from the entrance, we come to theinvisible dividing line between the staff wingand thc"hospital proptr. Entering through thedoor on the left to the former, we pass twooffices, one for the matron, and the other forthe doctor in charge, and across the corridora large coat room and diet kitchen, with clos­ets for linen and dishes. The stall diningroom is on the south side of the building, ahdconsequently flooded with sunlight. Adjoin­ing it is the living room with a large fireplace,and beyond a long sun porch, 40 x 12 feet,

Returning to the first floor, we will turn thistime to the right, into the hospital part of thebuilding. Here on the left are another dietkitchen and linen closet for the wards on thisfloor; to the right, a large reception room,closely connected with the dental room, dis­pensary and examining room. The lahoratorybeyond is complete with modern bacteriolog­ical equipment, incubators, microtomes, andcarbon dioxide c~'linders for pathologicalwork. Thcre :He also two bedrooms for doc­tors and house officer, and bath with showerattachment.

The southern end of this wing is given overto wards, one large twelve-bed ward withbath, and two smaller wards of two and fonrbeds, the latter called the Dalzell Ward, fur­nished and equipped by friends of ~fiss Jean.

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SU:O TREATME!'o"T FOR TUBERCULAR SPINES

Dalzell, a nurse who died while on duty inSt. Anthony, October, 1925. There 3re alsotwo sun porches for tubercular children,equipped by the Canadian Labrador Branchof the Grenfell Association through the effortsof Miss Fotheringham, who served as aid inthe St. Anthony hospital in 1920. Be)'ond is alarge outside veranda, also for these patients.

The second Roor of thc hospital proper issimilar in arrangement to the first. A largediet kitchen, .....ith linen and patient', clothesc1oo;et, leads off from the main corridor andhas eaS}' access to the wards, of which therearc twO of twelve beds each, with separateLath and utility rooms. These utility rooms,one for every- ward, arc a great com'coienceboth ill the matter of situation and equipment.with largt' soaking sinks, rim Rushing slopsinh, hed pan racks. etc. On this same Rooris a small isolaticn ward .,.,·ith two beds forinfectious cases.

At the southern end of this wing, directl)over the first floor sun porches, is a secondporch, where patients can be wheeled duringthe day and literally bathed in stmshine. ThePhiladelphia Branch of the InternationalGrenfell Association gave $10,000 for thissolarium.

The operating suite is scparated by a corri­dor with swinging doors from the main build­ing. Visiting the rooms in sequence, we seea recovery room, and an anaesthesia room.The sterilizing room is next, equipped withhot and cold sterile water. larl{e, commodiousc105Cts for sterile dressings, and a battery ofsteriliurs {or basins. instruments, and dress·jogs. These are all directly connected withthe ba~nt. It also contains a large plastersink. with speci.lly designed trap for w.aSleplaster,

Connected with this room is the ortho­pedic room, fitted with a new Hawley table{or applrmg plaster b3Ddages, and fittingcasts. Across the corridor is the operatingroom. but between it and the sterlizin, roo,"is a scrub-up room {or doctors and nurses

The operating room faces northea"t, and lightis supplied by an o\·erhead sk~-light or a b3t­tery of ten electric lights. There are abowall plugs {or eketric saws, suction appillra­tus. or the portable X-rar machine. Thetq".lipment of the operating room was gi\'l:nby Dr. }o"eph Arnlrcws of Santa Barbara,Caliiornia. Instrument cases arc built intothe wall~, and the Roor is painted concrete.The equipment of this suite also includes anultro-violet lamp for electro then-peutic treat·ment, the gift or the Johnson and JohnsonHospital Supply Company, :New Brunswick,Kew Jersey.

Throughout the hospital portion of thebuilding, the Holtter-Cabot call system con­llects each patient's bedside push button withthe nurse in the central station in the maincorridor. There is also a telephone systemthroughout the entire building. The elcctriccurrent is carried to the building throughunderground conduits f rom the power plantwhere two fuel oil-burning engines, aneightecn-honepower Meitz and \Veiss and a

),Ih$ CI.\\'£1.J..E. :';LTB5.£

sixteen-horsepower Fairbanks Morse, arc iausc. All light wires or water pipes. whicharc of brae" in the building, arc encased inconduits concealed in the slab.

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The buildin~ is ~tire:ly fire and waterproof. The exterior walls are of eight inchconcrete blocks made on the sitl!:.. The stu!frame was made in New York by the NationalBridge Company and bolted on the site. TheLally coluflll\!; and stee! beams are encasedin ccmem, the stairways are of concrete.Floors are of six-inch reinforced COllcretewith irey Iiolland linoleum cemented 10 slaband waxed; the walls are cemem plotsttr,while the ceilings are calcium plaster.

The wards on the south and west (thesunny side) are painted g~nish erey, andthe corridors, reception, and treatment roomColI the darker side of the building are fin­i~hed in liltht buff, with erey linoleum floors.The central drainage of the roof of the hos­pital Willg is accompli~hed by a six-inch stopeto the centtr, where leaders carry water downthrough the building to the main sewer, elim­inating all dripping gutters and frozen leaders.

The firm of Delano and Aldrich were thearchit«u of the building, and not olllydOll3ted the plans but arranged for the pur­cha~illi of the material. Ted McX'eil, afterconsuhing with them, bad entire supervisionof the erec:tion of the building. One of themany difficulties that faced him was the proo.Itm of raising and placillg the heavy steelgirders in position with a hand built craneoperated by a steam hoist. But he solved it,and to him and \Vilfred Mesher are dill' inlarge pari the excel1ellt construction and effi·cient OI)(;r3tiotl of the building.

Plans for the electrical, plumbing, and waters)'Stems were drawn up by Frnx:h and Huh­bard of Bo~ton, and were the gift of Mr.Hollis French of that firm, \ice-presilknt ofthe New England Grenfell Associati,m. Itis it testimony to the detailed care with whichthey were prepared and to the skill of WilfretlMesher who superintended the installation,that whcn the boilers were started not ajoint in the building leaked.

The money for the h06pital was raistdlargel)" in America. the fid~hcd building celSt-

ing O\'er $120,000 The largest sinale coutri­bution was an anonymous gift of $jO,ooo madeQt Otrislmas, 1925- The people of St. Anthon,and vicinity contnbut«! over $2,Joo raisedby sales and fairs, bcsidt$ giving ~e\'eral hun­dred days of free labor.

This has been the description of thefurthest northern hospital on the eaSh:mcoost of North America, built by moneyraised by voluntary contribution for the pur­pose. When this is realized, and the factthat it has been the result of years of pbn­nillg and working, some of the friends nMbtinterested in the project DOt Ih'ing to Ke itfinished, everyone must appreciate the achieve­ment of those to whom the credit is due, aoJadmire the courage of those who carried 011in the old building with daily hardships whichmore recent cotners cannot even dimly com­prehend, atld who dared, in spite of rePi!ateddiscouragements, to hope and plan for betterthings.

It is a source of the keenest regret and sor·row to all that Dr. John Mason Little, whufor ten years was doctor in charge in St.Anthony, woo enlarged the old building andwas instrumental in starting the project fora new hospital, who up 10 the time of his deathin March, 1926, did e\erything ill his powerto further the plans, is not here to s« thecomplete building. Dr. Grenfell has said that"it was really Dr. L.ittle's surgery that wasresponsible for the pilgrimages to the hos­pital that at limes al1l'lOl>t swamped thecapacity of the fortnightly mail steamers withsufferers who came ill increasing numbers toget the treatmtnl and help which they c1ai~

they could gtt nowhere else."And so the new hospital of St. Anthony

stands not solely as a refuge for the sick andnet"dy but as a splendid permanent monumentto the ideals of sacrifice and service whichha\'e always been of llaramount importanceto the foundcr and superintendent, Dr. Gren·fell, and have urged scores of doctors :tndnur<:t:s to follow hillt 10 theM' northem coasls.

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"LET US DO GOOD TO ALL MEN"

Bv WIl.I'R£D T. GU::i1'ELL

Montreal, June 20, 1917.

IT is a alorious mornit1.il", just such asMontreal knows how to greet the visitorwith in the summer heat, with a cool,

inviE"oratinK brte:ze floating o\er the city fromthe St. Lawrence.

I find myself siuinr in the high window ofa hiE" holel o\'erlooking the city, waiting forthe train to carry us all amg towards Labra­dor. How can ooe's mind help harkinr backto a day almo~t uacdy like it, when fromalmost the same window I looked oot O\·...-r thesame city, as I waited to start in the firsthospi~1 steamer, S, S. Sit Do:iALD---a smalleighty-foot second-hand )~cht. which thefriends in Montreal had purch.lsed a.nd fittedO:.lt, and in whidi 1 was to steam away intoLabrador-lying in the river dose by, Overthirty )'ears a,o I Nearly every one of thefriendJ who made that boat possible have gonesince that day on the 10111" voyage, \Yh(ncethere is no returning to the opportunitieswhich are given us thro:.lgh the relation to thisworld of our mor~1 bodies. Thirty years I Itis a reneration. \Vhen I w:u young the an­ticipation of a doctor's life in England wasunder forty years_nd here 1 am spared formy thirty-sixth year among my fishermenfriends of the Labrador. Thirty years agomy machine, which I call my body, was muchlike a new automobile-not a trouble anywherein it. Today the mirror tells me it is thebody of 3. white-headed old man, with slowerreactiOll to acceleration, and a creak or two inthe joints, with the lights a little dimmer,and the circulation on long rUllS not so good.My machine has lasted me well; but it islike the Deacon's One-Hoss Shay, and theollly way soon will be to go for a new Olleand trade this Olle in, \Von't that be great?The life of the body h('re on earth is abso­lutely a. mailer of being able all the time to.;hange properly to somcthing new-to adaptilSeH every mOment to an ever-changingenvironmen(,

My lillie daua-hter, rejoicing in a new free­dom, said yesten!:ly as J bade her good-byefor Labrador: "Yes, father, but you seeJ'm ten now (two figures!) and I'm growingup," What funl To grow up. I am abso­lutely certain the greatest and III05t beautifulchange of all will be the one that wt, ha\'ingeyes and seeing not, call death. What fun!I can remtmber as yesterday bow my own

mind alternated, when I was Ollce floating onan ice pan in the Atlantic, not knowing whatto expect-life here or beYOlld, LookinE" one....-ay I was crazy to know what was the other.side of the sun, then just risina: over IhehoritOll of the sea to the eastward; and yet,what .....ould happen to our new reindeer ex­periment. and the hospital, a.nd the orphanchildrCII on the other side of the great diffsthat formed my hori.wn to the westward.There seemed such a pull ea.ch way, eachwould ha\-e t-n full of fun--oh, the joyof being alh-el

Almost all of my bclond friends who ga\'ethe fint hospital boat have "crossed the bar"of this "bourne of time and space," while 1am headed once more for Labrador with mybelo\'ed life partner and a merry troupe ofLabrador and Newfoundland young peoplereturning to their homes from technical col·leges and schools. Thank God 1 We love thechallenge of itl life. No need there to lookaround wearily and say: "What shall we dotoday to pass the time? Labrador is still, muchas Qui51 taught us to look upon life an)­where, a field for something to do for every.one who can do anything-and in reality onhdead people are unable to do something. -

Moses, in the famous battle of old, couldnot do much. And his younger f riellds knewthey could not, But the three of them to­gether, by one putting up his hands to workdnd pray, and the other two holding them up,won the big fight. We can all hold np handsto God, "taking no rest or giving God norest" as old Isaiah put it, "until He make,Zion a blessing." I heard Charles Spurgeononcc say: "\"hen I can't sleep because of myrhcumatism, I think of myself as a watch­man and pray GOd to fit for His work thosewhose bodies arc rcncwing in sleep their ahility to do things." To think we can help tileLord is really a big ,-entur(' of faith; the mortyou thiuk about it, Ihe more )'011 realize thrconceit of bclie\'ing that a midget like youor me, can do anything really worth whilr

But that's whrre Qtrist's mes~age comes inand inspires u.s. "Ev('n the porter can watch."Look at what has been the result in Asia ofthe teaching that the highest occupation ofwhich man is capable: is to cootemplate and tolook forward to Nirvana......I~re: e:vef)thing i~

forgOl:tcn and has ~de:d in Nothillgness.Oblivion I The loa! of life I The extr;AOrdinary

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thmg to me ah"'ays was that if you fccl thatway, and worship a God sitting on a a lotusleaf doing nothing but contemplate, you shouldendow him with a hundred hands, all of whichshall be folded or idle I Not so Christ­"Cast out the unprofitable servant," he said."Not every one that saith, but he that deethshall enter the kingdom." The joie de vivre!All joy lies in achievement. It is the natureof life here. I was hungry, naked, poor, etc.,and you did nothing. Out you go-to theplace prepared for the Devil, where thosewho do nothing for anyone else will find Iheonly congenial surrounding. That'. not thefuture for Ihe man who follows the Car­penter of Nazareth here or hereafter. Hewas up earl, for He saw that there wasl-alue in contemplation. He e\'en prayed some­time!! all night-a thing I never could do,bttausc I just fall asl«p like the disciple ofold, being generally tired out by night. Buteven that may be good praying, if the sleepis used to fit you for more work. To sleepand to wake to serve better is more OIrist­like, than to injure your body, which is hu­man, wllatever His way, and ~ wake irri­tated and unfit to face the problems of amaterial world. To find the right proportionof contemplation to work must be an indi­vidual problem with each of us-the ideal isalWOlYs in the mean. BUI this world, as wecontemplated il two years ago, traveling allaround it, and trying to learn from study ofthe history of the nations ""e p;lsscd throughand of conditions and ~ults as we uw them,tanght us one thing, viL: that we could nothear anywhere of a wiser, braver, tTUCrknighl--bc he called God or man, than theChri~t we had been taught came to earlhto n:veal the nature of God Himself to man.The more you study Him, Himself. and thewords He spoke, the more you wi11 be oon-

vinced that He really meant that you and Ican be useful 10 God here on this earth.

It WilIn't conceit to sct out in that littleSJ.. Dol'CALD for Labrador and when she wascrushed in ice get the S. S. STJ,ATHOONA andthen a second ooe when she sank at sea, andin another 2'5 years yet another one. It's anawful conceit. But the trutb of it is con­finned in the only way anything on earthcan be confirmed, and that is in experimenl."Follow Me," says the OJrist. "You shallthen have the light of life." G<ld dignifiesour otherwise tragic little slay on earth hyhanding to us the saving of the world.

So, dcar friends, may I be allowed to send)'ou a meHage., u I sit at thi, high windowand look at this great city, and watch a newbuilding going up into the heavens, alreadytwenty stories higher than any I can secanywhere near it; and then when I go downto brealdast and see a whole heap of youngmen---a1J ealer and strong, yet seeming "soyoung" 10 be doing the work of creating anew city (Montreal is now the second largestFrench speaking city in the world). Therekeeps revolving in my head a text which Iknow is in the New Testament, but which Icannot put lily finger upon at the mornent. tothis effect: "While WE have lime, let us dogood unto ALL men."

I am wondering if I can do any good 10anyone in this hotel today. Of course Ican. I can be kind, and apprcciati\"C,and unsellUh. That is like Buddha, pcrhap<,but it docs heaps of good. 1lJe good I can do,won't be done if I don't do it. So we leavcour loved ones again-not without sorrow­but with the solace that life alone can gh'efor all its inevitable partings-the solace of areal challenge to get busy and do somethingfor someone elsc, and so learn of that Peacewhich passcth understanding and which canbe obtained in no other way.

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THE YEAR'S WORK IN REVIEW

TliE following report. which was pre­sented at the t ....elfth annual meeting ofthe Grenfell Association of Newfound­

l.and. gives an excellent summ.ary of the workof the Mission in .all its various br.anches u[).and down the Coast. .as well :u the usualfin<lJlCial reports of Ihe loc.al association;

Your EJL:cellency. Ladies and Gentlemen;~

The Alis~ion lear which ended J.an. Jt. 1~7,

has been a nl()!;t active olle in every respect,.and the varj(,u~ I,ranches of the AI i<sion haveonce .again to report a satisf.actory year'sprogress.

The hQSpit.a1 or medical branch continuesto find much wO!"k to engage the attention ofthe staff. At St. Anthon" de<pite the distrac­tion of Ihe erection and equiJlment of the newbuilding, the number of patients r«eivingtrutlDl"nl in 1926 was well up to the avente.During the )'car J48 patients wcre admitted.of \\ hom 2J wcre still in the no<pilal on NewYear's D.a,. The toul n;.lmber of hospitalpatient days w.as 12.IJ7 and the avcrage dura_tion of a patient's st.ay at Ihe hospital wasJ2 days. There \\crc 20t OJlCr.ttion.. Theout-patient department records show 2,010

patients dsited Ihe hospital. During the win­ter three dog team trips w(r( m.ldc fromFerrole 10 Cook', narbor, four from Cook'sHubor 10 St. Anthony, and on( from 5tAnthony to Can.lda Bar. Englee, Conche andother poillis on the east coast. Dr. Curliscontinues in charge of St. Anth"ny.

The 5T11nnCONA II on her summer tr·pr(cords 326 cases of medica.l tr('atment

At Battle Harbor during the summer thcrewere 89 admissions to the ho~pital and 52operation,; out-patients tn:ated at the hospitaland their homes number 4J2. A large amountof dental work was also performed in theBattle Harbor dislrict. Dr. Merriall'l, travel­ing from V'/est to Modiste in the Straits 10

some di~tallce north of Battle ! !arbor, gavetreatment to 24t patients, of whom 13' werechildren.

At Indian Harbor i1nd ~orlh \Vest Rivera ,'ery active year has llol:'en spe11l. Dr. Pad­don, who is in charge of the district, has thhyear been auisted by Dr. Moret, who hastak~1 over much of the routine work of thehospital.

The ho<pital at Harrilljl;tOll i~ recei\"inJ(the do~e atlention of the Canadian A"SolCia­tion, who arc prCllareol to stt that it recei"esthe care which will ~Iable the work in thatsection to be carried on with lhe greatestefficienc,.

It lIIay Ue of inlerc~t to our members andfri~ld~ to know that the reHnue .lnll ex­penditure aCOOlllU of the International Grcn­fell Association shows an expenditure on ho~­

pital stalk1ns alone of $83,962.57.

Industrial Department\Ve T('OOrd ..... ith regret the resign.ltioll of

~fi~s Catherine C1"'eland as Dired('lr of thelndmlri.ll Department. For more than thrn­)e.lrs Albs Oeveland has dcvoted her ","iii·ties, zeal .lnd mthusiasm to the developmentof this br.anch of the Mission work, \\hichis now one of the most importallt of our at­tivitie.. Last ye.ar the re,'ellue of the indus­trial d~rtment was o"er $22,000 00.

The Mission h.as secured the ICrvices of~Iiss Pressley-Smith, whose experience inScotland and with "Nonia" in Newfoundlandshould make her well equipped to act as di­rector of the industrial department.

Clothinl Department

The policy of this department is "cry c1nselydefined in the article which apllCare(\ in theOctober number of the Mapzinc, in whichMiss Dorothy Stirling. Director of this de­partment, points our that for many years theMission has followed the policy of not givinJ(away clothing or food excePt in rare casesof direct n«'d. When our workers start fIX"Labrador they are reque~ted not to give awayfood or clothing in payment for services. butto pay for everything in cash. Throu$;h ourindustrial and clothing departmeuts we i1recarrying our plans for lhe distribution ofwork, wilh payment in ca.<h or clothinj.;"throughout the district. accor(ling 10 polieh:swhich will do the greatest good to the large~1

number, n.lSed upon the knowledge gainedthrough many yean of the long established.agencies of the Mission.

Miss Stirling further rcmarks that. whileit may seem at times to people interested inthe Co.'lst that the~e departments of thc Mis~ion may not be reaching thc places in whidlIhey are interested and that therefore ad,li­tional relief should be given, experience h;l,Staught us that these matters of distribution offood and clothing and the marketing of lrocalproducts will pennanently benefit the peopleonly whell C:lTried on through a well devel­oped plan. To that end the indllstrtal depart­ment is undertaking 10 e~tabli"h c"uage induslries 00 a large scale. under expert super­\·isfon all along the Coast, extending its workeach year, all dealing constructively with moreindividuals and communities.

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37

.. 13

..... 183

. t52A total of ..

FlAWFJl's CoVf. NURSING ST...noN:

Nurses and Community workers .H ... RRINGTON HOSPITAL;

Medical and dental ...NursesTeacherOther workers

51'OTTI:lJ ISL"'ND HOSPIT... L;

Medical and dental ..NurseTeacher

C"'RTWRIGHT NURSINC ST"'TION:

NurseCIlll.D WUfARF;;

DentalNursesTeachers

WnrTE BAY UNIT:Dental .Industrial, teachers, &c..

ORI'HANAG&-ST. ANTHONY;

Supl. and Assistants.Wn.FRED T. GReNFELL SCJlOOL:

Supt. and Assistants. . 3L...Bk... OOR PUBLIC SCliOOL "'1'1) NORTII \\'EST

RIVER SCIIOOL:

Principals and Assistants .INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT-ST. ANTHONY;

Director and As"istants ...OTIIER \VOII.KEII.S "'T ST. ANTHONY:

STRATHCONA IIMedical and workers

New Hosplt3! Building

The new hospital at St. Anthony has nowbeen erected. The task of movini' in the

3 patients was C(lmpleled on January 27, and

Expenditure

The total expenditure of the InternationalGrenfell Association last year upon hospitalmaintenance, orphanage schools, child welfareand othef branches of the Association's work,amounted to $144,005.99.

We regret to learn that at a meeting of theInternational Board, held in New York inDecember last, it was announced that the in·come of the International Grenfell Association

5 for the past year had been insufficient by about.. It $.\0,000 to meet the expenses of the Mission

5 during that period, making it necessary to re­organize the work to come within the esti··mated budget. The Board, however, hope tore-shape the budget in such a way that, whjlecertain programmes of work will have to becurtailed, and some may even be abandoned,it will be possible to maintain the medicaland educational services at their present highstandard.

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StallThe staff and volunteer workers for the last

season were as follows;ST. ANTIIONY HOSPITM.. :

Medical OfficersNursesOthers ................•...

BATTLE HARllOR HOSPIT... L:

Medical and dental.NursesOther workers

INDIAN H ... RBOR AND NORTH \\'Io:5T

HOSPIT"'LS;

Medical and dental ....NursesOther workersSummer teacherIndustrial

FORTF.... U CoTTACE HOSI'lTAL:

Nurses and Community workers

Child Welfare DepartmentThe health educational work on the coast

was carried on by resident l1Urses, summerhealth nurses and summer teachers under thesupervision of Miss Eliwbet.h Criswell. Therewere seven nurses CIlgaged on the work, inaddition to the 'two engaged by "Nonia,"also thirteen volunteer summer teachers andthree dentists. The White Bay contingentuuder Miss Eliubeth Page, included two den­tists, five teachers and several industrialworkers.

Miss Criswell reports that the work startedlast summer by the child welfare nurses wascontinued by the nurses this summer. Allthe nurses sent in 1926 were experienced inpublic health work, and were placed in dis­tricts that can receive but occasional vi,itsfrom the. residCllt nurses. In the districts thathave had the services of a public health nursefor two Of more summers, an improvementin the people's attitude toward general hy­giene can be seen. AU the child welfareworkers secured through the staff selectioncommittee were women of high standard", ofexceptional ability, and well trained for theirparticular work.

Education DepartmentThe opening of the "Yale School" at North

\Vest River was the event of the year in theeducational department. This school-the sec­ond Labrador Public School (the first beingat Muddy Bay, now Gordon Cove), will,it is expected, take care of over scventyscholars, of whom thirty will be boarders.Dr. Paddon claims that the school will be ofthe grealest possible benefit to the entire re­gion. The chief support for this school willcome from students of Yale University atNew Haven, Conn.

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the old building wu ab.ndoncd. much to thereliel and satisfaction of Dr. Curtis.

h is hoped that His Exccllmcy the Gover·nor will be able to visit St. Anthony andofficially open the building during the com­ing summer, when it is contemplated that anumber of eminent doctors and surgeons fromthe United Statu, Canada and England willbe present.

We understand that the building is thor­oughly up to date in every respect, and thata sum of over one hundred and thirty thou·sand dollars ($130.000) has already been ex­pended 01\ its construetion and equipment.Your directors hope that as many friends ofthe Mission as possible will endeavor to paya "isit to 51. Anthony on the occasion of theopening ceremony.

The InstituteThe arrangements fOr the tr.wsftr 01 King

George the Fifth Institute Building were oom­pitied early last year, and the building wuofficially taken over by the Board of Gover­nors of the Young Men's and Young \Von'ltn'sChristian Associations as from the first ofMay. Extensive changes, alterations, repairsand renewals were necessary to the buildings,fittings and furniture, before it eould be saidto be suitable for the new purpose to whichit was to be adapted. The cost of theseehanges was estimated to be aoout $18,000,and before authorizing the expenditure of sucha sum, the Board of Governors s«ured prom­ises 01 auistance from a number of friendsi... St. John's to the amount of $8,000, and re·ceiyed from Mr. Machado, the President ofthe I. G. A., a promise to raise a .um of$5,000 from friends in Canada. It wasthought that with this promised support theBoard were justified in proceeding with theproposed changes, and they have now beencompleted and the building is to-day cqui])(lCdin a manner most suitable to the requirementsof the Young Men's and Young Women'sOtristian Associations. .

The Associations were officially launchedin September last at a mttting held under thechainnanship of His Excellency the Go"ernor,and their success was assured from the verybeginning. A "ery large mcmbenhip---over700 in the Y.M_C.A. and nearly 1000 in theY.W.c.A..---has been mrolled under ooth As­sociations; the m<UlY facilities of ll'lt buildingare being enthusiastially taken advantage ofhy tl'lt young people of the cit) of St. John's,and your directors derive much satisfactionfrom the knowledge that the building is atlast giving a service to the community com­mensurate with the ideas of the founder ofthe building.

The actual cost of the changes, alteratiOllS,etc., to the building was $17,983-70- Therehas been received from local subsuiption asum of $7,475 which with the promised dona­tion of $.s.ooo from Canada will give the Boardof Governors $12,475 towards the expendi­ture of $17,983.70. leaving a further sumof $50408-70 to, be raised by some othermeans. The Grenfell Adociation of Americahave been kind enough to lcnd the Boart1of Governors of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation the sum of $5,000 to tide themover their immediate difficulties, but this loanhas to be repaid in three years, the first in­stallment of $2000 falling due in July next.It will, therdore, be necessary to devise waysand means of providing the monies necusaryto mttt the rcpaymcnl5 of this loan and anyfurther deficienCJ there may be on the re­fitting account, and although this will fonnno part of the duties of the Grenfell Asso­ciation of Newfoundland, yet your Dirmorsfttl that in view of their connection in thepast with King Goorge the Fifth Institute,you should be advised of the present! situation.

The response to the appeal made for themOlley necessary for the refitting of the build·ing, confined as it was to a comparativelysmall circle, was most generous and gratify.ing to your directors.

AeeounbThe accounts of the Grenfell Aso;ociation of

Newfoundland, submitted huewilh, sbowing atotal revenue for the period of $1Z.5IJ-42.included the usual subscriptions from mem­bers, the grants from the Government, andin addition two grants of hoo sterling eachfrom the Court of the New England Company.Thue two Jailer grants are to be applied tothe specific purpose of providing religiouseducation to the children of the Labradf}rPublic Schools and will be transferred to theInternational Grenfell Association earmarkedfor that purpose. The grants were receivedthrough the agenCJ of Sir Alexander Harri~.

who is associated with the New EnglandCompiUlY in London and who, it will be re­mnnbered, w;as Hon. President of our Asso­ciation during his residence in Newfound­land. It was pleasing to receive this verypractical illustration of his continual thoughtfor and interest in the work of th.. GrenfellMiS5ion.

The increase in the Governmc11l II:rant,anticipated in Ollr la~t report, has no! beenrealized in full. The intention of the Govern­ment was that the additional gram would datefrom the time the new hospital building tameinto operation, and the delay in the completion

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500.00

Lrllllll.lT1ES

of the building has delayed the full paymentof the new grant.

The amount paid over by us to the Inter­national Grenfell Association for the )'earjust closed WAS $II,soo. which includes theGovemmttlt gram and subKriptions fromlocal friends and SUpPOrters.

ElI.dOWlDcnt FU!ldOur Endowment Fund, we are pleased to

state, has been the recipient of three veryhandsome contributions since the date of ourlast report. They are aJ follows;.. An anonymous donation rKeh'ed

through the President, of $~ooo.oo

2. A Government of Newfoundland60% Bond, received from Mr.James Warricker, par value ..

J. On the death of Mr. James War­ricker, the Endowment Fund becamethe beneficiary of the residue of hisestate, which :amounted to 2,573-21

Your directors desire to place on rttord theirapprttiati.on of these very genero:.u donations.

The NewfoundWJd Endowment Fund no'"stands at $13,875.J7, of which sum $IJ,7~5·W

is invested in Go"ernment of NewlounJlanJBonds registered in the name of the Anod:ation.

R. \VIlTSOS, Pruidtlrl.

II. R. B.OOKES, Surt/ary.

Endowment Fund;Balance as per last Account. . $8,275.87Donation, Anonymous 2,000.00Donation las. Warricker, 6y,i% Bond Govt. of Nfld. SOO.OOBequest residue of the estate of the late James \Varricker 2,57J.2tIntl':rest on Bonds and Bank Interests less eXJ)I':nsts . S:z6.Z9

General Account:Surplus as per last Account. 15S-lJExcess of Income o\"er Expenditure for the year from Re\'enue aud

Expenditure Aocount 978.17 1,133·60

$ls,ooS97

Endowment Fund:sY2% Govt. NAd. Bonds $.4.00000 due H)l2, $9,000.00 due 1939:.1t cn,t .lj,:z85-00

6~c;c. Govt. Nfld. Bond $500,00 due 1():18 • 500.00Balance in Bank _... 9O-J7

General Account:Balance in Bank

A GREAT ACQUISITION

IJ875·3i

1,1JJ.60

A DONOR, who desires to remain anony­nlOlls, has gil'en 10 r. G. A. a beautifuloil-cruiser, MAkAV[L. This boat is 76

feet 011 the water-line, sh<lllow-draught andyet sea-worthy; she has twin Winton engines,which give her a speed of frolll 10 to 1.l

knots. She is very slrotlrly built, and e~cep·

tionally well suited for work on the LabradorCoast. As she has been at moorings for Jyears, there is collSiderable work on hert'lig-ines. She will leave for Thomaston.Maine, about June 14, for a few structuralalterations, and should be ready 10 ka\"e forl.:abrador during the second weeK in July.

She is to be atUched to the Hamilton Inletand Sandwich Bay sectioo of the Coast. Whileit would be tlying in the face of Providenceto reject so generous, and so suitable a rift,the present sizl': of the :.Innual budrct has

made it imperative to seek special ways andmeans of finding her maintenance.

A suosidy of $500 has !>eel! guaranteed, forlluolic snvice, from the Newfoundland Gov­ernrnel1\, which must be duly earned. Anyworkers who Illay be going down so late, willbe invited to tra\·e\ on her, .so that theirexpenses may be credited to her account; alldother means will be elllployed to help llC"rpay her way.

Dr. Grmfell has very kindly agrc-ed thata qualified engineer, who has ~ put at hisdispo~al for the 5Ca5011 by a genero:.!s friend,shall complete the repairs to the engilks andrun her to her destination.

It is to be hoped the donor may live to feelrepaid for so munificent a gift by the futurerecord or the bo2t.

HAuv 1.. PADDON.

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WILLIAM ADAMS DELANOBv THFJll)(lIl£ AISSWOllTtI GlEES'-

BEHIND enry Mission is a long list offriends and supporters. Behind everynew building iso the mind and hand that

shapW it into a thing of beauty and usdul·ness. Behind the new Hospital at St. An­thony, Newfoundland, to be dedicated on July25, is the mind and hand and hear! of itsarchitect, William Adams Delano, "hose pic­ture appears as the frontispiece this month

Mr. Delano has beeD an interested and faith­ful friend of the Grenfell Mis~ion for manyyears, as ....'3.S his father, the late EugeneDelano, before him. The father was one ofthe nrst men in America to recognize Dr.Grenfell's worth and work. He was the nrsttreasurer of the Grenfell Association ofAmerica, and continued in that office until thetime of his death. T~e elder SOIl, WilliamAdams Delano, has been a director of theGrenfell Association of America for twentyyears and also a director of the InternationalGrenfell Association. For some time back, thesemi-annual meetings of the I. G. A. havebeen held in the office of Delano and Aldrichat 126 East ,l8th Street, New York Cily. Onlylut summer Mr. Delano visited Ihe Co;l.St ofNewfoundland and Labrador ..... ith his son,Richard, 5ailed with Dr. Grenfell on theS. S. STLUH(XlSA II inlo many of the harborsof that northern coast, and "';th his artist'seye caught many a Lallrador iC:ascape orlandscape in waler wlors. Though he is toomodesl to introduce himiC:1f, we beg leave tomake our readers acquainted here with thearchitect oi St. Anthony's Hospilal andChildren's Home, as well as the Notre DameBay Memorial Hospital at TwiJIingate andthe Seamen's Institute, at St. John's.

William Adams Delano comes frolll goodold New England stock. His ancestors ownedand sailed clipper ships sOllie generations back.His grandfather, the Rev. William Adams,D.O., was a Presbyterian minister of distinc­tion in New York City, and his father aPresbyterian elder in the old Madison SquareChurch. He "''3.S born ill New York on Jan~

uary 21, 1874. His mother was SusanMagoun Adams.

In the year 1895. be "as graduated fromYale Univenity with the degree of Bachelorof Arts. Electing to study ar<:hilectUt"t, hisfather gave him e\·ery opportunity to preparehimself under the great masters, and he re­cehed his diploma from L' ~cole loks Bl"auxArts at Paris in 1903- On \Iay 2Jrt!, up7, he

married Miss Louisa Poller of New York,daughler of the late Right Reverend HenryCodman POller, D.O., Bishop of the Dioceseof New York. tn '908. Mr. Delano was'gh·en the honon.ry degl'tt of Bachelor ofFine Arts al his Alma Mater, and is 10 Ihisday a memller of the Board of Architects forYale Unil'ersily.

Since 1903, he has been a partner in thefirm of Delano and Aldrich, well-known fortheir work in designing such New YorkOubs as the Knickerbocker Oub, the ColonyOub, India House, as well as the Brook andRound Hill Country Clubs on Long Island.Hundreds of beautiful country and cityhomes, college dormitories, libraries, art gal­leries, laboratories, hospitals and churches­many of them in the Colonial style---ore theproduct of his fertile brain and draftsman'spencil. For seven years, from 1903-10, MrDelano was a profcssor of design at Columbia University's School of Archite<:ture. Heis a Fellow of the American Institute ofArchitects, aDd a member of the Architec­tural League.. Some yean ago. he was m..dea member of the feder-I.! government's FineAm Comminion appointed to consider plansfor the de\'elopment of the national capitalFrequently of late, he has been summoned toWashington to consult with Mr. Mellon, 5«­

retary of the Treasury on plans for the newDepartment of Commerce Building, and othergovernmt:nt building projects.

Mr. Delano has t~ hobbies, that we knowof-though there may be others. The firstis making old fashioned furniture with hisown ha.nds. In an old green house, near IlisLollg Island home, his workshop is filled upwith a set of Stanley tools, and there onweek-ends and in summer, he tllanes andsaws and carves away to his heart's contelltThe second, as you may ha\·e guesiC:d already, is his very great interest in helping toad~·ance the Grenfell Mission's program inNewfoundland and Labrador. To this laSIpursuit, he gives himiC:1f with all the en­thusiasm, masterful diplomacy and tact, whichha\e made him so acceptable an architect andso distinguished a gentleman. Many thou­sands of dollars have been brought inlo theMission coflen through the influence of thethree Delano~, Eugent., William Adams andMoreau. \Vha! would we do wilhout Ihem?And in what a modest, faithful, splendid Sl,iritha\e they ltttn ~ef\ing Ihis Mission for )earsl

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HOW STORES AND SUPPLIES ARE HANDLEDAT ST. ANTHONY

By A. C. BLACKIIURN

6,

ALTHOUGH the department of stores

and supplies may not enlist as muchenthusiasm as do our hospitals, yet this

department is very1necessary to the whole sta_tion, ami readers may be interested to knowof the progress it has made in the past twcntyyears.

One of our oldest and most faithful mis­sion workmen, Capt. A. Ash, has told me thathe built the first storehouse for Dr. Grenfellat 51. Anthony, a small building 12 x 20 feet.When the writer arrived at St. Anthony inthe fall of 1911, the supplies for the Missionwere housed in eight similar small stores orsheds.

I recall that the lale, revered Dr. John. M.Little, who was in charge here at the lime.asked me during the winter that followedwhat I considered the greatest need of 51.Anthony, and without hesitation I replied "Anew I;entral storehouse."

No funds were available then or in subse­quent years for this important work and sothe matter drifted for several yl;ars. Whenthe great War came along in 1914, the matterhad pcrforl;e to be dropped entirely duringthose war years. It was diffteult enough forDr. Grenfell to raise funds to carryon thegeneral work of the Mission, and not a l;el1twas available for flew 1;0nstrUl;tion. It ishard to understand today how we all I;arriedon with the old buildings, now that all depart­ments are so comfortably housed. Often inthe spring we would wonder, as we surveyeda huge drift of snow, "Just where and abouthow far from the end of the building did we~ore thai barrelled beef or pork?" The oldbuildings were very low, and even today ourthree-storied building has a drift on one sidereaching to the second floor. Sometiml;s onour first guess we would dig in vain andwould have to try again in another part ofthe snow bank.

As the needs of the Mission kept growing,we needed larger buildings; and with moreand more goods coming to St. Anthony,storage and distribution bet:amc increasinglydifficult. The old office building was low anddraughty, and on real stormy days it was use·less to Iry to warm it. The Mission dog-penwas fastened to the largest store and office,and we were frequently called upon to settledog fights, whicll, although they added variety

to the day's work, were far from a pleasantadditioll to its routine.

In 1918 a start was made toward bettertbings, and in that year the overhead railwayand ooal storage plant was built. No longerdo we have to dig out coal buried under tonsof snow, or pil;kaxe it out after a partialthaw, nor do we see it wasting or Sl;atteredhy storms. This new storaa-e makes distribu­tion much easier and I;oal is delivered fromthe bins to the Institutions in the fall of theyear by a Ford truck.

In 1919 ule new I;entral store was built, athree-story building 45 x 75 fel;t, replacinglhe lillie scattered sheds that had grown upand servl;d while the work was growing. ThetransformatiOIl from the old to the new wasquite an al;oomplishment, made possible byour able foreman, Mr. Edgar MI;Neil, andhis workmen. The new store was framed uparound the lillie old office building, and it wasa great day when we moved into a finishedpart of the new building. The old buildingwas then tom down and easily taken outthrough the new framework at the west end.

A trolley line now runs from the head ofour loo-yard wharf through the ground floorand on to the lumber yard, thus facilitatinglanding. The ground floor is used I;ntire1yfor storing heavies such as barrelled beef,pork, flour, I;ement, and lime; the second flooris divided and used for provisions and gen­eral hardware and household necessities, whilethe third floor is taken up almost entirely bythe dothing departm~nt, with a small separ­ate room for surplus drngs. A hand Otiselevator is provided for the building whkhsaves a great deal of labor and is somethingwe simply oould not do withoul.

51. Anthony is now the distribution pointfor all the Missioll stations eXl;ept Harring_lOll, supplying in all about a thousand people.Last summer one shipment alone consisted offifteen hundred tons of freight and it wouldbe difficult to make an estimate of the thou·sands of I;ases, boxes, and barrels that wehandle annually. These 1500 tons of freight(long tons, of 2,240 Ibs.) were landed at acost of 85c. per ton, it figure whkh we thinkwill I;ompare favorably with freight discharg­ing oosts anywhere when one oonsiders thatthe eost includes storing the coal in the bins,cement plal;ed 011 the building site, furnish-

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ings for the new hospital stored away untilneeded, and the general stores for our ownand all the stations safely put under cover.

The slOl"ehousc is well protected from fireby the use of PyrelleS and we have 5ufficimlIcnith of hose to reach to the end of thewhilrf from the hydrant outside the old hos­pital. It is aruin that the new orphanage;md the new hospital could not ha\'e been bultwithout the central store, for thousands ofbarrels of cement. li~. plaster, and otherbuilding mattrials were there safely housedfrom the ",-eather, to be tilk~ away as needed.

So today in the new building we have acharlet'; to do good work, comfortably, cRi­cient!y, and much more economically. AI-

though it was said when we wefe completinltthe: present building thelt it was 100 luge forour needs. we find already that we need andcould use a much larger building, and soonwill have to build a shed to be used as agmen.1 storehouse. \Ve run our own pos~

office, !Crve all the institutions and depart·ments here besides the staff houses and manfof the emvloyttJ of long SC'rvke, and arcresponsible in a year for the food, clothingand general supplies need~d for our Misstoncommunity of about 400 peopl~. 'On an av~r­

age 350 people, many of them from the outharbors, visit the building in a month to re­ceive paym.'nt for work done in tither suppli~s, cash, or clothing.

THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES

wlt.nED MESHER5UPUlNnNDENT OFELF.C'RICAL, STEA'"PLUMlllNG INSTAL-

!.ATIOS

T HERE arealways men"beh ind the

scenes" who con­struct and prep;lrethe stage for others,never appearingthemsdves in thefina I production.Their work is quiteas important to thefinished performanceas that of the peo­ple who speak thelines, in fact, it is ina way more so, be­cause without themthe others wouldhave found it diffi­cult to appear in anycapacity.

Just as a play needs a theater, stage andscenery, so a hospital needs a building, andheat, plumbing and light, ;md though whenyou visit St. Anthony Hospital you rnay onlysee patients, doctors and nurses, fet there areothers who have done their WQrk and gOneon, and these 100 d~serve their share of lhepraise. First, there were the workmen them­sehu. No eight·hour day for them. Fromseven in Ihe morning until it wu almost dark-K\'en, tight and ohen nine o'dock everyevening-1M concrete mixer and stone crushercould be beard banging away 15 the newbuilding grew by leaps and bounds, often thesuperintendent, Ted McNeil, SIying, "We'll,...ark late to-night, boys."

But there is more to a building than pour­ing concrete and placinr blocks. What would

have been Ihe use ofa sleamer-Ioad ofmaterials, carefullydrawn plans, andevrn Ihe mosl willingworkmen,if there had1>«n no one to inter­pret the plans, directihe workmen, andsolve the thousandand one prohlems?

These problemswere often \·ery reaJonts which wouldhave lued the skillof the most expertcontractor, and they

~:re ::e~~~sb:~~~~ ~~:E~MC~~R;~~never has to face. If CONSTRUCTION

mistakes had beenmade in sending the supplies, if plans werechanged to meet new demands, or local condi­tions altered original specifications, it was Dr.Curtis, Ted McNeil and Wilfred Mesher whofound the solution. "It will take four weeks10 get new material; use what you've got."­"What, the supply tap has a lefl-handedthread." "\Vell, then, rethread the fixtures,"­'1f you need a crane for the Sirel girders,build it."

Take, for instance, the problem of reltingIwo Se\·en-l0n boilers from the deck of aschooner to a foor by six wharf. They couldneither use the ship's derrick, nor rig up ablock: and tackle from the Sp;lrs, so they builta ruDway from deck to wharf, and the hravyboilers were "inched" over the rail to thepier. From there a wooden road Tt'as built,

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a thousand yards long, to the hospital, usinga movable block and tu:kle, with the Fordtruck pulling the rope on one side and thetractor on the other. The many daily prob­lems were too numerous to mention, but itwas always the same story of "Work it outyourself," and both Ted McNeil and WilfredMesher deserve the highest credit for this,the crowning achievement of the long rec­ords of their useful and indispensable activi­ties for the Mission.

Both of these men studied at Pratt Insti-

tute, Brooklyn, Ted McNeil taking the ma­chine construction course in t908-09, andWilfred Mesher studying the same coursein t915-16, going the following year to studypraClical el!':ctricity at the New York TradeSchool. Te~ McNeil was superintendent of,construction of the hospital at North WestRiver, assisted in the construction of theOrphanage at St. Anthony, and built the damthere. Wilfred Mesher installed the electri­city and plumbing in the two buildings men­tioned above.

ONI::-HALt" OF Till'.: IlOIl.U tXl~ TilE NEW HOSPITAL OY THE WHA'RF AT ST.ANTHONY, AND THE YLIVVU THAT HAULED IT UP THE HILL FRO:l-I THE WHAIU'

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LABRADOR

I HAVE spoken of the new note~ of hopethat have C(lme to Labrador, such as thenew way of sending salmon home frozen,

thus saving so much expense to the poorfishennan, increased his earnnig capacity, andgreatly improving the article for food. Dolet me commelld to all my friends this frozensalmoll. It is really excellent, and the Hud­son Bay Company certainly do deserve ourgratitude and support for their plucky per­sistence in making it a succ!':ss.

Then there is the new world appreciationof the value of Labrador and Newfoundlandcod-liver oil for general health, for ehildgrowth, and as a specific for tuberculosis,and for its high vitamine value.

The Patch Company of Boston, Mead J ohn­ston & Co, of Evansville, and others are nowassociated with Labrador codfish producings.tandardized and reliable oil. New factoriesfor it are going up 0111 along the coast, andinstead of being worth sOllie twenty cents agallon it has touched a regular dollar agallon.

Then there are new indus.tries, especiallysuch as we have been putting in-mat mak­ing, weaving, knitting, ivory carving, skinembroidery, basket making like the Indians,

model building, toy making and many others.The Hudson Bay Company has again done it­self honor in taking up this line of work,and we are proud of the Newfoundland boywho directs it in our country and who sitsin power in Montreal, while his brother atCartwright embodies. his fine attitude to theworkers of the country.

We were glad to hear of a Rockefellerscientific research party for the Natural His­tory Mus.eum las.t summer and more espe­cially as two of our old helpers were on it­William Rockefeller and John Rowland. Wehave a sneaking hope they may be forced into visit us again.

A magnificent new hotel has at last beenbuilt in St, John's., Newfoundland, as well asin Bay of Islands, to form a fine jumping offplace for the tourists and visitors who wantto come north.

W. T. G.

FREE passaR'e on the Cl!ANL£Y was givenin May by the Donaldson Line to Mr.

Dearlove, the expert on short-wave telephony,who has gone down to Labrador to under­take the illstallation of a sySlem between theseveral stations of the Mission.

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A RAG DOLL THAT SAVED A LIFE

O NCE upon a time a rag doll was sentdown to Labrador ill a box of toys,and went 10 live in one of the hos­

pitals there. One day a little sick boy wasbrought in, so frightened and homesick andunhappy that his fever kept getting worseand worse, until he was a very sick little boyindeed.

Then one of the nurses thought of the newrag doll. She brought it to him and laidit in his arms, and he was so surprised to seeit-foT he had never in his life seen any kindof a doll before-that he forgot all about

teresled and began to ask how they oouldmake and send dolls to Labrador.

So the first year she told the siory-thatwas in 1925-22 Junior branches began tomake rag dolls, and in Angust they had 199to be senl away, ready for Christmas in theNorth. That meant 199 happy lillle childrenon Christmas morning, each wilh a doll tolove and play with.

Last year the Juniors did even better, foragain in August 31 branches sent 288 dolls.and some cats and dogs, as well, to hell) SantaQaus fill up thc Olristmas stockings.

JUNIOitS IN LONGPORT, NEW JERSEY, AND SOME DI' TilE DOLLS THEY HELl'!'..!) TO COUECl'

being frightened and homesick. He just heldIhat rag doll in his arms and loved it, andas soon as he fclt happier his fever wasquieted and he began to get well. That dollreally saved his life.

Now, this is a true story, and it is thebeginning of another true story. For whenone of the Grenfell workers came down fromLabrador she told aboul the doll and thelittle boy to some friends.

One of the friends who heard it first wasMiss Maria Halsey Stryker, who is the na­tional dirtttor of Junior Work in the Needle­work Guild of America. As she wentabout she told it to her J union, and toldthem how many more children there were inLabrador who had never even scen a doH ofany sort. Right away the Juniors were in-

Like the grown-up members of the Needle­work Guild, the girls and boys who belong tothe Juniors make or give two or more hrand­new garments every year to loe given 10 poorpeople, as the price of their membership. Thedolls they made and dressed did not COUIlt asgarments, but were extras done for fun intheir vacation time. But here is a funny thingabout that. Every single Junior group thatgave dolls in 1926 at the same time increasedtheir &"arments collection over their gifts of1925· Truly loving and giving both growby doing.

If you wallt to know how you can have aJunior branch and make rag dolls and gar­ments too, just write to Miss Maria HalseyStryker, c/o The Needlework Guild of Amer­ica, 133 South Twelfth St., Phil:ldelphia. Shewill tell you all about it.

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BEVERLY MAKES CHRISTMAS FOR OTHERS

IT was. a lo\.ely. criSII.loright mormug-quitetoo mcc a day for a

Iittlc girl of cight to befrctting about the .houscall morning for some­thing to do, as Beverlywas doing.

Grandma Shipman ~-as

~~~iioii~!:i :~~::I:'~II~~~d~:·G";:;~as knilting lovcly liule

red mittcns just right for packing snowloallsand drawing sleds with; ('I'cn Grandma Eliza­helh was too lousy to find something for Bev·erl)· to do. for she was making lamp shades,and \:;lid. "I can·1 stop just no ...... dear. m;.fingers are sticky wilh shellac."

Amity was 1);Iltillg Ihc finishing touches ontiny rompers. and Mothcr would 1101 showher work because she said she was helpingMr~. Santa Claus alld it would nOI I.oe fairto ~how it."Allyho~. i(s most timc for yuur piano

Ic.ssvn. Ik,·crly. \Vhy don'l you run throughit I.ocfore your tcacher comes." Mother advised.

But poor Beverly could not be satisfiedwithollt SOlllC rcally Olfistmas work. \Vhen­cvcr shc said, "LeI'S talk aboul Santa Claus,"evcry one had heard it so much, t justl.aughed and «aid, "No, Ict's t;tlk about Thanks­givinr or Eastcr."

Shc was still pulling drawers Open andscarching for something to do for Christmas,whm Miss jac:kway e;arne in, bringing all thesunshine our world h.ad lacked. What do )'Ou

think? She had some: really (]nislmas t;tlk,

too. She told Bevcrly about her rnallY littlefriend>. al the Orphanage in St. Anthony,Xcwfound1and, wherc she Spall the summer(t9"!6) as house·mother. She ~-as trying to!tend each child somcthine for Christmas.

Beverly knew right away that was the nlostinteresting Christmas work of all. and so shea~kcd if shc might help. Min Jackway smiledand said, "Why, that will be fine." &\·erlyhad her ksson, lout she helped Miss jackw.aydress dolls in halldkerchitfs, one for everylittle girl at the Orphanagc.

One day altcr Christm.as Bcverly rcceivt'da very illlllOrtant leller addressed to hcrself,with an odd looking stamp. Can you guenhow proud and pleased she was, when shcfuwld it was from Nwfoundland? Shec..uld scarccly wait for Mother to open it.II W;l.S a lovely '·thank )·00" leller frolll MissEvangeline Givcn. then a houscmother at theOrphanage, in hehalf of her little Ul\se"l\friends. Miss Givell not only told her inter­csting things about the e;hildn:n's Ouistmas.lout sent a kodak picture of the Orphanagedog team, with nalllC5 of all the dogs, alldtwo puppies not yct old cnough to be Irained.

1 think Beverly would give you almost allystory book or doll she lias. before shc wouldpart witll that leiter or picture.

Xow she wmlll Mother, Cousin jack .and allher playmates to help her sell Campfirc marsh.mallo..... s 50 she and Miss jac.kway can ha,·emorc mOlley to use in their work for the e;hil.dren in the North this year.

"Oh dear," sighed Beverly when Mothertocked hcr ill bed with her letter, ''I'm soproud!'"

THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY

TilE fisherie~ of Newfoundland are animportanl illdustry of the country alldemploy a Ireat many of thc people. In

the waters that wash the shores of our isla.lld,therc are more fish than ill any other panof the ocean.

There are threc branches of the fisheries,thc first and most important being the rodflShcry. Cod is found in great abund.anceoff the shores of our island, on the GrandBanks and in the .....aters off Labrador. \\1h(n

the eOl!! ill dried and salted, it is exported todiffcrent countries sudl as Grcat Britain,Spain, Portugal and Brazil. Bcside cod, wcfind a number of small fish of leu irnportall<:C,used mostly for bait.

The Banks fishery (;Ornes next. The B:mkslie off the southeast roast at a distan<:e ofthree hWldrcd 10 fi\-e hundred miles. It is inthe shallow waters here that the. cod is fowldin great quantities. This fuhery is carricd onon stout schooners from fifty to one hundredalld forty tons that carry a crew of twentyor thirty mell. These schooncrs have onboanl a number of dories. Each dory con­lains about two men and cach mar has atrawl which is a long line containing h,'o orthr« hundred hooks baited with herring orother small fish.

The next is the Labrador fishery. J' lmdredsof our vessels are employed ill it cvery year.Thcy usually carry a crowd of people known

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as "freighters." Sometimes the crew a\'eraguseventy to one ship. These people just fish forthe summer months and return home in thefall. When they reach home, they wash anddry their fish before selling il.

There are new methods of curing and pack­ing fish. They remo\'e all the bones andskin. theII divide it into strips and pack itinto a neat box before it is sold. This isknown as "boneless codfish."

Every part of the fish can be used for some-

Ihing. The liver is made into cod livCf" oildnd the skins are U!ied for glue.

TIle best policy for Newfoundland is tocherish and devc:lop her cod fishery. An ex­periment is soon to be tried with cold stor­age. If tros method proves successful, the\'illue of the fisheries will be increased.

Mnnz POMDOv,

The Wilfred T. Grenfell School,

St. Anthony, NAd.

Tilt': CHILDREN IN Ttlt': UQ<;PITAI. I.OVl': THE n.oWER NAMf:-PI.ATES ON THY-Ill B(Jl~

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE HOSPITAL(Extract from Mrs.. Alice Appleton Blackburn's leiter of March I, 1921. written to

Uiss WarDe in Ottawa.-EDrI'OL]

EVER since the new St. Anthony Hos­pital has been occupied we have wishedso many days we could at least take

the representatives from all your many dis­tricu through the buildini and let them seewhat they and their many helpers have madepossible, in this homelike and comfortableplace. The sun just makes this new place aparadise for patients. The day before Wpatients were moved in, we all helped 10 makebeds, put covers on the new bedside tables,arrange linen, books, etc.

Miss Carlson, the head nurse, put a newblanket on the foot of each bed-the lovc:lyred and grey ones sent by your people lutyear. The children's cots were abo made upwith the new things. Everything was spickand span and the unusual spaciousness madeu! all long to get the patients in as quicklya! possible. The next day wa! very lovely­a Lit cold, but everyone of the thirty palientswas moved with as little confusion and easeas one could wish. Of course the childrenwere a bit excited in their new bed!, and wereinterested in seeing the new view they couldhave of the hills behind Dr. Grtnftll's honle.They can see an oceasional partridge and rab­bit, as they come quite close in winter for

stray bilS of grain or food thrown out for

,"'~The lower ward floor is 1I0t yet quite com­

pleted. It is the floor havini the DalzellMemorial Ward. These will be ready foroccupancy in about a week, now. The splen­did equipment for that ward is all waiting tobe put into use, which no doubt will be neededas soon as the room is finished, for patientsfrom afar come in day after day.

Dr. Curtis hu had those very attractivehandpainled markers put up over the chil­dren's beds, and the picture Miss MacGilli_vray sent hangs in the living room, over theiireplacc. I wish she and Helen Fotherinc­ham could come up agam-they were SUdl

delightful people.This week wa! Dr. Grenfell's birthday and

the school always celtbrates it as Founder'!Day. This year our principal, Miss Baier,had a fine picture of Dr. Grenfell unveiled bythe Boy Scout! and Girl Guides, which wa!quite an impressive service. Dr. Curtis spokefeelingly of Dr. Grenfell's service and of thestrOllg spiritual motive back of the Mission,whic:h is sometimes lost sight of amid mate­rial benefits.

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THE CHILDREN'S HOME IN ST. ANTHONY

By Euz.urrH Bno

,.

THE work of theChildren's Home ni51. Anthony was

slarted by Miss EltilnorStorr, a volunteer fromEngland, who came outespecially to take chargeof the home for Dr.Grenfell in 1906. Be­ginning as an orphan­age with a small familyof three orphaned boysand one girl fromLabrador, the homewas soon filled withchildren. In five yearsthe small building wasquite overcrowded, and

a new wing was added which doubled thesize of the home. For six years Miss Storrably carried 011 the work of the home with­Ollt the aid of any modern conveniences, be­side doing a greal deal of nursing outside.

In T912 Min Katie Spalding, another vol­unteer from England, came to help her andafter Miss Storr's return to England tookcharge of the home. The next six years undl!'rMiu Spalding's wise kadership wen yearsof great progress. It was during this timethat a playroom was built for the boys, be­cause the home was again bttoming crowdedand there was no place for them to play. By1916, ten yeal'll after the home was startl"d,thl!'re werl!' thirty-eight children, three Jll!'r­manl!'nt workers, a sewing matron, and a cookin the home, and every bed was filled. Be­fore Miss Sp;tlding left the home in 1919plans for the new concrete brick home wereWI!'II started and in the summer of 11)20 thefoundation was berun.

While lhe work of raisin~ m~y forbricks and building went on, Mrs. Ena Mc­Curdy, Miss Helen Hosmer, Miss H;uriotHoughtc1ing and othe~ Wt're caring for thechildren in the old home. 'Many anxiousnighu were spent tbm bll'cau.sc lhe buildingwas overcrowded and there was always dan­ger of fire. In the summer of t922 MissFrances Baier took charge of the home: aboutOltistmas time, before thl!' building was fin­ished, the orphanage family of fifty-threemembers moved over and life in the new tire­proof home was organized. Dr. Curtis' keen

interest and daily a$.Sistance were much appre­ciated at this time. As soon as Dr. Grenfellreachro the coast the next summer new chil­dren began to come and the numbers stead­ily grew. By the fall of 1925 the orphanagefamily numbered seventy-three, including chil­dren, workers and maids, and there are usu­ally about that number in the home IIOW.

There are five workers including a kinderpn­ncr, a trained sewing teacher, and a boys'worker, and usually about ten older girls ormaids.

Most of the children rome from Labradoror nonhem Newfoundland. Beside caring fororphans and dcstilute children, lhis home re­ceives children who arc sent here from is0­lated plata to go to school. The girls arctrained in household science and aru and theboys in manual training, in addition to shar­ing the duties and chores of the home. Whilethe girls arc mending or knitting, the boys aremending boots, hauling and chopping wood,and makinr small repairs. Through the gen­erous interest of one of our many friends,the boys were given a dog team, which addsa great deal 10 their tn.ininr and pleasures.The pre-school children are under the directsUJll!'rvision of the trained worker, who hasnursery school for them daily. A library oflovely books which have been sent by friendsof the home eootn'butes a great deal to thehappiness of the children. Picnics, parties.occasional cooccrts, Guides fM the girls andScouts for the boys, all give them pleasureand happy social life. As the most importantpart of their traininr, the effort is continu­ally made to influence the children towardstandards of right living by simple Otristianteaching, in prayers and Sunday school, whichwill bear directly upon their daily livll'S.

Since the home was opened twenty-one yearsago, one hundred and twenty-one childrenhan gone out from it. Of these, twenty-ti"eha\'e gone to Canada, F..na:land, or the Statesfor teclmical training to return to the coastas nurses, teachers, dressmakers., dornestkscience and industrial workers. Four of theboys scrvro in the World War. All the chil­dren wllO have ever hem in the home havehad that opportunity of training which wouldnot only make their lives richer, but whichwould enable them to be of service to theirfellow men and by their ideab to influence

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Itoe Ih·cs of others on thi, coast. Without go on. To ",II those who h'l.\e e,er hclred orthe help of all the friends of the home, thu who ;Irt now helping the '1\Iorll: of this home by,-aluable work of lraining the children in whose their pralcrs, their giflS or their ~rvitt, anhands the future of this coast lies, could not acknowledgmnlt of detp appredalion is gh·en.

TWO DECADES AT THE ST. ANTHONY SCHOOL

W E hilve been a~ked to write short hi5­lorical ,k('ldle of the diffcrcllt de­~rUll('nts here, and 10 oomply wilh

the ~uest for the School, I howe been readingall the back numbers of the Da.p-SuFISHERS, and as a result I feel leu compe­tent to write than b<-fore I

I t is an humbling experience to read aboutthe llioneers of the Grenfell Mission. Com­pared to their cnc::ounters with storms, rocks,red~, and shoab, our sailing is smooth. Whata foundation they laid, and at whilt a C05t!

There re:tnilins so little 10 be: wd, bUI asI draw oonlrasts bc:tw(~en thc:.n and now, letit be: remembered tmt to Ihe early workersbelongs the credit for the well-<:onstfllctedfoundatKln upon which we: of the more recenttodays are building. Generous friends havegi"en us beller equipment and larger oppor­tunities. Ours the shame if we do not buildwell.

1n t!)08, we see "Miss Keese cro~sjng theharbor all winler on ice: to teach in the littleschool there."

In 1m, she: is given 00 the: Misskon side,

"a small weather-beaten house" in which togather her young dargc:s, The: summer of1909 AW the: beginning of kindergarten work,\\hich colltinuc:d se\'eral summers under Mi~s

Oli,'e Leslie's leadership,In 1910, a new $Chool building was started

"hich would be "not a hovel" but a realschoolhouse:.

In t91f, MiH K«se joyously enlered inlothe "perfectly gorgeous" completed buildingwith the artless remark, "\Vhc:n we get furni­ture for the school, it will be: hard to beat ,',With 74 flUPils from 3 to 16 years of age, sheholds the: fort with the: aid of a pupil tc:aclwor..\n interesting fact worth noting here is the~inning of industrial education and eveningclassc:s.

In 1912, Miss Appleton assumed leadershipwilh an able assistant .. lIer enlightening rc:·mark was, "Two schoolrooms well fitted andready for business, bUI only olle is heated!"So a curtain was hung in the middle of theheated room, She adds blithely, "It is goodsport to be your own fireman and janitor,"She had SO pupils.

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In 1913, ),Iiss Appletoll with an u~i!lant

carried on with "a well-filled coal bin, fullbookc.aK~, blackboards and erasers, but with­out the lIecessary cquipm~t of desks, chairs,etc.," and ,1Ii/1l slates. She had 60 childr~

from 5 to 18 years of age.III 1914, Miss Appleton (now Mrs. Black­

hunt) continues with an ;usistant for theboys, who arc given manual training.

In 1915, the school building was dosed asretrenchment because of the war W<lS foundnecesgry. Mrs. Blackburn continued her teach­ing in the Orphanage.

In 1916, ),fi.., Bracuer a..,umcd the rrinei­p"l~hip with 40 childr~, a hetr-rogell('(lU~ ~up­

ply of schoolbooks and a girl as~i~tant. Sheremained three }'ears and did some very con­~trm':live work. She rcoaliu~d the need of con­tinuity of service and a definite course ofstudy.

Tn t919, Miss Bateman was principal.In 1920, Miss Rowsell, an excellent New­

fo-..IIIdla!1d tuchcr. assumed charge.In 1921, Miss McLeod came for three years

and there was steady impro\-nncnt in gradestandards. She had 108 pupil~. 1....0 and thenthr«: assistants and a boy janitor.

The years 1924 and 1925 witnessed a de­cided forward step in Ill<! school. Two roomswere added to the buil\Iing for doml"stie sci­ence and carpentry. Miss \Vyatt was t11eprincipal and there were 110 pupils.

In 1926 there were two principals: Mi~s

Butt, who. because of illness, had to giveplace to Miss Dayis.

Today, the Wilfrerl T. firenfell School h:io.112 pupils, six trained Iu.ehen, and indu~tri<ll

classes in sewill!;" ~nd carpentry (cooking has

been temporarily crowded out by an unusu­all,. larae primary department). The build­ing is oomfortable; the rooms are welllighted and heated. There is sufficicnt equip­ment and full t.ime janitor service. Best ofall, there is an interested and cooperatingschool committee.

The question may be: in some one's mind,\Vhat results can you show? or, Haye yourgraduates made good in life?

To an~wer these questions, let it be saidthat t"o of the nurses in the Hospital atthe prcsentlDOUlCllt were Grenfell pupils, andal~ one nurse who served last year. Four)'ounger members are at l'Te:sent studying tobecome nUrSC!i. Seven former pupils arc 10­day holdillg responsible positions in the busi­ness world; and five arc in the teaching pro­fession, not to mention nine or ten others whowere giyen special training and have returnedfor a term of seryice of longer or Shurlerduration, nor two spcci<llly trained industrialworken who have controlled industrial sta­tions elsewhere on the Mission.

An these have received their impelUS fromthe Grenfell School and its devoted teachersof the past, and their name is legion who havebeen helped along life'. road for shorter dis­tan<:es. May the list I{row, and may tlmse whohave gone out into the world remember grate·fully their first love, the Grenfe1t School ofSt. Anthony.

In 1927, we stand on a summit, not havingattained the highest for we know there archeights beyond for us to reach, but we arepressing forward undtr the inspiratinn oft~ courageous worthies who preceded us,grateful to be oolmted in their company.

PLANS FOR DR. GRENFELL'S 19'7-.8 LECTURE TOUR

FOR the last few years, Doctor Grenfellhas been devoting a great deal of his timeand strength while in this COlDltry, to lec­

turing for the benefit of the Mission. In pre­\ious ytar his itinerary has been arranged bya lecturco bureau, but when he returns fromthe Norlh Ihis fall, he will put his time inthe hand~ of lhe seyeral supporting aasocia­tions of We J. G. A.. for the period fromNovember I, 1927, to March 20, 1928-

The present plan is for him to be in theeastern stales in November and Dectmber,touring New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,Delaware, and New England. The first ofthe year it is expected he will go West, toreturn by way of Canada.

\Ve are: asking the adyice and assistance

of all the good frir-nds of the Mission in de­yeloping this into the most successful tourthe Doctor has yel milode. He will have withhim new motion-pictures that are being takcollthis summer by Varick Frissell, who "shot"the famous Grand Falls rttls.

This is a rare opportunity we haye of dis­posing of Doctor Grenfell's servicu., iIond weare: enthusiastic O\'er the encOUlOlging help wehave already had from our friends in iIoT­

nln~ng for meetings and lectures. Is therea club, a church, a group of churohes, aschool, or a college in your city that wouldbe interested in hearing- the Doctor's message?If so, will you not communicate with the In­ternational Grtnfell Association, 1.)6 FifthAye., New York City?

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A TENDERFOOT IN LABRADOR-IIFrom the I!PS-Ig26 Diary of HAuv uwa£:fCE Wll~ua

H EADiNG n.st .....ard across the Gulf ofMaine for Nova Scotia, the 734-tonfour-ma.o;tcd schooner WII••OtT s.

BAaTl..r:rT. carrying supplies for the GrmfeJlMis~ion in Labrador, dipped smartly to thebrisk southwest brffz~. It was Sunday, anda fOC'O" dawn had ushered in this sixth dayof the voyage of the tenderfoot. The sunfinally won through about ten o'clock, and thecrew of eight aroused from their sffminghstles~ness. Soon those off watch had dec­orated various parts of the rigging forwardwith the week's wash, for every bright daywas wash-day aboard ship.

Lunch was a gala affair. for the officers'mcss was graced by fresh shaven cheeks andcollars to match. The tenderfoot even sporteda while sweater. As usual, be ate as if themeal was his last, urged to his ~5t effortsby the coole's oft! repeated "Eat a lot and givethe ship a good llilme," but the OCIOk's art ofsUJOOing ~mo,·cd the neces~ity for suchstimulation. Spending the afternoon on deckthis beautifully clear day in June was ashelpful u a Sunday spent in church. Theinvigor.lting fTeshness of the ~ .....as horn~

to the tmderfoot with every playful gust ofwind as he leaned against one of the hawscrposts and read the Gospel of John.

Fog set in ag;ain ..bout half past fi,·e, and a(llowly falling baromeur gave the first indi­cation of a storlT\ to come. The schooner wasmaking excellent time, having al'eraged 8~

miln per hour for most of the day. Dinnerwas a case of grab and gobble, for an in­creasing sea made party manners ineffectual.Lat~r the tenderfoot played some good oldfa~hioned melodies and hymns on his mOllthorgan, accompanied by the regular moans ofthe fog hom, which was sounded in threeblasts to make known that we were sailingon thc starboard tack. The radio ill thc eve­ning brought in music which sounded like achurch choir, but proved to be the RialtoTheatre. New York City.

The tenderfoot was awakened next morn­ing by the banKing of several things on theshelf over his bunk and by the endles~

"grrrrrnwe-ttewah" lTash as the jaws of thefour hn.vy gaffs ground and sbmmcd backand forth.. The wind had died down grC'iltlyand the BAa'IU:1T pitched and "yawed" in aheavy following !Ca. The sound of the foghom added to the combined mental and physi­cal confusion of the tenderfoot.

The fOC lifted about ten o'clock, and thecaptain by use of chart and sextant figuredout our position 10 be fifteen miles east ofHalifax, thus ,·erifying exactly our positionas calculated during the for by dead reckon­ing. Captain Zuljevic has an uncanny knackof ascertaining the exact location of his shipby the method of dead reckoning, supposedto be only approximate. which is based on thcdistance traveled as given by the log and thevarious direc.tions steered.

During the morning the tenderfoot helpedthe mate splice a five strand steel rope. Laterhe took the wheel while topsails were beingset agailli they had been taken in wheu thelack of wind and heavy sea had caused theterrible banging of the gaffs. The sun~et'l

thrill over, e"ening gently ushered in abalmy night. The cabin boy enjoyed two shnrthours chatting with the captain, then went ondeek for a la~t look at the starlit sk)·, Rutthe brilliance of the sky was nothing a! com­pared with the glow and myriad sparkle ofthe dark water, where the "witch fires" in thewater gne out a glow sufficient to light upthe whole side of the ship. The tenClcrfnotwent forward and climbed down on the jibboom, where the light of the spray was suffi­cient to tell time.

Rain during the night must have m..de it'·ery difficult for Ihe watch, and it was stillrainy and foggy in the morning, which thetenderfoot spent getting the list of ship'sstores for the captain. This was to be IUP­

plcmented latcr and presented to the customsofficial at St. Anthony.

The barometer again started down at noon,and by 1:30 we had struck all topsails andthe flying jib. Rain started in again at Jp.m. and the hcavy wind kicked up Quite asiuble sea.

The barometer continued to fall steadily<and in the late afternoon, while the watchwas lashing down ·the ~ail in preparation fora storm, Ihe tenderfoot had the thrill of thelookout's job, blowing the foghorn a singleblnt from lime to time 10 tell that our shipwas runninlf before the wind. I heard a"hail" off to starboard and saw a boat com­ing on tOW2.rd us at a great spttd. But no­it 'A<l$ only the wind and !Ca and cloud. Thefog seemed to cast a peculiar spell o,.er CTery­thing, forming weird shapes: and ghostlyshapes.

The barometer was lo_very low, and the

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captain was anxious to know the break. Hepaced ~k and forth ill his cabin with aetance now and then at the "glass:' About8 p.m. the break camc. The wind died to adead calm and the B_'l.ItTI.,u, wlle,1 listlt-ssl}in the hea\'y 5ca. But th,s lull in the windbrought immedi..te attion. All Ails weretaken in and bound down, with the exceptionof the ilUler jib. A storm trisail, the shapeand about the size of the jib, \Va. hoisted 00

the main m:u!. The whole WOlS accumplishctiin a few minutt'S, .....ith smart preci"ionl

Then came Ihc wind. The fir"t puff hftledlhe \-essel over; then steadying herself, the~turdy four-mastcr began to step along atli\'e miles per hour, cven undcr this lillIesail. The gale steadily increased. Tops we eblown off the WOlves and went flying away ina sheet of cutting Sjlray. It was dark. Itwas rough, getting very rough, rougher witheach shriek of the wind and with each hiss·ing sea. '''e were well out of sight of land.somewhere off Cape Race, Newfoundland.

The tenderfOOt. SlUffed mapzincs on endaround the side of his bUlIk. With his hand~

vushill8" against this improvised waJI, and withhis back and fCC:t ;t.g;linst the inside partitionof the bunk, he tried to sleep. But this alter­nate pushing and holding proved too much fora stomach which had pluckily battled andheld its own for eight days spent on the oceanwave. The tenderfoot staggered back to hisbunk some minutes later with a pail whichsoon proved a friend in need. In fact, it wasa very close companion for the next day anda half.

By this time the rolling and pitching of theship had se.rched out every movable object.The racket made a boiler factory sound liketwo lovers enjoying a sWlset from a mountaintop. The banging of pans, the clatter ofdishes, the slamming of doors, the sliding ofchairs, the squeaking of thousands of jointsand, worst of all, the steady scratching ofclothes hanging up-------.as buttons rubbed back:tIId forth over the grooves in the wainscoting.

The captain came down from the deck,where everything had bun made fast to hislatisfa.ction, and lay down. The tenderfootwas staring blankly at the skipper, wonder­isl8" how he could be so calm when the ~twas about to sink, when suddenly with agrinding md then a crash, the big leathercovered couch on which he was lying, slid andslammed into the opposite wall. The heaveof an especially big comber had hem too muchfor the blocks fastening it to the Roor. Thecaptain got up with a "Well Harry, how'syour stomach now?" and st.rted on deckaKain. As the ship rolled towards him he

hung 011 to tlK' door jamb. Tbell as it startedback he walked hurriedly to something ebehe could haliK on to. He did it neatly cnouao,leanine 1J;lck as one does walking down astttp hill, but the fact wu impressive thathe could walk at all

As light began to filter in with comiua ofda~n, there came a particululy violentlurch; another such would probably ha\csettled the aCCOUllt of the B"aTl..£"IT. But thetenderfoot, ignorant of the peril cau"ed b}'the big eight-ton bailer which had been seem·ingly lashed securely to the deck, centered hijattention on a musical and rhythmic "click­click-tock-tock-click-c1ick" repeateU with eachroll of the boat. Finally, as the sun rose o\"erthe turbulent st., came the di$Covery th ... tthree medicine ballles, each limiteJ to its ownlittle compartmcnt, were alternately fallingthis way and that in the cabin's mediciueclOSet. Fir>! "click-click-tock" they wouldSlagger and tumble in one direction, thell"tock-(tlte heavy one filled with powder)­click-elick" the tumble down would revehe

As the light grew, it was apparent the 'Wthad come OUt to stay. After great effort andmuch uncertainty, the tenderfoot millt.a8"ed tolook: OUt of the window. First nothing but.raging sea. or only a mighty wave towerinco"er the rail; then Dothin, but sky of match­less blue. Unfortunately the beauty of thewild scene made him think o! my camera.He lay back in bed for fully • half hourarguing with himself that he should not misssuch. chance, and then the inner man woulds.y "Simply can't be oone." But in the endhe m<llt.aged to get dressed piece b}' piece,and reached the deck.

Such a sight I Beautiful, wonderful, all"­full A terrific sea. was running, with waves,as I later figured by the height of the mamand the distance from water line to deck,which were over thirty-five feet high. Butit was hard to calculate their height, since theywere as thick through as half a city block:. Abig wave would rush toward the stem and oneside of the 734·ton schooner and raise her up,up, up diuily, then let her slide down witha terrific hissing rl)ilr on the other .ide.

Down in the WOlin, which wu col\stantlyawuh, the big boiler for the St. Anthonyhospital lay tUiCing .t temponry ropes lash­inc her to the masts and bulw;uks. TIlt hua:esea, which had nearly rolled the tenderfootout of his bunk, had caught the boiler and inau instant snapped two of the three chainsfastened to he.vy eye-bolts passing throua:hthe deck: beams. TIlt boiler had then swungaround SO th.t it lay diagonally across thedeck. The lemporary lashings now held it

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fast, but the capli/oin said if the third chainhood broken the boiler cr.ashing into the 001­warb would ha\'e sprung the \'essel so badlythat breakfast would ha\'e been spent withDavy Jones (yet the shippers had wanted tofasten it with mere 8-inch strew-ring bolu andropc-thank goodness for the captain's fore­sight).

Back in his bunk again, the tenderfootalternately slept and squirmed throughoutthat nightmare of a day. In the afternoon heventured weakly forth to at1empt a few morepictures. The wind still whistled through therigging and spray still scudded from the in­numerable white crests on the giant waves,but it was evident the storm \\1IS about spent.Suth a beautiful heaving waste! Everywherethe white of foam and the rainbow of sprayagainst the blue and green! Htre and theregreat grand moguls lifted ogrt heads abovethe surrounding hills, and rose and rose likesome mighty jagged mountain peak, then Cl.T:eroaring down illlo the foam-filled aby s.Somt.how these monsters ntver seemed to hitus, but would roll away under us as wesoared up and up. The thought came to meohen how beautiful the whole thillg wouldbe f rom a lighthouse or some rugged eli IT.

Night was spent as the preceding one hadbet'n. But most of the noisu has been ac­counted for, and some, in particular the ill­unely regular rubbing of the slicker OClat but­tCKlS against the wainscoting, had been Stopped.Theil too, the tenderfoot had located the life

preservers and had effected a better system ofbracing in his bunk. As a result of tt­precautions, the tenderfoot slept.

Dawn and another beautiful day; lhe tenthday of the VO)1Ige of the tenderfoot. A deepblue sea crested t\·erywhcre with rompingwhite, a blue sky graced by feathery cloud",a blazing sun that warmed one', heart withthe ioy of existenct, such was the day fol.10winC the storm. The gale had abated theevening before, though still a strong windwas blowing. The main and mizzen sailswere hoisted and repairs were started on thefore gaIT which had been broken the dal'before.

Most of the day was spent by the tender­foot in true tourist fashion, wrapped up ina blanket upon deck. The sailo,., were allmost considerate and friendly. Thry reallywere a rem.-arkable group, from the 6o-ycar·old Russian do.....n to the 2O-y-ear-old smilinglad from J:lrt'nmark, and pleasant were thechats with them in the evenings after supper.Will the lad from Denmark still be smilingso pleasantly when he gets to the Russian'ssturdy old age, or will his smile be like thelatter's, the friendly but cYllical smile of aman who has setn the world and finds noth·inc in it 10 look forward to, nothing in thefuture but sea and sky, though mostly sea?So the day passed with philosophizing, read·ing and a nap or two in the warmth of the~un.

(To b~ ro"tm ..~d)

TO VOLUNTEERS-NEW AND OLD

HO\V many of the volunteers e\'er thinkof this magazine as they go about visit­ing and working ill the various hos­

pitals and among our people on the Coast?How many realize what a help it is to theEditor to receive spontaneous contributiOlls,whether news, anecdote, or description, jotteddown on the spot wh.enever somethillg newand inlerestinc is encountered? No editorhas second sight to tell just when and wherethese encounters will take place, wt everyalen volunteer ....-ho can catch :llId put downon paper these fugitiye bits becomes a veri­table assistant editor whose work i, of thefirst importance in making the magazine trulyrepresent the work of the Mission in al1 itsphases.

If you can i11ustrate your "story" with somesnapshots, al1 the better. And if you arccleverer with the kodak than with the pen,remember Ihat pictures tell the storv too, and

wilh a pencilled memorandum on Ihe back toidentify persoll, plate, and occasioll, oneworker's pictures delivered into the Editor'shands often dovetail nicely with another'sstory. Many such fortunate combinationshave been made in the past; let's have mortand more ill the future.

You all know thai no one person or grOUj:of persons can possibly get the numerous andvaried yiewpoints 5(1 necessary to repreSClltall phases of the work and to interest ourmany readers, of all ages and many races.Together it can be done. Won't you all fecii/o bit of persona.! responsibility to tell theEditor briefty what is being done in youroomer of the Coast, 50 that she may have arich and varied fund of material from whichto make selections that will give a uniqueinterrst to AMONG TIlF. DEf.1' Su FISHEIIS?

The EDITOR.

AMONG TilE DEEP-SEA FISIIFRS "STAFF AND VOLUNTEER WORKERS-SEASON, 19'7

Report of (he Staff Selecrion Commiuee

WIl.JUD T. Gn:~F['u', M.C., C.M.G., FR.C.S., Founder and Superintendent.A1SUJI A WHITMAN, Executivc Officcr, 156 Fifth A,'enue, New York, N. Y.MISS EIoIILV A. Fowl.EII, Olairman Staff Selection Committcc, 1s6 Fifth A,'c, New YQrk.

ST. ANTHONY, NEWFOUNDLAND

Sl. Anthony ROlpit.. ,CIiAnES S. CUltns, M.D., Medical Officer in Cbarge.MA)twEu. L.... rlJAM. 11.1,0" House Officer until Oct. lSt.lt. RANSOM WEllS, M.D" Housc Officer for thc year beginning Oct 1St.jo". A. ANDIl.£ws, M.D., S;uila Barbara, Cal., Eye, Ear and Throat Spccialist.j. WlI.L1AM O'CONN[I.L, D.D.5" !lananl Dental School, H(J~ton, Ma~s., Dentist.

NUT8eaMISS SELMA CARLSON, Mass. WOlllen's Hospital, Roxbury, Mass., Head Nurse.MISS C....711 ...RIN~; SCH .... EI'...t:R, \Vornt'Il'S llospital, lIaltim(Jn', Md.MI!'>s KII ...RIS MAV ....Jl:,>, UnhersilY of Virginia Hospital, Washillgton, D. Cboll!'>s ELlzMllITJI WlI.LCOX, Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlinglol1, Vt.MISS Iso8£L S ... NsnlllD, Mary Fletcher Hospital, BurlinglOll, Vt.MISS M... llv 1I11.DUlIlA}iDT, Womell's Hospital, Baltimore. ~lll

MISS GI.AIlVS WOOTEN, Women's Hospital, Baltimore, MdMISS EI.s11t B. SINKI..Dt, Arllly School of Nur.inl(.

Nurstl-Winter SullMISS BESSI!: BAS£JUS. WOll1all'. HO!>pilal, Bahimore, ),Id

~:::: =-;:,,;~~~~r~lj~I~;:~c~:s~::~~i~~rl?~~::~t\-~•. VI.),IISS Lucy j. RAMsw:u., N.:w E"gl~"d Deaconess Hospilal, B"~IOfl, ),lass.

SeercuriuMISS ELEANOIt CUSHMAN SUEUIlOOK£, Qucbec, CanadaMISS EuZAurU SoUL£, Brookline, Mass.

Mediul Student AuistantsR. WAL1'U GUHA", jL, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Man..j. THO&NWELL \VITHEaSPOON, johns Hopkins Medical School, Bll1timo~, Md

OrphaulfMlu EuZABETlI B£vEII, Staten bland, N. Y., Superintendent.MISS EVANGEJ.lNE GIVEN, Malden. 10£355.MISS IsABELU: WAIlDEN, Ncw York, N. Y.MISS TRESSA LENNIHAN, \Vashington, D. C.MISS FWR£NC£ FULLDl, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.

Orphanage-Winter StaffMISS EI.IZAU"'TII BEYI'll, Staten Island, N. Y., SuperinlCrulent.~lIss lSAllt:U.£ \VARD£N, New York. N. Y.MISS PF..AIIL McCoy, Boston, Man.

Wilfred T. Grtbfell SehoolMISS FIl.ANCES E. DAIF"', Jersey Cily, N. J.. Superinlendenl.MISS ROSINA UWR£I\CE, Defiallee, Ohio.MISS KATHARINE MENKE. GrCCllville, Ohio.MISS JULiA F. Mull.aAY, I>cnVCT. Colo.

Industrial DepartmentMISS M A. PIlESSUy-SMITn, Scotland. Dire<:lor.MISS Hn.£S R. PUJi/nTT', Charlcstoo, S. C.MISS CLuA B. RAy, Ardmore, Pa..MISS I>o.Jnn:.A DItmD. Smilh College, Korthampton, Man.MISS HEl.E:N P. STOKES, B<lrllaTd College, New York, N Y.

Clothinr; DeplIThnentMISS LUQa.u: BoYI.AN, New York, N. Y.MISS Mowlt C.oMWt:u.,. Baltimore, Md.MISS DoItoTHY LAWItENa, Hyde Park, MaH

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OfficeMR. A. C. Bl....CKBUIlN. St. Anthony, Newfoundland.

Office SecretuyMISS EuZAIIETU TYSON, New York, N. Y.

Outdoor WorkersRoBE.RT loRING RICHAJUlS, Remsen, N. Y.THEODORE H. MORRIS 3KD, Villa Nova, Pennsylvania.FUNCJS H. ELDRIDGE, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas~.

WALLACE T. BACKUS, Oxford University, Oxford, England.WILLIAM GIlAIIAM, Prillccton University, Princeton, N. J.lA:A S. LUQUt:Jl.. Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va.

S. S. STRATHCONA IIMedical Assistant to Dr. Grenfell

CAin. \Y. EBHlBACH, u.n., University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, ~Iich.

Secretary to Dr. GrenfellllF.RBERT TIiREI.KU.D-EDWAItDS, Bethlehem, Pa.

DeckhandsBURNS (UAUIERS, Yale University, New Haven, Conn,GIBBS SlIUUlll.l., GrotOll School, Grolon, Mass.

BATTLE HARBOR HOSPITAL, LABRADORl'h:RMAN MORET, M.D., ~Iedical Officer in GJarge.PEitC~ GRIGG, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va.O:>_~, Gt:.oRGE F., D.U.s., Tufts College Denial Sehoul. Roslon, Mass.

NursesMISS LELAH M. SrITERLY, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., Head Nurse.MISS MARJORIE F1.ATEJt, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, N. Y.MI~s LU.UAN B. PI.AliN, Hillcrest Surgical Hospital, Minneapolis, ~Iinn.

Public Heallb NuneMISS RIIENA G,.\ilIJNEll, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, N. Y.

Nursu' AideMISS CII,.\RlOTTE CIU;STON, Chestnnt Hill, Pa.

Outdoor WorkersTnuRsroN GREENE, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.DAVID O·D. K£NNEDY, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.JOliN E. LoNG, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.EDWIN S. REYNOLDS, Princeton University, Princeton, N. ).

LEWIS BAY, LABRADOR, (Winter Station o( Battle Harbor)HERMAN MOR),,', M.D., Medical Officer in Charge.

NurseTo be Appointed.

Community WorkerTo be Appointed.

INDIAN HARBOR HOSPITAL, LABRADORHARRY L. PADUON, M D., Medical Officer in Charge.FIIEIJERICK G. NovY, JR., M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich., Assistant.JAMES C. KRA<;Non', D.D.S., Harvard Dental School, Dentist.

NursesMISS ESTEll ANDERSON, Babies' Hospital, New York, N. Y.MISS SIGNlo; TONGIlING, Qlarlesgate Hospital, BOSIOI1, Mass.

HousekeeperMrss MARTIIA LUKENS GIBBONS, Haverford, Pa.

Outdoor WorkersROBERT WOOD, Princeton University, Princeton, N. ).HAdtSON E. KENNARO, Harvard University, Cambridge. Mass.CIIARLES W,.\LOOT'f, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Industrial DepartmentMrss SUSAN DoUGllTI!N, Philadelphia, POl.

1 SecretaryCUAlILES DE BUNSEN, London, England.

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NORTH WEST RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, LABRADORHAIlRY L. PADOON, M.D., Medical Officer in Charge.

NurseMISS OLIVE N&LSON, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Mass.

HousekeeperMRS. WAYNE RAMS&Y, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Outdoor WorkersJOHN R. Toc)p, Yale University, New Havell, Conn.\VILLIAM B. E"STON, JR., Yale University, New H;nen, C01111.WARD TERRY, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.FREO£llICK PALMER 3RD, Haverford School, Haverford, Fa.

Nortb West River Sebool-Winter Staff}'hss ELIZABETH CRISWELL, Columbus, Ohio, Principal.MISS ALfREDA DAVIS, Cartwright, Labrador.MISS ETHEL Pn::, Cape (barles, Labrador, Housemother.

ScoutmasterCHARLES DE BUNSEN, Trinity CoHege, Cambridge, England.

LABRADOR PUBLIC SCHOOL, SANDWICH BAY, LABRADORMRS. ELSA BURNtl'T, Toronto, Canada.MISS BLANCH I': DAVIS, Snack's Cove, Labrador.MISS FRANC£S CoNItOW, Watseka, Ill.

Outdoor WorkerDUANE HARMON, Cleveland, Ohio.

LABRADOR PUBLIC SCHOOL-Winler StaffMRS. ELSA BURNETT, Toronto, Canada, Principal.MISS FR"NCES CoNROW, Watseka, Ill.Teacher to be Appointed.

FORTEAU COTTAGE HOSPITALMISS, GRETA MAE FERRIS, Hartford Hospital Training- School, Conn., in charge ulltil Sept. IMRS. ALICE \VEDDERBURN. Harr.plon Station, New Rrut1swick, Canada.MISS AGNES CAMl'lJf..I.I" St, Luke's Hospital, SI. P;l\ll, Minn" relieving Miss Ferris.

FLOWER'S COVE NURSING STATIONMISS MARGARET MACBItYDE, Army Training School, Washington, 0, C.MISS MARGAItY.T BIl"INAIlD, Boston University, Boston, Mass.

HARR1NGTON HOSPITAL, CANADIAN LABRADORDoNAl.D C. HOOD, M.D" Medical Officer in Charge.v..'ILL A. GUEST, University of Toronto Medical School. Student Assistant.FItANCIS A. HOLL"r-'O, D.D.S., Harvard Dental School, Boston, Mass., Dcntist.

NursesMISS lSOBEL FLEMING, Winnipeg General Hospital, \,{iunipeg, Canada, Head Nurse.MRS. B£IlTIIA M. PURDY, Davenport Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.

Nurses-Winter~hss T.<;081;;1, FI.EMING, \Vinnipeg Gcneral Hospital. \Vinnipeg-, Canada, Head Nunc.MRS. BERTHA M. PURDY, Davenport Hospital. Toronto, Ontario.

Outdoor WorkenEDWIN N, PWWDf.N, Cambridge University. Cambridge, England.PAUL A. D"vls 4TH, The Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, Pol.

SPOTTED ISLAND COTTAGE HOSPITALDil. AIlTIIUR AO::r.RMAN, Collcge of Ph)'c;icians & Surgeons. New York, N. Y., in Charge.IRA NICHOLS, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, N. Y,GF.RALD DoRMAN, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, N. Y.CARL SCHOOfF, D. D. S., Columbia University Dental School, N. Y., Dentist.

NurseMISS KATIlR\'N C"VAN, Pasc;aic Gen. Hospital Training School, Passaic, N. J.

TeaeberFIlRDl'ltICK ROCKWELL, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Outdoor WorkerFItEDDrC RAWSON, Chicago, Ill.

80 AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS

MUTTON BAY NURSING STATION, CANADIAN LABRADORDoHAI..D C. HOOD. M.D., Medical Olftctr in Charge.

Nurse ill CharlcMISS MARlON A. MURRAY, Halifu, NO\";l Scoti.1..

Community WorkerMIss \VI:nunEl) RoaEaTSON. Olta~-a. OnlilTio.

Outdoor WorbrHOUSTON DUNN, }L, The Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, POI.

BONNE ESPERANCESummer Public Health Nuue

Mas M. E. SWrTZEa, OUilW:l., Ontario.

WEST STE. MODESTESummer Public Health Nurle

Mr~s LuCY }. RAMSDEJ.L, New England Deaconess Hasplt;!.!, Roston, Mas~.

CHILD WELFARE DEPARTMENTMIss ELIZABl:.TH C.'5\\,.:I.I., Director.

NursesMIss LucY]. R"WSOt:l.I., New England lliaconess HOSl';lal, R,.,tOll, Mass.MIss RIIENA GARDNEl, PrC'sbyterian Hospital, New York City.MISS IhLEN WRAY, Hospi1;!! Training School, Rockford, IlLMRS. M. E. SWITZER, Onawa, Ontario.MISS KATHRYN CAYAN, Pas~aic Gcn~ral Hospital Training School, Pas~aic, N. J.

SUMMER TEACHl!:RS(Volunteer)

MIss ETlIr.L G. MUIR, Lake Erie College. Painesville, Ohio, Black Duck Cove.MIss AOELAIDE GoULD, Hllnt~r College, New York City, White Bay.MIs!! NAN ROBF.%TSOS", N. Y. Sehool of Social \Vork, GeorJte'!\ Cove.MISs MAaY S. EVANS. Vassar College, Poughkttpsie, N. Y., FOlt Harbor.Mrss CU(ll..INE CoLLINS, \Vntem Re$('rve University, Qevdand. Ohio, Pine's Cove.Mtse; MAllGl'n1rn ]A..E.... , N Y. Stale Colll'Re for Teac::hers, L'Anse au Loup.MI!!S ELsA FUG!:, Ohio State University, Columbw. Ohio, Barr'd Hbr.MIss Cou. J. H.u"ON, Ohio State Univcr~ity, Columbus, Ohill. St. John's lsl.:and.MISs M"MiAHT SHEPlZY", Miu Porter·... School, Farmington. Conn.. White Bay.Ma. DoNALD SITnNSON, Yale Unh-ersity, New Ha\'en, Conn., Boulter's Rock and &-al hland

A TRIBUTE TO THE DENTAL VOLUNTEERS

THE Bible tells us that the I(we of Godwas com'eyed to m;m through thepreaching of the gospel :md the healing

of the sick. It SOIYS that the deaf were made10 hear, the blind to s~e and the lame towalk, and it advises preachers of the gospel10 commend the Christ as the interpretation ofthe love of God by telling the world thesethings that they had secn and hc-ard as beingdone by the Quist.

The Gr~nfell Association in Labrador slIrelyha.s written a new verse to that chapter, a ...nowhere in the history of dentistry or Oui... ­lianity haos such a list :15 the following been,.~corded, of lhose who added tn the mercicsvouchsafed 10 the sick-the ~aving of the tor­ment of bad I«th, the pain, the deformity. th~

inability to chew and benefit by much of thefood aten, and the tun"ble danger and com­mon aperienC\" of joint affecti"ns and lostapacities through untreated foci of infediomin the t«th. Hl're are namn (If men fromAmerican dental Khools, who withnut a centof Alary and without costing the Associationbudget one C\"nt fO!" their expenses, for thesake of their fellow men have come down

year after ,~ar and given us their most valu·able services.

How C_1Il men be pessimistic in view ofsuch a list as this? I an remember in theearly days endless c:as~s of abscesses breakingright through the check f rom neglected, de­caying teeth; joints fixed and usclCl.'s andacute infections of joints that had to be r~_

deemed by taking Ollt as many as twenty t...ethat a time, all of which had become infectedfrom one anoth ...r and were not only poison­ing, but starving the patient. I have hadmyself to ~xcise the whole half of the low~r

jaw more th<l.n once for dioeasts of the bonesel lip by lhe ncglect~d teeth.

Today we are not afr.aid tn SOIY that a den­tist coming to Labrador ","r>\lld be surpriserlby the inlinitdy impr()\'ed condition of theseall-important factors for perfect health. Thepeople of the Coast. I am sure, 'IllotJld 'llnntthrough me to thank the Dental Schools andall these good friends. so witbout asking theirpermzuion I am publishing this list. whichreads to me 'IOmewhat as a novel kind of warmemorial.

W. T. GUlfnLL

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS 8,

Dentis15 serving with the 1. G. A. in Labra­dor:

1910 Dr. McCabe, Harvard, St. Anthony.1911 Dr. R. S. Calheron, Harvard, St. An-

"""'y.1912 Dr. R. S. Catheron, Harvard, 51. An­

thony.191J Dr. S. P. Mallett, Harvard. 5t. An­

thony.1914 Dr. S. P. U.lltU, Harvard, 5t. An­

"""'y.1914 Dr. W. I. Ashland, Harvard, Banle

Harbor.1915 Or. E. WallaCt, Harvard, 5t. Anthony.11;115 Dr. C. G. Smith, Harvard, Battle

Harbor.1915 Dr. C. V. Johnston, Harvard, 5trath­~..

1916 Dr. Wm. Gullifer, Harvard, 51. An­thony.

1916 Dr. B. S. 5ttvtns, Harvard. IhttltHarbor.

1916 Dr. R. W. Getchel, Harvard, IndianJfarbor.

1t;1I7 Dr. W. E. Bennett, llarvard, 51. An­thony.

1917 Dr. Lton Buglts, Harvard, Battle Har­bo,.

1917 Dr. Harold Carnes, Harvard. fndianHarbor.

1918 Dr. W. E. Bmllt'u, Harvard, 51. An­thony.

1919 Dr. C. A. Mullnt'aux. Harvard, 51.Anthony.

I~ Or. C. A. Mullneaux, Harvard, 51.Anthony.

IlpO Dr. R. Dal'enport, Harvard. Harring­

'on.192t Dr. Donald Hutchinson, N. Y. Col. of

Dl"nti5lry, Spoiled 15.1921 Dr. Margo!a, Harvard, 51. Anthony.1922 Dr. C. Hattauer, N. Y. Col. of Dentis­

Iry, 51. Anthony.1(}22 Dr. R. MacFarlant, Harvard, Tra\"tl­

ing.HPJ Dr. I. Zecher, N. Y. Col. of Dentistry,

5t. Anthony.

1923 Dr. 1.. Flagg, Harvard, Indian Harbor,1923 Dr. F. Haley, Harvard, Harrington.1923 Dr. P. Roser, Philadelphia, White Bay.1923 Evelyn Schmidt, D.H., Forsyth, White

Bay.1923 Dr. E. Sullivan, Tufts, Wesl Coast.I92J Olive Ferguson, D.O., For.;yth, Wesl

Com1924 Dr. I. kcher, N. Y. Col. of Dentistry,

5t. Anlhony.1924 Or. C. H. Morton, Harvard, BaUle

Harbor.1924 Dr E. S. Godfrey, Harvard, Indian

Harbor.1924 Dr. A. C. Hodgkins, Harvard, Wbite

Bay.192-1 Dr. F. Merrifitld, Northwestern, West

Coast.1924 Dr. 1.. W. Bowers, Harvard, West

Coast.1924 Dr. \Y. II. Putney, Tufts, West Coast.1925 Dr. L. Russell, Harvard, St. Anthony.1925 Dr. J. Cohen. U. of P., Battle Harbor.1925 Dr. E. L. Farrington, Harvard, Indian

Harbor.1925 ~;. A. A. Zimmennan, Tufts, Harring-

1925 Or. J. L. Alu, Tufts, Wost Cooist.1925 Dr. .E. Sul1h'an, Tufts, White Bay.19":'6 Dr. R. J. Edwards, Harvard, St. An-

thony & W. Coast.1926 Dr. V. Merriam, Harvard. Battle Har_

bo,.1926 Dr. J. Krasnoff, Harvard, Indian

Harbor.1926 Dr. C. II. Morton, Harvard, Hurine­

'.011)26 Dr. M. Lepowski, N. Y. Col, or Dtn­

tistry, White Bay.1926 Dr. Henry Reiger, Columbia Col. of

Dentistry, Spotted Is.1926 J"L E. LeBlanc. D.H., Forsyth, St. An­

thony and W. Coast.19-"'6 Florence France, Asst., Columbia,

White Bay.

WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE WRITE

A MONG letters from "relurned ehildrcn,"n. ;l.S ;l.H our scholars and finished young-sters, many lhat breathe, thank God, the

spirit of determination to give back to thecoast out of the abundance Ihey hale rectived.Amoll&" them I note a pleasing number ofrequeslS. "Please, doctor, don't forgtt to sendus some books," I f any of my readers whohaye any good books, or bound cories of suchmaguines as Po"dDr },fullD"ia, St. Ni./IOJ.-JS,or NalWNDI G~ogra,hi(, would forward themto me at 1,56 Fihh Avenue, Ntw York, Icould distribute tbem from the 5n....TIIC'Os"

during the summer."I have a little hant work with my crew,"

writts one. "They all want their u\\n way.

Our skipper has gone 10 hospital and wemisses him a lot."

Another writes: "\Vt are having an awfulspell of bad weather, it blows too hard tobaul our nelS. We have Oyer 200 barrels.There are two schooners corne fishing in ourharbor. \Vt wants a fine day to begin wash­ing out our fish, 50 that I can dry it wtllbefore the snow comes. \Ve get on vtry ",·ell."

A returntd scholar from Berea sptakingat her home harbor last month said: "Neverwill I forget what it teaches. Honesty ofpurpose, single-mindedneu. Get mentally,morally and pllysically strong 10 carTy backJour pri~iltges 10 others. Be friendly. Becomtructhe," \V. T. G

.. AMONG THE DEEP·SEA FISHERS

ASSOCIATION ITEMSNEW ENGLAND GRENFELL

ASSOCIATION

WE wish to. remind ollr friends whghne heretofore placed us in theFord Buildmg, at Ashburlon Pb~.

thilt we arc !lOW located at I~ TremontStreet, Room 63.> Adjoining our uffice, isthe IndwtrUl !kparUlltnt ui the J.G.A.Our new office is 'cry COlwcnient to the ParkStreet Subway.

The New England Grenfell Association ishoping very much that the balance of th<,lear J927 will filld that everyone who isnow a member will have secured one newmember, at least, for our Association. Asit costs $1.C1O to print the: llIaga:einc, we askthat all \lew members' pay the new $3.00 mCIlI­

lJcrship fee, which includes a subscription toIh~ magazine. \Ve think llearly everyone:will wall! to give $2.00 for the work, besidesthe magazine, and that will enable us to reachour Quota for the year.

The N.E.G.A. h:n received an invitationfrom St. Anthony to attend the dedicationof the new S1. Antholly Hospital this summer.It is with keen regret ~t lhe Secretary ofthe New England Grenfell AUOCLation mustdecline me invitation to iattend the dedicationof the new Hospital, on acc.owlt of her homeduties. We only wish they had a broadcastil1gstation at 51. Anthony, so we mighl all "Ii~t, nill." We shall see and hear il all in imagi­nation, however.

Weare particularly interested in this Ilospi­tal, since Dr. Curds, who is in charee, is aBoston man and a Han-ard graduate, andMiss Carlson, lhe head nurse at present, is aUostOlHrailled nur The N.E.G.A. hasseveral ptrmatlenlly endowed costs in thcJ tosvital, including the following:

Ilarvard CotMartha Theresa Fiske CotReginald A. Daly, Jr., Cotl~lIen Pain Huling CotRobert Gould Shaw CotWestover School CotWilliams College CotAda 8. Dow CotVincent B. Goldlhwait ColFrallcis 'V. SarKent. Jr., CotBetty and Dorothy' Drummond Cot

'Ve in New England are als., ~I)('dally

intereslC'd in the Lewis B.)· Statiun, as Dr.Grenfell hopes to make that the WoodbridgeMemorial, in memory of Stephen \VUO<!brK!ge,"the Willing Worker," who went Xorlh fromBoston when a st:.ldellt at TechnolullY.

Dr. J<.lseph Andrews of Santa Barbarapaid his usual visit and stop-over in Boston,

on his way to St. Anthony. His visits arealways anticipiltt'd, as he cheers uS all by hisinterest and clllhusiasm in lhe work..

Since May, we h<u-e IIIOIde three shipmentsto the North, oonsisting of 77 pieces in all.Included was a fine violin, for William Mor­ris, lhe man ",ho had the bow, but no fiddle.We are \'ery grateful 10 thi,. ~ew ErI(Iandfriend, wbose gift will bring 50 much joy tothe Labrador fisherman.

We are always glad to welcome the volun­teers who are going north from Boston, andhope we may see them upon their return, andhear of their summer's work.

Dr. Paddon, who is il~ charge of the IndianHarbor and North \Vest River Hospitals,has spoken twice in Connccticut for us, sinceOUt last report, and has very kindly assistt'dus in increasing interest in the work illour New £niland territory, while on fur­lough. We are issuing a pamphlet by Dr.Paddon, which will be of interest to all ourfriends. The other Grenfell Associations willlikewise have copies.

£. E. WHITE,S,«etory.

THE GRENFELL ASSOClATION OFNEWFOUNDLAND

T HE twelfth arulUa! meeting of theGrenfell Auociation of Newfoundlandwas held AprilS at Govenunent Housc

in St. John's, His Excellency the Governorpresiding. Following the reading of the min­utes of thc last meeting, and the presentationof me annual reports of the directors andtreasurer for the year ended Jan. 31, 19J1,the adoption of the reports· was moved by HisExcellency, who referred to the lara:e staffof workers engaged in the Grenfell MinioHs,all of whom were inspired to render serviceto the people of the northern Newfoundlandand Labrador coasts by what he described asthe "Grenfell spirit." This spirit was respon.sible for the erection of the new hospitlllbuilding at St. Anthony at a cost of over$IJO,ooo, and he hoped that the support andassistance required to eontinue its efficiemmaintenanee would always be forthcoming.

The motion for the adoption was secondedby His Lordship the Bishop of Newfound­land, who spoke of lhe many opportunitiuhe had had to observe the valuable work ofthe Grmfell organizilllion, both in its medicaland industrial and C'ducational departments.He w:n full of amazelnent and admiration fl,rthe sacrifices of the workers, at the grutservice they were gi\ing. and at the results

·Pr;nud ~Iuwh~r., ill this issue.

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS "lhey were achieving. The work h<WI only tl)be !Ittl1 10 r«eive lhe admiration and IUpportof all Ioven of Newfoundbnd. He stroo~ly

urged all those interested 10 try to pay a vi,itto 50me of the Grenfell Mi~,ion centers.

The Hon. R. Wat50n, in supporting themotion, referred to the several gifts receivedduring the year towards the EndowmentFund, and in particular to the very generousgift of the late James Warrick-er. This eviden« of interest shown in the Grenfell Mission, he nid, w;as "cry pkasing, both to thodirectors of the local association, and also tothose of the Inlema.tional Board, who were...~ponsible for raising the major part of thehundred and forty thousand dol1;ars neededeach year to carryon the work.

The motion to adopt the report was carriedunanimously.

The Rill:ht Han. Lord Morris, KCM.G,Dr. C. Macpherson, C),LG., and Robert B.Job were rc-dected directon, and the Hon.R~rt 'Vatson and Dr. C MacpherlOn wereelected as representatives from Newfoundlandto the International Board. Messrs. G. N.Read, Son & 'Vatson, chartered accountants,were accorded a hearty vote of thanks for act­ing as honorary auditors, a position they wereonce again requested to occupy.

The Jm:eiing dosed with it very sincerevote of thanh; to His ExceJlency for actinga!i Patron of the Association and chairmanof the meeting and for the continuance of th"great interest he and Lady Allardyce displayedin 01.11 movements that had for their objectthe impro"emcnt of the life and welfare ofthe people of Newfoundland.

H. R. BROOKES, Secrttary

MESSAGES FROM THE NURSING STATIONSFLOWER'S COVE

MISS MATHESON, writing fromFlower's Cove on May 2.t 1927, sa)'s:"I must hasten to tell )'ou that I have

had a wonderful winter. I have been verybusy. Have had all lorts of cases, havelearned a lot, have adored the folks. I havebeen able to kccp up my work ill the school.and have had baby clinics in almost everycove.

"I spent a couple of days with Aunt JaneMugford this week; she is feeling fine and isfull of pep."

M 1~\;neF~~~~~le w:~~~h:;o~ee:;r~auve~cold. T :lIn planting all 50rts of seed., both\"egftable and garden, and I want this placeto be a riot of beauty ere I leave. I ha,'!'lettuce and radhh .seeds planted in the hotbedMiss Crisw('11 writes me they have lettu~

and parsley fit fer use."

T HE S"'OONA is carryinl1; supplies a, farNorth as she can tralel: the pcopk are

nearing Itan'3tion up that WOll. What a lifethq Jeadl"-From a letter written in June.

FORTEAU NURSING STATION

I N her report for the firsl q1.lOl.rter of 1927,Nur~ Greta Ferris records a fairly bu!ywinter at Fortcau.

"I have traveled quite a great deal," shewrite~, "but it has given me many opportuni­ties for sccing the parents and children, Ihave visited all homes from Red Bay to St.POI.ul's River, and have examined all the schoolchildren.

"Today is particularly stormy and our frail<hell is far from warm. Min Galbraith andI are hugginC the Raleigh sto\"e, our faces arewarm but our I»cks are freuing; after atime 'IIl'C re'"erse po<itim., and all's well that ANOTHER COT ENDOWEDends weill T HE sum of $1,500 for the endowment

"I trust we shalt have all the snow shovel('d of a cot at the St. Anthony hospital hasaway before next Sl",ml(~r, but fate has dc- been subscribed by the students and alumnified us so far; we are completely submerged, of "restover School of Middlebury, Ct., in mem_

~l~d a~;~r:=, a deluge when the rain makes ~;;s o:n~1i;:I~~ ~;~dde~~;o~~oD~~~;m~~~~dsi;l~

"Miss Galbraith has enjoyed teaching mu- ;u~::m:re~ilde;~l1l~ ~~:~~~'bl;;~,aa~:utt:,:e )~::::~' c~~~:' ha~:~ ~:;~Sl:~; =~ those who ha,'e so generously given of their

things on Saturday afternoons." :::i~s ~f~:t~~hom:~1;::~~sth;:u~:;The hospital had but two in·patient<, l"lOth gifts-health-as the succession of patients

of 'ft'hom were in the ho<pital for Jl} da)'s . passes through the hospital in years to come.As out-patients 190 persons were treated, in-VOlving tSO visits to the hospital and XJO

medical vi.it. paid ol1t.ide the ho<pital

84 AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXPERIMENTS AT THE MISSION

AGRlCULTURAL .....ork as one of ther\. Missionactivitics start«1soon after the

building of the first hospital. It thm

consisted mainly in the: keeping of a few cows10 supply thl! patients with fresh milk, butthrough the efforts of interested friends thisfield has be<:orne more and more important.Generous gifts of blooded cattle have increa~d

its scope until now it is a thoroughly organ­ized dCp;lrtmenl. wilh the twofold (lurpose ofsupplying fresh ~al and milk to the Hospi­tal and Orphanage and the imprO'o"cmcnt ofthe stock, nol only amoog the Mission herd.but all along the co;asts of Labr.ador andNorthern N:wfoundland.

In 1910 pi~ were introduced, ami ell"l'cri­tnfflts Slnted with thorOUll:hbrtd slock. Dr.r M Allen of Jayema Fann, St. Johnsbury,Vtrmont. in 1920 ga"c the Mhsion a tllorough­brw Holstein bull valued at $2:;00, Throughoontinued inbTttding the locitl stock had seri­ou~ly dC'leriorated, with a consequent loweringof milk pnxIUl;:tion. The Holstrin brttd isfamous for its milk ~tTain, and in order tomaintain a pure breed the PC'Ollle in the local­ity killed their bulls, and all cows inthelleigh­borhood have been served hy the Holsteinbull. "John Cabot" has made trips by boatto other villages and coves along the coa~t

and his sons sent 10 Goose Cove. flower'sCoI'e, Cook's Harbor, Newfoundland, and toNorth West Rh-er, Labrador. In 1925 Dr.Allen gne two thoroughbred Hohtein cows."Mona Lilla" and "'Vilhemina." Both hallehad cah'es which are being raised. and soonthe MiMion will have a herd of thoroughbredHolstein cattle.

In 11)20 OllIrles A. Steven, of Chicago.g;ne a herd of registered thnroughbred TQR­genburg goats and it wa hope<l the brudwould be hardy enough to with.•tand the rigo.-sof the climate, and that the~ «mId be u5tdto supplement cow milk. '" far ;u the Mis­sion is concerned the experin:'C'nt has not been

entirdy a soccen. It is necessary to Il!e dryf~d for 5e\'en and a half months, and dlfTingthis lime the goalS would not give milk;al.w the br~ could not withsUnd the longconfmernent of the winter, and many died ofpullllOrl<lry diseascs. Howe\'Cf", the br~i"g

of the thoroughbred bucks with local IOQIS

imp;lrt~1 the milk_giving chaT1lcteristies oflhe thoroughbred to the offspring and buckshave h<'cn ~t as hor south ;IS BonaviSlaBay, 50 that now practically all the go;atsalong the coast arc at least half-brct'd Tog­genburg.

Experiments were started with thorough.hred pigs in 11)24 when George West, ofBoston. gave the -Duroe-Jersey boar "Wedge·mere Explorer," and SOOl1 afterwards twothoroughbred so~. The Mission keeps twelvebr«ding !Ows, and from SO to 75 young piFt'!are sold annually along the coast. This isthe only place young pigs can be bought, andthe demand far exceeds the supply, Thepigs are purchased in the spring, fall<:11~

during the summer, and killed in the fall.Mi~, Dorothy Stirling, of Chicago, gave a

Rock of twenty thoroughbred ShrOfKhire~hctP in 1924, as wtll as two thoroughbrtdrq:istered ram5. All e~es are kepi by the~fission and will he raio;rd hue until thl" finekhas sufficimtly increa'<ffl, but ram, are IOIdlocally for breeding (lUrposes. For genu­ations the people have kept sheep, bUI htrcagain the stock had ht-en affttted by inbreed­ing, the stature had dttreased, and the woolaveraged only thru to four pounds. TheShropshire is an excellent wool producer.avtraging o\er eight pounds 10 a sh~p. Thiswool i! used by the Industrial Department forweaving and home~puns, Rams unfit forhree<ling purposes are killed, the fresh meatfurnishing a greatly appr«iated dietary ad­junct.

Last year the Mis~iol1 imported a flock orregistered ~ghorn hens with entire success,and nttdless to say these are proving to be avaluable asset.

In the agricuhUT1l1 work and stock farmthere are several outstanding diffieultits

. which have not bttn and probably never willbe ~ved. The severe winters make it neces­sarv to coniine the ~tock to the bam for IonFt'periods which ha~ a decidedly detrimentaltffect. Nut. lhe sulwlil i! clay. with onlyfour inches of lop soil Dr. Grenfell as p;ilrt

of hi! tarly work htrt cleared land for hay,which can be grown with difficulty. Reoently5e\'eral acTCS more have hem cleared by pigsand then sttded down 50 that in the summer

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS 'sof 1926 eight tons of hay were cut. The cattle large acid contcnt, so that it was advised notciln get enough gr<lS.S for feed during the to atte'Tlpt to grow anything but green vege-~ummer, but grain has to be hought, as l.arle} tabl~, 1ttlless the soil be thoroughly limed,and oats will oot ripen and corn will oot whieh it has never been possible to do.grow due to lack of slDlshine and the latespring.

Miss Onistine Fello'Al"ii, a w,luT1tttr fromEngland and a graduate of an agriculturalcol1~e there, has supen'i~l'd t!lf: gilrlkns, an·1in spite of the many natural difficulties enoughgrttn vegetables are grown to ~'IPlI]y the bos­pit;l!. Thc'<e;lre nisw principally underfllilu, ;lS the cold SC;l winlls makc it im(ll's~ihle to plant in ;lny other IV;ly in St. Au·thony. An analysis of the snit mule in Eng­land ~hows undec:<lyed vcgetable mailer and

NEWS FROM ST. ANTHONY

DEAl{ Doctor Grmfell,I thought that you would like to ~tt

the endosed sports programme. I am~Ilre that it will remind you of many h;lJl(lYday~ at St. Anthony. Isn't it good. to knowthat the enthusiasm grows yCOlr by year andthat a re;l] sporting spirit is ~hown. Even inmy 'by here s:Jch a great improvemcnt alongthe~ lines!

You will be pleased to know th:lt last ni£htthe Epworth League of the "fetbodist QlUrchll:3\"e a concert and that the Band (8 pieces)contributed six items to the programme, whichwere thoroughly l'1ljoyed. They may not ha\'eIlCCn played perfectly, but it was a start, a,'cry good one, and our first public appear­an«. $50 Wils raised for the Ltague Fund•.The Band will also take a promincnt part inthe COllctrt on Sports' Night. Thonlberg hasal'«) sellt at our request, besi(les hooks ofpopular songs, a book of popular hymns, andsoon we shall appear in the Methodist Church!I am sure that it will please you greatly toknow 'hat once again somethillg that you ha\cho~d and longed for, which all the critics~aid "Can't be done." is an ..ecomplished fact.

The Spot Cash prog~ses fincly, sales forJanuary and February totalling over $600 moreth;m the same period la<t ytar. Our AnnualMeeting was a great success and much l'1l­thusiasm sho\\'Il, especi;llly with our enlarge­ment progr.unme. The ~pt.cial hospital chinahas gone wt.ll. Too bad th:lt the F:ngli_hIW'""'I~ over which )"Ou took to milch pain. di I11<>1 gct through!

Last wl"l'k I took Edy,-ard' to Brah<lt forthe Xmas tree (ratht.r late) and ;l dinner thatthe ladies of the place were giving to help

raise funds for Educational pUTIlOSes. Wec..me oo.ck in 45 minutes house to hou.e whichwas quite food time. I think that I pveEdwards one of the best rida that he hashad since he came back.

\Ve listened for lI1es'l.age~ early ill the NewYtar but did not hear a thing for St Anlhony, although we heard IIIOilly Tildiogn.nugoing through to our other statwns. It ap­pears from your letter that whl'1l we shouldhan~ been listcning in specially-February andMarch--that nothing was heard here. Itwould be wise 10 telegraph when messages arebeing 5l'1lt here, and then extra efforts wouldbe made.

A. C. BL.ACKIIURS"

IThe sport< prOllrarnlllC referred to wasthat for thc Annual Sports day at St. An­thony, held this year on ~f<lTl:h 30. Theevents as usual illcludcd shooting contests,races of all sorts for all classes, and ;L foot­ball match. Useful IlrlZeS were offered tothose who won first places.-EDlTOR.]

R~~~s~e:~~:ll1(~::~~n:.r~~~:isn, ~~~~~bakeappk., .salt htef, ham butt pork, hilrdbread, excursion brcad, partridge bread ilndfish alld hn:wis may hi- obtained at hothwholesale and rebil from Archie's Market,105-10] River St., Cambridge, Mass. Re­turned workers with a hankering for a Coastmenu un Id it here.

P~u~I~{I:~.~~~:~~I:Ski~~~;:;;"Orne extracts from the ''Log'' in the Janu­ilry issue. These are 10 be circulated at the''Youth Movement" conference in Denmark

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ON FURLOUGHB,· DR. HAdV L. PADDON

NEXT to the interest of work at the frontis that of propagating interest behindthe lines, and of gauging the interest

already existuIg there. Moreo\'er, there isopportunity afforded for cooprratkln withour offiec~, during a furlough, such as is im­pnssible while ahroad. This wintt':r, too, therehas been unprecedented opportunity for main­taining touch with Hamilt<WI Inlet and SOlnrJ­wkh Bay stations, owing to the beginning ofwireless service at North Wut River. and then,lU(d facilitin for broadcasting afforded bythe We~tinghou.se Company both at Pittsburghand Montreal.

Most delightfully encouraging reporU ha'-ehem r«:eived of the northern stations. Thelocal commillee at Cartwright consider it anoutstanding year in the history of the firstLabrador Public School at Gordon's Cove (lateMuddy Bay). This is a high tribute to theI~rw principal, hfrs. Burnell, without in thtoleast disparaging thl': devoted and strenuouslahors of others.

The second Labrador Public Schllol (YaleSchool, at North Wen River) has evidentlymade a most auspicious start. The first princi­pal, Miss Eliubeth Criswell, has writtenenthusiastically of her work, her team andthe people.

At each of these schools we are employingOIle native teacher, and the reports on bothare excellent. At North \Vest River anothernative member of stafT (Miss Ethel Pye,domestic science graduate of Berea College)has made a convincing start as house motherat the school dormitory. It is indeed delight­ful to see these vindications of faith andoptimism and effort in regard to members ofan overwhelmingly handicapped community.

And eow orders have gone in for the com­ph·tion of lhe new institution at North WestRiver. Two individual gifts of $1,000 each,and another of $500, will go far to financethe projected additions, ;l.IId other funds areavailable. These comist of adequate da~s­

rooms, dining hall, and a cottage to afford amodel home for !lOme home~makers of thefuture That the lX"Ople are well satisJif:(1with the facilities Olffordt'd lhem, is best evi­denced by thl':ir renewed generosity toward theinstitution, for thty raised a sum of $24')at a lillIe New Yc-ar social. But it is thequality rather than the quantity tht appeals;for, according to reports, applications are go_

ing to be in exces~ of our utmO!lt capacitynext fall. If once the ril'er is bridged, ascheme which is under consideration, there islittle dooJht the settlement will almost d...ubleits presrnt numbers. The Olward to New­foundland of thl': disputed Labrador territorydrars a .....ay the main obstacle in the way 01de\·elopment. It is now yeritably a raceagairnt time for the -International GrtnfellAssociation to turn out employable citi.zens,qualifiW. for lOme 01 the choice jobs in thedistrict destined for deyeklpment.

Another splendid prospect, for the comingsurnrner and winter, is the deyelopment of thewireless telephone system throughout our mainstations, owing to the interest and gmerosityof Mr. Eldoa MacLeod of Bostoa. To beable to ring up North \\Int River and theLabrador Public ~hool at Gordon's Cove,right from Indian Harbor, will save endlesstime and travel; added to which there will bethe grc-at advantage of sptedy communicationwith 51. Anthony, and allO BailIe Harbor.

Yet other rnapifieent gifts are portableX-ray and ultra-violet ray apparatu~, withgenerator, for the Hamiltoa Inlet StationsFur all these yean I have had to send allmy X-ray cases to St. Anthony, involving atwo weeks' round trip. With the ultra-violetrays no Labrador fogs or brief subarctic win­ter days can stop a sun bath service for thoseCOlSes that need it.

Visits into the different territories controlledfrom the New York, Boston and Ottawa Of­fices have been full of interest. It was myprivilege to attend annual association meetingsill New York, Montreal and Ottawa.

AnOlher most interesting gathering, whichI was kindly invited to address, was the Coast­to-Coast Needlework Guild, in conference atPhiladelphia. I learned that they had sent noless than 30.000 garments to Labrador Iaslyear I As I had heard it once ~tated, errone­ously, that lhe need for $0 much clothing hadIIOW passed, I was glad of the chance of in·forming them that no such condition ... 1affairs can be arrived at until industries reallyopen up in Labrador. Until this occurs, theI'('\'IIIt' do livt' on the Ngt' of a precipict; anda singl" had )tar for lur and fish is liable toprecipitate not a few o\er lhe tdge. \Ve longlor the day w1lm all able-bodied citizens willbe able to pur::hase both food and raiment;but that cannot come till wage-paid bborabounds, and every year that it is delayed

AMONG THE DEEP~SEA FISHERS 8,brings a real crisis nearer. The only possiblereason for the forced emigration that so manyhave advocated, in my judgment, would belIOt the abscnce of resources but delay intheir exploitation.

One point f would venture to emphasize;and that is the inherent and I:ssential soli­darity of the Needlework Guild branches, andthe Grenfell Association brandles for help­ing the general budget. We need dothes, andwe need cash; all we call get of both from allplaces where any organization 'exists. Anyfailure in sympathy and cooperation handi­caps the object for whi<:h both exist, an ob­ject very much worth while. One strong or­ganization (or two cordially affiliated) is farmore potent than two relatively weak onesworking in competition, and far more liableto impress public opinion favorably.

Another thing that has impressed me asrather iII-omened is the fact that our totalAssociation membership is only about eightthousand. Surely a determined canvass in nu~

merous centers where publicity has been given,could put an entirely different aspect on thismembership roll. In one town of seven thou­sand, which I visited, the membership waswell over a hundred though the Associationwas very young. In a city of over a hundled

thousand, where the branch was a quarter ofa century old, the membership was consider­ably smaller than in the little town referredto above. The absurdity of it struck some:of thq officials at the meeting I was privilegedto attend; and, quite spontaneously, the mem­<hers present pledged themselves each to tryfor two more.

r venture to suggest that this regular two­dollar membership should be the mainstay ofour budget, instead of an almost insignificantfraction.

As I have been pointing out to several au­diences, we are more inspected than any otherMission in the world. Every year a hundredor so of auxiliary workers come and seefirst-hand; and it is from those that some ofour most liberal supporters and enthusiasticpropagandists are to be numbered. We havea Board of Directors second to none, and ourexpenditure is rigidly scrutinized.

We have a definite objective, and, thankGod, we are moving toward it.

We have a Chief who is carrying altogethertoo heavy a burden of deputation work. Can_not those, who have tasted roman~ in serviceon the Coast, find at least a satisfactory sub­stitute for it in pushing our membership intoevery city and town in their state?

GREN~·EI.L STUOESTS AT IIER.:A, KENTUCKY. Lf:fT TO IUGIIT; E.DMUND PIKE, l'OIlT SAUNIIEIlS;

AI.lCE SIMS, ST. ANTHONY; MICHAEL WALSH, FLOWER'S COVE; VIOLET STONE, BATII.E 11.'11111011.;

HORACE MACNEILL, ST. ANTliONY; WI NWIl.:D PYE, CAPE CIiAIlL.E", LABRADOR

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THE STORY OF THE 1926 P. \'j S. LABRADOR UNITBv MARSHALL SMITH, P. & S. '27. Medical Officer in Cbarge

(Spotted Islands '18, '20, '22, '26)

(~oM~~~~~e~st~d~n~~ful~t~ndS~Is~~operated by P. & S. students for the past sixteen years, must realize what a splendid pitteof work this jl,TOUP has performed. While the P. & S. Unit has always worked in closestco-operation with the International Grenfell Association, it has ilJ reality been a separateentity, under its own independent organization and rnan<lJ{cment. We can now report withthe Kreatest satisfaction and pleasure that an arrangemCIII has becu reached so that hereafterthis will become a reKular Grenfell Station.

Among the student body and alumni of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in NewYork City the P. & S. Labrador Club has been org<\!Iized, whose function is to stimulatein.terest in this station, to be known as the P. ~ S. Station of the Grenfell Mission. The clubWIll undertake its financial support, nominate Its staff, and (in conjunction with the AdvisoryBoard of the International Grenfell Association) direct its policies. The station hereafterwill be in charge of a certificated doctor, and will have on its staff a graduate dentist, twomedical students, a registered nurse, and a school teacher. \Ve believe that the new arrange­ment will strengthen the station aud enable it to extend its usefulness as well as to reAect onthe student body of the College of Physicians and Surgeons still further credit for work welldone.-EDt"roll:.]

" ALL clear, sir." "Cast off." And the.l"\. S. S. SYLVIA was under way from

New York to St. John's, Newfound_land. On board were fifteen of the Grenfellworkers headed for various stations in New­foundland and on the Labrador,

Two of my staff-Ira C. Nichols and Alfred1.. Stand fast-had gone on earlier to reachBattle Harbor ill time to get the motor boatNORTU STAR in commission for the summer.The others were to follow later.

As usual the trip to St. John's was perfectThere we met our first disappointment. Wearrived at 7 a. m. only to find that the MElGut,which we hoped to take north from there, hadsailed at 5 a. m. After due deliberation it wasdecided to try to get over to Twillingate bytrain and boat in time to catch the MElGL£there. Then followed a grand scramble to getthrough customs, and at noon the Newfound­land Express started-as usual without eventhe final warning of "B-o-o-a-a-r-r-d." Thoseof us who were still looking for bag­gage made a wild dash down the platform andscrambled aboard. Many times have I beenthankful that that train gets under wayrather slowly.

Our efforts to have a special car had. failed,so most of us stood or salon trunks all day,but the primeval beauty of Newfoundlandmade us forget how tired we were. At2 a. m. we pulled into Notre Dame Junction.A perfectly clear, starlight night, just crispenough to make us enjoy it to the fullest.And we waited on the platform, and w;titedsome more, and began to get cold. Finailyin eame our train for Lewisporj(··--one freight

car made over for passengers, one flat car,and oue freight car not made over. Kerosenelamps, a wood stove, crowded humanity, andtOilS of baggage made the passenger earrather uninviting. To solve the problern fourof us climbed to the dizzy (1 use the termadvisedly) heights of the top of the freightcar, and with a final burst of smoke westarted. The conductor climbed up to ourperch and punched our tickets with the aidof a flash-light. Up and down hills andaround comers we went, hanging on for d"arlife and swaying from side to side. Just be­fore sunrise all our troubles seemed as notll­ing when we sighted Notre Dame Bay spreadout before us in the half light, a beautifulbay with innumerable wooded islands andfanta!>tic cakes of ice.

The little steamship CLYDE was waiting, andsoon we sailed for Twillingate. All day longwe watched with awe the skill of the captainas he maneuvered about among the ice pans,picking a lane here or breaking the ice tomake a lane there. \Ve made numerous porlsof call to unload freight and alwars we welltashore or 11ad snow fights on the ice. Latethe next afternoon we landed at Twillingate."Has the MElGLE been here yet?" '·No. Wedon't know where she is." We installed our­selves at the hotel and waited. Days slippedlW with frequent visits to the hospital builtby Dr. Parsons. Some of the girls offeredtheir services as bandage rollers. Some of therest of us helped a bit here and there asneeded.

Still no word of the MEIGU:, and no otherway of getting north. Then we heard she had

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LUNCH TIME AT THE SCHOOL

HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY

put back to rescue a ship that had hit the icetoo hard and was sinking. A few more daysof waiting, which were made pleasant by thewonderful hospitality of the Twillingatepeople.

Then Tom, the "Sheik" and I discovered afishing schooner sailing for Labrador at day­break, whose captain said he would take usalong. The following morning found us nearSt. Anthony, with asolid ice jam ahead, sofor safety, we put intothe harbor. "Have youheard from the MEIGLE?""No. \Ve don't knowwhere she is." Thesame old story.

They made us wel­come at the Inn andnever have I tasted any­thing so good as thefrit.'lj egg we had thatmorning after the mo'­notonolls s c h 0 0 n e rdiet of dried caplin.

That aftemoon, much to our surprise, the}of f.lGLE came steaming majestically into port."At last," we thought, "we can get north with­out further delay."

All those we had left l>ehind at Twillingatewere on lward. However, when we asked thepurser for a berth to Battle Harbor we weretold in no uncertain tenns that the boat wasovercrowded already and that we couldn't evenget aboard. There was only one thing to doand we did it-wait till he was not lookingand move our baggage aboard and trust toluck for some place to sleep.

\Ve were to sail in the moming, but the icewas so thick that we could not get out of theharbor. So we waited-several days. Mostof us had gone ashore to sleep. Suddenly weheard the blast of a whistle meaning theMUGL.!: was about to sail. With a rush allhands tore down to the dock, said tearful fare­wells to those who were to stay at St. Anthonyand went out to the M"I';IGL£ in smalt motor

boats. Amid much waving and shouting wesailed away-to find solid ice outside the har­bor. So back we sailed and were heartilylaughed at by the shore crowd.

Twice more we sailed and had to put backbecause of ice, and it became a sort of game.The St. Anthony people got so they wouldn'teven see us off. They simply remarked "We'\]wait supper for you," and went on about theirbusiness.

Then one fine day the ice left and we wenton to Battle Harbor with no mishaps. "Nick"and "AI" had already been there two weeks,hut had been unable to make the motor work.Miss Johnson, our nurse, had joined our partyat Lewisporte and continued on the MEIGLE toSpotted Islands to get the hospital opened. Istayed over at Battle Harbor to go north withNick and A[ in the NORTH STAR. After tendays of heart-breaking work on the engine withno results we gave up. Al deserves all kindsof credit for working like a slave on a use-

less engine for three

••_~ ~::ek~~IP~~~ ~::. "Nick"

Then along came Dr.Austin, of Bronxville,and very kindly of·fered to take me toSpotted Islands in hismotor boat, the VOLUN­TEER. SO on July 12­just Jt days after leav­ing New York-I landedat Spotted Islands.

A week later the"MEiCLE came northagain and brought the

rest of our staff. \Ve were now aU as­sembled and quickly organized. Nick, hav­ing finished his second year at P. &5., was my assistant. "Hank" (Dr. Rieger),of Columbia Dental School, was our dentist.~fiss Johnson, R. N., was the nurse. LoyalT. Ives, Princeton '25, was school leacher.Al was engineer of whatever boat we mip:htget. and also managed the clothing store.

Soon we were into the swing of the regularstation routine. As usual Minnie Turnbullwas engaged as cook-and a right good cookwas she. Our supply of food, clothing, anddrugs were all put away ready for use andpatients began to appear.

At this point I want to extend our heartiestthanks to those drug finns who were so gener­ous as to donate a large and invaluable supplyof their products for our summer's work; tothe Victor Surgical Supply Company of NewYork and Mrs. S. W. Thurber, of Princeton,~. r, for many useful instruments; to A. G.

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Spalding Bra,. jor • generous donation ojsporting goo(15; to all those who contributed toour supply of clothing for the clothing store;«nd to those: who aided us fin«ocially. Also tothe: Child \Ve:lfare IHpanmc:nt of the: Inte:r·national Gren!ell Association for makini itpossible for us to have a nurse and de:ntist.WithOut such whole-hearted cooperatim thework at Spotted Islands would be: impossible.

We were somewhat handicapped at first bythe lack of a boat of our own, but later in the~ummer we succeded in renting an opc:n trapboot from Mr. Badcock,. the trader.

The first case of the summer was a man afew miles away, at Black Tickle, who hadlobar pneumonia. His crew came: for me intheir boat. There: ~'ere undouhtedly manymore: who nc:cded US and whom ",,'e we:re OOtable: to reach.

Hank and MilS Johnson stcrted Child We:!·iare clinics and cleaned up most of the: tc:cthon the: island. The:n they made: several tripsup and down the: coast in trap boats and didwonderful work.

Loyal opc:nc:d the: school and had capacityattendance el'er}' day. He was immediatelyl'ery popular with his pupils, who were: alwaysthere: ahead of him in the morning (and notbc:eause he ol'erslept either),

Al organi~cd the clothing store and put the:people to work caming clothing credit, the:"store" being open twice: a wc:ck. Tbis )'c:arel'Cry penon was ginn a signed slip showingjust how much credit or debit he had, whichshould sal'e misundcnt.ndings next summer.

On Sunda)s, Loyal or Mi Johnson con·ducted Sunday sc::OOoI, and then one aj us.....auld lead the church sen'ices. AI officiatedon the porta.ble organ. I'm afraid we: didn'trinl Dr, Fosdick in eloquence, but ",,'e did tryto gil'e them something to think about tachtill1C'. The: singing was the chief amaClion.On the good old familiar hymns they madethe hills rcsound.

Statistics are tedious, so J will not go intofull d~tails on the summer's work. S:.lffice itto say that we saw 24:1 cases, and thHe werefully as many dental casc', Tuberculosis is:Ill too common, and of course: many caseswere of the grip and minor surgical type.

The summer went by with .....ork. play andoccasional bits of exciternc:nt. as .....he:n wenarrowly missed being pounded to death onthe rocks when our motor went suddenly tkad,following an attempt to take movies of aparticularly fine iceberg, The tug-o-~-ar aDdriRe contest were enjo)'c:d by all. The fre­quent dances in the school house made el'ery­body happy and very tired. Patients cameand ,",-ent. Clothing was gil'en out. Theschool progressed.

On the last mail boat in August Nick andAI went north to see the country. Hank,Lo)..l and I ran the station alone a while.then took two days off for a trlp up the bayafter seab. Although we saw plmly, we didnot succc:c:d in getting any.

When the lof[tGLE returned on Sc:plembe:r "we closed the: Slation for the winter and sailedregretfully away.

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THROUGH ENGLAND WITH DR. GRENFELLBy "TilE ~IAs OS THE Box"

,.

T HIS aC«lwlt of Or. Grenfell's 1926English Itclure tour could be summedup in two words "splendidl)" successful'

The onl}" thing that could ha\'e added to itsultimate success, would have been to prolongit sc\"eral )"ears. Dr. Grenfell reached Eng­land with an itinuary oompletely filled, andfound appeals for lectures froln societies.churche and organizations all o\"er England.He left two months later, after ha\'ing packedthe Polyttthnic Hall in London twice daily,and was still receiving requests for "Grenfellof Labrador."

The lecture tour, which was arranged byGerald Christy, who has Jlandled Dr" Gren­fell's tours in the past, was divided into twopans. The first started October 14 and endedKo\"ember 26, and comprised a tour of somethree thousand miles through the pro\'inces.The second was an entirely new H~nture onDr. Grenfell's part-that of taking the Poly­technic 110111, Regent Street, London, for afortnight ending December II, and ghing lec­tures t",ice dail)".

We reached Parkgate. Cheshire, Dr. Gren­fell's birlJlplace, wbere A. G. Grenfell is nowheadm;lSter of his father's school, MostynHouse. ThenCC' we motored sixty miles toCongleton, where an old friend of the doc­tor's, ~Ir. Hall, had arr.anged for a largemass meeting Dr. Grenfell had bought asecondhand car of ancient and uncertain vint­aRe, so completely enclosed in glass that weimmediately named it the "CI)'stal Palace."The trip st:\rted auspiciously by our lea\"ingParkgate .... ith flags flying, tonneau piled highwith bags, valises, lantern slides, motion pic­ture reels, pamphlets, and Mrs. Grenfell. Allwent well for the first tWf'nty miles when thecar stopped without warning. After cr.awl­ing in, under, and over the car to no purpose,I decided that it was a case which needed out­side consultation, and Dr. Grenfell, becauseof the evening lecture forty miles distant, wasforcc<t to abandon us 10 our fate. An oblig­ing motorist took him to a nearby railroadstation, where he caught a train for Congle­ton" Almost immediatdy the car responded10 a single drop of oil placed by dhine in­Jpiralion in its "inmrds," and Mn. Grenfelland m)"sel£ succeeded in reaching Congletonin time for dinner. As we stopped in front ofthe to",n hall where lJIe doctor was to lec­ture, and the tonneau disgorged a few of theabove-named articles. a "Bohhy," that time-

honored protector of English respectability,after gazing at the arr.ay of pacbgcs andbundles being piled on the sidevoJk, informedus that if we wanted to camp we would haveto go to (Inc of the fields outside the townIimiul

Mr. Hall, with an eye for the dramatic, hadad\"erti5Cd "Grenfell of Labr.ador" by 5CIIdingthe town crier, complete from buckled shoesto a bell, with a proclamation starting "Hearye! Hear )'el Hear ye!" The hall waspacked, the enthusiasm tremendous, and itwas resolved to start a branch here to sup­port Dr. Grenfell's work.

We thcn proceeded to London, via Chelten­ham and Oxford, where we had lunch atQueen's, which had been Dr. Grenfell's col­lege. The "Crystal Palace," as if anxious toatone for iu recent sulkineu, was "champ­ing at the bit" and "rearing to go" In theexuberance of its re;U\'cnation, it deliberalelybit the fender of a car p:llling out from thecurb and then, ashamed of this display, re­fused to starl. This unfortunate incidentoccurred on the outskirts of London, and Or.and ),Irs. Grenfell ","'ere able to proceed onfool. or r.athcr by tr.am.

In Dr. Grenfell's following addreH atCamberwell Green, he remarked that peoplehad criticized his 'A-andering O\er all theUnited Slates and England to r.aise the moneynecessary to carryon his work, saying tha.t"he should stay in Labr.ador, and tbe Lordwould pro\·ide." Dr. Grtnfdl said his replywas alw-ays the same, "\Vhy lea\'e the dirtywork to the Lord?" He went on to say that"this year he was taking the Polytechnic Hallin London for a fortnight. This entailed ex­penses of two hundred pounds a week, and\\hile the easiest course would be 10 say thatthe lArd would scnd the people, he thoughtit behooved him to do his share of the actualpublicity work." The following day, a ladywho had heard Dr. Grenfell at Cam1>crwell,walked into the ntw office in ViCloria Streetand ga\"e Miss Sp.1ldinR a check for twohundred pounds!

A quick trip '\\-as then made to UppinghamSchool and Dcrh)', and the follo....;ng Sunda)"Or. Grenfell p~chrd at \\'eslcy's Chapel inCity Road. We spent the afternoon \"i~iting

the interesting museum and gr.a\"e)-ard ad­joining the chapel, and in the· e\'ening, Dr.Grcnfel1 gne a lantern slide lecture at 5t.~lartin·s-in-the-Fielcl. Trafalgar Square

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We left the next day for Cambridge. Herewe found Iwo boys who h;l,d been on theLabndor coast as "wops"; onc of them, Mr.Charles De Bunsen, is planning to come bad:next year. As an iIIustr.ation of the mis­con«'Plions which exist in Ihe minds of manypwple regarding Labrador, a remark wasmade in this famous sot of English learn­ing by a certain lady lJIat "she did not intendto go to Dr. Grenfell's lecture, because shethought that America should rmnage her O'9VTI

colonies."From Cambridge we then proceeded to

Leeds. where we were Ihe guests of Mr.Robert Armitage, of Farnley Hall, and herewe found another Grenfell worker, in facttwo, both Mr. Robert Armitage, Jr., and hiswife, an American girl, having been on t1IeCoast as volunteers. About this lime I be­gan to realize why it was called the "Inter­national" Grenfell Association [

Liverpool was next on the itinerary, andhere we saw and visited the Reverend HenryGordon, who was on the Labrador coast forten years and did such heroic work duringthe influenza epidemic. The present schoolat Cartwright 'was due entirely to the effortsof :\fr. Gordon. He is now the ~tor of StJames Church, Toxteth, Lh·erpooJ.

A day trip was made to Manchester for alecture with return to Liverpool. While inManchester we visited the Co-operativeWholesale Society, whose organization hasbeen used by.Dr. Grenfell as a model for hisco-operative stores on the Cout. While Dr.Grenfell preached at the Great George StreetCongregational Qurch, Liverpool, Mrs. Gren·

fell and I attended the Assizes Service at theCathedral whieh preceded the opening of thefall session of the Law Court. We all haddinner with Bishop Da"id, who had been atOxford with Dr. Grenfell.

The following day we attended the formalopening of the Law Courts, and the LordMayor's luncheon to the Duchess of Atholt,who was on a tour of inspection of theschools. She said, among other things, thatthe aim of education should be to fit thestudent for the situation in which he wouldfind himself in his $ubs~uent work, andshould be conducted with a view to theactual conditions which the student wouldwork in. She said there seemed to be atendency to disregard these conditions, andto prepare the students for things that wouldnever be part of their daily life.

Dr. Grenfell took the train to Oxford inorder to attend the annual "Gaudy" of hiscollege, )'Irs. Grenfell and I following in thecar, hoping to be able to reach Oxford thatnight, but a heavy rainstorm made drivingso difficult that we were forced to spend thenight at Lichfield. About ele"en o'clock, aswe were proceeding along a deserted countryroad, I noticed that a grey Ford tTUck hadfor several miles been following us, some­times passing and then falling behind. Even­tually it stopped suddenly_ A man sprang tothe center of the road, flashed a light andordered us to stop. Several similar experi­ences in America which had resulted in at·tempted holdups made me debate whether tostep on the accelerator and swing aroundhim, or deliberately to run him down, I .hadjust decided that the latter 'was probably thewiser course, when Mrs. Grenfell saved thelife of a ddender of law and order by in­forming me it was a "Bobby," who kindly in­formed me that my license plate was coveredwith mud.

In Reading, the lecture was under the au.­piees of the Royal National Mission to DeepSea Fishers. J lere I had an adventure all ofmy own. Dr. Grenfell had written ahead tothe man who was to be our host that he, thedoctor, "''(luld be accompanied by Mrs.-G-ren­fell and a "volunteer, who has come overfrom Labrador to drive my car." As wepulled up at this man's house, he rushed out,visibly perturbed. After llo'dcoming Dr. andMrs. Grenfell, he drew them aside, andglancing in my direction said, "I don't knowwhat to do with )'(lur Eskimo driver, or whatto feed him." Dr. Grenfell replied that hethought it best 10 put him in the refrigeratorand feed him on ice cream! Of course, thiswas too good a slory to keep, and Dr Gren-

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fell promptl)' told it at his leetu~s. when tothe delight of e\-erybody excepting myself,the incident appeared in the newspapers,

The following day found us in Norwich,wbere we bad the pleasure of seeing MissChristine Fdlowes, who for several years liascome to Labrador to (h-e us the benefit ofher agricuhural training. She had with herliule Nathan Budgell, from Green Ba)', whomshe had taken home with her, and whom shewas sending to a school outside of Norwich.Nathan, in his Eton collar and school capand jacket, seemed 10 be very much at home,and enjoying life in his foster count!)'.

The next day we motored one hundred andfifty miles to Sheffield, and in spite of threepunctures reached there in time for the eve­ning lecture. Lytham (Lancashire), Hoylakefollowed in succession, and November 9thfound us motoring through the beautifullake country en route to Glasgow. \Ve stoppedin Keswick to visit Dr. Arthur W. Wake­field, who had be:en at Battle Harbor, and whotold w of his cxIM'dition to Mount E\'erest.He admitted that the main reason why he hadsettled in Keswick 1\'"35 that here he couldhave mountains in his backyard, and pursuehis favorite pastime.

In Glasgow we visi'cd Lord and LadyMaclay at their beautiful estate at Kilmal­eolm. Sa'eral large meetings were held berein churches and the Y. M. C. A.. and plansmade for futufC ones. \Vhile here we madea day trip to Edinburgh, where Dr. SmartXorman, who had also been on the CoaSt,arranged a large and enthusiastic meeting.Here we visited the display rooms of tbeScottish Home Industries, with which MissPressley-Smith was connected.

Because of our limited time and the neces­sity for getting back. to Glasgow for an eve­ning meeting, we went over to Edinburgh bytrain. After all tbe doctor's lectures, peoplewould gather to shake his hand or solicit hisautograph, and so, as he walked down theplatform deeply engrossed in con\'enation, andthe railroad guard at the barrier held out hishand for the tickets, Dr. Grenfell grasIM'd it,~hook it warmly, and walked on, lea\·ing anastonished and very much surprised man, gaz­ing first at his hand, and then at the disaJ'pear­ing form of Dr. Grc:ofell!

Carlyle, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Manchester,Bolton, Gravesend, City Temple, Loman, fol­lowed in quick suceession, all mtetings beingpacktd to capacity. Frequently chairs wereplaced in the aisles and the exits jammed,the audiences oItm numbering hetwten twoand three thou~and people. At Manchester

Dr. Grenfell spoke at the annual general con·"ention of ),lissions htld in the Free TradeHall.

As the trip Vt'aS now drawing to a close,it wa..s decided that we would try to sell !h(car, and we solicited an offer from a garageman at Sc,·en Oaks He immediately in­formed us that we had a broken front spring,which I indignantl)' denied. but on gettingout and investigating, disco\'Cred that it Vt'"3Sonly too true, and that the "Crystal Palace""listed to port" at a rather alarming angle,four of the six spring leaves being broken.As we \lere one hundred and sixty-five milesfrom Bristol, our. next "port of call," itseemed advisable to take the car back toLondon which \1'"35 only twenty-five milesdistant, and for Dr. Grenfell to proceed bytrain. Whcn this plan~;as suggested to thedoctor, he said quite calmly, "But I don'lwant to go by train," and asked if we couldnot put on a "temporary dressing." As itwas not for me to question the decision ofthe "skipIM'r" we lashed a block of wood be­tween the spring and the axle and started forBristol at a rate of fifteen miles an hour, andmade a triumphant mtry at eleven o'clockthat night. The car was later driven anotherone hundred and sixty miles to Parkgate.

Folkes-tonc, Rugby School., :Moselty fol·lowed, and on N'o\·ember 26 we returned toLondon for an address at :Miss :Maude Roy­den's church, the Guild House, Ecclest<Jn.The next few days were spent in busy prep-­aration for the Polytechnic lectures. ~Ir.

Varick Frissell, who had been a "wop" duroing his college career at Yale, had come overfrom France to show the motion pictureswhich he had taken on his trip to the Gn.ndFalls of Labrador." These were the onlymoving pictures of Grand Falls in existence,and this was to be ulcir firSt public showing.The Labrador Boundary Case which was 5ub­mitted to the Judicial Committee of the PrivyCouncil had just finished, and great interestwas shown in Dr. Grenfell's lectures. The"standing room only" sign was often in eVI­dence, and frequently a 1000g queue of peoplewould be turned away. E\·en the )'finisler ofColonial Affair~, when he came to the boxoffice one day, was told that there was 110t aseat in the house. Although diS2ppointed, he\\'"35 more pleased than provoked at beingturned allo'aY. (Eventually, howe\·er, a singleseat "''as found for him il1 the front row nextto Variek Friuell's small projector for hisDarrow gage films.)

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Among my various duties was often in­cluded senice as personal bodlguard to DrGrenfell, to prevent enthusiastic admirersfrom tearing 011 his Co;tt buttons for sou­venirs.

The Hud5\Jn's Bay Company had placed atour dis~1 their thou<;ands of f~t of film,and some of this \\'u used to suPl'lemellt ouro .....n pictuTCs of the ~lission acti,·ities.

\\'e returned on the Ot.nolPlc. 3rri\ing De­cember 23, just in time for Christmas. Kotonll was the Iccture tour itself a great successhom a standpoint of interest aroused, ne",suporters gained, and monel' rais«l, but thenew London office at 92 Victoria Street wasestablished as a center in England for thepromotion of interest in Dr. Grenfell's work1Iiss Katie Spalding, the honorary secretaryin charge, writes glowing letters of the cn-

VR, GRENFELL AND THE R£V. G, A. STUDI)EIlT- thusiasm which she finds everywhere in theKENNEDY os TilE OLY)lPIC wake of Dr. Grenfell's lecture tour.

FROM DAY TO DAY AT GORDON COVEBy FRANCES \V. COSItOW

THE bus)' hum of e"erymy life pre\-ailslover the huge house. \Ve hear the c!:;lII«

of dishes, the murmur of children's\'oices, with happy shou~ at times. Perhaps lhesell'iug machine is going at a m;r,d pace tofini h a belated pany dress. There may evenbe a doll's tea pany ill full sway, or an ex­cited game of marbles at its height. Belowin the basement, the steady chopping of theax shows that the fires are not to be neg­lected.

Suddenly a bell rings, followed by such ascampering upstairs, bidding goodnighu, andwild, ached tumbling into bcd. Then againwe notice the allltirs downstairs.

Quieter, 1I0W that the younger children aresafely tucked into bed and supposedly sounduleep, Now the more serious things beginfor the older ones. Perhaps it is study night,or the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts are holdingmttting. Whatever it is, the time flies andsoon another bell rings, This time there fol­lows a sound of singing, then quiet prnyersbefore retiring. After a cheery good nightto each and all, there is a gcnen.l rush fordrinks, then scampering to bed.

Quiet begins to settle slowly O\'er the ....-bolehOl.bC. Only a little murmur ill the olderchildren's rooms, and talking in the staff room.The staff dn.ws a deep breath, relaxu cau­tiously, and begins with internt to reviewthe day's e,·ents. The talk may run on ),I'ssudden angelic disposition or 8's noticeable

imprO\'em~nt, or the latest tantrum; or per­haps it turns upon plans for changing rul~s

or a new scheme for dining room management.One by one the rc:ma.ining stall goes to

bed The la t one puts out the hall lightsand takes a final look aroWld, then settlesdo.....n for the night. The great householdis asleep. It reminds one oi a great beast,slowl}" relaxing, fmally gidng a last sign andbecoming still in dreamless slumber.

The night mo,'es 011 slowly. surel}", silentlyThe first hint of dawn tinges the eastern

sk)", and an alarm dock rudely awakens theone who first must struggle with the dar.She soon rouses the kitchen girls, who lightthe fires and start the kettle boiling. The beasthas stirred in his slccp. Pattering footstepsin the hall, three knocks, then "Time to getup, ~tiss."

The beast is stirring now and opens asleepy efe. Yes, it is morning no...... A bellrings. He turns, blinks, and slowly rouses.

In six dormitories some forty children wakeand start dressing, while the chatter slowlyincreases. When all arc dressed, ""ashe<!, andinspected, they pa s quickly downstairs. TheirhapP)' "oices again sound out, as they gatherin groups. Again the bell. A song andpra)'ers come as a pleasant routine of themorning. Then the long line of children passto their breakfast, and another busy day has"'gun.

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NOTES HERE AND THERE

95

DONATION FROM THE PHILADELPHIANATIONALS

THE Philadelphia Xatlollal ~balJ .team.through Mr, Cy Williams, their big hit­ter. ha\e presented Uj with a suhscnplion

taken up ir"m the whole tc;un, including themanager, to which every man gbdly comril>­ut~ ior the benefit of the ~fi5Sion. They011'\0 JlrC$~tcd IJ!(! with a ball ~igTl~d withall their flallk'S.

AI)" education in b.ueball was negl«ted inEngland, but :\Ir. Cy Williams was kindenO;lgh to ~how me how 10 throw a ballthrou,q:h my fingers or around my fingers oro\'er my fingers. and after this signal honorfrom a man whose alhletic prowess this yearall America is admiring, I dreamed of fling­ing balls that went like corkscrews mixedwith the zigzags of lightning.

I have always been an ardent admirer ofthose who keep their bodies in order, regard­ing these bodies as I do, as the liaison be­tween ourseh'es or our lOuis and this fieldof honor on which Christ calls us to be goodknights, and on leaving which we expect tol

hear "\\'ell fought, well done" herufter.W, T. G.

"Ol.:~d~d ~~i ~~ta:O':::~:ri~:~Il~.e~Smith, s«retary of the Y M, C. A. branchat St. John·s. where the old Sumen's Insti_ture has ~cn transferred for the joint useof the Y. M C. A. and Y. W. C. A...Almostel'ery evming the building is crowded withyoung people. Basketball is a very populargamc with the girls as well a~ men. Thehome nl1r~ing class had to be divided becauseof the large nllm~r. Our six-weeks cduca­tion;ll lectures were well allelided. Last1I10nth'~ gym attendance was the best yet.\Ve arc planning now for a Y demonstrationnight to be held in C. L, B. armories May 6.The Sund<ly fire~ide groups have prOH~d verysuccessful. with about fihy-fil'e young fellow!each Sahbath after church:'

A :i~I~~lr~~dc~~n:~ t~:~ ~is\~~~~ ~~:~:Hare Ba)" and PiSlOlet Bay, at the northemtip of i'\ewfoundland, has been presented 10the Prime Minister asking for :a grant ofmoney suffici~t to construct :a high ....-:ay con­n«tin,. the two points. At present there is not:a fOOl of road suitable for an)' "ehicle alon~

this &«tion of the coast, which suffeN in itsde\"cloplllent in consequence. St. Anthony is

about midway bel ween the two bays, and thedistrict, with its sjllendid salmon and troutrivers and picturesque s«nery, could easily bemade altraClh'c to many to:.1Tists if betterfacilities for getting about were provided, IlOl10 mention the imprO\'ed «onomic condition.which would nuurally follow for all resi_dents with imprO\'ed transportation facilities.

RE~Et~:I~:riIIOiS~':1I~:e~~~c;.att~:tr;~i~;;William ~Iorri told h01\' he had ch~red thelonely Labndor \'iJJage by tunes on a fiddlewhich did not belong to him, we ha\-e to saythat three persons have ~ent \'iolills to theXew York office. The first to arril'c Wal

given by a young girl to whom a new violinhad been presented, so she \ery much wishedher old one could go to :\{r. ~[orris. Xodoubt there are other people on the Labradorwhose heartj will he made hallpy by the giftof the other violillS.-EDlTOII.

HERE is one of the many telegrams readat the Alumni dinner in Xew York

City: "Re the Annual Grenfell Alumni Din­ner-It is with deepest regret that I aeknowl.edge your debt for your kind and unique invi­tation. "'ere I able to come I would start ona run and not ~nd this sad uplanation.Howc\'e:r, the distance is o\'erpowering re­sislOlllCe so with heart !IOrdy rh'en I s~d

these regrets of John Sel'ery Hibben."

AB~Pi~t~;"3~!o::~d~~ i~m:;;~~hBa:~nardo's Homes. AU the British colonies wererc-presmted by stalls. and the Grenfell ~Iis.

sion had a food ~howing of industrial prod­uct'; ior display and ~ale

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NEW ENGLAND GRENFELLASSOCIATION

HOSPITAL FUNDMill Eliubelh Dullman .Mr. 1I. R. Gudiner .

.."..s~~:~:

$6 ••S9A_S.

GRENFELL LABRADOR MEDICALMISSION

ST .\~nIO:t'Y BLDG. FUND

A. reported;n J.."...... ,. '9a7. ;$Sut ......• h,0)'.76Chalme..• 0.. Cuelpb. S. S. f"rI C1"ld.~'s

''THE TALE OF BRICKS"THE GRENFELL ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICACHILDRE-,,"'S WARD

"'S np"ned i" April aqui..... , ... , $6.1S97'1B."",,:rilk. X. 'i,. Rd"rwoed Cloardl S da,.

ScbooI .46.4'

\v..nl ~ .llonlre..1 Brsneb. Cbild",:,,·s Ward .

~~L},,~~. Kr~: ~~~~,~~..~:t~.:::,,". Aaan TIlompMoa, St. Palll's. Ou,W. C. T. U.• Sprin.Ioill. ~. S... _..

!?:~" ~=~'. ~"";'~'\\;~;d.'Ditto. bticllsDiltn. Bldl. Foad ,.

TOl&I to d..le .•.....•..... , fa.,AlS'Brie,,", -.fiJlI 10 last report ••••A.s."oqua!"" in caU

HO~PITAL n:~D

As ...""ned iJl Aprit_zinc.:\Ir. ~Wi't Bilbop ..•.Milo. Diubetlo Gau-di::lot;,.,. L...,. lIorJle " ... __ ...lIiD EWe Louise Paller"""

ASw: h~~.~un:~~~:, ~r·ad~~t~:~n:~:::t

contribution to lhe genenl work, to raise$225 for one year·s educ:;ation and maintenanceof two orphans, Florence ;and Jordan Goudie,aged respectively 8 and 10 yean. at the YaleSchool at ?\'orth West River."-From the an­nual report of the Toronto Branch.

O~tl~e:~u~~~~e~~~~a~:mcO~I;~~d~t1a~i~~friends for the equipment of the Children'sWard in the 51. Anthony Hospital, the sumof $562.32 was expended by her personallyfor the purchase of bedding, towels., andother necessities. The balance was forwardedthrough the office of lhe Grenfell Labr;adorMedical Mission for expenditure on ~uch

other equipment as might be most needed. Anindividual touch has bft:n gh'en the beds inthe ",-ard by the placing of flower n<arne plates.decorated and presented by Min ),hcGillivT3Y.another good Canadian friend of the mi~sion.

These flower plattS ha'·e given the greatestplea~ure to lhe children.

O NE of the treasured birthday greetingsreceived by Dr. Grcnfel1 w;as a letter

written on his birthday ;and individu;ally.igned by the thirty children under Miss Cris­"'ell in the new Yille School ;at North WestRh'er---ehildren truu Dr. Grenfell calls the"freshmen" of Yve in ubndor, with alltheir potential power for making a better"'orld in future years.

FROM THE DOCTOR'S MAILBAG

FROM "UNCLE GEORGE"

"I ~O;~l:l~;e~e~~~g~o~:~o ;r~lg~~e~~el~·h~~this letter. "The present he refers to wasmade possible by our friends."

Fox Harbor, March 20, llpi.

Dr. Wilfr«1 T. Grenfell,My dear Friend:

I received the grand Christma3 preasent thatyou send me and I thank )'Ou "cry milch forit and sir I m:'1$1 say that it is the best preas­ent I e,·tr got in my life. \\'e were 50 gladto let it just when we did becase our littlegirl is so sick-and we chould not get nurish­ment for her. She been sick for IWO months,\\'e hne had the. nurse for her. Some tilIH'sshe seems to be quite a lot beller, and thenshe gets sick again. We don't knolll' whatto think of her. Thankful to say that all the!tit of our family ue well. ).1)· wife reo

members to )'ou very kindly; her face arerite well-dont trouble her a bit. I mustsay that the times have not been the best herethis winter but we cant comeplane so verymuch our selves. Jimmie caught II. fcw skinSof fur and with the help that we have gotothers ways we have rubed along very well50 far, what ever it shall be from this timeout.

We have nearly all the things ready tobuild )'Our boat but not started 10 p;lt together"et bec.ase the wether is so cold ret that I~ant keep my fed wann. But it dont take50 much lime to put together. This havehecn a "ery frosty winter and lovely finewether. I gue~ there will be lots of Icc~t summer and if so lhe salmon is likelyto be plentiful 100. I ha"e my twine knitedready for them. Please, sir, be!i"e me tobe )·our sincere old friend,

GEORGE HoL.tZy.

PREPAR£D FORDR. ~.BED T. onE.~".i;.l.LC.M..O.

SCIoI. of Mlln.... If _ ... _ "I ...

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THE INTERNATIONAL GRENFELL ASSOCIATIONSupnintende~[. Dr. Wilfred T. GrrDfd,1. St. Ambony. Nrwfoundbnd

Exton,v. Officft. Alfred A. Whitman, IS6 Fifth Avenue, New YorkSt. John's Olli,,: Summ'li Institute, St. John's. Ncwfoundbnd

51. John·s._The Grenfel1 Associatiotl of New·foundland. incorporated under the laws of New­foundlm,d-l'atron, His Excellency Sir WilliamLamond Allardyce. K.C.M.G., Governor of New_foundhlrld: Chair., Hon. Robert Watson; Vice­O,air.• Charles P. Ayre. III.B.E.; S<:<;·y·Treas.,H. R. Brookes,

CANADAOttawa.-The Grenfell Lahrador Medical Mi.·

.ion.incorporate<! under the law. of the Provinceof Ontario--Chair., D. M. Finne. E.q,; Hon5<:<;·y. Jose A. Machado, Esq., 224 Wellington51.; Hon. Treas., A. G. Parker. Esq.• Care Bankof Montreal; Corresponding Sec'y, Miss Anni.M. Warne, ApI. 1I. 221 Gilmour St.

PRINCIPAL OFFICESNEWFOUNDLANDUNITED STATES

New York.-The Grenfdl Association ofAmerica, incorporat~ under the laws of theState of New York-Pres., D. Bryson Ddavan.M.D.; Vice-Pres., William Adams Delano;l"re"s., Henry C. Holl, 1.56 Fifth Ave.; Sec.•Wilham L. Savage, 156 F,fth Ave.

Boston, Mass.-New England Grenfell As.lO­dation, ineorporated under the laws of the Stateof Massaehu~etls-PrCl., Albert T. Gould;Treas" FredeTtc n. Galloope, 15 State St.; Sec.,/IIis. E. E. White, noom 635, 120 Tremont St.

LONDONRoyal National Mission 10 Deep-Sea Fisher­

men, 181 Queen Vicloria St., E. C.Grenfell Fooudalioll of Great Britain and

Irdand. 92 Vicloria St., S. W. I. HOll. Sec·y.~Iiss Katie Spalding

e<:'y, MfA. E:. Curran; Trea•.•Ja Cenlre St.·y·Tr..... , Mi•• F. E. Garden,

Sydney. N. S.-5<:c·y·1'rea•. , Miss H. D. Kimber,Sa-Park St.

Tor"n,o, Olll.---<Sec·y. Mrs. Wm. L H"lman, ,6g::~~~nlGRtn; Treu.• M'II K E. Ilenderson, [55

Trur", N. S,-Treu" Mr•. J. D. Maday. Queen St\t~.dT~~'i.~.~~-;k~e<:'y, Mi•• A. Tompkin.; Trea•. ,

\\'uton. Onl,-se.'y. M... W. ). Inch, 39 J"hn St.;Trea•. , MiM Helen]. Grubbe.tan\~'~Sl~:.~'r.-Sec·y.Treu .• Mr•. D. ].

BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS

St~'1\.2;~\v~~j~~ 1~~ii:V:\~~YR~yaPt:~,~.H Jam..

Kc~~i;:~~~, °O:;Z--':S~:,~I:~t~~;u~:;'" ~~;i:("tl.Si~~:"i~;t~t~' Om.- -l;tc'y.Tru•. , Mrs. E. S. Sillier, "7

Halifax, N. S._Se<:'y.Trr""., Mr•• Georg.- ..... JkJmood, 19 Payzant St.

Hamilton. Ont.-Sec'y. Ladies' Branch• .\Ii.. Kalt

i:U~id:~.:~~r1~o:.'fI"~'~~"sT.;Se<:'y Men', Branch,]. t.

\\'~~~~n~~~,N. B,o Au"._Sec·y·Tr....... Mrs. Fred V.

11'''1>''1"., Onl.-Se<:'y. Mr•. A, Klage.: Tr..... , MnOscar Zyrd.I. ...K~~'li~~S«.·Y-Tru.,. AliI, .\lar;"" F Len

"itchencr-Wucrloo, OnI.--»e<;',..:l:{UI., Min ,Mary

\"i~~,:..ey, '6~t.~~.lS:~~.~v~r:~~h~;~ ~'e'u"Londull, Ont,-Sec'y, Mr•. lIerbert SCr....t<l<l; Tren..

~1;·io~~~r·~e~Se:'j~ ~~~n~. S1. Dunton, 5' Traial~ar Ave., We.tm""nt,

"'ew Gla.g"w, N. S.~Trea •. , Mill Sophie G<ant

Se~r,;g~~~··F!~~:--b~~~~··y.Trm.,,en. Vic' ~ia Ave.

Ottawa, t).-',-Sec·y. Mi•• A. M. Warne, Ut Gil",,,ur S'.; Tea•. , Mrs. A. II. llr"wn, 87 Frank St

l"eoterbo<", Ont.-Trea•. , Mrs. Gerald Woodeo.·y_Trea•.• Mi•• R. \{. Scot"

I/"'~;b:r~';;'~- D C._Ac'ing I'reo.. darl.. Bet"'YUutler; Sec·y., Willey 0, bon, The Iowa Apartnt<:nt&;

;~~::;; (;B~r; Wc~i~~e~ I'M~~~~&:t;hOC~~I;~:~

n~~e:ort i1:::''-Trm. Min Carne P.Bolt·I[S·

FitclIburg, M"....-S.,.,·y. MilO Isabel DenneIl. 5"lll""50rnSt.

uxing(,,", Mau,-5<:c·y-Treu., MfA. S. L Barbuur.$4 lIancockS,.

LcwelJ, ~l ..... ,-Treu., Mill Alice French. 9 SanhornS,.

Springfield. Ma••.--Sec·y, M W. K Bullard. ["J

~h\~)::~t:;; Ma...-1'real., M lIom.r Gage, 8Chellnut St

p"rtland. Me.-Se<:y·Trea•.• DL T. A. F",ter, 'J'Stau:St.

Burli1\i'Oll, V'.-Sec·y. Urball Woodbury ll, Apple.,ree Point I'arm•.

lIartf"r<!. ~,,"n.-Sec·y·Trea•. , Mrs. I'hilip Roberts,

FaN::.,nfl':~'e;'C:;'n._Sec'Y_Tr.u" Mrs. W. ~l. Agar.6, Trumbell St.

P<ovidenu. tt. I._Tr..... , Dr. Eric Stone, 12.\\'a,uman 51.

CANADABelleville, Ont.-Sec·y-Tr.... ,. Mi.. lteten Wall

bri~~~der Citie•• On'.-Sec'y.1'r.a•. , Mi•• Anne C.

RaB~iI1:,9 ~hn~~~"y.fr~~~.~or·Mi" Eleanor M

B.-Sec·y-T..a•. , ~Ir•. Stewart