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centers. At first, when "moss drives" were announced, the whole town 

 would go out in a body — men, women and children — making a picnic 

 of it. In some instances holidays were proclaimed, all places of business 

 closed, and the autos, delivery wagons, etc., requisitioned for the "drive." 

 In most cases, however, these events occurred on a Sunday. As time 

 went on and the novelty wore off, fewer responded to the call, but a goodly 

 number of the "faithful few" were always on hand. The moss is usually 

 collected by hand, but sometimes a fork is used as shown in plate 32.^ 



On these drives one of the hardest tasks confronted South Bend and 

 Raymond, where they had to start at 7:30 A. M., load autos and auto 

 trucks on barges which were taken about ten miles (16 km.) by steam 

 tugs to Tokeland. After unloading they drove eight or ten miles to the 

 bog, gathered the moss and returned. On such a trip they would gather 

 from 500 to 1500 gunnysacks of moss, depending upon the size of the 

 crowd and the accessibility of the moss. All of this was volunteer work 

 — the barges, autos, tugs, etc., all donated. The success of these drives 

 was largely due to the energies of Captain L. L. Darling, who planned 

 and organized them; and Mr. L. L. Bush, who located the bogs and gave 

 the instructions in collecting. 



The difficulties presented to the Red Cross workers at Tillamook were 

 almost on a par with those just mentioned. They had to drive 20 miles 

 (32 km.) to the bog, 10 of which were over corduroy roads. Even under 



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Collecting Sphagnum with forks in a bog 



near Ilwaco, Washington. 



' The writer wishes to aoknowledKc his imlelttedness to Trnf. A. R. Sweetser for the photographs 

 used in plates 31 and 33 ; to Dr. W. Haydon for those in plates 35 and 41 ; to the Seattle Chapter 

 of the Red Cross for those in plates 37, 38, 39 and 44 ; to Miss Evelyn Gill Klahr for that in plate 

 42 ; to the engineering department of the University of Washington for the drawing in plate 43 ; 

 and to the Northwestern Division of the Red Cross for mailing it possible to obtain many others. 



