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A. Wilder Pollard, long one of Boston’s well known 
business men, and for many years a summer resident of 
cast Gloucester, died suddenly just before midnight on 
Saturday, at his home, 14 Commonwealth ave,, Boston, 
from pneumonia, with which he was stricken on Thurs- 
day. He was the president of Wood, Pollard Company, 
importers and wholesale grocers. Mr. Pollard was born 
on July 8, 1862, in Boston, the son of Marshall Spring 
Perry Pollard and Georgianna Pauline (Jones) Pollard. 
He was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1883, 
and that year became connected with the firm of Wood, 
Pollard & Co., which later became incorporated and of 
which since 1913 he had been president. He was a di- 
rector of the Commonwealth Trust Company, a lieutenant 
of the Naval Brigade of Massachusetts, a member of the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange club, The 
‘Country club, Eastern Yacht club at Marblehead; New 
York Yacht club, Harvard club in Boston and the Har- 
vard club in New York. He was in his church affiliations 
an Episcopalian. Mr. Pollard on April 12, 1887, married 
‘ss Elise Welch of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is survived by 
his wife, a son, F. Wilder Pollard, Harvard, ’12, and four 
daughters, Mrs. Alvin F. Sortwell of Hamilton, who 
formerly was Miss Elise Pollard, and the Misses Pauline, 
Katharine and Priscilla Pollard. Another daughter, Anna, 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
Feb. 9, 1917. 
who died a few years ago, married James Murray Kay, 
Jr. For nearly thirty years Mr. Pollard made his home 
.n Brookline, removing to his residence in Commonwealth 
avenue in 1912. Because of this bereavement the wed- 
ding of Miss Pauline Pollard and Jonathan Stone Ray- 
mond, which was to have taken place at Emmanuel 
Church on Saturday, Feb. 17, will be postponed till some 
date to be determined by the families, and it will be a 
quiet, family affair. The invitations have been recalled, 
as were those for the dinner which had been planned for 
Thursday evening of this week at the Commonwealth ave- 
nue house, in honor of Miss Katharine Pollard, the party 
to go later to a dance at The Country club, for which ad- 
ditional guests had been invited. 
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North Shore friends will be interested in the arrival — 
in the spring of Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Winthrop Minot 
(Constance Gardner) and their little son from Berlin. 
The little one was born in December and has been named 
Amory Gardner Minot. He is the only grandchild of 
the Augustus P. Gardners of Hamilton and also the first 
great-grandchild of Senator Lodge of Nahant. 
Every right action and true thought sets the seal of 
its beauty on person and face.—Ruskin. 
FOOD FOR FRANCE 
ii order that he may return to the 
lacking the headlines. The soldiers 
used to joke about President Wilson’s 
Funps RaisEp By LECTURE ON WAR 
Hosprtats BY Miss WINTHROP. 
A plea for diet delicacies for the 
soldiers of France was made by Miss 
Clara Winthrop at an illustrated lec- 
ture in Manchester Town hall on Fri- 
day evening of last week. ‘Conditions 
in the French military hospitals and 
life in the cities of the war zone were 
graphically described by Miss Win- 
throp. Her talk dealt largely with 
her personal experiences and obser- 
vations. 
She praised the spirit of the nurses 
of France, who, she said, are not as 
well trained as our American nurses, 
but make up for that by their devo- 
tion to their patients. The delicacies 
needed by the wounded French sol- 
diers in the hospitals are not what we 
think of as delicacies, she said, but 
are rather necessities. All of the 
coffee is served without sugar or 
cream. War bread is the chief arti- 
cle of diet. The French people are 
used to having the bare necessities of 
life and do not complain, but the 
soldier whose health must be built up 
trenches needs the nourishment pro- 
vided by articles of diet not included 
in the military hospitals. 
Miss Winthrop told of the difh- 
culty experienced in preparing the 
food for the soldiers in the hospital 
where she served. There were no 
facilities for cooking and only one 
fire was kept in the big establishment, 
a former hotel. Coal was $40 a ton. 
The soldiers made no complaint of 
the food and found no fault if certain 
ones were favored in the diet. They 
were more particular to have cigar- 
ettes and native wine regularly than 
they were about their food. Their 
diet seldom varied and the eternal 
sameness of it took away their appe- 
tites. 
The men were inclined to joke 
about their wounds. One soldier 
whose leg was torn away had a dozen 
drains in it. He laughingly pointed 
tc them remarking that his leg looked 
like a pipe organ and that he thought 
he could play a tune upon it. The 
soldiers enjoyed their newspapers. 
which, Miss Winthrop said, were not 
as exciting as American newspapers, 
note writing. 
The first year of the war the diet 
of the hospitals included some of the 
articles now classed as delicacies, but 
now everything is too high. Miss — 
Winthrop told of purchasing diet 
delicacies for some of the dangerous- 
ly wounded of the soldiers from 
money sent to her by friends in 
America. The lot of the English 
soldier was rose-strewn compared 
with that of the Frenchman. The 
French soldier receives four cents a 
day and the English soldier receives 
a dollar. England’s overseas troops 
from Canada and Australia receive 
$1,25 a day and are able to purchase 
what they need outside of the regular 
ciet in the numerous shops. 
Miss Winthrop related experiences 
as a guardian of a convoy of conval- 
escents. She used to take them to the 
beach in the afternoon and_ they 
would play like children upon the- 
sand. She taught them the good 
American game of poker and they 
were delighted with it. 
Just before the battle of the Somme — 
