AMONG the shops of the North Shore, none occupy a 
more prominent position than the North Shore shoe- 
makers, ord & Wass, of Gloucester. We illustrate the 
interior of their shop taken on a busy day. The very 
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One of Gloucester’s 
Model Shops 
THE Forp & Wass 
SHOE STORE, 
POSTOFFICE SQUARE 
best of fine shoes are carried and in addition a complete 
departinent devoted to the sale of high-grade sweaters 
and hosiery. Shoppers will find the store centrally lo- 
cated at 6 Pleasant st., directly opposite the Postoffice. 
Series oF Turee Lecrures, illustrated by moving pic- 
tures, is to be given on the North Shore the first 
week in August by Prof. Van Hecke of Louvain univer- 
sity, who will tell of the reconstruction work in Belgium, 
showing portable houses for refugees, the concentration 
camps, etc. The first of these will be at the Oceanside 
hotel, Magnolia, on Wednesday evening, August 2, at 
8.15; the second on Thursday evening at Hawthorne Inn, 
East Gloucester, and the third at the Moorlands, Bass 
Rocks, on Friday evening, August 4. Tickets may be 
obtained at the hotels or from Mrs. Clough C. Overton, 
at Hawthorne Inn, the chairman of the committee, and 
from Mrs. Reeves Lewis at the Moorland. 
Albert G. Van Hecke, professor of the Louvain uni- 
versity technical department, civil engineering, after being 
with his wife the witness and nearly a victim of the 
German cruelties at Louvain, left Belgium at the end of 
1914 for England. Two months later he became a dele- 
gate of the Belgian government in order to take care 
of the professional training of his countrymen living in 
Holland as refugees or as prisoners—the Belgian in- 
terned soldiers. 
Dr. Van Hecke was charged, at the request of the 
Dutch government, to organize under the auspices of the 
Dutch Central Relief Committee, professional schools and 
workshops for the purpose of building movable houses, 
which, after the war, will be sent into Belgium and placed 
in those parts of the country which suffered most. As it 
is known, many thousands of houses have been burned 
and destroyed. 
Thanks to a Danish gift and another made by the 
Society of Friends, three hundred and fifty houses have 
been built and furnished, and more than a thousand ref- 
ugees who, before the war, were common laborers, have 
been given the opportunity to learn a trade. ‘These are 
now helping, during their exile, in the rebuilding of their 
country, and they do it generously, as patriots, because 
they receive only nominal wages. They are paid eighty 
cents a week, the half of which is deposited in a savines 
bank; after the war they will become the owners of the 
‘onls they are using. Movable houses are also built by 
the interned soldiers. 
Mr. Van Hecke paid weekly visits to the camps in 
which the refugees are living. These camps, built by 
the Dutch government, which provides also the material 
needs, are real villages, with a church, city hall, post-office, 
hospital, schools, etc. He had the opportunity to see how 
an original and novel popular community life had de- 
veloped amongst a people brought together by their mis- 
fortune, and generously provided for by their Dutch 
neighbors. 
Prof. Van Hecke was permitted by the Dutch gov- 
ernment to take moving pictures of the camps, in order 
to bring with him to this country a complete representa- 
tion of the life there, and to show how the money and 
the clothes sent so generously have been used. ‘These views 
—about 3000 feet of film, present many very striking con- 
trasts; funerals of refugees, children—there are in one 
of these camps 1200 children—going to school, the in- 
teriors of the kindergartens, primary classes, workshops 
created by the Rockefeller Foundation for sewing, dress- 
making, etc., workshops organized by the Society of 
Friends ; needlework, embroidery, mattresses, toys, brush- 
es. Our Flemish lace-makers with their cushions. Inte- 
riors of sleeping-halls, dining-halls; each dining-hall with 
a capacity for a thousand people, the soup-servers, kitchen, 
etc. Interior of the hospital, the clothing store, where 
the clothes so generously contributed by America are 
classified and distributed. Interesting views show the 
workshops for carpenters, cabinet-makers, and smithies 
working on the construction of portable houses. Then 
appears a view of one of those little cottages completely 
furnished, where the exiled families can find their home 
again. These cottages are grouped together in a part of 
the camp, forming a small suburb, symbol of a new Bel- 
gium. The proceeds of these conferences will go to the 
support of these workshops until the end of the war. 
The names of those who have contributed, whether cities 
or individuals, will be inscribed on the wooden construc- 
tions; houses, churches, schools, hospitals, etc. 
“T’d like to be a soldier,” said Bobby; “but not a 
corporal, ’cause people talk a lot about corporal punish- 
ment.” 
