The American 
Red Cross is not only of service during wars and disasters. 
THe Rep Cross AND GETTYSBURG! 
At the reunion at Gettysburg it provided twenty-six 
trained nurses for the army hospitals at the encampment. 
Over the great expanse of the battlefield itself it estab- 
lished fourteen emergency stations. Each station con- 
sisted of from one to three tents fully equipped with 
cots, stretchers, first aid supplies, etc. For the personnel 
of these stations it provided forty-four additional Red 
Cross trained nurses, ten doctors, ten automobiles for 
service, and a number of trained First Aid teams of 
miners for hospital orderly work. Some seventy-two Boy 
Scouts who had also received their first aid training, were 
detailed to assist it at the stations. Many of the veter- 
ans were overcome or taken ill as they again explored the 
many miles included in the battlefield and fortunate it was 
that there was always near at hand at these outposts the 
Red Cross to give them any first aid needed and to take 
them back to camp in its automobiles. All the nurses at 
Gettysburg were from the Red Cross trained nurses en- 
rolled in the State of Pennsylvania and many of them 
were superintendents of hospitals or of training schools, 
who obtained leave of absence for this special Red Cross 
work. The Nurse-Superintendent in charge of all the 
nurses is the superintendent of the Orthopaedic Hos- 
pital at Philadelphia. Major Patterson, the Army Sur- 
geon at the head of the Red Cross First Aid Division, was 
in charge of the Red Cross work at Gettysburg. He 
writes to one of its officers: “I think it is not too much 
to say that the Red Cross work was carried on in a cred- 
itable manner and | know it was entirely satisfactory to 
Colonel Bradley, the Chief Surgeon, and General Ligget, 
who was commander of the camp, and to the members of 
the Gettysburg Commission, ******* 11,540 veterans 
passed through our fourteen Aid Stations during the four 
days, July 1 to 4, inclusive. ******** The conduct of the 
nurses was extremely satisfactory and just what we ex- 
pected it would be. The doctors from Washington were 
an efficient body of men and the aid rendered by the 
miners from Pennsylvania was also very satisfactory. 
The work of the Boy Scouts was a revelation to me.” 
A SANE FourtH! There was never a better celebra- 
tion of the Fourth of July along the Shore than this 
year. From Beverly to Rockport (except Gloucester) 
sane celebrations were held that brought pleasing diver- 
sions into the lives of the townspeople and _ the 
birds of passage,—the Summer Folk. Save for a single 
small fire the day was unbroken by disaster or conflagra- 
tion. The physicians were spared the usual annoyances of 
Fourth of July injuries. At Beverly Farms the Fourth 
opened by a celebration the night before in the chapel 
of a church where over sixty Italians gathered and heard 
the story of Independence Day and were entertained, and 
entertained the entertainers by their singing. In the 
morning from dawn to after dark the day was busily 
spent. In Manchester the Fourth of July Committee pre- 
sented one of the best programs in years.. No one misses 
the old type of a “Fourth,” 
THE Boston ELEVATED RAILROAD does not seem to be 
able to obtain any long period of time of peace from labor 
troubles. The unfortunate recurrence of labor disputes is 
irritating to the public, expensive for the stock-holders, of 
little avail to the mal-contents and peculiarly trying for 
the men having the active management of the railroad 
property. For over a decade the sympathies of the public 
have been unwaiveringly loyal to the struggles of the 
working man to better his lot and incidentally increase his 
remuneration for labor. ‘This sympathy still exists in the 
minds of most thinking men. Unfortunately there have 
been corresponding and usually unjust attacks and dis- 
criminations on invested capital. Both of these departments 
of great industries are entitled to justice. The rights of 
labor end where justice to capital begins. ‘The recent 
disturbance among the Boston Elevated Railroad Com- 
pany’s employees is an admirable illustration of the spirit 
of the times. No one will gainsay that the men should 
have a larger compensaton. But have the stockholders and 
the public no rights? The railroad men agreed to the 
contract that provided for a board to arbitrate all future 
differences of opinion and the overwhelming vote by the 
car men to strike, which of course meant a direct abroga- — 
tion of the contract, is a disgrace to American manhood 
and does not promise much for the future. Must Capital 
keep its contract and Labor be free to break it at will? 
There are simple elements of ethics which apply to or- 
ganized labor as well as to the private life of citizens. 
A Soxprer’s MONUMENT FOR MANCHESTER is the 
newest movement on foot, and one worthy of thought and 
action by our summer visitors as well as townspeople in 
general. The first event to place the matter before the 
people will be the Tag Day tomorrow,—Saturday, July 
12—when everyone in town will be given the chance to 
subscribe ten cents toward the fund to buy the monu- 
ment. It is proposed to place it on the green in front of 
the Town hall. A competent committee has been at work 
and at some future date definite plans will be announced. 
There is no reason why, if Manchester is to have a monu- 
ment, it should not have the best. In every town and 
city of the Commonwealth we may see a soldier’s monu- 
ment. some good, some bad. It is needless to suggest 
that Manchester is unusually situated, with its hundreds 
of wealthy residents to lend their financial as well as 
moral aid to a movement of this kind. In many cases the 
contract is given to some granite concern, and the result 
is that in erecting a ten thousand dollar monument there 
is eight thousand dollar’s worth of granite and two 
thousand dollar’s worth of monument. Manchester is 
more far-sighted than this and we have no doubt, when 
the time comes wisdom will be used in selecting the one 
to model the monument so that the very best to be ob- 
tained will be ours. 
Tue Stconp Grerryspurc! The week that just passed 
has been momentous in significance and influence. A his- 
tory is written fifty years is but a short period of time. 
That the prophecies of the immortal Lincoln should have 
