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Show 00 WOMEN 10 MAKE Entire Third Floor of Commercial Com-mercial Club to Be Utilized for Work. AUXILIARIES ARE BUSY Vigorous Preparations in Process to Send Sammies Christmas Packages. Within the next throe or four la.3 tho euMro third floor of the Salt Iiko Commercial Com-mercial cluh will In) utilized as the Kit uze I'MOin for the Salt X-nko ehuplei f the Hed Crow, thus affording opportunity for the KrtrvlfTis of from fifty tn sixty persons ench day In tho malting of surgical ban- . d-'ifce.H. Tills an nounuei'rH-nt was in ado yesterday yester-day by Ml km Klin, M. U'icltlund, executive (Mnc:cfMji ry of thn Halt- Lako cha pter, wlio dlvldus "her time hiwt-cii the main office, of-fice, hil Kouth Main utreH. and the prin-fipti prin-fipti 1 workshop on K.-lhl Hroadwa y, MIk WWklund naul t ha t the Salt liiike chapter now included 1UU auxiliaries, a Iso twn hra ni'lu-s ono ai Murray and another ftt 1 ,arlc. Kvcry nii-NllliiT-v appears to be doin lis bent hi tho uoMo wui k of furthering Hit Kieat Red O'osh cause, and it needs only a visit, of Inspection to (iui hro.idway work ((iiii.rt-ra to sat isi'y t ho most in-crednloiiH in-crednloiiH that the Aiin'iiciui women are beKlnnuiK to realize the patriotic duty laid upon them. Christmas Packages. IVepara I Ions for the sending of Christ-ii Christ-ii ih h packages to thti defenders of the f Irk are pi onressiny rapidly. Sixty -five pnckass. packed here and designated tor 'iir hoys in l;'rance," have already been shipped,' ami tho local chapter now has about 2mi packages on bnnd here, awaiting await-ing orders iToin the Denver heabiuarters oj' the liorkv mountain division uu to time ami place of shipment. While t he ( 'Prist man pa cleans are not nil exactly alilic. Miss Matilda Thompson, he, id of the "work rrcw" in the Broadway Broad-way quarters, paid that 1 lie average pack-ns pack-ns (Mint allied handkerchiefs, candy, to-liM.'i-o, socks, playing cards, shaving snap, tablet, envelope?, pencil, tooth hniHh and tool h paste, while ma ny had Included a yaifty nmor and Turkish towels. 1 hit it is not Mia nrepara tion and ilia-I ilia-I rtbut inn of Christmas pitts alone tliat oc-cupv oc-cupv tho attention of the Red Cross workers. Within the last few days Ihe niornh(?rs of the roast artillery now dolns v iinrd duty at t Jarfb-ld. who, owing: to Iheip recent a rri va 1 trotn the Pacific mast, are poorly en nipped to withstand the keen nUhl "winds that, prevail here, hiive been supplied iy I he local chapter wilh 17S Het;, each comprising a woolen sweater, muffler and wristlets. Ten helmets hel-mets were uIm included in this equipment equip-ment for the coast artilcry, .Wool Coming. In her rapacity aM evecutive .secretary' Miss Wkklund is sen dim? out tho Hollowing Hollow-ing pell'-explnua lory letter: Io not be discouraged with limiting; limi-ting; because of the shortage of wool. We are setting wool as last as wo can. hut mo not able to fill all the orders of our enthusiastic knitters of Sa It Iake. but wc must keep up I he enthusiasm enough to take care of the wool as it comes aiuj knit it up as quickly as possible, since the demand Is o great and the cold weather is coming on. AH orders will be taken care of very carefully and kept for at least twenty-four hours after the delivery has been advertised and will then be distributed to other knitters who are aitinsr anxiously for the wool. Need Sweaters. From the Denver headquarters comes the following official statement under date of November 16: Tt is imperative that all of the weatera, wristlets and socks that can possibly be made by the women of the country should be turned Into the supply department at the earliest possible, pos-sible, dales. With the cold weather comlnp on tho demand for sweaters especially hps been beyond the capacity ca-pacity of all our resources to supply. sup-ply. "We have forwarded promptly all. knitted articles received from the chapters and have in addition been compelled to buy In the market 530. -000 sweaters, of which but "50,000 have been delivered. These sweaters are muehlno knit and the yarn is a mixture mix-ture of cotton and wool, so that it does not withdraw any considerable a mount of yarn from the women knitters of the Red Cross. We are buy Ins all the yarn we are ahle to secure that is suitable for knitters and sending It out to the chapters as fast as we can set deli de-li very of it. We have received from thp chapters about ;00.0no sweaters and approximately The same number of machine -made sweaters, all of which have been delivered to the men ji the camps and training stations, with the exception of a few thousand which we have sent to France. The requests of our orpanizalion in France for sweaters and knitted goods have bvl to remain unsatisfied on account of our Inability to secure enouapi fnr men in our own army and navy. We call upon Oie women to ptve us their very bes efforts from now until h t leji-st January 1. that we may be able to famish our own men with those comfort and have some to spare for the L'r ooeds in Prance. |
