Show I. I I SOcIety Women Undismayed d dA A t Noisome I Sorting Salt Lake is shedding Her winter coat consisting of many matly thousands or of pieces has been gathered In by the American Red fled Cross to be sent to the needy Europeans The piles and plies piles or of clothing and old shoes at Main street ga gathered by local Red Cross workers continued to grow Although the response r of the city to the appeal for old clothing has been answered most generously Mrs George GeorgeM M 1 Miller chairman of the drIve In Salt alt Lake says says' that by Saturday much more must be gathered gather If the quota of the city Is to be realized A corps of society women and soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers from Ft- Ft t Douglas aIded in sorting and baling the material collected The work of the women at the tha collection depot Is worthy of especial mention as asno asno no work vork heretofore taken up by the Red Cross has been more dIstasteful to carry out Shoes Shoe covered with dust and dirt must be fished out from the heaps deposited on the floor and tied together Clothes many exceedinglY dirty must be sorted and made ready i ifor for baling Every piece collected will willbe willbe be fumigated before beIng shIpped out of the city The fire department continues s to aid the movement by sending a number of Its wagons to gather bundles of cloth cloth- ing The school children are furnishing many hundreds of pieces of the old clothing Elaborate e gowns formerly worn by bythe bythe the cIty's social set simple frocks of shop gIrls and stockings of Salt Lakes Lake's wee folk are all to be seen in the loads of material gathered So great Is the need of the tha clothing overseas that every article whether ragged and dirty or not Is accepted nothing being excluded exclude whIch might serve as a covering for some human bod body even though for a very short period Germany and her allies will not receive receive re- re any of the old clothing gathered the American Red Cross assures the AmerIcan public |