Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
CHESTER DEALERS !
AID BLAST VICTIMS
Credit and Unlimited Time
to Pay Given Stricken
Families
MANY DEBTS LIQUIDATED
Those Whose Bread Winners
Were Killed Need Not Pay
Their Bills
By a StoG Correspondent

CHESTER, Pa, April ~.
Relief measures for the Eddystone suf-
ferers are receiving the cooperation of
Chester merchants in the form or unlimited
credits to the sufferers and promises Of
liquidation of debts of families whose sup
porting members have been killed.
In n Chester newspaper today appeared
the following advertisement by Frank
Tolln, dealer in housefurnshngs:
I'm this hour of distress I personally
take thisrpublic means of offering my SYM
pathy and condolences to all families that
were afflicted by the disaster, either by
death or injury.
Those who have accounts with me need
not worry, for I will extend to them unlim-
tied time, and in such cases where the fam
lily support was killed, 1 shall even liqui-
date their debts. Yours in sorrow,
FRANK TOLLIN."
other merchants are about to publish
similar notices. 1t was said today. Physi-
cal and financial aid has poured into Ches-
ter and the stricken muniton town bountl-
fully.
For the first time wounds and burns are
being treated on large scale In this coun-
try by European war method. ABOUT
$4,000, unsolicited, has been received by
Mayor Wesley S. Mcdowell, Of Chester,
and other agencies. The women and the
clergy of the vicinity responded bravely to
the emergency.
Large stocks Of bandages collected for
weeks by Red Cross workers for shipment
to the armies Of the Allies were turned over
in bulk for the relief Of the mutiated and
burned victims The supply, falling. was
replenshed with muslin furnished by store.
keepers and turned into bandages by vol
unteer workers on nearly a score OF sewing
machines rushed to the Sixth Regiment
Armory in motorcars.
Sufferngs of the victims in the hospitals
are being alleviated by new treatment for
burns developed on the French battle front
during the German burning oil attacks
American surgeons receive the credit for the
treatment, called the Carrel-Dakin method
In the Chester and Grocer Hospitals the
nurses are spraying the burned patients
with a mixture that is doing much to allay
| pain and heal the scared surfaces. The
compound consists Of rosin, beeswax.
paraffin wax and certain sedatives When
applied it forms an airproof covering for
| the burned surface, heals the burn and re-
duces suppuration to a minimum. Doctors
| Webster, Maddux and Van Buren, are super
| intending the application Of the new mix
| ture.
The spraying method was brought to this
| country by DR.. Mcneil Sherman and the
preparation was made and furnished by
| the Abbott laboratories, of Chicago.
Boy Scouts of Chester and vicinity have
| been among the most efficient of the relief
workers. Immediately after notice of the
| explosion was read In the public schools
more than 800 members Of the eight troops
| in the city mobilized at the Chester Young
Mems Christian Association Building. With
| in forty minutes they were at work.
During the first twenty-four hours after
| the disaster they delivered 500 kilograms.
asking information of persons at work in
the plant. They worked all night in the
armory helping dress wounds, making band.
ages and carrying cots
| The eight troops in charge Of John Norsk.
| boys secretary Of the Chester Young Mems
| Christian Association, were the Madison
| Street Methodist. Third Presbyterian Sec
| ond Presbyterian. First Baptist. Trinity
Methodist Trinity Lutheran Providence
Avenue Methodist and Young Mems Chris
| tian Association.