Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-05-08
DAILY KENNEBEc JouRNA1-MAY


On August 9, 1915, at East Salamanca:
N. Y, the Annual First Aid Contest OF
the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittspurgn
Railroad was held the Judging S as nsudl asr;l
can Red Cross. The contest was very
close one and resulted in the award OF
Salamanca Shops. 1t is interesting to
note that other railroads. following the
excellent example of the Buffalo. Roch-
aWanna & western and others, are be-
ginning to give serious consideration to
First Aid instruction. Only few weeks
Kansas & Texas Railroad has decided
to inaugurate an annual first aid con-
test, beginning With. With the yea5 1;ns 1Sl7' tho
year. our Life Saving expert. Mr.: w. E.
iongfellow. has visited 81 different
towns and cities in, 16 states. carrying
saving methods. and organizing local
life saving corps. This. has entailed
travel of over $4,000 miles. While en-
POOLS of 81 Young Mems Christian As
sociations. cooperated with 81. different
Boy Scout organizations. and has given
departments in life saving and rescue
work. Sixty new life saving groups
have been formed BY Mr.. tongfesl11otw ,agfs low
saving corps. OF this number have
fulfilled all the requirements laid down
in our regulations and have been grant
ed charters by the First Aid Division.
Excellent cooperation has been had
with a number of Red Cross Chapters
in this work, particularly in the Cen
can Red Cross. Some of the more ac-
tive chapters assisting Mr.. Longfeilow
are those located at Chicago. Buffalo
Angeles. Pasadena. San Diego. and De-
troit. Furthermore the Chicago, Buff
falo. Detroit. San Francisco and Los An
or1y1 n
raise funds to purchase equipment for
the life saving stations. Of corps that
have been organized Within their. re-
spective jurisdictions. Each corps is to
have voice in chapter affairs through
representation on its First Aid Com
mittee.
drowning accidents has recently been
made in Chicago, where there are ~
swimming pools and Q bathing beaches
ing the past year, 455o42O bathers used
these pools and were supervised by 1873
paid life guards. At these, places only
points an average of 152 lives are lost
annually because the bathing places and
water fronts are unsupervlsed or un,
drowning accidents including 619 sui
cides in the United States. 1t is to meet
just such conditions; and to provide
the life saving corps are being organ
lied by the Red Cross.
Mr.. Longfellow has been able to as
sist a great many schools in cities that
he has visited by giving lectures and
demonstrations. and in many. instances
has aroused great interest and been able
advisability and value, of teaching pu-
pills how to swim and how to rescue
people from drowning In many OF the
Red Cross life saving methods have
been adopted and are now being taught.
1t is. very gratifying to know that
the tne'' 'estabiishnent of Of American Red
Cross local life saving corps, or by PEG
pie who have been instructed in life
saving methods under the 81 aas2ices &c. or OF
amples during the current year. At the
Boys Camp of the. Young Mems Chris
tian Association, OF san Francisco; @ tour
of New Orleans resuscitated five people
who had been overcome by gas. and
h0 had sS BY Of
Fire Department of New Orleans. in the
first month after instruction had heen
given by Mr.. Longfellow .Fo -Four lives lives
High Schools during the past summer,
and three are known to have been saved
by students at the. University of Chi
cago who received instruction from Mr..
Longfellow.
According to Secretary Daniels. there
is no fund in the United States Navy
Department to engage special in
structor for life saving. and it has been
the policy. of the First Aid Division
since our life saving service was start
ed to offer cooperation and assistance
to the Navy whenever it has been prac-
ticabe. During the past year: with the
sanction and hearty support of the COM
mandants and naval surgeons OF the
stations. lectures. and demonstrations
have been given by NJ Longfellow va, at
port, R. l., St. Helena, Norfolk: Va, at
the Great Lakes Training Station, Chi
cage at Yerba Busna ma Island bh1a l. nh,a' Sal
Key West Station, Naval ;Aeronautic
Station. Pensacola, Fla. and to mem
bers of the Y. S. Marine Corps at the
Barracks. Portsmouth, Va. In this way.
6,44S officers and men of the navy have
been reached. Letters. are on file from
naval officers acknowledging this ser
vice.
The strength Of the life saving :, corps sI, ,s
who have, passed the water tests and
year The total number of local life
saving corps that have been started
since the beginning of our Life Saving
process of formation. is 151. To. 3S Of
these groups that have complied with
all our regulations, charters have been
issued.
42O. Lumber-Our campaign among
the employees of lumber companies has
continued without any interruption and
has been considerably broadened since
the report made last year, as two men
were working in that field. from June to
the middle of November, instead or one.
Dr. Lipscomb completed his work in
the State of Washington with com
panes holding membership in the West
Coast Lumbermen's Association at the
end of June, and then commenced simi-
lar instruction among employees OF COM
panies forming the Western Pine Manu-
facturers' Association with headquarters
at Spokane. This latter work carried
him into four States-eastern Washins-
ton western Montana, northern Idaho
and eastern Oregon. During the year,
he has visited los towns. 12S different
companies and conducted 202 lectures
and demonstrations to 13,s07 lumber
men. Incidental to this work he has
been able to cooperate with Boy Scouts:
Young Mems Christian Associations. and
with members of the L. S. Forest Ser
vice. instruction to the latter was CIV
en- upon the special request OF DR..
Henry S. Graves, Chief OF the Forestry
Bureau. Department OF Agricuiture:
On June 10th. Dr. M ]. Shields was
detailed to begin instruction of lumber
men in the State of Oregon and re-
mained on that duty until November 4,
when he was relieved by DIR. Llpscomp
who had then finished his work with tpe
Western Pine Association.
While DR. Shields, was in TINS neld o.
activity in Oregon he visited o9 toWnS ;
and gave instruction to employees OF o.
different companies by delivering rs lee,
lures and demonstrations, with totai
attendance of 10,257. =.
1t is interesting to see now Worh ~, ~ II
the Northwest. has. progressed Inc
initial steps in the lumber industry, de,,
tailed in my last report. were lntenueu
to prove the value of First AID lnstIuc .
tion to the lumber operators so tna'
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