The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-05
GIFT CARTONS
FOR OVERSEAS
have ARRIVED

The cartons for the gifts that are
to be sent overseas for the American
soldiers Christmas have arrived in
this city. They are at the Red Cross
headquarters at the Seaside Institute.
Atlantic and Lafayette streets. The
rooms there are open every day in
the week from in the morning to
S in the afternoon with the exception
of Saturday and on that day in the
morning from 9 to IL o'clock.
The appended instructions will be
most helpful to those who wish to
send gifts abroad:
Warning has been issued by lie At
lantic Division of the American Red
Cross to those entitled to send Christ
mas parcels to fighting men overseas,
that they must not follow mailing di-
rections printed on the official labels
which are now being received in this
! country.
| An order by the Postal Department
issued Oct. is the ruling which must
be observed. This ruling states that
all packages must be left at Red Cross
receiving stations where they will be
deposited in the mails for despatch to
! Hnboken, N. J.
The error in the directions on the
official label is the following state
ment appearing thereon:
This coupon is authority for any
postof1ce to accept on or before Nov.
| 20, 1918, a Christmas package con-
| forming to the above regulations for
the soldier named hereon."
Much confusion already has resulted
from the directions on the label, and
| to clarity the situation, the Red
! Cross has issued a statement contain
| ing the post office order which must
be followed if the parcels are to reach
| their destination. This order reads:
| after the cartons have BEEN filled
by the persons who receive them, they
shall be returned to Red Cross re-
ceiving station where inspectors APP
pointed by the Red Cross will care
| fully examine each parcel and super
wise it's wrapping and the affix!ng OF
the Christmas parcel label and the
necessary postage stamps, the iatter
| to DC furnished by the sender OF the
parcel When the parcels have thus
been packed and wrapped anc other-
wise prepared for TRANSMISSION, ire
| Red Cross will affiX to each certln-
| cate in the form Of a seal showing
| that the parcel has beer Inspected
and contains no prohibited or un-
ruailabIe matter"
"Such certificates will be accepted
by the Postal Service and Army au-
thorities as evidence that the par
Gel conforms to the conditions pre-
scribed and obviate the necessity OF
subsequent examination. The parcels
must be left at the Red Cross rece1V-
ing station, which will deposit them
in the mails for despatch
at is only by following this order
for mailing that the parcel will be
certain to reach the soldier for whom
it is intended" was the Red Cross
statement.
1.-THE packages must under no con-
| dition be placed in the mail boxes OF
in post offices. Every parcel which
is given transportation to France
must have upon it the Red Cross in
spection label and must have reached
| Hoboken by the method prescribed IN
this order.
1.-THE other directions on the labels
that have been received here conform
with those made by the Red Cross
and the War and Postal Department:
in this country. They should be OBJ
served.
when the empty cartons are Civ
en- out on presentation of the officia
label, a set of directions will also BIZ
given to each persons. These direc
lions are explicit and if followed tt
the letter will assure safe transporta-
! tion for the parcel