New Britain herald., 1918-11-12
ELkS TO DEDICATE
SOLDIERS HOSPITAL
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100000 Raised for Recon-
struCtiOn Work Among Fighters

Boston Nov 12-The dedication of the
3. P. 0. Elks' Reconstruction hospital,
the first great hospital to be built in
tho United States for the reconstruction
soldiers and sailors, will he held
Saturday afternoon, at o'clock, on
Parker Hill.
This reconstruction hospital, which
Elks from the fund of 100000
. raised by The various lodges through
out the country, is now being occupied.
fer more than u dozen wounded SOL
dlers from the war fields of France
are now housed in one OF it's wards.
and scores more are expected within
the next few weeks.
The exercises attending the dedica,-
ton will be notable. Secretary of
War Baker has lseen invited. and. if
possible, viii accent the formal pres
entat1on of tn" o. oital from the
Grand Exalted Ru1cr OF the Ellks to
whom in the course Of the ceremonies
II will be turned over by the Hon.
John K. Tener, chairman of the Elks'
War Relief Commission. Should the
Secretary of War be unable to grace
the occasion with his presence, a pro-
nlinent official of the War Department
will represent him.
Governor Mccall and Mayor Peters
will be prominent among the guests.
Hundreds of Elks from every section
. of New England will attend.
country will attend the ceremony.
Grand Exalted Ruler, Bruce A. Camp
bell Of East st. Louis, Ill, has called
many OF the Grand Lodge Committees
to meet here at that time.
There will he meetings of the
Judiciary Committee, Credentials
Committee, Committee on State As
sociations, Big Brothers Committee
sand the Committee on the good of the
order.
The Elks' War Relief Commission
which had charge of financing the
achievement will also be present. This
includes the Hon. John K. Tener,
Charleroi, Pa. Joseph F. Tanning,
New York City; Jerome E. Fisher,
jamestown, N. Y; James r. Nichol-
son, Boston; Edward RICHTER, New
Orleans and Fred Harper, Lynchburg,
Va, former Grand Exalted Ruler.
The officers of the Elks, who will
be in charge of the dedicatory axer-
cises, are Grand Exalted Ruler, Bruce
A. Campbell, East ST. Louis, Ill:
Grand Esteemed Leading Knight,
Hon. Thomas L. Reilly, Meridian,
Conn; Grand Esteemed Royal Knight,
Oliver K. CoweIl, Sunbury, Pa; Grand
Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Edward
L. Chapman, Great Bend, Kan:
Grand Secretary, Fred c.. Robinson,
Dubuque, Iowa; Grand Treasurer
Charles A. White, Chicago, Ill; Grand
Tiler, Chester B. Horn, Colorado
Springs, Col; Grand Inner Guard, H.
w. Brown, Sante Monica, Cal; Grand
Chaplain, the Rev. DR.. John Dysart,
Dubuque, Iowa; Grand Esquire, Harry
Bacharach, Atlantic City, n. j., and
the members of the Board of Trustees,
J. Edward Masters, Charleroi, Pa:
George D. Locke, Tulsa, Okla; Patrick
r. Powers, Jersey City, N. T.; w. e.
brisbane, Albany, n, Y, and Charles
3. J. McCue, Cambridge, Mass.
The Elks' Reconstruction hospital,
in it's mission to rebuild manned and
crippled soldiers IS equipped with
every devise known to modern science.
The lessons learned from the solution
in the French hospitals of the great
scientific problems concerning manned
soldiers, will be applied here. The
hospital will be the finest of it's
character In America.
Major Frederick J. Cotton one of the
originators of the idea of a RECONSTRUCT
tlcn hospital in Boston and one of the
ebIest orth opedic surgeons in the coun-
TRY, is in charge of the hospital for
the government. A we'll trained and
especially efficient staff has been as
signed to the hospital.