The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-20
CORNER STONE, ELKS MEMORIAL
 HOSPITAL LAID Details of the Ceremony and Facts About Hospi- tai Donated by the
 Order of EIkS. .BE READY SEPTEMBER Dr. Frederick p. Cotton, Originator of the Idea,
 Will Be- in Charge
 of Place.
.BE READY SEPTEMBER

BOSTON, June 15.-The Corner stone of the Reconstruction Base Hospital No. 1, the first of it's kind in the United States and the gift to the Government by the Benevo- lent and Protectivt Order of Elks, was laid today in the presence of a distinguished assembly of citizens Representatives O. the Nation, State and city, with eminent men of the medical profession, and thousands of Elks and prominent citizens from all parts of the East, participated .n the ceremony on Parker Hill and signalzed by their presence and words the notable importance of the event
 This first reconstruction hospital, which will serve as the model, the standard-maker for similar ones to be established throughout the United States, will give the maimed and disabled American soldiers and sail ors the best of expert attention and occupational instruction. It will re build human wreekage into able bodied men and will educate them in occupations which will best qual fly them not to become burden to society. The aim of the hOspit al in brief may be said to be to minimize the sufferings and disabili ties caused by the war and to pro tect the community from an undue number of crippled citizens.
 The Government, through the Sur geon-Generars Departemnt in Novem Der last accepted the reconstruction hospital plans as gift from the Elks. The Elks' War Relief Com mission is building the reconstruc tion hospital at cost of $250000 the money being taken from the Elks' s1,OOO,OOO war relief fund. vot ed by the Elks' 1917 convention The hospital will be ready to re ceive the wounded American sol diers and sailors in the early Sep tember.
 The laying of the cornerstone was under the direction of Grand Lodge officers of the Elks. The Depart ments of the Secretary of War ant the Surgeon-General were formerl, represented. His Excellency, Sam uel w. Mccall, Governor of Massa chusetts, extended the greetings O 1 the Commonwealth, and the Hon Andrew J. Peters, Mayor of Boston represented the city.
 Fred Harper, Grand Exalted Rule of the Elks, delivered the principa address of the occasion, telling o the benevolent and patriotic purpos es that prompted the Elks to mak' the gift to their country and dwell ing on the blessings that seem cer tain to await the war-afflicted sol diery that court the benefits of thu institution The subordinate lodge of Elks in New England were rep resented by F.. Mark Sullivan, Ex alted Ruler of the Boston lodge 0 | Elks.
 The Elks' War Relief Commission
 
 achievement of this great war work attended the exercises and included the Hon. John K. Tener. P. c. E. R of Charleroi, Penn., chairman; Jos eph T. Tanning, P. G. E. R., of Nev York. secretary; the Hon. Jerom : B. Fisher, P. G. E. R., of James town, N. Y; James R. Nicholson, F G. E. R., of Boston, and Edwar' Fighter. P. G. E. R., of New Oi leans, La.
 Every device and resource know to the medical science will be a hand at the reconstruction hospita to rebuild every part of the humal frame. Men with half faces sho away by shrapnel will get new jaw bones from their ribs and new nose and cheeks from the cartridges ant tissues on other parts of their bod i ies.
 Thousands of men who would b' human wrecks without proper treat ment will be rebuilt at the nev reconstruction hospital and taugh trades that make them economic as sets instead of liabilities. The mel with fractures that have not rightl! knitted, with stiff joints, with nerv' palsies from shock or from injury these are the cases the recOnstruc ton hospital will help. They vii haya had tho roUulor hoso h0aUifa