New Britain herald., 1918-09-21

One hundred Belgian families will soon be occupying as many four-room cottages in a village which the AneTi- can Red Cross is building on q pie turesque hillside just outside Le Havre,
 according to reports just received from
 Havre. Every effort is being made
 to have the village. when complete,
 resemble a bit of Belgium transplant
 cd to France. The village will have
 paved streets, electric lights and up
 to-dat water main system. The popu-
 latiOn will be selected from the poor
 est of refugees No family with less
 than four children will be given a
 cottage.
 Each cottage will have a garden and
 will rent for six dollars a month. Ten
 ants who cannot pay will be taken
 care of by some charitable organiza-
 ton, but everyone who gets a cottage
 will be expected to work. The rent
 from the cottages. it has been figured,
 will pay the expense of running the
 town. There will be two Belgian
 schools, with Belgian teachers; a Bel
 gian priest, Belgian officials and one
 of the cooperative stores so popular
 in Belgium. The cottages are portable
 and after the war can be shipped to
 Belgium and set up in the native towns
 of the people who occupy them.
 Anzio (By MaiD Early in the first
 months of the war bangs of hunger
 and the misery of want were felt by
 the poor of this beautiful seaside town.
 At the .Anzic's feet lay the Mediter- ranean as blue and smiling as when Roman emperors sought cool breezes there, but in the town among the women and children of soldiers giving
 their lives at the front hunger and the fear of hunger had entered to add its portion to the suffering of war Of course the townspeople who were able did all the ycould to relieve the dis tress There was instituted 8 local com- 1 mittee of assistance for the benefit of war orphans. widows and wives. At it's head was Donna Olympia Pearsall 1 Origo, the Italian widow of an Ameri- 1 can, and her two American daughters ] The most deStitute-the very old, the ! sick, the babies all that they could, l the committee fed and cared for. 1 Money came even from far away
 friends in America who had spent l happy days in Anzio before the war l and now cheerfully sent their bit to 1 help her people in their hour of need. | But work as they might. there were
 many that went hungry. And the war 1 continued and funds ran low. The ] day came when, in spite of the tears l and protests of the people, the public ] kitchen that had been furnishing them 1 once a day with soup at 8, modest 1 price a portion was forced to close. Tt was that very day" said Mrs. 1 Pearsall (called in Italy by her maiden name of Origo) in speaking of the ] hard days now over, that the Ameri- l can Red Cross came to Anzio."
 The soup kitchen was immediately 1 reopened. The number of those it
 served was raised to include all who l could prove to be in need. Today ! there is an average of 1,7o0 soup ra- 1 tions served daily, and besides the l soup there is 8. daily distribution of l American condensed milk to the sick l and the babies.
 l At half past eleven the crowd begins 1 to gather in the narrow courtya rd ] without the kitchen building-a for
 mer tiny moving picture theater. \ 1 door is opened and seated at a table 1 are three or four American Red Cross
 workers Past this group the crowd l passes In single fle-women children and a sprinkling of old men-held back and in line by the cane of stout peasant woman who earns in this way l her own "minestra" or soup ration. l Each applicant carries a receptacle of l some kind covered with a cloth or ] apron, in which to carry away the l soup-tugs, jars, pots and kettles. but 1 all properly secured for they are sure l of inspection. Each presents l "buono," or ticket, which shows that 1 the holder is entitled to receive one, or two or three, as the case might be, 1 rations at the kitchen. Each ration l costs two "soldi' or about one cent 1 in American money as the exchange 1 is today. The "buono" is stamped with { the date and the amount given Is en- 1 tered in a book. Then with d brass | tag stamped with the number of ra- ] tions paid for, the applicant passes on | and down to the next door, which