The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-23
K. OF C. GIVE
 ACCOUNT OF BIG WAR FUND Over Seven Million for Creature Comforts. OPERATED 125
 HUTS OVERSEAS Spent Less Than 3 Per Cent. of Funds For Admins
 tration.

In their report of the war rellet activities of the Knights of Columbus for the year ending June 30, 1919, the supreme boad of directors show how the K. of c. have disposed of the s17,OOO,0OO received by them up to that date from the United War Fund of s170, 1000, their quota of which was s25, ,Oo0,0 ,0O0. In this report the Knights also give an accounting for $1,776, ,4o9.0O of their pre-drive fund, the fund collected by the K. of c. independently of and previous to the united drive of November, 1918.
 The exact total received from the United War Drive Fund to June 30 of this year was $17,130,294.S7 in cluding salvage items and miscellane- ous refunds. The disbursements from this fund were, for activities in the United States, s5,46S, ,06O.79, and for activities overseas, ss, $50 0,0s2.62, a to- tai of $15, ,143.41, leaving an un- expended balance on June 30 of S2,- 112, 2,151.46. The monthly expendi- ture on war work approximates two million dollars, so that this balance has since been expended, and fresh acquisitions made on the fund, which has been totally collected by the United War Fund treasurers.
 The s5,46S,06O.79 expended for ac- tivities in the United States is appor- toned among the following sub-dlvis- Ions: Building program, including new construction and additions, rent als, operation and maintenance and equipment, $1,303, ,022.S5. The Knights had IFS buildings and II tents in the Eastern-Northeaste
 department, S9 buildings and tents in the southeastern department, 152
 buildings and tents in the central southern department and 42 build
 ings and 6 tents in the western de-
 partment; making a total of 461
 buildings and 32 tents. Eleven build
 ings were being constructed, at per
 manent army posts, on June 30.
 Personnel expense including saIar-
 les, travelling expenses, uniforms and
 other personal equipment, but exclud- ing hes dquarters staff, cost the Knights $1,046, 6,6S0.11 for a total per-
 sonnel of 11s4. Activities or service program, including athletics and
 sports, motion pictures and other en-
 tsrtainments, educational, social and
 employment service, cost SPAS, ,659.
 Motor transport service cost $17O,-
 244.01. On supplies for free dis tribution, including stationery, periodi- calls, tobacco, food and candy and mis- cellaneous supplies, such as soap, shaving materials, etc, the Knights spent s1,O63, ,56s.63. Freight and in surance cost the Knights S924I153
 and general administration, s138.- l O5S.1S; this item covered salaries and expenses of headquarters staff, pub
 hcity and rents and office supplies
 and incidental expense. Other dis bursements, including funds at of
 fees of department directors and camps and hospitals to meet the hourly needs of operations, amounted
 to $9OS,616.4s.
 For their overseas work inc
 Knights, in the year ending June 30. spent $s,55O, ,oS2.62. Of this amount $5o,2s4.41 was spent on building and equipment; s623,70O.O1 on personnel expense; $43s,43S.19 on athletics, so- cial and moving picture entertain 1 ments. etc.; s110,032.S3 for motor transport service; $4,562.06 for SUD- plies for free distribution; $166- 903.31 for freight and insurance; S89,- 255.51 for general administration and S3,5oS, ,44S.30 for disbursements to overseas commissioners for expendi-
 ture overseas on operations.
 Ocerseas the Knights maintained | 125 huts and clubs of substantial size while other more or less ephemeral | clubs were equipped and maintained | to bring the total number of K-C points of contact with the troops to
 25o. Of these clubs 32 were in Ger | many, in Italy and in the Brit | ish Isles, with 1 recently opened in | Antwerp. In Siberia the K. of C. I have a secretary and more are en | route. The Knights have also re- I PanfIV ATaned PInhG Y1 Pa To
 waii, Alaska and clubs have been | operated in Cuba and Porto Rico and | large quantities of goods shipped to l Haiti. All this latter work is now | included in the domestic depart | ments.
 The Knights sent 1,o75 workers | overseas out of a total number of 7,- | 414 applicants. New York state led | with 292; Massachusetts supplied 11e: Illinois s3; Pennsylvania 61; | Connecticut 4e; Indiana 3s. Every | state in the union was represented in
 the overseas ranks of the K. of c. The total amount expended by the | Knights on free ceature comforts dur | ing the year was within a few dol
 lars of S7,0oo. 900, an amount great ! CT than that spent for a similar pur- pose by all the other organizations | war I Fund combined. This includes the | comforts diStributed on transports by
 the 1os k. of c. secretaries engaged | in transport work, This sum repre- sents goods purchased in this coun- | try. Overseas thu Knights purchased Pvast quantities of supplies for free dis 1 tribution. Items included in the list
 are Oo.ooo.oeo beef cubes; SIS. s.o0o,-
 900 cigarettes; s,T5o,o0o pipes; 54s,-
 s51 pounds of pipe tobacco; 5000, 900 | pounds of candy,
 For collection, care and general ad- | FfIiHistration of their funds the
 Knights spent sI6s,61e.7o-2.6s per
 cent of entiss disbursements, a sum
 exceeded by the total discounts ac-
 oruing fom prompt payment of mer- | chandise bills. The money expended
 during the year by the Knights from
 their pre-drive fund. distinct from the
 United fund, was distributed through | the different avenues of expenditure N1 a