The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-23
Boats Used To Get
 Milk To Sufferers
K. (. Fisher Explains Details Undertaken By Dealers
 to Help Babies and Invads in Flooded Areas

How milk distribution has been maintained by intrepid milkmen using airplanes, power boats, row boats and canoes to deliver milk to children, invalids and people ma rooned on roofs is dramatic high light of the floods, according to first hand reports from the stricken re- zion received by the Milk Industry Foundation.
 The Rieck- k-McJunkin Dairy com- pany, one of the leading milk dis tributors of Pittsburgh, gives details of the heroic fight to get milk to consumers in the flood areas as fol- lows:
 "The Rieck -McJunkin dairy has maintained 100 per cent delivery service retail and wholesale during the entire week of the flood in Pitts burgh. Deliveries were made by canoes, row boats, rafts, power boats and by baggage foot-trucks and any other available means. Milk was de- liveyed in canoes to the Roosevelt hotol, where they were breaking up the furniture for fuel to cook the meals.
 "At McKees Rocks and Neville Island near Corapolis, milk was de- livered by power boats, row boats ana skiffs, serving people on roofs and second stories. Milk was the only food received for three days by these people.
 "Rieck k-McJunkin made 100 per cent deliveries, wholesale and retail, throughout the entire flood area, also serving the national guard, police department, county jail, state peni- tentfary so all might have milk. All emergency requests for milk for babies hospitals, the Red Cross, etc., were filled. -..
 Plant Run Under Candles
 fIn order to maintain production stoker furnaces were hand fired and the entire plant run under candle, kerosene and carbide light. Exe:u- tivcs, employees, drivers, production men, bottle washers and all plant men have worked without sleep for five days. All products have been paSteurized and meet the require ments of state and city boards of health"
 In the New England area milk dis tributors battled against equally hazardous conditions to keep up the milk supply. A report from H. P. Hood & Sons, one orn the largest milk distributing firms in New Eng land says:
 Trucks mobilized in region sur- . rounding Conway, New Hampshire, moved toward Boston Friday night as Boston distributors were bending .120,000 quarts of milk for delivery in the city. An airplane started for Conway, New Hampshire, with .sterilized piping and electric power lines but was forced down in North Waterford, Maine, at nightfall. Du- plicate equipment battled through. A glass lined tank truck carrying more than 10000 quarts of milk got through by crossing Willimansett bridge in Connecticut with high ways covered by more than feet "Of water and arrived at the Hood plant in Boston last night. The Hood company announced today that more than ordinary supply of milk is available and that trucks carrying sterilized milk cans are heading into country plants in New Hampshire and Vermont by cir- cuitous routes.
 Famine Fear Dispelled 7 Fear that Chicopee and Holyoke would face milk famine today is dispelled by quick action of Spring. field Hood plants sending through i. fully supply to stranded cities. 9 Plants in Manchester, New Hamp- shire, were flooded but pasteurized !. milk is being trucked in from other cities; milk for Lawrence, Andover , Methuen, Lowell and surrounding communities which are without : power being supplied from Charles i. town, Mass
 Attempts to fly equipment to re- place damaged pumps and machin- . cry to Lisbon were unsuccessful due . to fog but all hospitals, children and invalids will be supplied through aid of the national guard. Before evacuation of Springfield jail yesterday milk was delivered to pris- oners by boat. Marooned families in Springfield, Lowell and Manchester were also supplied by boats"
 In the flooded areas in Connecti- cut milk deliveries have been under the most trying conditions of a gen. eration. A report from R. c. Fisher of D. F. Worden & Sons in Water bury says:
 "While many dealers in flood areas wsre unable to get their usuual sup- plies, milk distributors in towns un- affected by the floors are sending in milk. Distributors in cities are pas-