hands getting out and shoving for all they were worth,
and then scrambling aboard again when the car got on
the track. The New Yorker is certainly a complacent
and good natured soul, for he would sit down after such
an experience unruffled and calm, and talk with his
neighbor or peruse his paper in perfect tranquility and
seeming comfort.

However, these days are all in the past now and this
rumbling and rattling little car with its two faithful old
horses and the jingling bells, on the last leg of its journey
to oblivion, gradually disappears from view—not without
a little pang of regretfulness on our part at the passing
of an era which has many pleasant and picturesque
memories.
 

The Red Cross

The Red Cross fund of one hundred millions was sub¬
scribed in an incredibly short time, giving a very concrete
proof of the soundness of the American heart as well
as the American pocket. The people are solidly behind
the fighting force and regard the Red Cross almost as
much an adjunct of our armies as the Quartermasters'
department itself, and while it is not a government insti-
stitution it acts with the full sanction and the hearty
cooperation of the government.

The wounded soldier appeals to all that is humane
and kindly in our nature, and our sense of justice
acknowledges ungrudgingly that he has a claim upon us
for the best and most skillful treatment and care that
can be provided. And it is just in this particular that
the Red Cross deserves and obtains the support of the
people. Moreover it is doing it on a very large scale
and can only accomplish its full work if supported by
the people.

In raising the first great fund of one hundred millions
the practical and ingenious method of dividing the work¬
ers into teams, each with a captain well known in the
social or business world, proved to be very successful.
There were thirty teams in all for New York City and

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