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HALIFAX, N. S.
Jan. 29th, 1918.

The Halifax Disaster Record Office,
P. O. Box 25,
City.

Gentlemen:-
Your circular to hand, addressed to me as Secretary of the Charitable Irish Society, might say I have nothing to report in reference to the Charitable Irish Society, as fortunately I do not know of a member who has been killed in the terrible Disaster.

In reference to your question for names, and addresses of those who helped to shelter people, might say, as Chairman of the House Committee, of the Knights of Columbus, at 10:30 of the morning of the Disaster, I tendered the Knights of Columbus building to the Deputy Mayor of the City, for any purpose that they saw fit to use it for. In the afternoon of the same day, the building began to be filled with wounded patients, nurses, and Doctors, also homeless families.

From the day of the Disaster up to the time of writing, there has been one Nurse who has been constantly on Duty, and the first few days of the Disaster, she cooked, washed, and dressed wounds, and everything that a human person could do, her name is Miss Parker, from Wolfville.

At the present time, the Knights of Columbus