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Halifax, N.S. January 31st. 1918.

Mr. Ralph P. Bell,
Sec't'y. Relief Committee,
City Club, Halifax, N.S.

Dear Sir:-
I beg to submit the following report in connection with the work of the Transportation Committee, although up to this date we have not had an opportunity of completing statistics to be obtained from our records, as you can realize from the many calls made upon us daily our records are voluminous. We have our clerks completing these statistics during their spare time and at a later date will have some interesting data. However, the figures used in this report you can consider as approximately correct. At the outset I wish to thank the many volunteer workers who gave us such loyalty and unstinted assistance during the first week following the awful catastrophe. Particularly to Mrs. TW.F. Mahon, Miss McNutt, Mrs. Charles Major, Miss M. Mumford, Miss Dolly Jones, and Mrs. Ward, who kept a lunch room running day and night serving coffee and lunch to the Chauffeurs and Teamsters at the City Hall and later at the Pilot Office. To Mr. P.M. Roberts, Mr. H.N. Putnam, Mr. Wm. Glassey, Mr. Jos. Penny, Capt. F.J. DeWolfe, Mr. F. Adams, Mr. Frank Mahar, Mr. F.C. Pwer, Mr. V. Redmond, Ald. H.L. Hart, Mr. H.R. Morrow, Mr. W.P. Fagan, Mr. Geo. Malally, Mr. W.J. Kane, and others who assisted in connection with teams and autos. Also to Miss Scriven of the E.B. Eddy Co. staff, who so kindly did our stenographic work. To the Pilot Commission, C.E. Creighton & Son, John Strachan, T. Geddes Grant, and the E.B. Eddy Co. who so generously loaned their offices to us. Our records show that we handled on an average of 2500 requests for teams and motor trucks per day for the first two week following the explosion, and over 3000 requests per day for motor cars, necessitating the use of eight phones to handle the calls alone.