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the Investigating Committee, visiting the people in their homes and rendering such relief and aid as they found necessary. Adjutant Hurd was appointed on the Food Committee under Mr. Hetherington, and took charge of distributing food at the Alexander McKay School in the North end. He was assisted by Mrs. Staff Captain Byers, Mrs. Caprain Pride and Captain Rix and by a dozen of the Soldiers of the City Corps. Here the Adjutant labored for four weeks supplying as high as three thousand five hundred people in one day. The New Commission was then formed and the food depots closed up, and in their place was substituted a order on their grocer, according to the number in family. Then a fuel depot was opened in the North end and Adjutant Hurd and Mr. John Gordon, of Evans and Co., were appointed to take charge, where they issued orders to the people who were in need of coal in the North end. Adjutant Hurd and Mr. Gordon have worked happily together under the direction of the Honorable Mr. Beazley and Mr. Mahon.
Visiting the Sick and Dying
All the hospitals were visited daily by staff of officers and soldiers. Among these who were frequent visitors daily were Mrs. Major Crichton. Mrs. Staff Captain Byers, Adjutant and Mrs. Hargrove, and Mrs. Adjutant Hurd, who was in Moncton at the time of the explosion and not getting any word from the Adjutant, expecting to find him among the missing, hastened to the City. Now that the work is well established under the new Commission, the Salvation Army officers have turned to their various posts of duty with the exception of Captain Webber, of London, who is remaining on to assist in the food relief.
Adjutant Hurd left the City on Wednesday morning at seven for St. John, N. B., where he takes up his work again.