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largest of all -- was required for special messangers. In the confusion, which marked the days immediately following December 6th, many were employed as guides to direct persons to the various committee headquarters. When it is remembered that the telegraph service for a time was completely blocked, and also that the telephone service of the city was sadly crippled, the extent of the usefulness of these boys, both by day and by night, can be appreciated.

Later when the offices of the several committees were removed from the City Hall to more permanent quarters, the duties of the cadets became more regular and the work more systematized. Then detachments were stationed for services at the following places:-

The City Hall -- Executive Relief Committee Headquarters
The McCurdy Building -- Medical Relief
The Halifax Hotel -- Reconstruction
The Halifax Infirmary -- American Hospital Unit
The Keith Building -- American Red Cross
The Pilot Office -- Transportation Committee
The Army & Navy Club -- Registration and Information Bureau

And occasionally at the Old Green Lantern and the Masonic Hall clothing deposits the Cadets rendered assistance. Day after day this voluntary work on their part has been continued, and has been so highly appreciated by the Committee chiefs, that not a few have been placed on the staffs of the various departments at Relief work.

Ever ready to undertake the tasks assigned to them, they soon became invaluable to the Committees, and at once established a reputation for reliability and efficiency. It was not considered a hardship by some of these lads to report for duty on a cold December morning at 7 o'clock and to mount motor-trucks as pilots for the chauffers who were unacquainted with Halifax streets. One of the American doctors engaged in hospital work here, told me that he had never been in contact with a more willing, more efficient or more respectful class of boys; and said