. The Red Cross in peace and war. shingles cut and split. Six thousand feet of planking and timber hewn and cut. Wharf built at Rockville of the following dimensions: One hundred and ten feet long. Ten feet wide with a bulkhead twenty by thirty school started and carried on for several months. EDISTO ISLAND. Two hundred and eleven and one-half miles of thousand four hundred and seventy feet of causeway, twelve by two feet, hundred feet of timber cut and bridge eighty feet long and twelve feet wide rebuilt. THE SKA ISLANDS HURRICANE. 251 KIAW Ml ISLAND. On
. The Red Cross in peace and war. shingles cut and split. Six thousand feet of planking and timber hewn and cut. Wharf built at Rockville of the following dimensions: One hundred and ten feet long. Ten feet wide with a bulkhead twenty by thirty school started and carried on for several months. EDISTO ISLAND. Two hundred and eleven and one-half miles of thousand four hundred and seventy feet of causeway, twelve by two feet, hundred feet of timber cut and bridge eighty feet long and twelve feet wide rebuilt. THE SKA ISLANDS HURRICANE. 251 KIAW Ml ISLAND. One bridge thirty-four feet lung and ten feet wide rebuilt and put in bridge fifty feet long and ten feet wide rebuilt and put in to do same cut and hewn out of the hundred feet of causeway repaired and put in above account does not include the hundreds of little thingswhich would come up from day to day, and the many cares that wereupon us at all times, requiring immediate THIC ISLAND DISTRICT FROM SAVANNAH TO BKAUFORT. 252 THE RKD CROSS. THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Whilst food for the nourishment of these thousands of humanbodies was of the first and highest importance, it was followed soclosely by the necessity of something to cover them, that the twoseemed well nigh inseparable; and while our men stood over the boxesof meats and the bags of grain, by the carload and the trainload, it wasno less imperative, that some one stand by the boxes and barrels ofclothing sent from, everywhere—sent by the great, warm, pitying heartsof our blessed, generous countrywomen, from the church, with itstowering steeple and the soft-toned bell that calls to prayer, the blazingbazaar, with its galaxies of beauty, animate and inanimate, the dimlylighted, one little room of the woman who has toiled out all day andreturns weary and heavy laden to the waiting family of little ones, who,in the midst of their own hard life and the need of much,
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