"Children of the Frontier 
 
 Comite Franco-Americain pour la protection des 
 Enfants de la Frontiere 
 
 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 January 1, 1918 
 
 rie and Simone Truchon, and father. Before the war the father was 
 a mason. He has been at the front since war broke out. The mother, left 
 with four children, found it difficult to give them sufficient nourishment. 
 She had lost a little boy of tubercular meningitis in 190S. In March, 1916, 
 a second boy, Rene, died of the same malady, and in February, 1917, the 
 mother succumbed to the same disease. A month later the four-year-old 
 daughter, Simone,_ died of bronchial pneumonia following measles. Marie 
 has been placed in the Sanatorium _ of Ormesson, at the expense of the 
 Committee, and a boy, Alphonse, is in our colony at Gourin. 
 
 American Office and Work Rooms 
 18 West 57th St., New York City 
 
 French Headquarters 
 77 rue d'Amsterdam, Paris, France 
 

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 CHILDREN OF THE FRONTIER" 
 
 Comite Franco-Americain pour la Protection des 
 Enfants de la Frontiere 
 
 18 WEST 57tli STREET, NEW YORK CITY 
 Tel. Circle 739 
 
 Officers and Executive Com- 
 mittee in Paris 
 
 77 Rue d' Amsterdam 
 
 Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, 
 
 Honorary President 
 Mr. August F. Jaccaci, 
 
 President 
 Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 
 
 Vice-President 
 Mr. Arthur Hugh Frazier, 
 
 Treasurer 
 CoMTESSE Pierre de Viel-Castel 
 Mrs. William H. Hill 
 Miss Emily R. Cross 
 Mr. Carl F. Taylor 
 
 Officers and Executive Com- 
 mittee in New York 
 
 Mr. Frederick R. Coudert, 
 
 Treasurer 
 Miss V. D. H. Furman, 
 Assistant Treasurer, 
 
 c/o Columbia Trust Co., 
 358 Fifth Avenue, 
 New York 
 Miss Martha L. Draper, 
 Chairman of Adoptions 
 Committee 
 Mrs. W. K. B. Emerson, 
 Secretary of Adoptions 
 Committee 
 Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, 
 
 Field Secretary 
 Mrs. Charles P. Howland, 
 Secretary of Executive 
 
 Committee 
 Chairman of Supply 
 Committee 
 Mr. Paul D. Cravath 
 Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler 
 Mr. Charles P. Howland 
 Mr. W. F. M. Cutcheon 
 Miss Rosina S. Hoyt 
 
 Miss Helen C. Wilson, 
 Executive Secretary 
 
 This sister, 72 years old, with two of her young 
 helpers, is arranging her traditional bouquet for 
 guests. Thanks to her work and care in the gar- 
 den the colony has not suffered from lack of fresh 
 vegetables. 
 
 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 January 1, 1918 
 
The work of 
 this Committee 
 was inaugurated 
 in 1914 as an 
 emergency rehef 
 measure to care 
 for a small num- 
 ber of the desti- 
 tute refugees 
 from the invad- 
 ed districts of 
 France and Bel- 
 gium. Steadily 
 it has broadened 
 in scope, and be- 
 come more per- 
 manent in char- 
 acter, and the 
 prolongation of 
 the war, with the 
 
 Le Long family at Liaucourt-Fosse, near Roge, in the • ' + q'K1 in' 
 
 Somme. They were living in the ruins of their stable ineVlXaDlC lU" 
 without sufficient food, clothing or heat. There was no 
 
 hope of schooling this winter, so we took the three boys CrCaSC Of miSCrV 
 and neighbors are going to help care for the mother, the "^ ' 
 
 little girl and baby who are left. The father and older rnnlrPQ it TYinTP 
 
 brother are prisoners in Germany and they have had no lllclivca It IIIUI C 
 
 news of them since they were taken. . . ■. 
 
 imperative than 
 ever that we should bear our share of the burden. 
 
 The following statement of the work accomplished 
 during the last j^ear will be of interest to those who 
 have so generousty supported this undertaking. 
 
 TffANSFCmED FMI 
 
 PERIOD !CA!. rifW'<*»p<ii) 
 it/« 22 Vffi 
 
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The father of these boys suffers from deafness and the shock undergone when an 
 obus exploded beside him. Tlie mother falling ill, was taken to a hospital for a serious 
 operation. Faced with the situation of being obliged to return to the front and with 
 leaving the two boys and a seven-year-old daughter absolutely alone, the poor man 
 turned to a Sister of Charity of the neighborhood, who directed the children to the 
 Franco-American Committee, which has taken the children under its care. The mother 
 hopes to take her children back should she recover and regain her strength. 
 
 The Work in France 
 We have been fortunate in having several members 
 on our Executive Committee in Paris, long resident in 
 France, through whom it has been possible to keep in 
 exceptionally close and sympathetic touch with the 
 French people and government. It is because the work 
 has the confidence of the French that we have been able 
 to obtain the devoted services of the Sisters and Fathers 
 to care for the children, and the active assistance of 
 many individuals who give time and service, buildings 
 and furnishings. 
 
 Relationship with Red Cross 
 
 A close and harmonious relationship has been estab- 
 lished with the Red Cross in France. Mr. Carl Taylor, 
 of our Committee, is also a Red Cross official, and Mrs. 
 William H. EKll is in charge of one department of the 
 new Children's Bureau which the Red Cross has just 
 estabhshed under the able direction of Dr. Lucas, a 
 child specialist, loaned by the University of California. 
 
 [page five] 
 
There are thus two hason officers for these organizations, 
 and already much benefit has resulted from this co- 
 ordination of the work for the thousands of destitute 
 children in France. 
 
 Mr. Auguste F. Jaccaci, the President of the Comite, 
 is Advisor of the Children's Bureau of the Red Cross 
 and has given valuable assistance to Dr. Lucas in the 
 latter's Red Cross work. 
 
 The Comite extends most heartfelt thanks to the 
 officials of the Red Cross, both in France and America, 
 for their assistance in shipping supplies, and for a 
 donation of $5,000.00 for office expenses in France for 
 1918, and for having assigned to our service one of its 
 physicians. Dr. Frederic Hart Wilson, to care for the 
 children in our colonies, and for many other kindnesses. 
 
 Carpenters' Class at Cabourg. 
 
 Education 
 
 A special effort is being made to educate the children 
 adequately. In some of the colonies it is possible for 
 the children to attend the schools in the neighboring 
 towns; but in others, owing either to lack of schools 
 or to the health of the children, it has been found neces- 
 
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sary to supply kindergartens and special teachers. 
 Often the repatriated children have been entirely with- 
 out schooling for three years, and special training is 
 necessary to help- them take their places in the indus- 
 trial world. 
 
 The Comite gives the children a regular education up 
 to the age of thirteen, and after that the girls are trained 
 in domestic science, sewing, lace-making, etc., and the 
 in domestic science, sewing, lace-making, etc., and 
 the boys apprenticed. They are taught carpentry, 
 
 printing, cobbling, agri- 
 culture, and other trades. 
 Sixty-seven boj'-s are now 
 apprenticed, their earn- 
 ings being paid over to 
 the Comite as legal guar- 
 dian, and used for the 
 benefit of each boy. 
 
 Medical Treatment 
 
 Sincere thanks and ap- 
 preciation are due Dr. 
 Charles Fleck, an Ameri- 
 can physician who, for 
 four months, gave untir- 
 ing and devoted care to 
 the children. 
 
 Dr. Fleck reports that 
 he found the general 
 health of the children re- 
 markably good, but that 
 about 80 per cent, of 
 them suffer to some de- 
 gree from structural 
 irregularities affecting 
 respiration, digestion and 
 
 RAYMOND FOURNIER 
 This little boy has been motherless since 
 1906. His father has disappeared. The 
 aunt, who had cared for Raymond and his 
 two brothers, finding herself in a distressing 
 situation financially, has asked the Franco- 
 American Committee for the Protection of 
 the Children of the Frontier to take care 
 of Raymond, who came to the Committee 
 in an emaciated and jenemic condition. 
 
 circulation. This 
 
 high 
 
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percentage is, of course, due to the wretched conditions 
 in which they have been hving. In many cases correc- 
 tive exercises, training in hygiene, and much out-door 
 living will be sufficient to remedy these defects ; others, 
 more serious, will require extended treatment. 
 
 Dr. Fleck's work has resulted in evident improve- 
 ment in the condition of the children, and he is planning 
 to return next summer to establish a summer camp 
 colony for about two hundred of the children who are 
 most in need of such special oversight and treatment. 
 
 Dr. Brodeur at Work. 
 Dr._ Brodeur is a graduate of the Harvard Dental School and his services have 
 been given us for a year. 
 
 Dentist. 
 
 An American dentist, Dr. A. P. Brodeur, has been 
 busy for many months getting the children's neglected 
 teeth into hygienic condition. 
 
 Volunteei^s 
 
 It is with the greatest appreciation and gratitude that 
 we give the list of our volunteer workers in France. 
 Their contribution of unselfish and efficient service is 
 invaluable, and we only wish it were possible to give 
 a detailed report of what each has accomplished. The 
 
 [page eight] 
 
Executive Committee never could have accomplished 
 such an amazing amount of work had it not been for 
 the untiring help of these volunteers. 
 
 Miss Lucina Bateson 
 Miss Marjory Cheney 
 Miss Emily R. Cross 
 Mrs, Wm. Olmsted, Jr. 
 Mrs. C. T. Owens 
 
 Miss Helen L. Russell 
 Mrs. Frances Shaw 
 Mrs. Richard P. Strong 
 Miss Erica Thorpe 
 
 Number of Children in care of the Comite 
 
 The comite had under its care, on December 1, 1917, 
 
 1,365 children, distributed among seven Paris depots, 
 
 and twenty-sev- 
 en colonies lo- 
 cated in differ- 
 ent parts of 
 France. The av- 
 erage per capita 
 cost for their 
 maintenance is 
 Frs. 1.15. 
 
 Sources from 
 which the 
 Children Come 
 
 The children 
 are collected 
 from Belgium 
 and Alsace-Lor- 
 raine, and from 
 many parts of 
 invaded France: 
 the Aisne and 
 
 Children of a retaken village of the Somme at school XVlieimS rCglOUS, 
 
 in a cellar. All of these children had been under the , AT r. ,. v^ ^ 
 
 domination of the Germans, and a close study of the faces t H 6 i'l a 1 II C, 
 
 will show that their spirit has been quite crushed. The 
 
 visitors found them unresponsive and silent when one J^ommC, JVleUr- 
 
 would have looked for life and spontaneity. 
 
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the et Moselle, Lille (Nord), Pas de Calais, Charle- 
 ville, and many repatriated from the "stolen country" 
 through Evian. In many cases they arrive barefoot 
 and with only a gingham apron to protect them from 
 the cold. They are all frightened and homeless, many 
 of them ill from shock and exposure. One little boy 
 of three was so shattered that he did not speak for 
 three months after his arrival; but in most cases a few 
 weeks restores the confidence of the child. 
 
 Boys Playing by the Sea at Cabourg. 
 
 New Colonies 
 
 Two hundred and sixty new children have been 
 brought in during the last three months, and new 
 colonies to house them are being opened as rapidly as 
 buildings can be secured and made ready. 
 
 A mountain farm colony in the south of France is 
 being opened, with the assistance of Mile, de Rose, 
 where special training in all kinds of agriculture is to 
 be given. It is hoped that this colony will be self-sup- 
 porting at the end of three years. There will be a sani- 
 torium for delicate boys connected with it. 
 
 [page ten] 
 
ing number 
 
 The generosity of Mrs. J. Low Harriman has made 
 possible the estabhshment of a sanitorium at Berck for 
 tubercular cases, of which there is a large and increas- 
 About a third of these are in plaster. 
 
 There is also 
 a new colony 
 with a capacity 
 to care for fifty 
 little children 
 from one to 
 three years old. 
 
 Prevention of 
 Tuberculosis 
 
 Most of the 
 children come 
 from the invad- 
 ed districts, but 
 occasionally chil- 
 dren from Paris 
 are taken when 
 they are found 
 in the care of 
 tuberculous par- 
 ents or guard- 
 ians. 
 
 TJaby born of a French mother now dead and a German 
 father, in a retaken village of the Somme. 
 
 Colonies and Depots 
 
 Following is a list of the colonies and depots where 
 the 1,365 children under the care of the Comite were 
 housed on December 1st, 1917: 
 
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Picture of Children Injured in Bombardments at La Jonchere. 
 
 Colonies 
 
 Name 
 
 1 Berck 
 
 (Pas-de-Calais) 
 
 2 Blois 
 
 Under the special charge 
 or protection of 
 
 Mrs. J. Low Harriman 
 Mrs. Wm. H. Hill 
 
 No. of 
 children 
 Capa- Dec. 1 
 city 1917 
 
 Description 
 
 Sanatorium for 30 14 
 
 tubercular children 
 (bone & glands) new 
 
 Colony for girls 40 40 
 
 Soeurs de la Provi- 
 dence 
 
 3 Brandon 
 
 4 Cabourg 
 (Calvados) 
 
 5 Caen 
 (Calvados) 
 
 6 Chasseneuil 
 
 7 Chateaubourg 
 
 [page twelve] 
 
 Colony for girls 33 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 de Cluny 
 
 Chicago Colony managed Colony for boys 
 by Mrs. Richard P. Strong Soeurs de St. 
 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Colony for girls 
 Soeurs de Bon 
 Sauveur 
 
 70 
 
 10 
 
 Colony for girls 46 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Colony for girls 23 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 de Cluny 
 
 31 
 
 67 
 
 45 
 
 23 
 
Name 
 
 8 Les Clarisses 
 (Versailles) 
 
 9 Cluny 
 
 10 La Cour 
 
 11 Elancourt 
 
 12 Goiirin 
 
 13 Grandbourg 
 
 14 Issy-les-Moulineux 
 (Seine) 
 
 15 La Jonchere 
 
 16 Maisons Alforts 
 
 17 Boulogne 
 ("Maison Francoise' 
 
 18 Morangis 
 
 19 Nemours 
 
 Under the special charge 
 or protection of 
 
 Comtesse Pierre de Viel- 
 Castel and Mrs. Walter 
 Gaj^ & Comtesse Charles 
 d'Ursel 
 
 No. of 
 children 
 Capa- Dec. 1 
 Description city 1917 
 
 Colony for girls 20 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph, 
 Ypres 
 
 Colony for boys 60 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 de Cluny 
 
 Colony for boys 90 
 Soeurs de St. 
 ^'incent de Paul 
 
 Colony for boys 
 Soeurs de St. 
 "S'incent de Paul 
 
 24 
 
 Colony for boys 52 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 de Clunv 
 
 20 Neuilly 
 
 21 Les Ombrages 
 (Versailles) 
 
 22 Oulins 
 
 Miss Emily R. Cross 
 
 Miss Emily R. Cross 
 Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss 
 Mrs. Oliver Roosevelt 
 
 Mrs. G. Stanley 
 Miss Helen L. Russell 
 
 Mrs. Francis Shaw 
 
 Mrs. Beverly MacMonagle 
 
 Colony for girls 
 Soeurs de Notre 
 Dame de Sion 
 
 Colony for boys 
 (new) 
 
 Sanatorium 
 Boys and girls 
 
 100 
 
 150 
 
 47 
 
 Colony for boys 30 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 de Cluny 
 
 Colony for little 
 boys and girls 
 
 Colony for boys 
 Soeurs de Notre 
 Dame des Anges 
 
 Colony for girls 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 47 
 
 66 
 
 80 
 
 Colony for boys 29 
 and girls. Soeurs de 
 St. Vincent de Paul 
 
 Comtesse Pierre de Viel- 
 Castel and Mrs. Walter 
 Gay 
 
 Mrs. Wm. H. Hill 
 
 Colony for girls 69 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 d' Ypres 
 
 Colony for boys 44 
 and girls. Soeurs de 
 St. Joseph d'Ypres 
 
 20 
 
 59 
 
 24 
 
 49 
 
 99 
 
 30 
 
 45 
 
 28 
 
 46 
 
 66 
 
 78 
 
 29 
 
 66 
 
 45 
 
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 No. of 
 
 
 
 
 
 children 
 
 Name 
 
 Under the special charge 
 or protection of 
 
 Description 
 
 Capa- 
 city 
 
 Dec. 1 
 1917 
 
 23 Perreux 
 
 
 Colony for girls 
 Open April- 
 November only 
 
 60 
 
 
 24 Presles 
 
 Miss Marjorie Cheney 
 
 Colony for boys 62 
 Soeurs de St. Theresa 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 de Jesus 
 
 
 
 25 Rennes 
 
 Mme and Mille Guillemot 
 
 Colony for girls 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 26 Rosay 
 
 Mrs. Wm. H. Hill 
 
 Colony for boys 28 
 Soeurs de St. Joseph 
 d'Ypres 
 
 21 
 
 27 St. Laurent 
 
 Colony for girls 25 
 (new) not yet open 
 
 Paris Depots 
 
 1 Bobillot 
 
 2 Gentilly 
 
 3 Meuniers 
 
 4 Reuilly 
 
 5 Sevres 
 
 6 Stephenson 
 
 7 Tombe Issoire 
 
 Depot for girls 40 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Depot for girls 20 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Depot for girls 34 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Depot for boys 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Depot for boys 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 Depot for girls 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 15 
 
 Depot for boys 30 
 Soeurs de St. 
 Vincent de Paul 
 
 21 
 
 25 
 
 36 
 
 19 
 
 29 
 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 21 
 
 16 
 
 There were also children specially cared for, as follows: 
 
 Placed temporarily in private sanatoria 19 
 
 Placed temporarily in hospitals 6 
 
 Apprenticed 4^3 
 
 Placed out 33 
 
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Marraine System 
 
 The adoption or "marraine" system of providing for 
 the support of our children has developed until 688 
 children have American "godparents." These "god- 
 parents" contribute $72 a year for the support of each 
 child, and many also give $25 additional to supply the 
 clothing. 
 
 In order to extend this helpful and intimate relation- 
 ship, all the work of this department has been trans- 
 ferred to the New York office, and placed under the 
 
 IJSr THE POTATO FIELD 
 Here with the help of one of the farmers of the country-side, who loaned his 
 horses, his plow and his harrow, were planted 350 kilos of potatoes. The children 
 have done most of the work of hoeing and putting in hills. If the season is good 
 there should be a crop of three tons of potatoes. 
 
 direct charge of Mrs. W. K. B. Emerson, 18 West 
 57th Street, New York., to whom all correspondence 
 from marraines, and applications for children, should 
 be addressed, and who will gladly furnish detailed 
 information. 
 
 The Paris Committee is anxious to start a Christmas 
 Fund for the children, to insure each child having some 
 gift. We will be grateful, therefor, to receive any 
 contributions in money ( not articles ) toward this fund, 
 
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and will forward it direct to Paris, thus assuring an 
 equal happiness to every child. 
 
 Work in the United States 
 
 On this side of the water the work has grown to 
 correspond with the increased demands from the French 
 headquarters. The organization has gradually become 
 more widely known until there are now groups and 
 individuals all over the United States who are contrib- 
 uting toward the work. 
 
 Much of this growth is due to the tireless energy of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, who, during the 
 year, visited forty-eight towns and cities, organizing and 
 speaking on behalf of the children. This year they are 
 continuing the work, their recent visit to France making 
 it possible for them to give a first-hand report of 
 present conditions. 
 
 Supply Committee 
 
 Clothing, food and supplies of all kinds have been 
 shipped in large quantities from the United States, and 
 it is hoped that this year we may be able greatly to 
 extend this service. 
 
 Work in Schools 
 
 A great accession ta our strength has come in the 
 form of the organized help of the domestic science 
 departments of many schools, both public and private. 
 This contribution of the children of America to the 
 children of France promises to be of great value. 
 
 Number of Articles Shipped 
 
 The total number of articles of clothing shipped to 
 France during 1917, from all groups and individuals 
 combined, is 85,000. 
 
 [page sixteen] 
 
Contributions of Sewing or Donated Garments 
 
 The Comite is deeply grateful to all those groups 
 
 and individuals who have made it possible to clothe 
 
 these children warmly and comfortably. 
 
 A list follows of the towns and cities from which 
 
 these garments have come. Only lack of space prevents 
 
 more detailed acknowledgment. 
 
 A corner of the Vestiaire of the Franco-American Committee for the Protection 
 of the Children of the Frontier after the arrival of cases from America. 
 
 [page seventeen] 
 
Towns and Cities Contributing Sewing and Clothing 
 
 Akkon, Ohio 
 
 Several affiliated groups, sending 7 bags and 5 boxes of clothing, 
 Miss Irene Seiberling. 
 
 Ank Arbor, Michigan 
 
 Ivarge center of many affiliated groups, under dierction of Mrs. Louis 
 P. Hall, sending large quantities of supplies regularly. 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Newly organized group, Mrs. J. Fennimore Cooper, chairman. 
 
 Athens, Vt. 
 
 Sewing group, Mrs. Ned W. Wyman, chairman 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J. 
 Knitting. 
 
 Auburn, Ind. 
 
 Donations of many thousand articles, through Mrs. Anise C. Leas. 
 
 Burlington, Vt. 
 
 Sewing and donations from several individuals. 
 
 BOONEVILLE, N. Y. 
 
 Garments made. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Garments made. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Sewing and donations by groups, individuals and schools. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Donations of clothing and sewing from several individuals. Miss 
 Emily Mettey. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 New England Clothing Committee for the Children of the Frontier, 
 39 Garden Street, Cambridge, Mass., Miss Constance Hall, chairman. 
 Shipping center for New England, including many groups and indi- 
 viduals. 
 
 Canandaigua, N. Y. 
 
 Canandaigua Academy and individuals, sewing. Miss A. P. Granger. 
 
 Casanova, Va. 
 
 Sewing group, Mrs. Annie C. S. Nourse, chairman. 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Donations from individuals. 
 
 Clarkton, Va. 
 
 Garments made. 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 Sub-committee and shipping center for Illinois. Mrs. Russell Tyson, 
 chairman; Chicago and neighboring groups. 
 
 Celina, Ohio. 
 
 Clothing made. 
 
 Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Several groups, sending large contributions, Mrs. John V. Bonney, 
 
 chairman. 
 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 
 
 Garments made. 
 
 Devon, Pa. 
 
 "Little White Cottage" Donation. 
 
 Geneva, Ohio. 
 
 Sewing, Trumbull School. 
 
 [page eighteen] 
 
Greenwich^ Conn. 
 
 Clothing made. 
 
 Greenwich, N. Y. 
 Donations. 
 
 Hamilton, Mass. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Howell, Mich. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Jackson, Michigan 
 
 Sewing and contributions from several individuals and groups. 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Donation of clothing. 
 
 Labchmont, N. Y. 
 
 Sewing, public school. 
 
 Madison, Ohio. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Meadvtlle, Pa. 
 
 Belgian Relief Society, and individuals; regular shipments of sewing 
 and many donations, Mrs. P. H. Richard. 
 
 McKenney, Va. 
 
 Clothing made. 
 
 Menlo Park, Cal. 
 
 Donations of clothing and supplies. 
 
 Miami, Fla. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Mineola, N. Y. 
 
 Nassau County Association, regular consignments of sewing. 
 
 MONTCLAIR, N. J. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Mt. Holly, N. Y. 
 
 Making garments. 
 
 Mt. Pocano (Swiftwater), N. Y. 
 
 Sewing and donations, Miss Esther Fisher. 
 
 MuNCiE, Ind. 
 
 Four large boxes of clothing contributed by the school children. 
 
 New Bedford, 
 
 Making garments, Mrs. Horatio Hathaway. 
 
 Newport, R. I. 
 
 Donation of clothing. 
 
 New York City 
 
 Sewing and donations from: 
 
 All Souls Unitarian Church through Mrs. Geo. R. Bishop. 
 
 Grace Mission through Mrs. Paul Dana. 
 
 Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church through Miss K. A. Frost. 
 
 Ethical Culture School. 
 
 St. James Church through Deaconess Van Brochdorff. 
 
 St. Thomas Church through Mrs. R. V. Elliott and Mrs. C. S. Kerby. 
 
 National Special Aid Society through Mrs. Chas. Ditson. 
 
 Trinity Mission. 
 
 Woman's Work Shop, through Mrs. Wm. C. Osborn. 
 
 Many individuals. 
 
 [page nineteen] 
 
New YorKj Westchester Coukty. 
 
 Red Cross Chapters, sewing and donations. 
 
 Armonk Harmon-on-Hudson 
 
 White Plains Pelham 
 
 Ardsley Hartsdale 
 
 Bedford Hills Katonah 
 
 Bronxville Briarcliff 
 
 Peekskill Dobbs Ferry 
 
 Hastings-on-Hudson Ossining 
 
 Port Chester Mt. Kisco 
 
 Yonkers Pleasantville 
 
 Rye Yorktown Heights 
 
 Mamaroneck New Rochelle 
 
 OatJifaTJiT, Me. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Orange, N. J. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 PassaiCj N. J. 
 Knitting. 
 
 Peace Dale, R. I. 
 
 Sewing and donations, Mrs. O. C. Goodwin. 
 
 Perth Aiuboy, N. J. 
 
 Making Garments. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Donation. 
 
 POJMOXA, N. Y. 
 
 Sewing and donations, Mrs. C. B. Boorum. 
 
 Providence^ R. I. 
 
 Several groups, individuals and schools; much sewing and many 
 donations. 
 
 Redlastds, Cal. 
 
 Making garments. 
 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 Donations, Mrs. Stuart Bryan. 
 
 RiDGEFIELD, CONN. 
 
 Sewing and donations. 
 
 RocKFORD, III. 
 Donation, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Large center, comprising several groups, and shipping many boxes of 
 clothing and supplies, Mrs. Gouverneur Calhoun. 
 
 Stockbridge, Mass. 
 
 Donation of clothing. 
 
 Syosset, L. I. 
 
 Sewing and donations. 
 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 
 Donation. 
 
 Windsor, Vt. 
 
 Donation. 
 
 Walpole, N. H. 
 
 Sewing and donations, Mrs. F. Spaulding. 
 
 Warren, Pa. 
 
 Sewing and donations. 
 
 [page twenty] 
 
WashingtoNj D. C. 
 
 Several groups, sending many boxes of clothing. 
 
 Westbrook, Me. 
 
 Making garments, Mrs. E. S. Cobb. 
 
 Weston, Mass. 
 Donation. 
 
 WlLMIJSTGTON, DeL. 
 
 Donations and sewing, Mrs. Joseph Bancroft, 
 
 WOONSOCKET, R. I. 
 
 Making Garments, Miss Edith Edwards. 
 
 Ypsilanti, Mich. 
 
 Making garments. 
 
 Two experts in the lace-class at Versailles, Les Ombrages, colony 
 of the Comite Franco-Americain pour la Protection des Enfants de 
 la Frontiere, under the special protection of Countess Pierre de 
 Viel-Castel and Mrs. Walter Gay. 
 
 [page twenty-one] 
 
Requirements for 1918 
 
 Those who are helping us in the work of clothing the 
 children under the care of the Comite will be interested 
 to know what the requirements are for 1918. In round 
 numbers the Paris Committee has asked for the follow- 
 ing garments: 
 
 4000 black sateen aprons 
 12000 gingham aprons 
 15000 pairs of stockings 
 
 800 pairs of socks for older boys 
 
 3000 handkerchiefs 
 600 hair brushes 
 600 combs 
 
 5000 cakes Ivory soap 
 
 8000 wash cloths 
 
 3000 pairs khaki trousers 
 
 3000 gingham blouses 
 
 3000 flannel blouses 
 
 6000 negligee shirts 
 
 6000 nightshirts 
 
 6000 nightgowns 
 
 1500 cotton dresses 
 
 9000 chemises 
 
 4000 underwaists and corset covers 
 
 5000 pairs of drawers 
 
 4000 petticoats 
 
 1500 caps 
 
 1000 sweaters 
 500 boys' suits 
 
 1000 wool dresses 
 
 1000 coats and caps 
 and mittens, mufflers, suspehders, etc., in indefinite numbers. 
 
 Only the continued help of all our sewing groups 
 will enable us to fill this requisition. 
 
 New York Work Rooms 
 
 24,592 garments have been cut, sorted, counted, sent 
 out, and, together with an almost equal number of 
 donated garments, packed for shipment to France in 
 the New York work rooms. This immense amount of 
 work could never have been accomplished had it not 
 been for the efficient and steady co-operation of the 
 
 [page twenty-two] 
 
New York volunteer workers in a task which has con- 
 sisted mostly of hard and monotonous drudgery, with- 
 out the inspiration which immediate contact with the 
 great struggle has given to the volunteer workers on 
 the other side of the water. Our thanks are due to all 
 who have made it possible to meet the demands upon 
 the New York office, and especially to those whose 
 names follow: 
 
 Miss Mary C. Brown Mrs. Fred. C. Lord 
 
 Mrs. F. R. Coudert Mrs. J. MacDonough 
 
 Mrs. George A, Crocker, Jr. Mrs. R. M. Parsons 
 
 Mrs. R. J. Cross Mrs. Charles Phelps 
 
 Mrs. Cutler Mrs. L. B. Rand 
 
 Mrs. W, North Duane Miss Emily Redmond 
 
 Mrs. Peter Farnum Miss Lelia Redmond 
 
 Miss Harriet Hammond Mrs. Horace Russell 
 
 Miss Mary Hayden Miss M. L. Russell 
 
 Mrs. Charles D. Hazen Mrs. H. S. Satterlee 
 
 Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Jr. Mrs. L. Graeme Scott 
 
 Mrs. Henry Hoyt Mrs. Guy Scull 
 
 Miss F. L. Howland Mrs. Henry R. Stern 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Hutcheson Miss Helen Taylor 
 
 Mrs. E. C. Jameson Mrs. Maurice Tremblay 
 
 Mrs. Pierre Jay Miss N. du Vivier 
 
 Especial acknowledgment and thanks is due also to 
 JNIrs. Henry Wise Wood for her work in raising a 
 special blanket fund. 
 
 A large debt of appreciation and gratitude is due to 
 Judge Frederick R. Wells for the use of work rooms 
 for eight months, and to M. Charvet & Cie for our 
 present quarters. 
 
 Shipping 
 
 The French government has recently organized the 
 Service de Transport France- Amerique, which works 
 as an auxiliary autonomous service attached to the 
 Under- Secretaryship for Maritime Transports and to 
 the War Office. The aim of this service is to overcome 
 the difficulties in the transportation of gifts in kind from 
 
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America to France. The gifts are received and trans- 
 mitted, without charge to the donors, to the benefiting 
 organizations in France. The Service accepts all gifts 
 in kind, such as food products, clothing, etc., with the 
 exception of worn articles of clothing or perishable 
 goods." 
 
 Through the great generosity of the French govern- 
 ment, the Comite Franco- Americain is able to ship all 
 its supplies by means of the Service, and extends its 
 thanks for this great gift, which has made possible the 
 continuation of its work in America. 
 
 It is with regret that we must ask our contributors to 
 discontinue sending us worn clothing. 
 
 Contributors 
 
 Without the steady and increasing interest and sup- 
 port of the hundreds of marraines and contributors to 
 the funds of the Comite, the work in France could not 
 have continued. To all those whose contributions dur- 
 ing the past year have made possible the comfort, 
 health and safety of this regiment of refugee children, 
 the Comite, in the name of the children, extends its 
 most sincere and earnest thanks, and asks for continued 
 support during the trying times ahead. 
 
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NESTOR DELANOYE 
 The mother of this delicate little boy died of a painful 
 illness during the bombardment of Poperinghe, after which 
 her six children were left to themselves and obliged to beg for 
 food in the streets. Little Nestor came to Paris on July ,31st 
 with fifty refugee children from the North, all of whom were 
 received by the Comite Franco- Americain pour la Protection 
 des Enfants de la Frontiere. Nestor was suffering from ricketts 
 and was too weak to stand or walk. He has an excellent 
 rnentality and a smile which wins all hearts. Though weak, 
 his physical improvement is perceptible. He is at La Jonchiere, 
 the Sanatorium of the Committee, which is under the special 
 protection of Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. 
 
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Following is a statement of all sums expended by the American 
 committee since the organisation of the Comite Franco-American in 
 August, 1914., to December 31, 1917: 
 
 General Fund 
 
 Remittances to Paris, for the support of the children. . $161,416.72 
 
 Purchase of materials, shoes, and clothing, etc 33,874.51 
 
 Purchase of food 4,800.19 
 
 Purchase of blankets . 1,892.50 
 
 Passage for nurse 78.75 
 
 Purchase of books (special donation) 50.00 
 
 Total $202,112.67 
 
 Adoption Fund 
 
 Remittances to Paris for support of "adopted" children $66,410.45 
 
 Cable and exchange on checks 11.13 
 
 Total . . .' $66,421.58 
 
 Administration Fund 
 
 (All administration expenses are paid for from a 
 fund specially contributed for that purpose; donations 
 and subscriptions to the general and adoption funds go 
 entirely to the support of the children.) 
 
 Salaries $2,230.38 
 
 Expenses of bazaars, Chicago and New York 795.45 
 
 Office expenses (tel., light 7c.) 550.52 
 
 Stationery, printing, postage, cables, telegrams 1,982.61 
 
 Expressage 88.74 
 
 Miscellaneous 734.99 
 
 Total $6,517.99 
 
 (Sgd) Frederic R. Coudert, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
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Following is a statement of all expenditures in France, from 
 January 1, 1917, to October 31, 1917. Delays in communication 
 make it impossible to give the statement for the full year. Amounts 
 are in francs. 
 
 January 1 to October 31, 1917 
 
 General and Marraine Funds 
 
 Support of colonies Frs. 257,533.30 
 
 Support of Paris depots 45,621.75 
 
 Children requiring special care 3,244.75 
 
 For maintenance of children in hospitals and private 
 
 institutions 7,355.50 
 
 Clothing 27,943.80 
 
 Medical services 4 157.65 
 
 Dentist, supplies, etc 2,264.80 
 
 Provisions (special purchases) 943.00 
 
 Expense account 1 416.00 
 
 General charities . 1 282.00 
 
 Advertising 36.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 986.10 
 
 Total Frs. 352,784.65 
 
 Expenditures covered by special donations 34,164.00 
 
 386,948.65 
 
 Administration Account 
 
 (All administration expenses are paid from spe- 
 cially contributed funds, and not from the general 
 or marraine funds.) 
 
 Rent Frs. 3,341.85 
 
 Light and heat 557.10 
 
 Fixtures and fittings 2,339.55 
 
 Salaries 15,414.60 
 
 Transportation 749.40 
 
 Stamps, telephone and telegraph 3,237.65 
 
 Stationery and books 2,214.55 
 
 Sundries 795.85 
 
 Typewriters 1,935.00 
 
 Insurance 118.85 
 
 Travelling expenses 825.30 
 
 Expense of motor 2,133.40 
 
 Miscellaneous 987.40 
 
 Total , Frs. 34,650.50 
 
 Frederic R. Coudert, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
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Child in the street of a retaken village 
 of the Somme receiving sweets from a dis- 
 trict visitor. 
 
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