. Le Boston common, scènes de quatre siècles. eadquarters d'une mission de recrutement britannique et canadien- avec friendly kilties reçu aussi chaleureusement par le public local que the red-couches de la dix-huitième siècle étaient détestés. Therecruiting d'affectation pour l'armée, de la marine, du Corps des Marines et des Etats-Unis ont été mais les équivalents modernes des recruitingtents utilisé sur la politique pendant la guerre civile. Sans suchprecedent ont été les huttes du Y. M. C. A., Les Chevaliers de Colum-bus, l'Armée du Salut, et la Croix Rouge américaine. L'Armée de terre andNavy Cantine, dans lequel, au départ et retour de soldats et s

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. Boston common; scenes from four centuries. eadquarters of a British and Canadian Recruiting Mission— with friendly kilties received as warmly by the local public asthe red-coats of the eighteenth century were detested. Therecruiting stations for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of theUnited States were but the modern equivalents of the recruitingtents used on the Common during the Civil War. Without any suchprecedent were the huts of the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Colum-bus, Salvation Army, and the American Red Cross. The Army andNavy Canteen, in which departing and returning soldiers and sailorsenjoyed the ministrations of a devoted band of local war work-ers, the City of Boston Employment Bureau, the War Camp Com-munity Service, the Boston War Work Council, the United StatesInterdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, the War Service Com-mittee — each of these made its own contribution on the Commonto the welfare of the young men in khaki and blue. There was alsothe Liberty Cottage, a small building opposite West Street, the. Postscript) 19 2 i yj busy nucleus for the activities of the Mayors Reception Committeefor Returning Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, of Liberty Loan andRed Cross drives. From its portico impassioned bond salesmenpoured forth their oratory, professional and amateur actors, ac-tresses, and singers, with and without megaphones, beguiled thepassers-by; and when the war was over, such scenes as the bestowalof the Congressional Medal of Honor on Lieutenant-Colonel Whit-tlesey of the Lost Battalion were here enacted. Near the down-town end of the path leading from the WestStreet crossing to Park Street stood a group of five little buildingsbearing the general name of Food Administration Cottages.Planned by the Food Administration of Massachusetts, they wereerected and maintained, under the following names, by the organi-zations and for the purposes named in connection with each: Num-ber 1, Food Facts Cottage, by the Womens City Club, to distribute

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