To the Hawthorne Employees

Some of the employees of the Company owe their lives and some of the members of employees' families, and fellow-workers and friends of employees, owe their lives to the heroic and self-sacrificing assistance so freely and generously given on the day of the disaster by employees of every station.

The immediate work of relief and of promptly caring for survivors and families and friends of survivors which was started immediately and is still continuing was only made possible by the ungrudging devotion to humanity of the large number of employees who so freely volunteered their services for all phases of this work.

Of this unhesitating response by members of all departments, our employees and their families and their friends are the beneficiaries and in their behalf I wish to make this public acknowledgement of our heartfelt gratitude.

I have been in sufficiently close contact with all that has been done to realize to the fullest extent the noble and self-sacrificing work of our employees and the gratitude of those whose lives they have saved, or whose families and friends they have assisted, and I want to add my personal feelings of gratitude to all employees who have in any way assisted in this work. I should like to express my appreciation to each individual, but as there have been so many cases of conspicuous service, it seems impossible to be sure of covering them all excepting in this public manner.

H.F. Albright
General Superintendent
Hawthorne Works

The leaves forming the wreath upon this month's cover are bay leaves, the sign of mourning. The flowers under the wreath are English hawthorne, the symbol of hope.