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One of the striking features of the campaign was carried into effect on Christmas night when all the church bells were rung and in the window of the home of every Red Cross member a Red Cross flag was illuminated.
During Christmas week 1918, a membership drive was held. Mr. Johnson also directed it and made it a grand success. The last membership drive was held Christmas week, 1919, and was managed entire-
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ly by ex-service men. Captain Charles Reed being chairman.
CHRISTMAS CARTONS
The Red Cross sent out 494 Christmas Packets in 1918, to the soldiers in the A. E. F. It was neces- sary that the soldier to whom a packet was sent should furnish a self addressed label. As the mails were delayed only few labels reached this city be- fore November 15. On that date the time for send- ing packets was extended from the 20th to the 30th of November and a notice was received from the Red Cross Headquarters in New York allowing the
local chapter to issue labels to the nearest relatives. Candy, cigarettes and chocolates were mostly sent, but some real "home comforts" such as silk socks, bed room slippers, silk handkerchiefs and embroid- ered ties were among the articles inspected and pass- ed by the censor.
The committee in charge were Abram S. Howell, Dr. Chas. H. Whitman, John P. Wall, Wm. S. Rich- ardson and Elmer E. Connolly. The weighing and wrapping of the cartons was under the direction of Mrs. Geo. E. Wilkinson and Miss Ella H. Halstead, assisted by several other ladies of the chapter.
I GAVE ALL I COULD
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New Brunswick Women in the War
RESCROSS WAR WORKERS
THEY NEVER FORGOT THE BOYS,
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THE CARD PARTIES HELPED SWELL THE FUND
BUY ABOND,
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Shortly after that eventful day in April, 1917, when we went forward as crusaders in the cause of righteousness and entered the war, our women mob- ilized their forces, and immediately joined the many big organizations equipped to accept their service. Each ship that sailed carried away scores of our splendid women who asked for nothing better than to join the vast army whose mission it was to heal, to help and to save. They too, would not come back until "all was over over there."
Through the activities of the Red Cross and other national organizations, each day as the ships left our ports, untiring and efficient canteen workers served in the stations and on the piers. Each day the soldiers and the sailors were bidden God-speed. They were fed and lodged and cared for. The women who stayed home gave them the un- varying confidence that their beloved ones who re- mained behind would be taken care of, no matter what their own fate might be. And so, just as the women of France were mobilizing in 1914, so were the women of America mobilizedi n 1917 and all became sisters in the defense of one common cause. They had found their souls in a service which had rekindled their faith in humanity. The road to Calvary had been revealed to the women when it became the highway of the men. They
knew that blessed were they who had mourned be- cause they were to be comforted by God. Whether in mansion or in cabin, in city or in country, rich or poor, strong or weak, young or old, every woman became morally and patriotically mobilized, and the men fighting at the front knew through defeat or victory that their women were keeping the home fires burning.
The women of New Brunswick surely did their part, both as individuals and through their organiza- tions. In war drives and Red Cross work, in enter- taining the soldiers from Camp Raritan, as well as carrying cheer to the boys at Colonia Hospital, they lived up to the love that they had for the father, son, brother or sweetheart on the battlefields of France, some of whom sorely needed the soothing care of a woman's hand.
New Brunswick women worked as one family in doing war work. Church women gave over their Ladies' Aid and Church Improvement Society meet- ings to rolling bandages or do sewing for the Red Cross. Entertainments by church organizations of various kinds, individuals, schools and relief boards aided in doing their bit for war work relief. And the result was remarkable, not only in the amount of work done, but the magnificent financial results.
Evidence of this is given in the result of the Fourth
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Liberty Loan when the women of New Brunswick raised $1,000,400, while in the Thrift and War Stamp Drives the sum of $22,657.36 was raised.
Many women, who hitherto had lived quiet home lives, entered the business world in every capacity in order to fill the places of men called to service. They were found in the banks, the stores, offices, bakeries, laundries, postoffice, farms and in dairies. Society women gave up social duties to help in the hospital work so as to relieve nurses for greater service.
Patiently, persistently, labored these wonderful women. They only rested when tired nature com- pelled them to pause. They never complained of weariness. So long as they could serve, nothing else mattered. No task was too menial for them.
Women learned to run automobiles so as to offer their service to carry messages, carry wounded and do everything that was possible for them to do with their cars. Their particular service was demon- strated at the time of the Morgan disaster when their cars were used to bring the homeless to this city or to take them to nearby relatives, to carry food to the Morgan and South Amboy sufferers.
These same women later put their cars at the ser- vice of the wounded soldiers at Colonia to bring them over to this city to be entertained and to see they were safely taken back to the hospital.
The women opened their homes on Sunday or for the week-ends for the convalescent soldiers or the homesick men at Camp Raritan and gave them a touch of home life which was most appreciated by the lonesome and homesick ones.
The D. A. R. opened a hut at Camp Raritan where the soldiers could entertain their relatives when they came great distances to see them and where privacy was offered to the reunion of mother and son, husband and wife, sister and brother, or sweethearts.
The women on the Jewish Welfare Board did a lot at Camp Raritan to make the soldiers comfort- able there as did the Daughters of Isabella and the wives and friends of the Knights of Columbus at their commodious hut. The Y. M. C. A. hut had its women supporters and many a delightful entertain- ment was arranged by town women to cheer up the soldier boys.
In every drive, in every bit of work planned the
women entered whole heartedly into every phase of the work.
As chairman of the Women's Liberty Loan Com- mittee Mrs. James A. O'Connell did notable work, Miss Helen White was the one woman, who, as sec- retary to Dr. Cook, had to listen patiently to the tale of woe of those men who applied for exemption before Local Board No. 1, of Middlesex County. She worked all day and long into the night helping the draft officials. Miss Evangeline Johnson served with the Ambulance Corps in France. Miss Sally Parker served first as an ambulance driver in France, but later as a nurse at Nuelly, France. Miss Voronica Wahler served as an Army Nurse and was stationed at Lakewood, N. J. Miss Celia Jacobs served in France, Germany and Siberia. Others who served as nurses, were Miss Kathrine Maeley, Miss Ella Kearney, Miss Marion Mckinney, Miss Norma Derr, Evelyn B. Taylor, Miss McLally, Clara Sprague.
When the Red Cross issued an appeal for trained nurse in October, 1917, Miss Katherine C. Hanna reported for service overseas. She was sent to General Hospital No. 6, at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga. Although disappointed in not being able to go to the front, she found an interesting work at Fort McPherson and performed it so well that she earned rapid promotion. In a short time she was made superintendent of the hospital, which has accom- modations for 1,500 patients, and was placed in charge of 103 nurses.
During her stay there, Colonel T. S. Bratton, commander of Fort McPherson, presented a loving cup to Miss Hannan as an experssion of the love of her nurses.
When the Red Cross, in the Fall of 1918, decided to send nurses to Siberia, it selected Miss Hannan to organize a company of nurses and take them over. She had expressed a choice for service in France, but she accepted the commission and left the Fort Mc- Pherson hospital.
As Chief Nurse of the Army Nurse Corps, A. E. F., Siberia, Miss Hannan was stationed near Vladivostok.
Many other women could be singled out but space would not permit, so a list of the women most ac- tive in war work is given. Some may be missing from this list, if so, it is because the names were not supplied, and not through any intention to slight any person. The matter of getting the names of work- ers was the hardest task of the compiler.
WOMEN WORKERS
Miss Helen C. White, Mrs. Asher Atkinson, Mrs. Livingston Barbour, Mrs. H. H. Bond, Mrs. E. P. Darrow, Mrs. James A. O'Connell, Mrs. James Van Middlesworth, Mrs. Skilman, Beatrice Stahlin, Miss Paulus, Hazel Thomas, Miss Byrne, Mrs. H. R. Lewis, Miss Nell O'Connell, Miss Smith, Miss Julia Sullivan, Miss Conlon, Mrs. Stokes, Miss Katie Howard, Josephine Becker, Evelyn Macom, Mrs.
Samuel Schleimer, Marie Donahue, Vera De Hart, Helen Best, Elizabeth Durham, Mary Louise Schlei- mer, Elizabeth Salisbury, Dora Deinzer, Rita Boul- ger and Helen Grady.
Mrs. Frank Reed, Mrs. Rush Burton, Mrs. Clarence Reed, Mrs. Edna Feller, Mrs. Russell Howell, Mrs. Helen Van Deursen, Misses Ruth Smith, Nellie Kehoe, Helen Banker, Evelyn Kuhlthau, Mrs. Sidney
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B. Carpender, Mrs. Henry Seiffert, Miss Ruth Seif- fert, Miss Isabelle McCormick, Mrs. Jacob Lipman, Mrs. Frank Connolly, Mrs. William Fitzgerald, Mrs. Cosgrove, Mrs. Patrick Donahue, Mrs. R. Ahearn, Mrs. Eugene W. Morris, Mrs. D. W. Donahue, Mrs. A. Purcell, Misses Catherine Reed, Josephine Bren- nan, Elizabeth Gleason, Edith Yeagher, Mary Ker- win, Mrs. Robert E. Ross, Mrs. Jesse Strauss, Mrs. Luke Lindley, Mrs. Garrett Dreier, Mrs. Nathan Wolfe, Mrs. Herbert Letson, Mrs. Frank Schlesinger, Mrs. F. S. Cohen, Misses Janet Loewenstein, Ruth Loewenstein, Edith Luther, Leonore Blake, Nellie Dwyer, Catherine Howard, Nora Hanlon, Anna Guy- ton, Mary Taaffe, Florance Hortwick, Matilda Re- gan, Arintha Hyle, Mrs. James Mitchell, Mrs. John Clinton, Mrs. Fred B. Tappen, Mrs. A. Peckham, Mrs. T. M. Jetter, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Frank Haase, Mrs. H. A. Shrader, Clara Hall, Lena Kunzman, Rose Man- del, Ray Mandel, Katherine Weigel, Mary Baldwin, Elizabeth Baldwin, Ella Halstead, Katherine Runyon, Mrs. Samuel Levin, Mrs. John Clark, Mrs. Gallagher, Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs Wilson, Mrs. J. A. Van Nest, Ber- tha Schorsch, Sylvia Shapiro, Flo Jaques, Miss A. Waldron, Mrs. George .D. Johnson, Mrs. Deshler Wil- mot, Helen Janeway, J. Trempy, H. Schenck, Mrs. George Donahue, Miss Helen Deshler, Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. John Morrison, Helen Colburn, Dorothy Applegate, Eleanor Donahue, Gertrude Suydam, Alice Burke, Daisy Broffee, Gertrude Broffee, Anna Thickstun, Margaret O'Donnell, Lucy Litterst, Julia Florance, Jane Runyon, Mrs. Louis Wolfson, Mrs. Gershom H. Wheeler, Mrs. R. G. Ballantine, Mrs. J. H. Velser, Mrs. S. R. Morris, Mrs. L. H. Messeroll, Mrs. T. F. Creighton, Mrs. Floyd Smith, Mrs. Harry Enoch, Edith Richardson, Maude C. Reynolds, Mrs. William Harding, Mrs. R. B. Moore, Mrs. Thomas Dobson, Mrs. Thomas Donahue, Mrs. Edward Glea- son, Mrs. Edward Foley, Mrs. Robert Barrett, Mrs. John Cortelyou, Mrs. Charles A. Lavere, Misses Anna Galligan, Loretta Campbell, Margaret McCor- mick, Mrs. William Macom, Mrs. A. L. Smith, Mrs. John Curran, Mrs. Weingart, Mrs. Levine, Mrs. R. J. Faulkingham, Mrs. S. K. Siver, A. Gregson, Hetty Wilcox, Blanche Crenning, Sarah Adler, Mrs. W. Frank Parker, Miss Margaret Daly, Mrs. Elmer Mc- Murtry, Mrs. Laky, Catherine Tucker, Irene Backus, Josephine Atkinson, Elizabeth Coats, Clara Gibbons, Elizabeth Travers, Marie Frances, Agnes Kinney, Katherine Harkins, Helen Masterson, Dorothy Strong, Anna Kansler, Helen Worle, Elizabeth Bar- kus, Agnes McGovern, Edna McFadden, Frances Fuchs, Bertha Clarke, Florance Manley, Margery Keefe, Winnifred Henry, Marjorie McNamara, Es- telle Meyers, Catherine Shine, Carolyn Plechner, Blanche Johnston, Jennie Delaney, Helen Reilly,
Annette Martin, Margaret Macom, Elizabeth Sabo, Cecilia Kelly, Lillian Bessenger, Elizabeth Deak, Helen Donohue, Margaret Courtney, Mollie Jefferies, Marie Harper, Mrs. E. A. Brady, Mrs. Frank W. Kiessling, Miss Molleta Donahue, Mrs. John P. Wall, Mrs. William Waldron, Mrs. James Mershon, Mrs. M. L. Blake, Mrs. G. F. McCormick, Mrs. J. J. Moni- gan, Mrs. P. J. Young, Mrs. James Maher, Elizabeth C. Harding, Catherine Bradley, Kate Foyle, Adelaide Parker, Helen Williamson, Julia Williamson, Helen Morrison, Jessie Morrison, Helen Masterson, Mary Delaney, Mary Kelly, Mary Leves, Mrs. Alfred Hall, Mrs. William Saunders, Mrs. James McManus, Mrs. James O'Hara, - Margaret C. Wall, Bessie Lyons, Verita McGovern, Marie Frances, Anna Frances, Mary McNare, Elsie Dunham, Mary Craven, Leonora Craven, Mildred Rota, E. Yackey, Mary Schulster, Ray Corsby, Neal Crosby, Miss Kalb, Mrs. James A. McGarry, Mrs. Howard Whitehead, Mrs. Martin Roth, Mrs. John Ewing, Mrs. Henry Barr, Mrs. H. Crawford, Mrs. Charles Cowenhoven, Mrs. James Kidney, Mrs. Walter Burton, Mrs. Frank Howely, Mrs. Burckhardt, Mrs. Charles Dodge, Mrs. B. Mas- terson, Mrs. Wayne Clark, Mrs. E. H. Webb, Mrs. James Dunlap, Mrs. James Horan, Mrs. O'Hara, Mrs. John Kinney, Margaret Hannon, Elizabeth Smith, Margaret Harkins, Kittie Kane, Annie Gillian, Mary Gilligan.
Mrs. C. M. Daire, Mrs. George L. Snedeker, Mrs. Charles White, Mrs. Alexander Merchant, Mrs. J. H. Randall, Mrs. F. B. Merritt, Mrs. Rowland, Mrs. C. McCrellis, Mrs. H. M. Drake, Mrs. Edward Page, Mrs. Nicholas Doyle, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Cecil Brusie, Mrs. Schuyler, Mrs. William Barlow, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Trittenbach, F. Connors, Mrs. C. E. Bruce, Mrs. R. W. Johnson, Mrs. F. M. Joiner, Mrs. R. P. Hayden, Mrs. Mrs. T. A. Conway, Mrs. H. F. Miller, Mrs. W. J. Fisher, Mrs. M. R. Warne, Mrs. A. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Victor Swain, Mrs Norman Smith, Mrs Wilson Van Middlesworth, Mrs. A. Hardenbergh, Mrs. James A. Edgar, Mrs. F. A. Nitchke, Miss J. Demarest, Mrs. Rose M. Flagg, M. Henderson, Helen Loblein, Miss McWhorter, Mrs Alexander Mullen, Mrs. Castelano, Mrs. L. C. Stevens, Mrs. B. M. How- ley, Mrs. S. M. Christie, Mrs. J. Tuckerman, H. Pit- man, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. F. K. Shield, Mrs. H. W. Nafey, Mrs. C. S. Atkinson, Mrs. R. S. Sheppard, Mrs. Rogers, M. Gebhardt, Mrs. H B. Cole, Mrs. Crossley, Sara O. Whitlock, E. Green, Mary Whit- lock, E. Daire, Mrs. J. T. Green, Mrs. Frank Whit- lock, Mrs. M. Tailby, Mrs. R. P. Hayden, Mrs. H. R. Segoine, Mrs. P. R. Ordway, Mrs. F. K. Runyon, Mrs. L. P. Janeway, Mrs. H. Miller, Mrs. J. H. Pot- ter, Mrs. W. C. Harvey, Mrs. Alfred Tindall.
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THE EXEMPTION BOARD
The work of the local draft board forms an impor- tant part in the war history of New Brunswick and to ex-Judge J. Kearney Rice, chairman; Elmer E. Connolly, secretary, and Dr. E. I. Cronk, medical officer, belong much credit for the success achieved in the operation of the draft in this city.
When the war broke out with the Huns and it was decided that the draft machinery would have to be put into operation to raise an army capable of cop- ing with the German hordes and their allies, draft boards were formed throughout the country. Quotas for the various districts were fixed, and it was the duty of the respective draft boards to select the men to fill these quotas.
Under the provisions of the draft law, the mayor, city clerk and health officer of each city with a population over 30,000 were to act as members of the board. In New Brunswick, the late Mayor Edward F. Farrington was the chief executive and City Clerk Eugene J. Mclaughlin, clerk of the city. They were formally drafted into service, but then the question arose that only men beyond the draft age should act as members of the board. As the late mayor and the city clerk were both within the draft age they subsequently resigned.
The task of filling their places fell upon Edward F. Houghton, who was then sheriff of Middlesex county. With reluctance he accepted the resigna- tions and lated appointed ex-Judge J. Kearny Rice and Elmer E. Connolly to fill their places.
OFFICES OPENED
Dr. Cronk threw open his offices on Livingston avenue and within a few days after their appoint- ment, the members of the draft board were in readi- ness to put into operation the draft machinery. Elmer Dunham, of the Michelin Tire office, was pressed into service as chief clerk of the board and was assisted by Miss Helen White, clerk of the health department.
The great national lottery took place in Washing- ton and a few days later an official list was received here. Immediately the work of tabulating the lists and the comparison of the lottery numbers was be- gun. Each man between the ages of 1 and 30 years who registered at the great national registration day was listed and placed in order to be called in his turn.
This was a stupendous task and required the serv- ices of a large corps of clerks. Volunteers were accepted from the local banks and manufacturies and after several days of hard work, the task was com- pleted and the call was then awaited for the drafting of the flower of the manhood of New Brunswick.
Having been fed upon a mental diet of war horrors in newspapers and magazines for three years before this country entered the conflict, many parents, actu- ated by affection for their offspring, at first as- sumed a "let George do it" attitude, but patriotism soon prevailed over fear, and after the draft had been .in effect a few months the draft system was hailed as a wise institution.
REGISTERING DAY, JUNE 5
The draft law became effective May 18, 1917, and its enactment was followed immediately by the issu- ance of a proclamation by President Wilson, setting aside June 5, of that year, as the registration day for all male inhabitants of the country, between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive.
The registration of the males between the desig- nated ages will never be forgotten. June 5 was a momentous day in the history of the city. The regis- tration was conducted without a hitch with the elec- tion officers in each district sitting as boards of registry, the regulations providing that the men en- roll in the election districts in which they resided. In New Brunswick the total registration was 4,298 in- cluding 1,713 aliens, while in Middlesex county the total registration was 19,625.
Following a round-up of those "slackers" who fail- ed to appear on Registration Day, the cards of the registrants were numbered serially. There was an anxious wait until July, when the lottery took place to determine the order in which the registrants should be called into service.
The physical examinations were begun in August. The rules required all those seeking exemption to file their claims within seven days after the receipt of the notice to report for examination. Issuance of the first batch of notices resulted in the draft head- quarters being besieged by applicants for exemption, men being accompanied by their wives, children or aged parents dependent upon them.
Many of those claims were turned down by the draft board who were determined that there should be no evasion of the draft law in New Brunswick. Under the rules, exemptions were granted to six classes: Men indispensable to industries necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment; men with wives, children, parents or other depend- ents upon them for support; clergymen and divinity students; alien residents who had not taken out their first naturalization papers, and Germans; pilots and marines in the merchant marine service; criminals convicted for felonies and the morally deficient.
The introduction of the questionnaire system on
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November 1, 1917, simplified the proceedings and made the work run much more smoothly after that date. A legal advisory board was formed among the lawyers who met night after night at the court house in assisting the registrants in the preparation of their questionnaires, which contained all the neces- sary forms to make complete claims for exemption. FIRST ACTUAL DRAFT
The first actual draft took place here during the first week of September, 1917, when a small contin- gent of men was sent to Camp Dix.
The second great national registration day for youths who had arrived at their twenty-first birthday since June 5, 1917, took place on June 5, 1918. When this registration took place the eligible list of the local board was practically exhausted.
Finally the man-power law was enacted, requiring the registration of all males between the ages of 18 and 45 years, inclusive. This registration took place September 12, 1918. Before any of these men were called into service, hostilities ceased with the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918. Calls for selectives had been issued, but were withdrawn when it became apparent that Germany was really ready to quit.
The three draft board members gave much of
their time, energy and even finances for the success of the draft in this city. They served without pay and during the physical examination of the men prior to their induction in the army, they spent practically all of their time at the draft board head- quarters.
The local physicians also did excellent work in connection with the operation of the draft. They examined the many draftees and either rejected or qualified them for service.
A feature of the Draft Board work in this city, which was probably different from that adopted by other boards elsewhere, was the keeping of the record of every person brought for examination be- fore it, showing the results of their physical exami- nations, whether exemption was claimed or not. If so, on what grounds, and what the results of the decisions of the Board were on the different claims for exemption. In cases that were contested a full report of the testimony was given. A stenographic report of the proceedings was kept, which records were returned to Washington with the records in each particular case.
The Board was discharged by orders from Wash- ington in the Spring of 1919.
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The Home Defense League
The Home Defense League was organized on March 26, 1917 and was a sort of a clearing house for all patriotic movements growing out of the war. Its house was New Brunswick's war headquarters.
The League controlled the whole of the Leupp building on Albany street, the building having been generously placed at the disposal of the League by William Leupp. Upon taking it over the League made repairs and furnished it.
It turned over a part of the building to the Red Cross, which occupied rooms on the second floor until moving into new quarters in the Reed building on George street. It also turned over a part of the building to the Boy Scouts for their headquar- ters.
The Home Guard was organized and equipped by the League to take care of any uprising in this city, to assume charge in case of riots or any distur- bance growing out of the war.
The League appropriated $1,000 for war garden promotion work. It employed a supervisor for two seasons, supplied free seed, engaged teams to plow lots, encouraged the planting of vacant plats, pro- moted school gardens and purchased tractors for farm work.
It maintained a Farm Labor Employment bureau and also a Women's Land Army registration office.
The League house was the headquarters for many campaigns, the office equipment and clerical help be- ing loaned for these campaigns, which included the following.
The Liberty Loan campaigns, first and second Red Cross War Fund campaigns, War Camp Com- munity Fund, Food Administration Pledge Card campaign, Salvation Army Fund, Billiard Players' Fund, Red Cross Membership Fund, Red Cross Christmas Seals Fund.
The League arranged and financed the Decoration
Day parade and the Fourth of July athletic meet of 1917.
It secured automobiles for various occasions for the Transportation Committee. It gave assistance to the Y. M. C. A. campaign and looked after the re- lief and support of Company H dependants during 1917.
It was the headquarters for the Public Employ- ment office, for the Soldiers' Welfare Committee, Sewing of Soldiers' Shirts Committee, Home Service Section of Soldiers' Relief, Return Load Information Bureau, Mercy Committee, an agency for the sale of Thrift Stamps and Smilage Books; also the gen- eral office of the Patriotic Force of New Brunswick; and had on file the census cards which resulted from the canvass of the city by the Patriotic Force.
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