The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10
THE RELIEF COMMITTEE.
TO BE CONTINUED.

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! The following report was submitted to the
General Relief Committee at it's last meet
ing 1t will be found of interest:
H H. L. A. Witt, Chairman, etc:
Sir-Your Purchasing and Shipping Com
mittce report as follows:
We have received from the United States
Commssary Cos barrels of pork, 99S do.
crackers, % do beans; and have received
from contributions 395 barrels -four, 46 do.
crackers, . do. beans, 81 do. pork, IL half
barrels -four 2lS sacks -four, 81 ,465 pounds
of bacon and sundries.
| Our total shipments have been: 1850 bar
rels pork, equal to 1873 1888 ratiOns; 2l2 bar
rels of -four, equal to AZ, l09 rations; 1851
| pounds bacon, equal to 2O.O6S ratiOns !;
! 55O3 barrels meal, equal to 56O,49O rations;
! 20 barrels beans, equal to 100000 rations !;
and s,lndries, such as potatoes, krout, etc
| Our purchases have been, in gross: 1888
barrels meal, $50 harrels pork, SOC barrels
bread, so barrels beans, IS sacks corn, l35
sacks cotton seed. ~ sacks salt; amounting
to S2S, 149 40. OF this amount $500 have
drawn for daily for expenditures. such as
drayage, labor and preparing freights. OF
| the $500 we have expended S4lo 10. The
| items for same appear Oh our cash book.
| After consultation with members Of your
distributing committee l deemed it best
that some action should be taken to procure
supply of cotton seed for planting To
| this end. for immediate use, we purchased
from d. Tate & Co. 1873 sacks of Petit Gulf
cotton seed, at $3o per ton. Through the
assistance of T. L. Airey, Esq, of your com
mttee we hope we have secured sufficient
seed to answer our purposes at greatly re-
duced prices. We recommend to your dis
friI too hat faX
meat be given as possible, as the price has
again advanced. Holders now ask $4 56
per barrel.
| A heavy advance of corn and corn meal
in the West is the chief cause of the adj
vance here. In expanding the means at the
| command of this committee we have been
guided by the desire to get the most we
could of good food tor the least money. As
meal has advanced to such high prices, we
will be compelled to use hard bread or flour
in our future issues.
Capt Sullivan, of the United States Com
missary Department. that he would at an
early day be able again to assist us with at
least portion of our daily issues If such
should be the case there will be a very de-
cided falling off in our expenditures.
The following is a list of supplies turned
over to your committee by Messrs. Deeves,
Hubbs & Co., April %, 1874:
81 bbls flour, As do meal, l9 do crackers,
do beans, do molasses, 5 sacks salt, 3465
lbs. bacon, Dbl. mackerel,l hbl. grits, l sack
corn, box candles, half bbls krout, 2
cases peas, 4 do corn, 6 do salsages, do
shoes, Il hall bbls. flour, II do pork, do rice,
6 do potatoes, l key lard, 3 kits salmon, l keg
pig feet, 4 bills. beet, 8 do peas, box soap,
2 sacks potatoes, 2 dOz. yeast powders, 2
sacks peas, cases peaches, 3 kegs behring's,
half doz. shOvels.
The following is a list of supplies received
since April 25th 1874, to date:
April n b xes Soap from J. H. Keller,
April II, bbls Flour aud do Meal from Peel X
April %, 2bbls Rice. f. W Rodd 4 SO
April %, IL bbs Flour, Board -louc Inspectors.
From lty of 1T. LOUIS May ID, 81 bbs -Four, 1856
bbls Meal 10 Dbl, crackers, 20, lbs Bacou, sacks
Bans, cask Beef. Dbl Hams, 2ls acks Flour
From C,nclnnati IL lief Committee, May 7, 80 BIB y
Flour so bbls Pork, II bb Or kers, II 90 bs ron
From Louisville Board of Trade, My T. 2l3 bbls
Flour, Is sacks orn. % b IL Poa oes. 5 b Is Meal
Kegs ard 10 quarter boxes Candies, l package Mer
chanlise.
q Il 0. which is respectfully Submitted.
JOHN y. PAYNE.
Chairman P rchasiug Committee
Contributions received at Mayors office
May 9th, 1874:
Branch Crooks & Co through Capt. Airy $3.50;
b oussa d. OF rand C9t-au la S25; Pr,sb, t-rlau
CIurch OF B"ckford, blunt county Tenn. til onlh X
J. Wi sou, sli 0; W Wolfe, Buff,o. s2,; NJ. of.
OF O~yka NJ S. S25: p q, xvi k NH af Nv ,,rle ,s
rough TLos G. Her don President s5uu. Wharton
wing Nj Tt"n, OF Nashville, Tenn throu H.,
Ness 8 "heeloc5, F nj Co. 81 Pup Is OF eer
Scho l. S24 %: Hoiy rim ~ sch ,o fb,ys and oi,Isl
81 As
Collections male in New York Citv Inv
aa,a,., c,.,l. . p;
and forwarded through Messls Leon ri Il e
g. r., and q T. Esrr..