New-York tribune., 1881-09-14
THE MICHIGAN SUFFERERS.
MEETING AT CHICKERING HALL.


SMALL ATTENDANCE-REMARK BY MIR. CROSBY
AND ROBERT COLLYER-AMOUNT OF sUBSCRIP-
TIoNs THUS FAR RECEIVED
MOI more than scventy-iiye persons assembled in
Chlckerlng Hall last evening to attend the meeting
In behalf OF the Michigan sufferers. The lack of at
tendance attributed to the short notice given of
the meeting After waiting until nearly half-past
O'Clock for the hall to fill up, Charles p. Crosby
called the meeting to order and spoke rs follows:
Inc shortness OF the call and the extreme heat sup
pose' nave prevented our having a larger attend
1 aaoe; we must however, make up in earnesness Of
nave informed You the object of the gathering More
been by re-7j0 900 acres of land laid bare
5 nnu 200 lyes lost by the destroying element great
h ol our fellow citizens and residents OF the STATE
So lone % s S bur cannot say desoate
Tesideni rot M iast saturday number of The former
1I or the State and cltizcns OF this city
have mailed s10 500 fr h tbe f R - f t & piet ne & @e
pi, We hone TO send more than thrice that in day
th 1t Is almost impossible to estimate the extent of
u Mr., Crosby then read the following letter from
ihurioW Weed, who had been expected to preside:
Mr CHARLES T. Crosby
MY DEAR SIR: find myself so fcche This nornino
that am constrained TO Withdraw the promise / made
Yesterday to attend the meeting be held evening
oenfEe ana concentrate the efforts secure adequate
n !" uhr sufferers from the recent aud appalling
nasrHiloh IN Michigan. desire Gid those efforts in
any ana every way my power, d would if my health
TnrI W ~ na your meeting and add few earnest
- G"ionI hcak%Is-l say eloquent because the occasion
~ oL!c clhhcntY calculated tO inspire all who have
"o"I's 10 ite Tor others woes. Very truly yours,
1HUKLow WEED.
The Rev. Robert Colyer then spoke in part as
follows:
When man has been burnt ont, rs | have been, he
Knows here hurts. have been feeling with those
Door ok IN Michigan ever since The great calamity icn
upon them who has borne the pain of it, and who
uoS ana can realize as suppose, friends, you
Flpt calamity 1t is which have heard spoken Of
= thousand square miles burned over! went through
ti'' ttlllHr IRE IN Chicago in 1871. | the begin
m- .ht couiS" ana thr end of II, and all through
WINTER whenever went such crrands as were laid
nlon me- could not the burnt
district to reach the little room in which
was housed thuut crying like a bnhy. This was not
:" nc bccarsr OF the personal loss ns the feeling lad
WtH crossed that great bucR burnt district
ll"lr a'NolalOu that had thousands of homes
I'm" IAN" hes mat lay in manner ou~idc Ot acqudint
Hoc anu active sympathy. Despite all that could bc
uhV pA tc generous people OF the country, damage
Wis cruel beyond all Imagination.
iii9 ih Nhht has been done out I'm Michigan. Those
l"""S 10 IhlS imperial City of NtW-Iork them
some succor, and am sure the appeal cannot 10 10
.r H'"IlS "l inc noullr without bTlu -ug such a
l"Nr rs our friends nope FOR II ir such appeal rs
We cannot hear without bcstirrug uirsrv. 80 at not
on HnA tens "I thousands bat hundred. OF thousands shall
nc sent ana sent speedily. them from the dspnir
INTO winch they mus. have sunk
james Birncy, Minister to The Hague aud formerly
l.Wntthdht- -''oN"rh"r of Michigan, spoke about thc
DISTRESS OF he peopr.aud read tcegrnms giving
MS oi te obstruction iy IRE. Among the other
> clktf' were MI MurrhOuSc. IOrinrrly = of Saginaw
Michigan, aud Colonel Edward Hill The sim of
. I,o3O which had been collected in The course of
lhG "aN was handed in, aud the meeting adjourned
, me amount of contributions received by William
on previous DAYS was T5.O23 y. The sum was
sWcIed yesterday 10 SlO,o}o IL Cash" of
'I'tN Wlt tuEll.. has sent - 10 IIfE Tribune for
me sufferers; J. B. Alice has sent T2n from ~ :
i'arhuin, ana - has been received ANONYMOUSLY 4
su pHcipllnh IiSt Is open IN the office of the Dewey
h'h'iIANtlIlhS Company, AT No. % Chnnbcrs-st.