New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-11
TIE TRIBUNE has received SlO from Rutland
Whiting Tor the Michigan sufferers.
AID STILL NEEDED

AID STILL NEEDED.
PoRT HURON, Mich, Nov. 10.-The follow
ing viii De- published in a dispatch from James
= Mcdonald secretary of the Michigan Relief Commi
tco No 220 Broadway NcwYork, containing the follow.
ing questions:
Fiyst-What s the present condition fthe fire sufferers
with regard to health, shelter. stock, implements aud
general facilities for continuing their former occupa-
tions
Second-IIow does the amount held by both committees
compare with the amount necessary to enable the people
To follow their ayocatons and to carry them over the
winter and until they can become self-supportingl
Third-What amount OF cash has been distributed by
each committee to each family in Its district
Forth-Is Your committee, or the d trot committee,
purchasing merchandise from the merchants Of its city
with the money contributed instead Of distributing 1t
am oug the suhcrcrsi
To tb,-e questions f. c. Carleton, Mayor and chair
man Of the Port Huron Relief Committee replies rs fol-
lows:
gig-There il much sickness occasoned by defective
shelter and exposure Much Of the stock has been and
is being sold for OF feed and shelter The people
are generally wcll supplied with farming Implements OF
immediate necessity II the present mode of dealing
out relief stopped and definite amount in cash
given to each sufferer the people would their
former occupations ut once
Second According to revised sworn statements
there will be 200 families IN the counties OF ST. Clair,
saniluc and Huron. Each family should have at least
500 600 required. The means OF the Port Huron com
ittcc are about exhausted The cash receipts of the
Detroit committee as reported TO date, amount to
s33O 600 How much OF this Is hand cannot say.
ipasmuch a. they have published an exhibit Of
their affairs but from recent dispatch by the chairman
VIC estimate that not more than $4,000 represents the
cnsb on hand This would give additional 100000
TO tide over the above counties, The Saginaw and Tus
cola district included In the above which is mainly
supported by the Bay City Committee.
Thlrd-The Port Huron Committee have distributed
Sl5 in cash to each family in its district, asgregatlng
$4,000 The Detroit committee have distributed no
cash to the sufferers.
FOHrfh-The Port Huron committee ceased purchasing
supplies October g. except carrying out outstanding
contracts for seed wheat, hay, grain, feed and lumber
amounting 10 $4,000 Our committee purchased only
500 900 OF general supplies, TO the immediate first
wants of the sufferers The Detroit committee still
purchasing supplies from their merchants, ana must
Detroit committee with PERMISSION copied our sworn
statemeuts aud cOllatng the same. We under
stand that they will continue the purchase OF supplies UNI
iii this work is completed and Will distribute cash until
about December l. when they propose 10 deal out IN
small monthly instruments during the winter. .
In Carleton continues: 1.-THE Port Huron commit
tee from the worked rapidly possible toward
cash distribution, and would have reached some weeks
earlier had been for the interference or the Tower
nor the Detroit committee and tho Detroit newspapers
They regarded the indiscriminate purchase ana as
trbuton supplies after the first needs covered
s wastefu demoralizng to the recipient and likely TO
rctard the building up or the country, me lears
of the committee being realized, acts OF awless
ness are increasing in the burned district aud general
decentralization il Imminent. The Port Huron commit
tee earnestly and emphatically behalf of their
stricken neiRhbOis, demand or the Detroit committee
the Immediate distribution of the balance Of the money
IN banda