Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-15
R0YS IN BLUE TO HELP.
GOV. FAIRCHILD SOUNDS A
RALLY FOR CHARLESTON.

rverv Post in the Land Asked to Come
the Front-sectional Feeling and
pol,t,cal Hate Entirely Smothered by
Cror,tv,s Wide MautIe-The Situation
in the Stricken City.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. 14.-Ex-GoV.
1ucius Falrchld, of Wisconsin, COM
,,order.in-chief of the Grand Army OF the
Vanublic, and Col. r. B. Gray arrived
here Yesterday, and spent to-day examin-
inv the effects OF the earthquake and con-
suIrng with the Mayor and Committee
on Relief. The object of Gov. Fairchild's
visit is to see whether 1t is necessary 10
make an appeal to the Grand Army OF the
ponrhltc for assistance for Charleston.
Tho situatIon has been fully explained d
to him.
Ata meeting of the Relief Committee
today it was stated that it will take at
least 81. 900. 900 TO put the necessary re-
pars to the houses OF persons VINO are
utterly unable unaided to make their
bolses safe and habitable. Forms OF ap-
nlicatiOns for assistance in re6ulldlng
wiU be issued tomorrow, and plans COM
\ pletpd likewise for giving limited pecu-
II mary IGiIel W tuOSG III hCON VI
Il Kidding, etc, in consequence OF tDe
earthquake. Bricklayers are now paid 20
Der day. and plasterers $4. which tends
10 cneck rebuilding operations.
H ADDRESS TO THE BOYS IN BLUE.
Ex- Gov. Fairchild requests that the
following address be telegraphed to the
n Associated Press:
n CHARLESTON, 8. c.. Sept. IA. 1885.
Fl 0o,,y,I,1es ot the Grand Il r,,U ofthe Republic:
with YOU have been profoundly touched
N by the great calamity to Charleston ana VI
81 Ciuijy. caused by the recent earthquaNe. 1
III cane here ds your representative 10 learn Tue
"A exact facts Us to the necessities of the people,
3 and to take such action as occasion might re-
Fl ouire, The situation is briefly as follows:
M The immediate demand for food Is promptly
"a answered by the funds already contrlOn-
N ted, but there is class OF clti1ehs
a whose houses are more or less shattered, ana
n who have no means to repair them. rms
IA class and those who. being houseless, nave
Oeyertheless suffered the loss of personal prop
# erty REQUIRE aid from abroad. 1t Will be 10
81 hem continued ca amity unless help ls rem
"a 1ered. The community here have done. ana
are ding, everything in their power. A large
81 sum of money is required to do all that ought
M TO be done. The condition of affairs warrants
an immediate and extraordinary effort. l
H request department commanders to call
+ upon each Post in their departments to at
f once appoint a comm .ttee, which shall col
Il ect such sums as the comrades ana their
n fellow citizens in cities, villages and on farms
may desire to contribute. The money should
Il De transmitted to the department headquar-
Il sers, whence it will be sent to W. K. COurte-
Enay, Mayor of Charleston. A committee
N Charleston Will see that the money is prop
h erly applied to the relief onv of the worthy
n and necessitous. LCCIUs FAIRCHILD,
Commander n-Chief q. a. Il.
M CHANGES FOR THE BETTER.
n Whatever change has occurred In the
! fast twenty-four hours mas been decidedly
Tor the better. There are still some peO-
pie who insist that they feel at times
slight tremors of the earth, but it is never
/ theless the tact that Charleston has not
been treated to wave tor at least three
days. And this has served, in a great
/ measure, to restore confidence. The
camps are being gradually abandoned,
and people have once more turned their
attention to their ruined homes, seek
ing to rescue what they can from
the wrecks, and to get their
households together again. AS yet very
few people will be found sleeping in any
Of the upper stories. Those who have re-
turned to their houses prefer to sleep on
The ground floor with the front door open,
so as TO obtain easy and quick access to
the street in the event of another shock.
A very large number of women and chill
dren have left the city, and are refugee
ing in the interior, and the rich in the
North.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
The labor question threatens to assume
Aserl0us aspect. A meeting OF the Knights
ol Labor was held a day or two after the
great shock and was manipulated by W.
7, Russel, who is generally looked upon
as kind Of political crank. At the meet
lng Russell decided to have an ad-
vance Of SOC. per day only all round for
a classes OF labor. A great deal was
SAD about 1t at the time, but the meeting
onIy consisted of a handful of negroes,
whose action bound nobody, and, as a
general thing, is repudiated by the
working men. Bricklayers are
getting from S. to $6 per day
neTe' and will continue to get it for some
une. Common street laborers are re-
ceiHng from 81 to 81 day, but the price
VIII 90 down, for the reason that many
thousands of negroes from the adjacent
YEA Islands are flocking to the city FOR
SlOns J. Most OF them are provided with
Sa'ehets OF some kind, and failing to get
Ite ratons, they are ANXIOUS to go to
"uA 10 clean bricks at any price they
sngel. There are enough bricks to be
otahed In Charleston to-day to employ
~ army an almost indefinite time.
DANGER OF THIEvERY.
Iue INVASION Of these negroes from the
Solnry Is regarded with disfavor by
%%ah! OF their own race, who complain
Tlat lnelr coming here cheapens labor.
eI presence, too, threatens to create
,l ,o9Dle IN another way. The good order
' peace IN the community for the ten
su}S succeeding the earthquake were
decls OF comment at the time. Hun
Ib's ms ol houses were lett open and all
wc.a contents exposed, and yet the thefts
,r1',. te comparatively few. This is at
weoo eUu'sOle to the fact that the thieves
lsion. 100 busily engaged in re-
HAS, exercises to think about
tber, business, and very few OF
ento. were stout-hesrted enough TO
IN e' ,. uWelling while the shocks were
ssa,a roeFess. Now, however, that these
AMI i, n' W De over the old instinct returns,
bf tbtouss cIty threatens to be at the mercy
Eores1s res, or would be were 1t not for the
dnnlJAut OF Mayor COurtenay, who has
rres.'Vu lne police force. With the in.
ram country negroes and the winter
ere VINO Is gradually finding his way
aye 10 ono"eVer, these precautions will
hero =. De supplemented by others, and
roops %. some talk OF putting the State
p,., BUSINESS PICKING UP.
Ycos,n Yos,ness seems to be picking up little,
bo nt,a ~ tne case OF the rich merchant
nd ssn, ",ned Tree passes for his family
educed' tnem away, and on the same lay
s,ore ene wages of his clerks. passed