Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-29
SIZE HOEORs HERSELF.

Eighty poor families, comprising five
hundred people, we're burned out of house
and home in San Francisco this week.
They were left naked. hungry, without
shelter, or tho means of procuring food
clothing or a roof 1t was altogether a
pitIful case of misfortune and restitution
Ordinarily the call for their relief would
have been made upon the rich. but in this
case there was no need for call, and the
rich are not known to have been the first
TO give relief The first donors of clothing
and food we're wholly unknown. To the
cre'ilt Of the great heart OF the charity of
San Francisco, be il said the response of
the people of that city to the cry of DIS
tress has been prompt, bountiful, secret and
unselfsh. Whole wagon loads of clothing
came to the section for the naked, with no
donors name accompanying wagon loads
OF provisions for the hungry, with requests
not TO print or state the names of the big
hearted givers Money in gold and silver
and scrip was sent, with only that best and
hroades. and grandest of human names
attached" Friend" The donations have
been cverhowingly bountiful the giving
has been unostentatious and modest The
right hand has done charity and the left
hand knows it not. Tender hearts have
prompted the thoughtfulness to supply
garments for little ones, wraps for infants,
strong food for the well and delicate nour-
ishmee. for the sick Good, service
able, even elegant raiment has been
given. IL has not been the clearance
OF garnet and cellar and cast-off
rag bag, but all that has been sent for re-
lief Is of good quality and precisely what
was needed. The poor have given of their
store, the rich of their abundance the
labor organizations have stepped forward
and furnished money and work and food
in short, rich and poor, laborers and men
of ease, men, women, children, black and
white, have mingled in this sympathetic
labor and heart warming. 1t is something
that makes us proud of Americans; it is
something that tells us we are in truth of
the kinship of common humanity. San
Francisco Is hard and grinding CONNER
cial city. She is the seat of frivolity and
waste and uneconomic living. She is an
ABSORBENT, and in trade and dicker the
Fc-iasf SAvlaal- l., Al. (
rotten boroughs, and her byways are the
very highways of iniquity. But away
behind and underlying all these
surface indications of a fast living,
hari-dealing, money-getting people, there
Is q hear; of warmth and love and kind
ness, that shadows out of sight and mind a
world OF error and wrong. OFF of the busy
marts, outside Of the study and unyielding
centeEs Of trade, in the homes of San Fran
cisco and the hearts of the home-dwell-
ers, there Is as much of good and gener-
osity and God-like impulse and true
charity, as IN any other city under the
sun. The very abandon and rush, and
metallic clash of hard exteriors in the
metropolis appears to make the hearts of
the chariiy-doers of that commercial whirl-
pool bigger and warmer and more over
flowing for the unfortunate If that peo-
pie put the knife to the throat in the
exchange, vet they pour out the treasure
OF pocket, and larder, and wardrobe, and
sympathy when the cry of the distressed is
heard IN the land. All honor to San
Francisco.