Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-28
THE RELIEF FUND.
FINAL STATEMENT OF AMOUNTS RE
CEIVED AND SENT.
The List and Receipts Open for Inspec.
tion-The Result of the Opera
House Benefit.

The business department of the RECORD
UNION office will to-day forward to Gov
ernor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, the final
contributions OF the people of this city and
section, who sent their gifts through this
office for the relief of the sorely tried and
afflicted people of the Conemaugh valley.
1t is therefore due to the public, although
there has been published from day to day
a complete and detailed statement, that a
concluding exhibit shall be made of all the
money handled by this Office in the pre-
misses, and explanations concerning which
there may be any sort of doubt in any
mind.
On the Sd day of June the RECORD UNION
rendered to the people the services of its
busin ess department to create and forward
fund for the relief of the Pennsylvania
sufferers. No other effort was made to Or
ganize movement to create fund, and
this journal was complimented by the
prompt acceptance of its offer by the people.
Our evening contemporary, the Bee,
seconded the movement and public spirit
eddy exerted itself to make the fund credit
able to the city. No expenses, whatever,
attached in the matter. The Western
Union Telegraph Company gave the free
use of its lines for communication with
Governor Beaver, and the National Gold
Bank of D. o. Mills sent on the money
from day to day by Geographic exchange
| without any charge.
The relief fund list was kept constantly
| on the RECORD UNION counter and every
| contribution was entered upon it at once,
and in nearly every case by the parties
making it, very few requesting attending
clerks to make the entry for them. When
| ever sums came from abroad receipts were
promptly forwarded. Every morning the
| full list of the contributors and the sums
| contributed was published in elaborate de-
tail. This list includes the sums realized
| by the concert given at the Metropolitan
| Theater under the auspices of Mrs. A.
| Bonnheim, Mrs. DR.. Bruno and w. H.
Kinross, and the sum realized by Jones,
Fisch & Watson at a ball, and the sum
| realized at the two lectures given by Rev.
| A. G. HerIick and the lecture by Dr. Put
nam. 1t also included all sums sent in
from abroad, by whom, from what town
etc. AS each days list was published we
struck balance and stated what amount
| had been sent and what remained on hand
We are thus explicit in detail because it
is the right of every contributor to know
precisely how his money was handled and
| the direction given to his charity. We
also endeavored, so far as possible, to give
| the public full information concerning all
donations not in money, as services, gas
rent of theaters and halls, labor in aid of
| benefits, etc. On the afternoon of the day
| June 4th) on which the fund was opened
we sent on $500. 1t was the first money
sent from the Pacific coast for the relief of
the sufferers, and Governor Beaver returned
Geographic receipt. On these dates he
receipted also for these sums June 9Th,
| $500; June 9th, $500; June Sth. 500; June
18th, $500; June 18th, $500; June 18th,
| 1881 49, total forwarded, 81, 136 IS. Since
June 18th there has been subscribed and
| paid in $l33 IS, the last and only unpub-
| lished payment being S. by John Studarus
of Reuters. This $133 rs will be for
warded to Governor Beaver by telegraph
| to-day, making the total sum sent on
through the agency of this Office 81 30 So.
The people are to be congratulated upon
| the iberality with which response was
made to the cry of distress. 1t proves anew
| that Californians are never deaf to the ap-
peals of the deserving unfortunate. The
| list, showing all the details given above
with the receipts attached, is upon the
counter of the business Office for examina.
| ton, and will so remain for a few davs
when it will be filed away for any desired
future reference, or the use of the Pennsyl-
vania Relief Committee, which, it is under
stood, will prepare a volume acknowledg-
ing in detail all contributions.
The final and aggregate sum of the Sac
ramento fund would have been given much
earlier except for the fact that it was desir-
able to learn the result of the benefit enter
tainment given at the Opera House week
ago last Monday under the auspices of Miss
May Kewen. 1t was reasonable to EXPECT
that the public, who have an interest in
knowing the results, would have been mott
fed of the outcome of that charitable effort.
There appears to have been neglect, how
ever, to make the usual public acknowl-
edgment OF the receipts and statement of
their disposal. The RECORD UNION did not
desire to appear solicitous to have the
money pass through its hands, and there
fore refrained from inquiry. Last evening.
however, that it might discharge its duty
to the public, its representative called on
Miss kewen and respectfully requested
to be informed of the result of
the benefit, that the statement
OF the full sum contributed
by Sacramento might be published. Miss
Kewen replied that she had sent the net
proceeds to Governor Beaver through
Wells, Fargo & Co. She was requested to
state the amount melted by the benefit and
sent on, that the public might be informed
and the lady replied that she did not re-
member the exact amount, but said it was
somewhere about $3.50. Adding this sum
to the foregoing total, and the aggregate of
Sacramento's contributions is s4,420 63.
With this statement the relief fund is
closed, unless some new mishap TO our
fellow-citizens of the Conemaugh valley
calls for its reopening.