Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-18
WILLCONTINUE WORK
Messrs. Miller, Marvin and Scott
Will be Commissioners.
COMPLAINT OF THE LADIES.
Big Cases Only Half Filled With Clothing,
Mostly Worthless.
A GIRL FINDS HER MOTHER ALIVE

The rooms of the Citizens Relief Committe
were swarmed with laborers yesterday aftel
noon, who gathered to receive the pay du
them for work at Johnstown. The work o
| paying of the men occupied but very shor
time, after which the committee rooms relapse
into dull, disinteresting appearance.
But little business of any kind was trans
acted. The members of the committee ar
only too glad that their arduous duties at th
chamber are ended, and that they are allowed
| to attend to their own interests, which hav,
| suffered to no little extent through their alb
| sence. ~-
| The committee held meeting YESTERDAY
afternoon, at which Chairman McCreery ant
| Committeeman S. S. Marvin, of the committee
who went to Johnstown on Sunday to look ovel
the work that had been done, were present
They reported that everything seemed to be
going on smoothly, and that the work of the
committee was everywhere very generally ap-
preciated. They explained that they had held
a conference with a number of .Johustown's
citizens, who had agreed that it was advisable
to accept the offer of the Chicago Committee
to furnish any number of portable houses at
Sl00 each. The members of the committee
thereupon unanimously agreed to purchase 100
of the portable houses at hat figure, and tele-
graphed the result of their action to the Chi
cago committee at once.
WILL SERVE ON THE COMMITTEE.
Reuben Miller decided that they would accept
the position of commissioners of distribution
as rendered to them by Governor Beaver. and
Immediately telegraphed His Excellency that
they would serve and were ready to go to
Johnstown whenever needed.
With the exception of the meeting of the
committee, no other business was translated
during the day. The members of the commit
tee do not know when another meeting will be
called, having adjourned subject to the call of
the Chair. Committeeman Dilworth, however,
still remains at the rooms anu takes charge of
all matters relating to disbursements. The
rooms are in charge of Secretary Frost and
Stenographer Burke.
DR.. Thompson. of the State Board of Health
said to DISPATCH reporter that the pub
lished accounts of the wholesale burning of
debris at the bridge in Johnstown were un-
qualifedly false He said that nothing had
been burned, except the matter that had been
separated from the great mass, and then only
when it was positively known that there were
no bodies in the ruiDs. ''The stories about the
burning, as published, are false" said DR..
thompson, "and you can say that say So"
THE woMEN's WORK.
The Women's Relief Committee are just now
as hard at work as they have been since the
start. Of course there is not the same excite
ment about the rooms as at first but the work
is still going smoothly on, and good results are
being daily accomplished. Yesterday Mrs. DR..
Easton, the efficient head of the Bureau of In
formation, was overjoyed to greet the wan
pale face of Miss Amelia Thesis, who for days
has been haunting the rooms of the committee
in search of her mother. Nothing could be
learned OF the latter, and all but the faith
Gl daughter had come to the con-
however, persevered, and yesterday morning
she was more than overcome with Joy when
Mrs. DR.: Easton told her the glad news that
her mother was alive, and at the Mercy Hos
pital.
The fate of the young girl from Baltimore,
whose pitiable condition was described in yes
terdays DISPATCH, is still slightly trembling
in the balance. The girl Is unmistakably in the
last stages of consumption, and her days on
this earth are numbered among the few. She
is still at the Allegheny Hospital, where she
will be kept for while. In the meantime the
to procure for her transporta-
ton to Elgin, Ill, where her friends reside.
A most interesting refugee was received at the
rooms yesterday. She was Miss L. W. Kope-
years of age. She is a victim of the flood, and
has lost nearly everything. She has stout
heart, however, and expressed her determine
tion to find work. She is fairly good
and typewriter, and is willing to
work for her own living She is stopping with
a friend named Miss Louise Sherer, at No. l3
Beaver avenue. Allegheny.
DIR. Clara Hickey, well-known woman
Cdllcu dI VIC IoAioA IOOlno JCoICludys
She is on her way to Johnsuown, where she goes
at her own expense to do what she can for the |
sick and suffering women there.
The women in charge of the work at the Ex- |
position building complain bitterly that a
number of large clothing concerns of the city |
have sent them a lot of large cases, which were |
but half filled with mems clothing, in addi- |
Iion to which the contents were totally unfit |
for use, being for the most part old and dis |
carded uniforms.
Among the sufferers assisted yesterday were
John Frick and three children, j. II. Taggart,
Mrs. John Reed, Mrs. John Reed, Jr., Mrs. Al |
bert Moffatt and four children, j. Paulen and |
wife, Alice Fallon, Mrs. William Boyd, s. M. |
Lynch, father. mother and grandfather, ]. D. |
lynch, Rose Doherty, and James B. Singer and |
We Children