The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-06

nings, Miss Joe Schwatka, Mia
Maude Wood, Miss Myrta Bagley
Mrs. w. II. II. Green, Mrs. r. W. CLAYTON
Mrs. NJ. G. Watson, Miss L. A. Won TobeI
Mrs. n. b. George, Mrs. NJ. A. Chase. Mrs
Q. Johnson, Mrs. J. s. Allet, Mrs. Hattie
Flynn, Miss Flora Spriggs, Miss Pearl
Dawson, Miss Pearl Boynton. Miss JOSH,
Shorb. Mrs. Short, Misses Cora and Racha
tunnel, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. A. J. Fisken,
Mrs. Peiton, Mrs. j. c. Nevins, Mrs,
Yancy, Misses Martha Yandell, C. Collyer.
Parker, Watson, Crawford, Mary Strive
Gormley, Kellogg, Emma Atkins. Mrs
M. j. Chandler, Mrs. r. P. Daniels. Mrs
Ethel Carter, Mesdames Josenhans scott
Randolph, Misses Sprague. Rochester
Lena Graves, Iva Gormley, Grace Yonng'
man and Zanette Baxter. Mrs. clarh
Davis and Mrs. w. II. Fl. Green took turn,
as captains Of the watch. The full NEED
of praise will never bs accorded these
ladies.
It was not church social. These ladie,
worked from morning till night WAITING
upon hungry and often impatient men by
the hundred, aye, by the thousand, some
OF whom were far from agreeable custom
ers."
"Of these ladies'" said Commissary Hat.
field, on June Is, after ten days toll, "toa
much cannot be said. They have all
worked hard and willingly since the fire.
Some of them rendered service from 8 a.
N. until p. m. without word of COM
plant. The present force of ladies is COM
pletely worn out, and it is desirable that
others should come forward and take their
places"
Fortunately that was not needed much
longer. The committee began to put
price on the meals, and gradually raised ID
until 1t became cheaper to eat at restau-
rants and the necessity had entirely died
out.
The Tacoma Relief Corps had its tents
at the northeast corner of Third and Uni
versity. Cots by the hundred were placed
there, besides blankets and mattresses.
and fully 400 found a nights rest. One
tent was specially fitted up for women.
Twenty cooks. ten dishwashers and twenty
walters were hired to attend to the wants
of those who sought relief, and none were
sent empty away.
There were $50 tents sent from Fort
Vancouver and as many more from Walla
Walla, but these were mainly loaned to sub
stantial storekeepers. The only thing as to
which there was scarcity was liquor and
that was vigorously excluded. Several at
tempts were made to smuggle kegs of beer
and barrels of whisky to points where they
had been promised consumption, but they
were frustrated and the contraband confis-
Gated.
Money began to stream in within few
hours after the fire. Tacoma sent $4,000
in three days, Puget Mill Company, EIlens-
burgh, Henry Willard, Spokane county, J.
J. Browne, Of Spokane, Yakima, Vacou-
yer, B. c., San Jose, Cal, each sent 81, 900
by telegraph, and smaller sums amount
ing to $36.SS5 were acknowledged on the
Monday following the fire.
Seattle's citizens, with all the claims
upon them, were not unmindful of the
needs of the unfortunate. San Francisco
telegraphed $4,000; Virginia City. New,
sent 1000; Portland $1,000, besides many
individual contributions; altogether with
Tacoma's magnificent contributions Of
supplies, and generous Port Townsend's
$500 worth, the donations amounted to
$4,000 within q week.
By June 20 the city had entered fully
upon its reconstruction era Men were at
work. the eleemosynary organizations
were closing up their labors, the militia
were Withdrawn and the saloons began to
reopen.
The story Of glorious good fellowship on
the part Of the entire country toward Seat
tie and Of self-denial and public-spirited
heroism on the part Of her own citizens, Is
worthy to be inscribed upon aron ofhonor
whose pages should never be closed to
memory