The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-18
MONEY is NEEDED.
The Fund for the Unem-
ployed Diminishing.
MEN BEING DISCHARGED.
Claus SpreckeIs Sends Another
Five Thousand.
A SMALL BALANCE ON HAND.
How the Money Has Been Ex-
pended by the Citizens Relief
Committee.
A SMALL BALANCE ON HAND.

If the men with money in banks and
safe deposit vaults in San francisco, the
.. men with millions invested IN various
= narts of the Stale and along the coast,
s. millions that bring them in an income
more than they can spend even In Specu-
lation: if business men whose trade is
established and whose profits are assured
within few thousands Of a certain
amount each year, in short, If all the pros
: porous people of this metropolis could
have walked down Leidesdortf street in
. the gray twilight of Friday and yesterday
mornings and seen the long line OF
wretchedly clad men. drenched to the skin
by the chilling. drilling rain. every one of
:: whom had stood in line the whole night
through in the hope of securing a days
work and one single dollar in payment,
ninety-aine out of every hundred would
d. have gone into his caSh-drawer, his safe,
his deposit vault or bank account and
would have given freely Of his boarded
. store of gold that his less fortunate fellow
men might live, not by begging, thjeVing
. or the terrible trade of the burglar or mid
. night assassin, but that they might earn,
=. as the great Creator Of US all said they
should do. an honest living by the toll OF
their hands and the sweat of their brow.
In all that long line of Shivering half
starved men, without work and we'll nlgn
without prospectS-for they were many
and the dollars in the fund for unemployed
are few-there were not half dozen who
would have held out hand for charity I
all the milliOnaires of this city had passed
them by in proce ssiOn.
There is one man in San Francisco who
did not need 10 see with his naked eyes
the picture painted by the dim lights of
do N htoal- hna NJ
the rainy night as the unemployed kept
their watch. All he needed to do was to
read it. Quickly his ever.ready purse was
again opened, aud Claus Spreckels yeSter-
day sent, for the second time, his check
for $1,000 to helm the unemployed earn
living. How gladly it was received by the
men Who:as a committee have handled the
funds need not be said, for on Friday
might f0rty-fiVe of the men who had been
steadily employed for some days were
discharged TO give the men who had no
work. or only day now and then.
chance. The funds are so low that even
with Mr.. Spreckels' magnificent donation
1t will only be a few days until the dollars
Will be exhausted.
Starting with 1900 men a day the COM
mittee bias gradually reduced the working
force to 1000 day, and. unless the citizens
again replenish the purse day by day men
Will be discharged until the last one is
gone.
Can the business men OF San Francisco
afford to allow this state of affairs to come
about? is the question that was asked
more than once on Change yesterday, and
a majority of the far-seeing, successful
financiers answered it in the negative. So
far only small portion of men who can
help have done so. The burden has been
borne by the few, comparatively speaking.
and some of them are growing tired of
we'll doing when they see others equally
a t-oI,,
appeal ls made to all business men. work
ingmen, capitalists, and especially to the
men Of ample means who are most able to
help, to do so al once and without further
request.
Owing to yesterday being business
complete list of the subscriptions handed
in since last published, but the following
are those received yesterday in addition
:: to Mr.. SpreckeIs' 5000:
David F. Walker. $50; cash. So; q young
man, 81 So. DR.. c. G.. Kenyon, $50; from
pioyeS of Levi Strauss 81 Co.. S73; the
Golden Rule Bazaar, $40 so: employees of
the Pacific Bell Telephone Company
(partial) S25 so; employees of White House
Second ubscrlption)t SJ8 20S. Golden
Circle of the Kings Daughters, So
st. Stephens Episcopal Church (addl-
.tionaD, S12 80; Kayanagh d Nolan. $40;
Los Lomas Parlor No. Y, NativeDaugh-
tiers Of the Golden West, ST 20: cash, $50 /;
arbitration. committee, ,S5 = III. SchwaIr IN,
$40; Master Herbert B. Foster 81; girl
S3;PmplOyes of the San Francisco Savings
Union: S69; a. servant girl, So; Henry
-HOrStmaBn. $50
-. The total relief fund receipts up to date
ara: S78047 II, and the total expenditures
Sal, 1892 80, leaving a balance of $40, $50 q
in the fund last night The money has
been paid out to men at 81 per day as
follows -"
January 4, s2ol; 9Th. s451; 9Th. s7Os.;
9Th. 1851; OH. $3.50; 10Th, Si624; 11th,
Sl621;. 18th. S1625s Is h, SPOIL; 18th. SS45;
18Th. S2071; 17rh, S2352; 18Th. S239S; 19th
:; 'S2566; 22d, 1857; 23j, 1854; 9th. S2641
18th, S1629 80; Goth. 1890 80; 27rh. 1856;
:. 18th, Sf3l9; 3Oth. S1357; 31st, S1357.
February l, S11O8; ID, S1414; I'd. 1896
9th, S1444; 9th, S1497,; 18th, Sl2I4; 8'h.
$3.50: 9rt, S1406 ;. 10Th. S1436: 18th, 1856
18th; $l408; 44th, $1273; 18th. S1439; 10th.
:: S1086.: :.
:. For teams-J January :28, 1891 so; ooh
: S97 80; Both. S96 %; ,3lst. $50 %; .Fnbru-
airy 3. sos 25; 10th, sS597:; total, S14S1 10
The showing is a grand one. but moro
money Is needed; and needed at once, tt
keep the good work going,
=. California Garrison No. 10 will give a
grand performance at 2 o'clock on: Febru-
airy % next at the armory. corner Of Page
and Cough streets; for the benefit of the
unemployed -. -