The San Francisco call., 1897-04-09
HUNTINGToN's CONTRIBUTION.
He Sends 500 to Swell the Balboa
Boulevard Fund

He Sends 500 to Swell the Balboa
Boulevard Fund.
Funds continue to come in to provide
for giving work on Balboa boulevard to
the unemployed, and the drive Is being
pushed TO completion as rapidly as the
treasury of the ommlttee will permit
New subscriptions were recorded yester-
dav as follows: The Scotch Irish Society
OF California. 500; modest lawyer, $50;
the Sheriff's Office, $10O; the Bullock and
Jones Company, $50; Kahn Bros. & Kline.
$10;. Dorr Bros. & Co., $40; Edward Pro-
bert, $40; cash, $40; ]. K. Prior, $50; c. P.
Huntington, 500.
With his subscription Mr.. Huntington
sent the following letter:
SAN FRANCISCO, April S, 1897.
William W. Bunker Esq, chairman Citizens
Committee for Relief Of Unemployed, Chamber of
Commerce, San Francisco, Cal.-DEAR SIR: am
in receipt OF your letter of the LIST inst, which
have read most carefully and with much in
terest. will subscribe to the relief fund one
hundred dollars ($100). and trust that you
may find as many others to do their part as
do this all the more readily because / am
assured by you that the money is given
to men who are willing to earn it. II
does seem to me that there ought to be enough
work, either in the City or country, to keep
constantly employed the 26OO men who, you
say, have registered their applications In too
OF work and whose families need it are not
willing to go into the country and onto the
farms, preferring worry and suffering, and
sometimes almost starvation, to even a tempo
rary exile from The large towns, which return
them in some degree the pleasures of life. 1
think this is the case very largely at the
tramped daily by multitudes of idle men,
some OF whom are willing to work anywhere
and at anything, many of whom are willing
to work providing they can get IL in the
city, and believe the greatest number OF
whom do not want work at all, but the where
with to keep them from the necessity of work
ing. am inclined to believe that the great
majority of men who really want work can get
1t somewhere, and i am certain that if such a
man goes to work with an honesty of
purpose. and exercises an intelligent econ
omy. making a point of living on less
than he makes, no matter what he makes,
and no matter how much sacrifice of
comfort or pleasure ittnvolves, he will not, in
one case out OF hundred, ever need again to
seek employment; for such men are valua Bile
everywhere and always. They make good
citizens and are the foundation of prosper
Gus people.
1 know that when I was a boy 1 never had
any difficulty in finding plenty to do, and
worked went at it with all my might, never
watching the clock TO see when it was time to
begin or when the regulation hour for stop
ping had arrived. Ny income was small then
but the outgo was invariably something less,
and 1t was only question of time in my case
as 1T must be in the case of every man whose
rune VI llLe ls the same-WDen SnOulQ nave
three hands instead of two to work with Tor
capital is great servant and its strength
when carefully and intelligently exercised,
grows greater and greater. Men ana women
require. as matter of necessity, very few
things to make them comfortable, and
II they have small means the surest way to
contentment and happiness is to reduce their
desires to the level of their needs until they
can afford to indulge them. Particularly in
the case of the young does this seem TO me to
be OF first importance for one can we'll afford
to sacrifice the pleasures of few of his early
years for the sake of The freedom from anxiety
which he will find such a boon and comfort in
his declining days, and If We had schools to
teach these simple first principles of right liv-
ing think 1t would be money well expended
to establish them. I am very truly yours
G. p HUNTINGTON
dre totai SuDsCriptlOns 10 date amour ito
SIS, sos 70. and $40, 12S 80 had been paid
out up to last night.