The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-12
sAvANNAH's SYMPATHY FOR INDIA
Plans for Next Monday Nights Mass
Meeting.


The ministers Of the city and the la
dies who enlisted their efforts in the
cause are busily engaged in the India re-
lief work. The immediate object in view
is TO obtain large attendance at the
public meeting at Wesley Monumental
church Monday night The ladies taking
an active part in the work for the success
Of this meeting are making every. effort to
secure large attendance, and 20 arrange
a programme that will be OF interest.
The energy with which the ministers and
their sympathizers in the work In which
they are engaged are managing the ar
rangements indicates that the meeting
viii be most interesting one. Alderman
y 2. Hamilton and Alderman ". G.
Charlton will represent the city, and Dr.
James Y. Fair of the Independent Pres
byterian and Rev. John D. jordan Of the
First Baptist church win deliver addresses
bearing upon India and the sufrerings to
which the famine and the plague have
subjected its Inhabitants.
Stereopticon pictures representing the
extent OF the sufferings Of the people, will
be shown. A proper conception Of the raw
ages brought by the famine may be drawn
from these represent ations The pictures
will be presented between the addresses.
The American people are doing telling
work for the sufferers OF India. AS an IL
lustration of some Of the charitable deeds
that have been done may be cited the
case of Elkhart, Ind, a small town, from
which and its vicinity seventy-five car
loads OF corn have been sent to await
shipment to an Indian port. 1t is more de-
sirable to send corn or wheat than any
other form of supplies as more nourlsh-
ment can be secured from the cereals and
more can be gained to represent the out
lay.
Personal contributions have already
been sent from Savannah, but what they
viii amount to is not known. There has
been sent from America already close to
$4,000. To this, the addition of money and
supplies yet to go will make Americans
contributions to the extent of $125,0O0 This
additional sum of 365, 900 has already been
subscribed and means for sending over
the supplies representing the sum are all
that is lacking to prevent the sufferers
from having the grain at once. Con-
gress has provided for the securing OF a
vessel 1t has not been possible to OBJ
tain this vessel yet, however, as certain
stipulations and restrictions hedge the ar
rangements.
The suffering of the people in India shows
no sign Of abatement The latest reports
indicate an increase Of distress. The num-
Der Of persons on the government relief
WI 10 Tue dCCtplGQ gauge OF the
pressure of the famine-has risen to 3, 120,-
co., Large numbers who shrank from
applying for public relief, having hereto
fore supported themselves by honest la
Dor, have now, their savings entirely ex-
hausted, accepted the only alternative to
starvation, and with their wives and chill
dren are breaking stones or mending roads
for the government in return for a small
daily dole of food. Ladies and children
are now to be seen in any government re-
lief camp painfully doing this labor Miss
Helen Richardson, the principal of the in
dustrial home for women in Bombay, re-
Gently paid a personal visit to the villages
in the famine districts and inspected the
relief camps. She returned to Bombay
on April 10. and the following day gave
the people of the city a report of the pain
full scenes she had witnessed. The Bonn
bay Guardian says:
Miss Richardson declared that the in
habitants of large city centers like Bonn
bay had no realization of the dreadful
ravages of the famine. The situation in
India was indeed serious. Humanity in
the most affected parts was made up of
so many living skeletons. Pressed by
hunger, these beings knew no fear, and
the naturally intense love that the mother
once had for her children was now dead
or forgotten in the absorbing quest of food.
A once fond mother offered her child for
three rupees to a missionary, saying that
she wanted to buy enough food to satisfy
herself for few days, and then die.