The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06

Five Cargoes Are Now Ready
for the Starving People
OF India.
California to Be Asked to Contribute
500 Tons-Story of Great Pub.
lie Charity.

DR.. Richard Gear Hobbs of Jackson
vile, ILL.,, secretary of the Illinois Con.
ference of the NJ. E. Church and special
representative of DR.. Louis Klopsch of
the Christian Herald, has arrived here to
attend to the loading of the whaleback
City of Everett with corn for the starving
in India. He reached here yesterday,
and is at the Occidental.
The corn which is needed to load the
ship, or at least $500 tons of it, is coming
by rail from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and
Illinois. About 500 tons OF il is here
already, being stored IN the warehouse of
G. W. McNear, at Port Costa. The rest
will come along as fast as possible, so Mr..
Hobbs says, and he hopes to get it all
loaded and ready to sail for Calcutta, the
port for which it is destined. in three
weeks. The City of Everett is expected
down from the Sound in day or two.
Though DR.. Hobbs has done great deal
to get contributions of corn for the suffer
ing people of India he saws he has done
nothing com pared to DR.. Klopsch, who is
the head and front of this great public
charity, and he desires to have him receive
the credit for it. His paper, the Christian
Herald, Mr.. Hobbs says, has circulation
OF 100000 weekly, and DR.. klopsch has
| used it's influence in favor of the people
of India and has already got enormous
contributions for them.
He has enough at this date" said DR..
| Hobbs. Ito load five ships. One of these
cargoes will go on the City of Everett and
another will 60 from New York on an
| other vessel furnished by the United
| States Government. This last cargo will
consist of about 1000 tons. The other
| three cargos will be taken from New York
| in British ships, as England has offered
to join US and carry away this grain.
1.-The City of Everett. which will be
loaded here, will carry about 5000 tons of
| prairie States. and as there is room for 500
| tons more, we hope that California will
| make up this amount.
1.-The 40OO-to ship will sail from New
! York first. After that England will con-
tribute as many ships as are needed. The
movement is just at its height. l think
| DR.. Klopsch is sure to get two or three
| shiploads besides those already obtained.
| The Mennonites in Kansas have con-
| tributed no less than ninety carloads of
corn. They raised most of the corn they
! contributed in their colony. The rest of 1t
they bought. The farmers through lii
nois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska have
contributed literally The Rev. DR.: T.
| Dewitt Taimage, DR.. Klopsch and Miss
| Leach, the latter a returned Indian mis-
slonary, have just completed a tour of
these States. The meetings were thronged
and were attended with a great deal of
enthusiasm, while the contributions were
very liberal. The concluding meeting was
| to be at the Auditorium in Chicago, where
it was proposed to ask for shipload of
| corn. 1 haven't heard from the meeting,
| but think they got it.
I'VE are asking only for corn, first be-
cause it is cheaper than wheat, and next
because the Indian people are accustomed
to it and want it in preference to anything
else. DR.. Kiopsch has been identified
| with many great charities. He raised
and. forwarded $50 900 to the Armenians
He sent $50 900 and thirty carloads of
supplies to Kansas and Nebraska at the
| time of the drouth. He also sent a cargo
of wheat to Russia during the famine"
| DIR. Hobbs is accom- panied by Mrs.
| Hobbs, who will go with him to India.