The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-03

At yesterdays regular meeting of |
the executive or general committee |
of the Soldiers Relief association the |
committee was increased from nine to |
twenty-seven members by the addition |
of Colonel II. NJ. Boies, Colonel f. II. |
Ripple, Hon. l.. a. Watres. Hon. Il. n. |
Willard, S. b. Price, j. Il. Dimmick, |
c. S. Weston, G. II. Zehnder. Hon. +. |
w. Gunster, Henry Belin, jr., Henry |
+. Reynolds and f. l.. Terppe, of |
Scranton; Homer Greene and II. j. |
Conger, of Honesdale; Hon. w. II. |
Jessup, of Montrose, and F. Il. Dennis, !
Mayor j. j. O'Neil and w. r. Colville, |
of Carbondale.
The meeting was held in the board |
of trade offices. Hon. Alfred Hand, |
the president, presided. The others !
present We're Conrad Schroeder. Cap !
tain w. a. May, II. H. Dale, c. r, Man !
vile, and d. Is. Atherton, the seCre-
tary.
Secretary Atherton reported thirteen
applications for relief. The cases were
distributed in every section of the city
and one was from Dalton and one
from Dunmore. He cited the difficulty
already experienced by the relief COM
mttee in investigating the applca-
tions and recommended the employ
ment of an agent. lr such n person
was needed now, he argued, there
would be no question as to the neCes-
| sity later on.
CAPTAIN MAYS REMARKS.
Captain May suggested that per-
manent appointment be deferred until
| the general committee membership
| pnp,rnittpn
he said. had been obliged to give as
surance to many subscribers to the
fund that money for salaries would
not be paid except under some impera-
tive contingency. In view of this un-
| derstandng, he thought the enlarged
committee should authorize the en-
| ployment of the agent. He approved
| the suggestion, however.
The matter of employing an agent
| temporarily and of fixing regular days
! for meetings of the relief and finance
committees to distribute relief and en-
dorse vouchers, respectively, was refer
| red to the former committee with
| power to act. The person to act as
! agent temporarily and probably per-
| manently was suggested by Secretary
| Atherton and the suggestion was
agreed to, 1t was decided not to re-
veal his identity for obvious reasons.
| He is a Christian gentleman, conNer-
SAINT with and for long time actively
| engaged in charitable work.
Secretary Atherton stated that many
| applicatiOns did not need relief al
though the stories of this class had
| silcnced the most plausible. he cited
several Of these cases for the intorma-
| tion of the committee. One case was
that of a young woman whose pltl1ul
letter to Colonel COursen had been Tor
warded by him to the association. she
| had asserted her great poverty, dls-
| tress and sorrow on account or having
| had to leave the home of the parents
of her husband who is with the reSl-
ment She was about to become a
mother. she wrote, and asked for her
husbands discharge. The case was in
yestigated and revealed the fact that
the couple were married just before
the regiment left Scranton, that the
woman knew the groom elect was go
ing away and that she was living hap
pfly with and was we'll cared for in her
husbands family,
RELIEF AFFORDED.
b BY the relief committee is was report
ed that $50 of the $545 received by the
treasurer had been expended for rellel.
After the meeting the expenditure or
$40 more among four cases known TO be
worthy was authorized by the commit
tee. Eight other cases on file will have
to be investigated.
The additional members mentioned
in the foregoing were nominated by
the special committee appointed for
that purpose and were elected.
\ letter from Charlotte Smith, OF
Washington. president of the woman
Patriotic Industrial Relief league, was
read. 1t solicited the assoCia tion's sup
port and maintenance of matron for
the Thirteenth, the matron to be ap-
pointed and her work directed by the
league. Action on the matter was post
pOned.
From w. u. B. Ancy, of MOntrose,
CX-caDtain of Company 6, a letter was
received to the effect that the Montrose
committee had taken no action of the
Scranton associations request for CO.
operation. 1t was remarked at the
meeting that possibly the Montrose
pe0ple incorrectly presumed that Scran-
ton was after financial cooperation in
view of the $1,000 raised by the citizens
of that borough. whereas their coop
Grafton in only the work at the front
was asked. Secretary AthortOn was
directed to communicate this to the
NontrOse organization.
The fund to date was announced as
follows:
Previously ACKNOWLEDGED ...........Sl4n
"lricnd' $j per month ,,,,.,."..,. ----
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