The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-08
OVER A THOUSAND,
How the Portland Cuban Relief Fund is
Growing.

This week the purchasing committee of
the Cuban Relief fund will ship to New
York and from there to Havana large
amount of provisions. The money so far
collected will be spent right here in Port
land where goods so needed by the Cubans
may be obtained at cost. Portland's con-
tribution to this great work will be
large one and will be credit to the city
from which 1t comes.
Portland is ever to the front in cases of
this kind. She has done her part in all
of.the great fires where hundreds of desti
tute people have been deprived in few
hours of all their properly and been suffer
ing from the want of food and clothing.
She contributed her share at the time of
the great famine in Ireland, and when
Russias peasantry were starving Port
land was not slow in answering the ap-
peals for help.
Besides all this Portland takes care of
her own poor in q way which cannot be
equalled by any other city in this country.
Cold blooded and unthinking people may
say that "charity begins at home" and
that the citizens of this city should let
the starving Cubans suffer and look after
their own poor. If any person thinks the
city Of Portland does not look after it's
own poor, that person is not familiar
with the reports of the city treasurer or
the overseers of the poor which have been
issued in the last ten years or so. The
people of this city are broad minded.
They can see a little beyond their own
noses and when the cry for aid comes they
are never found wanting. Portland's
contributions to the cause of suffering
humanity in Cuba will be noble one,
and it is not completed yet Subscription
papers are now out and are being liberal
ly signed. Previous to this time only--one
or two papers have been in circulation
and the money SO far collected has -
largely due to the efforts of one ispssss
gentlemen. When the reports aesss ~
subscription papers are at last made 1t
will be found that the sum stated below
will have bean increased very largely.
Many kind hearted women have sent to
the secretary of the Cuban Relief COM
mittee at 81 Exchange street notification
that clothing may be had by sending a
team for it ut their homes. The use of /
team has been given the committee by
Cloudy and Kent and this collection of
summer clothing for women and children
is now going on. Any other person who !
can make contributions of this kind may |
do so without much trouble to themselves
by sending d postal card to the secretary |
of the committee.
A letter has been received in this city |
by one of the gentlemen on the committee |
written by Chairman Barton of the New |
York Central Cuban Relief committee. |
MIR. Barton says that supplies were never |
needed in Cuba as they are today. Had |
1T not been for the benevolent people of |
the United States the women and children |
in Cuba would have long since died of |
starvation and exposure on the cold |
stones Of their own ffreplaces. The picture |
he draws of the restitution in Cuba is |
haartrending and according to the adj |
reports of the suffering in Cuba can begin |
to picture the sad condition of these |
people.
An effort is to be made to have the |
supplies from this city sent, along with |
government agent, to some OF the other |
sea ports of Cuba and Havana. If this is |
done large number of people who have |
not yet been reached by Consul General |
Lee and his agents will be helped directly |
by the kind hearted people of this city |
through the various United States Con- |
suls.
Previously acknowledged. 1910. so
Mrs. Gilman Davies, 200 |
Garter Bros. Co., 500 |
Richner e. Sanborn, 400 |
W. A. Gates, 200 |
Frank P. Mckinney, 400
The Skillin Co., LOO
King & Dexter, 800
Edwards Sc Walker Co., 1000
Epworth League of Chestnut street
church, 1900
Total subscription, S1,Ol4.so