The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-16
TELEGRAMS GO GRATIS
CORRUGATED IRON TENDERED
FOR BUILDING PURPOSES.
THE COLONIAL DANES SEND IN CASH
The Present Emergency viii Serve to Show
the Por'o RicanS What il is to be
Under the Direction ofthe
United States.

Washington, Aug. 15-The War De-
partment has arranged to send two more
shiplOads of supplies to Porto Rico. The
steamer Evelyn of the New York and
Porto Rico line will sail from New
York next Friday, with full cargo
of supplies. The use of the vessel was
rendered by the steamship company free
of expense. The Government transport
Mcclellan is scheduled to leave New
York for San Juan Wednesday week.
The auxiliary cruiser ResoIute will also
be utilized in case it is found necessary.
Secretary Root has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from w. L. Guillaudeu,
New York:
Il have read with sincere regret of
devastation wrought in Porto Rico by
recent hurricane; also note your call
for aid addressed to mayors of cities,
and in this connection beg to say that if
you win designate a responsible repre-
sentative to whom such contributions
shall be consigned, the Old Dominion
Steamship Company will most cheer
fully transport such contributions over
its line free of charge"
L. NJ. Emerson, Traffic Manager of
the Atlantic Coast Line has rendered
through District Passenger Agent Reed.
the use Of that system for free trans
portation of relief supplies. Secretary
Root has accepted the offer with a let
ter of thanks.
q. W. Ribble, manager announces
that the Postal Telegraph Cable Com
pany vii handle. free of charge all
Government telegrams regarding Porto
Rican storm sufferers, and through its
connection with the Bermuda Cable
Company and West India and Panama
Cable Company, will also handle cable
grams of the same class gratuitously.
The Secretary of War was today noti-
fled by the West Virginia Steel Com
pany that they have forwarded car
load of corrugated iron to New York
city for use in building operations in the
devastated districts of Porto Rico. The
iron was accepted with thanks and will
be shipped at the first opportunity.
More contributions Of money for the
benefit of the Porto Rican sufferers were
received at the War Department today.
Among them $4O0 from the National
Relief Association of the Colonial
Danes of America.
The Secretary of War believes that the
appear 10 IHc NTONpfnOfS OF the several
States for aid in raising funds will
bring ready response. There is no ques-
tion but that the situation in Porto
Rico is desperate, but it is believed that
the United States will meet this call
upon its sympathies as generously as it
has always responded to calls of the suf-
fering, both at home and abroad. The
officials of the War Department who
have to do with the administration of
insular affairs, say that the present
emergency will at least serve to show
the Porto Ricans what it means to be
under the direction of the United States
better than would a decade of tranquil
and eventless association with this coun-
try.
Secretary Root today directed the
purchase of 100000 pounds of Goldfish
for the storm sufferers. This purchase
was suggested by General Davis, the
Goldfish practically taking the place of
meat with the poorer classes throughout
the West Indian Islands. 1t is known
in the vernacular as Halifax Chicken"