The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-15
+. Raphael,
o. c. Drew,
II. w. Taylor,
Vim. Christinn
THE coLoRED COMMITTEE
"aRcS nm Appeal to Help the Refu-
gees Mt Emancipation ParIS.

e" u" appear TO Help the Refu-
gees nj Emancipation Park
70 the Editor of The Post.
Houston. Texas. July 14.--Please allow
me space In the columns OF your paper
TO say few words. For thirty years
nave been trying to learn how to speak
When TO speak and to whom. l now think
us time FOR me to speak few words
to the people of Houston relative to thu
sufferers who are now In the city and have
been for the past eigh; or ten days under
my immediate supervision as chairman OF
committee. On Friday July T. we landed
IN the Emancipation park fifty-two people
and In the next three days this number
was increased 200. and they continued to
come until the number had reached over
aoo' They have been properly clothed and
ied by the liberal donations received from
the citizens and for the last four or Ave
days we have been sending them back
TO their homes as fast as possible through
the Kindness OF the Arkansas Pass and
southern Pacific railways. Yesterday
visited the grounds and made a thorough
examination and found there 107, mostly
old men, women and children who must
De cared for a few days longer. The com
mittee has done Its best to provide for
their comfort. but now supplies arc about
exhausted and for the committee to care
Tor these, who are there. food of q sub
stantial nature must be Forthcoming AS
to wearing apparel the committee had al
surplus supply and has turned same over
TO the white central committee to be dis
tributed among the sufferers In districts
mostly needed. A meeting to be hold on
the grounds last Thursday was arranged
Tor IN order TO give the hearted
persons who had not had an opportunity
to show their liberality a chance to do 30
but the inclement weather materially In
terfcred. thus preventing us from getting
many donations we might have gotten. II
find thirteen sick persons on the grounds,
who were compelled to have immediate
treatment. DR.. F. r. Robcy, E. b. Ram
sey, S. NJ. Lyons and w. H. Scott Will
lngly went out and prescribed for them
gratuitously. but the medicine furnished.
and to be furnished until they shall have
recovered, must be paid for, hence you see
why we make this appeal to you to give
us more aid. When the work of the com
mittee shall have been finished and all
persons shall have returned or vacated tho
grounds, the committee Will then present
10 the liberal public record OF Its work, I
with the names and amounts OF the several
donors. reporting the remainder. II there
be any. ! want TO again state that this I
committee has not and Will not receive
amy aid from any other source saving the
very liberal people OF Houston; acting
upon tDis, dThhbemeHtb nave pten PcI-
fected TO hold services on the Emancipa-
ton grounds on Sunday afternoon for the
purpose of soliciting further help for the
sufferers. Rev. Fl. Watts Will be In charge
OF these services and a most excellent time
Is expected The general public is invited
to be present and most earnestly asked to
come out prepared 10 give cheerfully and
literally for the suffering people. In con-
clusion, allow me TO say that we ought
TO be proud that we live In a country
where charity knows no color In the hour
OF deepest distresses OF a human soul.
Through the Kindness OF Mr.. Theodore
Keller. my employer, have been per-
mitted to give my time to looking after
these poor and needy people for the past
len days without charge or remuneration.
Faithfully yours. ii. Taylor.
Chairman Colored Central Relief Com
mittee.