The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-16
kHE RELIEF MOVEMENT.
\, lpueal for More Medicine for the
Sick.
PHYSICIANS ARE ASKED TO VOLUNTEER
q, a the Flood Stricken District.
s-.r,,es still Being Sent Ont ana
subscriptions Coming In.

u6erers was sometnlns W cat NOW ina
-. ara able to get back to their farm.
49,, and that their necessities multiply
rs.,- stock has been lost in many in.
,,,nss their houses are wrecked, theii
,riculturh implements washed away
..rness. wagons, etc. $50 you see." re-
,r..d Chairman Taliaferro yesterday
.our work IS Just fairly commencing. w,
IN .ry to put these people on their fee
80, and In the way Of making living
~, IN do this they have got to be sup
.,,.a with the necessary means to accom-
pllsh the end.
.,They can't make crop with seed and
!. naked ground. They have got to hav'
omsthing with which to till the soil
rhen again sickness among these people II
,sv,table. We are making strenuou.
.To-t 10 supply them with medicine, blu
~. will need doctors and we would lik,
ak for volunteers. II there are an,
smong the young physicians who are in {
osition 10 tender their services our com.
,nittee will tender them every facility pos
rhle TO reach the Brazos and jump i'm
medately into very extensive II MOI
lucrative practice"
~
The following letter was sent yesterday
b leading drug houses at st. Louis, New
York New Orleans. Shreveport, Philadel.
mia and Sherman:
Houston, July 15.-Gentlemen: The
overflow OF the Brazos river has
wrought the entire destruction Of
crops, food supplies and stock In Sec
lions contiguous to same. DecaylnB
animals and vegetation creating sick
ness OF serious character. the demand
for staple drugs is immense. Persons
and corporations are responding lib
orally. but there are from fifteen to
twenty thousand people to be relieved
and provided for. Our funds are near
ly exhausted VIII not your Arm make
a donation of staple household drugs
10 this committee for distribution to
these sufferers?
We refer you to banks, railroads ana
your agents in Texas.
i The Houston Drug company, who
are already large contributors to this
fund, have kindly offered to receive
and distribute for us any donations.
Therefore, we will thank you to con-
sign any contributions In kind to the
Houston Drug company, for account of
the relief committee.
All OF our railroad and express COM
panies are carrying supplies free, and
we believe upon application your
transportation companies will be
equally generous. Yours truly
S. Taliaferro,
Chairman Relief Committee.
The soliciting committee desires to ro-
seat the following appeal to the pastors
If the city:
To the Pastors. Rectors, Rabbis and
Ministers of Churches in, the City
Of Houston.
Houston, July 15.--Gentlemen: The
Undersigned committee, to select
funds for the food sufferers, realize
that the pastors, rectors. rabbls and
ministers of churches in this city are
In sympathy with the movement OF the
central committee under whose charge
some 10000 destitute sufferers by the
food have been placed by the gov
ernor OF the State OF Texas. These
people have lost their all, and must
be fed, clothed and their sick treated,
u until seed can be planted and food
grown upon their now desolated
fields. This takes money, and in order
to organize a systematic movement to
collect funds from the charitably in
clined, the undersigned committee
proposes to you the following method.
Cut out this letter. and on Sunday
next Gully 16, 1899 let this appeal
for funds be read from your pulpits
supplemented by such appropriate re-
marks as you may feel called upon to
make to your congregations. Then
lei collections be taken UP for the
flood sufferers, to be set aside for that
purpose. These collections you will
then please enclose. with the name OF
your church and congregation Endorsed
thereon. and forward same to Mr.. s.
Taliaferro, chairman of the central
committee. Houston. Asking your
hearty cooperation in this worthy
and charitable cause, yours very truly.
e. Raphael,
o. G. Drew.
e. w. Taylor.
VIM. Christian,
Soliciting Committee.
N. B.-Since drafting the above ap-
peal the committee is advised some
churches took Up collections for this
purpose last Sunday. We. therefore,
call upon those churches and congre-
cations who have not done so to re-
spond to the Sunday collections for the
hood sufferers. Hebrew organizations
may take up collections on the Sab
bath following. Committee.
WV
The committee yesterday received
telegram from NJ. D. Monserrate. vict
president and general manager OF th'
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway
rom San Antonio wherein he states tina
W FOUND the relief matters at Fulsbea
~ GOOD shape. He says the people ar
sSSS'ns all In their power and far NOR
ny, Ian could be expected of them to re
..o,e the sufferers. distributing ration
~ oooO sufferers He advises the sending
VI more quinine and medicine, as in hi
cpnnioh the present condition will surel.
cause sickness.
MI G. w. Richie of Chenango yester
Sas made request for supplies neces
'afs 70 relieve the distress and immediat
%snts OF 500 people. The request was in
rrav by J. l.. Bonney, who is on tn
, ns.uuna and has investigated the situa
,r. u mere. Mr. Richie was wired that
uoraecad OF supplies would be sent hin
Mr.. 9, W. Osborne Of zuver, Hill coun
M ~, 'endered through The Post yesterda
~ pushei OF Mexican corn, one bushe
bIa.ra,nr corn, lot of cotton seed an
ue Following acknowledgements hav
been sent The Post.
me Editor OF The Post.
eou. July 1--we are in receipt O
Ne sent by II. d. Taylor q Sons, whic