The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-08
-rrsToN SIX WEEKS AFTER THE
w. STORM. 4s,-' g

winch me Noou feopie Oh the lhlteu
VI" Are sending. "O'er True Tales
erphi.sl'S Told
correspondence of The Journal
...ye SION, TEXAS, Oct. -, 1900
. .Toneous impression seems to be
.p IN the North that Galveston's
...s,, need is over and that her wants
Aeru fully supplied. During the
neck several small donations have
-u the Red Cross, accompanied
.. ,.e.o4ies from the donors for the
...r-.- If the gift and expressing a
...t.aJ opportunity for its use has
d.pY gone by. The truth is that
-tuions were never SO urgently
.1 RI ROW, when the storm-surviy-
- vast beginning to realize their
N3 to take up the business of
.. ~ far, donations have been
a old clothes: and it is high
a halt was called in that mis-
Ut charity. From every city,
Cross roads hamlet in the
-.ates. clothes have poured i'll
Nl ship-loads and train-loads.
.. aMe garments saw their best
!ong ago: many are entirely
aud some are SO dirty that
tutors are fam to handle them
=. at arms length. Perhaps
produce in the breasts of the
....- tai comfortable feeling of hav-
pi the Lord: but remembering
aides and gentlemen for whom
-. -Sigued lately had homes and
as good as anybody's, the
-r DO their affection of clothes
k-dOOr tramp would diSclaim.
.. -- ing. to say the least \ few
-.... nave contributed new goods,
r-t Wp-Worn and out of fashion,
sable. and may Heaven bless
.- -fy one. for the worthy charity,
.. Mo sent whole box of beau
.-. shoes, allt'or the LETT foot, prob
umer's samples, as there real
.. eN one-legged folk in Calves
worst box l have yet seen
atu. Nuc from New Jersey; it would
.... ...i 20 tell you the town. Fortu-
..r aas not very large, containing
So pairs of Workmen's trouS-
stored with mud. paint and
.r-. rhy and odoriferous flannel
. .- r.'Iale under-g garments ragged
and WOODEN dresses fairly
...- -3 pieces from the ravages of
.r .}t course it would never do to
u-- ~ anybody. nor even to con
letter things by putting them
POSITION. What we do with
les is well-kept secret but
This late hour may whisper
.. r1E The natural impulse is
-lch things out of the rear
Ml afterwards to make a bon
~
Dad policy, as false stories
ire to get abroad concerning
ei waste of good material
pt the same plan which that
.- u, Miss Barton, originated
al has practiced successfully
lcllS, viz: all worthless arti-
rrtully put into new barrels.
oiled outside toward even
apparently forgotten. And
.lag the barrels are found
very last dirty rag stolen
poorest plantation negro
O>e to accept as gift.
Which we tacetiously term
MI the Robes that is. chief
es distributing department,
It. For a time it devolved
4I undersigned, until flesh
tuHld no longer endure the
ll a fortunate collapse re-
--. oe from its Onerous duties
a, tirst fortnight in Galveston
Ylcdge that | gained of
srlre, noble and ignoble, would
uues From early morning, till
't frndered these torn-up, un-
ll streets well nigh impossible, a
~ poor humanity surged around
t 'afe--UuSe doors; and, as always,
a-F 0u4est, if not the least deserving,
- and elbowed their way to the
IN nave given free entrance
d -aNr meant chaos and utter sus-
t'S" ot business: so windows and
l' We're barred, and able bodied
W"ueH on guard were instructed to
"Q' only a given number at time.
tf1 rnyenient loop-hole inspection
'r e-u@tl was frequently made and,
@'afls possible, the aged and feeble and
A.ats with young children were adj
1.a'1 irst Each member of the dis
"1'llne committee took people in
"''gr and fitted them out from top to
'1 ginning with hose and ending
''0 bat, and, nearly every one of the
'ii presenting family of from three
iolen, each also to be out-ftted,
f 'i" round represented the clothing
least twenty-four people. Then
"F'' WITH their bundles, big and little,
"' hustled out of the back door and
'g'' relay let in at the front and the
'e round again begun. Thus in a