The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-02
STILL in NEED OF HELP
GALVESTON RELIEF WORK HAS
ONLY MADE GOOD START.
Erroneous Statements Made About the
Amount Contributed, Which Is
Less Than n Million.

GALVESTON. Tex, Oct. John Sealy.
chairman of the finance committee, sub
committee of the Galveston central relief
committee. and custodian of the relief
fund, has given out the following to the
Associated Press:
..All subscriptions that have been turned
over to me up to and including Oct. ],
from all sources, amount to s7S1. .043.63. This
amount includes all money received by me
direct. all received by Mayor w. c. Jones,
and also s3o9,500 remitted TO me by Gov
ernor Sayers, out of subscriptions made
to him. The Governor has also ordered
a further remittance TO me of SlOO,0OO
which should reach me in the next few
DAYS. and he will send me from time 10
time such additional funds as he may re-
ceive. We are now arranging in proper
shape full itemized statement of all re-
ceipts and amounts expended, which will
Apropos of Mr. Sealy's report the News
tomorrow will say editorially: THE
pressing need OF Galveston is money with
now homeless and to make habitable the
homes of many others. Some correspond
ents have sent out statements to the effect
buted for the relief of Galveston-one pub
lished statement fixed the amount at s15.-
o00.0 These statements have led the
astray, and have had a tendency to check
the impulse to give, because IL seemed
that the requirements had been met. But
the real truth is that Galveston has UP to
tie more than sufficient to bury the dead.
remove the debris, accomplish the work
of sanitation and TO pay the expenses for
mittee had to buy before supplies OF food
and clothing began to arrive from the OUT
side world. And in this connection. with
a property loss of 100000 600. Galveston is
called upon TO face problem Of rehabillta-
ton and to provide for the housing of more
than 5000 homeless people.
Mature has been kind since the storm:
there has been no rainfall of consequence:
the weather has been pleasant and the
winds have been tempered. But conditions
cannot last. and much greater suffering
inevitably ensue IL provisions are not made
quickly to house these victims of the storm.
The relief fund is being drawn on heavily
to pay men for removing the debris thus
enabling them to help themselves and at
the same time preventing a demoralizing
condition which would result If able-bodied
men were permitted 10 draw supplies with
out rendering an equivalent But this
merely enables them to provide the neces-
-saries of life and is not creating roofs over
the heads Of their families. nor over wom-
and children who have one left TO
work for them.
Miss Clara Barton has told the world
of the conditions existing i'm Galveston
and has estimated that at least s., ,0O0 600
would be required to meet the urgent ne
ctSsities. The News supplements her ap-
peal with the statement that the con-
tributions up to date aggregate $Ssl, ,043. .63.
and has asked the Associated Press 10
spread this statement TO the world in order
that the false impressions made by un-
authorized and unfounded publications NAV
be counteracted so far 1T Is possible TO
do so.''
One thousand laborers employed In re-
moving debris will be released tomorrow
as the work has sufficiently progressed 10
warrant this step. 1t will enable the rail-
roads and other large corporations TO get
the laborers they need to continue the
restoration OF their properties