The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-09
BEGGING FOR WORK
MEN OF JACKSONVILLE
ARE DESTITUTE.
PROGRESS OF RELIEF WORK.
srwING TENT AND LAUNDRY TO BE
INTRODUCED.

1,.n1 of Those of the Better Class,
dition. ReIieVed-Sanitary Forces
Put to work and Broken Sewers
cleaned Out-OnIy CupfulI of
Rones Found of the Remains of
ing in Generously and Subscrip-
aouS TO Date Amount to $50,
1scksonville, Fla, May S.-The full
meaning of the widespread suffering III
1ocksonville was realized to-day when it
was announced in one of the meetings
.bat A great number of men who had
never been used to manual labor were
olaroring for work. Among them We're
clerks. collectors, bookkeepers and even
professional men, three young physicians
ssneciallv declaring their condition desti-
tnte as they had lost wardrobes, libraries,
office fixtures and everything in the fire.
The department of labor has undertaken
TO give clerical employment to all of these
applicants.
The executive committee of the Relief
Association arranged to-day to establish
sewing tent and % sewing machines
we're ordered ana other appurtenances
which will enable the seamstresses who
have lost everything to get to work again,
and they will relieve the condition of the
fire sufferers who have lost all clothing
but the clothes they are wearing.
A laundry will also be erected and the
colored laundresses will be started in busi-
ness again.
The situation tonight in the city shows
tnat all of the departments have been ar
ranged Systematically, and the people are
being cared for as well as conditions will
permit.
Two carloads of clothing and provisions
and one carload of potatoes arrived this
morning from New York on the New York
journals special relief train, and the ar
rival Of Ihe goods greatly relieved the sit
uaton.
The Ladies' Doing Good Work.
Good work is being done by the Ladies
Relief Association, and many ladies' of the
better class. who had been hiding their
desperate condition, were relieved.
the broken pipes throughout the city, and
force OF a hundred men were put 10
work to-day cleaning the pipes and fiush-
iQg the sewers, In the several tented viz
iages a sanitary force was put to work,
and it is believed with an exercise of great
care that all danger from typhoid fever
will be eliminated.
Tic city is still under martial law, and
55l men and forty-three officers are in
ce7trol of the city under Col. Lowell
over half million dollars worth of in
suttnce has already been paid by the ad-
j1sters, and the people are commencing
tie erection of temporary places of busi-
ness and dwellings,. A new Windsor Ho-
tel is 10 be erected at the cost of $780, 600,
ana work was commenced to-day clearing
away the debris for the laying of the
foundation The Gardner building of
eight stories will also be erected at once
on the old site.
Another Body Found.
To-day one other body was found in the
ruins, that of Mrs. Solon Robinson, whose
late husband was a member of the staff
Of the New York TrlbuneA Nothing re-
mained to tell the story of her death but
cup fun of bcnes which were found in
the debris of her late home on Church
street
Relief is coming in generously on every
tram, and the subscription list to date
amounts to about $4,000, with promises
OF aid from many places which has not
yet arrived
Commissaries have now been establish
ed all over the city.
Mrs. RObinSOn's Body Found.
Jacksonville, Fla, May Sin the ruins
o' her home, the body of Mrs. Solon Rob
,nson was found to-day, where she had
Deeh buried in the fire of last Friday.
enc was the widow of Solon Robinson,
,or H many years agricultural editor of the
New York Tribune.