The age-herald., 1901-05-09
 Professional Menof Jacksonville Are Destitute. A MOST PITIABLE SPECTACLE IheyWiIl be Given Some Kind of Clerical Positions
NEGROES ARE REFUSING TO WORK
They StIil Claim a Share of the Relief Provisions, and 1t Is Feared That Serious Trouble
 Will Result.


 meaning of the widespread suffering in Jacksonville was realized today when it was announced in one of the meetings that great number of men who had never been used to manual labor were clamoring for work Among them were clerks. collectors, bookkeepers, and even professional men. three young physicians especially declaring their condition dessi- tute. as they had lost wardrobes, librar- ies. office fixtures and everything in the fire. The department of labor has un- dertaken to give clerical employment to all Of these applicants.
 A laundry also will be erected and the colored laundresses will be started in business again
 Two carloads of clothing ana provi- sions and one carload of potatoes arrived this morning from New York on the New York Journals special relief train The arrival of the goods greatly relieved the situation.
 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.
 Sewers clogeed. The sewers have become clogged up ow- ing to the broken pipes throughout the | city and a force of a hundred men sv'as put to work today cleaning the pipes andt flushing the sewers In the several tented villages a sanitary force was put to work and 1t is believed with an exercise of great care that all danger from typhoid fever will be eliminated.
 The city is stflI under martial law and fifty men and forty-three officers control the city under Colonel Lowell. Over half million dollars worth of insurance has already been paid by the adjusters and the people are commencing the erection of temporary places of business and dwellings. A new Windsor hotel is to be erected at a cost of s300,0O0. and work was commenced today 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.
 Relief is coming in generously on every train and the subscription list to date amounts to ss5,OOO, with promises of aid from many places which has not yet ar- rived.
 Commissaries have been established all over the city.
 Negroes May Cause Trouble.
 Tho militia guarding the vast amounts of supplies which are pouring in on every train fear trouble with the negroes.
 Many of the colored people refuse to do any work for the city and yet claim they are entitled to their share of the pro- visions sent into the city.
 The work of clearing up the streets and recoustructing Jacksonville goes on today under blistering sun. The parties searching the St Johns for bodies con- tinued the work today. but were not re- warded up to noon.
 The first relief train from the New York Evening Journal came in this morning at g o'clock In charge of MT Williams and committed. The contents were tmmed- lately turned over to J. R. Parrott, chair man of the commissary committee. It was made up of two cars of Irish potatoes and one of general groceries
 The Journal committee is cooperating actively with the relief committee in every way.
 The executive committee of the relief association met this morning and decided to put up at once comrnodious tents, where work will be provided for women and girls who earned their living by sewing.
 They will be set to work making gar ments for the destitute and will be paid for the work. Sewing machines have been ordered by Chairman Telfair Stock ton and the employment bureau and quarters for the women will be opened tomorrow.
 Professional Men Destitute.
 At the meeting of the relief commit tee this morning it was reported that hundreds of men totally unused to man. ual labor were entirely destitute. Tho committee will endeavor to provide for them by establishing clerkships.
 It is thought that many bodies are yet in the river. Captain Spencer, inspector of steam vessels, is arranging to make a systematic search for these bodies
 The captains of vessels in the river dur ing the fire report that many were res- cued while struggling in the water
 The body of Mrs. Solon Robinson who has been missing since the fire, was found today in the ruins of her home Nothing was left but few bones, frag- ments of clothing and bits of the jewelry she was wearing. They were found in the hallway. and it was evident that she endeayored to escape, was overcome by smoke and heat and fell in a faint. Mrp Robinson was the widow of Solon Rob- inson, for twenty years agricultural edI- tor of the New York Tribune, was about 65 years old and a native of Indiana Her only relative is her sister, Mss Mary
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