Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-25
SAN FRANCISCO IN
GREATER NEED OF
CASH THAN FOOD
CRY FOR FOOD TEMPORARILY QUIET
Oakland and Berkeley Merchants Refuse Credit
to EyerybOdy-Los Angeles committees Send
Money! Thousands of Refugees Being
Housed EIere-Supplies Still Going

San Franclscos hcart-rending cry for
food has ceased temporarily Even the
appeal for clothing and bedding is not
so urgent as it was a day or two ago.
The hungry have been fed and the
naked are being clothed as fast as gar
ments can be distributed.
Now the demand is for cash. In
Oakland the necessities of life can be
bought, but dealers insist on cash be-
fore parting with their goods. Checks,
drafts, paper of all kinds is useless.
No ones name is worth the paper on
which it is written. In the confusion
of events even Uncle Sans credit is
doubted and bills are viewed askance
before they are accepted by merchants.
This condition of affairs was report
ed to- the chamber of commences citi-
zens' relief committee yesterday by
refugees of known standing and agents
of the relief committee in San Fran
cisco and Oakland. On these repre-
sentations S2jOO in small bills and sill
yer was sent to Berkeley yesterday to
be distributed in small amounts among
the refugees who are swarming to that
place.
Cannot Tell Financial Condition
The reluctance TO accept checks, it is
reported, is due to the inability of the
San Francisco banks to get at their
heated vaults and learn actual condi-
tions. This has occasioned a tenn
porary lack of confidence in the cities
that are harboring thousands of refu-
gees. But even checks drawn on Los
Angeles banking institutions are ques
toned and in some cases absolutely
Toll ia, DGfS
This was discovered to be the case by
the Independent order of Foresters,
who reported to the citizens relief com
mittee yesterday. A representative of
the order declared I Int Immediately
after the earthquake n check for $500
had been sent to San Francisco and
this was followed by another check for
$500, but that these checks had been re-
fused and the appeal had come for
cash.
Foresters Send Cash
In response to this demand the For
esters sent the $500 from the local or
der and $1,000 from other branches in
cash to San Francisco last night in
charge of Walter E. Reavis.
The purchasing committee of the re-
lief organization rested on its oars yes
terday. purchasing only those supplies
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refugees in Los Angeles. AS only a
few hundred of those who have come
so far are dependent on the relief COM
mittee for assistance, but a small guam
tity of goods was purchased. Every
wholesale house in the city has been
asked to place it's goods subject to more
orders from the purchasing committee,
for it is realized that in a few days
when the supplies now on hand at
san Francisco fail another cry for
bread will come from the stricken city.
Golfers Filling Rapidly
Los Angeles is ready to respond to
every demand from the north. This is
daily pours into the Golfers of the cit
liens relief committee Already nearly
$4,000 has been received in cash dona-
tons, while a steady stream of cloth
ing and bedding is filing to overflow
ing the various warehouses that have
been placed at the disposal of the ocn-
mittee.
The only provisions which the north
ern authorities asked of the citizens
yesterday We're tea, coffee
and sugar. Before receiving the de-
mand the committee had sent 6S00
pounds Of coffee. Tea was hard to get
owing to the fact that nearly all ship
m2nts of tea are received from San
Francisco. The purchasing committee
succeeded in securing 10000 pounds.
This, with more coffee ana sugar, was
loaded into a car and sent north yes
terday morning. In addition to send
Ing these supplies. the purchasing com
nittee telegraphed eastern rehneries
for more sugar and received assurances
by wire yesterday that ten carloads
We're on the way to San Francisco.
Eastern Firms Help
In addition to the goods bought by the
committee, NJ. H. Newnark,
chairman, believes that at least $4,000
worth of goods have been contributed
1y eastern manufacturers, through the
Of tine local organization, ir
of donations which these
have voluntarily made.
The assembly room of the chamber
IF commerce was yesterday turned
over TO the women, and under the di-
'ection of Mrs r. M. Widney, needles
lew in nmble fingers. Bundles of
clothes We're turned over to |
,hese women to be sorted and repaired.
New garments We're made from great
Oolts of cloth Women of many clubs
md societies worked shoulder to shoul |
Ter for their suffering sisters.
Women viii Sew
Today the Ebell club women will
sew at their own quarters. Machines |
nave been donated for the work and |
lave been set up in the club rooms. |
every woman who can work a sewing |
machine or cut a garment is asked to
.ome and bring her lunch and sewing !!
equipment
The Native Sons have secured the
Ise of Kramers dancing hall Yoster-
lay more than fifty women, under the |
Erection of Mrs. l.. D. Bobrick. were |
'utting and bastng clothes for women
md childran In Lhis nlnrn. Moro thnn |