The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-20
LOADS FIRST CAR
OF SUPPLIES
Commercial Club Gathers Pro-
visions That Will Leave on
Flyer This Morning.
MORE TO FOLLOW SHORTLY
MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS
CALLED FOR TONIGHT.

A mass meeting of the citizens Of Salt
Lake has been called by the board of
governors of the Commercial club for
o'clock tonight in the club rooms
Every person in this city who is inter
ested in the relief Of the people Of San
Francisco is urged to be present at this
meeting. A subscription list has been
started by the club and all wishing to
contribute money for the cause that ia
now general throughout the nation can
send their subscriptions to the Conn.,
mercial club. Leon Sweet has been
appointed special treasurer for the club
to receive these subscriptions.
The mass meeting will be addressed
by Rev. Elmer I Goshen, .. W. Pow
ers, G. G. Goodwin, John Henry Smith
and others
Provisions Already Loaded.
A baggage car loaded with SS,oOA4
worth Of provisions will leave Salt Lake
for San Francisco this morning on the
Overland limited train on the Southern
Pacific railway. These supplies are
sent by the Commercial club, and the
railway company is carrying them free
of charge. The car was loaded at 10
o'clock last night.
The board of governors OF the Com
merciaI club was quick to act after it
met at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
One thousand dollars in cash was
raised in a few minutes, and then the
board began figuring on the purchase
OF supplies, as the conclusion was
reached that what the homeless people
in San Francisco need most at this
time is something to eat. The supplies
sent are prepared for immediate con-
sumption and will no doubt be CRATE
fully received by the hungry hosts hud-
died together in Golden Gate park and
in other open places in the stricken
city. No uncooked foods were sent for
opHI
tiles for cooking in San Francisco. as
the gas supply is cut OF, and before
the catastrophe the citizens in that city
were large consumers of cooking gas.
and there were comparatively few coal
ranges in the city
List of Supplies.
The supplies sent consist of ffty-one
boxes of boiled ham, fifteen 25-pOund
cases of dried beef, eight 50-pOund
cases of dried beef, another lot of 155
cases of the same kind of beef. thirty
One-QuaTteT barrels of bologna saU-
sage, six cases of One-quarter pound
cans of New England cooked ham, 346
cases of roast and cOrned beef, 165
cases of pork and beans
A telegram was sent to Mayor
Schmitz Of San Francisco informing
him officially of the shipment, and stat
ing that other cars would be loaded
and forwarded as soon as possible. A.
J. Davis was named TO superintend the
shipments.
While the board was in session ".
H. Bancroft, general manager of the
Oregon Short Line, and s. V. Derrah
assistant general freight agent for the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, called
and stated that their respective roads
would do all within their power TO
transport the supplies toward the coast
free of charge.
Mrs. w. w Ritter, president OF thu
Red Cross society of Utah, appeared at
the meeting and announced that her
organization is ready to cooperate
with the Commercial club. a meeting
of the Red Cross society will be held
at the Commercial club at IL o'clock
this morning.