The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
MASSACHUSETTS SAYS SHE
WILL RAISE $3,OOO,OOI
Smaller Towns Are All Raising Fund
Which Promise to Swell the
Total to an Enormous
Figure.

New York April 21--rhe voiceless APP
peal of San Francisco has been heard
throughout the civilized world. Frein ev-
cry city and town In this country, from
European capitals, and from far eastern
communities comes news that all hnman-
lty in expressing its sympathy is also Of
fering every material assistance. Money
and supplies are flowing toward the
stricken California metropolis and the
other cities by the Pacific affected by the
recent disaster with generosity un-
precedented In history.
From the incomplete figures Of the con-
tributions which have been made, it is
estimated here tonight that the San Fran
cisco fund is rapidly nearing the total
of $lO00o,oOO, and will have passed that
figure BY Monday when the United States
Congress 1t IS announced will add Sl,5o0QO0
10 the SlOO0,000 already appropriated from
the treasury at Washington.
In the list of generous contributors
New York city ranks next 60 the gov
ernment itself and bids fair to far ex-
ceed the federal contribution.
Tonight the New York fund amoVited
TO approximately s2Ooo.OO0 with oontfibu-
tions coming in fast.
Massachusetts, to Raise S3,ooo,ooo.
The state OF Massachusetts has UNDER
taken TO raise 100000 and win Boston
| . generous help IS well on the way TO
the goal Chicago's fund spontaneously
| subscribed is approaching S1,OO00oO and
promises to go beyond that sum. Phil-
adelphia will send S50O.OOO These are but
a few Of the larger sums. score or
more of cities are contributing Sl~-Ow
and more. while hundreds OF municipal
tiles are sending all their means will all
low. From London, Paris. Berlin and
wherever Americans are eongregated
generous inflow of gold IS reported
Wholly foreign contributions while deep
ly appreciated are not q be accepted
according to the precedent established by
the resident yesterday In declining no
gift of $4,000 from German steamship
line. America though touched By tho
evidences of foreign generosity. feels able
to care for It's own.
Grand Total May Never Be Known.
Tncounted thousands are sending their
contributions and the grand total or the
relief fund Will probably never be known.
The New York chamber of commerce. to-
day forwarded to San Francisco S9t' -
Chief among the individual eontrh
have been those of f. IL. Hartman
600 and Andrew Carnegie, William
dorf Astor, John ID. Rockefeller an
STANDARD Oil company, all of whom
600 each.
meeting of Americans in London
called and a large fund Immediately
scribed. Among other notable contrii Il
tions have been Ladenburg, Thalman sS
Co. $4,000 NJ. Guggenheim Sons. $4,000;
j. p. Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co. Kuhn.
Loeb & Co, and w. X. Vanderbilt, $4,000
each. II IL estimated that the contriDu-
1 tons of the New York Stock Exchange
| will aggregate 10000
| But most remarkable Is the way in
which small contributions have poured
! into the treasures of the organizations
/ formed to send aid TO the stricken city
| Nor is the work, of raising felef funds
confined 10 the large cities. From every
| section, every state. comes the news OF
contributions made by small towns, not
! large in themselves. but their aggregate
| will be enormous.