The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-20
COMMERCIAL CLUB
COMES TO FRONT
Representative Citizens Show
COlOrs i'm Aid of San
Francisco.
CALIFORNIA RELIEF
COMMITTEE is NAMED
Red Cross Society Working in
Connection With
the Club.

meeting OF the board OF governors
or the Commercial club was held Thurs
day afternoon. when 1t was decided to
take prompt and decisive measures in the
matter OF sending foodstuns to the needy
or San Francisco. now that the nature
OF their wants Is definitely known
without waiting for kilograms of accept
ance or explanations OF any nature.
Al the meeting $1,000 was raised By do
nations from three citizens OF Salt Lake
Iheir names and the amounts they gave
are are, Col. r a Wall, 500; Mayor Ezra
thompson. $50. and G. a Quigley, prcsi-
oent OF the Commercial club. $50,
Offers of Railroads.
At the same meeting offers were sub
mitted by General Manager w. III. Ban
croft OF the Hartman lines and Assistant
General Freight Agent S. V. Derrah OF
the kio Grande system to transport FREQ
OF charge all relief for San Francisco and
other suffering towns and communities
on the Pacific coast
AZ the meeting. Leon Sweet, treasurer
OF the club. was made treasurer OF the
California relief committee, whose mis-
sion 1t Will be to solicit funds and for
ward supplies to the stricken where they
are needed most and as rapidly as possi
BILE. Donations OF cash or goods viii he
club '-
Al this meeting Mrs w. w, Ritter rep
resenting the Red Cross society. appeared
and oi1ered to work In connection with
the committee OF the Commercial club
This of1er was accepted and a meeting of
the Red Cross society for the purpose of
furthering the work will be held at the
Commercial club rooms Friday at III
o'clock
Provisions Are Ready.
a carload of provisions. already cooked
and ready for consumption, for the needy
OF San Francisco Will leave Salt Lake for
San Francisco at 1890 Friday morning.
with the passenger service OF the South
ern PACING road This is the first Offering
from Utah to the soreIy afflicted metrono
lis OF the Pacific coast 1t will be sent bv
the Commercial club of Salt Lake. which
organization guaranteed the payment OF
the price of the goods, the transportation
charges being donated by the railroad
company In selecting the consignment.
care was taken to send goods that will
be ready for immediate use when the car
arrives. This necessity was ma gnIfled by
the Information that in all the whole
sale district of San Francisco 80 thorough
has been the work of destruction by the
continued fires that not single pound of
provisions has been saved
Loaded Thursday Night.
The car was loaded Thursday and tho
contents included nfty-one boxes of
boiled ham, fifteen twenty-nve-pound
cases and eight flfty-pound cases OF dried
beef, thirty quarter barrels of bolognn
sausage, six cases OF quarter-Dound cans
of cooked ham, 316 cases OF roast and
corned beef. 165 cases OF dried beef. 6I5 |
cases of pork and beans. |
The contents OF the car are valued at |
about $1,000. and 1t is the intention of tho |
commercial club to continue shipments of |
a similar nature as rapidly as they can
be forwarded until from fifteen to twenty
cars have been sent
a j. Davis, president OF the City Coun-
I'll. was appointed TO supcrintend the ship
ment OF these supplies.
Carload Of Flour.
The Salt Lake Grain Dealers associa
lion met Thursday afternoon and mani
mously decided TO forward to San Fran
cisco Immediately a carload of flour This |
sar Will contain 5000 pounds OF good
lour. and IL VIII be transported to San
francisco by the railroad company free
II charge. i'ee
II could not be determined THURSDAY
Wight upon what train this flour will ho
shipped but 1t Will be loaded Friday
morning and forwarded at the earliest on.
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