The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-19

December II, 1906.
10 the Members of the Governors Sar
Francisco Relief Fund Committee
Gentlemen: In conformity with the
vote of your committee at its las'
meeting. l have sent both official anc
3r.vate letters to various parties II
San Francisco, seeking information as
to the best course to pursue in distr1b-
utino the balance of the funds so gen.
erously subscribed by the people of Ha-
waii Nei for the relief of those who
suffered on account of the great d1sas-
ter of April IS last at San Francisco.
While all of my letters have not yet
been answered, still from the data al
read. secured and from Mr.. Morgan
exhaustive investigation (the report OF
which is attached), as we'll as care
full study OF the pamphlet giving the
results of an investigation OF san
Francisco relief affairs by a commit
tee representing the Massachusetts
Fund I am able to reach dehmte
conclusion, and prefer to report at thl3
time so that the funds may reach san
Francisco by Christmas or at least be-
fore the beginning of the new year.
NV information convinces me that
many of the charges made public
through the press as to the inefhc1ency
of the various relief organizations in
San Francisco were unfounded, and
others have now been remedied.
The representatives of the Massachu-
setts Fund, after thorough invest1ga-
tion on the ground, condemn only the
expenses paid for police and sanitary
work and forcibly point out that these
funds were not contributed for the
benefit of the city government, but the
relief of sufferers, and to an outsider
lit appears a misappropriation of funds,
leaving the city free to devote it's own
funds to other purposes, but as the
work had to be done and the city offi-
ciaIs refused to undertake it, the COM
Enittee is exonerated.
You can readily see that if every
community which subscribed funds to
the relief OF San Francisco tried, with
out central organization, to disburse
the funds through their own agencies,
relief would overlap, the expense would
be vastly greater and the results pro-
portionately less effective. So that
You can not do better than to support
the central or main relief committee.
On the other hand, our information
shows that the hospitals of San Fran
CISCO are taxed 10 tHelr utmost Cd
pacity in caring fer sufferers, and
funds sent direct to them will afford
immediate relief Therefore / recon-
mend that six thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars (S625O be divided
among such institutions as are herein
after set forth, the general relief COM
mittee OF San Francisco to be notified
of such action, said amounts to be
sent by your treasurer direct: and that
the entire balance then remaining be
turned over to the general relief fund
to be disposed OF as that committee
thinks best. with the exception that ii
reserve $500. to be turned over TO the
Kaufman Home at any time prior to
July I. 1907. on condition that a like
amount be raised from other sources
to pay off its mortgage: and if this is
not accomplished by the above date. I
the general relief committee then to
be free 10 dispose of this S4O0 a it may
deem best
The institutions I would recommend
are as follows:
Hospital for Children and Train
ing School for Nurses; a cor |