The Washington times., 1906-04-22
MONEY IN BIG SUMS.
FOOD BY CARLOADS
Cash and Provisions Pour
ing Into Red Cross.
REACHES INTO THE MILLIONS
National Headquarters Reports Show
Supplies Being Rushed to Frisco
From All Directions.

Contributions of bis sums of money
and provisions by the carload are pour
ing into the Red Cross Society from all
Parts of the country. Only a small
amount has been reported officially 10
the national headquarters in Washing
ton, as the contributions are turned into
the State branches. and through them
the money is turned over TO c. II. Keep,
the national treasurer. in the Treasury
Department, while the provision. cloth
ing etc. are being transported direct
20 San Francisco as rapidly as possible.
Owing to the fact that reports are slow
coming in from State officers. 1t Is diff
cult TO estimate the total amount Of
money and value OF supplies donated so
far. 1t is safe to say. however, that
~ already will reach into the millions
of dollars.
Miss Mabel Boardman, in charge of the
national headquarters, sent messages to
the Red Cross officials I'm Denver and
Seattle, yesterday afternoon, for them
10 rush ell the milk procurabIe by the
quickest possible means TO the parched
victims OF the fire and earthquake. Re
ports from Seattle and Los Angeles, re-
ceived b. the Red Cross and War De-
partmeh;, are to the effect that the food
supply has been almost totally ex-
hausted.
Miss Boardman instructed the REQ
Cross agents in Portland Seattle, Dem
Yer. Los Angeles, and other large cities
in that region. yesterday morning, 10
buy all the food su~olies available. and
rush them 10 san Francisco. Word
came in from Los Angeles and Seattle
that practically everything had been
bought up by the War Department and
local relief societies.
Food the First Necessity.
In reply to a telegram sent TO General
Funston, asking If he desired funds,
Miss Boardman received a dispatch stat
ing that money is OF no use. Con-
seduenty. no money will be sent till
food and clothing in ample quantities
are delivered in the devasted city, as
there is nothing to be bought there.
The following consignments OF pro-
visions were started en- route 10 san
francisco by express trains Friday
night and yesterday:
Thirty carloads of flour. by Mime
aDois relief committee.
One carload OF cGnned vegetable. bv
relief association of Indianapolis
Two carloads Of provisions. by citizens
of Cheyenne.
Carload of egs, by Chicago butter and
Paul
About $4,000 worth Of canned vepe-
taoIes' by citizens of Waterloo. Iowa
carload of canned corr, from Oneida
Community. New York.
Three carloads of provisions by Deople
or COlore5o Springs, Col.
Inc mayor of Wilmington, n. c., wir-
ed Yesterday that 81 coo had been sub
scrloed by citizens of that city.
Local Committee to Receive CLOTHING
A committee of prominent Washing
Ton women connected with the Red
Cross was appointed yesterday after
noon by Miss Mabel Boardman 10 SUPER
intend the receiving OF clothing. both
new. or old. linen. blankets, etc.
MISS Boardman states that clothing is
needed. next TO food, as in a few days
The survivors will be in tatters She
requests that uptown packages be sent
TO 1901 = street northwest. and all other
packages be delivered to Woodward &
LolhrOp, on z street. This firm has
Vol inferred 10 pack and cart to the rail-
way stations all contributions
The committee named is as follows:
Mrs w. S. COwles, Mrs. Z. c. Hobson,
MS. w. j. Boardman. Miss Mary VIII
A. Keep, Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, and
Mrs. II. II. y. Peirce.
List of Washington Contributions.
Following is a list Of Washington con-
tributions reported 10 the national head
quarters of the Red Cross yesterday:
Theodore Roosevelt, 81. 900; cash. So. 900;
Mrs. Clar;. S. Hay, $500: Mrs. Ellen y