The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-05-04
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Ecious Services Are Held in
the Refuge Camps.
4 IFF IS SYSTEMATIZED.
. oress May Be Asked to Guaran-
Il the Bonds of the Town
.orev in the City Found Intact
hood supplies Still Pouring In
s,,gcring People Take Heart.


la sunplies Still Pouring In
h,0ering People Take Heart.
= Francisco, Cal, May 1.-Glor-
srnsbine and three band con-
1. in the camp-two in Golden
4 park and one in the Presidio-
Ii away the blues and made
rsonds happy Sunday. Children
led on the grass; fathers smoked
smiled at their antics; mothers
had sacrificed everything to save
spring hat, put it on and looked
erful
hose who had saved clothing
.sed in their best, and when the
lorna First Regiment band
led wait Till the Sun Shines,
|ie" the great throng applauded
lrouslv. There was plenty Of
with an extra allowance Of
shable stuff for the Sunday din
Large rain-proof tents are rap
taking the place Of the make
shelters in which the people
! suffered for ten days.
the morning religious services
! conducted at many points in the
lbs. A sign denoted the denomi-
on of the worshippers, but all
invited to join. Catholics,
hodists, Baptists, Episcopalians
Presbyterians prayed together
by side. The camps were over
with thousands of visitors from
more fortunate cities around the
Many came to look up friends,
.rs TO gaze upon the unusal spec
Iakina Homeless Comfortable.
lankets were distributed by the
cots have been impro-
and cooking utensils are being
ined. so that the condition of the
eless is rapidly approaching the
E California stork appears to be
/ bird He has paid five hundred
S TO the camp hospitals since the
Ike this, too, outside of his
" engagements in camps in Oak
and Berkeley His business has
conducted in a highly success
way, according to his friends, the
iicians. The percentage of deaths
not been greater than under nor
conditions.
lpid, too, refuses to take a vaca-
Ten marriages were performed
he camps Sunday and several
y day last week. One couple had
ing but the clothes they wore,
said they were supremacy happy.
here has been a depletion in the
IS Of the trained nurses, who ap-
to be unusually susceptible to
'imony. The philosophy of the
egrooms may have been voiced
ne who, when asked by General
ston why he was rushing into
riage, replied, well, l can't be
worse off than | am"
very precaution is made to guard
INST typhoid. A general order to
drinking water has been sent all
the city. Sanitary conditions are
Improving. The Spring Valley
er Company cannot furnish wa
o that part of the city saved and
w order prohibits water for any
'oses but cooking and drinking.
10 Cut on Rations for Men.
eneral Greedy decided that he
soon cease giving rations to
bodied men. He said:
shall fix a date in the near fu-
when no more food will be CIV
0 any but women and children.
giving away of meals such as
OF these people have ever been
stoned to, must stop. The ex-
g OF this charity is enormous,
Il 1t IS kept up in the way it is
being conducted, the funds will
be dissipated.
believe that such charity is mis-
led. Out of a line of 400 wait
ior a free meal the other day a
ractor could get but four men to
0 work at So a day and found,
sort OF thing must stop. The
must 80 to work"
ne Finance Committee are cha
ca at the action of Secretary
IN spending $2,2OO,0OO of the
sfessional relief fund without
ultlng them. Chairman Phelan
: gloomy speech in which he
'nat Rockefeller and Standard
contributions were being dis
i !, through Standard Oil agents
'naI probably many other heavy
ilouJions which had been put
l 10 the credit of the committee
y De distributed in the same
we have but $51S,OOO of real
y said he, though funds
y 70 our credit in all parts of
country total IS, 100000