New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
HOW JEWS WERE AIDED
Carl Stettauer, Relief Fmnd Dis
t'1buter, Tells of EgDerje1ces

arr Stettauer' Of London. who directed the dis
tflbuton in Russia of the funds raised for the re-
Het OF the Jews despoied in the massacres and
riots of last November. arrived on the Kaiser VIII
helm II. Mr.. Stettauer is a manufacturar in r -,
don and Town Councillor in the Borough of S+on
hey' lie is a member OF the Alien Appeals Com
MISSION and active in the charity work of tba Eas+
END His work in Russia brought about by his
pelng a member OF the executive committee of the
Russo-Jewish committee Of London. of which Sir
samuel Montagu is president and Lord Rothschild
treasurer.
Mr. Stettauer said yesterday that it was i'm
portant that the funds be distributed under a svs-
tenn TO avoid waste and afford the maximum, op
helpfulness
II has been difficult said Mr. Stettauer Ito
estnate accurately the number Of persons who
lost ther lives in the Outrages but verified returns
from twenty-seven out of SOl towns In which the
troubles occurred show that the number killed was
100 ana OF wounded 800 The number OF families
directly afected-those whose houses sbons ~ Too
tories were the objects of attack and pillage-was
between 10000 and $1,000. To these must he added
those who were indirect sufferers-clerks. work
men and the Ike to the number of nearly a ouarter
Of a million persons who were thrown ou+ 90 -,
ployment by the destruction of shops and fac+oris
And many Of these are still without work in CON
sequence. 80
THE direct material loss of pronor+v o,.bou
stolen or destroyed by fire or plumber was Droh
ably so0OoOOOO. 1t will therefore he 80, 80
even the vast fund collected in this country Eng
land and elsewhere could only recompense fo- a
small portion of the enormous loss,
OF the Jewish relief fund collected in +bis 800.
try and of which Jacob H Schiff was rnada +h
custodian, 100000 transferred to Iord
Where' as MI. Stettauer explained it becara a
part of the larger fund aggregating about e. 90 o
On November ii last" said Mr. stettanar AT
LETT London and, after meeting nv associates
DR.. Nathan and Dr. Feinberg in Berlin vra 80.
on to St Petersburg. Here Baron Horace c.,nzh,,ra
acted as fiscal agent, and funds were trapsfars
TO him from London. 1t was my original ,,+o.,o
TO VISIT all the places at which the
occurred When 1 left London renortS 49, Hdu
received from only forty-one places AZ oesn
WORK or plunder and murder had been ~tn tie
but the number grew until the total 81 81 dleu
reached And ii is notable that notutb 81 vas
the great distances between some Of +IhSCahding
outrages occurred on the same three t 5 Sle
hour. at the same
ITO visit all Of the pillaged places v,o,,,
been impossible. 1t would have taken M4ouid nave
and, besides, our own lives, while on tbe
relief would have been endangered and ils5lon or
car1e5 OF the fund, If openly helpeS H. lie oeneI-
where they had been outraged Womb eiIg pittces
been the renewed subjects of attack ~ 3HIy nave
1t was therefore decided to fix uDon cart piuluer
as the centres OF distribution. We yisita5 clues
kietf and Odessa. ''eu moscow.
ITO the mechanic gave tools ana % a.
merchant little stock of goods and fb ne small
we aimed to put the stricken people in a n osn4ut
"of the total fund, about $1,000 900 has TIM. o..
been distributed HoS mus far