Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-31
Stricken San Francisco is Not
Yet Through With Her
Trouble.
WASTE AND THEFT OF GOODS.
Supplies stolen, Lost aud Burned-A
Case OF Rctributlon-Other
Evidences

The News has received the fol-
lowing letter, telling a regrettable
tale Of the loose methods and the
graft prevailing IN the distribution Of
supplies for the needy in san Fran
cisco. This was the reason that i'm
PEELED this paper 10 have the funds
entrusted to It. distributed through
private sources The balance rec
naming on hand viii be disposed Of
IN The same maner.
Oakland. July %. 1906.
To the Editor
We have transferred our relief sta
ton TO san Francisco An the refu-
gees now having been gathered togeth-
er IN Golden Gate park relief work Is
going on. but On different way
] cannot say that % Is more salts
factory. IN fact / think Il is far from
satisfactory for such rasoality. such
dishonesty WIS never known before.
Many Of the supplies, given by a
generous and sympathetic public have
been appropriated Tor private use:
-four has been sold, o. keep The price
OF -four up, and three weeks ago there
were $500 sacks ~ splendid potatoes.
put into the Oakland crematory. after
one OF the camps was abandoned,
while people were actually suffering
for potatoes at the time. There Is
gross mismauagemeut IN every part
Of The supply department; 90 women
oyerpowcrcd one 81 the commissaTies
IN san Francisco and each woman
carried away n b1-pound Jack of -four.
St was theirs and they had a right 10
take A. Three wagon loads Of whisky
bound for medicinal purposes. have
been lost in the fog. they can't find
trace of A. Better luck happened
20 tho blankets they began 10 diSap-
pear and a watch WAS set. the super
intendenl aud an engineer. at the
'children's play ground in the park
being caught with the goods, there
were $50 pairs Of blankets and they
were selling them at S2.25 a pair. They
have sent those two rascals where
they can't steal refugee supplies any
more but this Is the only instance
where tho thieves have been caught
md convicted.
For a time there was good feeling
manifest and the golden rule was cyi-
dent everywhere; suddenly. 1t chang
ID and all now Is Tor self Tomorrow
+ not thought of II will get an |
can today and hold the insurance COM
paies responsible" seems 90 be- the
motto Tho insurance companies. or
many Of them have been So dlshonor-
able with the people that they have
become desperate They have sudden
ly awakened 90 The fact that they
have been robbed. The state OF az
fairs in SAN Francisco is doplorbale
in moro ways than one. II Is true
they have lost their all in worldly AZ
fairs, but the loss 81 confidence II
worse than al. They have been
cheated out q their supplies. cheated
out Of their Insurance and now those
that have anything, are Wringng the
last drop Of blood out OF a suffering
community that has nothing The
city Is cursed with strikes We can't
get lumber and Il keeps soaring IN
price, 80 mat building is at stand
sull. Plumbers are ON a strike. they
want So a day, hricklayers get IS
and helpers 81.
Our social upheaval will be greater
than any, our now arlstocracy viii
be bricklayers, plumbers and carpen-