The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
MOURN FOR DEAD AND
| CHEER lAL!AhT LIVING
Californians Gather in New York
and Are Electrified by
Mark Twain.
New York Herald Special Service.

New York Herald Special Service.
New York, April 21.-Crowding the
Casino theater from stage to entrance
hundreds of Californians gathered this
afternoon to discuss plans for aiding
their stricken friends and relatives In
San Francisco and neighboring towns.
Mark Twain was in the chair, and un-
der his guidance the business in hand
progressed rapidly. e..
The outcome Of the meeting was the
announcement of benefit performance
in the Casino a week from tomorrow
night, benefit Euchre party of the
California club at the Waldorf Astoria,
on April 81, and the appointment of a
committee with Blanche Bates as chair
man to visit the mayor and ask him
for the right to take charge of ordering
necessary supplies of clothing to be
bought out of the great funds already
raised and to be sent at once to San
Francisco.
Prominent Folk Assist.
The meeting was held under the aus.
pices of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and
Mrs. William X, Vanderbilt, Jr. AT
the euchre party, for which the tickets
will be sold at ST. each, they will serve
on the committee with Mrs. Coils P
Huntington, Mrs. D. O. Mills and Mrs
EDWARD IL. hartman. ...--,-,a- - 80.
/ When the curtain went up on the
assemblage of speakers, there was. q
great burst of applause as Mark Twain
| arose in the center. 81 take it fol
granted you. all know. me- said he
"and if you don It now you surely will
before I get thru I IN here on a mis-
sion and / IN most always known. az
S. L. Clemens, which may be hard t.
spell' p.
cit hash It been forty-eights hours
said Mr.. Clemens, "since I threatened
myself with, never again appearing be
fore an audience. Well, I haven It, fol
you II pay before you go out. I meal
that / want everyone to resolve to buy
tickets for the benefit performance
You'n pay mentally mental before you leay'
He characterized the earthquake ant
fires as Hthe greatest calamity of an
cient or&modern times.' Referring tt
ways Of helping the city he said: tc..gl
Turn to Living Now, : ~.-
"Let us turn from the dead to tn
living. The dead are at peace. Blu
consider that there are 100000 home
less persons there now. They are man.
of them starving, half clothed ade
prived Of their means Of LIVELIHOOD
We must help them at once, andaw
In speaking of the subscription list
for the sufferers, he said: Z th2l
"The poor are always ready to Civ
money. The poor man, out Of his pc,
erty, gives 0one-half or one-fourth, 0
what he has. The rich man gives tont
tenth of one per cent of his forum,
The pennies and the dimes and tn
quarters are whatwi make the presen
fund the size we need.''Ft@ ~ > e
I -, *. Cheers for Doctors. 70.
He then paid a tribute to the Salv.
ton army and said it should be repr
sented on all committees working j
the area of destruction.
One Of these speakers referred to th
work of the doctors at San Francisc,
At this Mark Twain jumped up, wave
his arms and asked that cheer b
given for the doctors. He said thu
! whenever a calamity. comes the phys
clans and surgeons are always there j
the role of heroes. -
i , q! don't like to see doctor come I
the house, he said, ssany more tina
you do, but I believe that in a tin
like this we ought to give even thu
sort of satan his due.'' -
The doctors got three cheers and {
did. the soldiers, the sailors and Il
police. who have taken part in the So
Francisco catastrophe. "