The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
CARING FOR 75,OOO
OAKLAND PREPARED TO SUCCOR
 AS MANY MORE.
Many Arc Departing on Every Train For Other Parts of the Country -InfOrmation, Transportation
 and Employment Bureaus.

Oakland. Calif.. April 22.-oakland Is caring for 75.000 people. rendered homeless by the San Francisco disaster and is prepared to care for twice as many. The height of the influx has been reached and the number of ref ugees Is slightly decreasing. Although they are still coming in large num- bers. still more are leaving on every train for different parts of the country. Requests for free transportation are investigated as closely as possible and all the deserving are sent away.
 Women and children and married men who wish to join their families in different parts of the State are given the preference. The transportation bureau is on a street corner where man stands on a box and calls the names of those who are entitled to passes.
 No one now goes hungry here and few lack shelter, but cots and bed covering are needed. At the First Presbyterian church 1900 were fed to- day and 1000 people will sleep there tonight Cots are in the aisles, In the galleries and Sunday school room. benches have been turned into beds and every available inch of space is occupied. An emergency hospital has also been established.
 John D. Rockefeller has sent mon ey for the establishment of new camp which will bear his name.
 Los Angeles has provided for camp to accommodate 1000 people and has sent sixty physicians and nurses to look after the sick In It.
 An important work that is going on at the chamber of commerce headquar- ters Is the registration of names Of refugees. There are forty-five clerks engaged in this work alone. All names are catalogued with their old and new addresses. By this means friends have found each other and families have been reunited.
 There is an employment bureau where work is provided when possible. Independent of the relief committee much work is being done by fraternal societies, the members of which meet all incoming trains and take care of the destitute
 wedding took place at the relief bureau at midnight last night De- spite the fact that the groom had only $1.30 the newly married couple looked cheerfully on the prospect that con fronted them and departed happy and hopeful.
 A relief bureau especially for theatri- cal people is situated on Broadway near 12th and transportation has been fur nishcd to 20o people. One hundred are being fed at the Bell theatre and will be given tickets out of town as soon as possible.
 The Chinese fared worse than any of the refugees. Some got out with their belongings at the first alarm of fire, but others remained until after Then as the flames came closer they were driven out by the soldiers without being allowed to gather food or cloth ing. A nasty guard shot one as ne was Nearly ten thousand have arrived here and the majority have been cared for in the local Chinatown. Nearly all of them arc absolutely destitute and it was impossible until this morning to provide an adequate way of feeding them. Many are going to other towns, but there are thousands who with no prospects of finding work, no matter where they go, have sunk into a state of apathy