Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-22
MEASURES FOR RELIEF
Generous Responses From All
Parts of Country.
CASH AND SUPPLIES SENT
To the Distressed People Of San
Francisco.
FUND NEARING TEN MILLIONS
uncounted Thousands Sending Their
Contributions-New York, Boston,
and Chicago Lead.
UND NEARING TEN MILLIONS

| NEW YORK, April 21.-The voiceless
| APPEAL Of San Francisco has been heard
| throughout the civilized world. From
| every city and town in this country from
European capitals and from far eastern
\ communities comes news that all hui
msnity in expressing it's sympathy is also
offering every material assistance.
| Money and supplies are flowing toward
| the stricken California metropolis and
the other cities by the Pacific affected by
the recent disaster with a generosity
unprecedented in history.
From the incomplete figures of the con-
| tritutions which have been made it is es-
| timated tonight that the San Francisco
! fund is rapidly nearing the total of S10,-
| 100000, and will have passed that figuI Q
| by Monday. when the United States Con-
gress, it is announced, will add 81 500, coo
| to the S1,000000 appropriated from the
| treasury at Washington.
In the burst of generous contributors
New York city ranks next to the govern
| mcnt itself and bids fair to far exceed
| the federal contribution Tonight the
New York fund amounted to approxl-
mately s2000,000, with contributions COM
| irg in fast.
| The state of Massachusetts has under
| taken to raise S3,0o0, COO. and with Bos
| the goal
Chicago's fund, spontaneously subscribed
| is approaching 81 100000 and promises to
| go beyond taht sum. Philadelphia will send
S5O0,0oO These are but few of the large.
sums. score or more cities are contrib
uting 100000 and more while hundreds of
municipalities are sending all their means
| will allow. From London. Paris, Berlin and
wherever Americans congregated a
generous inflow of gold is reported.
Foreign Donations Not Accepted.
Wholly foreign contributions. while deeply
appreciated, are not to be accepted accord
ing to the precedent established by the Presi-
dent yesterday in declining a gift of S25. 600
from a German steamship line. America,
| though touched by the evidences of foreil n
generosity. feels able to care for its own.
Uncounted thousands are sending their
contributions, and the grand total of the
relief fund will probably never be known.
The New York chamber of commerce today
forwarded to San Francisco $500 900. Chief
among the individual contributions have
been those of e. H Hartman, 5000, ,000
and Andrew Carnegie, William Waldorf
Astor. John ID. Rockefeller and the Stand
ard Oil Company, all of whom gave $100, coo
each.
A meeting of Americans in London was
called and large fund Immediately sub
scribed Among the other notable contribu-
tions have been Ladenberg. Thalman & Co..
$4,000 NJ. Guggenheim Sons, $4,000. and
]. p. Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co, Kuhn,
Loeb & Co. and w. X. Vanderbilt, each
$25, 900. 1t Is estimated that the contribu-
tions of the New York stock exchange will
aggregate $4,000 But most remarkable
is the way in which small contributions
have poured into the treasury of organiza-
tions formed to send aid to the stricken
city.
Nor IS the work of raising relief funds
confined to the large cites. From every
section, every state, comes the news of con-
tributions made by small towns. Not large
in themselves. their aggregate will be enor-
nous.
Pttsburg has given 100000; commercial
men of Cleveland. 800 900; St. Louis $780,
coo; Sacramento, 100000. and Seattle, $780,
900
Throughout the country theatrical per-
formances are being planned. the proceeds
to go to the relief fund