Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-06
HOW DISPOSE Of
RELIEF FUND?
PASADENA BOARD OF TRADE
FACES PROBLEM -
Many Suggestions Are Being Made
ss to Manner Of Spending the
Money Now Amount-
Ing to $4,000
Pasadena Agency.
1914 East Colorado street,
Telephone Main 752

PASADENA, Sept. 5.-There still re-
mains in the hands of the board of
trade about $4,000 contributed by Pas
adena people for the relief of northern
sufferers from the earthquake.
Within few days a full accounting
Of the moneys already expended and of
the money which remains will be pub
llshed.,
But at the meeting of the board of
directors yesterday evening nothing
was done looking to an early disposal
of the fund stil In the boards hands.
proposal looking to the transfer OF
the $500 contributed by the board of
trade itself to the general fund OF the
organization, where il can become i'm
mediately useful, did not meet with the
approval of the directors.
Just what will finally be done with
the fund is becoming n serious question.
No one doubts the painstaking care
shown by the directors in seeing that
the money was applied only where 1t
would not be wasted, but there is
growing desire to see the balance of the
contributions applied to some useful
purpose, and that right speedily.
Many suggestions to this end have
been made from time to time, but none
of them have met with the approval of
the directors.
Shoeless Soldiers
When the local military company,
Company l. N. G. c.. was ordered to
repair to San Francisco to aid in po-
Icing the stricken city Captain Collins
discovered that the men, although
equipped and clothed very fully, lacked
the serviceable shoes such task de-
manded. without delay he purchased
good, comfortable working shoes for
every man In the command. The bill,
n L.. a. 1,x afo 70 1fc..
sary department. But the state re-
fused to pay.
Some one proposed that the money
be taken out of the relief fund, and to
many it appeared eminently proper
that this should be done. But the di-
rectors decided that this would be a
use of the money not contemplated by
the contributors and rather than ap-
pear to be going counter to the wishes
of the charitable people of Pasadena
the directors decided against the ex-
penditure.
Captain Collins now faces the alter
native of paying this bill out of his own
pocket or refusing to pay it at all.
When it was suggested by the direct
ors that il would be a graceful thing
to send some of the money to the relief
of the earthquake sufferers at Valpa-
raiso, Chile, some of the contributors
voiced their belief that it would not be
right to this, and the telegram sent to
Valparaiso bringing no answer, the
project appears to have been dropped
Some JanaIing Views
FSome one has criticised the directors
for keeping the preSent $4,000 in the
local banks without placing it in the
savings department and receiving in
terest on it.
9Others are demanding that the money
he sent in bulk to the general relief
committeein San Francisco.
eOthers claim that q competent com
iaittee be sent to the Bay city with in
structions to place the money where Il
will undoubtedly assist the thousand:
still in want.
Indeed, every day finds some anxiou:
contributor making suggestions as tC
how the money shall be expended Tht
directors of the board of trade would
Undoubtedly save themselves mucf
annoyance by taking steps of some sor
to dispose of the money, and it ap
pears that the step would please al
increasing number of contributors I,
the relief fund.
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