The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-22
Nine Cars OF, Supplies Forward
ed by Relief Committee
From Salt Lake Yesterday.
COMMITTEES RAISE MONEY
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT FRAUD
DETECTED.

Nine cars containing supplies of
every description for the suffering
people of San Francisco have been sent
from Salt Lake by the relief organiza-
tons within the last forty-eight hours
and cars Will be shipped from this city
every day so long as there is the least
necessity for the sending Of supplies to
the stricken city. Seven of the cars
that have been sent toward the Pacific
coast were dispatched by the citizens
committee and two by the Commercial
club.
The supplies that these cars contain
We're either donated by citizens of this
city or else they were purchased with
money subscribed to the relief fund.
Relief Work Is SystematIzed.
The relief work In salt Lake is now
concentrated and has been reduced to
some sort of system SO that there is
but a small measure Of confusion pos
slble from now on until the work is
over. The purchasing committee of the
citizens committee has been authorized
to make all Of the purchases of sup
plies for the relief organizations in the
city which have designated w. S. Nc
COrnick as their treasurer. This means
that all of the different organizations
created especially for the purpose of
carrying on the relief work for San
Francisco have united in one grand eff
fort to rush as many carloads of sup
plies to San Francisco as Salt Lake
can fill.
The women Of the Red Cross society
are busy as bees; the members of the
Commercial club are working; the
members of the local Elks' lodge have
their coats off and are hustling as they
never did before; every fraternal or
ganizatiOn i'm the city, the Real Estate
exchange. the Manufacturers q Mer-
chants association, the Jewish socie-
ties. the Relief society Of the Nor
mon church; in fact. every known or
gSnizatiOn in Salt Lake has practically
abandoned its ordinary duties for the
one great cause.
Purchasing Committee Named.
The general purchasing committee of
the relief work consists Of Tom Pitt
chairman @. s. Pulver and G.. r.
Cieaveland. Word was received at the
Commercial club and at the headuuar-
tiers Of the citizens committee yester-
day that some irresponsible person was
attempting to purchase goods in the
name of the different relief organiza-
tiOns and it was for the purpose of pre-
venting any fraud being committed
upon the merchants of the city that
this. purchasing committee was decided
upon as the official buyers.
Tom Pitt, chairman of the transpor-
tation committee of the citizens COM
mittee. sent the following telegram
yesterday to Mayor Schmitz:
Seven Cars Sent Yesterday.
Mayor Schmitz, San Francisco: Cars
S3310, 54044, 6146, 612O, 1897, 64542 and
1859. containing bread, meats, canned
goods, crackers, other provisions
blankets, cOmfOrters, stoves cots
cheese. flour and other necessities all
shipped last night and today, passen-
ger time. Car of bread follows daily.
express All billed to you from citizens
relief committee. Wire if possible I'm
mediate needs to guide us. VIII send
more. Sending two cars of Stacked lime
for disinfecting purposes. CSigned)
''TRANSPORTATIO COMMITTEE.
Tom Pitt. Chairman"
The citizens committee received its
cue to send cots from a telegram re-
Ceived yesterday by Mayor Ezra
Thompson Of Salt Lake. This telegram
follows:
Headquarters Fort Mason. San
Francisco. Mayor Thompson. Salt
Lake: San Francisco requires imme-
diately fifty thousand gold medal can
vas cots; we also require blankets
and bedding. This is an imperative
need. Send Immediately cots and
blankets. Notify US quantity shipped
CSigned) ''E. Z. SCHMITZ,
Mayor"
In response to this telegram the COM
mittee sent 300 cots, 500 blankets and
800 quilts. Another shipment that will
be received with delight by the home
less people is 100 sheet iron stoves. At