Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-02
AIDING DESTITUTE
IN SAN FRANCISCO
How the Relief Work is Being
Carried on From
Oakland.
MANY ODD GIFTS RECEIVED.
Jack London suffers With the Rest
News" supplies We're Much
Appreciated.

People who have been laborlng I'M
der The impression that the distress In
California vas now largely thing Of
tho past. and that the work Of sending
relief might be suspended. will be IN
tutsted 10 read the following extracts
nom letter written by Mrs. Nellie c.
Lane Of Oakland TO "a friend In this
city. MIS-. Lane is IN charge OF the
Nonan.s Relief corps. G., 4. r.. to
which the Deseret News sent some Of
los supplies.
You sgeak oi our having had AN
other shock We have had up to date
one hundred ln an. Perhaps you do
not know that earthquakes are re-
corded hy numbers in the government
Offices, and the various numbers indl-
cate the degre. OF intensity. No. one.
minimum, No. Two maximum Num-
Der one Of the Instruments means bare
ly perCeptiblC We do not feel II.
Number two is felt q little, number
tnlte lit;la more etc. The little
shocks We have been having OF late
have been az the two. three and four
variety. The one we experienced IN
1868 was uumter seven. The great
disaster Of April IA was recorded as
number nine Number ten is total an
limitation. so you can see that we
came within one OF being destroyed.
There Is as much need Of relief
row Js there has been az any time. We
have clothed about 500 nd our inde-
pendent relief station have made
lots of articles for chldrens wear out
OF ilour-sacks. and have made kitchen
aprons out 81 Old dress skirts. etc. have
trimed hats. been out and solicited aid.
etc, ETC., so YOU can see we are living
pretty strenuous lie. our place is
fun and supplies keep coming, but the
demand still keeps ahead Of the supply
IN many lines. \ man with one arm
came yesterday and said he must have
a pair Of trousers. We only had
pair Of white linen pants, but turned
them over 10 him doctors judges
dentists. an classes ~ people come
recommended, ana are so grateful for
what We can do.
II wrote 20 the Deseret News asking
them for supplies. They sent me an
itemized lis; Of things they had shipped
10y the gross or dozen. / had preyi-
ously told them what was most needed
in chidrcn's lines II was a inagnih-
cent donation everything new. Sixty
five childrcns dresses and other things
on the same generous scale
THE whole state is beginning To feel
the effects OF the awful calamity. Theirs
Is no market for produce any longer
ore concern ! know Of in Oakland that
used 20 ship 20 cases OF eggs a week
thousands Of chickens. and thousands
NJ pounds of cheese is now idle Three
hundred thousand people in San Fran
cisco are no longer able to buy, ana
$4,000 are still eating government ra-
tious. Those who can afford Il arc
stl dividing with their stricken
friends I'm very deed you cannot real
lie any of H. Just imagine II every
person In Salt Lake should suddenly
lose everything except what they stood
up In. with not q cent I'm their pockets.
and their city nothing but ashes and
bricks. A. our relief station we have
a better opportunity for learning about
the peoples suffering than in the big
supply depCts. our requests come from
every quarter aud my heart hleeds all
The time for their keen. silent sorrow
II must tell YOU Of one pleasant Incl
Nl.N.N AAuA W NAAfNF - ~ AtAh NNlllf w "a
filed with supplies and in It was a
square pasteboard box. | opened II
and behed "a handsome set Of childs
dishes, beautifully painted. the tea pot
eight inches high. and all the rest IN
proportion. There was little letter
with Il and blank piece OF papei
with q stamped envelope and address.
They came from a little girl. In santa
ID q. fEs.f
the little child who received the dishes
to write and tell her whether they
made her happy as she said she had
taken an her money 20 buy them. We
knew Jus, where 20 bestow this nres-
cnt A woman whom We were helping
had TO run from the fire with a babe
three days old and sleep all night
IN the park as thousands Of others did
without any covering. She had little
cight-year-old girl with her. and | gave
her that set Of dishes. Santa Claus
never experienced such JOY as ! ala IN
making that present. Among other
things We received from somewhere |
was an ear trumpet and some rosaries |
People who got them Wept out Of pure |
Joy.
Jack London came down from his /
country home the other day. He WAS |
i1 san Francisco during the fire and I
Ieced from pillar % post lie burned |
his feet and had a number Of thrilling |
experiences which he has written Up |
FOR the eastern papers. His fine rock
harm just finished. j. nov IN ruins.
and his vessel that he expected 10
make seven years cruise In was
smashed 70 smi,hereens. His house
suffered the same as an others did.
Speaking Of barns. L Is impossible 10
get the animals into the stables again.
They act Ike they we're frightened to
death 10 60 iu under = roof We 20 to
bel nightly ana try 20 sleep. but We
keen our quilts handy. also our shoes
and stockings, IN case another big
eka.L