The San Francisco call., 1906-08-04
Women Dispense
With Red Tape.
Quickly Provide Needy
People in Camps
With Shoes.
. TACTICAL demonstration Of how
- the genuine needs Of refugee
women could be relieved ex-

III n Ah<1S NAL uCihOHcbi dbiOi VI lAO"
- the genuine needs Of refugee
women could be relieved ex-
peditiously and unaccompanied
by humiliation was given yester-
day by Mrs. S. I. George of Den
yer and a number of California Club
members. During one afternoon the
ladies accomplished what the top
heavy system" of the relief committee
had failed to accomplish in several
weeks They enabled about twenty
five women who actually needed shoes
to obtain footwear that fitted them.
When the Denver Chamber of Com
merce learned that the work of relief
was not being properly conducted 1T
instructed it's representative here, Mrs.
George, to labor Independently of the
relief committee until the funds at her
disposal were exhausted. So she en-
listed the aid of clubwomen and others
who were acquainted with what the
female tent-dwellers were most In need
of and could not procure through the
regular relief channel without sacri-
fee of both time and self-respect. In
this way hundreds of good deeds have
been done by the lady from Colorado
which have not been recorded.
Accompanying her yesterday to
Hamilton Square were Mrs. J. w. Orr,
president of the California Club. and
Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Hayward, Mrs.
Schloss, Mrs. MacMasters, Miss Music,
Nine. Tojetti and Mrs Crawford, all
of whom have been active in1 the
clubs relief work since the city
was burned. Each of the ladies had n
list of the most needy cases, which
had been prepared by Mrs. George af-
ter consultation with the camp super
in nd II M
shoes drawn on the Emporium. In a
very brief time every case was invesri-
gated and the orders given out. From
the time of ascertaining who %as III
need of shoes until the means Of OBJ
tanning them were distributed just one
day was consumed and none of II e
recipients OF the bounty was subjected
to the least embarrassment.
All the women benefited had vainly
tried TO obtain shoes from the relief
committee, and some distressing ex-
periences were related TO the club
women. When asked why sAe had
been unable to get covering for her
feet, Mrs. Hopkins replied she did not
know. She went 70 the distributing
man" and satisfied him that she really
wanted shoes, but he said her name
was not on the books. Then she went
to the camp superintendent, who .old
her that her name was on the books,
so she returned to the distributing
man." and was told to call the follow
ing day. She did so, but the "distrib-
uting man" alleged he had no shoes to
give out, and that experience was re-
peated daily until her footwear was
in tatters and her heart sick. DIR. Clos
zinsky, the camp physician, corrob-
GRATED Mrs Hopkins story.
Other women alleged discrimination
born of favoritism as the Gauss of
their inability to get shoes from the
distributing man." One very mild
hammered old lady opined that she
might have gotten shoes II she had not
been difficult to fit, as she could wear
no size less than "sixes" and the dis
tributing man" never did have skies"
in stock Miss Feddis had rheuma-
tism in her feet as a result of her
failure TO be supplied with shoes,
and Mrs. Ericsson complained that in
stead of shoes she got sneers from
those upon whom she was dependent
for aid. And so 1t went throughout
the camp.
Mrs. George has about finished her
work in San Francisco, and expects
to return to Denver before this week
expires. She has been here since
April. and many needy women have
been given cause to rise and call her
blessed.