The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
AID FOR SUFFERERS
MONTGOMERY READY TO HELP
 GULF COAST PEOPLE.
Governor Jelks and Mayor Teague Volunteer Relief to Mayor Lyons of Mobile If it Is
 Needed.

l If the people of Mobile. Pensacola or other points along the Gulf Coast need | relief from conditions left by the ter I ribie storm which visited those sec
 tions, 1t will be amply provided. I Mayor w. M.. Teague of Montgomery yesterday morning telegraphed Mayor
 P J. Lyons of Mobile. extending sym
 pathy and assistance if necessary. In | the afternoon the Board of Directors of | the Commercial Club of Montgomery met and directed President Forbes to place the services and the means of the i Club at the disposal of the stricken
 cities /of Mobile and Pensacola. l Governor Jelks has said that the
 State government would do whatever 1t
 could If the situation on the Gulf coast was such as to make 1t necessary. Yesterday Governor Jelks wrote to Mayor Lyons of Mobile expressing his sympathy at the calamity which has visited the Gulf City and rendering State aid if 1t Is needed. While there | is 70 fund for such purpose at the di! Eyosition of the Governor, 1t is un-
 d. stood that he made suggestions to | tle Mayor of Mobile as to what might be done in this direction. It is said
 that the Governor might send several hundred State convicts to Mobile to assist In clearing the streets if the emergency of the situation demands it. | Again, the Governor could offer hun dreds of tents to Mayor Lyons If any of the people of the Gulf section are homeless.
 | The anxiety of Governor Jelgs was somewhat ailayed yesterday morning when he read the latest news from Mo- bile. The loss of life was not as great as he had feared and the dispatches did not indicate that there would be any suffering for ordinary necessities. Yesterday afternoon Governor Jelks
 went to Eufaula. where he will spend today with Mrs Jelks. He will keep 1 in close touch with the situation in
 Mobile and he may go there Monday If train service is resumed.
 As soon as Mayor Teague reached
 his office yesterday morning he sent the following telegram:
 Montgomery. September 2s. Hon. Pat J. Lyons. Mayor. Mobile, Ala.:f
 Montgomery tenders sympathy to
 your people. Can we be of any as-
 sistance? 'W. M. Teague. Mayor"
 As communication with Mobile has
 not been established. Mayor Lyons has
 not yet received the telegram, but 1t
 will probably reach him today.
 Mayor Teague expressed the hope
 that conditions in Mobile were not so
 distressing as they at first appeared to
 be. He said that Mon tgomery ought,
 at least, to be prepared to extend aid
 to the people of the Gulf City If it be- came necessary, and he was sure that it would be done gladly.
 After the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Club yess terday afternoon. President A. G. Forbes sent this telegram to the Com
 mercial Club of Mobile and the Cham Der of Commerce of Pensacola: Accept sincerest sympathy in your distress. If needed in any way, com
 mand our services and our msahs.' On the streets of Montgomery yss- terday 1t was suggested time and again
 that a mass meeting should be held to take steps to send reliefAto Pensacola and Mobile. Such & movement was dis ccuraged by conservative men, who
 said that ample time for such move- ment would be had after communica- ton was established and the world
 knew the extent of the suffering.