The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-24
GIVE AND KEEP ON GIVING.


We want every reader of The Herald to peruse the mes
sage OF t. h, Hartman president of the Southern Pacific to
w. H. Bancroft head Of the Hartman roads here After look
ing over the situation in person. Mr. Hartman wires that
mere Sh9qd be no cessation OF effort to aid the homeless
people OF San FRANCISCO and he lays particular stress on the
need OF food supplies
No description can begin to convey any idea of the mag
nude of the immediate relief work necessary to avert aW
ful suffering and loss of life When one remembers that hun
6edS Of thousands dependent upon outside aid for the
bare necessities of fe and that large proportion of these
sufferers are women and ChIdrenrememberng this COM
mon humanity calls for renewed effort added sacrifice until
the situation clears and the people of San Francisco begin to
Every train brings refugees whose stories add to the
horror OF the narrative already pubShed every dispatch only
emphasizes the agonZng details of the calamity that buried
the coast CITY in woe Listening to the tales that come with
those who eScanAd wonders that flesh and blood could en-
bad enough but the exposure of women and Children the help
ieSs ones to the anguish that was theirs is hearrendng to
ing the impulse to do something however small for their re-
lief and should hesitate to give and give and give
again. even at heavy sacrifice TO alleviate the want that
While the cqtastIophe is unprecedented in the ruin
Mrought has ITS brighter SIDE The loss of life in nCredi
came at time when few were in the business district which
suffered most While the estimates differ, agreed that
the dead VIII probably not number thousand that
many and these were chiefly in the tenement dstrct where
The old construction was inadequate to withstand the shock
Most OF the damage was wrought by fire and the people
of safety.
The stories, too, of epdemics and outbreaks of the
MEDICAL relief being furnished by cities far and near will Doubt
p[omPneSs with which the San francisco authorities have
attacked the sanitary problem gives grounds for the belief
that danger in this direction viii be aveted The call for med
ca supplies for vaccine points and for dSectants is made
as precautionary measure and indicates INTELLIGENT direC-
ton by competent medical heads,
No one can estimate lust how long v" take to restore
order inspire confidence and enable the people of San Fran
cisco to establish themselves they will be independent of
outside aid Thirty days seems short period for such STU
pendOuS task months more likely will be needed before the
cry can be placed on Se-Suppong basis But for at least
month will probably REQUIRE the efforts Of the charitaby
inclined OF the whole country to carry the sufferers over their
emergency, ~
any event seems clear that long, steady stream Of
contributions OF all sorts must be directed toward the Golden
Gate Salt Lake has begun its work of relief spenddy and
contributed noby should, and will continue lust so Iong
as it is evident help is needed " ''''7
It curious commentary on the fraty of human nature
that some suspicious persons ask how the relief work is tn he
administered and ask though that were an excuse for
refusing to give The distribution of supplies is in charSe If
the the 9uaem2St9[S depameo Of the United States army
take such task The expenditure of moneys is in CHARGE
Governor Pardee OF California the mayor of San Francisco
and a committee OF prominent men whose names fWnSb
ample guarantee that every dollar will be Spent honesV aSd
to good purpose here no excuse of any kind FIR nnt
giving, Now is the time to give. ' ~ 'O'