The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-21

as follows:
December IT, 1906.
To the Members of the Governors Sar
Francisco Relief Fund Committee
Gentlemen: In conformity with the
vote of your committee at It's las,
meeting, ! have sent both Official aho
rr,yate letters to various parties IL
San Francisco. seeking information as
to the best course to pursue In distrlp-
uting the balance of the funds so gen
erously subscribed by the people oil Ha-
wall Nei for the relief of those VINO
suffered on account of the great disas-
ter of April IS last at San Francisco.
While all of my letters have not yet
been answered, still from the data al
ready secured and from Mr.. Morgan
exhaustive investigation Ohe report OF
which is attached). as well as care
full study of the pamphlet giving the
results of an investigation of San
Francisco relief affairs by commit
tee representing the Massachusetts
Fund | am able to reach deilhte
conclusion, and prefer to report at thls
time so that the funds may reach San
Francisco by Christmas or at least be-
fore the beginning of the new year.
NV information convinces me that
many of the charges made public
through the press as to the inefiiciency
of the various relief organizations in
San Francisco were unfounded, and
others have now been remedied.
The representatives, of the Massachu-
setts Fund after thorough investiga-
tion on the ground, condemn only the
expenses paid for police and sanitary
work and forcibly point out that these
funds were not contributed for the
benefit of the city government, but the
relief of sufferers. and to an outsider
II appears misappropriation Of funds,
leaving the city free to devote its own
funds to other purposes. but as the
work had to be done and the city off,
cials refused to undertake 1t, the COM
mittee is exonerated.
You can readily see that If every
community which subscribed funds to
the relief of San Francisco tried. with
out central organization, to disburse
the funds through their own agencies,
relief would overlap, the expense would
be vastly greater and the results pro-
portionately less effective. SO that
you can not do better than to support
the central or main relief committee.
On the other hand, our information
shows that the hospitals of San Fran
cisco are taxed to their utmost ca
pacity in caring for sufferers and
funds sent direct to them will afford
Immediate relief, Therefore recon-
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and fifty dollars (s6250) be divided
among such institutions as are herein
after set forth, the general relief COM
mittee of San Francisco to be notified
of such action. said amounts to be
sent by your treasurer direct and that
the entire balance then remaining be
turned over to the general relief fund,
to be disposed of as that committee
thinks best. with the exception that II
reserve $500. to be turned over TO the
Kaufman Home at any time prior to
July l. 1907, on condition that like
amount be raised from other sources
10 pay of its mortgage; and II this is
not accomplished by the above date.
he general relief committee then to
be free to dispose OF this siOO at 1t may
deem best
The institutions would recommend
are as follows:
Hospital for Children and Train
Ing School for Nurses; cor
poration, the Board OF Direc-
ors consisting of Jas. ID. Pha-
Ian, j. +. Merrill. Leon Straus.
w. ]. Dutton and Rolla V.
Watt .................,...... 1880 90
Mount Zion Hospital, 234l Sut-
ter street: a corporation under
Hebrew management but nom
sectarian and doing a tremen-
dous amount of good: expenses
at present are about four times
the Income .,.......,....,....... 10000
California Women's Hospital.
5ils Sacramento street: an or
ganization depending almost
entirely upon charity: prior to
the disaster IL was operating
iS free beds. since which il
has undertaken a much larger
amount of free work, k,......,.. 1000 o
st. Luke's Hospital. eth and
Valencia; an institution that
has always done free work.
and Is particularly in need OF
equipment in the way of surgi-
cal instruments ....,,...,...... 5000
81. Joseph's Home for Incura-
bles. Park road and Baker
street; the hospital under this
name requires pay for its pa
tients tand also takes free pa
tients), but the money thus Sc
cured supports the incurables
at the Home; would therefore