Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
COLLECTS FUNDS
TO PAY SOLDIERS
ADJUTANT GENERAL LAUCK
PRAISES GUARDSMEN
viii Ask AngeIenos to Aid In Rails.
ing Remuneration for Boys In
Blue Who Served at San
Francisco

Adjutant General j. y. Lauck is in
Los Angeles for the purpose of collect
ing funds with which to pay off the
soldiers who served in San Francisco
during the great fire. When seen at the
Hotel Alexandria last night, where
General LauclS is a guest, he said that
his efforts to secure funds for the un-
paid soldiers had been so far crowned
with success.
Previous to the passing of the bill
by the legislature providing for the
payment of the soldiers the clearing
house banks of San Francisco offered
to give me 100000 without interest"
said General Lauck last night. "No
sooner was the bill passed than the
banks made good their promise.
"There is due the soldiers that served
in San Francisco who came from South
ern California sac, ,7S0.'
The soldiers to whom this sum is due
belong to the Seventh regiment, the
troop of cavalry, the signal corps and
the naval division here.
Appropriation Payable in 1907
1.-THE legislatures appropriation of
100000 does not become payable until
July, 1907. That is the better time at
which to pay the money, because if it
were taken out now the tax levy would
be considerably increased
81 wish to make it emphatic that the
boys who coped with the tremendous
situation in San Francisco have earned
every cent of the money due them. 1t
was the greatest work ever performed
by any military body. The conditions
which abounded in San Francisco and
the order and harmony that was
brought out of the chaos and misery by
the soldiers cannot be too highly
praised.
"The credit is not due the officers who
had the soldiers in charge, but to the
boys who shouldered the guns and gave
up everything for their duty.
Ever since the awful catastrophe in
the ruined city l have been continually
reminded of the wonderful work done
by the soldiers. AS an example of the
spirit into which the boys entered to
perform the great work that was. set
before them T was told the following
story by one of the citizens:
Answers Duty's Call
"On the morning of the 10Th of April
citizen who was acquainted with one
of the soldiers and who knew him to be
man with wife and family who lived
in a portion of the city where the fire
and earthquake had done considerable
damage, said:
"'Why are you here? Do you not
realize that you have wife and family
that need your services?
"'Yes, know that, replied the soldier,
but my duty calls me here and l cannot
leave my post
"When that story was brought to me
by the citizen who had put the question
to the soldier himself / realized the
Of In
realized how justly the boys earned the
little money paid for their services"
Promlscuous Shooting Reports False
1.-The reports that the members of the
National Guard of California shot peo-
pie down promiscuously are absolutely
false. / will get upon any stand, before
any Judge and take an oath to that
effect. 1 know that promiscuous shoot
ing was not the work of the National
Guard of California.
my strongest evidence is that as
soon as these reports came to me, i'm
mediately issued orders to all my Of
fcers to report any shooting done. L
went so far as to instruct them to issue
so many rounds of cartridges to each
soldier, and that when the soldier re-
ported to turn over his round or rounds
of cartridges to the officer in charge
if any was missing from his portion the
soldier was obliged to account for 1t"
Gen. Lauck said that the forty-eight
hours in which he was engaged in work
in San Francisco was the most trying
period of his entire career. Gen. Lauck
served through the Civil War. He says
that if he were today given his choice
between four years of warfare and
forty-eight hours of work similar to
that which he did in San Francisco he
would choose the four years of warfare.