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the news Of the San Francisco disa ster
was flashed over the wire the Common
Council of that city met at once and by
resolution decided to turn this fund over
to the relief fund. Before II can be done
it will he necessary to secure legislative
approval, A~ssemblyman Wemple's bill was
advanced to a third reading.
Assemblyman Brennan OF New York
introduced IA bill a%ppropriating 81 100000
for the benefit Of the sufferers.
PHILADELPHIA April 23.-More than
$50. 900 was contributed for the San Fran
cisco sufferers through the several author.
lied channels to-day. The first box OF
cherries received from California was
auct toned off, one at a time, by the Fruit
Dealers Association. They brought 81 500.
One of the cherries brought sos.
BosToN, April 2S.-To-day's contribu
ions to the California relief fund reached
S424, Oo6. Most ~ this was in S. and $40
cont ributions. ,
CHICAGO, April 23.-Chica go's relief fund
passed the $500 900 mari to-day and Chi
cago's second relief train started for san
Francisco. This train carried 25 physicians,
IS nurses. medicines. surgical stores and
three carloads Of chloride of lime. The
third train will start within "a hours.
This train will be laden with blankets
and foodstuffs. All these relief trains
will have right of way over express and
mail trains.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 23.-Cash sub
scriptions to the san Francisco fund reached
$50, 900 to-day. Another train of supplies
| will be forwarded. Probably S5O, 900 more
will be subscribed and s2j 900 additional
will come from benefit entertainments.
Kansas City, Kan, has subscribed S5,OWO
and many small Kansas towns are sending
carloads of provisions.
W~1LM1NGToN. Del. April %. Whining
toms contributions to the San Francisco
) fund are 50, l39. IL.
PETERsBURG, Va, April %. -Seven hun
dred dollars was raised in the churches
here Yesterday for the San Francisco suf-
fererS. All the colored churches made
contributions. To-day the local lodge OF
Elks telegraphed 500 to the grand sec,
rotary at Dubuque, la. The City Council
will appropriate 81 900.
HAvERsrRAw, April 23.-The Grand
Lodge knights of Pythias, OF New York
Stale to-day appropriated $500 for the
California sufferers and asked subordinate
lodges to contribute, ,
NEwBURaH, April 2S.-At the citizens
meeting tonight 81 500 was given for re-
lief of California sufferers.
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OF the Hartman ines. The commodities
transported free are all high class, and
would take a very high rate, varying from
81. 25 to s. for 100 pounds from Chicago to
the coast. The relief trains are not run
ming as ordinary freights, but upon pas
senger train or express train schedules, thus
adding to the expense.
To transport a train of provisions from
Chicago to San Francisco on a passenger
train schedule would cost "A shipper be-
tween 81 ,oO0 and $l2, 900. If the cars were
loaded each with "a. 900 pounds of pro-
visions at a rate Of SIPS for 100 pounds,
It would cost $500 a car or $4,000 for
a twenty car train, The enormous amount
of equipment which will he required
to handle this traffic must be taken
out Of other service. In addition to the
freight service. there is the free passenger
service which the railroads are performing.
ANY one in san Francisco who is needy can
&C free any where in the State.
OMAHA. Neb., April 29.-The ihion
Pacific and Burlington railroads are smash
ing all records for fast running and ~handlIng
large numbers of trains. The six SPECIAL
relief trains from Chicago handled over
the Burlington made faster time to Denver
than do the regular Passenger trains. The
Union Pacific took the trains at Denver.
S,.lall towns in Nebraska sent two trains
o. provisions west to-day. Fourteen
cars full of canned meats, rice and dry
goods from Chicago went west this after
noon or IA special. Thirteen cars of assorted
supplies from New York made up a Union
Pacific special this morning.
Denver sent a special train of fourteen
cars full of canned meats, Forty cars,
making up three trains, loaded with general
supplies and provisions from Philadelphia
and PENNSYLVANIA cities followed each
other at intervals of thirty minutes out Of
Omaha to-day.
The Rock Island carried two specials
of provisions from Iowa west. A Govern
ment train OF seventeen cars from Jeter-
~sonville, Ind. is en- route west. A special
train of soldiers and hospital nurses from
Philadelphia is crossing Wyoming. One
car of Government stores caught fire ard
burned at Upton, Wyo., to-day. The
train was saved.
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LETTERS TELL OF EARTHQUAKE
Washington People Receive Mail Telling
Relatives Experiences.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Some of the
Californians in Washington who are con-
nected with the Government service re-
ceived letters to-day from friends IN San
Francisco and Oakland. written after the
earthquake, describing their experiences.
Louis C. Drapeau, one of the secretaries Of
Senator Perkins of California. has a letter
from a member of his family in Oakland,
written at I O'Clock on the morning OF the
catastrophe. She says in part:
THE first shake woke us and every one
Of us started downstairs. The shake was
something terrible and in all directions at
once. | could hardly hold the baby. for
the stairs we're going up and down and the
plaster was coming out of the wall all over
the stairs. | slipped and would ave fallen
down the satirs il Arthur and Eva had not
caught hold of me. We expected that the
house would q in before we got out. Just
as we got to the door all the bricks OF our
chimney fell dswn on the sidewalk.
Every ones doorstep was covered with
people, the women and children in night
dresses and bare feet. Our stove chimney
in the house came down and the walls and
12cr wer' overed with about two inches
Of SPOT. amps and hottlaG of medicine
were omaslcd all over tho f1or, curtains
fcu Il Tie wlrdC We. everything fell down
in Tn, r., IN al over the Il .cr. III chimney
fr,m the house EoSt door came al through
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ny aunt,s windows into her bedroom.

nv aunt's windows into her bedroom.
"The new Prescott School, which is not
quite finished. ia a total wreck. The EN-
ppire Theatre fell in and crushed five people,
and one man was killed at a bakery. They
saw the walls of the stores uptown fell IN.
and all the windows are broken. No cars
are running and all the telegraph and tele-
phone wires are down. The water was
cut off. There have been four or five smaller
shocks since, one as hard as we usually
In letters to her husband, who is here.
Mrs. Alexander Graydon of Oakland says
that many horses we're killed during the
earthquake by flying debris from the resi-
dences demolished and by the live electric
wires that covered the streets in every
direction,
In many places in the City of Oakland
the ground has settled several feet and in
several places on Twelfth street, Mrs.
Graydon says, the street is about six feet
lower than formerly, This was p%articu-
larry 50 in several places where the build
ingS were on made ground. which gave
way more readily than the natural earth
In one place in the part Of Oakland where
MIR. Graydon lives, his wife explains, there
is a fissure in the street near the pave
ment about three feet wide that is so deep
that one cannot see the bottom.
Many of the larger buildings, including
those of the business and the residence
portions of the city, were said to he badly
damaged and in many cases in an appar-
emily unsafe condition as far rs their future
occupaucy was concerned. Mr.. Graydon
wrote the letters sitting on the pavement
in front of her house
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SERVICE or THE RAILROADS.
Estimate That They VIII Give 50 900 600
Worth OF Free transportation.

CHICAGO, April 23.-In helping to relieve
the suffering in San Francisco the railroads
of the country are performing free of cost
a service which would nave a commercial
value Of more than 5000 900.
1t is estimated, for example, that the
relief work will cost the railroads which
are in the system controlled by +. H. Harri-
man at least SIS, 900 daily for the next thirty
DAYS. This would make a total Of 81, $50, 900.
This sum, however, includes the cost to
the railroads which deliver traffic to the
Union Pacific at Omaha, including the
Northwestern, the st. Paul, the Great
Western, the Illinois Central and the Rock
Island. The estimate for the Santa Fe,
which has its own lines from Chicago to
San Francisco, Ia at least $25 900 daily,
including the lines which turn over traffic
to it at Chicago.
The contribution of the Gould system
together with the lines which deliver traffic
to it is estimated to be Sis 900 daily. Ac-
oordingly, it is said, the railroads are per-
forming free Of cost a seT.ice daily which
has a commercial value Of al least Sll5 600,
and this service will continue for at least
thirty days.
These figures represent "a dtTid 7 o.
nearly 4 per cent, upon Il capitalization Of
500, 600, 900, or about the capitalization
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pOSTI CEREAL.
HARD TO DROP
but Many Drop II.

A Young Calf. wife talks about coffee:
at was hard to drop Mocha aud Java
and give Postum Food Coffee a trial, but
my nerves we're 80 shattered that ! was a
narvous wreck, and of course that means
all kinds of ails.
AT first | thought bicycle riding caused
il and | gave it up, but my condition re-
NAMED unchanged. ! did not want to
acknowledge coffee caused the trouble,
for I was very fond Of it. At that time a
friend came to live with us. and | noticed
hat after he had been with us a week he
would not drink his Office IN more. |
asked him the reason. He replied, | have
not had a headache since ! left off drinking
coffee. some months ago, till last week,
when | began again, here at your table L
don't see how anyone can IKE conee, any
wav. after drinking Postum!
II said nothing, but at once ordered a
package of Postum. That was nVe months
AGO. and we nave drank no other coffee
since, except on two occasions when we
had company and the result each time
WAS that my husband could not sleep, but
law awake and tossed and talked half the
night. We were convinced that coffee
caused his suffering, 80 he returned 70
Postum Food Coffee, convinced that the
old kind was an enemy, instead OF n friend,
and he is troubled no more by
Il. myself, have gained 8 pounds in
weipht. and nv nerves ave ceased to
culver. II seems 50 easy now TO quit the
cid coffee that caused cur aches aud alls
and take up Postum" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's
a reason. 400, uu
Read the little book, "Ihe Read to Well
Vile. y in pkEs.
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THEATRICAL
Two Shows OF Last Night Turn Their Re-
ceipts Over TO Charity.

Two Shows OF Last Night Turn Their Re-
ceIpts Over TO Charity.
In spite Of the storm the benefit perform
ances at the Lyceum and Madison Square
Theatres last night were we'll attended.
At the Lyceum "The Lion and the Mouse
was played to a full house and $2,0o2.5o
will be added to the fund. Many tickets
were purchased which we're not used.
At the Madison Square Theatre the first
of four performances for the fund was given.
Manager W. n. Lawrence has announced
that last night, tonight and two perform
ances on Wednesday are for the sufferers
and he will donate the gross receipts. Last
night there was a large house to see Mrs.
Temples Telegram" and several gifts were
made by friends to swell the fund. Mr..
Lawrence will not the receipts
until after Wednesday night.
To-day an automobile with some Of the
members of the company will visit Wall
Street and the downtown districts to sell
tickets. Mr.. Lawrence has two shows on
the road and arrangements are being made
for them to give benefit performances.
Henry f. Dixey with THE Man on the Box"
is playing in Philadelphia and will give a
benefit at the Academy of Music on Thurs
day afternoon. Cyril Scott il playing
"The Prince Chap" in Pittsburg. The date
for the benefit by that company has not
yet been settled. .
Arnold DAILY in Arms and the Man"
was to have given a matinee yesterday
afternoon, but on account OF the storm It
was decided to postpone the matinee until
tomorrow afternoon.
Two matindes and a night performance
are to be given to-day and the total re
ceipts from these performances are to 60
to the fund. At Weber's Music Hall. there
will be a matinee performance of "Twiddle-
Twaddle" and The Squaw Mans Girl Of
the Golden Vest" There will be a matinee
performance at Hurtig 4 Seamon's Harlem
Music Hall and the evening performance
will be Mrs Temples Telegram" at the
Madison Square Theatre
The billia ri players will also do what
they can to swell the fund tonight at the
Willie Hoppe and Jacob Schaefer will
play 100 points at 1871 balk line; Slosson
and Sutton will play 100 points at 1872 balk
line; Cure, Cutler and Mornlngstar Will
play a fifteen point three cushion game;
Schaefer,, Hope, Mclaughlin. Maurice
exhibitions, and the four rack amateurs,
Edward Gardner, j, +. P~oggenburg, Calvin
Demarcst and Dr.. l.. l." Mial will play u
hundred point game OF IA inch halk line. All
the receipts are for the fund.
On THURSDAY, in Brooklyn, the total re-
oairtS OF the night performance al Percy G..
Wiiliams's Orpheum Theatre are to be
given to the fund.
At the Casino on SunGay there will he an
afternoon and an evening performance,
at the Hippodromo the Victor Herbert
concert and at the Academy Of Music a
/ special performance arranged by Daniel
! Frohman and Tony Pastor. ,
The Barnum 4 Bailey circus opened
under it, six pole canvas tent at flith
avenue and Third street, Brooklyn, yes
tPrday, and understanding the weather
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NEW YORK GIVES S"50,OOO.


nv ~ s'F'e
Governors RccOmmcn datiOns.
ALBANY, April 23.-The Legislature to-
night, in response to a special message
from Gov, Higgins, appropriated $3.50 ,OOo
for the relief Of the San Francisco SUI
ferers. No time was lost in getting the
bill through the Legislature. Immediately
upon the converting of both houses the
following messag e from the Governor was
received:
with the calamity that has 80 recently
allen upon the city Of san Francisco and
the State Of California fresh = our minds
the question is not whethe. ne shall contribute
TO the relief of the afflicted population of our
sister State but rather how speedily and
how literally may We come 10 its assistance.
Later information serves only to confirm the
earlier reports Of widespread and appalling
disaster. bringing ruin to many hundreds and
sur erirg to many thousands, The Empire
State has never shown itself backward In such
emergencies. As'the need is great, so should
its contribution be generous.
II therefore recommend the immediate
appropriation or s?jo.oOO for the relief Of the
people of California who. az a result of the
recent earthquake, are afflicted or distressed
in body or state. suggest that the said
amount be placed n: the disposal Of the Gov
ernor without DELAY. TO be expended by him
through the agency Of the American Ma
tional Red Cross or otherwise.
FRANK W. HlGGlSs.
No sooner had the message been read
in the Assembly than Majority Leader
Moreland was on his feet with the bill carry
ing the $3.50, 900 appropriation. 1t was
advanced to third reading at once and
unde: an emergency messag e from the
Governor 1t passed the lower house at once.
Senator Raines introduced a similar bill
in the Senate, but it was referred to the
Finance Committee to await the receipt
of the Assembly bill. which was received
a few minutes later and was passed in the
Senate at once under an emergency mesa go
from the Governor. II now goes to the
Governor and will he n law Tomorrow.
Another bill for the benefit Of the suf-
forers was introduced by Assemblyman
Wemple Of Schenectady. The Common
Council Of that city had appropriated s. 900
for a Fourth or July celebration. When
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On the bulletin of the Coffee Exchange yes

Additional Stock Exchange subscription. S.
Consolidated Exchange Subscriptions g.,
Additional Produce Exchange subscription. z.
American Dankers, Association. -........... b.
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RECEIVED AT THE MAYORS OFFICE.
About S24 900 was received yesterday
at the Mayors office. The principal con-

THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION FUND.
About ST., $50 was received yesterday by
the Merchants Association. making a total
of Sill 900. The principal subscribers yes
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The Chamber of Commerce acknowledged
receipts of SIS, 900, Its total collections ar
now nearly 5000. 600. The chief gifts were:
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Newark Sends $50 600 More.

Ma vor Doremus of Newark sent another
check to the Red Cross treasurer for the
San Francisco sufferers yesterday for
$50. 600. This makes 100000 in all sent from
Newark. More than sS5 eco has been con-
tributed by the citizens Of Newark for
the sufferers.
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RELIEF MONEY RUSHED WEST.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SENDS
ITS FIRST $1,000 o

Fund VIII He Well Above S3 600 ,OoO-Tam-
many Gives $40 ,OOO-Chamber OF
Commerce Gets an Anonymous Gift OF
= SIS 600 I'm Cash Smaller Sums Now.
More than 32o5 900 was contributed in
this city yesterday for the relief OF the
San Francisco sufferers, and there Is no
doubt now that the total subscription from
his city will be we'll above So ,0Oo, 900. Most
of the contributions yesterday were smaller
than in the first few days.
About 3e4 900 was subscribed at both
branches of the Red Cross yesterday.
The Chamber Of Commerce has received
altogether about S875 900. Tammany Hall
voted $40 900 yesterday, 1t was agreed
that each Assembly district should con-
tribute 5000. The Merchants Association
received yesterday nearly SIS, 900. The as
sociation arranged to ship to San Francisco
twenty barrels of iormaldebyde, with an
additional shipment of medicines and medi-
cal supplies.
The Chamber of Commerce sent yester-
day $lOO. 900 to James D. Phelan, chairman
of the San Francisco relief committee. The
money was sent by telegraph.
On Saturday there was a disposition to
use the money collected by the Chamber
to heIp the small SnopkeeperS IN Gun rrdu-
cisco. This idea was not 80 pronounced
Yesterday. The general impression seemed
to be tina the money should be turned over
tothe Red Cross.
During the day Secretary Wilson hid the
same experience that Mayors Secretary
O'Brien had last week. A young mat, APP
p~arently a clerk, walked into his Office and
laid five thousand dollar bills on his desk.
49, Il n u - ha eoiI afrhntta
all there is to it."
Mr.. Wilson e~ndeavored to persuade the
bearer ofthe funds to tell him conidentially
the source of he donation. The young man
said that that would be against his orders.
THROUGH H RED CROSS.
At the headquarters of the Red Cross,
including the uptown branch, $94 900 was
received yesterday, making a total OF
1851 900.
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dissatisfaction and have enthusiastically
demonstrated their approval of my princi-
palship. The standing of the NJ street school
is higher now than it had ever been prior
to my administra ton.
Since my Administered ton there have been
boys to enter Harvard. Yale. Amherst.
Brown and other colleges Tom the NJ Street
High School without conditions. and two
applicants to Harvard uassed with three AS
and two RS to their credit. There had
never been any attempt to enter Harvard
direct from the NJ Street High School pre-
vious to my, administration.
In speaking as to what she intends to do
i'm the matter of securing her position. Mrs
Cooper said she would make a contest for
the position and that If it became necessary
she would go to law to secure her rights.
Attorneys Views.
Mr. John L. Love. who was also dismissed
from the NJ Street High School and who Is
representing Mrs. Cooper as her attorney in
a statement today said: Il do not know why
I was dismissed. have been to every
member of the school beard with the ex-
ception of two to inquire why there was
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GRoFFS ARE LOOSE.
Both Brothers Discharged From the
Moundsville Penitentiary.

Diller b. Croft and his brother, Samuel A.
Croft who about twenty months ago were
sent to Moundsville, w. Va, to serve
term of two years for alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government in connection
with the sale of the Croft mail-box fasten-
ers to the Post Office Department, were
released from the penitentiary yesterday.
The former was met at Moundsville by
his son. Diller F. Croft. Father and son
went to Wheeling on an electric car, leaving
Wheeling later in the day to go to New
York by way of Pittsburg. 1t is said that
they will go to Thousand Islands for the
health of the father. Should his condition
warrant 1t, 1T is stated. the father may
make trip to Europe later. Samuel A:
Croft left the big prison about midnight
and returned to his family on the first
train coming In this direction, reaching
here about / o'clock yesterday afternoon.
AS stated in The Star Few days ago,
Samuel A. Croft still maintains that he is
innocent of the charges upon which he was
convicted, and report has 1t that he and his
brother are no longer the close friends they
were when the latter was conducting bust
ness for the former. 1t Is stated that
Samuel A. Croft feels that his brother might
have made a clean breast of the business as
Il was conducted with Gus Machen through
DR.. Lorenz, and thereby exonerated him.
Statements made by both Machen and LO-
REM after their conviction tended to exon
crate Samuel A. Gron. Gron had hoped
that something would happen during his
showing his innocence. but that something
did not happen, and his friends are now
going to make effort to bring about an
investigation TO show that he was wrong
fully convicted.
The sentence of the Groffs expired Sat-
urday night at midnight. and they were
then entitled to their freedom. Samuel
Groh took advantage of his rights and
was outside the walls of the institution be-
fore many minutes of Sunday had passed,
but his brother remained there until later
In the day. He boarded the train that was
geheduled to leave Wheeling shortly after
Sfroh had desired quiet homecoming and
: his friends were SO advised. 1t was be-
cause of this advice that only three of his
personal friends were there when the train
arrived at the Baltimore and Ohio depot.
One of the three friends the Rev.
George Z. Maydwell, pastor of Waugh NJ.
+. Church. He was .Groff's pastor and
has been his constant friend since the day
of his arrest, believing in the innocence of
the man who was convicted after the chief
prosecutor had announced his belief in the
innocence of the member of the quartet
on trial.
Joseph Harper and Mr.. T. NJ. Whitney. The
four friends entered carriage and were
driven to the home of Croft on North Caro-
lima avenue. There he met the members
of his family for the first time since his
departure from the city about twenty
months ago. The meeting between Croft
and his family was an affecting one There
was family reunion at yesterdays din
ner Later I'm the day number of friends
called to pay their respects and to tell
their friend of the belief in his innocence