The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-22
GOLD FLOWS
 TO THE WEST The Relief Fund Will Be
 Enormous. EVERY SECTION CONTRIBUTING Governments Gift Will Be Raised
 to $z,5o0, 0,ooo. New York City Probably VIII Forward More Than This sum and While Massachusett. Has Promised
 ss,O0O,oO0. Hartman Gives
 s2oo,0oo.
EVERY SECTION CONTRIBUTING

New 1OTk, apTlf Gl.@- ht aNpfN@'No's appeal of San Francisco has been heard throughout the civilized world. From every city and town in this country from European capitals and from Tar Eastern communities comes news that all humanity in expressing It's sym pathy, Is also offering every material assistance. Money and supplies are flowing toward the stricken California metropolis and other cities by the Pa cific affected by the recent disaster with a generosity unprecedented in history.
 From the incomplete figures of the contributions which have been made it is estimated here tonight that the San Francisco fund is rapidly nearing the total of $10.000.000 and will have passed that figure by Monday, when the United states Congress. 1t is announeed ea will add S1,500,000 to the $1.0o0,0OO already appropriated from the treasury al Washington.
 In the~list of generous contributors, New York City ranks next to the Gov ernment itself. and bids fair to far ex- ceed the Federal contribution. To- night the New York fund amounted to approximately s2,ooo,ooo, with contri- buttons coming in fast.
 The State of Massachusetts has un- dertaken to raise s3.e0o,000. and with
  way to the goaA
 Chicago and Philadelphia.
 Chicago's fund, spontaneously sub scribed, Is approaching $1,000,0o0. and promises to ge beyond that sum. Phiia- delphia will send s500,000. These are but few of the large sums. A score or more of cities are contributing $lOO.- 900 and more, while hundreds of muni- cipaIities are sending all their means | 1nr Y and wherever Americans are congre- gated, a generous inflow of gold is re- ported.
 wholly foreign contributions, while deeply appreciated, are not to be ac- cepted. according to the precedent es- abolished by the President yesterday ia declining the gift of s2s,o0o from a German steamship line. America. though touched by the evidences of for- eign generosity. feels able to care for its own.
 Uncounted thousands are sending their contributions and the grand total of the relief fund will probably never be known. The New York Chamber Of Commerce today forwarded to San Francisco $s00.0o0. Chief among the individual contributions have been those of E. H. Hartman, $200.00 and Andrew Carnegie, William Waldorf Astor. John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. all of whom gave $1oo,oO0 each.
 Americans in London.
 A meeting of Americans in London was called and large fund immedi- ately subscribed. Among other nota- ble contributions have been Laden burg, Thalman and Company, $75,000; M. Guggenheim Sons. $50.800: J. P. Morgan and Company. Speyer and Company. Kuhn. Loeb and Company and w. K. Vanderbilt, $25,00O each. It Is estima ted that the contributions of the New York Stock Exchange will aggregate $25O.000. But most remark able Is the way in which small contri- buttons have poured into the treas hries of the organizations formed to send aid to the stricken city.
 Nor is the work of raising relief funds confined to the large cities. From every section. every State. comes the news of contributions made by small towns, not large in themselves, but their aggregate will be enormous.