Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-27

committee, which is attempting TO pro-
vide food for them nutil the harvest.
Additions 10 the list OF families will be
made oplS when the funds available
justify II.
The persons receiving relief are di-
Vided into three classes The first ella ss
consists OF those WAC get free food
tickets. which are not issued unless
the family has absolutely no money,
food. OF pawnable articles and It's mem
bers are 100 weak To work, Often the
thatch roofs and timbers OF houses are
SOLD, Families, because they had t5l-
Die LETT, have been unable TO get re-
hlef, and, utterly discouraged have
committed suicide.
''l-ie second class is where one MEM
Der OF Il destitute family is able to
work This is given 90 him and is
paid Ton in food.
The third class consists OF families
to whom the Chinese government is
paying one and a one-haf cents per
day Tlch cts are given TO these fatni-
lies emitting them 10 purchase famine
supplies az cost
Food is furnished TO tIcket holders
at the relief sub centers at stated
times,
"Telogralns received by the relief
committee here from number OF I'D ?
that the distress is growing worse.
Some Of the sufferers are COuteneihg
against fever or smallpox In addition
10 lack OF food
Many startling incidents are re-
corded. such as Il fpthe- sllceStng has
head on the ground as sign OF thank
fulness for the reflex brought by a
visitor, the man being too weak to
rise The face of a boy who applied
for aid was SO plump that NJ first
assistance was denied but the lad was
atterwaTd stripped. and II was seen
that his body was greatly emaoiated,
the plumpuess OF his face being the re-
suit of edema. due to starvation A
starving man choked himself to death
by swallowing almost whole biscuit
which had been given 70 him by a
casual visitor 4 woman with three
children was found weeping on bridge,
where her husband had fallen dead
from starvation
"A husband, Wife. and their 1--WE
children were discovered in a house,
starving 10 death, huddled together.
clothed in rags and eating the bark or
trees. their only food woman came
TO the headquarters Of the RELIEF CONF
mIttee IN the teld said her husband
had died Of starvation. ana besSeu lor
for herself and her newborn baby
These are only sample Incidents in the
work OF relieving the famine sufferers
'.The gratitude OF the poor people
who receive relief is very touching
AS comment upon the sympathy
excited by the publication OF accounts
of the terrible distress In China. the
following dispatch from Hartford
Conn. printed In the New YORK IT'LL
une, is given; ..,.,..
state prison have made Il contribution
or SO 20 the Chinese famine relief fuud,
this amount being sufficient To save
nine victims of the food shortage from
starvation and 10 tide them over until
Inc next harvest. OF the Ave contr-
butors to the fund three are IRE con-
vlcts The Offering was purely spoh-
taneOus,
The cargo for ihe Buford has been
assembled NJ San Francisco. ana AFTER
annyourlate exercises the big transport
win SAN for China on the alth OF APRIL
THE 1lour she bears WILL save hundreds
~ thousands Of lives ana mitigate ibis
er, To an lucalcuable extent
on hoard the Bufurd the writer T.
n. tombstone, VIII sail n9 repfesel "a
five Of the Christian Herald ana ~.
rarga's donors. and upon trrtVins al
Chnkiung. wlll visit uhl uapeI+ wv
fnn,lne districts, writing tGefelfoIl ac-
.r,,rts al lhlngs as thcy are. ana 81
wber American relief has been aple 70
Al r.on1rllsh. This present series on leE-
1sra vylth Me- accompanying lIlutlIu-
,ta,,r rvfli a. sent weekly as usual from
Isii,re 5soufe. New York, ana th' Specl-
al letters and cabiegrams IRON tnlN"
,rui be incorporated when uYhuNple-
Meantime earnest udJutA Won ~ mel
that thc Beueruus-heAil alu '"S ps,,I
IN shall contribute hY cheek pgSlhl