Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-24
BUSINESS MEN
HANDLE RELIEF
CONTRIBUTIONS
Donations Exceed
$4,000
Fund ls Still insufficient, as II Is
Planned to Hake the Money
Cover Wide
Field

Angeles has any accident or disaster so
appealed to the charitable inclinations
of men and women as the Cressaty dis
aster, wherein more than a score were
crippled for life and six were killed.
Thus far the people of Los Angeles
have nobly responded to the call for aid
and something over $4,000 has been
raised by donations and by benefit
arranged by Harry Bell of the Behymer
Theatrical Advertising company and q
committee of newspaper men. But the
amount is not yet sufficient to answer
the needs of those terribly afflicted.
During the next two weeks the fund
will be continued. 1t is a worthy cause,
a cause to which even the great body
of the chamber of commerce has added
its signature, cause to which every
cent will mean another bright day in
the life of a wretched human being.
The Herald has already received sub
scriptions for the injured. 1t will con-
tinue to do so for the next two weeks.
Each day the subscriptions and the
names of the donors will be printed. 1t
is not q matter of personal advertise
ment for those charitably inclined that
their names will be printed, but to list
them with the subscribers to the fund,
to whom the committee handling the
fund are responsible.
Committee Holds Meeting
Yesterday the committee met for it's
first session. A. B. Cass, well known
business man, former president of the
chamber of commerce, is chairman;
w. D. Stephens, the president of the
chamber of commerce, was elected
treasurer of the fund, and nowhere IN
California or in fact in the United
States could man more competent or
more fitted by honesty and integrity
be found to handle such fund. Wesley
Clark q Californian Of national reputa-
ton, Is secretary of the committee, and
to him all donations will be turned over
for receipt before passing on to Treas
urer Stephens. With the special COM
mittee will be the committee of news
paper men who have thus far had the
relief proposition in hand. Arthur Mac
Kaye represents the Times, William
Wing the Express, Claire Snively the
Evening News. Phillip D. Wilson the
Examiner, H. T. Clotworthy the Record
and R. M. Yost jr., The Herald.
During the next few days the COM
mittee will proceed with it's investiga-
ton in manner which will insure that
each victim of that accident will receive
from the fund his or her needs demand.
Some of the injured will require little
money, some have a small means of
support but the majority have families
who are in dire need.
Fund Covers Wide Field
1t is the object of the committee not
only to provide for the immediate press
ing needs of the destitute and injured
but to so provide for them that when
they leave the hospitals they will not be
without means of support The fund
will cover the schooling of several poor
little children left through the terrible
deaths of their fathers. 1t will care for
feu suffering old O1OtharS whose
daughters have been crushed and
broken in the disaster, it will see that
when the victims leave the hospital they
will have some means of support other
than sitting in doorways and Offering
pencils for sale. 1t will see that good
artificial limbs are provided for the
manned and that all are cared for in
the right manner
In the next few days a committee
composed of Arthur MacKaye, Phil
Wilson and William Wing will visit
each one of the sufferers and every
family A statement of their condition,
their financial distress, their means of
support the condition of dependent
relatives made destitute by the acct
dent will be made and such statement
carefully gone over by the committee.
The funds will be apportioned accord
Ing to the needs. The committee will
do the settling with the hospitals on
competent business basis.
Every cent of that fund will be ac-
counted for. every cent handled by COM
petent business men and every cent
placed where it will do the most good.
Christ Church Donates
Yesterday the statement from Christ
church was received by the committee
Last Sundays collection was donated
to the victims. 1t amounted to $491 30
and as the representatives of the church
desired, it has been apportioned as fol-
lows, this money, however still being
retained by the committee for the pres
ent until such time as proper for its
presentation:
Harry Kayea, s1576; Fred e. Hod-
ding. $40; Emma Haggerty, $50; Mrs. J.
M. C. Fuentes, $45; May Anderson, $50
Miss Annie Hooper, $40; Tessie Graves,
500; Frank Zoriki, s45; Annie Clifford,
$50; Miss Ollie Crawford, $40.
subscriptions will be received by any
of the newspapers, or can be sent direct