New-York tribune., 1909-01-05
CITY GIVES S325,OOO
RELIEF FUND KEEPING UP.
Half of Total Red Cross Aad for
Italians from Nes0 York.
EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUNDS.

| Stock Exchange
New York goes right on living up to It's world
uide reputation for generosity and charity by CIV
ing literally TO the several funds for the earuh-
quake sufferers In southern italy FROM uie re
CENTS I'D to date it would not be surprising IL
Gotham contributed half million dollars or even
more, which will top the contributions OF any city
in the world The contributions now amount 70
about ss25 600. OF this sum more than So'o" came
In yesterday.
The Red Cross fund in this city amounts approx,
imately to s135,O0O, OF which sl5,T3 was received
Yesterday The total fund of the American Red
Cross, according to the report from the heao-
quarters in Washington, is $4,000. showing what
heroic work is being done in New York, the local
branch contributing half Of that amount
Among the recent contributions to the Red Cross
fund were those Of 5000 from Mrs. Henry Goldman
Potter, widow of Bishop Potter; 5000 from IlnanS
& Co., and $1,000 each from Mr. and Mrs. Whiiain
Douglas Sloane. William K Vanderbilt heaoeo
Tho contributors to the Mayors fund yesterday
with check for $500. The Stock Exchange funo
was increased yesterday by about $1,000. making
total of $4,000 raised by the members or that
institution.
The fund of the American-Italian general relief
committee is also keeping UP. some of the addi-
tonal contributions, being those OF Congressman
Francis Burton Harrison. $3.50; Samuel Unterrnyer'
500: Charles c. Bull $50 and Henry Lauterbach $50
This fund will be materially increased Dy the
beneft performance at Madison Square Garden on
Thursday night for which boxes are selling up to
500 each.
The Tribune has received a check for 80 from
reader g. H. s.. Ito he transmitted as speedily
az possible 20 Italy where it may do the most
good" The check forwarded to the Red Cross
The State of Massachusetts, has come forward
handsomely with fund of $4,000, which Edmund
Billings of Boston, will take with him when he
sails to-day on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse for Messina Mr.. Billings had charge OF the
relief work following the fire at Chelsea He goes
as the official representative of the State of Massa-
chusetts, and ill dsembark at Cherbourg and take
a train there for Southern Italy.
Gustav H. Schwab, American manager of the
North German Lloyd, extended the courteses of
the line tc the Massachusetts envoy. The North
German Lloyd to facilitate the movement of sup
plies intended for relief work will carry all such
free.
In addition to carrying provisions. clothing and
medical supplies free by the Hamburg, of the
Hamburg-American Line, leaving here to-day for
Gibraltar. Naples and Genoa, the company has
offered to transport, without charge. limited
Der OF persons who wish to reach the scene of the
disaster with a view to learning the whereabouts
and condition of their relatives The Hamburg
American Line has also furnished free passage
this steamer to DR.. Asseta, the representative of
the Italian relief committee
Peirce Brothers, agents for the Sicula-Amercano
Steamship Line, plying to Messina and other Medi-
terranean ports received two brief cable messages
from their agents yesterday, announcing that the
majority of their clerks in the Messina office had
been saved and that the italian government had
requisitioned the two steamships of the company,
the San Giovanni and the San Giorgio, now in
Italian ports for refugees
CITY'S OFFICIAL SYMPATHY.
New York City expressed officially yesterday the
sorrow and sympathy of it's citizens when Board
OF Aldermen, by rising vote, adopted resolution
offered by Timothy P. Sullivan.
The people Of the city. of New York, through
70 wt Of m an at e Ot
which has befallen so many of their eountrymen;;
| Christendom II not in the history of the world.
exciting the commiseration OF the people of every
cline and creed has has struck one % dominant
for the wounded and helpless o..
their eTorts at personal aid demSnstrate the truth
that ''One touch of nature makes the whole world
Resolved by the Board of Aldermen for the peo-
and commiseration of the people of the metropolis
! Of the Western Hemisphere be extended to the
jects on the disastrous visitation by which they
have been overtaken and so sorely afflicted
| The executive committee OF the Chamber OF Com
merce. at a special meeting held yesterday noon.
decided TO ask the members to contribute to re-
lief fund. Circulars were sent out asking the
bers to send their contributions TO the chamber.
checks being made payable 10 William II. Porter.
treasurer of the fund. At the regular meeting on
! Thursday appropriate resolutions will be passed
with reference to the same subject
! DR. Louis Kiopsch, proprietor of The Christian
| Herald" announced last night that that paper had
] advanced an additional $4,000 to be sent 10 the
sufferers In the Italian earthquake. This amount
will bring THE HeraId's" pledge $4,000 The
money is to be transferred to the Red Cross
through the Department OF State and is to be used
toward equipping the ship that is carry supplies
from Genoa TO the stricken districts THE Chris
tian Herald has collected no money as vet but
expects a generous response from the appeals to
be made to it's readers in Forthcoming issues
SELL. LEMONS FOR RELIEF FUND.
Three hundred boxes of lemons contributed by the
| California Fruit Exchange for the benefit of the
relief fund sold at auction at the Erie auction
| rooms in Warren street for $3.50.
| A number of representatives OF automobile con
Germs will at Coroner Acrtelli's office In the
Criminal Courts Building to-day to adopt plans for
the collection of clothing and money. expected
that the use of about one hundred machines will be
offered by the manufacturers TO the committee
headed by the Coroner.
The Salvation Army sent a number of women
! members yesterday with glass covered receptaces
to receive funds The days collection encour-
aging.
Baron Mayor des Panches. Italian Ambassador
at Washington signihed In telegram yesterday
Garden benefit Thursday night. Governor
Hughes will be unable TO attend he had prom
ised to be present at review and ball OF Al
bany regiment the proceeds TO to the Red Cross
fund, The entire gallery and part of the big am
phitheatre have been subscribed for by Italian
marching clubs. The societa q. p. Rive. the So
rieta Messina the societa Barcelona and the Club
OF Fifth Avenue have received places of honor in
he ada in ahf frh zhntf eiu uhs will