The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-08
Over 100 Contributions
Received By Noon Today
To Save lnstallment-
Plan Home For Stricken
Family
TIMES NEGOTIATING WITH e..
N. GILL TO HAVE WIDOWS
EQUITY TRANSFERRED To
SMALLER PROPERTY.
The something has happened, -

The intuition OF MrS. A. w.
Holmes, the young bride-widow,
that something would turn up to
prevent her and her sick babe and
the aged mother of her dead hus-
band from being elected from
their home on Alaska street, was
true.
From all over the city today
there came to the Times eviden EOS
that the story of her misfortune.
as published yesterday had found
scores of open hearts that void
lead to open purses TO save this
little family of the soldier boy
from being thrown into the street.
Il. r. & p. MEN BUSY.
Down in the T. r. & P. shops
where Bert Noll and his commit
tee work the boys are busy and
at noon today 10S separate COR
tributions had been received by
the Times from working people
ranging from 10 cents to SIS.
They represented 10S sacrifices
made by men who toll with horny
hands in the strenuous activities
of life and who are determined to
save that little family a home.
Gill May Help.
Negotiations were undertaken
today by the Times with Mr.. Gil
to make some arrangement where
by the family may be transferred
to a smaller home which they will
be able to hold. MT. Gill said he
would be willing to cooperate AMI
do his share in trying to adjust
matters so the widow may not lose
what has already been paid before
death and misfortune overto ok
the household.
List of Contributors.
Tomorrow the Times will pub
lish a list of the contributors and
it is expected the list will have
grown to such proportions that a
big start will have been made TO-
ward solving the apparently hop 3
less problem which now faces Mrs
Holmes.
There were tears of gratitu de
in the eyes of the little woman
today when she heard of the work
being done for her by the kind
hearted friends and neighbors who
started the movement to save
them.
every time yet when we have
been in tight place something
has happened to get US out" she
said.
A rugged looking fellow DROP
ped into the Times office at no n
today.
"Where is that subscription lis.
where a fellow can help that wom-
an?" he asked.
He was handed a blank en-
velope. He took 1t, placed 81 on
the inside, sealed 1t up and wrote
on the front:
Jim-$1.
Mrs. Jim-$1.
Without comment he handed
the letter in and walked away.
"I knew Holmes. He gave hrs
life to the government. Twelve
years in the army in the Philip
pines was what killed him." said
a man today.
when he came back from the
Philippines he was sent to Pa
mama by the government to do
police duty" said his mother.
But disease cut. him off in the
prime of life and his young wifs
and the babe which came into the
world few weeks after hts
death are left alone and almost
destitute.
But Tacoma is responding TO
the need of the little family.
Within the next "a hours 1t Is cx-
pected stream of silver will how
into the Times Office for the bene-
fit of the Alaska street household.
A flock of hens has kept the
family from starving but they can
not save their home. Tacoma
philanthropy. however, can and
1t will.
All contributions to this cnd
may be sent or left at the Times
office and proper acknowledge
ment will be made by publication
daily.