New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-03
SUFFERING In PARIS
AMERICA LEADS IN
FOREIGN GIFTS.
Rodman Wanamaker's Gen
erosity-PLans to PreOent
an Epidemic

Paris Feb. o-As the food recedes the
streets Of Paris present a depiorabe
condition Miles OF them in the districts
along the Seine are covered with wreck
see and the slime left by the waters,
and in many places there are dangerous
pits and gaps
During the last twenty-four hours the
river has fallen from two to three feet'
but below Paris there are seVeral iee'
IF water. ard boats are 10 be seen every
where carving relief to the sufferers
Contributions are coming in from ever!
r,,int- and the Americans here, as well
sc those in their own country, have been
generous beyond all others One of
Them. Rodnlau Wanamaker, has offered,
through the American Ambassador, to
supply one loaf OF bread for every food
,-icrir7 IN Paris each day for a period OF
one month, and large money subscrip-
tons have been received from many
well known Americans.
Subscriptions received overnight IN
Guided 5000 from Henry c. Frick. Of
Ptttsburg, and $1,000 from citizens Of
Baltimore. The grand total Of American
subscriptions now exceeds S1oO,ooo, the
largest sum contributed by any foreign
country. Up to this morning Anbassa-
dor Bacon had turned over to the French
government $4,000. which is being
T,sed by the authorities at their discre-
4for1 or transmitted to some agency for
distribution designated by the donors.
The Societe des Danes FRANCHISES has
closed its subscriptions, and the relief
work Is now concentrated in the hands
IF the Public Charities Department and
the French Red Cross Ambassador
Bacon, who has made personal visits to
many Of the hospitals, soup kitchens and
temporary places Of refuge, appears en-
thusiastic over the effectiveness OF the
relief organization and the intelligent
system by which aid is rendered The
Red Cross has more than five hundred
privately owned automobiles at its dis
posal and fifty-three relief depots have
been esta blished in Paris and the sub
1lrbs Il IS estimated that the Public
Charities Department and the Red Cross
are distributing daily more than one
hundred thousand leaves of bread IN the
city and its suburbs.
TO PREVENT TYPHOID OUTBREAK
Every precautionary measure has been
taken to prevent scourge from following
tho food. and the health authorities are
Sanguine that the danger Of an epidemic
of any disease except typhoid is d negH-
gfble quantity. Typhoid is endemic in
France. due undoubtedly to the polluted
water supply Nevertheless with the
warnings issued against the drinking Of
7,rboi.ed water Il is hoped to avoid this
danger
The government has instructed the
projects OF the departments and the
provincial authorities everywhere TO en-
force the most rigid disinfection as the
waters -ecede. Already large quantities
% chloride OF lime, Quicklir1e and va
rious otETer dtsiufectants have been en-
ployed. and immense supplies have been
concentrated in depots in each Of the
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF Paris for free dis
tribution- Health officers and physicians
who have volunteered TO do the work
have been detailed to inspect the disin-
lection done privately
General Brun, Minister Of War, has
decided that as soon as their services
ran be dispensed with the soldiers who
have been taking part in the food work
viii be given z, weeks leave Of absence.
Not taking into account foreign contri-
buttons to the relief fund. or the 100000
appropriated by the French parliament,
the total French subscription up to the
present exceeds 100000. The col1ec-
lions in the Catholic churches have
amounted 10 $4,000.
Al nightfan the Lyons and Austerlitz
stations were still surrounded by water
and the tracks Of the Orleans and IN
vaIides stations were submerged, the
food at these points being nine feet
deep The water IS receding from the
V1ne and spirit warehouses at Bercy
Dual the largest in Europe. The losses
here alone are estimated at 100000.
Probably 1t will be several weeks be-
fore Ambassador Bacon can return TO
his residence the basement of which is
ronpletely under water
4 LIGHT FALL OF SNOW.
- Pont Royal this forenoon the Seine
showed Z. depth Of % feet 4 inches. This
Is : fall Of about sixteen inches IN the
preceding twenty-four hours
There was light fall Of snow this
afternoon. Because Of the danger in the
further clogging Of the sewers the au-
thorlt1es have issued notices prohibiting
The throwing Of confetti on The occasion
~ the Nardi Gras. next Tuesday.
Except in the Javel quarter, the 18th
Arrondissement and few isolated spots
or ne left bank Of the River Seine, the
waters have almost wholly receded from
the streets
The restoring Of transportation sys-
te-ns Is proceeding enersetically. but
progress is slow II viii be many days,
L--o5ably weeks. before the telegraph and