The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-06
HOW ONE TITANIC
FUND WAS SPENT
$4,000 Distributed In Aid Of
Nine Families.
SOME MONEY PUT IN TRUST.
Director Of the Red Cross Emergency
Relief Committee Reports on the Ex-
psnditure Of Proceeds Of Metropoli-
tan Opera Benefit.

Relief Committee Reports on the Ex-
psnditure of Proceeds Of Metropoli-
tan Opera Benefit.
W. Frank Persons, director of the
Red Cross emergency relief committee,
has made his report as to the distribu-
lion Of $1,000 raised at the benefit per
rormance at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, last April for the
families of victims of the Titanic dis
aster.
Mr.. Persons in his report states the
circumstances OF nine families OF vic
Inns, to each OF whom $1,000 was Civ
Ill from the contribution, and says
that each OF these families has receiv-
I'd or will receive gifts from other
sources sufficient to carry out an appro-
pirate plan for their permanent relief
An artist who was just coming into
a career of great promise had gone to
Europe to execute an important com
mission and was returning on the Tt
tanic. He was lost with his sketches
and left widow and children. One
Of his children has shown marked ar
istc ability. and the parents were
planning an education for her along
those lines. The younger children, too,
must be provided for, and Mr.. Persons
says that the support Of the family will
require In addition to the modest prop
erty remaining to the widow a consid-
erable gift, which it IL hoped can be
raised.
Help For Widows.
A newly married couple were COM
Ing to this country to make their per
manent home here. The husband was
lost in the wreck A child has been
born to the wife. When she leaves the
hospital she will take a place at serv
Ice in the country, where she can have
her baby with her. 1t Is planned to
give her a small sum Of money avail
able for emergencies and times when
she may not be able to earn anything
and to put u larger sum In trust for
her child.
A widow forty-eight years old lost
her nineteen-year-old daughter who
had been Of help in supporting the
family. She had four children surviv-
ing, all of whom are in delicate health,
and she has now the support Of the
entire family on her hands. She has
broken down under the strain and can
not work at her washing for six days
week. The plan is to provide pen
sion for a number Of years to supple
ment the earnings of the woman and
her daughters and 80 tighten her work
that she will be able to earn q living
going out only three or four days n
week.
The widow OF an oil operator who
was lost and who left three children,
one Of whom is a cripple and the other
an invalid threatened with tuberculo-
sis, Is to be helped at nursing for
which she has a natural gift, and y
pension for ten years Is to be set aside
for her until her daughters are able to
help her
The widow of a laborer who was
lost, leaving six children, will receive
the same assistance. An entire fami-
ly, consisting Of father, mother and
nine-year-old son, were coming to this
country when the father was lost and
with him all their money and proper
ty. The widow and child are now
with her people, who give her a home.
She has found employment in a fac
tory and earns $6 a week, which she
pays for board for herself and her
oh hnr nIo
her without compensation. A pension
will be provided for her support until
her son is educated and able to help.
Other Cases Relieved.
The widow of an American merchant
in moderate circumstances who went
down on the ship Is left unprovided for,
She has had successful experience In
running small dry goods business,
and she wants to establish another.
She will be helped in this.
A South Dakota farmer who had gone
to Sweden to bring back his father was
lost with his father in the wreck. He
had borrowed the money for tho trip,
and his farm and implements were
mortgaged. He left a widow and six
children, for whom emergent help has
been given, and 1t is hoped large part
of the debts can be paid.
A mechanic who had gone to Eng,
land with his wife and who during his
absence had been excused from pay,
ment Of dues In his union was lost, and
his wife Is excluded from the usual
death benefit for widows of the union.
She is incapacitated for work by reason
of Ill health, though she is a compe-
tent nurse, and II she has proper care
for a few years she may be able TO
support herself. She, too, has been
aided.