The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-04
CITY RENTS
$500 MORE
To SUFFERERS
Relief Committee in
Session with Mayor
Wilson
-Four Appropriations Made This
Noon from Fund Which Now
Totals Over 700

Reporting large amounts received
| from the charitable of Bridgeport to-
| wards the relief of sufferers in Ken
lucky, Ohio and Indiana, the execu-
tive committee of the Flood Relief
Fund today, upon receipt of pathetic
appeals directed from stricken dis
tricts to Mayor Clifford B. Wilson,
)tionments from the sum now on
hand:
To the city of Dayton, $1,000.
To the State Of Ohio, $500.
Catlettsburg, KY, $780,
Ralston, Neb., $3.50
At the meeting which was called
promptly at noon in the Mayors Of
flee, Frank T. Staples, treasurer of
the fund. A NJ. Cooper and F. c.
Blanchard were present.
1t was reported that to date an
amount of $7,722.73 had been subscribed
to the fund of which $500 had prev
iously been distributed in Ohio and
Indiana.
Mayor Clifford Wilson read a te1e-
gram from CatIettsburg, KY, signed
by its Mayor, C. NJ. Skinner, asking
for help. It was found that the city
numbered $500 Inhabitants and in view
of the larger amounts already sent to
Ohio, it was unanimously agreed that
this relief was warranted and an
amount of $3.50 authorized to be sent.
A telegram addressed to the Mayor
was read from John H. Patterson,
chairman of the Dayton Citizens Re
lief committee, as follows: 1.-The sftua-
ton in Dayton is appalling. Finan-
cia1 help Is urgently needed at once to
feed, clothe and re-eStablfsh the peo-
pie in their homes. THOUSANDS of
homes have been entirely destroyed
and the sanitary problem is very Seri-
Gus and will involve great expense.
We are compelled to feed the entire
grocers are practically exhausted,
Send remittances to AW. r. BippT1s,
secretary treasurer, Dayton Citizens
Relief committee"
Tt was unanimously voted that a fur
ther allotment of $1,000 be made to-
that city. Then, acceding to the re-
quest Of Governor Cox directed to
Bridgeport that further moneys be
sent direct to him for judicious distri
amount of S1,500 was apportioned the
State of Ohio.
An appeal for aid for the town of
Ralston, Nebraska, directed by an un-
dertaI1ing firm of Omaha, to the
White Manufacturing Company of
Bridgeport, and by them turned over
to Treasurer Staples was submitted
to the committee. The appeal was
approved by the press and Mayor of
Ralston.
1t was disclosed that Ralston, de-
voted exclusively to manufacturing,
was a suburb of Omaha, and while
the homes in the larger city had been
destroyed in Ralston the factories had
been completely wiped out as well,
leaving the people without work or
homes. 1t was the sense of the meet
in that funds ,sh ould be granted, and
$500 was thouht adequate.
The Relief Fund at press hour was
as follows:
Amount previously reported .$6, ,4O4.6S
K J. D. 500
M L. Needles. s..... LOO
H E. Mayer .... 200
Ma1lon & Beloin ....... LOO
Cash received by collectors. sos
Peoples Presbyterian Church 31.O0
Bridgeport Pastors Asso. -. 5000
J. Windsor Farist .......... $500
George Winosor . $500
The Monurn mental Bronze Co. 1000
Employees of The N. Palmer
& CO. ............... 1880
The William P. Kirk Co.. 1000
Employees of The w. S. Mills
Co. $3.50
William J. Grippin ........ 1000
Bridgeport Cycle Co. ..-.... 100
John H. Casey y......... 100
DR.. H. G. Weid1ich. ........ 200
Bridgeport Trust Co. ..... 5000
National Bank 5000
E. p Coe Observation-Disclosures. 200
Angelo Rise .. 100
Fanny Landes loo |
Amy Hastings .. 100 |
H. H. Leopold ..-.......... LOO
M. A. Green & Co. ..... 500 /
Julius Tesiny .- 100
Frederick Sailer ... 1000
City of Bridgeport. ......:. 100000
$7,747.73