New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-03
TIDE Of FLOOD FUND
STILL SETS STRONGLY.
Almost $780, 900 Added to CIty's
Half Million of Relief Con-
tributi0nS Yesterday.
OHIO'S NEED STILL ACUTE
Red Cross Director Says Money
Is Required to Re-establish
Business of Sufferers IN
Devastated Districts.

Though IL has been prophesied daily for
the last three days that New York had
reached It's limit in giving to the food
sufferers i'm the Middle Vest. contribu-
tons continued to flow into the various
agencies engaged in the work OF collect
ing yesterday. Almost $4,000 was added
to the city's fund of half million being
several thousand dollars more than was
recorded on the preceding day.
Emphasis was laid by those engaged in
distributing the relief money on the fact
that the danger of actual starvation was
now largely eliminated in the stricken
region. and that the greater task of set
ting the homeless and destitute on their
feet again was at hand This point was
brought out clearly I'm telegram re
ceived from Ernest Z. Bicknell, national
director of the American Red Cross, who
IS managing the relief campaign from the
State House in Columbus, Ohio. The
telegram read in part:
The work of rescue is now almost com
plcted. In a few days the emergency
period of rushing in food and clothing TO
stop instant suffering Will end. Then will
DfE.l lllt plHlOASiA ll'If tAI'h'iN' anu
equally important work Of restoring the
many thousand flocd sufferers to a con'li-
ton in which they may be set again 60
ing on their own account
An appea! for the merchants who lost
nearly everything I'm the floods came to
the Merchants Association from the sec
rotary of the Hamilton Chamber OF Com
merce
Mayor Gavnor received two kilograms
beseeching immediate assistance for Day
ton. Ohio. and Catlettsburg. Ky The
first. from John n. Patterson. emphasized
the seriousness OF the sanitary situation.
and the second merely said: ohio food
has placed us In desperate condition Help
us" II was signed 81 j. Montague.
Mayor" Both were referred to the Red
Cross. to which the Mayor has trans
ferred all contributions ntrusted to him
The Red Cross fund mounted TO roo.5ll
Yesterday. exclusive OF the $3.50 which
will come to II from the Mayors office.
TO the S3S. so OF the day the Merchants
Association contributed $1,000, the Cotton
Exchange 1895 and the Chamber OF Com
merce $3.50 other large contributors
were the National Jewellers Board OF
Trade. 81 4e5: the General Chemical Com
pany. $500: the villages OF Lestershire.
Endicott and Union. y. Y. 500, and an
anonymous contribution OF the same
amount
The uptown branch. at No. loj East 2ed
street. sent s7l72 to the main Office. in
Guiding s., SIC from the Brooklyn Chapter
81. 100 from the New York branch OF the
National League Of Commission Mer-
chants and c9ii from the citizens of Utica.
Mrs. W. Bayard cutting sent $50
The New York Stock Exchange an
nounced an increase OF 81. $50 In its fund
since the last total OF sl6.fs2 was an
nounced and Judge Alton u. Parkers
Citizens Committee collected u23i during
the day. The committee wired $500 to
tho Governor Of Illinois and like amount
to Mayor Dahlman Of omaha for immc-
date use Among eighteen names added
10 the committee were those of General
r. G. Dupont, James G. Cannon. George
j. Could, Paul -. Cravath and Judge
Morgan J. O'Brien.
The American Museum Of Safety meet
ing at the Engineering Societies Building
yesterday. passed resolution expressing
it's esteem and appreciation OF the civic
heroism and unselnsh devotion displayed
by John VI. Patterson, president Of the
National Cash Register Company. I'm sue
coring the afflicted thousands at Dayton.
Such patriotic social service. typical Of
long life devoted to social welfare, should
not be accepted by the public In silence.
the resolution said Mr.. Patterson is
gold medallist of the museum this wear.