Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-12-22
RELIEF WORK
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
MEETING AT HOUSTON BY DELE.
GATES FROM ALL THE
FLOODED DISTRICT.
WILL ASK FOR FEDERAL AID
An Appeal Is Issued to the General
Public, to the Federal Govern
ment and to the Red Cross to
Lead Sanitary Campaign.

Houston, Tex, Dec. 20.-Fifty grim
faced men, in the lines of whose faces
could be read the story of the devasta
ton by the recent floods, gathered II
Houston today to count their losses
and to make plans, with the men o.
Galveston and Houston, for the re
! Mobilization Of the flood swept dis
tricts.
Out of the chaos of only partially
organized relief agencies that have
| been giving relief and succor without
system or method-because no system
under such conditions was possible
rose central body that will system.
atize, enumerate and adequately care
for those men and women, mostly
tenant farmers, who have been so
badly crippled by the flood of 1913.
Call for Federal Aid.
Federal aid will be called upon for
seed for the 1914 crop and in addi-
ton there has gone out tonight from
the committee a general call for cash
contributions, based on the evidence
given today that so per cent of the
farmers whose lands were submerged
are unable to provide food and forage
for their live stock and are unable to
purchase seed to plant cotton, corn
and forage for the next crop.
Today's meeting might be termed
an organized putting of shoulders to
the wheel Men brought reports that
conditions in the valley are even
worse than heretofore pictured, but
brought with them plans for the fu-
ture of the district. Delegates were
present from Brazos, Robertson.
Grimes. Austin, Waller, Fort Bend,
Wharton, Fayette, Colorado, Calves
ton. Brazoria and Burleson Counties.
The Men at the Wheel.
Jake VOTERS of Houston was elect
ed general chairman, W. B. Chew of
Houston treasurer and H. T. Warner
secretary. The executive committee,
of which Colonel Wolters will be the
chairman. is composed of H. A. Black
and Mayor Lewis Fisher of Calves
ton, B. B. Gilmer and Mayor Ben
Campbell OF Houston. The general
committee is made up of the central
relief committees of Galveston and
Houston, with two delegates from
each county affected, with counties
not represented today invited to send
the names of their delegates. These
follow
Galveston-H. A. Black, S. Sgitco- |
vich, George Sealy, Norris Stern, F.
w. Catterall, H. A. Eiband, ]. G. |
Smith, Louis Adoue and Mayor Lewis |
Fisher.
Houston-Mayor Ben Campbell, B. |
B. Gilmer, NJ. E. Foster, Jake VOTERS, |
H. T. Warner. C. R. Wharton, w. B. |
Chew and John A. Hulen.
Austin County Committeemen-C. |
G. Kruger and L. Tilotson.
Brazos County-Major L. L. McIn- |
Mss and John E. Astin.
Burleson County-John X. Parker
and A. NJ. Lauderdale.
Grimes County-A. P. Terrell and |
7. c. Baker.
Waller County-R. E. Hanney and
7. G. Cooper.
Robertson County-Scott Field, Jr.,
and DR.. C. w. Cummings.
Fort Bend County-A. H. P. Davis
md John NJ. Moore.
Washington County-Joe Routt ard
\. P. Fielder
Falls County-George E. Lenert and
4. M. Presun.
Brazoria County,. w. Munson and
w. Davis.
The general relief committee ap-
pointed at the Saturday conference
Will handle the matter of relief on
broad and sensible grounds. Their
'ndeavor will be to relieve the situa-
ion in practical way, that which is
'est for the individual and for the
country at large. Assistance will be
lsked along three lines, viz:
An appeal to the general public for
financial aid to enable the farmers of
he flooded districts to secure food
md forage for their live stock used
n connection with the cultivation of
heir farms.
Aid from the Federal Congress will
'e asked in the form of an appropria-
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