New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28
Father Gives $4,000 and
Daughter Opens Home
for Girls.
SOCIETY AT BEVERLY
LENDING ASSISTANCE
State Committee Announces
S177,064 Subscribed, but
Million Is Needed.
~ Tolegrapn 10 tho TrIbune.

ing wide their purses Tor the Deneht
of the thousands made homeless by the
great Salem fire.
Henry Clay Frick has given $4,000
and sent all his automobiles TO carry
mothers and children TO housing quar-
ters established in various sections OF
Beverly. Miss Helen Prick is working
among the sufferers and has opened
her home for oirls at Wenham, where
seventy-fve homeless girls will ma
shelter.
Thomas p. Beal. jr, Boston banker,
is head of the Beverly Relief Com
mittce; Augustus +. Lorng, a mem
Der; William H. Spaulding, treasurer,
and Miss Louisa r. LOring secretary.
Mrs. Bryce Allen, Mrs. Charles h.
Tweed. Mrs. Guy Norman, Mrs George
Won l.. Meyer. jr, Mrs. Augustus Pea
body Gardner. Mrs. Robert Dawson
Evans. Mrs. Oliver Ames. Mrs. FRANK
lin Haven. Mrs. Gerard BemCnt. DR.. )
r. Lancashire. Mrs. +. II. Peabody
Mrs. Sidney Z. Hutchinson, Mrs. Jonn
l.. Saltonstall Mrs. Philip ). Sears,
Mrs. Payne Whitney and Mrs. Preston
Gibson have contributed to the tund'
MANY of the leading society women
have beer working to-day getting
clothes ready for the sufferers at the
relief station at the City Han. Il nc
than one hundred automobiles nave
been lent, and many OF the co!on',t5
have taken charge Of children Until
the parents can find new homes.
Beverly's "Get-Together Day
II has been wonderful get togeJh-
or day" i'm Beverly. with colonists and
townspcople working side by side for
the relief Of the FIRE victims. The WON
en- have been especially active m the
work Of reuniting families. There are
still 125 cases Of parents unable to ma
their little ones. The anguish OF the
mothers is terrible to witness.
The executive relief fund committee
Of fourteen, seven appointed by GoE-
ernOr Walsh and seven from the CIti-
zcns' committee, held its first meetn
to-day. Reporters were excluded. a
purchasing agent was appointed and a
general plan of relief work was dis
Cussed.
Gardiner VI Lane, treasurer OF the
state committee, announced that Sill
O5I had been subscribed. Edmund Bill
ings, collector of the Port at Boston, a
member Of the committee, said $1,000,
900 would De needed. An appeal issued
by the committee states that between
10000 and 10000 are homeless, desti-
tute and thrown out Of employment
A site for third refuge camp is
being sought In some Of the tents in
the two camps established there ire
Eiue or ten persons TO the four cots
A number of refugees were discovered
to-day at Besom's Beach, where tgC
hundred victims. mostly foreigners
had fed from the flames and had no
been noticed. Men and women, hold nj
children in their arms, stood for hour
in the bread lines. Precautions ar
being taken against an epidemic.
Ernest p Bicknell, national directo
of the Red Cross, arrived to-day, an,
after a conference with the committee
said he found the organization of re
lief work making excellent progress
Mr. Bicknell at once took charge. A
many jobless men as can be nave beef
put to work clearing and rebuilding
the fire swept district. Employment
for others will be sought outside.
Contracts Already Let.
Many local builders have alread
taken contracts to rebuild, and ar
only waiting for the ruins to cool
policeman and two other men were in
iured to-day during the removal o
dangerous debris. Among the wall
dvuamited were those Of factory build
ings which threatened to fall on train
Of the Boston & Maine Railroad
The Naumkeag Cotton Company
which employed 5000 hands, has vote
to rebuild at once. One manufacture
paid off his employees to-day, givinl
ell IL 4 = -Hpsr IN 90 aI
man who lost his home.
State police under Deputy George {
Neal are Investigating the persiSten
rcports that several Of the fires il
Thursdays confagration were incen
diary.
Considerable alarm was felt for
while tonight when a fire broke GU
on the edge of the devastated area
Three houses were destroyed a stroni
wind blew sparks over the unburnet
section Of the city, but the iiremel
soon had control of the situation.
Thousands Of sghtseers took ad
vantage Of the half holiday an
swarmcd into the city by train, troIle
and automobile. An even greater crow
is expected tomorrow. Routes hay
been mapped out by the militia for tn
coming and going of the throngs so
to avoid confusion.
Twelve hundred refugees have a
ready left the city, having bee
furnished financial assistance. Man
of these arc French Canadians, VIII
have returned to Canada.
Governor Walsh made another vlsI
TO the refugee camps tonight an
motored around the burned distric
He talked with members Of the ten
colonies, all OF whom expressed salts
faction with the arrangements for thei
comfort. Afte- completing the round
The Governor expressed his approve
of the steps taken by the relief com
mitteo and said he did not see how tn