The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
Relief FUND
GROWS FAST
Committee Now Has More Than
100000 for Americans
and Syrians.
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/ NEW YORK, Nov. 25.The receipts
of the American committee for Armen-
/ ian and Syrian relief have reached
! $2,O18.902,68
The receipts for the last thirty days
have been S769,124.43, Practically
| every cent of this has been cabled di-
/ rect from the Office OF Charles n.
Crane. treasurer, No. 70 Fifth avenue,
to relief centers in Turkey and the.
Russian Caucasus. the expenses of its
collection having been borne by men,
bers Of the committee. The $4,000. 900,
Towering a period Of thirteen months,
has been applied toithe relief of ap-
proMmately 100000 FpItiably destitute
Armenians, Syrians and Assyriani
Christians allowing. had it been pos
sible to distribute II, one dollar IN al
year TO each needy person.
70 Send Ship.
BY sending Americas 1916. Christmas
ship, the government collier Caesar;
its cargo to be purchased. with money
to- be raised additional to the $2,OOO,-
200. the committees relief work will
necessary merely to keep alive the
adequate TO the starvation demands.
The Christmas ship Will leave New
York carly in December with a cargo
of food and new clothing, costing more
than a duarter of a mill ion dollars, and.
viii be followed after its departure by
increased efforts to continue the saving
of Armenians and syrians from star
walton by the cabling of further funds
direct to distribution centers.
Altogether the committee, basing itsi
figures on cabIed reports from ifs
agents, estimates that $5,000,000 is
necessary nemcrly 10 Keep alive the
women and children survivors. An or
gantzed campaign to collect the bal-
ance Of this S5,000.000 has been ar
ranged for Thank giving when, in pur-
suance of the presidents proclamat alton
calling for unstinted giving, contribu-
tiors will be received in churches
throughout the country.
Many Refugee Bands.
The destitute mintstered to by the
committee comprise roughly 1,000,00DI
Armenians in deportation camps in |
Turkey and in refugee bands in Syria,
the Russian Caucasus and Egypt,
100000. Syrians whose crops and
homes have been confscated, and 10o,-
900 Assyrian Christian women and
children in Kurdestan and Persia. who |
have absolutely no protection againstil
winter except what comes from relief
funds. The money cabled BIZ the com
mittee is spent under the direct super
vision of American consUls and mis-I
sfonaries and I'm some cases that OF |
Russian and German officials and
teachers. al
The s2,O00,O0O contributed came
from at least twenty countries or de-
Tendencies, the American committee
acting as IN ipternatio relief |
agency. Substantial gifts have como |
from China. Korea, Japan. France
Egypt. Philippines. Hawaii. Alaska,
British Columbia, Cuba and seYerall
South American republics. One check
came from the Nez Perez indians. YheI
bulk of the gifts came from: the Unitedli
States; however.
To Assemble Cargo.
The Christmas ship cargo, which /
viii be completely assembled as soon
as sufficient funds are received, will
begin to be loaded aboard the Caesar
as soon as that vessel reaches Newt
York from Charleston. S. e., where
under orders from Secretary Of the /
Navy Daniels day and night repair
shifts are putting ii In shape The
Caesar Fill leave Ghar1e lesion DEFENDERS
2ststoppfng at fIorfo Tor coal
Gifts for theS Chris tmas cargo are1
pouring IN raptdIy % the Bush teTS-
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