Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-11
)YST0NE RELIEF
FUND ESTABLISHED
,;enerville Man Gives $500
70 Help Victims, Through
Evening Ledger.
ewARTHMoRE GIVES AID
uo.nitals and Philadelphia
women Send Bandages-Red
Cross Nurses on Duty

n.
!hn. turned over I, the EVENING
mornrsse 5000 20 the foundation of fund
LHro .'sod through the agency of the EVEN
70 toorsnoER for the immediate relief of
r,,,,ors and dependents Of victims of the
cddystone tragedy.
a. Dougherty hopes other contributions
IN he added so that the fund can be ad-
wMse,stsred freely to the most needy He
mn ln'. that a newspaper of wide circulation
iee .so district most affected by the disaster
~ he of great value in finding needy cases
~ "a n distributing the. money to best ad-
vantage.
NJ pougherty has already given largely
a., relief of cases In his immediate neigh
So,nood. He Is commonly known as the
sBaron Of Leiperville." He is proprietor
~ the Colonial Hotel and founder of the
James F. Dougherty Fire Company, Of
Leipervile.
This community Is only two miles from
ae munitions plant where the explosions
I occ,,rred Mr.. Dougherty said today when
he offered the money at the EVENING
LEDGER office that he was impelled by the
knowledge Of the great need caused by the
S.aster Many of the girls killed and
: MANNED were the sole support for widowed
mothers and dependent younger members
- families he declared, and he desired to
Az something mere than mere handshaking
ana. sympathy giving"
WHERE TO SEND CHECKS
persons desiring to add to the fund can
ssnd or bring checks or money direct to the
EVENING LEDGER. Contributions will be
Immediately acknowledged in the columns
~ the paper, and the disbursements will be
explained in detail from day to day.
Philadelphia. Wilmington. Baltimore and
washington rushed their trained social and
Rad Cross workers into Chester today at
of Mcc 7 in har r,f
the relief work. For twenty-four hours
without rest and without sleep Miss Camp
and her volunteers have been handling the
situation adequately
This morning, hollow-eycd and weary,
Miss Camp stretched out her hand to Phila-
delphia for assistance.
Il need the help of your trained workers"
was the word she sent. This is an affair
that will drag out for months and the sit
uatlon needs study and investigation"
In direct answer Miss Ethel Rupert, Miss
Janet Moore. Miss Betsy Libbey, Miss
Louise Tippery and J. Langdon Jones, of
the Philadelphia Society for Organizing
Charity. which has been appointed official
representative of the Red Cross in the re-
lief work. boarded the first train they could
get and are now on TIE ground.
j. w. Magruder. of Washington an
!. ofhcial In the National Red Cross was the
next worker to arrive in Chester coun-
ell was held in Mayor McDowelrs office
and the systematic work Of relieving at lea s..
the mareiia distress Of, the households
blighted by the explosion is under way
Identification is rapidly progressing. it
was reported from the conference.
Red Cross workers have been sent to
homes Of the injured in Darby and in the
= vicinity Of Woodland avenue, in which
neighborhood the lists of the stricken total
the highest The chief problem that con-
fronts the workers. 1t is said, is the ac-
counting for the missing.
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
Early this morning 1000 rolls of gauze.
Y 700 congresses and 500 gauze dressings,
The last specially sterilized for the relief
work by the Pennsylvania Hospital, were
rushed In fast motorcar from Red Cross
Headquarters, at 221 South Eighteenth
street. In Philadelphia, to the CT ster Hos
pltal This was the work of Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper.
In answer to an early morning call to
RED Cross headquarters in Philadelphia
from the Chester Hospital for four Red
Cross nurses Miss Helen Gage. Miss Har-
rlet Davis, Miss Bertha Elliott and Miss
Linda Holm will go to the hospital late this
4 afternoon.
3. SWARTHMORE TO RESCUE
Almost at the break of day fire-engine
uuck bearing large tent, went down
nom Swarthmore, and forty Of the students,
headed by DR.. Louis N. Robinson, professor
o. economics at the college, erected it in the
wnkling OF an eye on vacant lot opposite
ns chester Armory. Accompanying the
vent on the truck was consignment of
5mghs!ea' from the Swarthmore Girls and
pa1an'as from the boys.
e Already more than $4,000 mas been con-
uputed under auspices of Swarthmore
tuna and triple that amount Is expected
csiore tne day is Over. State Sena,or w.
N Sproul was among the first to respond.
~ gave $500, and another $500 from John
ssirkle- coal operator at Jeddo, Luzerne
county accompanied 1t.
twenty-five NURSES JOIN IN AID
twenty-five nurses Of the State Health
Department under instructions from DR.
sapuel c. Dixon, State Health Commits.
s~nsr reported for relief work today tc
-. a. M. Miller, Delaware County medica
WI ss-rss.or Tor the department These nurses
auulng those of the tuberculosis dis.
S%nansary at Chester, were ready to go tc
~ ,nsnscelphia to receive instruction in first.
tssr, prS when the Eddystone disaster in.
~,rupted their plans.
\ ane george Wood Anderson eyangelistit
ssSn nacle at Chester is being used as a
sss,snop Tor hundreds of women who are
Nns pandages and gauze sponges.
special service was held this Afternoon
~ aoer hacle IN memory OF the victims
ouiioihg was used as a morgue severa
p Yesterday when all other building.
taxed to capacity.
s.t,pet .epet work under the auspices of. tn
Z SM Relief Committee of this city, which
esmg carried on under the leadership o
stern appointed yesterday by Colone
y. kolb, chairman of the committee
tMoly progressing. George Wharton
4 N Ss.keL chai an of the Pennsylvania De
~. ommrtee. sent a special representa-
suss,,on wn TO see what could be done TO
s,sei muei M Va' CLAIM. president of tn,
s. ~ ion, has already said that the los
y ~ s and the great Individual sufrerInI
S,, company's main concern; that tn,
Tstsv loss Is Insignificant; "a mere Incl
~ ~ q tne days work." and that anything
~ ssnpany could do to help the families O
y az. xared or dead employees would certainl!
~ reasonably certain that there will
~ ~ financial distress for the dependent
1i,sin. Immediately concerned In the ex
sIS The offers of aid come from al
SS snd It Is being counted privilege :,
EXs xne explosion had hardly occurred
.2IH T. X. Nelson. wealthy resident o
1sHsas Fark. hastened forward with a con