Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-05
new YORK SHOWS
READINESS TO give
AID TO JAPANESE

New York, Sept. 4. (By the A. Ply
Ihls city today dug into it's pockets
TO provide relief for the hundreds of
thousands Of hurt. hungry and home
less sufferers of the catastrophe on
the island of Hondo.
Americans and Japanese Joined in
a campaign launched from headquar-
tiers of the internationally known f.
nancial and charitable organizations.
BY nightfall the fund, started with a
check for $4,000 from q banking af-
niiation. was pouring into the hands
or the American Red Cross at a rate
winch would indicate a million dol
lars would be recorded in a few
hours.
Grave fears were expressed al
headquarters of the International Y
w. c. A. for the staffs, American
Canadian and Native. Heads of the
organization believed, however, that
most Of it's Japanese workers were
safe in the mountains at the time OF
the disaster spending the months
vacation which was to have ended
September 6.
The Salvation Army also sent mes
sages to Japan today. but received nc
responses.
The American Trading Company
has % or 80 employees in Toxic anc
Yokohama. Six these are account.
ed Tor as safe in a cable received to.
day. The fate of the others is un.
known.
w. L. Farnham. Toxic representa-.
tive of the National City Company
had not been heard from.
The national Council of the Episco.
pal Church announced that "at leas
! S2,O00,000 worth of property repre-.
senting the major part of the Episco
| pal Church establishment in Toxic
apparently has been destroyed In To
kio. On the face of the news des
patches so far received the entire
| plant of the Episcopal Church in To
kio has been wiped out of existence.
Episcopal missionaries in the Toxic
district for whose safety fear wa!
| expressed included: Ri. Rev. Johr
McKim and family. Sterling. Ills.
DR.. sydney V. Kibbey, Hartford
Conn; Deaconess. V. D. Carlson
Maiden. Mass: Miss c. G. Haywood
| Holyoke, Mass; Miss Marion Hum
/ phreys. Andover. Mass: Miss Heller
r. Lade, Wellesley Hills. Mass; Thu
| lNCN. \. H. I<NtllS, SldIlllOIu, SO1lU.
| Among American employees of tn
International Banking Corpora ton a
Yokohama whose fate is unknown, il
III. w. Morse, of Burlington, VT.
Three United States Steel Corpora
ton ships are in Japanese waters
One of them has been beached in
badly damaged condition at Yoke
hama. the head office of the corpora
ton learned today. Professor Hen
ry Fairfhild Osborn, president of tn
| American Museum of Natural His
tory in this city. and Mrs. Osborn
We're passengers on the Presiden
| Madison, which reached Yokoham;
the day before the quake. Since 9
| per cent. of the passengers to Japal
disembark at Yokohama to tour over
land it is presumed they were in tn
stricken district.
The Japanese relief fund, starte,
today by the Red Cross and a groul
Of Wall street organizations. wa
! headed with a check for $4,000 from
j. p. Morgan and Company. Earl
contributions included the Nationa
City Bank. the International Bankin
Corporation and the National Cit,
and Kuhn, Loeb and Company, SIS.
| $4,000 which started the fund towar'
the million mark before ii was fairl
. under way.
The New York Stock Exchange an
the Board of managers Of the Sill
! Association of America announce
meetings tomorrow to decide on relic
measures the organization woul
take. The New York Cotton Elk
cahnge will hold a similar session
( Thursday.
No word has been received from tn
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
liner, President Lincoln. which wa
due in Kobe. September !, from Yo
kohama. with a large passenger lis
| of Americans. or from the American
who disembarked at the later por
| from San Francisco. Officials OF tn
company tonight gave out the name
OF the following persons who wer
aboard the liner: General Frank F
! Mccoy and Col. George I. Lang
horne. aides 10 Gorernor Genera
Wood. returning to Manila: Mrs. Ru
merit Hughes and Miss Ruth Renwick
Harry Yacle. of the yellow Taxi Ca
/ COMPANY, Chicago: Prof. c. B. vii
liau,s. dean OF Kalamazoo College
Nichiran. and Mrs Williams: Pro-
T. Edgar Higgins. Los Banos Col
! Ice Manila; w. w Brockman. for
eirn secretary Of the international
Committee Of the Y. NJ. c. A. an
! family: Mrs. D. L. Minnich of Manila
In addition to these the Presiden
Lincoln was heavily booked VIII
missionaries returning TO the Orlen'