| =SUB-COMMITTEE ON HOUSING= |
| =APPLICATION= |
|No.......................... Date...................1907|
+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------+------+
| Surname | Address | Rooms | Rent |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------+------+
| | At present | | |
| |..........................|.......|......|
| | April 17th How long? | | |
+--------------------------+-----+------------+-------+--+----+------+
| First Name | Age | Occupation | Earnings | Physical |
| | | | Per Week | Condition |
+--------------------------+-----+------------+----------+-----------+
|Man.......................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|Woman.....................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|Children..................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|..........................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|..........................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|..........................|.....|............|..........|...........|
|....................................................................|
|Others in family....................................................|
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| Name and address of present employer...............................|
| How long working for present employer..............................|
| Name and address of former employer................................|
| How long working for former employer...............................|
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Attach two letters of reference. If possible, one should be from a |
|former landlord to whom you have paid rent for some time. If you are|
|living in a permanent camp, one letter must be from the Camp |
|Commander. |
|Description of lot..................................................|
|....................................................................|
|....................................................................|
|What evidence of ownership can you give? Have you a deed?...........|
| Tax receipt?...........................Contract for purchase?.....|
|Date when you bought lot............................................|
| How much paid?........................How much unpaid?...........|
| What monthly installments do you pay?............................|
|Attach plan of contemplated house. (A drawing prepared by applicant,|
|showing floor plan and dimensions will answer) |
|Estimated cost of house................. Of lumber..................|
|Of hardware............................. Of labor...................|
|Cost of plumbing and sanitary fittings.. Water connections..........|
|Sewer connections....................... |
|What amount of the total cost of the house are you able to meet?....|
|What amount do you ask from the Relief Funds?.......................|
| (Sign your name here)......................|
|It is absolutely necessary for you to have a contractor’s or |
|builder’s estimate of the entire cost of the house, specifying in |
|detail the cost of building material and plumbing. |
| |
|N. B.--Be sure to return this blank after it is filled out, and use |
|the enclosed addressed envelope. |
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INDEX
INDEX
ACCOUNTING: for relief in cash and in kind, 369; relief, use of word
“claim” in, 96; system of Relief and Red Cross Funds, criticisms of,
answered, 98, 99
ADMINISTRATION: amount expended by Bureau of Special Relief for, 148;
amount required for, by Department of Relief and Rehabilitation,
estimated, 121; expenses of American National Red Cross, 35; of
emergency relief, essential features of, 369
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS: formed, 142;
recommendations of, 143, 144, 145
AFTER-CARE: lessons regarding, learned from study of San Francisco
relief work, 372
AGE: of possible rehabilitation, 365
AGED: applications of, have precedence, 123; clothing issued for, 57;
expenditures for Ingleside Camp and permanent home for, 220; lessons
regarding care of, learned from Relief Survey, 372, 373; number of, in
Camp 6 and Ingleside Camp, 322-324; presence of, in Relief Home,
special causes for, 356, 357; problem faced in dealing with, 359-362;
recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16; shelter for, provision
of, 23, 321-324; special diet for, 48; use of pensions and direct
grants for, 364-365
AGES: of applicants aided by grants for business rehabilitation, 176;
of applicants aided under bonus plan, 243; of applicants aided under
cottage plan, 225; of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 261;
of applicants for rehabilitation, 154; of inmates of Ingleside Camp,
compared with ages of almshouse inmates, 330; of principal
breadwinners in families applying to Associated Charities, 1907-1909,
289, 290, 291
ALAMEDA: location of, 3
ALASKA: destinations included in Pacific States, 66
ALCATRAZ ISLAND: location of, 7
ALMSHOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO: and camps, movement of inmates between, 325;
ages of inmates at, 330; applicants for relief who had been at, 354,
355; capacity, condition, and situation of, 321; movement in and out
of, compared with that of Relief Home, 356; nativity of inmates of,
331; occupations of inmates of, 333; proportion of inmates and
admissions to population of San Francisco, 356; records of, before
fire, 363; transfer of inmates of, to Ingleside Camp, 323
ALMSHOUSES OF UNITED STATES: ages of inmates, 330; conjugal condition
of inmates, 329; occupations of inmates, 333
ALTERATIONS: in contract houses erected under grant and loan plan,
terms on which made, 269
AMERICANS: among refugees, 75. See also _Nationalities_; _United
States_.
ANGEL ISLAND: Fort McDowell on, 7
APPLICANTS AND FAMILIES OF APPLICANTS. See _Relief_; _Rehabilitation_;
_Business rehabilitation_; _Bonus_; _Cottage plan_; _Grant and loan
plan_; _Associated Charities_; _Ingleside Camp_
APPLICATION BUREAU: work of, put on relief basis, 130
APPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION: action on, in August, 1906, 120-124;
and grants, time elapsing between, 163-165, 370; by Chinese, 95;
conditions on which received at different periods, 129, 130, 131;
disposal of, 152, 153, 154; in business, number and disposal of, 173,
174; investigation of, 116, 117, 118; most numerous at time of
uncertainty as to funds, 121; nature of, 153; number received from
United Irish Societies, 140; numbers received in different periods,
164; passed upon by sub-committees and by single members of
Rehabilitation Committee, 160; places at which received, 118; reasons
for refusal of, by nature of application, 166; receipt of, suspended,
except when for medical aid or food, 122
APPLICATIONS TO ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: in years before and after
disaster, 283, 284
APPROPRIATIONS: to departments of Corporation based on budgets, 99
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, BOARD OF: as expert counsel on plans for
dwellings, 22
AREA: burned, 4, 5
ARIZONA: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
ARMY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER: and Citizens’ Committee carried
emergency work, 14; and Red Cross, co-operation between, in reducing
rations, etc., 44; called on to guard supplies by sub-committee on
relief of hungry, 36; called on to take control of relief work, 38,
39; camps brought under control of, 78; clothing and household
distribution in charge of, 56; confiscation of supplies by, 39;
donations of clothing and blankets by, 56; expenditures for housing
by, 220; expenditures for subsistence stores by, 52; extracts from
article on, 383; headquarters of Pacific Division in San Francisco, 7;
hospitals and medical supplies under, 92; Ingleside Camp administered
by officer of, 324; realization by, of need of permanent shelter, 221;
relief stations opened by, 41; relief stations reported by, 42; report
of medical department of, 91; sanitary work of, 90; shelter furnished
by, on public land, 84; shoes and clothing from stores of, 55;
supplies purchased by, 30; tents provided by, 69, 70; value of aid to
Japanese by, 95; value of shelter furnished by, 87
ARMY, UNITED STATES: importance of utilizing services of, in
disasters, 369
ASHE, MISS: use of home of, suggested by Miss Felton, 134
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO: action by, in family cases
received at Ingleside Camp, 338-343; age of principal breadwinner in
families applying to, in 1907-1909, 289, 290, 291; applicants to,
among inmates of Ingleside Camp, 336; applicants to whom aid was
refused by, 310-314; applications for rehabilitation received at, 118;
applications to, in years before and after fire, 283, 284; arrangement
with Relief Corporation regarding destitute patients, 93; asked to
invite conference of charitable agencies, 132; building occupied by,
escaped fire, 283; case records of, before fire, 363; cases classified
as having lived or not having lived in burned area, and as aided or
refused, 285; cases of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
who applied to, 352-354; cases of, used in study of Ingleside Camp
inmates, 327; causes of disability among applicants to, before and
after fire, 293; caution in giving justified, 312; emergency and
temporary relief given by, 300; emergency funds supplied to district
offices by, 145; expenditure for care of sick by, 301; expenditure for
housing by, 310; family types among applicants for relief, 288, 290;
friction with Rehabilitation Committee soon overcome, 14; grants by
Rehabilitation Committee to applicants who later applied to, 299;
grants to, 132, 133, 134; investigation of applicants for
rehabilitation by, 113; methods and results of work discussed,
316-318; moving and repairing of cottages by, 85, 86, 222, 223, 232,
237; nativity of applicants for relief, 287, 291; nature of relief
problem taken up by, in 1907, 281, 282; need of work of, following
disaster, 372; number dependent on, when last camp closed, 87, 88;
number of children in families applying to, 292; occupations of
applicants to, 294, 295, 296; pensions and grants given by, 306-309;
receipts and disbursements of, for two years following June 1, 1907,
309; period of taking over rehabilitation work by, 112; position as a
charitable agency before and after fire, 282, 283; reasons for
refusals of aid by, 312, 313; receipts and disbursements of, 419-421;
Rehabilitation Committee notified of withdrawal of staff of, 132, 133;
rehabilitation records of burned-out families applying to, 291;
relations with Finance Committee and Rehabilitation Bureau, 14; relief
given by, types of, 299, 300; return of extra rations demanded by
worker of, 44; secretary made superintendent of district work, 113;
share in rehabilitation work, 14, 15, 120; study of work of, 298; work
enlarged when Bureau of Hospitals closed, 134; work in years following
disaster, 315-318; work for unemployed provided by, 304, 305; work of
Employment Bureau of, 302, 303
AUDIT: of all relief in cash possible, 369. See also _Accounting_
AUDITING COMMITTEE OF FINANCE COMMITTEE: membership of, 276
AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS OF CORPORATION: judgment of, 99
AUSTRALIA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74
AUSTRIA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 75, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
AUXILIARY SOCIETIES: relations of Rehabilitation Committee with,
137-141.
BAKERIES: arrangements with and supplies furnished by, 36, 37, 38
BARRACKS: built by sub-committee on housing the homeless, 69; defects
of, 70; described, 70, 71; estimates of persons living in, 77;
supervision of, in recommendations of Dr. Devine, 17. See also _Camps_
BATHS: in houses of applicants aided under bonus plan, 248; in houses
of applicants aided under cottage plan, 231; in houses of applicants
aided under grant and loan plan, 267
BELGIUM: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34
BENICIA BARRACKS: at head of bay, 7
BERKELEY: location of, 3; witness who lived in, reported lack of
panic, 6
BICKNELL, ERNEST P.: made national director of American National Red
Cross, 29; organizations represented by, 9, 101; plan submitted by, as
secretary of Executive Commission, 20; quotation from article in
_Charities and the Commons_ by, 6-7; secretary and member of
Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21; share in forming
Board of Trustees of Relief and Red Cross Funds 29; Special Relief
Bureau organized on plan of, 111, 146; succeeded Dr. Devine as
representative of Red Cross, 27
BILLS AND DEMANDS, DEPARTMENT OF: chairman and duties of, 399;
created, 26; disposal of claims by, 97; payment on claims, 98; work
of, completed, 28
BLOCKS: number of, burned after earthquake, 4
BOARD OF ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS: as expert counsel on plans for
dwellings, 22
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS. See _Trustees_
BONUS: additional grants to recipients of, 248; ages of applicants
aided by, 243; conjugal condition of families aided by, 242; cost of
houses built by applicants aided by, 249; form of application for,
447-448; indebtedness carried by families aided by, 247; nationality
of applicants receiving aid by, 241; occupations in families aided by,
244; prosperity of applicants aided by, 277; rooms in houses of
applicants aided by, 249; rooms occupied by families aided by, 250;
value of lots owned by applicants aided by, 246
BONUS PLAN: by whom proposed and recommended, 22; expenditures for
houses erected under, 220; nature of opportunity offered by, 237;
number of houses erected under, 219; outline and history of, 239, 240;
policy pursued under, discussed, 251, 252
BOSTON ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: secretary of, appointed secretary to Dr.
Devine, 14
BRADLEY, CAPTAIN: quoted on quality of clothing distributed, 55
BREAD: arrangements regarding payments for, 38; supplies of, 37
BREAD LINES: formation and composition of, 36; increase and decrease
in, 43, 44; recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, 17; reduction of,
followed by introduction of kitchen system, 50
BRITISH COLUMBIA: destinations included in Pacific States, 66
BUBONIC PLAGUE: in camp and city, 29
BUDGETS: appropriations to departments of Corporation based on, 99;
for departments of Relief Corporation, prepared by chairmen, 27
BUDGETS, FAMILY: of cases under care of Associated Charities, study
of, 316
BUENA VISTA SCHOOL: headquarters of Civil Section V, 42
BUILDING FUND: proposed, account of, in _Charities and the Commons_,
216
BUILDING, SUBSIDIZED: differences of opinion regarding, 22
BUILDINGS: facing burned area, 5; number and classes of, destroyed by
fire, 4, 5. See also _Houses_; _Housing_
BUREAUS. See _Employment Bureau_; _Hospitals, Bureau of_; _Red Cross
Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_; _Registration Bureau_;
_Relief Stations, Bureau of Consolidated_; _Transportation Bureau_
BUSINESS OWNERSHIP: status regarding, in families aided under bonus
plan, 244
BUSINESS REHABILITATION: announcement concerning, in newspapers,
172-173; application forms for, 441-444; applications for, granted and
refused, 153, 154; applications for, passed on by sub-committees and
by members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; applications for, set
aside temporarily, 123; business status of applicants receiving aid
for, by occupations, 196-211; changes in composition of families
receiving aid for, 177; conjugal condition of family groups receiving
aid for, 175, 176; grants for, average amount of, 184; grants for, by
what bodies made, 174; grants for, confined chiefly to families
experienced in special lines, 184, 185; grants for, number and amounts
expended, 157, 158; grants for, size of, 165, 166; in different
periods, 171, 172; nationality of heads of families receiving aid for,
175, 176; need of supervision in, chief lesson of study, 371; number
of rooms in residences occupied by families receiving aid for, 180;
policy of, 171-173, 211; premises occupied and rentals paid by
families receiving aid for, 178; proposed occupations of applicants
receiving aid for, 184; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166;
reasons for success and failure of those receiving aid for, 187-195;
refusals to grant aid for, study of, 208-210; rentals paid by families
receiving aid for, 179, 181-183; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161; results of, 186-187, 210-211; resumed after
suspension, 128; self-supporting individuals in families receiving aid
for, 176; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying for,
344-346; status of applicants receiving, for trade, 207
BUSINESS REHABILITATION COMMITTEE (Sub-committee VI): applications to,
number and action on, 173, 174; appointment, activities and aims of,
172, 173; chairman of, 125; extreme caution displayed by, in granting
aid, 211; grants by, in cases investigated, 174
BUSINESS STATUS: of applicants receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 186, 187, 193
CALIFORNIA: length of residence in, of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 334;
persons sent from San Francisco to places in, 66, 67, 68; population
of, conjugal condition compared with that of Ingleside Camp inmates,
329. See _Governor of California_
CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT OF: headquarters at San Francisco, 7; rations
purchased by army from, 39
CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB: offer of race track stables for camp by, 322
CAMP COMMANDERS: and staff at headquarters, emergency cases always
handled rapidly by, 165; form of report by, 429
CAMP COTTAGES, 221-238; a necessity to meet needs of poorest class of
refugees, 237; and housing grants, 158; assignment of, to different
classes of population, 82, 83; construction of, under Corporation, 82;
cost of building, 87, 220, 221; cost of moving and of repairs and
improvements, 232; families occupying, on re-visit, 223; general
comments on, 278, 371; number and capacity of, 219, 220; number
assigned to Chinese, 95; other aid given by Rehabilitation Committee
to those receiving, 229; plan regarding lease of, 83; removal of, from
camps, 83, 83, 222; visits to, after removal, 222. See also _Cottage
Plan_
CAMP FOR CHINESE: location and population of, 95
CAMP IN SOUTH PARK: described, 84
CAMP LOBOS: closing of, 87. See also _Lobos Square_
CAMPS: clothing supplied to residents of, 57; congestion in, 230, 231;
cost of shelter given by, 86, 87; effort to concentrate refugees
needing continued help in, 44; ejectments from, 79, 80; increase in
population of, due to return of refugees, 77; in different civil
sections, 12; official and “permanent,” 78-84; official list of, 404;
of early barrack type, described, 70, 71; plans for, formulated by
committee on housing the homeless, 70; population of, by months and by
composition, 81; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 17; records
of distribution furnished by, 42; rehabilitation policy regarding
families in, 109, 110; removal from, 29, 85; three essentials for
tenants laid down by General Greely, 79; under army control, 78;
unofficial, 79; work of building cottages in, 221, 222; work of Bureau
of Special Relief for residents of, 149
CAMPS AND WAREHOUSES, DEPARTMENT OF: care of camps passed to, from
army, 82; chairman, duties of, 399; civil sections used by, 12;
clothing supplied to residents of camps by, 57; cost of maintenance of
camps by, 87; creation of, 26, 129; not responsible for typhoid fever,
91; Special Relief Bureau called on for aid by, 149; status of work
one year and two years after earthquake, 28, 29; work of, defined,
110; work of Executive Commission taken over by, 110
CANADA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
eastern, destinations in, included with “East,” 66; natives of, among
refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco, in 1900, 74
CAPE COLONY: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in,
by Americans, 34
CAPITAL: available for applicants receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 193-195; possessed by applicants receiving grants for
rehabilitation in personal and domestic service, 201-205; possessed by
applicants receiving grants for rehabilitation in trade, 207, 208;
relation to success in cases where manufacturing and mechanical lines
were undertaken with rehabilitation funds, 199; relation to success in
cases where professional work was taken up with rehabilitation funds,
198
CARDS: for use of applicants at food station, 37
CARDS, REGISTRATION. See _Registration Cards_
CARLOADS OF STORES: number delivered at San Francisco, 30
CASES: family, at Ingleside Camp, 337-343; of applicants to Associated
Charities, social character of, 286-294; rehabilitation, re-opening
of, 160-165
CASH: contributions received to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; possibility of
audit of all relief in, 369; received by American National Red Cross,
disposition of, 35
CENSUS, UNTIED STATES: figures on almshouse population of United
States cited, 333; population figures for San Francisco cited, 75. See
also _Almshouse, San Francisco_
CENTRALIZED SYSTEM of rehabilitation work, 124-133, 135, 370
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION: issued, 26
CEYLON: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AMERICAN, IN PARIS: cash contributions made by,
34
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK: authority of Finance Committee
recognized by, 10; business rehabilitation resumed after transfer of
funds by, 128; incorporation urged by, 25; restriction on funds
transferred to Corporation by, 100; use of funds for permanent relief
urged by, 15
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: grants to, by denominations, and nature of
work, 405
CHARITIES. See _Associated Charities_
CHARITIES AND THE COMMONS: account of proposed building fund in, 216;
accounts of conditions in San Francisco, quoted from, 6, 77, 78
CHARITIES ENDORSEMENT COMMITTEE, 145 (table and note)
CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETIES: district expenditures under, 120;
provided trained workers, 14; transportation agreement, 65
CHICAGO COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION: represented by Ernest P. Bicknell, 101
CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSION: limitation of grants by, 109
CHICAGO MAYOR’S COMMITTEE: funds of, represented by Ernest P.
Bicknell, 101
CHICAGO SPECIAL RELIEF COMMITTEE: experience with certificates from
pastors and benevolent associations, 117, 137
CHILDREN: in families aided under the cottage plan, 224; in families
applying to Associated Charities before and after fire, 292; in
families of applicants for rehabilitation, 156, 157
CHILDREN’S AGENCY: work of, 317
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: use of, suggested by Miss Felton, 134
CHILDREN’S INSTITUTIONS: co-operation between, following fire, 317
CHINA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34, 95;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74. See also _Chinese_
CHINATOWN: burned out, 4
CHINESE: among refugees, 74-76; camp and cottages for, 95; deterred
from asking aid by feeling against them, 95; relief of, 94, 95
CIRCULAR: on requirements for satisfactory investigations for the
Rehabilitation Committee, 139, 140; stating change to purely relief
basis for applications, 130
CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE: and army, carried emergency work, 14; appointment
of, 8; barracks built and tents provided by sub-committee of, 69; cash
contributions received by, 34; dissolution of, 10; interesting items
in minutes of, 10; meeting places, 9; sub-committees, 9, 36;
transportation committee organized by railroads recognized as
authoritative by, 59; transportation sub-committee had little to do,
58
CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. See _San Francisco_
CIVIC RELIEF BUREAU: opened by Associated Charities after fire, 317
CIVIL CHAIRMEN OF SECTIONS: functions of, 42, 56
CIVIL SECTIONS: and military districts identical, 12, 40; camps in,
12; closure of, 124; committees, agents and workers in, 113; families
and individuals registered in, 45; housing of registered families in
different, 72, 73-75; nationality of heads of families of refugees in,
77; organizations using, 12; relief stations in, 41, 42
CLAIMS: character of, 96, 97; disposal of, 97; payments upon, 98
CLEARING HOUSE OF INFORMATION: needed, 92
CLERGY: stereotyped forms of recommendation used by some of, 115. See
also _Ministers_; _Pastors_
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS: of San Francisco favorable, 7
CLOTHING: and bedding, relief in, second in order of urgency, 12, 13;
and bedding, carloads of, received at San Francisco, 30; distribution
of, 55-58; donated, condition of, 55; recommendations of Dr. Devine
regarding, 17
CLUBS, IMPROVEMENT: in camps, 89
COLOMBIA, UNITED STATES OF: cash contributions for relief of San
Francisco made by Americans in, 34
COLORADO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
COLUMBIA, DEPARTMENT OF THE: rations purchased of army from, 39
COLUMBIA PARK BOYS’ CLUB: work of residents after destruction of, 88
COMPLAINTS: against hot meal kitchens, 52
CONFERENCE AT FORT MASON, April 24th, 11
CONGESTION: during camp life, 230, 231; on lots to which camp cottages
were removed, 233
CONGRESS, UNITED STATES: visited by San Francisco citizens with regard
to building fund, 216
CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION: amount and distribution of, 30, 34;
claims paid out of, 98; expenditure from, for housing, 220; supplied
funds for sanitary work, 90
CONJUGAL CONDITION: of families aided under bonus plan, 242; of
families aided under cottage plan, 224; of families aided under grant
and loan plan, 260; of family groups receiving business
rehabilitation, 175, 176; of Ingleside population, 328. See also
_Family types_
CONSTRUCTION, HOUSING: expense and difficulties of, 217
CONTRACT HOUSES: built under grant and loan plan, defects of, 268
CONTRACTORS: difficulty of securing reliable, 217; who built cottages,
arrangements with, 221, 222
CONTRACTS: grant and loan, regulations covering, 253, 254
CONTRIBUTIONS: by Japan and China, 94, 95; cash, received to June 1,
1909, 33, 34; desirability of sending, without restrictions, 369;
sources of, 30-35
“CONVALESCENTS” at Ingleside Camp, 365
COOKING: in streets, 40
CORPORATION: See _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a
Corporation_
CORPORATION AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS:
contributions to Associated Charities by, 283, 309. See also _San
Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a Corporation_; _Trustees of
Relief and Red Cross Funds, Board of_
COST: incurred by or in behalf of applicants for cottages occupied
under cottage plan, 232; of aid under grant and loan plan, 257-259; of
camp cottages and tenements, 87, 221; of houses built under bonus
plan, 248, 249; of houses erected by housing committee contractors
under grant and loan plan, 270; of Ingleside Camp, 327; of moving
cottages from camps, and of repairs and improvements, 232; of shelter
given by camps, 86, 87. See also _Expenditures_
COST OF LIVING: in San Francisco, investigation of, 316
COTTAGE PLAN: ages, sexes, health, and responsibilities of applicants
receiving aid under, 225; conjugal condition of and children in
families aided under, 224; costs incurred by or in behalf of
applicants for cottages under, 232; financial status of families aided
under, 229; housing before and after fire of families aided by,
229-234; incomes of families aided under, 228; nationality of
applicants receiving aid under, 223; occupations of men in families
aided under, 226; wages of men in families aided under, 227. See also
_Camp cottages_; _Cottage settlements_
COTTAGE SETTLEMENTS: conditions in two, described, 234-237
CRITICISMS: of work of Associated Charities commonly made, 311
CRITICS: on distribution of funds answered, 237
CROCKER SCHOOL: used as clothing warehouse, 56
CROWLEY, REV. D. O.: adviser to Industrial Bureau, 88; chairman of
Sub-committee V, 125; position of Archbishop Riordan on Rehabilitation
Committee delegated to, 21
CUBA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34
CUSHING, OSCAR K.: chairman of Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Committee, 14; chairman of Sub-committee I, 125; member
and treasurer of Rehabilitation Committee, 21; secretary of committee
on transportation and executive head of transportation work, 59
DAY NURSERIES: in camps, 89
DEATHS: as causes of disability among applicants to Associated
Charities, 293; at Ingleside Camp, 327; by violence, number of,
following disaster, 5; in families of applicants aided under bonus
plan, 242; in families of applicants aided under cottage plan, 225; in
families of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 260, 261
DELAYS: between applications and grants or loans for housing, 255. See
also _Time_
DENMARK: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
DEPARTMENTS OF CALIFORNIA AND COLUMBIA. See _California_; _Columbia_
DEPARTMENTS OF CORPORATION: names, duties, and chairmen of, 399, 400.
See also names of departments
DEPENDENCY: applicants to Associated Charities grouped according to
causes of, 297; situation in San Francisco after fire, compared with
that before fire, 281-286, 315-318
DESMOND, MR.: sent by Los Angeles relief committee to establish hot
meal kitchens, 49
DESMOND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: hot meal kitchens run by, 50
DESTINATIONS: of free passengers carried by Southern Pacific Railroad
(first period), 58; of persons sent from San Francisco in second,
third, and fourth periods, 66, 67, 68
DESTITUTION: city canvassed for cases of, 40
DETURBEVILLE, MISS: use of home of, suggestion by Miss Felton, 134
DEVINE, EDWARD T.: chairman of Finance Committee’s Rehabilitation
Committee, 21; civil chairmen appointed by, 42; consultation with army
on clothing distribution, 56; drew on special fund for rehabilitation
expenditures till May 9, 14; General Greely’s agreement with, 18;
letter of June 4 to chairman of Finance Committee of Relief and Red
Cross Funds, 16, 17; Miss Higgins appointed secretary to, 14; plan
submitted by, as chairman of Executive Commission, 20; recommendations
made by, 15; rehabilitation of camp families considered at lunch given
by, 109; rehabilitation work continued in charge of, 20; report on
housing submitted by, as chairman, 22; representative of American
National Red Cross, 9, 11; succeeded as representative of Red Cross by
Ernest P. Bicknell, 27
DEVOL, BRIGADIER GENERAL C. A.: account by, of part played by army in
San Francisco disaster, 383-386; work in unloading and transporting
supplies, 30, 39
DE YOUNG, M. H.: at conference April 24, 11; chairman of Department of
Bills and Demands, 399; member of Executive Committee of Relief
Corporation, 26; suggestion on housing by, 22
DIET, SPECIAL: for special classes, 48, 49; issued by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38
DISABILITIES: among applicants to Associated Charities before and
after fire, 293; of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who
did not apply for rehabilitation, 352, 353
DISBURSEMENTS: of American National Red Cross, 35; of Associated
Charities, 419-422; of Rehabilitation Committee to August 18 and
September 20, 1906, 124
DISCIPLINE: of inmates at Ingleside Camp, 325, 326
DISPENSARIES, FREE: established by Finance Committee of Relief and Red
Cross Funds, 93; supplied with drugs, etc., by army, 93
DISTRICT SYSTEM: conclusions regarding, reached after Relief Survey,
370; methods of work under, 113-124; reasons for adopting and
abandoning, 126, 135
DOHRMANN, F. W.: chairman of Department of Relief and Rehabilitation,
400; chairman of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
need of reserve to establish camp families emphasized by, 110;
question of rehabilitation of institutions considered on request of,
141; recommendations in report of advisory committee to, 143, 144;
representative of American National Red Cross, 27; share of, in
forming Board of Trustees of Relief and Red Cross Funds, 29;
suggestions regarding rehabilitation of institutions offered by, 142;
vice-president of Relief Corporation, 62
DONATIONS: cash, to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; control of, 99-103; made
through American National Red Cross, disposition and balance, 35. See
also _Contributions_
DUPLICATION: of applications in auxiliary societies, 139; of inquiries
and grants, 116
DWELLINGS. See _Housing and Shelter_
EAGLES, LOCAL ORDER OF: relief station opened by, 41
EARNING POWER, ESTIMATED: of applicants to Associated Charities, 296
EARTHQUAKE: time, duration and effects of, 3
“EAST”: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66, 67, 68
EAVES, LUCILE: director of Industrial Bureau, 88; formerly head worker
of South Park Settlement, 88; sewing circle at Ingleside Camp
organized by, 326
EJECTMENTS FROM OFFICIAL CAMPS: by months, 80; reasons for, 79, 80
EMERGENCY: and temporary relief, number and amount of grants for, 300;
cases, always handled with rapidity, 165; cases, notice to employes
regarding, 131; period, lessons learned from survey of, 369-370; work
carried by army and Citizens’ Committee, 14
EMERGENT RELIEF: investigation in cases of, 118
EMERY, ARCHDEACON J. A.: chairman of sub-committees III and IV, 125;
position of Bishop Nichols on Rehabilitation Committee delegated to,
21
EMPLOYMENT: given men out of work, 304, 305; of inmates at Ingleside
Camp, 326; recommendation regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU: Associated Charities, 302, 303; under State Labor
Commissioner, 47
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: of grantees under business rehabilitation, 186
ENGLAND: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 43;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 75, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
ENUMERATORS: inexperience of, 48. See also _Registration Bureau_
ESTIMATES: for relief and rehabilitation work, basis for, 122
EUROPEAN POINTS: included with “East” in tabulation of destinations,
66
EVERETT GRAMMAR SCHOOL: used as warehouse for second hand clothing, 56
EXECUTIVE COMMISSION: appointment of, 19; final act of, 24; health
corps appointed by, 90; housing recommendations of, 22, 24; membership
of, 19, 378; plan submitted by chairman and secretary of, 20; plans
of, July, 1906, 391-393; powers of, and relation to army, 21; rates of
payment to hospitals established by, 93; use of civil sections by, 12;
weakness of, 19, 20; work taken over by Department of Camps and
Warehouses, 110
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CORPORATION: bonus plan of, 239, 240; decision
as to grants to charitable organizations reached by, 132; estimates
for rehabilitation and relief presented by, 121; manager of Department
of Lands and Buildings made superintendent of Housing Committee at
request of, 256; request made to, by Housing Committee, regarding
Department of Lands and Buildings, 257
EXPENDITURES: for housing, 220; of San Francisco Relief and Red Cross
Funds for purchase and distribution of food, 53; under grant and loan
plan, 257, 258. See also _Cost_; _Disbursements_; _Restrictions_
FAIRMONT HOTEL: meeting place of mayor and Committee, 9
FAMILIES: and individuals given aid for business rehabilitation,
174-177; and individuals registered in civil sections in May, 45;
making use of grants and loans, 259-262; occupying camp cottages,
223-225; registered, housing of, in May, 72, 73. See also sub-topics
under _Bonus_; _Cottage plan_; _Grant and loan plan_
FAMILY CASES: at Ingleside Camp, 337-343
FAMILY COMPOSITION: changes in, among families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 177
FAMILY RELATIONS: of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 335. See also
_Conjugal condition_; _Social status_
FAMILY TYPES: among applicants for relief to Associated Charities
before and after fire, 288, 290. See also _Conjugal condition_
FEBIGER, COLONEL: report to War Department on conditions found on
taking charge of relief stations, 40; quoted on effect of hot food
camps, 50; quoted on rations and repeaters, 42, 43
FELTON, MISS: appropriation for Associated Charities suggested by,
135; plan for care of sick offered by, 134
FINANCE: questions of, 96-103
FINANCE AND PUBLICITY, DEPARTMENT OF: created, 26; duties of, 399;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28, 29
FINANCE COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE (later Finance Committee of
Relief and Red Cross Funds): appointed at first meeting of Citizens’
Committee, 9; called on army to assume charge of relief work, 39;
consolidated with Red Cross, 11; independent action of its
sub-committee on housing the homeless, 70; realization by, of need of
permanent shelter, 221; recognition as official agent of relief, 10;
shelter furnished by, on public lands, 84; supplies purchased by, 30;
value of shelter furnished by, 87
FINANCE COMMITTEE OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS (formerly Finance
Committee of Citizens’ Committee): and Corporation, cash receipts of,
33; appointed its own Rehabilitation Committee, 15; appointment of
committee on hospitals by, 93; appropriation made by, to Associated
Charities, 14; arrangements with hospitals by, 93; asked to supply
tools and make loans, 13; attitude of members on recommendations of
outside bodies, 138; attitude toward and action on plan proposed by
Executive Commission, 20; cash contributions received by, 34, 35;
claims made upon, 96; control of relief work by, 10; date of beginning
rehabilitation work under, 111; decision of, to pay no liquor claims,
98; expenditures for housing by, 220; first appropriation for special
relief by, amount and date, 14; free dispensaries established by, 93;
grants made directly to charitable institutions by, 142; health corps
paid by, 90, 91; independent camp not recognized as official by, 79;
Japanese aided by, number and value of relief given, 94, 95; members
and committees of, 377; organization of, 11; park commissioners
requested by, to give permission for building cottages, 84; plan
submitted to, by General Greely, 18; question of incorporation
considered by, 25; recommendations made to, by Dr. Devine, 15, 16, 17;
representative of, on Executive Commission, 19; requested to state
plans, 15; sale of donated flour by, 102; shelter furnished by, on
public land, 84; sub-committees of, 378; suggestion of representation
of relief funds on, 101; value of shelter furnished by, 87
FIRES AND LIGHTS: orders regarding, in days following disaster, 40
FIRES FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE: area burned over by, 4; starting point and
direction, 3
FLOUR: efforts made to secure, 36; sent in excess of need, disposal
of, 101, 102
FOOD: and its distribution, expenditure for, from Relief and Red Cross
Funds, 52, 53; carloads of supplies received at San Francisco, 30;
depots for storage of supplies, 40; distributed, value cannot be
determined, 52; distribution of, 36-40; donated in excess of need,
101, 102; early stations established, 37; first need to be supplied,
12, 13; given to hospitals, value of, 94; issued by army, 39; no
instances of extreme suffering for want of, found by army, 40;
recommendations of Dr. Devine regarding, 17; registration to furnish
basis for system of distribution of, 46
FOOD CARD: face and reverse reproduced, 427; use of, 47
FOREIGN POINTS: persons sent from San Francisco to, 67, 68
FORMS used in relief and rehabilitation work, 425-449
FORT BAKER: location of, 7
FORT MCDOWELL: location of, 7
FORT MASON: conference at, 11; food from, distributed, 39; location
of, 10; one of three garrison posts in San Francisco, 7; sick cared
for in hospital at, 92
FORT MILEY: food from, distributed, 39; one of three garrison posts in
San Francisco, 7
FRANCE: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San Francisco
in 1900, 74
FRANKEL, LEE K.: became chairman of tentative bureau of special relief
of American National Red Cross, 14
FRANKLIN HALL: meeting place of mayor and Committee, 9
FREE PASSENGERS: number of, carried by Southern Pacific Railroad
(first period), 58
FRESNO: committee from, announced bringing of supplies, 37
FUNDS, RELIEF: criticism as to distribution of, answered, 237, 238;
incorporation of, 25, 398; need of careful accounting for, 99; remedy
for embarrassment caused by withholding of, 100, 101; restrictions on
use of, imposed by donors, 100-103. See also _Red Cross_; _Finance
Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds_; _San Francisco Relief and
Red Cross Funds_; _Contributions_; _Disbursements_
FUNSTON, GENERAL: attended conferences on April 21 and 24, 11; in
temporary command of Pacific Division, 8
FURNITURE GRANTS, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee VII): chairman of, 125
FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154;
applications for, passed on by sub-committees and by members of
Rehabilitation Committee, 160; applications for, to be on printed
forms, 117; grants of different amounts for, 165, 166; large
proportion of early grants for, 298; policy regarding grants of, 129,
130, 131; principal and subsidiary grants for, number and amount of,
157, 158; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166; re-opened
cases where principal grant was for, 161, 162
FURTH, JACOB: representative of Massachusetts Association for the
Relief of California, 15
GALLWEY, DR. JOHN: chairman of Sub-committee II, 125; member of
Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21
GARRISON POSTS: in and near San Francisco, 7
GASTON, MAJOR A. J.: positions held by, 21
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 18, 379-382
GERMAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: asked to confer on plan for
administration of relief work, 132; privilege of having
recommendations accepted extended to, 138; represented on committee to
pass on applications for housing, 133
GERMANY: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 75, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco 1900, 74
GIFTS: received by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265;
received by families aided under cottage plan, 229
GOLDEN GATE: location of, 3
GOLDEN GATE PARK: barracks in, described, 70, 71; field hospital
established at, 92; line of refugees at lodge of, 36; placing of
refugees in, recommended by committee on housing the homeless, 70;
population in, not included in registration, 73; refugees in,
hindered from becoming independent by remoteness from centers, 84;
vacation school in, proposed, 78
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA: ex-officio director of Relief Corporation, 26;
member of special committee, 15
GRANT AND LOAN PLAN: additional aid to families aided under, 273; ages
of applicants aided under, 261; applications and expenditures under,
257-258; cases of grantees under, 273-276; comments on results of,
276, 278; conclusions regarding houses built under, 371; conjugal
condition of families aided under, 260; contracts and regulations
covering, 253, 254; nationality of applicants receiving aid under,
259; nature of opportunity offered by, 237; number of buildings
erected under, 219; number of rooms occupied by families aided under,
267; occupations and incomes of applicants aided under, 262, 263;
payments on houses erected under, 220; rentals paid before fire by
families aided under, 270; status of loans to families aided under,
271, 272; typical cases of families aided under, 273-276; value of
houses owned by applicants aided under, 269, 270; value of lots
purchased by applicants aided under, 266
GRANTS: amount and nature of, 165-167; and applications, time elapsing
between, 163-165, 370; and pensions, for aged and infirm, 364-365; and
pensions, given by Associated Charities, 306-309; by Associated
Charities for emergency and temporary relief, 300; by Chicago Fire
Commission, limitation of, 109; by members of Rehabilitation
Committee, 174; by Rehabilitation Committee to applicants who later
applied to Associated Charities, 298, 299; by Sub-committee on
Occupations for Women and Confidential Cases, 158; cases reopened by
nature of principal, 161; classification of, used by Red Cross special
bureau, 108; duplication of, 116; for different kinds of
rehabilitation, 153, 159; given and refused to inmates of Ingleside
Camp, 337-352; lessons regarding, learned from study of rehabilitation
work, 370, 371; limitation of, 108, 370; made directly to charitable
institutions by Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds, 142;
notice regarding, 131; number of, to a case, 160; of different
amounts, rules regarding, 128, 129; on applications of United Irish
Societies, 140; “principal” and “subsidiary” defined, 152; principal
and subsidiary, for different kinds of rehabilitation, 157-160;
reasons for refusal of, to certain societies, 145; responsibility for,
128, 129; spent in drink, 360; suspension of, due to withholding of
funds, 99, 100; to applicants who possessed resources, by amount of
resources, 167, 168; to Associated Charities, 133, 134; to bonus
recipients, additional, 248; to bonus recipients, Corporation’s policy
regarding, discussed, 251, 252; to charitable institutions,
recommendations of advisory committee regarding, 144; to charitable
organizations, by denominations and nature of work, 405; to grant and
loan recipients, additional, 273; to Ingleside Camp inmates, 362. See
_Grants for business rehabilitation_; _Bonus_; _Cottage plan_; _Grant
and loan plan_
GRANTS FOR BUSINESS REHABILITATION: average size of, in families
revisited, 174; classified by amount of grant, 194; confined generally
to those experienced in special lines, 184, 185; delayed, result in
failure and hardship, 189, 190; inadequacy of, as cause of failure,
190-192; in personal and domestic service, 201-202; in relation to
capital, 201-205, 207-208; in trade, 207, 208; manner in which made,
as a reason for failure, 188, 189; summary of situation regarding, 211
GREELY, GENERAL: acceptance of suggestion regarding Executive
Commission made by, 19; activities of, in June, 18, 19; appreciated
need of a second registration, 49; attended conference on April 24,
11; estimate of fraudulent repeating by, 43; estimate of number of
persons who received clothing, 55; had city canvassed for cases of
destitution, 40; lack of data on which to base housing recommendations
reported by, 71; letter from, to James D. Phelan, 387; number of
rations distributed reported by, 52; persons in shacks and barracks
according to census by, 77; quoted on second hand clothing, 55; report
of loss of life by, 5; temporary absence of, at time of earthquake, 8;
three essentials for camp tenants laid down by, 79; took charge of
food issues, 39; tried to induce removal of refugees to official
camps, 79; value of shelter furnished by army as reported by, 87
HAGUE, JAMES D.: representative of New York Chamber of Commerce, 15,
25
HALL OF JUSTICE: meetings in, on day of earthquake, 8, 9
HAMILTON SCHOOL: headquarters of Civil Section IV, 42; meeting place
of Rehabilitation Committee, 21, 26
HAMILTON SQUARE: first cottages completed in, 82
HARRIMAN, E. H.: at conference April 24, 11; member of special
committee, 15
HARVEY, J. DOWNEY: secretary of Relief Corporation, 26
HEADQUARTERS: of seven civil sections, 42
HEALTH: in San Francisco following disaster, 91, 92; of applicants and
families receiving aid for business rehabilitation, 192, 193; of
families receiving aid under bonus plan, 243; of families receiving
aid under grant and loan plan, 261, 262; of inmates at Ingleside Camp,
326, 327; of refugees, improved by outdoor life, 7; safeguarding of,
89-94
HEALTH, BOARD OF: health corps appointed by, 90; responsible for
typhoid, 91
HEALTH CORPS: of camps, personnel of, 90, 91
HEARST SCHOOL: free employment bureau at, 47; sewing center at, 88
HEBREW BOARD OF RELIEF: asked to confer on plan for administration of
relief work, 132; efficiency of work of, 141; represented on committee
to pass on applications for housing, 133
HEBREWS: receiving business rehabilitation, 175
HERRIN, W. F.: second vice-president of Relief Corporation, 26
HIBERNIANS, ANCIENT ORDER OF: relief stations opened by, 41
HIGGINS, ALICE L.: secretary of Boston Associated Charities, appointed
secretary to Dr. Devine, 14
HOMES, PERMANENT: assistance in construction of, expenditure for, 220.
See also _Houses_; _Housing_, etc.
HOSPITAL CARE: single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who
applied for, 351-352
HOSPITAL, CITY AND COUNTY: condemnation of, 323, 357; enlargement of
Ingleside Camp hospital to accommodate patients from, 326; records of
cases of, filed with Associated Charities records, 284
HOSPITAL, FREE: Medical Society urged erection of, 28
HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: donation to, 35
HOSPITALS, BUREAU OF: cases under care of, 93; closing of 93, 134;
physicians serving, also visited for Bureau of Special Relief, 146;
report sheet used by, 442; status of work one year after fire, 28
HOSPITALS, COMMITTEE ON: appointment of, 93; date of appointment and
membership of, 378
HOSPITALS OF SAN FRANCISCO: arrangements of, with Finance Committee,
93; estimate of amount required for, 121; facilities offered by,
following disaster, 92; mostly outside limited area, 91;
recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 15; results of overcrowding
of, after fire, 365; sums received from Corporation by, 94
HOT MEAL KITCHENS: history and work of, 49-55
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. See _Furniture_
HOUSEHOLD GOODS: storing and distribution of, 56
HOUSEHOLD REHABILITATION: single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
applying for, 346
HOUSES: built by Housing Committee under grant and loan plan, style of
and number of rooms, 258; erected by San Francisco Relief and Red
Cross Funds, by style of house or plan under which relief given, 219,
220; erected under bonus plan, character and cost of, 248-251; owned
by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, value of, 269;
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; types and sizes of,
occupied before fire by families aided under cottage plan, 230;
vacant, refugees housed in, 69
HOUSING: applications for, passed upon by sub-committees and by
members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; before and after fire, of
applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 266-271; before and after
fire, of families aided by cottage plan, 229-233; before and after
fire, of families aided under bonus plan, 248-251; conditions in
different civil sections contrasted, 73-75; early discussion of
problem of, 13; expenditure for, by Associated Charities, 310;
expenditures for, by various organizations, 220; form of application
for, 449; four classes for whom provision necessary in plan of, 218,
219; grants for, number of, 153, 154; grants for, principal and
subsidiary, 157; grants for, size of, 158, 159; grants of different
amounts for, 165, 167; lessons learned from study of San Francisco
work in, 371; of registered families in May, 72, 73; offer made under
bonus plan, 239; plan of study of, 215; problem in San Francisco
compared with that in Eastern cities, 277; problem in San Francisco
complicated, 21, 22; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166;
recommendations regarding, 17, 22, 23, 24; re-opening of cases where
principal grant was for, 161
HOUSING ACCOUNT: status of loans to families at close of, 272
HOUSING AND SHELTER, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee V): chairman of, 125
HOUSING COMMITTEE: and Department of Lands and Buildings, relation
between, 256-257; applications for building grants and loans referred
to, 253; cost of houses erected by, 270; dissatisfaction with houses
erected by, 268; general plan of, 417-418; importance of
rehabilitation work of, 276, 277, 278; investigation of families who
were aided by grants and loans from, 259; purpose and work of, 254,
255; status of work one year after fire, 28; style of houses built by,
under grant and loan plan, 258
HOUSING PLAN, ORIGINAL: recommendations submitted to Finance Committee
July, 1906, 394-397
HOUSING REHABILITATION: Associated Charities to nominate committee to
pass on applications for, 133; most highly specialized branch, 128
HOUSING THE HOMELESS, SUB-COMMITTEE ON: suggestion regarding single
camp, 70, 84; work of, 69, 70
IDAHO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
ILLNESS, ACCIDENT, ETC.: as causes of disability among applicants to
Associated Charities, 293. See also _Health_
INCOME: loss of, in disaster, cannot be estimated, 5
INCOMES: estimated, of families receiving aid under cottage plan, 228;
in families aided under bonus plan, contributors to, 245; in families
aided under grant and loan plan, contributors to, 264; of applicants
aided under bonus plan, 244, 245; of applicants and families aided
under grant and loan plan, 262, 263, 264; of applicants to Associated
Charities, lack of data on, 296; of families receiving business
rehabilitation, lack of data on, 179; of women in families aided under
grant and loan plan, 264
INCORPORATION: necessity of, for relief organization in large
disaster, 369
INCORPORATION OF SAN FRANCISCO FUNDS: certificate of, issued, 26;
membership of Corporation, departments, etc., 398-400; proposals
regarding, 25; recommended by Dr. Devine, 17; suggested, 24
INDEBTEDNESS: of families aided by bonuses, 247, 248; of families
aided under cottage plan, 229
INDUSTRIAL BUREAU: of Corporation, work of, 88
INDUSTRIAL CENTERS: estimate of amount required for, 121
INFIRM. See _Aged and infirm_
INGLESIDE MODEL CAMP: administration of, 324-327; admission cards used
at, 327; aged, infirm and sick at, 57; ages of inmates at, compared
with ages of inmates at almshouses, 330; applicants and non-applicants
for relief and rehabilitation among inmates of, 336-343; applicants
who had never been at, 354, 355; cases needing help for indefinite
period sent to, 147; cases sent to, who did not belong there, 324;
characteristics of population of, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362; conjugal
condition and sex of inmates at, 328, 329; “convalescents” and
hospital cases at, 365; discipline at, 325, 326; discontentment at,
324; employment of inmates at, 326; expenditures for construction of,
220; family relations of inmates at, 335; health of inmates at, 326,
327; history of establishment of, 321-324; inmates at, classified,
336; length of residence in California of inmates at, 334; money value
of relief given to family cases received at, 343; nativity of inmates
at, 331; number at, same as number at Lobos Square, by coincidence,
29; number at, total and average, 323, 324; occupations of inmates at,
332, 333; purpose of study of statistics of, 327; single and widowed
inmates at, applying for relief and rehabilitation, 343-352; single
and widowed inmates at, who did not apply for rehabilitation, 352-354;
sources of information regarding inmates at, 327; total cost of, 327
INGLESIDE RACE TRACK STABLES: transformed into camp for aged and
infirm, 322
INSTITUTIONS: advisory committee on, formed, 142; reasons for refusal
of grants to, 145; rehabilitation of, 141-145
INSTRUCTIONS: for rehabilitation force proposed by superintendent of
Committee, 123. See also _Circular_
INSURANCE: delay in collecting, 22; difficulties in collecting, 217;
estimated total collected after disaster, 5; received by applicants
aided by bonus, 247; received by applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 265; to be received by families aided under cottage plan, 229
INVESTIGATING FORCE OF REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: number of, 115;
personnel of, 114
INVESTIGATION: by auxiliary societies unsatisfactory, 139; methods in
different classes of cases, 117, 118; of families receiving cottages,
222; possibility of, even under conditions such as existed in San
Francisco, 370
INVESTIGATORS: trained, value of, as shown in handling of Ingleside
cases, 364. See also _Investigating force_
IRELAND: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
IRISH: section inhabited by, burnt out, 4. See also _Ireland_
ITALIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE: privilege of having recommendations accepted
extended to, 138
ITALIANS: among refugees, 75; in improvised shelters on Telegraph
Hill, 74. See also _Italy_
ITALY: cash sent to, for Messina earthquake sufferers by American
National Red Cross, 35; natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77;
natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, 74
JAPAN: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34, 94;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74. See also _Japanese_
JAPANESE: deterred from asking aid by anti-Japanese feeling, 94;
relief of, 94, 95. See also _Japan_
JAPANESE RELIEF ASSOCIATION: formation of and relief given by, 94, 95
JESSUP, MORRIS K.: urges incorporation of funds, 25
JEWISH CHARITIES: formation of special relief fund in San Francisco
considered by, 141
JEWISH COMMITTEE: merged in Hebrew Board of Relief, 141. See also
_Hebrew Board of Relief_
JOCKEY CLUB, CALIFORNIA. See _California Jockey Club_
JUVENILE COURT: records of, for 1907-1909, 317; situation of, after
fire, described, 89
KILIAN, CAPTAIN JULIUS N.: Ingleside Camp organized by, 324, 325, 326
KINDERGARTENS: in camps, 89
KITCHENS, HOT MEAL: history and work of, 49-55
KOSTER, GENERAL: at conference on policing city, 11
KRAUTHOFF, MAJOR C. R.: work in handling and issuing supplies, 39
LABOR: abnormal prices asked for, following disaster, 217. See also
_Wage workers_
LABOR COMMISSIONER: free employment bureau in charge of, 47; hope that
registration would be of service to, 46
LABOR, UNSKILLED: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296
LAND: appropriation of funds to acquire, part of plan for shelter, 24;
decision of Corporation not to acquire, 218
LANDS AND BUILDINGS, DEPARTMENT OF: alterations in Ingleside stables
made under, 322; and Housing Committee, relation between, 256-257;
applications for small building loans transferred from, to
Rehabilitation Committee, 253; bonus plan, its history and workings,
239-240; businesslike work of, 237; chairman and duties of, 400; cost
of inspection and clerical work in connection with building of camp
cottages, 221, 222; creation of, 26; decision by, not to purchase,
lease, or rent land, 218; difficulties encountered by, 216, 217;
erection of camp cottages and tenements by, 82, 221; expenditure for
bonuses made through, 220; experiment in purchasing ready-made houses,
why abandoned, 218; houses constructed through its own contractors and
otherwise, 220; planing mills erected by, 217; plans considered and
abandoned by, 217, 218; propositions by real estate firms to, 217;
sanitary conveniences, etc., installed in public squares by, 71;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28; work of, divided
into three parts, 219
“LATIN QUARTER”: burnt out, 4, 287
LEASE: of cottages to refugees, plan concerning, 83. See also
_Rentals_
LEEGE, CHARLES F.: chairman of committee VI of Rehabilitation
Committee, 172
LETTER: presented by members of advisory committee investigating
institutions, 143
LETTERS: regarding transportation of refugees, 60, 64, 65
LICENSE, SPECIAL: policy regarding grants to those starting in
business that required, 124
LIFE, LOSS OF: in disaster, 5
LIGHTS: orders regarding, following earthquake, 40
LIQUOR: no claims, for, paid, 98; places that sold, closed, 8
LOANS: appropriation of money for, 24; early requests for, 13;
negotiated by applicants aided under bonus plan, 246; negotiated by
applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265; recommendations
regarding, by Dr. Devine, 17; special provision for granting, by
Rehabilitation Committee, 129; study by Rehabilitation Committee to
determine probable number of, 22; to families aided under cottage
plan, 229; to families aided under grant and loan plan, status of,
271, 272. See _Grant and loan plan_
LOBOS SQUARE: camp at, last to be retained, 29, 85; hot meal kitchen
opened in, 49. See also _Camp Lobos_
LOCATION: effect of, upon success of families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 192
LOOTERS: troops ordered to shoot, 8
LOOTING: reports of men shot for, 5
LOS ANGELES: citizens of, came to aid of San Francisco, 8
LOS ANGELES RELIEF COMMITTEE: equipment for hot meal kitchens sent by,
49; relief station opened by, 41
LOS ANGELES TOOL FUND: kits of tools distributed by, 158
LOTS: owned before fire by applicants aided by bonus, 245, 246; plan
of purchasing or leasing, withdrawn by Corporation, 218; purchase,
lease, and rental of, by families removing cottages from camps, 233,
234; purchased after fire by applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 266; to which camp cottages were removed, congestion on, 233.
See also _Land_
LYING-IN HOSPITAL: use of, suggested by Miss Felton, 134
MAGEE, THOMAS: chairman of Department of Lands and Buildings, 400;
member of Executive Committee of Relief Corporation, 26
MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES: applicants to Associated
Charities who were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of
applicants receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 198, 199;
men and women in families aided under bonus plan who had been engaged
in, 244; men and women in families aided under cottage plan who had
been engaged in, 226, 227; men and women in families aided under grant
and loan plan who were engaged in, 262, 263
MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD: location of, 7
MARITAL CONDITION. See _Conjugal condition_
MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR RELIEF OF CALIFORNIA: authority of
Finance Committee recognized by, 10; donation to University of
California Hospital by, 35; funds transferred after being withheld,
100; investigator sent by, endorsed Relief Corporation’s work, 100;
use of funds for permanent relief urged by, 15
MAYOR SCHMITZ OF SAN FRANCISCO: activities on day of disaster, 8; at
conferences April 21 and 24, 11; attitude and actions of, during June,
18, 19; called on army to assume charge of relief work, 39; ex-officio
director of Relief Corporation, 26; representative of, on Executive
Commission, 19
MEALS: number furnished by hot meal kitchens, May to October, 51;
number served in hot meal kitchens on specified dates, 52; prices paid
for, at hot meal kitchens, 51
MEAL TICKETS: issued by Red Cross, 51
MEDICAL CO-OPERATION: in cases of “general relief,” 117
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF ARMY: report of, 91
MEDICAL SOCIETY, COUNTY: urged use of balance of fund for free
hospital, 27-28
MEDICAL SUPPLIES: furnished by army, 92, 93; given to hospitals, value
of, 94
MENU: of hot meal kitchens, 50, 51
MEXICO: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74
MILITARY AND NAVAL CENTER: in San Francisco, 7
MILITARY AUTHORITIES: given entire charge of relief stations and
shelters, 11. See also _Army_
MILITARY CONTROL and districting of city for policing, 11, 12, 40
MILITARY OFFICERS: of districts, and civil chairmen of sections, 42
MILK, CONDENSED: donated in excess of need, 101
MILK DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION: arrangements with, made by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38
MINISTERS: recommendations by, generally valueless, 117. See also
_Clergy_; _Pastors_
MINNEAPOLIS COMMITTEE: objection by, to sale of donated flour, 102
MISSION: no hot meal kitchen in, 50
MISSION RELIEF COMMITTEE: relief station opened by, 41
MONTANA: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
MORAN, EDWARD F.: empowered to make alterations in Ingleside stables,
322
MORROW, JUDGE W. W.: at conference April 24, 11
MOTHERS WITH INFANTS: special diet for, 48
NATIONAL AGENT IN DISASTER: Red Cross should become recognized as, 101
NATIONAL GUARD: commanded by General Koster, 11
NATIONALITY: of applicants aided under bonus plan, 241; of applicants
aided under cottage plan, 223; of applicants aided under grant and
loan plan, 259; of heads of families receiving business
rehabilitation, 175, 176; of population in 1900, and of refugees
compared, 74, 75; of refugees by civil sections, 76, 77. See also
_Nativity_
NATIVE DAUGHTERS, SOCIETY OF: relief station opened by, 41
NATIVITY: of applicants for relief from Associated Charities, before
and after fire, 287, 291; of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 331, 332; of
inmates of San Francisco almshouse, 331. See also _Nationality_
NAVAL TRAINING STATION: Yerba Buena Island, 7
NAVY DEPARTMENT: Navy yard on San Francisco Bay, 7
NEVADA: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
NEW MEXICO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. See _Chamber of Commerce, New York_
NORTH END POLICE STATION: meeting place of Mayor and Committee, 9
NORWAY: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
NOTRE DAME COLLEGE: aid under bonus plan received by, 241; failure of,
to supply information as to income, 245; high cost of, 248
NURSES: from outside San Francisco not needed, 92
NURSES’ SETTLEMENT: work of residents after destruction of, 88
OAKLAND: difficulty in transporting supplies from, 37; location of, 3;
return of refugees from, 77
OCCUPATION: lack of, a reason for leaving city among certain
professions, 62
OCCUPATIONS: of applicants to Associated Charities variously
classified, 294, 295; of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 332, 333; of men
and women in families aided under bonus plan, 244; of men and women in
families aided under cottage plan, 226, 227; of men and women in
families aided under grant and loan plan, 262, 263; proposed, of
applicants receiving business rehabilitation, 184; represented by
families receiving business rehabilitation, 183; success or failure in
cases aided by business rehabilitation, according to nature of,
196-208
OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN AND CONFIDENTIAL CASES, Committee on
(Sub-committee IV): chairman of, 125; grants by, 158
OREGON: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
PACIFIC DIVISION OF ARMY: appropriation of Congress to be distributed
under direction of officers of, 30; headquarters at San Francisco, 7.
See also _Army_
PACIFIC STATES: persons sent from San Francisco to, 67, 68; states
included under heading, 66
PANIC: absence of, following earthquake, 6
PARIS, AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: cash contributions made by, 34
PARK COMMISSIONERS: agreement to ignore occupation of parks by
cottages for one year, 84; co-operation of, with Relief Corporation,
84; request to Relief Corporation to clear squares, 85
PARKS AND SQUARES: wisdom of using, for camps, 84
PASTORS: certificates of, found unreliable in Chicago and San
Francisco, 137. See also _Clergy_; _Ministers_
PATIENTS: recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 15, 16
PAVILION, COTTAGE: proposed for housing aged and infirm, 23, 24. See
also _Aged and Infirm_; _Relief Home_
PAYMENTS: upon claims, 98
PENSIONS: for aged and infirm, 364-365; given by Associated Charities,
306-309; lessons regarding, learned from study of relief work, 372
PER CAPITA COST: for shelter, 86, 87. See also _Cost_; _Expenditure_
PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC SERVICE: applicants to Associated Charities who
were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants
receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 200-206; men and women
in families aided under bonus plan who were engaged in, 244; men and
women in families aided under cottage plan who had been engaged in,
226, 227; men and women in families aided under grant and loan plan
who were engaged in, 262, 263
PHELAN, JAMES D.: as head of Finance Committee of Citizens’ Committee,
9; at conference April 24, 11; directed to make financial statement to
Committee on Reconstruction, 10; mayor’s suggestions to, 18; new
Rehabilitation Committee appointed by, 21; president of Relief
Corporation, 26
PHILANTHROPIC AGENCIES: results of co-operation between, under Relief
Corporation, 317
PHYSICIANS AND NURSES: from outside San Francisco not needed, 92
PHYSICIANS’ FUND: applications referred to, 153
PLAGUE. See _Bubonic plague_
PLAN OF WORK: by army officers, submitted by General Greely to Finance
Committee, 18; submitted by Dr. Devine and Mr. Bicknell for Executive
Commission, 20
PLEHN, CARL C.: registration bureau organised by, 44, 45
POLICE, CHIEF OF: at conference April 21 on policing of city, 11;
provisions seized and distributed by order of, 32
POLICE PROTECTION: furnished to hot meal kitchens, 50
POLICING OF CITY: as arranged for on April 21, 11, 12, 40
POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS: to Executive Commission, 19
POPULATION: made homeless by disaster, 4; of California, fifteen years
of age and over, in 1900, 329; of city and county of San Francisco, in
1900, 331, 356; of official camps, by months and by composition, 81;
of San Francisco in 1900, nationality of, 74; of unofficial camps, 79
PORTLAND, Oregon: citizens of, come to aid of San Francisco, 8
PORTSMOUTH SQUARE: cottages for Chinese in, 95; meeting of Citizens’
Committee in, 9
POTATOES: donated in excess of need, 101
POTRERO: acquiescence in hardships by families of, 36
PREMISES: occupied before and after fire by families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 178
PRESIDIO: army post, 7; camp for Chinese in, 95; entrance to, as
headquarters of civil section I, 42; food issued from depot at, 39;
meals furnished at kitchens in, 51; sick cared for in hospital at, 92
PROBATION WORK: situation of, after disaster described, 89
PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS: applicants to Associated Charities who were
engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants receiving aid
for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 198; men and women in families aided
under bonus plan who were engaged in, 244; men and women in families
aided under cottage plan who had been engaged in, 226, 227; men and
women in families aided under grant and loan plan who were engaged in,
262-263
PROPERTY: estimated loss of, in disaster, 5; possessed by applicants
aided under bonus plan, 246; possessed by applicants aided under grant
and loan plan, 265
PROPRIETORS IN BUSINESS: among applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 262; among men in families aided under bonus plan, 244; among
men in families aided under cottage plan, 226
PUBLIC LAND: shelter furnished by army and Finance Committee on, 84
PUBLIC SERVICE: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296
PURCHASING COMMITTEE of Finance Committee: membership of, 276
RAILROADS: activities of, following disaster, 58, 59; estimated
contribution of, 68; number of persons carried free by (second and
third periods), 68. See also _Southern Pacific Railroad_;
_Transportation_
RATIONS: adopted by sub-committee on relief of the hungry, 38; issued
by army, 39; issuing of, discontinued, 110; number reported by General
Greely as distributed, 52; persons estimated to be receiving, during
April and May, 43; persons to whom issued in May and June, 53, 54, 55;
reduced, 44; reductions in number receiving, explained, 48; stolen, 32
READING ROOMS: in camps, 89
REAL PROPERTY. See _Property_
RE-APPLICATIONS: to Associated Charities by those aided by
Rehabilitation Committee, 298-299
RECEIPTS: cash, of Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds,
and Corporation, to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; of Associated Charities, 419
RECOMMENDATIONS: made by Dr. Devine, 15, 16, 17; of section committees
reviewed before submission to Rehabilitation Committee, 118; regarding
housing, 22, 23, 24
RECONSTRUCTION OF SAN FRANCISCO, COMMITTEE ON: Finance Committee to
make financial statement to, 10
RECORD CARD: used in rehabilitation work, information on, 115, 116
RECORDS: charity, value of, cannot be over-emphasized, 363; of
distribution furnished by official camps, 42; of relief distribution
incomplete, 42; rehabilitation, value of study of, 151
RED CROSS, AMERICAN NATIONAL: and army, co-operation between, 44; and
Finance Committee, relations between, during week following disaster,
10; appointment of permanent director of, 101; cash contributions
received by, 34; consolidation with Finance Committee approved by, 11;
contribution of Japan to, 94; dates for formative period of
rehabilitation work under, 111; determined those entitled to clothing
and household goods, 56; disposition of cash received by, 35;
endeavored to deliver boxes to persons for whom intended, 32; meal
tickets issued by, 51; realization by, of need of permanent shelter,
221; recognition as national agency in disaster desirable, 101, 370;
registration of refugees begun by, 44; registration, second, made by
workers of, 49, 115; relation to hot meal kitchens, 50; report to Mr.
Taft as president, 30; representatives of, at different times, 27;
representatives of, free to consider rehabilitation, 14; represented
by Dr. Devine, 9, 11, 19; sewing center established by, 88; staff of
rehabilitation workers of, 14; tents provided by, 69, 70; use of civil
divisions by, 12. See also _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds_;
_Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_; and other
bureaus
RED CROSS, CALIFORNIA BRANCH OF: recognized Finance Committee as
official agent of relief, 10; represented at conference, 11; work of,
92
RED CROSS SPECIAL RELIEF AND REHABILITATION BUREAU: chairmen of
temporary and permanent organizations, 14; classifications of grants
in use by, 108; expenditures by, 21; got under way, 14;
recommendations not accepted by, in place of investigations, 137-138;
superseded by Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
transportation work merged with that of, 59
REFUGEES: attempts to secure removal of, from unofficial to official
camps, 79; free tents and shacks for, 82, 83; in unofficial camps, 79;
nationality of heads of family among, 74-77; registration of, 44, 45,
46; return of, from Oakland and other places, 77; terms of agreement
for lease of cottages by, 83, 84. See _Population_; and other topics
REFUSALS OF AID: by Associated Charities, reasons for, 312, 313; for
business rehabilitation, study of, 208-210
REGISTRATION, FIRST: begun by Red Cross, 44; character of records on
card, 46, 47; families and individuals registered in seven civil
sections by, 45, 46; form of card used in, 425, 426; housing of
registered families as shown by, 71, 72, 73; method and results of,
47; overcrowding and bad sanitary conditions not shown on card used
in, 73; population in Golden Gate Park not included in, 73; primary
object of, 46; reasons why defective, 48
REGISTRATION, SECOND: conduct and results of, 115, 116; face and
reverse of card used in, 428, 429; when and why made, 49; use of card
in civil sections, 115
REGISTRATION BUREAU: formulation of plans for, by Red Cross, 14;
organization and force of, 45. See also _Enumerators_
REHABILITATION: age of possible, 365; amount of principal and
subsidiary grants for, 158; applicants for, among Ingleside Camp
inmates, 336; applicants for, by age, by nature and disposal of
application, and by domestic status, 154; applicants for, classified
by specified handicaps, 155; applicants for, number of persons and of
children in families of, 156; applicants for, who possessed resources,
grants and refusals to, 167, 168; applied for by Ingleside Camp
inmates, nature of, 344; beginning of work of, 13-19; centralized
system of work, 124-133; district and centralized systems of work
discussed and accounted for, 135, 136, 370; estimate of money required
for, 121; general policy of, 107-111; grants for, by amount and nature
of relief given, 165-167; nature of principal and subsidiary grants
for, 157, 158; of institutions, 141-145; of old people at Ingleside
Camp, 361, 362; periods of work of, 111, 112, 129; reasons for refusal
of, by nature of application, 166; recommendations regarding, by Dr.
Devine, 16, 17; record card used in work of, 115, 116; record of
burned-out families applying to Associated Charities, 291; refugees
with and without record of, who applied to Associated Charities, 294;
re-opening of cases, 160; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
applying for, 343-352; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
who did not apply for, 353, 354; study of, lessons learned from, 370,
371; suspension of grants arrested work of, 99, 100; time elapsing
between application and grant in different periods of, 164, 165;
workers, staff of, formed, 14. See also _Rehabilitation Committee_;
_Relief and Rehabilitation, Department of_; _Applications for
Rehabilitation_
REHABILITATION BUREAU. See _Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Bureau_
REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: additional aid granted to families receiving
grants and loans for building by, 272, 273; additional aid granted to
receivers of bonuses by, 248; administrative details of, 406-416; aim
as to single grants, how far attained, 160; applicants referred to
Associated Charities by, 134; applications for small building loans
taken up by housing sub-committee of, 253, 254; applications on forms
to, when required, 117; applications passed on by single members of,
160; appointed by Finance Committee to supersede earlier bureau, 15,
21; attempt to gather up loose ends by, 415; cases of single and
widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for aid to, 343-352;
cases of, used in study of Ingleside Camp inmates, 327; caution in
giving justified, 312; centralized system of, 412; closing of civil
sections, and inauguration of centralized system, 124; clothing
distribution by, 57; compelled to accept recommendations from outside
organizations, 138; conditions of grant to Associated Charities by,
133; consideration of cases out of turn by, 412; consolidation of
families fostered by, 177; delegation of powers to section committees
by, 119; directions given by the Associated Charities for use of
workers of, 406-407; disbursements of, 124; expenditure through, for
housing construction, 220; experience with recommendations by
ministers, 117; extracts from circular on “Requirements for
Satisfactory Investigations” prepared for, 140; fourth period of work
marked by pressure, 129; fifth period of work marked by discharge of
sub-committees, 131; forms used by, 432-436; funds entrusted to, for
allotment to charitable organizations, 132; grant and loan plan
formulated by, 253, 254; grants by members of, 174; grants for
business rehabilitation and number of different occupations
represented, 183; grants for housing made by, 257; grants made by, to
applicants who afterwards applied to Associated Charities, 298, 299;
hope of, in granting sums for business rehabilitation insufficient for
establishing a business, 203; housing recommendations of, 22, 24;
help toward refurnishing of homes given by, 130; instances where
refusals to grant aid for business rehabilitation were not justified,
209; instructions for force prepared by superintendent of, 123;
investigating force of, 115; Jewish societies agreed to work through,
141; kept outside province of Executive Commission, 25; lesson
regarding records learned from study of work of, 413; limitation of
applications received by, 126; limitation of size of grants by, 108;
means which might have obviated re-opening of cases by, 163; meetings
of, 127; membership of, 378; method of work in district organization,
408-412; monthly budgets of, 408; notes on bookkeeping and
registration under, 415-416; notified by camp commander of inability
of tenants to pay rent, 84; notified of withdrawal of staff of
Associated Charities, 132; periods of work of, defined and
characterized, 111, 112; plan of August, 1906, 124; policy in regard
to grants, 108, 109; principle underlying work of, 107; problem of
care for aged and infirm, 359-362; provisions regarding grants and
loans by, 128, 129; receipts of applications suspended by, 122;
relation to Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, 109;
responsibility of, defined, 110; satisfactory co-operation with Hebrew
Board of Relief, 141; situation at beginning of work of, 107; Special
Relief Bureau called on for aid by, 149; standards established by,
118; sub-committees, work and chairmen of, 125; transportation bureau
merged with, 60; unsatisfactory history of co-operation with auxiliary
societies, 138, 139, 140; work of, distinguished from that of Bureau
of Special Relief, 111; work of, in second period, 120, 121;
withdrawal of office staff of Associated Charities from, 132, 133. See
also _Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_;
_Rehabilitation_
RE-INVESTIGATION: of cases refused aid, reasons why not attempted, 314
RELIEF: accounting, use of word “claim” in, 96; applications for, how
passed upon, 160; basis, work of application bureau put on, 130, 131;
by free and reduced rate tickets, 59; classes of, and order of demand,
12, 13; distribution, records of incomplete, 42; emergent, given by
Associated Charities, 299-305; estimate of amount required for, by
Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, 121; in cash, possibility of
strict audit of, 369; in kind, impossibility of strict accounting for,
369; in kind, need of bureau to supply, 145, 146; speculative
character of, in cases of aged and infirm, 363; permanent, given by
Associated Charities, 305-310; principles of, two conceptions in
conflict, 13; refused by Associated Charities, 310-314; to Chinese and
Japanese, value of, 94, 95. See also topics which follow; and
_Applications_; _Rehabilitation_
RELIEF AND REHABILITATION BUREAU. See _Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Bureau_
RELIEF AND REHABILITATION, DEPARTMENT OF: chairman and duties of, 400;
chairman’s action in regard to grants to institutions, 141-145;
creation of, 26; date when Bureau of Hospitals closed, 93; erection of
grant and loan houses by, 220; expenditure through, for assistance in
constructing permanent homes, 220; funds required to carry on work of,
121; relation to Department of Camps and Warehouses defined, 110;
responsibility for relief outside camps, 111; sewing work under, 88;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28, 29; use of civil
sections by, 12
RELIEF, BUREAU OF SPECIAL. See _Special Relief, Bureau of_
RELIEF COMMITTEES: independent, confusion caused by, 37
RELIEF CORPORATION: all responsibility in a disaster should rest upon
a single, 100, 101. See _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a
Corporation_
RELIEF FUNDS. See _Funds_
RELIEF, GENERAL: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154;
applications for, passed on by sub-committees and by members of
Rehabilitation Committee, 160; cases of single and widowed inmates of
Ingleside Camp who applied for, 352; grants for, classified by
amounts, 165, 167; grants for, size of, 158, 159; principal and
subsidiary grants for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for
refusal of applications for, 166; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161, 162; use of term, instead of Special Relief, to
cover miscellaneous grants, 108
RELIEF HOME: building of, determined on by Corporation, 321;
characteristics of population of, 358-362; completion of, 28;
conditions influencing population of, 357; population, admissions and
movement to and from, 356; sick and convalescent inmates at, 365, 366
RELIEF IN DEFERRED AND NEGLECTED CASES, Committee on (Sub-committee
VIII): chairman of, 125
RELIEF OF AGED AND INFIRM, UNSUPPORTED CHILDREN AND FRIENDLESS GIRLS,
COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee II): chairman of, 125
RELIEF OF THE HUNGRY, SUB-COMMITTEE ON: difficulties contended with
by, 39; relief stations reported by, 42; status of work at final
report to Finance Committee, 37; sub-committee on housing the homeless
worked independently of, 70
RELIEF OF UNSUPPORTED OR PARTIALLY SUPPORTED FAMILIES, COMMITTEE ON
(Sub-committee III); chairman of, 125
RELIEF SECTIONS. See _Civil Sections_
RELIEF, SPECIAL: estimate (August) of amount required for, 121;
general relief used as equivalent term to cover miscellaneous grants,
108; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16; single and widowed
inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, 349-351
RELIEF STATIONS: and registration, 40-49; in charge of army, 11, 40;
in civil section VI, list of, 41; in seven civil sections, number, 42;
private, 44; recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, 17; taken charge
of by Colonel Febiger, 40
RELIEF STATIONS, BUREAU OF CONSOLIDATED: establishment of, 40; hot
meal kitchen contracts under, 50; requisitions on, 42
RELIEF SURVEY: estimate by, of value of relief to Japanese by army and
Finance Committee, 95; estimate of persons in shacks and barracks made
for, 77; findings of, regarding frauds, 117; findings of, regarding
results of business rehabilitation, 187, 188; housing study a part of,
215; no attempt by, to ascertain what references investigated, 116;
re-visit to 1,000 cases of applicants for business rehabilitation made
for, 174; some lessons of, 369-373; weaknesses in centralized system
revealed by, 135
RELIEF WORK: of Associated Charities, disbursements for, 309; plan
for, drawn up by army officers, 18; reasons for limiting scope of, in
February, 1907, 130; what an account of, should include, 298
RENTALS: business and residence, paid by families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 177-183; for camp cottages, amount collected
and refunded, 222; for camp cottages, plan to charge, 83; for camp
cottages, plan to charge blocked by ordinance, 222; paid before fire
by families aided under grant and loan plan, 270; paid for lots by
those removing cottages from camps, 234; paid for lots in cottage
settlements, 235, 236
REPEATING: allowance for, in army reports, 43; registration to
prevent, 46
REPORTS OF TRAGIC DEATHS following disaster, 5
RESIDENCES: occupied by families receiving business rehabilitation,
number of rooms in, 180. See also _Houses_
RESOURCES: of families aided under bonus plan, 244-248; grants and
refusals to applicants for rehabilitation possessing, 167, 168
RESTAURANTS: opening of, recommended by Dr. Devine, 15. See also _Hot
meal kitchens_
RESTRICTIONS: desirability of having contributions sent without, 369;
on expenditures of funds, 100-103
RIORDAN, ARCHBISHOP: member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance
Committee, 21; on special committee, 15; prediction of, quoted, 78
ROOFING THE HOMELESS, Sub-committee on: work of, 70
ROOMS: letting of, by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 267;
letting of, by families aided under bonus plan, 250, 251; number of,
in houses owned and occupied before and rebuilt after fire under bonus
plan, 249, 250; number of, occupied before fire by families aided
under cottage plan, 230; number of, occupied by families aided under
grant and loan plan, 267
RUSSIA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74
ST. FRANCIS TECHNICAL SCHOOL: as headquarters for Relief Corporation,
26
ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL: refugees in line at, 36
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: conference of, privilege of having
recommendations accepted extended to, 138; invited to confer on plan
for administration of relief work, 132; represented on committee to
pass on applications for housing, 133
SALARIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES: disbursements of Associated
Charities for, 309
SALOONS: policy regarding grants to, 128. See also _Liquor_
SAN FRANCISCO: a military and naval center, 7; cash contributions for
relief made in, 34; cash remitted to, by American National Red Cross,
35; citizens of, visited Congress to discuss building fund plan, 216;
districted for policing and redistricted to bring under military
control, 11, 12; housing problems in, compared with those in eastern
cities, 277; location of, 3; nativity of population of, in 1900, 74,
331; payment by, for almshouse patients at Ingleside Camp, 327;
persons sent from, to various destinations, 66, 67, 68; population of,
in different years, 356; proportion of almshouse admissions and
inmates to population of, 356; study of dependency problems in second
and third year following disaster in, 281, 282; terms of
transportation of persons sent from, 68; wage-earners in, more highly
paid than in any other part of United States, 296
SAN FRANCISCO RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, A CORPORATION: aided by park
commissioners, 84; announcement regarding business rehabilitation by,
172-173; applicants to, among inmates of Ingleside Camp, 336;
applicants who first applied for rehabilitation after Corporation’s
rehabilitation work was done, 286; appointment of Board of Trustees
of, 401; appropriations for work for unemployed made by, 305, 306;
balance sheet showing of August 11, 1906, 121; bonus plan, outline and
history of, 239, 240; bonus policy discussed, 251, 252; building of
Relief Home determined by, 321; cash receipts of, 33, 35; clearing of
squares by, 85; conditions which could not be anticipated by, 362;
construction of cottages under, 82, 221; contribution from China to,
95; cost for care of sick by, 93, 94; could get no information of
claims paid by War Department and state, 98; criticisms of accounting
system answered, 98, 99; decision regarding grants to charitable
organizations reached by Executive Committee of, 132; departments and
personnel of, 26, 398-400; embarrassed by withholding of funds, 99,
100; expenditure for food and its distribution by, 52, 53; expenditure
for sewing work by, 88; expenditures for housing by, 220; family cases
at Ingleside Camp applying to and aided by, 337-342; houses erected
by, according to style of house or plan under which relief given, 219;
incorporation and departments of, 26; lessor of cottages, 83;
membership and departments of, 396-398; plan of purchasing or leasing
lots considered by, 218; plan to build cottages and let contracts made
public by, 82; refusal by, to sell cottages to vacant lot owners, 233;
reimbursement of hospitals by, 93; relations of, with hospitals and
Associated Charities, 93; resignation of Associated Charities as
investigating agent of, 281; result of union of official and private
efforts, 27; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying to,
344; suggestion of, 24; suits against, 98; temporary barracks for aged
and infirm equipped by, 321, 322; unanimous in dissatisfaction with
work of auxiliary societies, 138; work of, indorsed by investigator of
Massachusetts committee, 100
SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS: in houses built under bonus plan, 248; in
houses occupied by applicants aided under cottage plan, 231, 232
SANITARY CONDITIONS: in cottage settlements, 235, 236
SANITATION: measures of, applied after disaster, 89-91; of camps and
city, cost of, 87
SAN JOSÉ: location of, 3
SANTA CLARA VALLEY: arrangements for baking bread in, 37
SAUSALITO: location of, 3
SAVINGS: of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265; of
families aided under cottage plan, 229; possessed by applicants aided
by bonus, 247
SCANDINAVIANS: among refugees, 75. See also _Denmark_; _Norway_;
_Sweden_
SCHMITZ, EUGENE E. See _Mayor Schmitz_
“SCHOLARSHIP” GRANTS: instance of, 307, 308
SCOTCH: among refugees, 75. See also _Scotland_
SCOTLAND: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San Francisco
in 1900, 74
SECTIONS, CIVIL. See _Civil Sections_
SECTION VII. See _Mission_
SEIZURE OF GOODS: claims for, 97
SETTLEMENTS: destruction of, 88; residents of, and their activities,
88
SETTLEMENTS, COTTAGE: conditions in two, described, 234-237
SEWING CIRCLES AND CLASSES: in camps, etc., 88, 89
SEWING DEPARTMENT: organized at Ingleside Camp, 326
SEX AND CONJUGAL CONDITION: of inmates at Ingleside Camp, 328, 354
SHACKS: and barracks, estimates of persons living in, 77; and tents,
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; improvised during
first days, 69
SHELTER: among relief demands, relative importance of, 12, 13;
emergency, expenditure for, 220; for aged, infirm, etc.,
recommendation regarding by Rehabilitation Committee and Executive
Commission, 23, 24; given by camps, cost of, 86, 87; permanent, need
of realized by relief organizations, 221; providing, 69-89
SHELTERS: in charge of army, 11; temporary, proposed appropriation of
money for construction and repair of, 24. See also _Barracks_;
_Camps_; _Shacks_
SICK: and disabled, applications of, to have precedence, 123; care of,
a minor problem of relief work, 91, 92; carried from fire zone, 5;
expenditures for care of, by Associated Charities, 301; special diet
for, 48
SICKNESS: as a reason for transporting refugees, 62. See also _Health_
SINGLE AND WIDOWED MEN AND WOMEN: at Ingleside Camp, 343-354
SMALLPOX: cases in San Francisco following disaster, 91
SMITH (Coolidge), MARY ROBERTS: quotation from article in _Charities
and the Commons_ by, 77
SOCIAL CHARACTER: of cases cared for by Associated Charities, 286-294
SOCIAL HALLS: built at expense of Corporation, 89
SOCIAL STATUS. See _Conjugal condition_
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD: estimate of persons in shacks and barracks
by, 77; free passengers carried from San Francisco by, 58; relief
supplies brought into city by, 30
SOUTH PARK: camp in, described, 84
SOUTH PARK SETTLEMENT: work of residents after destruction of, 88
SPECIAL RELIEF. See _Relief, Special_; _Relief, General_; _Special
Relief, Bureau of_
SPECIAL RELIEF, BUREAU OF, 145-150; applications for emergency relief
referred to, 120; applications of specified kinds referred to, 123;
creation of, made possible prompt action, 126; emergency cases always
handled rapidly by, 165; emergency relief cases referred to, 120;
expenditures by, 148, 149; forms used by, 435-439; need of, from
beginning of rehabilitation work, 370; reasons why earlier opening of,
desirable, 163; requisitions for clothing to, 57; staff and
administration of, 147, 148; status of work one year after fire, 28;
work distinguished from that of Rehabilitation Bureau, 111; work first
done by, 146; work for residents of camps, 149; work of, closed, 133,
150. See also _Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_
SPEEDWAY CAMP (Camp No. 6): aged and infirm first sent to, 321; last
kitchen closed at, 52; location and description of, 70, 71
SPRECKELS, RUDOLPH: chairman of Department of Camps and Warehouses,
399; estimate by, of number to be placed at Ingleside Camp, 323; in
conference with Rehabilitation Committee, 110; member of Executive
Committee of Relief Corporation, 26
SPROULE, WILLIAM: chairman of committee on transportation, 59
STAFF: of rehabilitation workers formed, 14
STAFFORD, STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER: free employment bureau under, work
of, 47
STANDARD OF LIVING: of families with reduced incomes after fire,
228-229
STANDARDS: established by Rehabilitation Committee, 118
STANFORD UNIVERSITY: students of, as investigators, 114
STATISTICS: of Ingleside Camp population, 327-334; of receipts and
disbursements from Associated Charities, 419-422
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: memorial fountain to, untouched by
earthquake, 9
STOCKTON: blankets and provisions donated brought by steamer from, 39
STORES: quantity received, 30; subsistence, report by army of
expenditures for, 52
SUB-COMMITTEE I. See _Temporary Aid and Transportation, Committee on_
SUB-COMMITTEE VI. See _Business Rehabilitation, Committee on_
SUB-COMMITTEES OF REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: chairmen and fields of
work of, 125; discharge of, 131
SUPERINTENDENT OF DISTRICT WORK: appointed, 113
SUPERVISING, COMMITTEE ON: membership of, 378
SUPERVISION: need of, in certain cases receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 163, 188, 189, 199, 203, 204, 206, 208, 371; of
expenditure by poorest class, desirable, 238
SUPERVISOR OF ACCREDITED HOSPITALS: work of, 93
SUPPLIES: amount expended by Bureau of Special Relief for, 148;
confiscation of, by army, 39; in army warehouses burned, value of, 39;
lost and stolen, 32; purchased by American National Red Cross, 35;
transportation of, under sub-committee on relief of the hungry, 38
SURVEY. See _Relief Survey_
SUSPENSION: of receipt of applications for rehabilitation, 122
SWEDEN: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
SWITZERLAND: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74
TAFT, WILLIAM H.: report to, as president of American National Red
Cross, 30
TELEGRAPH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: destruction of house and
after-work of residents, 88; represented on committee to pass on
applications for housing, 133
TEMPORARY AID AND TRANSPORTATION, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee I):
chairman of, 125; grants of money by, 120
TENEMENT HOUSES: erected by San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds,
219, 220; expenditure for construction of, total and average, 220, 221
TENT RECORD SHEET: reproduced, 430
TENTS: not barracks, needed, 70; provision of, in first days, 69;
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; supplied refugees
free of charge, 82, 83
THEFT OF RELIEF SUPPLIES, 32
TIBURON: location of, 3
TIME: elapsing between application and grant, 126, 163-165, 370
TOILETS: in cottages removed from camps, 231, 232; in houses built
under bonus plan, 248; in houses of applicants aided under grant and
loan plan, 267
TOOLS: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154; applications
for, passed upon by sub-committees and by members of Rehabilitation
Committee, 160; early requests for, 13; grants of different amounts
for, 165; investigations of applications for, 117; principal and
subsidiary grants for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for
refusal of applications for, 166; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161, 162; sewing machines and furniture,
recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16, 17; supplied by Red
Cross, 14; supplying of, by Bureau of Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Committee, 149, 150
TORNEY, COL. G. H.: establishment of free dispensaries by advice of,
93; in charge of sanitary work, 90
TRADE: applicants and others in families aided under grant and loan
plan who were engaged in, 262, 263; applicants to Associated Charities
who were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants
receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 206-208; men and women
in families aided under bonus plan who were engaged in, 244; men and
women in families aided under cottage plan who had been engaged in,
226, 227; nature of investment required by person starting in, 206
TRANSPORTATION: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296; business, status of applicants receiving aid for
rehabilitation in 196, 199, 200. See also _Transportation of
Refugees_.
TRANSPORTATION BUREAU: merged with permanent Rehabilitation Committee,
60; work of Mr. Cushing at, 59. See also _Transportation Committee_;
_Transportation of Refugees_
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE: organized by railroad officials, 59; persons
sent to specified destinations by (second period), 66. See also
_Transportation Bureau_; _Transportation of Refugees_
TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES: free passage given by, 58. See also
_Railroads_
TRANSPORTATION OF REFUGEES: applications for, granted and refused,
153, 154; applications for, passed upon by sub-committees and by
single members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; by American National
Red Cross, 35; cases, investigation of, 117; characteristics of
refugees given, 65; destinations of those sent from San Francisco, 66,
67; estimate (August) of amount required for, 121; grants of different
amounts for, 165; justified as rehabilitation measure, 65; letters
offering hospitality to applicants for, 64, 65; periods of work
defined and characterized, 58, 59, 60; principal and subsidiary grants
for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for asking, granting, and
refusing, 61, 62, 63, 166; re-opening of cases where principal grant
was for, 161; requests for, types of, 61, 62, 63; single and widowed
inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, 347; supplied by Red Cross,
14; terms of, 68; value at reduced rates of, 68
TRANSPORTATION OF REFUGEES, COMMITTEE ON: a sub-committee of Citizens’
Committee, 58
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES: arrangements regarding, made by committee
on relief of the hungry, 38
TROOPS, FEDERAL: policing of northern part of city assigned to, 11;
prompt arrival of and patrol by, 5. See also _Army_
TRUCKS AND TRUCKING: arrangements regarding, made by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38
TRUSTEES OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, BOARD OF: appointment of, 29,
401; contributions to Associated Charities by, 309; grants given by,
to applicants refused aid by Rehabilitation Committee, 210
TYPHOID FEVER: cases in San Francisco following disaster, 91
UNEMPLOYED: special work provided for, by Associated Charities, 304,
305
UNITED IRISH SOCIETIES: case of duplication through, 159; grants on
recommendations of, compared with other grants, 140; recommendations
of, acceptance by Rehabilitation Committee, 138; recommendations
specially marked by paucity of facts and high scale of expenditure,
139
UNITED STATES: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in
cities and town of, 34; natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77;
natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, 74; recognition of Finance
Committee by President of, 10
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL: donation to, 35
UTAH: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
VACATION SCHOOL: proposed, in Golden Gate Park, 78
VALLEJO: difficulty in transporting flour from, 37
VIENNA: contribution made by secretary of American Embassy at, 34
VOLUNTARY SERVICE: importance of, in relief work, 27
VOORSANGER, RABBI: chairman of sub-committee on relief of the hungry,
36; member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
member of special committee, 15
WAGES: received by men and women working, in families aided under the
cottage plan, 227, 228
WAGE WORKERS: in San Francisco, more highly paid than in any other
part of United States, 296
WAR DEPARTMENT: claims paid by, 98; judgment of auditor of, on
accounts of Corporation, 99; report to, by Colonel Febiger, cited,
39-40
WAR SHIPS IN HARBOR: rendered aid, 7
WAREHOUSE, CENTRAL: recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, 17
WAREHOUSES: army, burned, 39; established by sub-committee on relief
of the hungry, 37; for clothing and household furnishings, departments
in, 56
WASHINGTON (State): persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
WILLIAMS, THOMAS H.: offer of race track buildings at Ingleside by,
322
WOLLENBERG, C. M.: command of Ingleside Camp assumed by, 324;
employment and discipline of inmates at Ingleside Camp under, 326
WOMAN’S ALLIANCE: recreation provided by, at Ingleside Camp, 326
WORK: lack of, a reason for leaving city among certain classes of
workers, 62. See also _Employment_; _Occupations_
WYOMING: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66
YERBA BUENA ISLAND: Naval Training Station on, 7
YOUNG MEN’S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: refugees in line at, 36; use of, by
committee on relief of the hungry, 37
Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent (e.g. canceled/cancelled, employe/employee) and unusual
(e.g. wellnigh, wellknown) spelling and hyphenation have been
retained, except as mentioned below.
Inconsistencies between different parts of the text and the appendices
have been retained. The forms in Appendix 2 are intended to provide
approximations of the printed forms only; they contain all text and
information, but not always fully in the lay-out of the printed source
document.
page 10, ... had on April 25 come into effective co-operation ...:
other parts of the report give April 24 as the date.
page 79, The dashes which appear ...: the original shows periods
rather than dashes.
page 201, ... grants that were $200: as printed; should probably be
... grants that were $200 or more.
page 372, the work of an associated charities: as printed; not
changed.
page 453 ff.: there is no entry “Aged and Infirm”.
Changes made
Footnotes have been moved to under the paragraph, table etc. they
refer to.
Illustrations have been moved outside paragraphs.
Some obvious minor punctuation and typographical errors and formatting
inconsistencies have been corrected silently.
page xvi: cosy changed to cozy as in caption
page 53, Table 10, grand total: $1,226,367.16 changed to $1,226,567.16
page 250: ... to have occupied more room before the fire ... changed
to to have occupied more rooms before the fire
page 262, table header Table 87: footnote anchor [213] added
page 288, table 99, row Total detached persons: 3.59 changed to 35.9
page 386: San Jose changed to San José as elsewhere
page 401: “ removed from before To the end ...