New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburg were, of course, the three chief
centres of charitable contributions, and the sources from which the
golden flood of relief was poured into the devastated valley. One of the
earliest gifts in New York city was that of $1,200, the proceeds of a
collection taken on Sunday morning, June 2d, in the West Presbyterian
Church, after an appeal by the Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton, the pastor. The
next day a meeting of prominent New York business men was held at the
Mayor's office, and a relief committee was formed. At this meeting many
contributions were announced. Isidor Wormser said that the Produce
Exchange had raised $15,000 for the sufferers. Ex-Mayor Grace reported
that the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company had telegraphed the Cambria
Iron Company to draw upon it for $5,000 for the relief of the Cambria's
employees. Mayor Grant announced that he had received letters and checks
during the forenoon aggregating the sum of $15,000, and added his own
for $500. Subscriptions of $1,000 each were offered as fast as the
Secretary could record them by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Jesse Seligman, Calvin
S. Brice, Winslow, Lanier & Co., Morris K. Jesup, Oswald Ottendorfer, R.
H. Macy & Co., M. Schiff & Co., and O. B. Potter. Sums of $500 were
subscribed with equal cheerfulness by Eugene Kelly, Sidney Dillon, the
Chatham National Bank, Controller Myers, Cooper, Hewitt & Co., Frederick
Gallatin, Tefft, Weller & Co., City Chamberlain Croker, and Tiffany &
Co. Numerous gifts of less sums quickly followed. Elliott F. Shepard
announced that the _Mail and Express_ had already sent $10,000 to
Johnstown. Before the Committee on Permanent Organization had time to
report, the Secretary gave out the information that $27,000 had been
subscribed since the meeting was called to order. Before the day was
over no less than $75,000 had been received at the Mayor's office,
including the following subscriptions:
Pennsylvania Relief Committee of the Maritime Association of the
Port of New York, Gustav H. Schwab, Treasurer, $3,435; Chatham
National Bank, $500; Morris K. Jesup, $1,000; William Steinway,
$1,000; Theodore W. Myers, $500; J. G. Moore, $1,000; J. W. Gerard,
$200; Platt & Bowers, $250; Henry L. Hoguet, $100; Harry Miner,
$200; Tefft, Weller & Co., $500; Louis May, $200; Madison Square
Bank, $200; Richard Croker, $500; Tiffany & Co., $500; John Fox,
$200; Jacob H. Schiff, $1,000; Nash & Brush, $100; Oswald
Ottendorfer, $1,000; William P. St. John, $100; George Hoadly, for
Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson, $250; Edwin Forrest Lodge, Order of
Friendship, $200; W. T. Sherman, $100; W. L. Stone, $500; John R.
Dos Passos, $250; G. G. Williams, $100; Coudert Bros., $250;
_Staats-Zeitung_, $1,166; Cooper, Hewitt & Co., $500; Frederick
Gallatin, $500; R. H. Macy & Co., $1,000; Mr. Caldwell, $100; C. N.
Bliss, $500; Ward & Olyphant, $100; Eugene Kelly, $500; Lackawanna
Coal and Iron Company, through Mayor Grace, $5,000; W. R. Grace,
$500; G. Schwab & Bros., $300; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $1,000; Central
Trust Co., $1,000; Calvin S. Brice, $1,000; J. S. Seligman & Co.,
$1,000; Sidney Dillon, $500; Winslow, Lanier & Co., $1,000; Hugh J.
Grant, $500; Orlando B. Potter, $1,000.
Through _The Tribune_, $319.75; through _The Sun_, $87.50; from
Tammany Society, through Richard Croker, $1,000; Joseph Pulitzer,
$2,000; Lazard Fréres, $1,000; Arnold, Constable & Co., $1,000; D.
H. King, Jr., $1,000; August Belmont & Co., $1,000; New York Life
Insurance Co., $500; John D. Crimmins, $500; Nathan Manufacturing
Co., $500; Hugh N. Camp, $250; National Railway Publishing Co.,
$200; William Openhym & Sons, $200; New York Transfer Co., $200;
Warner Brothers, $100; L. J. and I. Phillips, $100; John Davel &
Sons, $100; Hoole Manufacturing Co., $100; Hendricks Brothers,
$100; Rice & Bijur, $100; C. A. Auffmordt, $100; Thomas C. T.
Crain, $100; J. J. Wysong & Co., $100; Megroz, Portier, & Megroz &
Co., $100; Foster, Paul & Co., $100; S. Stein & Co., $100; James
McCreery & Co., $100; Lazell, Dalley & Co., $100; George W.
Walling, $100; Thomas Garner & Co., $100; John Simpson, $100; W. H.
Schieffelin & Co., $100; through A. Schwab, $1,400; H. C. F. Koch &
Co., $100; George T. Hoadly, $250; G. Sidenburg & Co., $100; Ward &
Oliphant, $100; Robert Bonner, $1,000; Horace White, $100; A. H.
Cridge, $250; Edward Shriever, $300; C. H. Ludington, $100;
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company of New York, $200; Warner
Brothers, $100; _New York Times_ (cash), $100; cash items, $321.20;
Bennett Building, $105.
Shortly after the opening of the New York Stock Exchange a subscription
was started for the benefit of the Johnstown sufferers. The Governing
Committee of the Exchange made Albert King treasurer of the Exchange
Relief Fund, and, although many leading members were absent from the
floor, as is usual on Monday at this season of the year, the handsome
sum of $14,520 was contributed by the brokers present at the close of
business. Among the subscriptions received were:
Vermilye & Co., $1,000; Moore & Schley, $1,000; L. Von
Hoffman & Co., $500; N. S. Jones, $500; Speyer & Co., $500;
Homans & Co., $500; Work, Strong & Co., $250; Washington E.
Connor, $250; Van Emberg & Atterbury, $250; Simon Borg & Co.,
$250; Chauncey & Gwynne Bros., $250; John D. Slayback, $250;
Woerishoffer & Co., $250; S. V. White, $250; I. & S. Wormser,
$250; Henry Clews & Co., $250; Ladenberg, Thalmann & Co.,
$250; John H. Davis & Co., $200; Jones, Kennett & Hopkins,
$200; H. B. Goldschmidt, $200; other subscriptions, $7,170.
Generosity rose higher still on Tuesday. Early in the day $5,000 was
received by cable from the London Stock Exchange. John S. Kennedy also
sent $5,000 from London. John Jacob Astor subscribed $2,500 and William
Astor $1,000. Other contributions received at the Mayor's office were
these:
Archbishop Corrigan, $250; Straiton & Storm, $250; Bliss,
Fabyan & Co., $500; Funk & Wagnalls, $100; Nathan Straus,
$1,000; Sidney Dillon, $500; Winslow, Lanier & Co., $1,000;
Henry Hilton, $5,000; R. J. Livingston, $1,000; Peter Marie,
$100; The Dick & Meyer Co., Wm. Dick, President, $1,000;
Decastro & Donner Sugar Refining Co., $1,000; Havemeyers &
Elder Sugar Refining Co., $1,000; Frederick Gallatin, $500;
Continental National Bank, from Directors, $1,000; F. O.
Mattiessen & Wiechers' Sugar Refining Co., $1,000; Phelps,
Dodge & Co., $2,500; Knickerbocker Ice Co., $1,000; First
National Bank, $1,000; Apollinaris Water Co., London, $1,000;
W. & J. Sloane, $1,000; Tefft, Weller & Co., $500; New York
Stock Exchange, $20,000; Board of Trade, $1,000; Central Trust
Co, $1,000; Samuel Sloan, $200.
The following contributions were made in ten minutes at a special
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce:
Brown Brothers & Co., $2,500; Morton, Bliss & Co., $1,000;
H. B. Claflin & Co., $2,000; Percy R. Pyne, $1,000; Fourth
National Bank, $1,000; E. D. Morgan & Co., $1,000; C. S.
Smith, $500; J. M. Ceballas, $500; Barbour Brothers & Co.,
$500; Naumberg, Kraus & Co., $500; Thos. F. Rowland, $500;
Bliss, Fabyan & Co., $500; William H. Parsons & Co., $250;
Smith, Hogg & Gardner, $250; Doerun Lead Company, $250; A. R.
Whitney & Co., $250; Williams & Peters, $100; Joy, Langdon &
Co., $250; B. L. Solomon's Sons, $100; D. F. Hiernan, $100; A.
S. Rosenbaum, $100; Henry Rice, $100; Parsons & Petitt, $100;
Thomas H. Wood & Co., $100; T. B. Coddington, $100; John I.
Howe, $50; John Bigelow, $50; Morrison, Herriman & Co., $250;
Frederick Sturges, $250; James O. Carpenter, $50; C. H.
Mallory, $500; George A. Low, $25; Henry W. T. Mali & Co.,
$500; C. Adolph Low, $50; C. C. Peck, $20. Total, $15,295.
Thousands of dollars also came in from the Produce Exchange, Cotton
Exchange, Metal Exchange, Coffee Exchange, Real Estate Exchange, etc.
The Adams Express Co. gave $5,000, and free carriage of all goods for
the sufferers. The Mutual Life Insurance Co., gave $10,000. And so all
the week the gifts were made. Jay Gould, gave $1,000; the Jewish Temple
Emanuel, $1,500; The Hide and Leather Trade, $5,000; the Commercial
Cable Co., $500; the Ancient Order of Hibernians, $270; J. B. & J. H.
Cornell, $1,000; the New York Health Department, $500; Chatham National
Bank, $500; the boys of the House of Refuge on Randall's Island,
$258.22. Many gifts came from other towns and cities.
Kansas City, $12,000; Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce,
$22,106; Washington Post Office, $600; Boston, $94,000;
Willard (N. Y.) Asylum for Insane, $136; Washington Government
Printing Office, $1,275; Saugerties, N. Y., $850; Ithaca, N.
Y., $1,600; Cornell University, $1,100; Whitehall, N. Y.,
$600; Washington Interior Department, $2,280; Schenectady, N.
Y., $3,000; Albany, $10,500; Washington Treasury Department,
$2,070; Augusta, Ga., $1,000; Charleston, S. C., $3,500;
Utica, N. Y., $6,000; Little Falls, N. Y., $700; Ilion, N. Y.,
$1,100; Trenton, N. J., $12,000; Cambridge, Mass., $3,500;
Haverhill, Mass., $1,500; Lawrence, Mass., $5,000; Salem,
Mass., $1,000; Taunton, Mass., $1,010; New London, Conn.,
$1,120; Newburyport, Mass., $1,500.
No attempt has been made above to give anything more than a few random
and representative names of givers. The entire roll would fill a volume.
By the end of the week the cash contributions in New York city amounted
to more than $600,000. Collections in churches on Sunday, June 9th,
aggregated $15,000 more. Benefit performances at the theatres the next
week brought up the grand total to about $700,000.