MADAM:—Enclosed you will find check for $80.75 in behalf of
the suffering Italians who are victims of the Mt. Vesuvius
eruption. We all have the best of respect for the American
Red Cross Society, and have only thanks to offer you as their
treasurer of the Berkshire Division for the interest this
division has thankfully offered their aid to our people.
If this collection had been made when all were working the
cash amount would have been larger, but under the fact that
all laborers have not been employed during the winter, they
responded to the call for aid the best they could. Your
committee wishes to thank you personally for your efforts for
suffering humanity.
Signed,
JOHN SUTTY,
JAMES LIBIZZI,
ANTONIO CHIODE,
JOHN F. COSTER,
_Committee_.
Thus at the time of any great foreign calamity the natives of the country
in which the disaster has occurred and now residents of the United
States may feel that the American National Red Cross provides a medium
through which all contributions they may desire to make for the benefit
of the sufferers from such calamity, can be forwarded to the Red Cross
of their former country for administration without any expense to the
contributors.
The following are copies of telegrams sent by the Department of State
transmitting to the Italian Red Cross the contributions received by the
American Red Cross for the relief of the sufferers in the vicinity of
Mount Vesuvius:
_May 7, 1906._
AM. EMBASSY, _Rome_:
Six thousand three hundred dollars received from American Red
Cross for transfer Italian Red Cross, account relief sufferers
vicinity Mount Vesuvius, being contribution citizens Boston and
Massachusetts. Draw Secretary State, forward receipt Italian
Red Cross to Department.
BACON, _Acting_.
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_June 6, 1906._
AM. EMBASSY, _Rome_:
Eleven hundred fifty-one dollars additional received from
American Red Cross for transfer Italian Red Cross account
relief sufferers eruption Mount Vesuvius. Draw Secretary State,
pay as before and forward receipt Italian Red Cross.
BACON, _Acting_.
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_June 18, 1906._
AM. EMBASSY, _Rome_:
Fourteen hundred twenty-seven dollars twenty cents additional
received from American Red Cross for transfer Italian Red
Cross, account relief sufferers from Vesuvius disaster. Draw
Secretary State, pay as before and forward receipt Italian Red
Cross.
BACON, _Acting_.
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_June 19, 1906._
AM. EMBASSY, _Rome_:
Twenty-two hundred fifty-two dollars sixty-two cents additional
received from American Red Cross for transfer Italian Red
Cross, account sufferers Vesuvius disaster. Draw Secretary
State and pay as before.
BACON, _Acting_.