Tents 1 2 3 4 5 6
Cots 1 2 3 4 5 6
Mattresses 1 2 3 4 5 6
Blankets 1 2 3 4 5 6
Towels 1 2 3 4 5 6
Wash Basins 1 2 3 4 5 6
Stoves 1 2 3 4 5 6
Buckets 1 2 3 4 5 6
Pots and Pans 1 2 3 4 5 6
Knives and Forks 1 2 3 4 5 6
Spoons 1 2 3 4 5 6
Plates 1 2 3 4 5 6
Cups 1 2 3 4 5 6
Lanterns 1 2 3 4 5 6
Chairs 1 2 3 4 5 6
Soap 1 2 3 4 5 6
The issuing of these cards has reduced the number of repeaters and has
been of great assistance in the systematizing of the relief work.
General Bates in his report to the President of the American National Red
Cross states later that a further economic and salutary measure has been
adopted in the establishment at the different camps and relief stations
of large kitchens and dining halls or sheds where a contractor buying the
supplies from the relief committee furnishes three cooked meals a day,
and in case of all persons, excepting those who are entirely destitute,
these meals are sold at ten or fifteen cents each. It is the opinion of
the officers in charge of this work, which is just inaugurated, that
within a few days, the greater majority of the people getting relief
from the Committee in this manner will pay for it. General Bates also
says, “I think it would be quite impossible for any one, without having
been on the ground or having had a similar experience in some other
place, to appreciate the enormous difficulties that these people have
had to contend with. In the first place their three days’ battle with
the fire was as horrible, excepting as to loss of life, as any of the
critical battles of the world. During that time, with the water cut off
from the city, the impossibility to arrest fire by means of dynamiting
and blowing up districts so that the fire should have nothing to feed
upon, the suffering and horror of turning two hundred thousand or more
people from their homes into the streets, with nothing to eat and nothing
to drink was simply appalling and notwithstanding the gigantic task that
lay before them, I think from what I learn, that it is safe to say that
no one has suffered from hunger or neglect.”
This is only a brief and partial report of the beginning and progress of
the relief in California, but it conveys some idea of the methods adopted
in the accomplishing of this great work.
Up to the date of going to press the various State Branches have
contributed the following amounts:
Connecticut $119,094.74
Delaware 18,900.00
District of Columbia 58,911.01
Georgia 200.00
Illinois 144,818.55
Indiana 34.032.16
Maine 5,607.02
Maryland 100,000.00
Massachusetts 64,877.25
Michigan 27,500.00
Missouri 143,000.00
New York 510,000.00
Ohio 62,967.45
Pennsylvania 129,600.00
Rhode Island 87,000.00
South Carolina 1,000.00
Wyoming 1,694.60