Show GREAT AID FOR INDIAN SUFFERERS i Chicagoans Are Not Appealed to In Vain i < THEIR SYMPATHY IS SUBSTANTIAL f NO CROCODILE TEARS BUT COLD HARD CASH Ten Thousand Dollars and Twenty five Carloads of Food Contributed at One Meeting and There is More Yet to Come All Honor to the Windy City Men and Women Chicago May Suffering India was brought close to the heart of Chicago through a mass meeting held at the Auditorium last night The horrors of famine and the death struggles of a plaguestricken people were depicted to an audience of 4000 persons that testified its willingness to help by reaching deep Into Us pockets Ten thousand dollars In cash and 25 carloads car-loads of corn are the estimated substantial sub-stantial fruits of the evening and they will go a long way toward making up the ship load of grains which Chicago philantrophists have made up their minds to send to the land of sorrovs The crowd that sought admittance Into the Auditorium was so great uhat arn overflow meeting was held at Central Music hall The meeting was held undercthe auspices aus-pices of the Chicago Indian relief committee com-mittee of which C C Bonneyts Chairman Chair-man Its efforts were spurred on through two influences which have already al-ready done splendid work in the cause of relief one being in the east the Christian Herald and the other in the west the Chicago board of trade The large stage of the Auditorium was filled with several hundred of the most prominent prom-inent philantrophists in the city The speakers represent many points of view and brought all the arguments of religion and humanity and all the motives of sympathy and compassion to bear for the succor of those brothers whom they held to be most In need of aid among all the human beings on the earths surface Mayor Carter Harrison Har-rison and Dr F W Gunsaulus testified to their desire to aid the movement m sending their regrets at their inability to be present Rev T DeWitt Talmage who has been traveling through the country for several weeks and has already raised 5100000 and 500000 bushels of corn was the chief speaker at the meeting |