Show MiLLIONS AT HAND FOR RELIEF WORK VORK Conference Will Be Held Today T day dayto to Determine termine the Proper Course of Procedure ARMY ARMi WILL JI J HANDLE H p FOOD 9 FINANCE FINANE COMMITTEE WILL USE TIE T E MONEY MONE 1 oJ San Francisco F ci co April AJril 23 There will willbe willbe be no limit it to the i 1 les sources of O the finance committee whose duty it ft is isto isto isto to expend the thO th millions of dollars beng be being beng ng ing subscribed for the relief of the homeless sufferers in San Francisco That was learned l at a meeting this afternoon when offers of assistance with provisions medical supplies I funds and physicians lans were received from Irom the large Cities of ot the east and nd even from Premier Seddon of New I Zealand There wil wilt b plenty to dis distribute distribute distribute tribute but the problem now is to use the contributions impartially for the relief of all those who ho are in 1 The finance committee of which James D Phelan is chairman will no doubt dispense alt all the money and will ill do its work through the regular army and look looking looking ing to that end a conference will be beheld held at Fort Mason tomorrow morn morning ing ng At that meeting the state will vill willbe be represented by Governor Pardee the army by Generals Greely and Funston and the finance committee by James D Phelan William F P Her 1 rm rn Garrett and aid M 11 3 H De Do DoI I Young Toting At the meeting this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon it was proposed that all persons a who have their homes left shall be beto forced to pay for their provisions and that only the actual sufferers shall shaH shalle shaHe fc e given free food All An will depend upon the Conference tomorrow morn morning morning ing Army Will Distribute Food No Xo doubt the regular soldiers will be given charge of the dispensation of supplies while the citizens finance Committee will maintain a general g su supervision suj j of the work and expend the 1 money sent from other cities The mayor has appointed a com corn to establish a citizens police auxiliary to assist in protecting the residence portion of the city I In some sections the corn com committee com committee has already organized Such committees have been reQuested to maintain their organization and report their membership to the headquarters of the police wHee committee e for the pur purpose purpose pose rose of At the earliest possible date data meet meetings meetings i ings will wilI be held in the various sec sections sections of the city and organizations al already already already ready organized ed will be ba affiliated with the general committee new J committees will m be formed in j sections se where none no have been formed farmed French Consul Missing It is feared that the French consul M LeConte Le Conte de La Rocca is lost The Thea vice consul of France Pierre Lacaze has made every effort to lo in locate inC ate cate C his chief and has been unsuccessful Yesterday he visited the French consuls headquarters at Post street and discovered that the floors had bad fallen through and were ly lying lying lyIng ing In a heap in the basement of or the building Advertisements for the th location of the local consul have been published g but he had not been found None of the French records have haye been located I and none of the consuls friends have heard from him He was waS living in San S n Rafael but was spending the night in inthis inthIs inthis this city when the earthquake oc occurred It is not known where he stopped that night The architects ann and ann builders commit committee r tee teo met today and ana an arranged for the Immediate districting of the city and the inspection and repairing of all aIl de chimneys Major Mador C H Krauthoff chief depot commissary of the department stated at noon today that there th re were ermy rations ready for distribution This includes the supplies at the Pre Presidio sidle sidio Fort Mason Transport dock and the th railroad yards Over carloads of o food are being distributed directly to stations from Fourth and Kearney I earney street treet Not Under Martial Law San Francisco is not under the ban of martial law an ani has not been bean from the th beginning There has been a gen general genera eral era misunderstanding among the troops themselves The report that Mayor Is at the head of 01 all patrolling and is merely as s i i 1 1 d l has q ally an d of ot the th tb army have stated that they are work working working working ing su J t to tP any x restraining order from Almost all air of ot the stories of rash violence yi vie vio r lence ort ott the part 1 Q Qt tropes J s are flimsy rumors rumo During P last nights S patrolling pa olIn many jot Hi the admitted ml t 1 to 10 9 rj news v vs WhO made m d th s among them that at they aid riot not f know what their orders ord ts were or who they came from t appeared JD ar that t at ali aU au were using their pvn Judgment Jn Ii itt MeL fact t they ad aid admitted d mUted theY fhay were The Th th st t militia all said that f they th were vere under the Ut order of the state si le militia commanders but whether they are working in pursuance of pr or not they failed to Jo recognize re recognize og nize city ci y passes p thereby ther b causing caus much h ana antl nien e to who W f in Ir relief and official cial work ork u S The regular troops are working in hI accord wi w th h Instructions ions f iriny ors ois office Consequently they have hav beer been the th salvation of the San S n Fran Francisco Francisco cisco patrol telU |