Show SHELTER HELTER FORTHE FOR FORTHE THE HOMELESS Temporary T Structures Erected in Golden Gate Park for People SITUATION WELL IN HAND WILL BE NO WASTE OF THE FOOD FO D SUPPLY S PPL Y San Francisco April 24 Tempo Temporary ary v structures have been erected In Golden Gate park for the housing of ot forty orty f thousand people This work waS sva completed c this morning by the shelter committee ommittee c and the homeless who have been sleeping for nearly a a week were moved Into comfortable quarters About the same time a sup supply supply ply of blankets and bedding was re received received received and these have been taken to the park At present there Is little sufferIng and before a week it is ex cx expected expected that the refugees here will be comfortable These temporary structures structures I tures have been built to accommodate forty people but the work of Improving improvIng ing irig them will be vigorously attended to At the same time the committee is 19 E sending as many of the refugees as possible to interior points where work and succor have hav been promised The railroads furnish transportation gratis to all aU who come with recommendation from the committee Vacant Houses Seized The seizure begun yesterday of all aU I vacant houses In the unburned district Is still under way Many vacant flats have been taken where the homeless are housed and the sick are found L good accommodations A committee of architects has hilS been sent out to ex examine e amine churches and other buildings including school houses with a view of turning them into living HYing places for fos forthe forthe the homeless W J T Bartnett chairman of the S shelter committee e says the situation is is well in hand He does not believe that thai there will be much hardship Supplies I of food are coming in rapidly from I outside points and are being central centralized centralized centralized in the freight sheds and ware warehouses warehouses warehouses houses still sun standing A corps of ship shipping shipping shipping ping clerks has been placed in charge S of these depots and every ounce of o food is checked as it comes and goes 3 out With the assistance of Michael Michae 1 Casey president of the Teamsters I union the food committee has suc sue succeeded succeeded in systematizing the distributing distributing ting They have taken possession of o r rall all the large trucks and teams which I Iare I Iare are now utilized in hauling supplies to tc the forty odd throughout t the city This places the transportation I tion facilities In excellent e shape and anc I makes it possible to deliver I supplies as a S quickly as they come I Food Supply Regulated I IThe The city has his been laid off in dis districts districts I covering areas of four blocks 1 The subcommittees in these districts district S regulate the supply sUJ ply of food furnished I Ito to the families living within their thel r boundaries The object of Oscar D II I ICooper Cooper chairman of the committee In Informing Informing ii forming these committees is to prevent J the waste of supplies He is deter determined determined I mined there shall shan be no destruction r rand and that every particle of food sent sen t there here shall shan be properly used Moreover he is anxious to reestablish the retail retal 1 I business among the grocers With Wit ii that end in view he has recommended I all the small dealers having stores In Inthe inthe ii a athe the unburned district shall at once one e throw open their doors and as an in incentive incentive incentive I he has promised them full ful LI I protection Some Able to Pay From Prom our Investigation said Mr Mi we know that there are thou thousands thousands thousands sands of j people eople le in this city who are ar e able and willing to pay for their sup supplies supplies supplies plies If the dealers in butter eggs 3 flour and other staples should resume e business it would do much to reestablish reestablish lish Ush confidence and put the city on its it s former business basis We want them ther n nto to start out with deliveries going from fret n house to house with supplies just as a 5 they have been in the habit of ot doing When this is begun people will soon soo n return to their homes and the unrest t tand and uncertainty will soon vanish We have succeeded In placing the th 0 milk supply of the wholesale milk deal dealers dealers I ers The bread supply Is in charge of c Sf the wholesale bakers and we are ar now no 5 trying to get possession of the equip I ment of the wholesale butchers in order orde r that we may supply meats throughout it tt the city Some beef Is being killed in I n Butchertown but the greater supply is coming from outside sources I can cansay cansay ca fl say that the situation is In excellent exceller it shape and that by the end of ot a week wee Ic all aU the th confusion will have disappeared disa peered |