Show RELIEF FUND FOR DRUMMERS Commercial Salesmen Start Subscriptions for Aid of Brothers In Frisco RETAIL CLERKS INCLUDED NEWSPAPERS AND HOTELS H TO RECEIVE MONEY Traveling salesmen who represented commercial com al hous houss in San Francisco before the earthquake ke and who now find themselves out of a job will not be allowed to suffer A subscription list was started In Salt Lake City last night at the Knutsford hotel by a co coterie coterie terie of traveling salesmen and it is expected the movement will spread all aU allover allover over the United States Leonard M Herman Charles N the writer w and James Tames F Pershing Fershing were standing in inthe Inthe inthe the office of the Knutsford yesterday evening when a fellow traveler whom they knew well walked in He was the representative of a San Francisco house and arrived In Salt Lake the day be before before before fore the earthquake and registered at atthe atthe t the Knutsford As S soon on as he realized the scope of the disaster he forwarded all of the money money he be had except 33 3 to his folks in San Francisco engaged a cheap room In this city and has since been waiting for developments How the Fund Started No sooner had this man told his story than the idea of raising a fund for the relief of such cases was conceived by bythe bythe the three men mentioned There were several other traveling mn inn in the hotel hot l land and in less than ten minutes had been raised among them to which amount Clerk Austin of the Knutsford added 10 on his personal account t Not only are the traveling salesmen to be cared for until they can secure other positions but every retail clerk clerkin in San Francisco both men and wo we women women men will be assisted if they are in need of help The San Francisco Francico Call has been des designated desIgnated desIgnated as the official depository In the ruined city and The Herald is request requested ed to take charge of the subscriptions n Salt Lake Every newspaper office in the United States is requested to re receive receive receive subscriptions for the cause and also every hotel The heading adopted for the subscription list last night fol follows follows follows lows Plea Pica for Aid We the undersigned sympathizing s with traveling r n of or Sanu Francisco who have hae lost tt U t r positions as a result of the recent earthquake and also with men and women retail clerks of that stricken city hereby subscribe the fol following following following lowing amounts for their relief The money shall go so exclusively to traveling salesmen and men and women retail r tail clerks of San Francisco who are in need The money shall be placed in the hands of the San Francisco Call Can to be turned over to the proper distributing commit committee tee Every E ery hotel In the United States Is re requested requested requested quested to receive recelo money from contrib contributors contributors contributors which shall be bo sent to newspapers In the nearest large city and by them forwarded to the Call CaU Every newspaper in the United States Is respectfully re requested requested requested quested to receive subscriptions for the above purpose The Tho list of subscriptions follows L M Herman Berman 50 00 James F Pershing 25 00 Charles N Crowdson Crewdson u 25 45 2500 00 Julius Frank h 2500 25 00 H II Herz 2500 25 00 R It w Foster 25 2 5 00 Wesley Austin clerk at Knutsford 10 1000 00 I Total 00 I |