| Show JI XIA L GALVESTON SIX w WEEKS OO l lAFTER AFTER TIlE THE STORM It I Is to bo b Work In Various Rod Rd C CrO ol of th ho Robes In 1011 Good P People ople nd O the tiel True Tales Tilles of 01 I Told u n 1 Oct IaAn er r seems Item to be b that north I th tb anit thu her wanta ha have d Is II tully fully Durin the lat bHO man malI donation have conuto Hed Hd I ro accompanied d by to ID the Itle from the donors donor for or the tat of th Ih It ard lId a hope II for It II Ule UC hat has not on en that t by The truth I las that con e were never 10 O urgently need when the 4 Ii JW b to their lou lOti louS art a o of USe lid nd 10 t take up t the hI S 80 far tir have havo been In old d dothel and It t Is high dee th a hAlt was a lall d In that ken form of charity From rom very and hamlet tn lon eitl tO doH clotha have tn tilt th by and train n u lit ID u their of theo the garment mn lire re belt I Ill days long toM ao ago outWorn and come lome areo are so dirty that the ire arl fain In to them with at inns ann annII II even Ih these produce e In Int If th tho that comfort comfortable t able Ible t of haing lent to the the th but n sod lad f fr Jr whom they arp an de lately hi and belongings iced 1004 a U th proffer In u their t cloth clothes which a hack door tramp would disclaim I is to iy tile the least A fw Ow merchant have bale new moUy shop ioui dout o n but still lUll II us and Ind may h heaven aen blees them every on oce for the worthy rth charity even he who nt S a hIt bes of ne w bOH LU an for the left toot foot probably drummers as thre realty re rea I a fps folk In Galveston rue wont box I hAve It seen een opened time came from New would be to tIll tell you ou th the town Fortunate Iy I It was not very large containing a dOleD or en of trou sets Ifft wIth mud and pease and flannel hini end 1114 and woolen dresses fairly I DROPPING O TO from the ravages of mothe Of course I It would never neler do to otter offer thee to 10 any anybody body nor even fIen to contamInate better heUer I b by putting them In Juxta What we do with such suh ule ue I ten ankles arUle I Ic a It secret ret but at t thie late hour r may per It tn In your Nil u The natural Impulse I 5 TO 0 Ditch uh euch out of the tho rear and to make a bun bon Sr r of If tile the hole hule But that lit be Iad policy all ac false aile lie be to abroad concern contern III It our wicked waste of rood good mater ta i to So w the same Ime plan which WR Miss Barton origin year ago alO a n 1 has hll PractIced sue p fully nn I a fields viz Iz all ore carefully put Into I res p barrt I 1 hilt are outsIde tearl apparently forgot forgotten tn ten And el every r burning the barrels are fount very last lut dirty rag th II POOrest ore t plantation no ne neI I gm T 1 to tn IUt an a gift The Tb office whIch 1 facetiously Icet term of f the II chief of ef the th clothe department ii I 1 rJ Yf Fir it II time It devolved U upon On until too much Seat th un an 1 tI bl t nl no longer endure th Ih F In ant a collapse reo re II lev I her Its duties Dur Irr t thaI hat firt fortnight In Gal Oal the that I gaIned r f human nature tI noble We and irtle II nil fill volumes From early tIl darkness ren rendered the these e t streets well nigh im pa able a rol of poor humanity the warehouse doors door doorn n II a the It if not the thO bait pushed and elbowed their a av t I the To have given fr free have hac meant chaos and 11 1 n ln 0 Of business so wlM nI were barred and 11 on were I to nimit only a given num her ller at time Ir m Q a convenient loop I Hu u hole hol of the crowd wu was tre fre frequently made and as far as possible the MD AD I and mother WIth young children were admitted that liMIt Each member of th the committee took PeoPle In charge charre and an fitted them out from top to toe beginning with hose bOil enl end ending wIth list hat and al a nearly nearl very every one tt r the four a family ot of from froni three to a dOleD dosen each tach also alpo to be out the one round th of at least twenty fur four Then these with their bundle big anti little Were hustled out 0 of the tbt buk door and a fresh relay let It In at th and the weary eal round agnin begun Thus Thul In III Ina a fia days time the workers orken In thIs strange department tore were RbI able to HI welt walt on hund hundred nonpaying the absentees lIy by their relatives There Thre are n lit t ot of ofus us UI and theo the mn men of the party 1 e kot 11 busy as af bees bce 01 open 11 b tp s pIling th the contents In their r p II places shoes In one room In another h het fl n clothes there ladies dresses In n nt Ii h hornEr corner ornEr end so on nn through tl t I r tot III r I commodities t I ni 0 3 1 silo 10 a change was Willi made w hn I o tai I ti various hold r t f I n rk rh nw the bl big RId t It like a wholesale emporIum hox tox es el are sent lent out to t the hI wards In en each h 0 of which is III n IMitation In charge of the ladies afore aCore said laid From every one ot of these the comet comes the sent lame there Is III Imperative rail all for warm gar garments ments ment Woolen underwear m liS bed hed and othet lIf for the wInter Inter now on only I fa a few el weeks away There Thre I Is no mean of It satisfying the demand for the genii of r the North seem to be laboring ulI under Ier the Iden that this I ii a climate attil nil 11 th the clothes they lInd nd are alf thin and The heo truth I hi that this little 1 Island of the Gulf dose have some severe winter weather by Ice and snow while northera that chill the very ery marrow marro In ones bones al are of frequent occurrence In lieu ot of the million muslin mUllin we have received and the number of tent scant calico wrappers with hems hemil at bottom It would be much wiser to send ad other material suIt suIted lII ed to th the season son and infinitely Infinite wiser Iter yet to sent elUl money allo alio Use the Oal lal to buy garments to stilt themselves of the local merchant The latter hive have enough heaven knows from rom the storm bIng utterly ruined afterwards through ml mis misguided guided charIty They fhe Ita have dried their drenched and deluged lIl goods out the mutt mUll antI and salt left b by the sea ea from rom their of busIness and are HEROIC O to avert utter The insurance companIes are making makIn good no storm torm lonel hosse and the merchants hAvIng ie thousands of dollars of ruined goods are offering those slightly damaged but still usable at greatly to Ie lUred prices But naturally nobody will lIu buy at Rn any price so 10 long RI as train trainloads trainloads loads anti and shiploads o of goods continue to arrive for fr free distribution and mer cantlie failures art are the order oriter of the hour In Galveston It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the that money Is the one thing most tm ra needed for tor Texa h by the millions ot of dollars for clearing up the mountains of debris rebuilding the houses hoult furnish lug Ing them when built and purchasing tools sewIng machine etc for those thOle who have lot lost everything but could earn their own oln support It If Provided with the Implements of their trade Some 0 of our experiences In the Ra Fair or of the department hare hae been odd indeed In many pack pRk packages ages w we find epic tIes tie from presumably young hidden In the ot of coats find and trou sore flers inviting oo with the recipients and otters of matrimony NN Planed to the female garments Love letters are found stuffed Into the toes toe of shoes 1100 tend And the most mOlt earnest of sit All came Caine to light In a box of and comb The last I is too bar to b be deprived tf ity The writer a describes himself a as a man ot of thirty years eara of unexceptional habits and nd gen en emIly but bUl to tile the dla death tit of his wife a year SIN and a Ion long run Qt sots ore eyes eye nu now temporarily down on hll hi luck How flow However ever he II the proud owner ot of a 11 home furnishings cost COlt exactly two to thousand dollars dollar anti and he wants some young oun woman ho hu has lost hr her parents parentI In the flood to come on and take poise lion don 0 of the th same as al Ife number two Owing Ong to 10 the sore eyes etc he be cannot afford to pa her from Galveston to the 1118 e I but It if the fled 1 rose 1 Im kindly select the young woman and purchase her ticket the reSt will 11 be smooth sailing lie Ht maker make a special point of some someo oung woman who hat ha lost her parents none other need apply Reference and with Ith the tbt evident con on that would be numer numerous ous OUI the upon th the nd Cro Cross In making the holt choice holtA A Vermont widow writes In the hI came vein and puts hr hir leap year proposition Into a box of She says a ashe she h has 1 a good farm arm hIlt but is II tired of the cold northern winters winter and wilt will sell out and tom come south with her money to marry some ome whose wIle wife was drowned Occasionally Ye strike SO SOMEThING PATHETIC such euch tin till a bundle of bab clothing so ac companied II by A note saying that the theMar Mar little soul for tor whom they were In Intended Intended tended was called up higher when only R a few I lava clAVI old oid and It its mother d thAt some Olne happier moth mother pr er might tint use for the which t love loe had provided o Th The inmates of the Dunning poor poorhouse house houI and raised dollari among them themselves selves toward Galveston Thir Thirty ty of the poor Ioor old alms hou formed Ii a relict society and gave flave up their only luxuries tea and tobacco o to swell the fund Trul Truly In reckoning these of 01 on Ol the part 0 of the lowly sad aDd a count for tor aa much ii AI tb the S raIsed b by the great rich city of Even the poor our forgotten negroes ot of the Carolina M ea a islands to whose u as th the fled Cro Croci went after their great creat flood few years lara ao ago ha have It raised among themselves 1118 an astonishing amount considering their abject pus ert erty Mild II Harton considers that It would be the proper and thing to turn money over to a 8 reliable commIttee of Tu Texas colored people to tobe tobe be used for the benefit ot of flood of that race alone Some of the mot most extensive of food money and clothing hove have come from Johnstown PIt Pa Immediately following the first t tI appeal 1 PEal for hI hip began bean ship shipping I ping thIn things In III surprising quantities to Galveston aid A sense ene ot of gratitude for lor help rendered to 10 them In similar but smaller disaster has no doubt prompted the noble liberality of It iti I clUe The havoc buo wrought by the storm torm In Gal Oal Galveston veston Velton was U much larger larr In lOll lois of life and property than Ihan at Johnstown but the donations donation In money thus thu far have less lei for tor both the city and the mainland Ulan tItan was wal liven given at Johnstown An old lad living at In the State 0 of to Buton that she he I Ii 62 12 years yean 0 of are ale has raised eight children or of her Own and anden tin en child hll 1 These are all mar rl ned and doing well Ill and no now she wants to 10 adopt or children from the tin district a s she he has hOIl hOIla hasa a rood good form farm if f 1 O acres with plenty to tn set Nl and in clothing offers to tn give idYl ant oil ull that ort lort lit f thing and as R a guarantee of rood good faith sto 90 to th the nd fled he wants anti two lay bYI und anti two to girls latter between two nn and 1 si 11 yeN years r f fage age Ute lie former older 1 a 1110 note in n a child Was foun In a we well kent hook bolt of fairytales e n In a box of children childrens clothing It said aid N Y V nar Red lied Cross children I will send lIend y yone 1 one of my books book ant we 0 are so 10 sorT for you YIU Mamma hll told us 1111 All about th flood and nd how man many ot of the poor I t pl were Whoever gets thi honk tonk may ma Write a 0 letter to 10 Robert Many pathetic things In th Silt 1111 department of the Red ross house The other ether lay IRV II a big bh middle aged tame came to ret get A paIr of nf No ti II In fter r hp he ha hat been fitted hy by the In bl I Was wall If ho hI want sini for his hili family Dead fr fra a 11 thon II a flOOd of tear and sob that hk the man mens frame was all the only answer anwer nr gone ane all 1111 gone hI he finally abl anti tho th rt n nII it II caine nut hat ii h Vii AI one oae of at th three whose tolle satire famili WERF AVAT in the night t of th Ih storm while they I nero I pre to duty helping to sat tal I other ther families This nan IlIIn hu hua hat hata a wire wife tour four and It a happy home and not tl a trace of any WI of f them h ha loon What is III titer theft HI ai Jt a Pair Ir I bi t bul baby hOM that tJ to III th the heart t f I a aurent more than un an other othal If f Man a mother kv kt I s imong her choIt a pair t f tiny shoes ov I sh sheds heel tears of at sorrow for tor th the little feet fes that ont pressed them theft he dose dOlI not oo weep over the CAP or dress but tile the shoes boea more than anything else bring to mind the thep PI p bit ot of humanity thAt for a little time limp toddled the house boult I lt stairs and down out doors oora end and In MAlI r a mother II abuse hOfle 11 WI was torn t float her arms on that cruel crull night ot of has haa given w to her ber grief let at ot of the la In the nd lied warehouse our have lIln with Ith here Among the contribution that tbt are constantlY arriving dim came yester yesterdaY dv daY a large larr consignment of mens hats haU from tilt the Hatters HaUers Union 10 a quantity of and ml or fh from a X New Ill Jersey r The caine day We t re 11 calved two carload of tant 17 7 barn barrels 11 of acl acid 7 barrels barn I of ef copperas anti and IO pounds of ef other ot of which WI we turned over to mayor mor with without without out loss of time It If ever Were needed it I is right tiow when hundreds of putrefying corp corpses l are poisoning the aIr Though two Iwo thou antI men BieR are ln constantly at work aided by bv two hundred team the heaps of at wreckage seem eln to be u high as ever evel everand and nd it t tl is that wider It are at a thoUsand rotting human bodies I to say y nothing ot of the carcasses 0 of dogs dOli dOlit t i vt hUrl and other lither domestic ant mal Last seeks record of bodies fund and cremated was al Sn oil Friday All ar are burned to ashes on the nearest pIle lle which II kept hiss blu bluIn hissing In ing night and dB day wIth what whatever tr corn com material Is II lit at hand At first the workmen carried the corp corpses on stretchers then In arks barn Then nl as legs lel an arms arm armand and heads hedl dropped If ft they shovels for the ghastly work and now the they are using AU Although ever elef physician In Galveston I is ehe menU denying t there l is any ny danger danEr of In the tainted all air they art ale holding meetings to discuss what is III beet to bl be done In all recognise ai a very ry grave situation D 13 WARD I t t o c |
