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Show ITALY APPRECIATES WORK OF AMERICA - r Feeling of Gratefulness Extends From the King Down to the Most Lowly Subject. American Ship, Loaded With Provls- .Anions, .An-ions, Medicine and Clothing, DIs- VT patched for Scene of Terrible Destruction by Earthquake, Fire and Flood. Home. Ambassador Grlscom left hero Thursday for Messina to meet tho Amerlcnn squmlron, which It Is expected will nrrlvo thero on Saturday Satur-day under Hear Admiral Sperny. Tho steamer Uayonc, tho American relict thlp flying tho Red Cross emblem, has soiled for Messina. This steamer with Its great cargo of supplies will to oblo to take coro of thousands ot sufferers. There nro three physicians on board and fifty nurses, of whom thrco ' nro Americans. Mnny thou-Lnuds thou-Lnuds of dollars has been spent for tho medical outfit, provisions and clothes. Tho enrgo Includes 1,4 B0 blankets, 4.3IJ0 suits or underclothes, 1,110 pairs or shoes, 1,100 hots, 000 heavy overcoats, over-coats, 1250 capes, 1,110 Bhawls, 700 suits or clothes, 300 extra trousers find n grent quantity of shirts, stockings stock-ings nnd handkerchiefs. A ton of candles and 13.000 boxes ot (V matches arc among tho supplies, to- -w", gcther with all kinds of Implements- for digging nnd repairing, lanterns,, sewlug cotton, scissors, nulls, hammers ham-mers and kitchen utensils. Thero nro also medical supplies sut-ficlent sut-ficlent for the establishment of threo complete camp hospitals. ' Tho generosity of tho American-reoplo American-reoplo in coming to tho aid of tho-earthquake tho-earthquake suffers Is tho predominating predominat-ing feature that is attracting attention atten-tion hero. The feeling of gratefulness-extends gratefulness-extends rrom tho king down to tho r:ost lowly subject. In accepting, In bchoir of tho Italian nation, tho ship v.hlch tho American people, through the Red Cross fund fitted up to mitigate miti-gate tho distress of the sufferers, tho king Bald to Ambassador Grlscom: "Our people will bo delighted to hoar of this mark ot international Im-manltnrlnnlsm Im-manltnrlnnlsm nnd will follow with -the keenest Interest the. work or "V-T mercy Hint will bo performed by tho I-:nyono." Tho king further Informed tho American ambassador that ho had just read with tho greatest appreciation apprecia-tion n telegram notifying the government govern-ment or tho appropriation of $800,000-in $800,000-in behalf of the victims. St |