| Show N V IT la I 1 ka I 1 II 11 bt SI n US rig I 1 k T I 1 was subscribed for mont pelee belee suf sufferers ft N new ew york may 14 mayor M 11 a yo ay lan ian after looking up th the elaw law says that it will require a I 1 constitutional amendment to permit the city to spend the money raised to aid the sufferers in the mont pele celce e disa sr about 1 I 1 was sent in and names of tile tho subscribers are lost adall aej all tho the people near mont were aled killed and nd there was no need for the money it was not sent forward money in tho the custody of the city to be spent for p t specific purpose cannot be spent for anything else tho the money was raised about four years year ago when mayor low was at af the city hall haft and some one lost the names of the g givers i vers the money has nen been on deposit for the last four years aill aid Js s drawing interest at the rate of 2 per pei cent ent 1 I am informed by beope in the finance department said tile the mayor yesterday e st erday that bearc we arc likely to have the martinique fund with us its ly I 1 also am informed that cran at 2 pr per cent the fund will double lt ltaif 0 every v cry forty four years and that in ii one thousand years this modest fund it if left undisturbed will amount to tg the tidy sum of twelve billion dollars 1 it has been suggested that there may mav be 1 a I possible claimant for the fund in the person of the negro convict confined in the jail at a martinique at the time of tile the disaster so far as known this man ars was tho the only human survivor of the he elaste r ile he joined a 11 circus a a freak the year mar after the disaster |
