| Show american relief for cuba dashington jan 31 president mckinley lias has decided to send to havana a special emissary whose duty will be the distribution of the supplies sent there by the central cuban relief committee of this city the committee has appointed subcommittees committees sub all over the east and south and contributions in the way of clothing and provisions furniture and cook cooling ing utensils have been so great that when they were shipped to havana general fitzhugh lee to whom they were consigned found himself liim self entirely unable toli to handle andle them with his limited supply of help besides distributing the supplies it will be the duty of the agent to inform the revenue inspectors of havana about the goods sent by the relief belil f committee and to distinguish them from dutiable shipments stephen E barton the local chairman of the committee in an interview said that the responsible people of the united states to requests for aid for the impoverished residents of cuba had always been prompt and that at times the supplies were so great that they could scarcely be handled |
