10,000
H. M. Bowers, Boston 10,000
Robert Schandy, France 10,000

Among the corporations and organizations which lost no time in going
to the rescue of the afflicted and helpless were the following:

Bank of Commerce, Toronto $ 25,000
Columbus Board of Trade 20,000
National Carpenters' union 10,000
United States Steel Corporation 100,000
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York 25,000
United Mineworkers of America 1,000
Standard Oil Company 100,000
North German Lloyd Steamship Company 25,000
Wisconsin Masons 5,000
Carnegie Hero Fund 25,000
Heidelback-Ickleheimer, New York 10,000
National Park bank, New York 5,000
New York Stock Exchange 250,000
Citizens' Relief Association, Philadelphia 100,000
Detroit Board of Commerce 10,000
N. K. Fairbank Co. 1,000
National Biscuit Co. 5,000
Hamburg-American Steamship Line 25,000
Canadian Parliament 100,000

CHAPTER XI.

ALL CO-OPERATE IN RELIEF WORK.

=Citizens' Committee Takes Charge of the Distribution
of Supplies, Aided by the Red Cross Society and the
Army--Nearly Three-Fourths of the Entire Population
Fed and Sheltered in Refuge Camps.=

President Roosevelt inaugurated the organized and systematic relief
work through the National Red Cross Society. Before the embers of the
conflagration had cooled he issued the following statement:

Washington, D. C., April 22.--The following statement was issued from
the White House this afternoon:

"To the public: After full consultation with Secretary Taft, the
president of the American National Red Cross Association, who also as
secretary of war is controlling the army work and the expenditure of
the money, probably two millions and a half, appropriated and to be
appropriated by congress for the relief of San Francisco, I wish to
make the following suggestion:

"Contributions both in money and in kind are being given most
generously for the relief of those who have suffered through this
appalling calamity. Unless there is a proper organization