The Evening World

GOTHAM’S UNSTINTED AID.

Another Inpouring of Bills and Checks at the Mayor’s Office.

Yesterday’s Relief Fund Donations Bid Fair to Be Doubled in Amount To-Day—Societies and Business Firms Lending Aid—England Stirred to Sympathy and a Good Subscription.

New York’s compassion for the great sufferers in the Conemaugh Valley continued to pour out in the form of money contributions this morning. The early receipts at the Mayor’s office indicated that the large amount raised yesterday would be more than doubled to-day. Private Secretary Crain was kept busy for two hours opening the morning mail and piling up the checks and bank notes which the letters contained.

Among to-day’s contributions was a check from Prince & Whitely, of 64 Broadway, for $5,000, the gift of the London Stock Exchange, directed by cable from England.

To facilitate the work of the Committee in hurriedly forwarding the money received, Cashier Buckhout, of the Fourth National Bank, established a sort of branch bank in the Mayor’s office, with Secretaries Speer, Winslow and Scott, of the Relief Committee, to assist him.

One of the touching incidents in connection with the collection of the contributions at the Mayor’s office was the appearance of a poorly clad laboring man with his mite. It was a $2 bill which had been given him out of charity last evening, and he said he couldn’t bring himself to using it for his own wants, which are many and pressing, but felt impelled to give it to the poor sufferers at Johnstown.

Archbishop Corrigan, who could not attend the meeting yesterday because of his absence from the city, sent a note of regret to Mayor Grant and enclosed his check for $250.

Mayor Grant’s telegram to the Relief Committee at Pittsburg authorizing a draft on him for $50,000 was productive of the following despatch of acknowledgment:

Pittsburg, June 3.—Your despatch received. We are overwhelmed with your magnificent donation. It is worthy of the magnificent city over which you preside.

WM. McCREERY, Chairman.

Sergt. Bird, of Police Headquarters, brought to the Mayor’s office $175 which was collected this morning from the detectives of the Bureau.

That the reports of suffering in the stricken valley are not overdrawn, and that all contributions are needed and will be properly applied by an honest local committee, is shown by the following telegraphed communication received by the Mayor this morning:

Johnstown, June 3.—We arrived here on special train a short time ago, and from a survey of the place are satisfied that the extent of the disaster has not been exaggerated and cannot be. Thousands of living are pressed for food and clothing, while the dead are still unburied and lying beneath the ruins. Food and clothing is pouring in from near-by places. What is wanted most from New York and distant places is money, which is to be expended in paying the living for clearing up the debris and caring for the dead. The committee in charge is capable and careful, and there is no danger that money will be wasted.

ERNEST O. CHAMBERLIN.

DANIEL F. KELLOGG.

The total amount of cash donations received by the Mayor yesterday was $21,600.05. The total contributed, including this sum, was $75,000.

Stransky & Co., dry-goods merchants, of East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, have decided to set aside the profits of to-morrow’s business at their store for the benefit of the Johnstown sufferers, and promise to send the amount realized to Mayor Grant to swell the New York relief fund.

The fund in the hands of George V. Smith of the Cambria Iron Company’s New York office, for the relief of the flood victims has reached an aggregate of $1,200.

Palestine Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar, of New York City, made an appropriation at its conclave last evening of $250 for the Pennsylvania flood sufferers. The amount was sent through the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania for general distribution.

Prompt in Action but No Burning from Red Pepper. Carter’s S. W. & B. Backache Plasters.