ies. Every grade of society, every branch of
trade and commerce seemed inspired by a spirit of emulation in giving.

The United States Government at once voted a contribution of $1,000,000,
and government supplies were rushed from every post in the West.

The $1,000,000 government gift, which formed the nucleus of the relief
fund, was doubled on Saturday by a resolution appropriating another, and
a vote was taken on Monday to increase this sum to $1,500,000, making a
total government contribution of $2,500,000. This was largely expended
in supplies of absolute necessaries, furnished from the stores of the
War Department, and those first sent being five carloads of army medical
supplies from St. Louis. A cargo of evaporated cream was also sent to
use in the care of little children, while the Red Cross Society shipped
a carload of eggs from Chicago. Dr. Edward Devine, special Red Cross
agent in San Francisco, was appointed to distribute these supplies.

CARGOES OF SUPPLIES.

Trainloads of other supplies were dispatched in all haste from various
points in the West and East, carrying provisions of all kinds, tents,
cots, clothing, bedding and a great variety of other articles. A special
train of twenty-six cars was dispatched from Portland, Oregon, on
Thursday night, conveying ten doctors, twenty trained nurses and 800,000
pounds of provisions. Chicago sent meat. Minneapolis sent flour, and,
in fact, every part of the country moved in the greatest haste for the
relief of the stricken city.

There was urgent need of haste. On Friday, while the flames were still
making their way onward, General Funston telegraphed: "Famine seems
inevitable." The people of the country took a more hopeful view of it,
and by Saturday night the spectre of famine was definitely driven from
the field and food for all the fugitives was within reach.

THE SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE AWAKES.

On all sides the people were awake and doing. In all the great
cities agencies to receive contributions were opened, and many of the
newspapers undertook the task of collecting and forwarding supplies. The
smaller towns were equally alert in furnishing their quota to the good
work, and from countryside and village contributions were forwarded
until the fund accumulated to an unprecedented amount. Collections were
made in factories, in stores, in offices, in the public schools; cash
boxes or globes stood in all frequented places and were rapidly filled
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