History of the Johnstown Flood Part 14

_Boston, June 5._--The total of the subscriptions received through Kidder, Peabody & Co. to-day amounted to $35,400. The Fall River Line will forward supplies free of charge.

_Providence, June 5._--The subscriptions here now exceed $11,000.

_Minneapolis, June 5._--The Citizens' Committee to-day voted to send 2000 barrels of flour to the sufferers.

_Chicago, June 5_.--It is estimated that Chicago's cash contributions to date aggregate about $90,000.

_St. Louis, June 5._--The town of Desoto in this State has contributed $200. Litchfield, Ill., has also raised $200.

_Los Angeles, Cal., June 5._--This city has forwarded $2000 to Governor Beaver.

_Macon, June 5._--The City Council last night appropriated $200 for the sufferers.

_Chattanooga, Tenn., June 5._--A. B. Forrest Camp, No. 3, Confederate Veterans of Chattanooga, have contributed $100 to the relief fund. J. M.

Duncan, general manager of the South Tredegar Iron Company, of this city, who a few years ago left Johnstown for Chattanooga as a young mechanic, sent $1000 to-day to the relief fund. Another $1000 will be sent from the proceeds of a popular subscription.

_Savannah, June 5._--The Savannah Benevolent a.s.sociation subscribed $1000 for the sufferers.

_Binghamton, June 5._--More than $2600 will be sent to Johnstown from this city. Lieutenant-Governor Jones telegraphed that he would subscribe $100.

_Albany, June 5._--Mayor Maher has telegraphed the Mayor of Pittsburg to draw on him for $3000. The fund being raised by _The Morning Express_ amounts to over $1141.

_Lebanon, Penn., June 5._--This city will raise $5000 for the sufferers.

_Rochester, June 5._--Over $400 was subscribed to the Red Cross relief fund to-day and $119 to a newspaper fund besides.

_Cleveland, June 5._--The cash collected in this city up to this evening is $38,000. Ten car-loads of merchandise were s.h.i.+pped to Johnstown to-day, and a special train of twenty-eight car-loads of lumber, from Cleveland dealers, left here to-night.

_Fonda, N. Y., June 5._--The people of Johnstown, N. Y., instead of making an appropriation with which to celebrate the Fourth of July, will send $1000 to the sufferers at Johnstown, Pa.

_New Haven, June 5._--Over $2000 has been collected here.

_Wilmington, Del., June 5._--This city's fund has reached $470. The second car-load of supplies will be s.h.i.+pped to-morrow.

_Glens Falls, N. Y., June 5._--Subscriptions here to-day amounted to $622.

_Poughkeepsie, June 5._--Up to this evening $2736 have been raised in this city for Johnstown.

_Was.h.i.+ngton, June 7._--The total cash contributions of the employees of the Treasury Department to date, amounting to $2070, were to-day handed to the treasurer of the Relief Fund of Was.h.i.+ngton. The officers and clerks of the several bureaus of the Interior Department have subscribed $2280. The contributions in the Government Printing Office aggregate $1275. Chief Clerk Cooley to-day transmitted to the chairman of the local committee $600 collected in the Post-office Department.

_Syracuse, N. Y., June 7._--Mayor Kirk to-day sent to Governor Beaver a draft for $3000.

_Utica, N. Y., June 7._--Ilion has raised $1100, and has sent six cases of clothing to Johnstown.

The Little Falls subscription is $700 thus far.

The Utica subscription is now nearly $6000.

Thus the gifts of the people flowed in, day by day, from near and from far, from rich and from poor, to make less dark the awful desolation that had set up its fearful reign in the Valley of the Conemaugh.

CHAPTER XXIV.

The city of Philadelphia with characteristic generosity began the work of raising a relief fund on the day following the disaster, the Mayor's office and Drexel's banking house being the chief centres of receipt.

Within four days six hundred thousand dollars was in hand. A most thorough organization and canva.s.s of all trades and branches of business was made under the following committees:

Machinery and Iron--George Burnham, Daniel A. Waters, William Sellers, W. B. Bement, Hamilton Disston, Walter Wood, J. Lowber Welsh, W. C. Allison, Charles Gilpin, Jr., E. Y. Townsend, Dawson Hoopes, Alvin S. Patterson, Charles H. Cramp, and John H.

Brill.

Attorneys--Mayer Sulzberger, George S. Graham, George W.

Biddle, Lewis C. Ca.s.sidy, William F. Johnson, Joseph Parrish, Hampton L. Carson, John C. Bullitt, John R. Read, and Samuel B.

Huey.

Physicians--William Pepper, Horatio C. Wood, Thomas G. Morton, W. H. Pancoast, D. Hayes Agnew, and William W. Keen.

Insurance--R. Dale Benson, C. J. Madeira, E. J. Durban, and John Taylor. Chemicals--William Weightman, H. B. Rosengarten, and John Wyeth.

City Officers--John Bardsley, Henry Clay, Robert P. Dechert, S. Davis Page, and Judge R. N. Willson.

Paper--A. G. Elliott, Whitney Paper Company, W. E. & E. D.

Lockwood, Alexander Balfour, and the Nescochague Paper Manufacturing Company.

Coal--Charles F. Berwind, Austin Corbin, Charles E.

Barrington, and George B. Newton.

Wool Dealers--W. W. Justice, David Scull, Coates Brothers, Lewis S. Fish & Co., and Theodore C. Search.

Commercial Exchange--Walter F. Hagar and William Brice.

Board of Trade--Frederick Fraley, T. Morris Perot, John H.

Michener, and Joel Cook.

Book Trade, Printing, and Newspapers--Charles Emory Smith, Walter Lippincott, A. K. McClure, Charles E. Warburton, Thomas MacKellar, William M. Singerly, Charles Heber Clark, and William V. McKean.

Furniture--Charles B. Adamson, Hale, Kilburn & Co., John H.

Sanderson, and Amos Hillborn & Co.

Bakers and Confectioners--G.o.dfrey Keebler, Carl Edelheim, Croft & Allen, and H. O. Wilbur & Sons.

China, etc.--R. J. Allen, and Tyndale, Mitch.e.l.l & Co.

Lumber--Thomas P. C. Stokes, William M. Lloyd Company, Henry Bayard & Co., Geissel & Richardson, and D. A. Woelpper.

Cloth and Tailors' Tr.i.m.m.i.n.gs--Edmund Lewis, Henry N. Steel, Joseph R. Keim, John Alburger, and Samuel Goodman.

Notions, etc.--Joel J. Baily, John Field, Samuel Clarkson, John C. Sullivan, William Super, John C. File, and W. B.