UNSPENT EARTHQUAKE FUND.

Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 9

UNSPENT EARTHQUAKE FUND.

Three years ago the cities of the United states sent money and stores to San Francisco for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. Much was bestowed where it was due but a sura of £60,000 remained, and reradns unspent in the hands of the Committee. The San Francisco * Argonaut 1 demands some account o the fate of what it calls “a riLralul surplus. It is too late to ask why the shaken-out and bumi-out poor of San Francisco did not get their own, but it is not too late to ask why the money should not be sent to Messina. Silence has met all queries and the Argonaut’ “will see to it that pubhc opinion is reminded of the facts at suitably short intervals.” Meanwhile the contnbating cities are beginning to join their query to the local one, and that is unpleasant for all. In self-reproach there is a certain grace; but to be asked by Minneapolis what is becoming at San Francisco of Minneapolitan money ig bitter. It is certain, at any rate, that those who gave in vain to earthquake refugees three years ago would be best consoled by seeing their gifts bestowed upon other earthquake refugees to-day.