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Chapter XLII: Appendix: II (2)

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BUSINESS OWNERSHIP: status regarding, in families aided under bonus
plan, 244

BUSINESS REHABILITATION: announcement concerning, in newspapers,
172-173; application forms for, 441-444; applications for, granted and
refused, 153, 154; applications for, passed on by sub-committees and
by members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; applications for, set
aside temporarily, 123; business status of applicants receiving aid
for, by occupations, 196-211; changes in composition of families
receiving aid for, 177; conjugal condition of family groups receiving
aid for, 175, 176; grants for, average amount of, 184; grants for, by
what bodies made, 174; grants for, confined chiefly to families
experienced in special lines, 184, 185; grants for, number and amounts
expended, 157, 158; grants for, size of, 165, 166; in different
periods, 171, 172; nationality of heads of families receiving aid for,
175, 176; need of supervision in, chief lesson of study, 371; number
of rooms in residences occupied by families receiving aid for, 180;
policy of, 171-173, 211; premises occupied and rentals paid by
families receiving aid for, 178; proposed occupations of applicants
receiving aid for, 184; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166;
reasons for success and failure of those receiving aid for, 187-195;
refusals to grant aid for, study of, 208-210; rentals paid by families
receiving aid for, 179, 181-183; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161; results of, 186-187, 210-211; resumed after
suspension, 128; self-supporting individuals in families receiving aid
for, 176; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying for,
344-346; status of applicants receiving, for trade, 207

BUSINESS REHABILITATION COMMITTEE (Sub-committee VI): applications to,
number and action on, 173, 174; appointment, activities and aims of,
172, 173; chairman of, 125; extreme caution displayed by, in granting
aid, 211; grants by, in cases investigated, 174

BUSINESS STATUS: of applicants receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 186, 187, 193

CALIFORNIA: length of residence in, of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 334;
persons sent from San Francisco to places in, 66, 67, 68; population
of, conjugal condition compared with that of Ingleside Camp inmates,
329. See _Governor of California_

CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT OF: headquarters at San Francisco, 7; rations
purchased by army from, 39

CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB: offer of race track stables for camp by, 322

CAMP COMMANDERS: and staff at headquarters, emergency cases always
handled rapidly by, 165; form of report by, 429

CAMP COTTAGES, 221-238; a necessity to meet needs of poorest class of
refugees, 237; and housing grants, 158; assignment of, to different
classes of population, 82, 83; construction of, under Corporation, 82;
cost of building, 87, 220, 221; cost of moving and of repairs and
improvements, 232; families occupying, on re-visit, 223; general
comments on, 278, 371; number and capacity of, 219, 220; number
assigned to Chinese, 95; other aid given by Rehabilitation Committee
to those receiving, 229; plan regarding lease of, 83; removal of, from
camps, 83, 83, 222; visits to, after removal, 222. See also _Cottage
Plan_

CAMP FOR CHINESE: location and population of, 95

CAMP IN SOUTH PARK: described, 84

CAMP LOBOS: closing of, 87. See also _Lobos Square_

CAMPS: clothing supplied to residents of, 57; congestion in, 230, 231;
cost of shelter given by, 86, 87; effort to concentrate refugees
needing continued help in, 44; ejectments from, 79, 80; increase in
population of, due to return of refugees, 77; in different civil
sections, 12; official and “permanent,” 78-84; official list of, 404;
of early barrack type, described, 70, 71; plans for, formulated by
committee on housing the homeless, 70; population of, by months and by
composition, 81; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 17; records
of distribution furnished by, 42; rehabilitation policy regarding
families in, 109, 110; removal from, 29, 85; three essentials for
tenants laid down by General Greely, 79; under army control, 78;
unofficial, 79; work of building cottages in, 221, 222; work of Bureau
of Special Relief for residents of, 149

CAMPS AND WAREHOUSES, DEPARTMENT OF: care of camps passed to, from
army, 82; chairman, duties of, 399; civil sections used by, 12;
clothing supplied to residents of camps by, 57; cost of maintenance of
camps by, 87; creation of, 26, 129; not responsible for typhoid fever,
91; Special Relief Bureau called on for aid by, 149; status of work
one year and two years after earthquake, 28, 29; work of, defined,
110; work of Executive Commission taken over by, 110

CANADA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
eastern, destinations in, included with “East,” 66; natives of, among
refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco, in 1900, 74

CAPE COLONY: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in,
by Americans, 34

CAPITAL: available for applicants receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 193-195; possessed by applicants receiving grants for
rehabilitation in personal and domestic service, 201-205; possessed by
applicants receiving grants for rehabilitation in trade, 207, 208;
relation to success in cases where manufacturing and mechanical lines
were undertaken with rehabilitation funds, 199; relation to success in
cases where professional work was taken up with rehabilitation funds,
198

CARDS: for use of applicants at food station, 37

CARDS, REGISTRATION. See _Registration Cards_

CARLOADS OF STORES: number delivered at San Francisco, 30

CASES: family, at Ingleside Camp, 337-343; of applicants to Associated
Charities, social character of, 286-294; rehabilitation, re-opening
of, 160-165

CASH: contributions received to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; possibility of
audit of all relief in, 369; received by American National Red Cross,
disposition of, 35

CENSUS, UNTIED STATES: figures on almshouse population of United
States cited, 333; population figures for San Francisco cited, 75. See
also _Almshouse, San Francisco_

CENTRALIZED SYSTEM of rehabilitation work, 124-133, 135, 370

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION: issued, 26

CEYLON: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AMERICAN, IN PARIS: cash contributions made by,
34

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK: authority of Finance Committee
recognized by, 10; business rehabilitation resumed after transfer of
funds by, 128; incorporation urged by, 25; restriction on funds
transferred to Corporation by, 100; use of funds for permanent relief
urged by, 15

CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: grants to, by denominations, and nature of
work, 405

CHARITIES. See _Associated Charities_

CHARITIES AND THE COMMONS: account of proposed building fund in, 216;
accounts of conditions in San Francisco, quoted from, 6, 77, 78

CHARITIES ENDORSEMENT COMMITTEE, 145 (table and note)

CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETIES: district expenditures under, 120;
provided trained workers, 14; transportation agreement, 65

CHICAGO COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION: represented by Ernest P. Bicknell, 101

CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSION: limitation of grants by, 109

CHICAGO MAYOR’S COMMITTEE: funds of, represented by Ernest P.
Bicknell, 101

CHICAGO SPECIAL RELIEF COMMITTEE: experience with certificates from
pastors and benevolent associations, 117, 137

CHILDREN: in families aided under the cottage plan, 224; in families
applying to Associated Charities before and after fire, 292; in
families of applicants for rehabilitation, 156, 157

CHILDREN’S AGENCY: work of, 317

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: use of, suggested by Miss Felton, 134

CHILDREN’S INSTITUTIONS: co-operation between, following fire, 317

CHINA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34, 95;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74. See also _Chinese_

CHINATOWN: burned out, 4

CHINESE: among refugees, 74-76; camp and cottages for, 95; deterred
from asking aid by feeling against them, 95; relief of, 94, 95

CIRCULAR: on requirements for satisfactory investigations for the
Rehabilitation Committee, 139, 140; stating change to purely relief
basis for applications, 130

CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE: and army, carried emergency work, 14; appointment
of, 8; barracks built and tents provided by sub-committee of, 69; cash
contributions received by, 34; dissolution of, 10; interesting items
in minutes of, 10; meeting places, 9; sub-committees, 9, 36;
transportation committee organized by railroads recognized as
authoritative by, 59; transportation sub-committee had little to do,
58

CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. See _San Francisco_

CIVIC RELIEF BUREAU: opened by Associated Charities after fire, 317

CIVIL CHAIRMEN OF SECTIONS: functions of, 42, 56

CIVIL SECTIONS: and military districts identical, 12, 40; camps in,
12; closure of, 124; committees, agents and workers in, 113; families
and individuals registered in, 45; housing of registered families in
different, 72, 73-75; nationality of heads of families of refugees in,
77; organizations using, 12; relief stations in, 41, 42

CLAIMS: character of, 96, 97; disposal of, 97; payments upon, 98

CLEARING HOUSE OF INFORMATION: needed, 92

CLERGY: stereotyped forms of recommendation used by some of, 115. See
also _Ministers_; _Pastors_

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS: of San Francisco favorable, 7

CLOTHING: and bedding, relief in, second in order of urgency, 12, 13;
and bedding, carloads of, received at San Francisco, 30; distribution
of, 55-58; donated, condition of, 55; recommendations of Dr. Devine
regarding, 17

CLUBS, IMPROVEMENT: in camps, 89

COLOMBIA, UNITED STATES OF: cash contributions for relief of San
Francisco made by Americans in, 34

COLORADO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

COLUMBIA, DEPARTMENT OF THE: rations purchased of army from, 39

COLUMBIA PARK BOYS’ CLUB: work of residents after destruction of, 88

COMPLAINTS: against hot meal kitchens, 52

CONFERENCE AT FORT MASON, April 24th, 11

CONGESTION: during camp life, 230, 231; on lots to which camp cottages
were removed, 233

CONGRESS, UNITED STATES: visited by San Francisco citizens with regard
to building fund, 216

CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION: amount and distribution of, 30, 34;
claims paid out of, 98; expenditure from, for housing, 220; supplied
funds for sanitary work, 90

CONJUGAL CONDITION: of families aided under bonus plan, 242; of
families aided under cottage plan, 224; of families aided under grant
and loan plan, 260; of family groups receiving business
rehabilitation, 175, 176; of Ingleside population, 328. See also
_Family types_

CONSTRUCTION, HOUSING: expense and difficulties of, 217

CONTRACT HOUSES: built under grant and loan plan, defects of, 268

CONTRACTORS: difficulty of securing reliable, 217; who built cottages,
arrangements with, 221, 222

CONTRACTS: grant and loan, regulations covering, 253, 254

CONTRIBUTIONS: by Japan and China, 94, 95; cash, received to June 1,
1909, 33, 34; desirability of sending, without restrictions, 369;
sources of, 30-35

“CONVALESCENTS” at Ingleside Camp, 365

COOKING: in streets, 40

CORPORATION: See _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a
Corporation_

CORPORATION AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS:
contributions to Associated Charities by, 283, 309. See also _San
Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a Corporation_; _Trustees of
Relief and Red Cross Funds, Board of_

COST: incurred by or in behalf of applicants for cottages occupied
under cottage plan, 232; of aid under grant and loan plan, 257-259; of
camp cottages and tenements, 87, 221; of houses built under bonus
plan, 248, 249; of houses erected by housing committee contractors
under grant and loan plan, 270; of Ingleside Camp, 327; of moving
cottages from camps, and of repairs and improvements, 232; of shelter
given by camps, 86, 87. See also _Expenditures_

COST OF LIVING: in San Francisco, investigation of, 316

COTTAGE PLAN: ages, sexes, health, and responsibilities of applicants
receiving aid under, 225; conjugal condition of and children in
families aided under, 224; costs incurred by or in behalf of
applicants for cottages under, 232; financial status of families aided
under, 229; housing before and after fire of families aided by,
229-234; incomes of families aided under, 228; nationality of
applicants receiving aid under, 223; occupations of men in families
aided under, 226; wages of men in families aided under, 227. See also
_Camp cottages_; _Cottage settlements_

COTTAGE SETTLEMENTS: conditions in two, described, 234-237

CRITICISMS: of work of Associated Charities commonly made, 311

CRITICS: on distribution of funds answered, 237

CROCKER SCHOOL: used as clothing warehouse, 56

CROWLEY, REV. D. O.: adviser to Industrial Bureau, 88; chairman of
Sub-committee V, 125; position of Archbishop Riordan on Rehabilitation
Committee delegated to, 21

CUBA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34

CUSHING, OSCAR K.: chairman of Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Committee, 14; chairman of Sub-committee I, 125; member
and treasurer of Rehabilitation Committee, 21; secretary of committee
on transportation and executive head of transportation work, 59

DAY NURSERIES: in camps, 89

DEATHS: as causes of disability among applicants to Associated
Charities, 293; at Ingleside Camp, 327; by violence, number of,
following disaster, 5; in families of applicants aided under bonus
plan, 242; in families of applicants aided under cottage plan, 225; in
families of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 260, 261

DELAYS: between applications and grants or loans for housing, 255. See
also _Time_

DENMARK: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74

DEPARTMENTS OF CALIFORNIA AND COLUMBIA. See _California_; _Columbia_

DEPARTMENTS OF CORPORATION: names, duties, and chairmen of, 399, 400.
See also names of departments

DEPENDENCY: applicants to Associated Charities grouped according to
causes of, 297; situation in San Francisco after fire, compared with
that before fire, 281-286, 315-318

DESMOND, MR.: sent by Los Angeles relief committee to establish hot
meal kitchens, 49

DESMOND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: hot meal kitchens run by, 50

DESTINATIONS: of free passengers carried by Southern Pacific Railroad
(first period), 58; of persons sent from San Francisco in second,
third, and fourth periods, 66, 67, 68

DESTITUTION: city canvassed for cases of, 40

DETURBEVILLE, MISS: use of home of, suggestion by Miss Felton, 134

DEVINE, EDWARD T.: chairman of Finance Committee’s Rehabilitation
Committee, 21; civil chairmen appointed by, 42; consultation with army
on clothing distribution, 56; drew on special fund for rehabilitation
expenditures till May 9, 14; General Greely’s agreement with, 18;
letter of June 4 to chairman of Finance Committee of Relief and Red
Cross Funds, 16, 17; Miss Higgins appointed secretary to, 14; plan
submitted by, as chairman of Executive Commission, 20; recommendations
made by, 15; rehabilitation of camp families considered at lunch given
by, 109; rehabilitation work continued in charge of, 20; report on
housing submitted by, as chairman, 22; representative of American
National Red Cross, 9, 11; succeeded as representative of Red Cross by
Ernest P. Bicknell, 27

DEVOL, BRIGADIER GENERAL C. A.: account by, of part played by army in
San Francisco disaster, 383-386; work in unloading and transporting
supplies, 30, 39

DE YOUNG, M. H.: at conference April 24, 11; chairman of Department of
Bills and Demands, 399; member of Executive Committee of Relief
Corporation, 26; suggestion on housing by, 22

DIET, SPECIAL: for special classes, 48, 49; issued by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38

DISABILITIES: among applicants to Associated Charities before and
after fire, 293; of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who
did not apply for rehabilitation, 352, 353

DISBURSEMENTS: of American National Red Cross, 35; of Associated
Charities, 419-422; of Rehabilitation Committee to August 18 and
September 20, 1906, 124

DISCIPLINE: of inmates at Ingleside Camp, 325, 326

DISPENSARIES, FREE: established by Finance Committee of Relief and Red
Cross Funds, 93; supplied with drugs, etc., by army, 93

DISTRICT SYSTEM: conclusions regarding, reached after Relief Survey,
370; methods of work under, 113-124; reasons for adopting and
abandoning, 126, 135

DOHRMANN, F. W.: chairman of Department of Relief and Rehabilitation,
400; chairman of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
need of reserve to establish camp families emphasized by, 110;
question of rehabilitation of institutions considered on request of,
141; recommendations in report of advisory committee to, 143, 144;
representative of American National Red Cross, 27; share of, in
forming Board of Trustees of Relief and Red Cross Funds, 29;
suggestions regarding rehabilitation of institutions offered by, 142;
vice-president of Relief Corporation, 62

DONATIONS: cash, to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; control of, 99-103; made
through American National Red Cross, disposition and balance, 35. See
also _Contributions_

DUPLICATION: of applications in auxiliary societies, 139; of inquiries
and grants, 116

DWELLINGS. See _Housing and Shelter_

EAGLES, LOCAL ORDER OF: relief station opened by, 41

EARNING POWER, ESTIMATED: of applicants to Associated Charities, 296

EARTHQUAKE: time, duration and effects of, 3

“EAST”: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66, 67, 68

EAVES, LUCILE: director of Industrial Bureau, 88; formerly head worker
of South Park Settlement, 88; sewing circle at Ingleside Camp
organized by, 326

EJECTMENTS FROM OFFICIAL CAMPS: by months, 80; reasons for, 79, 80

EMERGENCY: and temporary relief, number and amount of grants for, 300;
cases, always handled with rapidity, 165; cases, notice to employes
regarding, 131; period, lessons learned from survey of, 369-370; work
carried by army and Citizens’ Committee, 14

EMERGENT RELIEF: investigation in cases of, 118

EMERY, ARCHDEACON J. A.: chairman of sub-committees III and IV, 125;
position of Bishop Nichols on Rehabilitation Committee delegated to,
21

EMPLOYMENT: given men out of work, 304, 305; of inmates at Ingleside
Camp, 326; recommendation regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16

EMPLOYMENT BUREAU: Associated Charities, 302, 303; under State Labor
Commissioner, 47

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: of grantees under business rehabilitation, 186

ENGLAND: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 43;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 75, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74

ENUMERATORS: inexperience of, 48. See also _Registration Bureau_

ESTIMATES: for relief and rehabilitation work, basis for, 122

EUROPEAN POINTS: included with “East” in tabulation of destinations,
66

EVERETT GRAMMAR SCHOOL: used as warehouse for second hand clothing, 56

EXECUTIVE COMMISSION: appointment of, 19; final act of, 24; health
corps appointed by, 90; housing recommendations of, 22, 24; membership
of, 19, 378; plan submitted by chairman and secretary of, 20; plans
of, July, 1906, 391-393; powers of, and relation to army, 21; rates of
payment to hospitals established by, 93; use of civil sections by, 12;
weakness of, 19, 20; work taken over by Department of Camps and
Warehouses, 110

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CORPORATION: bonus plan of, 239, 240; decision
as to grants to charitable organizations reached by, 132; estimates
for rehabilitation and relief presented by, 121; manager of Department
of Lands and Buildings made superintendent of Housing Committee at
request of, 256; request made to, by Housing Committee, regarding
Department of Lands and Buildings, 257

EXPENDITURES: for housing, 220; of San Francisco Relief and Red Cross
Funds for purchase and distribution of food, 53; under grant and loan
plan, 257, 258. See also _Cost_; _Disbursements_; _Restrictions_

FAIRMONT HOTEL: meeting place of mayor and Committee, 9

FAMILIES: and individuals given aid for business rehabilitation,
174-177; and individuals registered in civil sections in May, 45;
making use of grants and loans, 259-262; occupying camp cottages,
223-225; registered, housing of, in May, 72, 73. See also sub-topics
under _Bonus_; _Cottage plan_; _Grant and loan plan_

FAMILY CASES: at Ingleside Camp, 337-343

FAMILY COMPOSITION: changes in, among families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 177

FAMILY RELATIONS: of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 335. See also
_Conjugal condition_; _Social status_

FAMILY TYPES: among applicants for relief to Associated Charities
before and after fire, 288, 290. See also _Conjugal condition_

FEBIGER, COLONEL: report to War Department on conditions found on
taking charge of relief stations, 40; quoted on effect of hot food
camps, 50; quoted on rations and repeaters, 42, 43

FELTON, MISS: appropriation for Associated Charities suggested by,
135; plan for care of sick offered by, 134

FINANCE: questions of, 96-103

FINANCE AND PUBLICITY, DEPARTMENT OF: created, 26; duties of, 399;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28, 29

FINANCE COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE (later Finance Committee of
Relief and Red Cross Funds): appointed at first meeting of Citizens’
Committee, 9; called on army to assume charge of relief work, 39;
consolidated with Red Cross, 11; independent action of its
sub-committee on housing the homeless, 70; realization by, of need of
permanent shelter, 221; recognition as official agent of relief, 10;
shelter furnished by, on public lands, 84; supplies purchased by, 30;
value of shelter furnished by, 87

FINANCE COMMITTEE OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS (formerly Finance
Committee of Citizens’ Committee): and Corporation, cash receipts of,
33; appointed its own Rehabilitation Committee, 15; appointment of
committee on hospitals by, 93; appropriation made by, to Associated
Charities, 14; arrangements with hospitals by, 93; asked to supply
tools and make loans, 13; attitude of members on recommendations of
outside bodies, 138; attitude toward and action on plan proposed by
Executive Commission, 20; cash contributions received by, 34, 35;
claims made upon, 96; control of relief work by, 10; date of beginning
rehabilitation work under, 111; decision of, to pay no liquor claims,
98; expenditures for housing by, 220; first appropriation for special
relief by, amount and date, 14; free dispensaries established by, 93;
grants made directly to charitable institutions by, 142; health corps
paid by, 90, 91; independent camp not recognized as official by, 79;
Japanese aided by, number and value of relief given, 94, 95; members
and committees of, 377; organization of, 11; park commissioners
requested by, to give permission for building cottages, 84; plan
submitted to, by General Greely, 18; question of incorporation
considered by, 25; recommendations made to, by Dr. Devine, 15, 16, 17;
representative of, on Executive Commission, 19; requested to state
plans, 15; sale of donated flour by, 102; shelter furnished by, on
public land, 84; sub-committees of, 378; suggestion of representation
of relief funds on, 101; value of shelter furnished by, 87

FIRES AND LIGHTS: orders regarding, in days following disaster, 40

FIRES FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE: area burned over by, 4; starting point and
direction, 3

FLOUR: efforts made to secure, 36; sent in excess of need, disposal
of, 101, 102

FOOD: and its distribution, expenditure for, from Relief and Red Cross
Funds, 52, 53; carloads of supplies received at San Francisco, 30;
depots for storage of supplies, 40; distributed, value cannot be
determined, 52; distribution of, 36-40; donated in excess of need,
101, 102; early stations established, 37; first need to be supplied,
12, 13; given to hospitals, value of, 94; issued by army, 39; no
instances of extreme suffering for want of, found by army, 40;
recommendations of Dr. Devine regarding, 17; registration to furnish
basis for system of distribution of, 46

FOOD CARD: face and reverse reproduced, 427; use of, 47

FOREIGN POINTS: persons sent from San Francisco to, 67, 68

FORMS used in relief and rehabilitation work, 425-449

FORT BAKER: location of, 7

FORT MCDOWELL: location of, 7

FORT MASON: conference at, 11; food from, distributed, 39; location
of, 10; one of three garrison posts in San Francisco, 7; sick cared
for in hospital at, 92

FORT MILEY: food from, distributed, 39; one of three garrison posts in
San Francisco, 7

FRANCE: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San Francisco
in 1900, 74

FRANKEL, LEE K.: became chairman of tentative bureau of special relief
of American National Red Cross, 14

FRANKLIN HALL: meeting place of mayor and Committee, 9

FREE PASSENGERS: number of, carried by Southern Pacific Railroad
(first period), 58

FRESNO: committee from, announced bringing of supplies, 37

FUNDS, RELIEF: criticism as to distribution of, answered, 237, 238;
incorporation of, 25, 398; need of careful accounting for, 99; remedy
for embarrassment caused by withholding of, 100, 101; restrictions on
use of, imposed by donors, 100-103. See also _Red Cross_; _Finance
Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds_; _San Francisco Relief and
Red Cross Funds_; _Contributions_; _Disbursements_

FUNSTON, GENERAL: attended conferences on April 21 and 24, 11; in
temporary command of Pacific Division, 8

FURNITURE GRANTS, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee VII): chairman of, 125

FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154;
applications for, passed on by sub-committees and by members of
Rehabilitation Committee, 160; applications for, to be on printed
forms, 117; grants of different amounts for, 165, 166; large
proportion of early grants for, 298; policy regarding grants of, 129,
130, 131; principal and subsidiary grants for, number and amount of,
157, 158; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166; re-opened
cases where principal grant was for, 161, 162

FURTH, JACOB: representative of Massachusetts Association for the
Relief of California, 15

GALLWEY, DR. JOHN: chairman of Sub-committee II, 125; member of
Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21

GARRISON POSTS: in and near San Francisco, 7

GASTON, MAJOR A. J.: positions held by, 21

GENERAL ORDERS NO. 18, 379-382

GERMAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: asked to confer on plan for
administration of relief work, 132; privilege of having
recommendations accepted extended to, 138; represented on committee to
pass on applications for housing, 133

GERMANY: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 75, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco 1900, 74

GIFTS: received by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265;
received by families aided under cottage plan, 229

GOLDEN GATE: location of, 3

GOLDEN GATE PARK: barracks in, described, 70, 71; field hospital
established at, 92; line of refugees at lodge of, 36; placing of
refugees in, recommended by committee on housing the homeless, 70;
population in, not included in registration, 73; refugees in,
hindered from becoming independent by remoteness from centers, 84;
vacation school in, proposed, 78

GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA: ex-officio director of Relief Corporation, 26;
member of special committee, 15

GRANT AND LOAN PLAN: additional aid to families aided under, 273; ages
of applicants aided under, 261; applications and expenditures under,
257-258; cases of grantees under, 273-276; comments on results of,
276, 278; conclusions regarding houses built under, 371; conjugal
condition of families aided under, 260; contracts and regulations
covering, 253, 254; nationality of applicants receiving aid under,
259; nature of opportunity offered by, 237; number of buildings
erected under, 219; number of rooms occupied by families aided under,
267; occupations and incomes of applicants aided under, 262, 263;
payments on houses erected under, 220; rentals paid before fire by
families aided under, 270; status of loans to families aided under,
271, 272; typical cases of families aided under, 273-276; value of
houses owned by applicants aided under, 269, 270; value of lots
purchased by applicants aided under, 266

GRANTS: amount and nature of, 165-167; and applications, time elapsing
between, 163-165, 370; and pensions, for aged and infirm, 364-365; and
pensions, given by Associated Charities, 306-309; by Associated
Charities for emergency and temporary relief, 300; by Chicago Fire
Commission, limitation of, 109; by members of Rehabilitation
Committee, 174; by Rehabilitation Committee to applicants who later
applied to Associated Charities, 298, 299; by Sub-committee on
Occupations for Women and Confidential Cases, 158; cases reopened by
nature of principal, 161; classification of, used by Red Cross special
bureau, 108; duplication of, 116; for different kinds of
rehabilitation, 153, 159; given and refused to inmates of Ingleside
Camp, 337-352; lessons regarding, learned from study of rehabilitation
work, 370, 371; limitation of, 108, 370; made directly to charitable
institutions by Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds, 142;
notice regarding, 131; number of, to a case, 160; of different
amounts, rules regarding, 128, 129; on applications of United Irish
Societies, 140; “principal” and “subsidiary” defined, 152; principal
and subsidiary, for different kinds of rehabilitation, 157-160;
reasons for refusal of, to certain societies, 145; responsibility for,
128, 129; spent in drink, 360; suspension of, due to withholding of
funds, 99, 100; to applicants who possessed resources, by amount of
resources, 167, 168; to Associated Charities, 133, 134; to bonus
recipients, additional, 248; to bonus recipients, Corporation’s policy
regarding, discussed, 251, 252; to charitable institutions,
recommendations of advisory committee regarding, 144; to charitable
organizations, by denominations and nature of work, 405; to grant and
loan recipients, additional, 273; to Ingleside Camp inmates, 362. See
_Grants for business rehabilitation_; _Bonus_; _Cottage plan_; _Grant
and loan plan_

GRANTS FOR BUSINESS REHABILITATION: average size of, in families
revisited, 174; classified by amount of grant, 194; confined generally
to those experienced in special lines, 184, 185; delayed, result in
failure and hardship, 189, 190; inadequacy of, as cause of failure,
190-192; in personal and domestic service, 201-202; in relation to
capital, 201-205, 207-208; in trade, 207, 208; manner in which made,
as a reason for failure, 188, 189; summary of situation regarding, 211

GREELY, GENERAL: acceptance of suggestion regarding Executive
Commission made by, 19; activities of, in June, 18, 19; appreciated
need of a second registration, 49; attended conference on April 24,
11; estimate of fraudulent repeating by, 43; estimate of number of
persons who received clothing, 55; had city canvassed for cases of
destitution, 40; lack of data on which to base housing recommendations
reported by, 71; letter from, to James D. Phelan, 387; number of
rations distributed reported by, 52; persons in shacks and barracks
according to census by, 77; quoted on second hand clothing, 55; report
of loss of life by, 5; temporary absence of, at time of earthquake, 8;
three essentials for camp tenants laid down by, 79; took charge of
food issues, 39; tried to induce removal of refugees to official
camps, 79; value of shelter furnished by army as reported by, 87

HAGUE, JAMES D.: representative of New York Chamber of Commerce, 15,
25

HALL OF JUSTICE: meetings in, on day of earthquake, 8, 9

HAMILTON SCHOOL: headquarters of Civil Section IV, 42; meeting place
of Rehabilitation Committee, 21, 26

HAMILTON SQUARE: first cottages completed in, 82

HARRIMAN, E. H.: at conference April 24, 11; member of special
committee, 15

HARVEY, J. DOWNEY: secretary of Relief Corporation, 26

HEADQUARTERS: of seven civil sections, 42

HEALTH: in San Francisco following disaster, 91, 92; of applicants and
families receiving aid for business rehabilitation, 192, 193; of
families receiving aid under bonus plan, 243; of families receiving
aid under grant and loan plan, 261, 262; of inmates at Ingleside Camp,
326, 327; of refugees, improved by outdoor life, 7; safeguarding of,
89-94

HEALTH, BOARD OF: health corps appointed by, 90; responsible for
typhoid, 91

HEALTH CORPS: of camps, personnel of, 90, 91

HEARST SCHOOL: free employment bureau at, 47; sewing center at, 88

HEBREW BOARD OF RELIEF: asked to confer on plan for administration of
relief work, 132; efficiency of work of, 141; represented on committee
to pass on applications for housing, 133

HEBREWS: receiving business rehabilitation, 175

HERRIN, W. F.: second vice-president of Relief Corporation, 26

HIBERNIANS, ANCIENT ORDER OF: relief stations opened by, 41

HIGGINS, ALICE L.: secretary of Boston Associated Charities, appointed
secretary to Dr. Devine, 14

HOMES, PERMANENT: assistance in construction of, expenditure for, 220.
See also _Houses_; _Housing_, etc.

HOSPITAL CARE: single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who
applied for, 351-352

HOSPITAL, CITY AND COUNTY: condemnation of, 323, 357; enlargement of
Ingleside Camp hospital to accommodate patients from, 326; records of
cases of, filed with Associated Charities records, 284

HOSPITAL, FREE: Medical Society urged erection of, 28

HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: donation to, 35

HOSPITALS, BUREAU OF: cases under care of, 93; closing of 93, 134;
physicians serving, also visited for Bureau of Special Relief, 146;
report sheet used by, 442; status of work one year after fire, 28

HOSPITALS, COMMITTEE ON: appointment of, 93; date of appointment and
membership of, 378

HOSPITALS OF SAN FRANCISCO: arrangements of, with Finance Committee,
93; estimate of amount required for, 121; facilities offered by,
following disaster, 92; mostly outside limited area, 91;
recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 15; results of overcrowding
of, after fire, 365; sums received from Corporation by, 94

HOT MEAL KITCHENS: history and work of, 49-55

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. See _Furniture_

HOUSEHOLD GOODS: storing and distribution of, 56

HOUSEHOLD REHABILITATION: single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
applying for, 346

HOUSES: built by Housing Committee under grant and loan plan, style of
and number of rooms, 258; erected by San Francisco Relief and Red
Cross Funds, by style of house or plan under which relief given, 219,
220; erected under bonus plan, character and cost of, 248-251; owned
by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, value of, 269;
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; types and sizes of,
occupied before fire by families aided under cottage plan, 230;
vacant, refugees housed in, 69

HOUSING: applications for, passed upon by sub-committees and by
members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; before and after fire, of
applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 266-271; before and after
fire, of families aided by cottage plan, 229-233; before and after
fire, of families aided under bonus plan, 248-251; conditions in
different civil sections contrasted, 73-75; early discussion of
problem of, 13; expenditure for, by Associated Charities, 310;
expenditures for, by various organizations, 220; form of application
for, 449; four classes for whom provision necessary in plan of, 218,
219; grants for, number of, 153, 154; grants for, principal and
subsidiary, 157; grants for, size of, 158, 159; grants of different
amounts for, 165, 167; lessons learned from study of San Francisco
work in, 371; of registered families in May, 72, 73; offer made under
bonus plan, 239; plan of study of, 215; problem in San Francisco
compared with that in Eastern cities, 277; problem in San Francisco
complicated, 21, 22; reasons for refusal of applications for, 166;
recommendations regarding, 17, 22, 23, 24; re-opening of cases where
principal grant was for, 161

HOUSING ACCOUNT: status of loans to families at close of, 272

HOUSING AND SHELTER, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee V): chairman of, 125

HOUSING COMMITTEE: and Department of Lands and Buildings, relation
between, 256-257; applications for building grants and loans referred
to, 253; cost of houses erected by, 270; dissatisfaction with houses
erected by, 268; general plan of, 417-418; importance of
rehabilitation work of, 276, 277, 278; investigation of families who
were aided by grants and loans from, 259; purpose and work of, 254,
255; status of work one year after fire, 28; style of houses built by,
under grant and loan plan, 258

HOUSING PLAN, ORIGINAL: recommendations submitted to Finance Committee
July, 1906, 394-397

HOUSING REHABILITATION: Associated Charities to nominate committee to
pass on applications for, 133; most highly specialized branch, 128

HOUSING THE HOMELESS, SUB-COMMITTEE ON: suggestion regarding single
camp, 70, 84; work of, 69, 70

IDAHO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

ILLNESS, ACCIDENT, ETC.: as causes of disability among applicants to
Associated Charities, 293. See also _Health_

INCOME: loss of, in disaster, cannot be estimated, 5

INCOMES: estimated, of families receiving aid under cottage plan, 228;
in families aided under bonus plan, contributors to, 245; in families
aided under grant and loan plan, contributors to, 264; of applicants
aided under bonus plan, 244, 245; of applicants and families aided
under grant and loan plan, 262, 263, 264; of applicants to Associated
Charities, lack of data on, 296; of families receiving business
rehabilitation, lack of data on, 179; of women in families aided under
grant and loan plan, 264

INCORPORATION: necessity of, for relief organization in large
disaster, 369

INCORPORATION OF SAN FRANCISCO FUNDS: certificate of, issued, 26;
membership of Corporation, departments, etc., 398-400; proposals
regarding, 25; recommended by Dr. Devine, 17; suggested, 24

INDEBTEDNESS: of families aided by bonuses, 247, 248; of families
aided under cottage plan, 229

INDUSTRIAL BUREAU: of Corporation, work of, 88

INDUSTRIAL CENTERS: estimate of amount required for, 121

INFIRM. See _Aged and infirm_

INGLESIDE MODEL CAMP: administration of, 324-327; admission cards used
at, 327; aged, infirm and sick at, 57; ages of inmates at, compared
with ages of inmates at almshouses, 330; applicants and non-applicants
for relief and rehabilitation among inmates of, 336-343; applicants
who had never been at, 354, 355; cases needing help for indefinite
period sent to, 147; cases sent to, who did not belong there, 324;
characteristics of population of, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362; conjugal
condition and sex of inmates at, 328, 329; “convalescents” and
hospital cases at, 365; discipline at, 325, 326; discontentment at,
324; employment of inmates at, 326; expenditures for construction of,
220; family relations of inmates at, 335; health of inmates at, 326,
327; history of establishment of, 321-324; inmates at, classified,
336; length of residence in California of inmates at, 334; money value
of relief given to family cases received at, 343; nativity of inmates
at, 331; number at, same as number at Lobos Square, by coincidence,
29; number at, total and average, 323, 324; occupations of inmates at,
332, 333; purpose of study of statistics of, 327; single and widowed
inmates at, applying for relief and rehabilitation, 343-352; single
and widowed inmates at, who did not apply for rehabilitation, 352-354;
sources of information regarding inmates at, 327; total cost of, 327

INGLESIDE RACE TRACK STABLES: transformed into camp for aged and
infirm, 322

INSTITUTIONS: advisory committee on, formed, 142; reasons for refusal
of grants to, 145; rehabilitation of, 141-145

INSTRUCTIONS: for rehabilitation force proposed by superintendent of
Committee, 123. See also _Circular_

INSURANCE: delay in collecting, 22; difficulties in collecting, 217;
estimated total collected after disaster, 5; received by applicants
aided by bonus, 247; received by applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 265; to be received by families aided under cottage plan, 229

INVESTIGATING FORCE OF REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: number of, 115;
personnel of, 114

INVESTIGATION: by auxiliary societies unsatisfactory, 139; methods in
different classes of cases, 117, 118; of families receiving cottages,
222; possibility of, even under conditions such as existed in San
Francisco, 370

INVESTIGATORS: trained, value of, as shown in handling of Ingleside
cases, 364. See also _Investigating force_

IRELAND: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74

IRISH: section inhabited by, burnt out, 4. See also _Ireland_

ITALIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE: privilege of having recommendations accepted
extended to, 138

ITALIANS: among refugees, 75; in improvised shelters on Telegraph
Hill, 74. See also _Italy_

ITALY: cash sent to, for Messina earthquake sufferers by American
National Red Cross, 35; natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77;
natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, 74

JAPAN: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34, 94;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74. See also _Japanese_

JAPANESE: deterred from asking aid by anti-Japanese feeling, 94;
relief of, 94, 95. See also _Japan_

JAPANESE RELIEF ASSOCIATION: formation of and relief given by, 94, 95

JESSUP, MORRIS K.: urges incorporation of funds, 25

JEWISH CHARITIES: formation of special relief fund in San Francisco
considered by, 141

JEWISH COMMITTEE: merged in Hebrew Board of Relief, 141. See also
_Hebrew Board of Relief_

JOCKEY CLUB, CALIFORNIA. See _California Jockey Club_

JUVENILE COURT: records of, for 1907-1909, 317; situation of, after
fire, described, 89

KILIAN, CAPTAIN JULIUS N.: Ingleside Camp organized by, 324, 325, 326

KINDERGARTENS: in camps, 89

KITCHENS, HOT MEAL: history and work of, 49-55

KOSTER, GENERAL: at conference on policing city, 11

KRAUTHOFF, MAJOR C. R.: work in handling and issuing supplies, 39

LABOR: abnormal prices asked for, following disaster, 217. See also
_Wage workers_

LABOR COMMISSIONER: free employment bureau in charge of, 47; hope that
registration would be of service to, 46

LABOR, UNSKILLED: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296

LAND: appropriation of funds to acquire, part of plan for shelter, 24;
decision of Corporation not to acquire, 218

LANDS AND BUILDINGS, DEPARTMENT OF: alterations in Ingleside stables
made under, 322; and Housing Committee, relation between, 256-257;
applications for small building loans transferred from, to
Rehabilitation Committee, 253; bonus plan, its history and workings,
239-240; businesslike work of, 237; chairman and duties of, 400; cost
of inspection and clerical work in connection with building of camp
cottages, 221, 222; creation of, 26; decision by, not to purchase,
lease, or rent land, 218; difficulties encountered by, 216, 217;
erection of camp cottages and tenements by, 82, 221; expenditure for
bonuses made through, 220; experiment in purchasing ready-made houses,
why abandoned, 218; houses constructed through its own contractors and
otherwise, 220; planing mills erected by, 217; plans considered and
abandoned by, 217, 218; propositions by real estate firms to, 217;
sanitary conveniences, etc., installed in public squares by, 71;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28; work of, divided
into three parts, 219

“LATIN QUARTER”: burnt out, 4, 287

LEASE: of cottages to refugees, plan concerning, 83. See also
_Rentals_

LEEGE, CHARLES F.: chairman of committee VI of Rehabilitation
Committee, 172

LETTER: presented by members of advisory committee investigating
institutions, 143

LETTERS: regarding transportation of refugees, 60, 64, 65

LICENSE, SPECIAL: policy regarding grants to those starting in
business that required, 124

LIFE, LOSS OF: in disaster, 5

LIGHTS: orders regarding, following earthquake, 40

LIQUOR: no claims, for, paid, 98; places that sold, closed, 8

LOANS: appropriation of money for, 24; early requests for, 13;
negotiated by applicants aided under bonus plan, 246; negotiated by
applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265; recommendations
regarding, by Dr. Devine, 17; special provision for granting, by
Rehabilitation Committee, 129; study by Rehabilitation Committee to
determine probable number of, 22; to families aided under cottage
plan, 229; to families aided under grant and loan plan, status of,
271, 272. See _Grant and loan plan_

LOBOS SQUARE: camp at, last to be retained, 29, 85; hot meal kitchen
opened in, 49. See also _Camp Lobos_

LOCATION: effect of, upon success of families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 192

LOOTERS: troops ordered to shoot, 8

LOOTING: reports of men shot for, 5

LOS ANGELES: citizens of, came to aid of San Francisco, 8

LOS ANGELES RELIEF COMMITTEE: equipment for hot meal kitchens sent by,
49; relief station opened by, 41

LOS ANGELES TOOL FUND: kits of tools distributed by, 158

LOTS: owned before fire by applicants aided by bonus, 245, 246; plan
of purchasing or leasing, withdrawn by Corporation, 218; purchase,
lease, and rental of, by families removing cottages from camps, 233,
234; purchased after fire by applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 266; to which camp cottages were removed, congestion on, 233.
See also _Land_

LYING-IN HOSPITAL: use of, suggested by Miss Felton, 134

MAGEE, THOMAS: chairman of Department of Lands and Buildings, 400;
member of Executive Committee of Relief Corporation, 26

MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES: applicants to Associated
Charities who were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of
applicants receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 198, 199;
men and women in families aided under bonus plan who had been engaged
in, 244; men and women in families aided under cottage plan who had
been engaged in, 226, 227; men and women in families aided under grant
and loan plan who were engaged in, 262, 263

MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD: location of, 7

MARITAL CONDITION. See _Conjugal condition_

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR RELIEF OF CALIFORNIA: authority of
Finance Committee recognized by, 10; donation to University of
California Hospital by, 35; funds transferred after being withheld,
100; investigator sent by, endorsed Relief Corporation’s work, 100;
use of funds for permanent relief urged by, 15

MAYOR SCHMITZ OF SAN FRANCISCO: activities on day of disaster, 8; at
conferences April 21 and 24, 11; attitude and actions of, during June,
18, 19; called on army to assume charge of relief work, 39; ex-officio
director of Relief Corporation, 26; representative of, on Executive
Commission, 19

MEALS: number furnished by hot meal kitchens, May to October, 51;
number served in hot meal kitchens on specified dates, 52; prices paid
for, at hot meal kitchens, 51

MEAL TICKETS: issued by Red Cross, 51

MEDICAL CO-OPERATION: in cases of “general relief,” 117

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF ARMY: report of, 91

MEDICAL SOCIETY, COUNTY: urged use of balance of fund for free
hospital, 27-28

MEDICAL SUPPLIES: furnished by army, 92, 93; given to hospitals, value
of, 94

MENU: of hot meal kitchens, 50, 51

MEXICO: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74

MILITARY AND NAVAL CENTER: in San Francisco, 7

MILITARY AUTHORITIES: given entire charge of relief stations and
shelters, 11. See also _Army_

MILITARY CONTROL and districting of city for policing, 11, 12, 40

MILITARY OFFICERS: of districts, and civil chairmen of sections, 42

MILK, CONDENSED: donated in excess of need, 101

MILK DEALERS’ ASSOCIATION: arrangements with, made by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38

MINISTERS: recommendations by, generally valueless, 117. See also
_Clergy_; _Pastors_

MINNEAPOLIS COMMITTEE: objection by, to sale of donated flour, 102

MISSION: no hot meal kitchen in, 50

MISSION RELIEF COMMITTEE: relief station opened by, 41

MONTANA: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

MORAN, EDWARD F.: empowered to make alterations in Ingleside stables,
322

MORROW, JUDGE W. W.: at conference April 24, 11

MOTHERS WITH INFANTS: special diet for, 48

NATIONAL AGENT IN DISASTER: Red Cross should become recognized as, 101

NATIONAL GUARD: commanded by General Koster, 11

NATIONALITY: of applicants aided under bonus plan, 241; of applicants
aided under cottage plan, 223; of applicants aided under grant and
loan plan, 259; of heads of families receiving business
rehabilitation, 175, 176; of population in 1900, and of refugees
compared, 74, 75; of refugees by civil sections, 76, 77. See also
_Nativity_

NATIVE DAUGHTERS, SOCIETY OF: relief station opened by, 41

NATIVITY: of applicants for relief from Associated Charities, before
and after fire, 287, 291; of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 331, 332; of
inmates of San Francisco almshouse, 331. See also _Nationality_

NAVAL TRAINING STATION: Yerba Buena Island, 7

NAVY DEPARTMENT: Navy yard on San Francisco Bay, 7

NEVADA: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

NEW MEXICO: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. See _Chamber of Commerce, New York_

NORTH END POLICE STATION: meeting place of Mayor and Committee, 9

NORWAY: natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San
Francisco in 1900, 74

NOTRE DAME COLLEGE: aid under bonus plan received by, 241; failure of,
to supply information as to income, 245; high cost of, 248

NURSES: from outside San Francisco not needed, 92

NURSES’ SETTLEMENT: work of residents after destruction of, 88

OAKLAND: difficulty in transporting supplies from, 37; location of, 3;
return of refugees from, 77

OCCUPATION: lack of, a reason for leaving city among certain
professions, 62

OCCUPATIONS: of applicants to Associated Charities variously
classified, 294, 295; of inmates of Ingleside Camp, 332, 333; of men
and women in families aided under bonus plan, 244; of men and women in
families aided under cottage plan, 226, 227; of men and women in
families aided under grant and loan plan, 262, 263; proposed, of
applicants receiving business rehabilitation, 184; represented by
families receiving business rehabilitation, 183; success or failure in
cases aided by business rehabilitation, according to nature of,
196-208

OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN AND CONFIDENTIAL CASES, Committee on
(Sub-committee IV): chairman of, 125; grants by, 158

OREGON: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

PACIFIC DIVISION OF ARMY: appropriation of Congress to be distributed
under direction of officers of, 30; headquarters at San Francisco, 7.
See also _Army_

PACIFIC STATES: persons sent from San Francisco to, 67, 68; states
included under heading, 66

PANIC: absence of, following earthquake, 6

PARIS, AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: cash contributions made by, 34

PARK COMMISSIONERS: agreement to ignore occupation of parks by
cottages for one year, 84; co-operation of, with Relief Corporation,
84; request to Relief Corporation to clear squares, 85

PARKS AND SQUARES: wisdom of using, for camps, 84

PASTORS: certificates of, found unreliable in Chicago and San
Francisco, 137. See also _Clergy_; _Ministers_

PATIENTS: recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 15, 16

PAVILION, COTTAGE: proposed for housing aged and infirm, 23, 24. See
also _Aged and Infirm_; _Relief Home_

PAYMENTS: upon claims, 98

PENSIONS: for aged and infirm, 364-365; given by Associated Charities,
306-309; lessons regarding, learned from study of relief work, 372

PER CAPITA COST: for shelter, 86, 87. See also _Cost_; _Expenditure_

PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC SERVICE: applicants to Associated Charities who
were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants
receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 200-206; men and women
in families aided under bonus plan who were engaged in, 244; men and
women in families aided under cottage plan who had been engaged in,
226, 227; men and women in families aided under grant and loan plan
who were engaged in, 262, 263

PHELAN, JAMES D.: as head of Finance Committee of Citizens’ Committee,
9; at conference April 24, 11; directed to make financial statement to
Committee on Reconstruction, 10; mayor’s suggestions to, 18; new
Rehabilitation Committee appointed by, 21; president of Relief
Corporation, 26

PHILANTHROPIC AGENCIES: results of co-operation between, under Relief
Corporation, 317

PHYSICIANS AND NURSES: from outside San Francisco not needed, 92

PHYSICIANS’ FUND: applications referred to, 153

PLAGUE. See _Bubonic plague_

PLAN OF WORK: by army officers, submitted by General Greely to Finance
Committee, 18; submitted by Dr. Devine and Mr. Bicknell for Executive
Commission, 20

PLEHN, CARL C.: registration bureau organised by, 44, 45

POLICE, CHIEF OF: at conference April 21 on policing of city, 11;
provisions seized and distributed by order of, 32

POLICE PROTECTION: furnished to hot meal kitchens, 50

POLICING OF CITY: as arranged for on April 21, 11, 12, 40

POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS: to Executive Commission, 19

POPULATION: made homeless by disaster, 4; of California, fifteen years
of age and over, in 1900, 329; of city and county of San Francisco, in
1900, 331, 356; of official camps, by months and by composition, 81;
of San Francisco in 1900, nationality of, 74; of unofficial camps, 79

PORTLAND, Oregon: citizens of, come to aid of San Francisco, 8

PORTSMOUTH SQUARE: cottages for Chinese in, 95; meeting of Citizens’
Committee in, 9

POTATOES: donated in excess of need, 101

POTRERO: acquiescence in hardships by families of, 36

PREMISES: occupied before and after fire by families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 178

PRESIDIO: army post, 7; camp for Chinese in, 95; entrance to, as
headquarters of civil section I, 42; food issued from depot at, 39;
meals furnished at kitchens in, 51; sick cared for in hospital at, 92

PROBATION WORK: situation of, after disaster described, 89

PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS: applicants to Associated Charities who were
engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants receiving aid
for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 198; men and women in families aided
under bonus plan who were engaged in, 244; men and women in families
aided under cottage plan who had been engaged in, 226, 227; men and
women in families aided under grant and loan plan who were engaged in,
262-263

PROPERTY: estimated loss of, in disaster, 5; possessed by applicants
aided under bonus plan, 246; possessed by applicants aided under grant
and loan plan, 265

PROPRIETORS IN BUSINESS: among applicants aided under grant and loan
plan, 262; among men in families aided under bonus plan, 244; among
men in families aided under cottage plan, 226

PUBLIC LAND: shelter furnished by army and Finance Committee on, 84

PUBLIC SERVICE: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296

PURCHASING COMMITTEE of Finance Committee: membership of, 276

RAILROADS: activities of, following disaster, 58, 59; estimated
contribution of, 68; number of persons carried free by (second and
third periods), 68. See also _Southern Pacific Railroad_;
_Transportation_

RATIONS: adopted by sub-committee on relief of the hungry, 38; issued
by army, 39; issuing of, discontinued, 110; number reported by General
Greely as distributed, 52; persons estimated to be receiving, during
April and May, 43; persons to whom issued in May and June, 53, 54, 55;
reduced, 44; reductions in number receiving, explained, 48; stolen, 32

READING ROOMS: in camps, 89

REAL PROPERTY. See _Property_

RE-APPLICATIONS: to Associated Charities by those aided by
Rehabilitation Committee, 298-299

RECEIPTS: cash, of Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds,
and Corporation, to June 1, 1909, 33, 34; of Associated Charities, 419

RECOMMENDATIONS: made by Dr. Devine, 15, 16, 17; of section committees
reviewed before submission to Rehabilitation Committee, 118; regarding
housing, 22, 23, 24

RECONSTRUCTION OF SAN FRANCISCO, COMMITTEE ON: Finance Committee to
make financial statement to, 10

RECORD CARD: used in rehabilitation work, information on, 115, 116

RECORDS: charity, value of, cannot be over-emphasized, 363; of
distribution furnished by official camps, 42; of relief distribution
incomplete, 42; rehabilitation, value of study of, 151

RED CROSS, AMERICAN NATIONAL: and army, co-operation between, 44; and
Finance Committee, relations between, during week following disaster,
10; appointment of permanent director of, 101; cash contributions
received by, 34; consolidation with Finance Committee approved by, 11;
contribution of Japan to, 94; dates for formative period of
rehabilitation work under, 111; determined those entitled to clothing
and household goods, 56; disposition of cash received by, 35;
endeavored to deliver boxes to persons for whom intended, 32; meal
tickets issued by, 51; realization by, of need of permanent shelter,
221; recognition as national agency in disaster desirable, 101, 370;
registration of refugees begun by, 44; registration, second, made by
workers of, 49, 115; relation to hot meal kitchens, 50; report to Mr.
Taft as president, 30; representatives of, at different times, 27;
representatives of, free to consider rehabilitation, 14; represented
by Dr. Devine, 9, 11, 19; sewing center established by, 88; staff of
rehabilitation workers of, 14; tents provided by, 69, 70; use of civil
divisions by, 12. See also _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds_;
_Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_; and other
bureaus

RED CROSS, CALIFORNIA BRANCH OF: recognized Finance Committee as
official agent of relief, 10; represented at conference, 11; work of,
92

RED CROSS SPECIAL RELIEF AND REHABILITATION BUREAU: chairmen of
temporary and permanent organizations, 14; classifications of grants
in use by, 108; expenditures by, 21; got under way, 14;
recommendations not accepted by, in place of investigations, 137-138;
superseded by Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
transportation work merged with that of, 59

REFUGEES: attempts to secure removal of, from unofficial to official
camps, 79; free tents and shacks for, 82, 83; in unofficial camps, 79;
nationality of heads of family among, 74-77; registration of, 44, 45,
46; return of, from Oakland and other places, 77; terms of agreement
for lease of cottages by, 83, 84. See _Population_; and other topics

REFUSALS OF AID: by Associated Charities, reasons for, 312, 313; for
business rehabilitation, study of, 208-210

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