Chapter XLIV: Section VII: See Mission

SEIZURE OF GOODS: claims for, 97

SETTLEMENTS: destruction of, 88; residents of, and their activities,
88

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

SEWING CIRCLES AND CLASSES: in camps, etc., 88, 89

SEWING DEPARTMENT: organized at Ingleside Camp, 326

SEX AND CONJUGAL CONDITION: of inmates at Ingleside Camp, 328, 354

SHACKS: and barracks, estimates of persons living in, 77; and tents,
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; improvised during
first days, 69

SHELTER: among relief demands, relative importance of, 12, 13;
emergency, expenditure for, 220; for aged, infirm, etc.,
recommendation regarding by Rehabilitation Committee and Executive
Commission, 23, 24; given by camps, cost of, 86, 87; permanent, need
of realized by relief organizations, 221; providing, 69-89

SHELTERS: in charge of army, 11; temporary, proposed appropriation of
money for construction and repair of, 24. See also _Barracks_;
_Camps_; _Shacks_

SICK: and disabled, applications of, to have precedence, 123; care of,
a minor problem of relief work, 91, 92; carried from fire zone, 5;
expenditures for care of, by Associated Charities, 301; special diet
for, 48

SICKNESS: as a reason for transporting refugees, 62. See also _Health_

SINGLE AND WIDOWED MEN AND WOMEN: at Ingleside Camp, 343-354

SMALLPOX: cases in San Francisco following disaster, 91

SMITH (Coolidge), MARY ROBERTS: quotation from article in _Charities
and the Commons_ by, 77

SOCIAL CHARACTER: of cases cared for by Associated Charities, 286-294

SOCIAL HALLS: built at expense of Corporation, 89

SOCIAL STATUS. See _Conjugal condition_

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD: estimate of persons in shacks and barracks
by, 77; free passengers carried from San Francisco by, 58; relief
supplies brought into city by, 30

SOUTH PARK: camp in, described, 84

SOUTH PARK SETTLEMENT: work of residents after destruction of, 88

SPECIAL RELIEF. See _Relief, Special_; _Relief, General_; _Special
Relief, Bureau of_

SPECIAL RELIEF, BUREAU OF, 145-150; applications for emergency relief
referred to, 120; applications of specified kinds referred to, 123;
creation of, made possible prompt action, 126; emergency cases always
handled rapidly by, 165; emergency relief cases referred to, 120;
expenditures by, 148, 149; forms used by, 435-439; need of, from
beginning of rehabilitation work, 370; reasons why earlier opening of,
desirable, 163; requisitions for clothing to, 57; staff and
administration of, 147, 148; status of work one year after fire, 28;
work distinguished from that of Rehabilitation Bureau, 111; work first
done by, 146; work for residents of camps, 149; work of, closed, 133,
150. See also _Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_

SPEEDWAY CAMP (Camp No. 6): aged and infirm first sent to, 321; last
kitchen closed at, 52; location and description of, 70, 71

SPRECKELS, RUDOLPH: chairman of Department of Camps and Warehouses,
399; estimate by, of number to be placed at Ingleside Camp, 323; in
conference with Rehabilitation Committee, 110; member of Executive
Committee of Relief Corporation, 26

SPROULE, WILLIAM: chairman of committee on transportation, 59

STAFF: of rehabilitation workers formed, 14

STAFFORD, STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER: free employment bureau under, work
of, 47

STANDARD OF LIVING: of families with reduced incomes after fire,
228-229

STANDARDS: established by Rehabilitation Committee, 118

STANFORD UNIVERSITY: students of, as investigators, 114

STATISTICS: of Ingleside Camp population, 327-334; of receipts and
disbursements from Associated Charities, 419-422

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: memorial fountain to, untouched by
earthquake, 9

STOCKTON: blankets and provisions donated brought by steamer from, 39

STORES: quantity received, 30; subsistence, report by army of
expenditures for, 52

SUB-COMMITTEE I. See _Temporary Aid and Transportation, Committee on_

SUB-COMMITTEE VI. See _Business Rehabilitation, Committee on_

SUB-COMMITTEES OF REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: chairmen and fields of
work of, 125; discharge of, 131

SUPERINTENDENT OF DISTRICT WORK: appointed, 113

SUPERVISING, COMMITTEE ON: membership of, 378

SUPERVISION: need of, in certain cases receiving aid for business
rehabilitation, 163, 188, 189, 199, 203, 204, 206, 208, 371; of
expenditure by poorest class, desirable, 238

SUPERVISOR OF ACCREDITED HOSPITALS: work of, 93

SUPPLIES: amount expended by Bureau of Special Relief for, 148;
confiscation of, by army, 39; in army warehouses burned, value of, 39;
lost and stolen, 32; purchased by American National Red Cross, 35;
transportation of, under sub-committee on relief of the hungry, 38

SURVEY. See _Relief Survey_

SUSPENSION: of receipt of applications for rehabilitation, 122

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

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

TAFT, WILLIAM H.: report to, as president of American National Red
Cross, 30

TELEGRAPH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: destruction of house and
after-work of residents, 88; represented on committee to pass on
applications for housing, 133

TEMPORARY AID AND TRANSPORTATION, COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee I):
chairman of, 125; grants of money by, 120

TENEMENT HOUSES: erected by San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds,
219, 220; expenditure for construction of, total and average, 220, 221

TENT RECORD SHEET: reproduced, 430

TENTS: not barracks, needed, 70; provision of, in first days, 69;
registered families living in, May, 1906, 72, 73; supplied refugees
free of charge, 82, 83

THEFT OF RELIEF SUPPLIES, 32

TIBURON: location of, 3

TIME: elapsing between application and grant, 126, 163-165, 370

TOILETS: in cottages removed from camps, 231, 232; in houses built
under bonus plan, 248; in houses of applicants aided under grant and
loan plan, 267

TOOLS: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154; applications
for, passed upon by sub-committees and by members of Rehabilitation
Committee, 160; early requests for, 13; grants of different amounts
for, 165; investigations of applications for, 117; principal and
subsidiary grants for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for
refusal of applications for, 166; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161, 162; sewing machines and furniture,
recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16, 17; supplied by Red
Cross, 14; supplying of, by Bureau of Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Committee, 149, 150

TORNEY, COL. G. H.: establishment of free dispensaries by advice of,
93; in charge of sanitary work, 90

TRADE: applicants and others in families aided under grant and loan
plan who were engaged in, 262, 263; applicants to Associated Charities
who were engaged in, 294, 295, 296; business status of applicants
receiving aid for rehabilitation in, 196, 197, 206-208; 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; nature of investment required by person starting in, 206

TRANSPORTATION: applicants to Associated Charities who were engaged
in, 294, 295, 296; business, status of applicants receiving aid for
rehabilitation in 196, 199, 200. See also _Transportation of
Refugees_.

TRANSPORTATION BUREAU: merged with permanent Rehabilitation Committee,
60; work of Mr. Cushing at, 59. See also _Transportation Committee_;
_Transportation of Refugees_

TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE: organized by railroad officials, 59; persons
sent to specified destinations by (second period), 66. See also
_Transportation Bureau_; _Transportation of Refugees_

TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES: free passage given by, 58. See also
_Railroads_

TRANSPORTATION OF REFUGEES: applications for, granted and refused,
153, 154; applications for, passed upon by sub-committees and by
single members of Rehabilitation Committee, 160; by American National
Red Cross, 35; cases, investigation of, 117; characteristics of
refugees given, 65; destinations of those sent from San Francisco, 66,
67; estimate (August) of amount required for, 121; grants of different
amounts for, 165; justified as rehabilitation measure, 65; letters
offering hospitality to applicants for, 64, 65; periods of work
defined and characterized, 58, 59, 60; principal and subsidiary grants
for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for asking, granting, and
refusing, 61, 62, 63, 166; re-opening of cases where principal grant
was for, 161; requests for, types of, 61, 62, 63; single and widowed
inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, 347; supplied by Red Cross,
14; terms of, 68; value at reduced rates of, 68

TRANSPORTATION OF REFUGEES, COMMITTEE ON: a sub-committee of Citizens’
Committee, 58

TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES: arrangements regarding, made by committee
on relief of the hungry, 38

TROOPS, FEDERAL: policing of northern part of city assigned to, 11;
prompt arrival of and patrol by, 5. See also _Army_

TRUCKS AND TRUCKING: arrangements regarding, made by sub-committee on
relief of the hungry, 38

TRUSTEES OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, BOARD OF: appointment of, 29,
401; contributions to Associated Charities by, 309; grants given by,
to applicants refused aid by Rehabilitation Committee, 210

TYPHOID FEVER: cases in San Francisco following disaster, 91

UNEMPLOYED: special work provided for, by Associated Charities, 304,
305

UNITED IRISH SOCIETIES: case of duplication through, 159; grants on
recommendations of, compared with other grants, 140; recommendations
of, acceptance by Rehabilitation Committee, 138; recommendations
specially marked by paucity of facts and high scale of expenditure,
139

UNITED STATES: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in
cities and town of, 34; natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77;
natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, 74; recognition of Finance
Committee by President of, 10

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL: donation to, 35

UTAH: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

VACATION SCHOOL: proposed, in Golden Gate Park, 78

VALLEJO: difficulty in transporting flour from, 37

VIENNA: contribution made by secretary of American Embassy at, 34

VOLUNTARY SERVICE: importance of, in relief work, 27

VOORSANGER, RABBI: chairman of sub-committee on relief of the hungry,
36; member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, 21;
member of special committee, 15

WAGES: received by men and women working, in families aided under the
cottage plan, 227, 228

WAGE WORKERS: in San Francisco, more highly paid than in any other
part of United States, 296

WAR DEPARTMENT: claims paid by, 98; judgment of auditor of, on
accounts of Corporation, 99; report to, by Colonel Febiger, cited,
39-40

WAR SHIPS IN HARBOR: rendered aid, 7

WAREHOUSE, CENTRAL: recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, 17

WAREHOUSES: army, burned, 39; established by sub-committee on relief
of the hungry, 37; for clothing and household furnishings, departments
in, 56

WASHINGTON (State): persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

WILLIAMS, THOMAS H.: offer of race track buildings at Ingleside by,
322

WOLLENBERG, C. M.: command of Ingleside Camp assumed by, 324;
employment and discipline of inmates at Ingleside Camp under, 326

WOMAN’S ALLIANCE: recreation provided by, at Ingleside Camp, 326

WORK: lack of, a reason for leaving city among certain classes of
workers, 62. See also _Employment_; _Occupations_

WYOMING: persons sent from San Francisco to, 66

YERBA BUENA ISLAND: Naval Training Station on, 7

YOUNG MEN’S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: refugees in line at, 36; use of, by
committee on relief of the hungry, 37

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent (e.g. canceled/cancelled, employe/employee) and unusual
(e.g. wellnigh, wellknown) spelling and hyphenation have been
retained, except as mentioned below.
Inconsistencies between different parts of the text and the appendices
have been retained. The forms in Appendix 2 are intended to provide
approximations of the printed forms only; they contain all text and
information, but not always fully in the lay-out of the printed source
document.

page 10, ... had on April 25 come into effective co-operation ...:
other parts of the report give April 24 as the date.
page 79, The dashes which appear ...: the original shows periods
rather than dashes.
page 201, ... grants that were $200: as printed; should probably be
... grants that were $200 or more.
page 372, the work of an associated charities: as printed; not
changed.
page 453 ff.: there is no entry “Aged and Infirm”.

Changes made

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inconsistencies have been corrected silently.
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page 53, Table 10, grand total: $1,226,367.16 changed to $1,226,567.16
page 250: ... to have occupied more room before the fire ... changed
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page 288, table 99, row Total detached persons: 3.59 changed to 35.9
page 386: San Jose changed to San José as elsewhere
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