San Francisco Relief Survey; the organization and methods of relief used after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906

by Unknown

Others in family
Name and address of present employer
How long working for present employer
Name and address of former employer
How long working for former employer
Attach two letters of reference. If possible, one should befrom a former landlord to whom you have paid rent for some time.If you are living in a permanent camp, one letter must be from theCamp Commander.
Description of lot

What evidence of ownership can you give?

Have you a deed?

Tax receipt?

Contract for purchase?

Date when you bought lot

How much paid?

How much unpaid?

What monthly installments do you pay?

Attach plan of contemplated house.

(A drawing prepared by applicant,

showing floor plan and dimensions will answer)

Estimated cost of house

Of lumber

Of hardware

Of labor

Cost of plumbing and sanitary fittings

Water connections

Sewer connections

What amount of the total cost of the house are you able to meet?

What amount do you ask from the Relief Funds?

(Sign your name here)

It is absolutely necessary for you to have a contractor’s orbuilder’s estimate of the entire cost of the house, specifying indetail the cost of building material and plumbing.

N. B.—Be sure to return this blank after it is filled out, anduse the enclosed addressed envelope.

Above form as [illustration]

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INDEX

• Accounting: for relief in cash and in kind, [369]; relief, use of word “claim” in, [96]; system of Relief and Red Cross Funds, criticisms of, answered, [98], [99]
• Administration: amount expended by Bureau of Special Relief for, [148]; amount required for, by Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, estimated, [121]; expenses of American National Red Cross, [35]; of emergency relief, essential features of, [369]
• Advisory Committee on Charitable Institutions: formed, [142]; recommendations of, [143], [144], [145]
• After-care: lessons regarding, learned from study of San Francisco relief work, [372]
• Age: of possible rehabilitation, [365]
• Aged: applications of, have precedence, [123]; clothing issued for, [57]; expenditures for Ingleside Camp and permanent home for, [220]; lessons regarding care of, learned from Relief Survey, [372], [373]; number of, in Camp 6 and Ingleside Camp, [322]-[324]; presence of, in Relief Home, special causes for, [356], [357]; problem faced in dealing with, [359]-[362]; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, [16]; shelter for, provision of, [23], [321]-[324]; special diet for, [48]; use of pensions and direct grants for, [364]-[365]
• Ages: of applicants aided by grants for business rehabilitation, [176]; of applicants aided under bonus plan, [243]; of applicants aided under cottage plan, [225]; of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, [261]; of applicants for rehabilitation, [154]; of inmates of Ingleside Camp, compared with ages of almshouse inmates, [330]; of principal breadwinners in families applying to Associated Charities, 1907-1909, [289], [290], [291]
• Alameda: location of, [3]
• Alaska: destinations included in Pacific States, [66]
• Alcatraz Island: location of, [7]
• Almshouse, San Francisco: and camps, movement of inmates between, [325]; ages of inmates at, [330]; applicants for relief who had been at, [354], [355]; capacity, condition, and situation of, [321]; movement in and out of, compared with that of Relief Home, [356]; nativity of inmates of, [331]; occupations of inmates of, [333]; proportion of inmates and admissions to population of San Francisco, [356]; records of, before fire, [363]; transfer of inmates of, to Ingleside Camp, [323]
• Almshouses of United States: ages of inmates, [330]; conjugal condition of inmates, [329]; occupations of inmates, [333]
• Alterations: in contract houses erected under grant and loan plan, terms on which made, [269]
• Americans: among refugees, [75]. See also [Nationalities]; [United States].
• Angel Island: Fort McDowell on, [7]
• Applicants and Families of Applicants. See [Relief]; [Rehabilitation]; [Business rehabilitation]; [Bonus]; [Cottage plan]; [Grant and loan plan]; [Associated Charities]; [Ingleside Camp]
• Application Bureau: work of, put on relief basis, [130]
• Applications for Rehabilitation: action on, in August, 1906, [120]-[124]; and grants, time elapsing between, [163]-[165], [370]; by Chinese, [95]; conditions on which received at different periods, [129], [130], [131]; disposal of, [152], [153], [154]; in business, number and disposal of, [173], [174]; investigation of, [116], [117], [118]; most numerous at time of uncertainty as to funds, [121]; nature of, [153]; number received from United Irish Societies, [140]; numbers received in different periods, [164]; passed upon by sub-committees and by single members of Rehabilitation Committee, [160]; places at which received, [118]; reasons for refusal of, by nature of application, [166]; receipt of, suspended, except when for medical aid or food, [122]
• Applications to Associated Charities: in years before and after disaster, [283], [284]
• Appropriations: to departments of Corporation based on budgets, [99]
• Architects and Builders, Board of: as expert counsel on plans for dwellings, [22]
• Area: burned, [4], [5]
• Arizona: persons sent from San Francisco to, [66]
• Army in the San Francisco Disaster: and Citizens’ Committee carried emergency work, [14]; and Red Cross, co-operation between, in reducing rations, etc., [44]; called on to guard supplies by sub-committee on relief of hungry, [36]; called on to take control of relief work, [38], [39]; camps brought under control of, [78]; clothing and household distribution in charge of, [56]; confiscation of supplies by, [39]; donations of clothing and blankets by, [56]; expenditures for housing by, [220]; expenditures for subsistence stores by, [52]; extracts from article on, [383]; headquarters of Pacific Division in San Francisco, [7]; hospitals and medical supplies under, [92]; Ingleside Camp administered by officer of, [324]; realization by, of need of permanent shelter, [221]; relief stations opened by, [41]; relief stations reported by, [42]; report of medical department of, [91]; sanitary work of, [90]; shelter furnished by, on public land, [84]; shoes and clothing from stores of, [55]; supplies purchased by, [30]; tents provided by, [69], [70]; value of aid to Japanese by, [95]; value of shelter furnished by, [87]
• Army, United States: importance of utilizing services of, in disasters, [369]
• Ashe, Miss: use of home of, suggested by Miss Felton, [134]
• Associated Charities of San Francisco: action by, in family cases received at Ingleside Camp, [338]-[343]; age of principal breadwinner in families applying to, in 1907-1909, [289], [290], [291]; applicants to, among inmates of Ingleside Camp, [336]; applicants to whom aid was refused by, [310]-[314]; applications for rehabilitation received at, [118]; applications to, in years before and after fire, [283], [284]; arrangement with Relief Corporation regarding destitute patients, [93]; asked to invite conference of charitable agencies, [132]; building occupied by, escaped fire, [283]; case records of, before fire, [363]; cases classified as having lived or not having lived in burned area, and as aided or refused, [285]; cases of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied to, [352]-[354]; cases of, used in study of Ingleside Camp inmates, [327]; causes of disability among applicants to, before and after fire, [293]; caution in giving justified, [312]; emergency and temporary relief given by, [300]; emergency funds supplied to district offices by, [145]; expenditure for care of sick by, [301]; expenditure for housing by, [310]; family types among applicants for relief, [288], [290]; friction with Rehabilitation Committee soon overcome, [14]; grants by Rehabilitation Committee to applicants who later applied to, [299]; grants to, [132], [133], [134]; investigation of applicants for rehabilitation by, [113]; methods and results of work discussed, [316]-[318]; moving and repairing of cottages by, [85], [86], [222], [223], [232], [237]; nativity of applicants for relief, [287], [291]; nature of relief problem taken up by, in 1907, [281], [282]; need of work of, following disaster, [372]; number dependent on, when last camp closed, [87], [88]; number of children in families applying to, [292]; occupations of applicants to, [294], [295], [296]; pensions and grants given by, [306]-[309]; receipts and disbursements of, for two years following June 1, 1907, [309]; period of taking over rehabilitation work by, [112]; position as a charitable agency before and after fire, [282], [283]; reasons for refusals of aid by, [312], [313]; receipts and disbursements of, [419]-[421]; Rehabilitation Committee notified of withdrawal of staff of, [132], [133]; rehabilitation records of burned-out families applying to, [291]; relations with Finance Committee and Rehabilitation Bureau, [14]; relief given by, types of, [299], [300]; return of extra rations demanded by worker of, [44]; secretary made superintendent of district work, [113]; share in rehabilitation work, [14], [15], [120]; study of work of, [298]; work enlarged when Bureau of Hospitals closed, [134]; work in years following disaster, [315]-[318]; work for unemployed provided by, [304], [305]; work of Employment Bureau of, [302], [303]
• Audit: of all relief in cash possible, [369]. See also [Accounting]
• Auditing Committee of Finance Committee: membership of, [276]
• Auditors of Accounts of Corporation: judgment of, [99]
• Australia: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, [34]; natives of, among refugees, [74], [76]; natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, [74]
• Austria: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, [34]; natives of, among refugees, [74], [75], [76], [77]; natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, [74]
• Auxiliary Societies: relations of Rehabilitation Committee with, [137]-[141].
• Bakeries: arrangements with and supplies furnished by, [36], [37], [38]
• Barracks: built by sub-committee on housing the homeless, [69]; defects of, [70]; described, [70], [71]; estimates of persons living in, [77]; supervision of, in recommendations of Dr. Devine, [17]. See also [Camps]
• Baths: in houses of applicants aided under bonus plan, [248]; in houses of applicants aided under cottage plan, [231]; in houses of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, [267]
• Belgium: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, [34]
• Benicia Barracks: at head of bay, [7]
• Berkeley: location of, [3]; witness who lived in, reported lack of panic, [6]
• Bicknell, Ernest P.: made national director of American National Red Cross, [29]; organizations represented by, [9], [101]; plan submitted by, as secretary of Executive Commission, [20]; quotation from article in Charities and the Commons by, [6]-[7]; secretary and member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, [21]; share in forming Board of Trustees of Relief and Red Cross Funds 29; Special Relief Bureau organized on plan of, [111], [146]; succeeded Dr. Devine as representative of Red Cross, [27]
• Bills and Demands, Department of: chairman and duties of, [399]; created, [26]; disposal of claims by, [97]; payment on claims, [98]; work of, completed, [28]
• Blocks: number of, burned after earthquake, [4]
• Board of Architects and Builders: as expert counsel on plans for dwellings, [22]
• Board of Trustees of Relief and Red Cross Funds. See [Trustees]
• Bonus: additional grants to recipients of, [248]; ages of applicants aided by, [243]; conjugal condition of families aided by, [242]; cost of houses built by applicants aided by, [249]; form of application for, [447]-[448]; indebtedness carried by families aided by, [247]; nationality of applicants receiving aid by, [241]; occupations in families aided by, [244]; prosperity of applicants aided by, [277]; rooms in houses of applicants aided by, [249]; rooms occupied by families aided by, [250]; value of lots owned by applicants aided by, [246]
• Bonus Plan: by whom proposed and recommended, [22]; expenditures for houses erected under, [220]; nature of opportunity offered by, [237]; number of houses erected under, [219]; outline and history of, [239], [240]; policy pursued under, discussed, [251], [252]
• Boston Associated Charities: secretary of, appointed secretary to Dr. Devine, [14]
• Bradley, Captain: quoted on quality of clothing distributed, [55]
• Bread: arrangements regarding payments for, [38]; supplies of, [37]
• Bread Lines: formation and composition of, [36]; increase and decrease in, [43], [44]; recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, [17]; reduction of, followed by introduction of kitchen system, [50]
• British Columbia: destinations included in Pacific States, [66]
• Bubonic Plague: in camp and city, [29]
• Budgets: appropriations to departments of Corporation based on, [99]; for departments of Relief Corporation, prepared by chairmen, [27]
• Budgets, Family: of cases under care of Associated Charities, study of, [316]
• Buena Vista School: headquarters of Civil Section V, [42]
• Building Fund: proposed, account of, in Charities and the Commons, [216]
• Building, Subsidized: differences of opinion regarding, [22]
• Buildings: facing burned area, [5]; number and classes of, destroyed by fire, [4], [5]. See also [Houses]; [Housing]
• Bureaus. See [Employment Bureau]; [Hospitals, Bureau of]; [Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau]; [Registration Bureau]; [Relief Stations, Bureau of Consolidated]; [Transportation Bureau]
• 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 r epresentation 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]
• Registration, First: begun by Red Cross, [44]; character of records on card, [46], [47]; families and individuals registered in seven civil sections by, [45], [46]; form of card used in, [425], [426]; housing of registered families as shown by, [71], [72], [73]; method and results of, [47]; overcrowding and bad sanitary conditions not shown on card used in, [73]; population in Golden Gate Park not included in, [73]; primary object of, [46]; reasons why defective, [48]
• Registration, Second: conduct and results of, [115], [116]; face and reverse of card used in, [428], [429]; when and why made, [49]; use of card in civil sections, [115]
• Registration Bureau: formulation of plans for, by Red Cross, [14]; organization and force of, [45]. See also [Enumerators]
• Rehabilitation: age of possible, [365]; amount of principal and subsidiary grants for, [158]; applicants for, among Ingleside Camp inmates, [336]; applicants for, by age, by nature and disposal of application, and by domestic status, [154]; applicants for, classified by specified handicaps, [155]; applicants for, number of persons and of children in families of, [156]; applicants for, who possessed resources, grants and refusals to, [167], [168]; applied for by Ingleside Camp inmates, nature of, [344]; beginning of work of, [13]-[19]; centralized system of work, [124]-[133]; district and centralized systems of work discussed and accounted for, [135], [136], [370]; estimate of money required for, [121]; general policy of, [107]-[111]; grants for, by amount and nature of relief given, [165]-[167]; nature of principal and subsidiary grants for, [157], [158]; of institutions, [141]-[145]; of old people at Ingleside Camp, [361], [362]; periods of work of, [111], [112], [129]; reasons for refusal of, by nature of application, [166]; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, [16], [17]; record card used in work of, [115], [116]; record of burned-out families applying to Associated Charities, [291]; refugees with and without record of, who applied to Associated Charities, [294]; re-opening of cases, [160]; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying for, [343]-[352]; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who did not apply for, [353], [354]; study of, lessons learned from, [370], [371]; suspension of grants arrested work of, [99], [100]; time elapsing between application and grant in different periods of, [164], [165]; workers, staff of, formed, [14]. See also [Rehabilitation Committee]; [Relief and Rehabilitation, Department of]; [Applications for Rehabilitation]
• Rehabilitation Bureau. See [Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau]
• Rehabilitation Committee: additional aid granted to families receiving grants and loans for building by, [272], [273]; additional aid granted to receivers of bonuses by, [248]; administrative details of, [406]-[416]; aim as to single grants, how far attained, [160]; applicants referred to Associated Charities by, [134]; applications for small building loans taken up by housing sub-committee of, [253], [254]; applications on forms to, when required, [117]; applications passed on by single members of, [160]; appointed by Finance Committee to supersede earlier bureau, [15], [21]; attempt to gather up loose ends by, [415]; cases of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for aid to, [343]-[352]; cases of, used in study of Ingleside Camp inmates, [327]; caution in giving justified, [312]; centralized system of, [412]; closing of civil sections, and inauguration of centralized system, [124]; clothing distribution by, [57]; compelled to accept recommendations from outside organizations, [138]; conditions of grant to Associated Charities by, [133]; consideration of cases out of turn by, [412]; consolidation of families fostered by, [177]; delegation of powers to section committees by, [119]; directions given by the Associated Charities for use of workers of, [406]-[407]; disbursements of, [124]; expenditure through, for housing construction, [220]; experience with recommendations by ministers, [117]; extracts from circular on “Requirements for Satisfactory Investigations” prepared for, [140]; fourth period of work marked by pressure, [129]; fifth period of work marked by discharge of sub-committees, [131]; forms used by, [432]-[436]; funds entrusted to, for allotment to charitable organizations, [132]; grant and loan plan formulated by, [253], [254]; grants by members of, [174]; grants for business rehabilitation and number of different occupations represented, [183]; grants for housing made by, [257]; grants made by, to applicants who afterwards applied to Associated Charities, [298], [299]; hope of, in granting sums for business rehabilitation insufficient for establishing a business, [203]; housing recommendations of, [22], [24]; help toward refurnishing of homes given by, [130]; instances where refusals to grant aid for business rehabilitation were not justified, [209]; instructions for force prepared by superintendent of, [123]; investigating force of, [115]; Jewish societies agreed to work through, [141]; kept outside province of Executive Commission, [25]; lesson regarding records learned from study of work of, [413]; limitation of applications received by, [126]; limitation of size of grants by, [108]; means which might have obviated re-opening of cases by, [163]; meetings of, [127]; membership of, [378]; method of work in district organization, [408]-[412]; monthly budgets of, [408]; notes on bookkeeping and registration under, [415]-[416]; notified by camp commander of inability of tenants to pay rent, [84]; notified of withdrawal of staff of Associated Charities, [132]; periods of work of, defined and characterized, [111], [112]; plan of August, 1906, [124]; policy in regard to grants, [108], [109]; principle underlying work of, [107]; problem of care for aged and infirm, [359]-[362]; provisions regarding grants and loans by, [128], [129]; receipts of applications suspended by, [122]; relation to Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, [109]; responsibility of, defined, [110]; satisfactory co-operation with Hebrew Board of Relief, [141]; situation at beginning of work of, [107]; Special Relief Bureau called on for aid by, [149]; standards established by, [118]; sub-committees, work and chairmen of, [125]; transportation bureau merged with, [60]; unsatisfactory history of co-operation with auxiliary societies, [138], [139], [140]; work of, distinguished from that of Bureau of Special Relief, [111]; work of, in second period, [120], [121]; withdrawal of office staff of Associated Charities from, [132], [133]. See also [Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau]; [Rehabilitation]
• Re-investigation: of cases refused aid, reasons why not attempted, [314]
• Relief: accounting, use of word “claim” in, [96]; applications for, how passed upon, [160]; basis, work of application bureau put on, [130], [131]; by free and reduced rate tickets, [59]; classes of, and order of demand, [12], [13]; distribution, records of incomplete, [42]; emergent, given by Associated Charities, [299]-[305]; estimate of amount required for, by Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, [121]; in cash, possibility of strict audit of, [369]; in kind, impossibility of strict accounting for, [369]; in kind, need of bureau to supply, [145], [146]; speculative character of, in cases of aged and infirm, [363]; permanent, given by Associated Charities, [305]-[310]; principles of, two conceptions in conflict, [13]; refused by Associated Charities, [310]-[314]; to Chinese and Japanese, value of, [94], [95]. See also topics which follow; and [Applications]; [Rehabilitation]
• Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau. See [Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau]
• Relief and Rehabilitation, Department of: chairman and duties of, [400]; chairman’s action in regard to grants to institutions, [141]-[145]; creation of, [26]; date when Bureau of Hospitals closed, [93]; erection of grant and loan houses by, [220]; expenditure through, for assistance in constructing permanent homes, [220]; funds required to carry on work of, [121]; relation to Department of Camps and Warehouses defined, [110]; responsibility for relief outside camps, [111]; sewing work under, [88]; status of work one year and two years after fire, [28], [29]; use of civil sections by, [12]
• Relief, Bureau of Special. See [Special Relief, Bureau of]
• Relief Committees: independent, confusion caused by, [37]
• Relief Corporation: all responsibility in a disaster should rest upon a single, [100], [101]. See [San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a Corporation]
• Relief Funds. See [Funds]
• Relief, General: applications for, granted and refused, [153], [154]; applications for, passed on by sub-committees and by members of Rehabilitation Committee, [160]; cases of single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, [352]; grants for, classified by amounts, [165], [167]; grants for, size of, [158], [159]; 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]; use of term, instead of Special Relief, to cover miscellaneous grants, [108]
• Relief Home: building of, determined on by Corporation, [321]; characteristics of population of, [358]-[362]; completion of, [28]; conditions influencing population of, [357]; population, admissions and movement to and from, [356]; sick and convalescent inmates at, [365], [366]
• Relief in Deferred and Neglected Cases, Committee on (Sub-committee VIII): chairman of, [125]
• Relief of Aged and Infirm, Unsupported Children and Friendless Girls, Committee on (Sub-committee II): chairman of, [125]
• Relief of the Hungry, Sub-committee on: difficulties contended with by, [39]; relief stations reported by, [42]; status of work at final report to Finance Committee, [37]; sub-committee on housing the homeless worked independently of, [70]
• Relief of Unsupported or Partially Supported Families, Committee on (Sub-committee III); chairman of, [125]
• Relief Sections. See [Civil Sections]
• Relief, Special: estimate (August) of amount required for, [121]; general relief used as equivalent term to cover miscellaneous grants, [108]; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, [16]; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, [349]-[351]
• Relief Stations: and registration, [40]-[49]; in charge of army, [11], [40]; in civil section VI, list of, [41]; in seven civil sections, number, [42]; private, [44]; recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, [17]; taken charge of by Colonel Febiger, [40]
• Relief Stations, Bureau of Consolidated: establishment of, [40]; hot meal kitchen contracts under, [50]; requisitions on, [42]
• Relief Survey: estimate by, of value of relief to Japanese by army and Finance Committee, [95]; estimate of persons in shacks and barracks made for, [77]; findings of, regarding frauds, [117]; findings of, regarding results of business rehabilitation, [187], [188]; housing study a part of, [215]; no attempt by, to ascertain what references investigated, [116]; re-visit to 1,000 cases of applicants for business rehabilitation made for, [174]; some lessons of, [369]-[373]; weaknesses in centralized system revealed by, [135]
• Relief Work: of Associated Charities, disbursements for, [309]; plan for, drawn up by army officers, [18]; reasons for limiting scope of, in February, 1907, [130]; what an account of, should include, [298]
• Rentals: business and residence, paid by families receiving aid for business rehabilitation, [177]-[183]; for camp cottages, amount collected and refunded, [222]; for camp cottages, plan to charge, [83]; for camp cottages, plan to charge blocked by ordinance, [222]; paid before fire by families aided under grant and loan plan, [270]; paid for lots by those removing cottages from camps, [234]; paid for lots in cottage settlements, [235], [236]
• Repeating: allowance for, in army reports, [43]; registration to prevent, [46]
• Reports of Tragic Deaths following disaster, [5]
• Residences: occupied by families receiving business rehabilitation, number of rooms in, [180]. See also [Houses]
• Resources: of families aided under bonus plan, [244]-[248]; grants and refusals to applicants for rehabilitation possessing, [167], [168]
• Restaurants: opening of, recommended by Dr. Devine, [15]. See also [Hot meal kitchens]
• Restrictions: desirability of having contributions sent without, [369]; on expenditures of funds, [100]-[103]
• Riordan, Archbishop: member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance Committee, [21]; on special committee, [15]; prediction of, quoted, [78]
• Roofing the Homeless, Sub-committee on: work of, [70]
• Rooms: letting of, by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, [267]; letting of, by families aided under bonus plan, [250], [251]; number of, in houses owned and occupied before and rebuilt after fire under bonus plan, [249], [250]; number of, occupied before fire by families aided under cottage plan, [230]; number of, occupied by families aided under grant and loan plan, [267]
• Russia: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, [34]; natives of, among refugees, [74], [76]; natives of, in San Francisco in 1900, [74]
• St. Francis Technical School: as headquarters for Relief Corporation, [26]
• St. Mary’s Cathedral: refugees in line at, [36]
• St. Vincent de Paul Society: conference of, privilege of having recommendations accepted extended to, [138]; invited to confer on plan for administration of relief work, [132]; represented on committee to pass on applications for housing, [133]
• Salaries and Administrative Expenses: disbursements of Associated Charities for, [309]
• Saloons: policy regarding grants to, [128]. See also [Liquor]
• San Francisco: a military and naval center, [7]; cash contributions for relief made in, [34]; cash remitted to, by American National Red Cross, [35]; citizens of, visited Congress to discuss building fund plan, [216]; districted for policing and redistricted to bring under military control, [11], [12]; housing problems in, compared with those in eastern cities, [277]; location of, [3]; nativity of population of, in 1900, [74], [331]; payment by, for almshouse patients at Ingleside Camp, [327]; persons sent from, to various destinations, [66], [67], [68]; population of, in different years, [356]; proportion of almshouse admissions and inmates to population of, [356]; study of dependency problems in second and third year following disaster in, [281], [282]; terms of transportation of persons sent from, [68]; wage-earners in, more highly paid than in any other part of United States, [296]
• San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a Corporation: aided by park commissioners, [84]; announcement regarding business rehabilitation by, [172]-[173]; applicants to, among inmates of Ingleside Camp, [336]; applicants who first applied for rehabilitation after Corporation’s rehabilitation work was done, [286]; appointment of Board of Trustees of, [401]; appropriations for work for unemployed made by, [305], [306]; balance sheet showing of August 11, 1906, [121]; bonus plan, outline and history of, [239], [240]; bonus policy discussed, [251], [252]; building of Relief Home determined by, [321]; cash receipts of, [33], [35]; clearing of squares by, [85]; conditions which could not be anticipated by, [362]; construction of cottages under, [82], [221]; contribution from China to, [95]; cost for care of sick by, [93], [94]; could get no information of claims paid by War Department and state, [98]; criticisms of accounting system answered, [98], [99]; decision regarding grants to charitable organizations reached by Executive Committee of, [132]; departments and personnel of, [26], [398]-[400]; embarrassed by withholding of funds, [99], [100]; expenditure for food and its distribution by, [52], [53]; expenditure for sewing work by, [88]; expenditures for housing by, [220]; family cases at Ingleside Camp applying to and aided by, [337]-[342]; houses erected by, according to style of house or plan under which relief given, [219]; incorporation and departments of, [26]; lessor of cottages, [83]; membership and departments of, [396]-[398]; plan of purchasing or leasing lots considered by, [218]; plan to build cottages and let contracts made public by, [82]; refusal by, to sell cottages to vacant lot owners, [233]; reimbursement of hospitals by, [93]; relations of, with hospitals and Associated Charities, [93]; resignation of Associated Charities as investigating agent of, [281]; result of union of official and private efforts, [27]; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying to, [344]; suggestion of, [24]; suits against, [98]; temporary barracks for aged and infirm equipped by, [321], [322]; unanimous in dissatisfaction with work of auxiliary societies, [138]; work of, indorsed by investigator of Massachusetts committee, [100]
• Sanitary Arrangements: in houses built under bonus plan, [248]; in houses occupied by applicants aided under cottage plan, [231], [232]
• Sanitary Conditions: in cottage settlements, [235], [236]
• Sanitation: measures of, applied after disaster, [89]-[91]; of camps and city, cost of, [87]
• San José: location of, [3]
• Santa Clara Valley: arrangements for baking bread in, [37]
• Sausalito: location of, [3]
• Savings: of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, [265]; of families aided under cottage plan, [229]; possessed by applicants aided by bonus, [247]
• Scandinavians: among refugees, [75]. See also [Denmark]; [Norway]; [Sweden]
• Schmitz, Eugene E. See [Mayor Schmitz]
• “Scholarship” Grants: instance of, [307], [308]
• Scotch: among refugees, [75]. See also [Scotland]
• Scotland: 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]
• Sections, Civil. See [Civil Sections]
• 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]

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