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CHAPTER XI
PREPARATIONS ON LAND TO RECEIVE THE SUFFERERS
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS—DONATIONS OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES
—HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES MADE READY—PRIVATE
HOUSES THROWN OPEN—WAITING FOR THE CARPATHIA TO
ARRIVE—THE SHIP SIGHTED!
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RED CROSS RELIEF
Robert W. de Forest, chairman of the Red Cross Relief Committee of the Charity Organization Society, after conferring with Mayor Gaynor, said that in addition to an arrangement that all funds received by the mayor should be paid to Jacob H. Schiff, the New York treasurer of the American Red Cross, the committee had decided that it could turn over all the immediate relief work to the Women's Relief Committee.
The Red Cross Committee announced that careful plans had been made to provide for every possible emergency.
The emergency committee received a telegram that Ernest
The Salvation Army offered, through the mayor's office, accommodation for thirty single men at the Industrial Home, 533 West Forty-eighth Street, and for twenty others at its hotel, 18 Chatham Square. The army's training school at 124 West Fourteenth Street was ready to take twenty or thirty survivors. R. H. Farley, head of the White Star Line's third class department, said that the line would give all the steerage passengers railroad tickets to their destination.
Mayor Gaynor estimated that more than 5000 persons could be accommodated in quarters offered through his orders. Most of these offers of course would have to be rejected. The mayor also said that Colonel Conley of the Sixty-ninth Regiment offered to turn out his regiment to police the pier, but it was thought that such service would be unnecessary.
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CHAPTER XI
PREPARATIONS ON LAND TO RECEIVE THE SUFFERERS
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS—DONATIONS OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES
—HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES MADE READY—PRIVATE
HOUSES THROWN OPEN—WAITING FOR THE CARPATHIA TO
ARRIVE—THE SHIP SIGHTED!
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