p. 15 | A Timely Appeal

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · May 23, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 20.

A Timely Appeal

A Timely Appeal.—Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor and proprietor of the Los Angeles Times, gave $10,000 to San Francisco's sufferers, and carried it there in person to make sure of its being used for the benefit of those most in need. Then, in addition, he turns his attention to the wants of the smaller towns that were afflicted by the disaster. Editorially he says:

Because of the magnitude of the disaster that has befallen San Francisco, public attention during the past few days has, almost inevitably, been centered on that one city, to the exclusion of the other towns that suffered heavily by the same earthquake shock. But for the fact of the bigger calamity overshadowing the smaller ones, many columns of the newspapers would have been filled with accounts of the havoc wrought in Santa Rosa, San Jose, Salinas, and other populous places within the hundred square miles most affected by the seismic disturbance. In the hour of the metropolitan city's overwhelming sorrow, its sisterhood of smaller cities must not be forgotten. For them, too, pity, sympathy, and material aid are required.