Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . dents served only to accentuate thedumb, brooding, terrible silence of those who waited asthe days dragged on. On Thanksgiving Day sealed caps of concrete werelaid upon the mouths of both shafts to smother the hope survived in any breast, this sealing of the mineextinguished its last spark. Governor Deneen, as president of the State Red CrossBoard, announced that no aid outside was relief was provided for the women and chil-dren, while the Red Cross national director perfected apension system for permanent aid. The State
Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . dents served only to accentuate thedumb, brooding, terrible silence of those who waited asthe days dragged on. On Thanksgiving Day sealed caps of concrete werelaid upon the mouths of both shafts to smother the hope survived in any breast, this sealing of the mineextinguished its last spark. Governor Deneen, as president of the State Red CrossBoard, announced that no aid outside was relief was provided for the women and chil-dren, while the Red Cross national director perfected apension system for permanent aid. The State appropri-ation of one hundred thousand dollars, the Red Crosscontribution of one hundred thousand dollars, the minersfund of seventy thousand dollars, and thirty thousanddollars from other sources were placed in a common fund,and under the direction of a competent conunittee pen-sions for each woman and each child under sixteen yearsof age were provided. The families were kept togetherand the mothers required to send the children to I FOREST FIRES 147 The Red Cross became the wage earner of the family andthe guardian of the children. The mayor of Cherry laterwrote, The plan has worked like a charm. The same year a furious gulf storm at Key Westwrecked the little fleet of fishing boats, the means of live-lihood of the sponge and other fishermen of the com-munity. There under the suggessions of the Red Crossrepresentative contributions were used to buy boat ma-terials and the men paid a small wage while they wererebuilding their ships. As each was completed its ownerwas taken from the list of those aided, as he was backin a position to again support himself. Another governor acted promptly on a State disasterwhen in October, 1910, Governor Eberhardt by virtue ofhis position as president of the Minnesota Red Crossboard, appealed to the people of his State for aid for thesufferers from a forest fire close to the Canadian the banks of the Rainy River the two litt
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