. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. hens disappeared; the Re-lief Committee became the caterers; and in the endall but one kitchen having been abolished, raw pro-visions were again distributed. THE RELIEF 165 The work of relief continued upon a magnificentsystem, in which charitable organizations andchurches affiliated with the Relief Committee. Asthe summer wore away it became necessary to makeprovision for housing the refugees during the wintermonths. New conditions had arisen. Althoughmany in the ca
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. hens disappeared; the Re-lief Committee became the caterers; and in the endall but one kitchen having been abolished, raw pro-visions were again distributed. THE RELIEF 165 The work of relief continued upon a magnificentsystem, in which charitable organizations andchurches affiliated with the Relief Committee. Asthe summer wore away it became necessary to makeprovision for housing the refugees during the wintermonths. New conditions had arisen. Althoughmany in the camps had secured work, houses torent were few indeed, and the price of those hadbeen put up to prohibitive figures by penurious land-lords. The families in the parks could buy theirown provisions, but to pay rent at the advancedrates was out of the question. The price of staplearticles had not been materially advanced by thefire, and had it not been that they had no place butthe parks to live many would have been as well off(barring furniture) as before the fatal eighteenth ofApril. It therefore became the chief work of the. Photo by Aitken Cottages Erected by Relief Corporation 166 THE RELIEF Relief Committee to build houses for these self-sup-porters, and three-room cottages were erected inthe parks. It was determined to properly establishthe independence of the tenants by charging a ren-tal. Six dollars a month was fixed upon; at the endof a year the buildings were to be the property ofthe tenants, to be moved where they wished. Theindigents and the aged and infirm were still to becared for, and in all tenderness to be provided withthe necessities of life. But so rapidly had the citybecome self-supporting that, although there hadbeen fully three hundred thousand peoole at the firstdependent upon relief, by the middle of October thenumber of totally dependent ones had shrunk to apaltry three hundred and there were only a fewthousand refugees in all the camps. By this time the
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