. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photos by Knight, Estcy, Hccht Permanent Camps for Refugees 164 THE RELIEF When Dr. Devine arrived he found a perfectorganization, and had only to co-operate with thelocal Relief Committee. Never before had a citystruck down by calamity undertaken to direct itsown relief work. By so doing San Francisco madeitself unique. At the first the care of the refugees in thecamps had been undertaken by the soldiers. OnApril 22 Major-General A. W. Greeley, command-ing the Pacif
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photos by Knight, Estcy, Hccht Permanent Camps for Refugees 164 THE RELIEF When Dr. Devine arrived he found a perfectorganization, and had only to co-operate with thelocal Relief Committee. Never before had a citystruck down by calamity undertaken to direct itsown relief work. By so doing San Francisco madeitself unique. At the first the care of the refugees in thecamps had been undertaken by the soldiers. OnApril 22 Major-General A. W. Greeley, command-ing the Pacific Division, who had left the city toattend the marriage of his daughter, returned to SanFrancisco. Under his direction the troops were thedistributing agents of the relief. Rations wereserved raw, and the campers were their own cooks,using such contrivances as they had rigged up forstoves—often a few bricks with a piece of oil-canacross the top. On July 2 the troops were with-drawn ; in a letter of the previous day to the MayorGeneral Greeley expressed his satisfaction at thecordial relations that had existed between th
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