. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. risen to the care of its afflicted. Hence it was thatPresident Roosevelt issued a request to the countryat large to make all donations through the RedCross Association, of which Secretary of War Taftwas national president. Dr. Edwin T. Devine, headof the Charity Organization Society of New York,was sent out by the Red Cross to take charge ofthe relief. Secretary Taft, as national president,-was in touch with Judge Morrow of San Francisco,head of the Red Cross Associa
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. risen to the care of its afflicted. Hence it was thatPresident Roosevelt issued a request to the countryat large to make all donations through the RedCross Association, of which Secretary of War Taftwas national president. Dr. Edwin T. Devine, headof the Charity Organization Society of New York,was sent out by the Red Cross to take charge ofthe relief. Secretary Taft, as national president,-was in touch with Judge Morrow of San Francisco,head of the Red Cross Association of Metcalf, en route to the stricken city, wasto co-operate with Dr. Devine and Judge Presidents plan was to put the Red Cross inentire control, seeing in it the only organizationcapable of a systematic distribution of the friction was caused by the plan, as the cityitself had from the first undertaken the care of itssufferers. But none doubted that the President had ^intended only the good of the city, and, indeed,when the facts were presented to him he withdrewthe
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