Excerpt from Emergency Relief After the Washington Place Fire: New York, March 25, 1911 The police lists of dead and injured were secured on Sunday, and before ten o'clock on Monday morning a staff of visitors, office assistants, and stenographers had been recruited from the United Hebrew Charities, the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Charity Organization Society. Visitors were in the field be fore noon. A record card was printed during the day and was ready for use Tuesday morning. By Wednesday night all the families on the police lists had been visited. At the end of three weeks the emergency office was closed, and the Director continued the work from his offices in the United Charities Building. Applications were received by mail, as well as at the Building, and in all twenty-two new cases were regis tered in the next four weeks. After that time, seven weeks after the accident, the few new applications for assistance on account of the fire were handled by the Joint Application Bureau in the Charities Building in the regular way, and referred, if need seemed to exist, to the charitable societies, on the understanding that they would be reimbursed for any expenditure in such cases which was properly chargeable to the emergency relief fund. One-third of the cases, chiefly those in which no serious injury had been sustained, were closed within five weeks after the fire; and another third within two months more, that is, before July. Of the third that remained in charge at that time three months after the fire - some had not yet been able to work out plans for the future, and in others it was necessary to await information from remote villages in Europe before reaching a final decision. The last payments were made in March, 1912. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.