CHAPTER XXIV.     The city of Philadelphia with characteristic generosity began the work of raising a relief fund on the day following the disaster, the Mayor's office and Drexel's banking house being the chief centres of receipt. Within four days six hundred thousand dollars was in hand. A most thorough organization and canvass of all trades and branches of business was made under the following committees:     Machinery and Iron – Georg Burnham, Daniel A. Waters, William Sellers, W.B. Bement, Hamilton Disston, Walter Wood, J. Lowber Welsh, W.C. Allison, Charles Gilpin, Jr., E.Y. Townsend, Dawson Hoopes, Alvin S. Patterson, Charles H. Cramp, and John H. Brill.     Attorneys – Mayer Sulzberger, George S. Graham, George W. Biddle, Lewis C. Cassidy, William F. Johnson, Joseph Parrish, Hampton L. Carson, John C. Bullitt, John R. Read, and Samuel B. Huey.     Physicians – William Pepper, Horation C. Wood, Thomas G. Morton, W.H. Pancoast, D. Hayes Agnew, and William W. Keen.     Insurance – R. Dale Benson, C.J. Madeira, E.J. Durban, and John Taylor. 281

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