FAMINE OF 1891-92 



their abundance, widows of their mites; churches 

 of all creeds, societies of all sorts, Sunday schools 

 innumerable, children of public and private day 

 schools, in a word, almost everybody helped with 

 glowing zeal. 



This was in April. The Philadelphia Relief 

 Committee then commissioned me to go to Russia 

 to supervise the delivery and distribution of the 

 Conemaugtis cargo. 



Following is an appeal from the Pennsylvania 

 Department of the Grand Army of the Republic 

 to every Post of that Department: 



Headquarters Department of Pennsylvania, 

 Grand Army of the Republic, 



No. 1025 Arch Street. 



Philadelphia, April I, 1892. 



General Orders 

 No. 4. 



I. The Steamship Conemaugh will sail under 

 the American Flag from the Port of Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., on April 23, 1892, with a cargo of 

 food for the relief of the starving Russian 

 peasants. 



II. Remembering the acts of friendship shown 

 by the Russian Government and people 

 towards this Nation during the period of the 



