RUSSIA THEN AND NOW 



twenty-five members, the Mayor being its Chair- 

 man. Correspondence with regard to the alleged 

 cargo of corn in possession of the Red Cross 

 evidencing that there was faint prospect of its 

 reaching the Atlantic seaboard within a reasonable 

 time, the Philadelphia Committee proceeded with 

 vigour to make their appeals to the public to 

 purchase flour, rice, etc., and to charter a steam- 

 ship to carry it to Russia. Sub-committees, one 

 on Transportation, one on Finance, another on 

 Purchases and Supplies, were formed, and all these 

 worked with a will. The Committee met with the 

 greatest encouragement at the outset in the 

 magnanimous offer by the International Naviga- 

 tion Company of Philadelphia of the use of the 

 S. S. Indiana free of cost, excepting the actual 

 outlay for expenses of voyage, and the generous 

 proffer by the officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company and the Philadelphia & Reading Rail- 

 road Company of free transportation over their 

 respective railways for all supplies given or pur- 

 chased, without limit as to distance or quantity. 

 The religious exercises on the wharf at the sailing 

 of the S. S. Indiana, our first messenger of Mercy 

 to the famine-stricken peasants of Russia, on 



