Mr. Blaine to Mr.
Wurts.
Department
of State,
Washington, April 29,
1892.
No. 163.]
I inclose a copy of a letter from his honor, the mayor of Philadelphia, of
the 26th instant, concerning this shipment by the Conemaugh.
I am, etc.,
Mayor Stuart to Mr.
Blaine.
Office
of the Mayor,
Philadelphia, April 26, 1892.
(Received April 28, 1892.)
Dear Sir: I beg to advise yon that on Saturday
last, 23d instant, the American steamship Conemaugh, Capt. James H. Spencer, left the port of
Philadelphia bound for Riga, Russia, with the following cargo of
supplies for the starving people of Russia: Flour, 33,163
sacks—5,101,260 pounds; flour, 561 barrels—112,200 pounds; rice, 400
sacks—88,000 pounds; miscellaneous, 80 packages—4,000 pounds: total,
5,305,460 pounds. And that Mr. Francis B. Reeves, as commissioner from
the Citizens Russian Famine Relief Committee, of this city, sails to-day
from New York by steamship Waesland for Antwerp,
and will proceed thence immediately to St. Petersburg.
Yours, etc.,
Edward S. Stuart.
Mayor and Chairman Relief
Committee.
