File No. 24595/8.

Chargé Monroe to the Secretary of State.

No. 1487.]

Sir: In regard to the department’s cablegram of May 6 instant, authorizing me to draw on the Secretary of State in sums of $1,000 as needed up to the limit of $5,000 for the relief of the Cartago earthquake sufferers, I have the honor to report that the money has been gratefully received by the Government of Costa Rica, and that I am disbursing it as carefully and as intelligently as possible. I have been to Cartago only once since the earthquake, but the American consul here will prepare a report, in which he will inform me how he distributed blankets and materials for temporary shelter that I sent over there two days ago. I wrote on this subject as fully as is possible now in my 1485 of May 9 last.

Cartago is only 1 hour from San Jose by train, and there are several trains during the day. The wounded have been brought here and [Page 413] are being cared for in a large and adequately conducted temporary hospital.

I have, etc.,

G. L. Monroe, Jr.