Burr correspondence

Finance Committee of the Relief & Red Cross Funds 2001 Geary St. San Francisco - Cal.

D.C. Office.

[postmark San Francisco, Cal. Jun 20 5 - PM 1906

Myron C. Burr, Esq., Monrovia, Cal. # Arrowhead Res. Co. San Bernardino Cal

Finance Committee of the Relief and Red Cross Funds

James D. Phelan, Chairman J. Downey Harvey, Secretary Lester Herrick, Assistant Secretary

Wm. F. Herrin Charles Sutro, Jr. Judge W. W. Morrow Jas. L. Flood Wm. Babcock H.E. Law I.W. Hellman, Jr. Allan Pollok Jos. S. Tobin Rudolph Spreckels Rufus P. Jennings John F. Merrill M.H. De Young Frank G. Drum Horace Davis Thomas Magee Garret W. McEnerney E. E. Baker, D.D.

Office, 2001 Geary Street San Francisco, Cal., June 20, 1906.

Mr. Myron C. Burr, Monrovia, Cal.

Dear Sir:Your letter of June 17th, is hereby acknowledged. I succeeded in finding a check due on your Claim, which is E. 7412,

I herewith enclose it, No. 4822, for $8.75, forwarded as full payment.

Yours respectfully,

Wm. M. Pherson Disbursing Cashier.

This concerns Myron Burr's first letter received at home in Monrovia, telling of the San Francisco Earthquake of Apr 1906 - "Papa" was F. W. Burr

Monrovia Cal. Apr. 21st, '06.

Dear Myron:--

Yours of Thurs. 19th recd. tonight. You may be sure it looked good, and we soon phoned to several homes; I read the who of it to Mrs.. Marshall over the phone. They have had no word direct from Hugh. Then Mama took it up to read to Mrs. Atwood. About 8 P. M. Mr. Marshall came over to see it, and I let him take it home with him; Will show it to some around here tomorrow, Sunday, then send it to Elsie, and have her send to Clark Burr., and he return it to me. I want to keep it for your Grandchildren to read.-- a sort of family classic.

You said send money by mail; I had done so 4 hours before your letter came. I started it by telegraph yesterday, but it was returned to me today noon. They could not deliver the goods.

Florence W. manages to get in a query every day to know if you have been heard from. You say "Have sent messages". We have recd. only one. No answer to my mssg. yet asking about Kirk M Moore. We have read acres of news paper accounts. And acres more will come. No word from Walter for two weeks; unusual for him, the way he has been writing along back.

Paper says 150 students from S. have gone to Frisco to do what they can to help; we hope you are not among them. The greatest boon to humanity you can do now is to come home so your mother can see you, and have you in the same house long enough for her to lie down and rest from the long strain.

Yours very truly, Papa

The church was jammed full, about 2700 people being admitted where 1700 only is regularly arranged for. Most beautiful music and brief but elegant speeches constituted the program of the church. The students and others formed in line and marched four abreast to the grave where the final services were held. The speech by Rev. Brown there was about the finest that I ever heard.

The floral offerings were magnificant. They came by the wagonload and almost the carload from everywhere. Many of them cost upwards of one hundred dollars apiece. Heard that the Alumni sent one which cost two hundred and fifty dollars. Seems like an enormous amount to pay for floral decorations does it not?

Each class gave some floral decoration and Wednesday I went to Frisco to select one for the Sophomore class. We decided on a wreathe of white carnations and violets which cost twenty dollars. While in town I saw Otto Zeus, Sam Barnes and Victor Cooper, all of whom seemed to be feeling and looking fine. Also went down to the docks and saw the big ocean liner "Alameda", in which Mrs. Stanfords body was brought from Hawaii.