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Fashionably attired women hand out clothing and help fit small children in a church
building turned over to the relief. Judging by her clothing, at least one of the recipients
in the line, who is more clearly drawn than the others, appears to be one of the more well-to-do
fire victims. In another similar illustration, an armed guard watches over the
scene. Fannie Boggs Lester, who was then eleven, wrote seventy-five years later, "I
remember my mother with others feeding these sufferers, in the Michigan Ave. Baptist
Church which was two doors from us, and for many following weeks, because [it was] a
distributing center to give out clothing and food that came so generously from other
places."
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The Relief and Aid Society 