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Another often-reproduced illustration, this is the most direct depiction of America's
unstinting generosity. The New York Herald of October 10 reported that clusters of people
pressed against the bulletin boards of newspaper offices, united in their eagerness for news
and concern for the victims: "From the kid-gloved exquisite, laying aside for once his
nonchalant air, to the hard-fisted mechanic or apple woman, the same feeling of awe and
sympathy prevailed, and from the lips of all, words of pity and kindness could be heard to
fall."
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The Relief and Aid Society 