ABSTRACT
Two organizations loomed larger than all the others in fund raising and in exerting some measure of supervision over administering the relief. Each brought to the campaigns of the period between Spanish-American War and First World War the experience of relief activities in earlier disasters and each cooperated with the other. As in earlier campaigns for funds for overseas disasters, communities having a special proximity or feeling a special obligation, played more active parts than did others. Thus San Franciscans, with their own disaster and foreign relief which had been so welcome fresh in mind, and with some interest in west coast of South America, responded immediately to the cry for help in Chile earthquake of 1907. In the early years of 20th century disasters in many places of earth succeeded each other with breath-taking rapidity. Contributions and relief poured in from several parts of globe in a disaster quickly recognized as the major one thus far in new century.
