The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1874, Page 4

—-—-——- SYMPATHY. par POPULAR Suecor for “the Nine Starv- ing Children.” THE BROOKLYN POOR. aecanhieatcdiil Action of the Howard Relief Association Yesterday. a Preparing for 5,000 Meals Dav. a The stories of suffering and sorrow that haye een told from day to day by HeRaLy reporters have awakened in the popular heart a practical Sympathy. Below will be found the record of aeeds and words that are very eloquent, because they come from the heart. deep wall of the needy hones of terribieness to arouse ail Theip, to acts of generosity and true benevolence. Woble as this response has been, we are compelled 0 state that it fails far short sof the necessity, It ‘would be easy to multiply fromm our reporters’ mote books narratives of appalling ‘and to fill in with still deeper lines the shading of misery in these pictures of poverty. Help, how- ‘ever, is what is needed, and it caunot come too promptly or too vountifully. THE HOWARD RELIEF ASSOCIATION SE MEE SS hat who can The Superintendent of the Relief Association in the Leonard street old police station reports that yesterday 1,185 meais were furnished and that 380 loagers were sleeping in the place. A very large umber of contributions in the shape of clotning aad bedding were received during the day. OPENING OF THE NEW INSTITUTION. rhis morning & force of men Will be put vo work ‘to prepare and clean the old pubiic school house, situated in Thompson, near Canal street, wmch ‘the city authorities have leat to the Howard Re- lief Association. ‘Ihe place will probably be opened next Tuesday. About 5,000 meais can pe givenout each day, it is calculated, and about eighty lodgers can be accommodated there each | might, The following are the most ‘cases relieved py the association yesterday :-— NO FIRE FOR THREE WEFES. Mrs, ©, Clarke, an American woman, of about twenty-two years of age, and sister, are tiving m the | rear building at No. 199 Prince street in a state of great destitution. For the last two wecks she has been confined to her bed, while dangerously sick. Her husband ts a laborer on Long Island, and nas ‘een very unwell aud unable to send her any money. Dr. uncey, of Spring street, has been attending her, and she says what but for his kindness she must | ‘have starved to death. There has been no fire in her room for three weeks and no material to make one with. The room was very cold and ina damp condition. Mrs. Clarke states that she has disposed of_ nearly all her property for the sheer diecessities Of lite. Her family bac once been in a comfortable condition, but are now sadly in need. 4 POOR SEWING GIRL TURNED OUT OF DOORS. There came to-the door of the old police sta- tion at a little past midnight on Tuesday’ a well-dressed and handsome giri, who said that she had been employed by the Domestic Sewin: Machine Company. She said she had been turned out of her lodgings as she could not pay her rent. Whe watchman took her in and sent her to the | kitchen, where she got a supper. She said she-had been sent to the Howard Relief by the polic sergeant on duty at the Oak street station. Al moon yesterday Mr. Winters obtained her a situa- tion in an uptown establishment. She begged that her name might not be published in the HeRaLp, A VETERINARY SURGEON. | About nine o'clock last night Mr. S, Raymond, an | ‘Tnglish veterinary doctor, smelling strongly of outs, hartshorn and oil, sought reliei, Hie said he had been practicing in Champagne street, Cleve- | land, but business nad been bad and he hed been compelled to leave, He said he had jnst spent his dase cent at French's Hotel. He bad studied his proiession under Dr: Hay at Manchester, England, and held a diploma ot the English Veterinary Col- Sege. He satd he was unable to carry on his pro- dession, as Le had no money to buy medicines. He fhad but a few of his instruments Jett. given a bed, for which he appeared thankiul. He said he bad been in the Third dragoons and had seen service in the Kast Indies. FIFTY CLERKS OUT OF WORK, Among the fifty clerks out of work who enjoyed the hospitality of the Mission last night was Mr. 5. Raymond, lately employed in a Chambers street store. He said he had spent ali his money, and had gained nothing for ten-weeks. He lost $1,000 | thized or taken part with that body who bave | by the panic. Le hopes soon to be ont of dim- - culties, A PRINTER WHO TAKES THE PLEDGE. B. Primrose, a New York printer, presented a document showing that he had taken the tem- | perance pledge at Marine Temple Society church, and was shown a room. He told the Superin- tendent that by the grace of God he meant to re- ‘orm. Eight printers lodged in the Refuge last Might. The young printer from Cambridge, Mass, alluded to in Sunday's HERALD, is at work at No. 108 Wooster street. He says he was proposed tor the Union im Boston, but leit betove he was initiated, A ONE-LEGGED FARMER IN WANT. Mr. W. K. Shaw, a lodger, is a native of New England. Ie nas lately lost a leg, which has made him incapable of following bis trade, jarming. He is forty years of age and feels his situation keenly. He has jodged at the Mission for four nights, dur- ing which time he has conducted himself in a quiet, Tespectable mapner® A BELGIAN FAMILY IN DISTRESS. Alexis Sherran, of Belgium, tinsmith, wife and four children, hi erty at No. 146 Bast Broadway, living in a back room 0! the second floor. The man has been here about two years, and has very little work to do, The neighbors all speak favorably of the unfortu- nate family, The man and his wile declare they are total abstainers from intoxicating liquors and that no money has gone that way. They were re- hheved yesterday by the Howard Relief. BURIED ON A BET. Yesterday afternoon a handsome young Jeilow, Tashionably dressed, ran gayly up the steps leading to Park Hospital, and spoke as jollows to Dr. | Piohrer:— “Doctor, I Was readinc the account im the | WIERALD to some ladies of the starvation of John Thompson, who represented that he belonged to tne Second Massachusetts heavy artillery, and was wounded during the war. I said I believed he was an impostor, or he would have had his pension. The ladies said they believed his story, and! said to them if he is a bona fide Union soidier 1 will bur | mim if he in military ground. N you to deci matter, Doctor.’* Dr. Flubrer then imformed hig visitor that the | ‘unfortunate soldier was already dead, and be Would search bjs clothes for any documents. In ‘he bottom of a pocket im the veteran’s coat a dis- | charge from the army was found and also a letver from Dr. Sayre, the eminent surgeon, maT § that ‘he had amputated Thompson's ere had been ‘Wounded during the war, and that he considered ‘Thompson to be a deserving subject for charity. jot hin bet, and The visitor then said he had | added that Barry, an undertaker of Seventeenth street, would, see to the burial of Thompson in 2 | ee Lt i loser of the bet did no re" Boctor rt not leave his name with evening an individual called at Park Hos ‘pital and saw Ambulance Surgeon sown ae requested that Thompson's discharge be given | ‘him to send to Thompson's sister, living at Chicago, The request of the man was noturaily | Telused, a5 he was evidently a “bounty deirauder.}* } 1W0 SICK CHILDREN AND A SICK WIFE. Now, I want | McGowsa, and ; | | | Jeseph Ryan, a poor, dilapidated-looking man of Middle age, whose garments and face bore evi- dence of @ hard struggle wien poverty, called at | Ahe HERALD office 1st night and stated, with hon- ty in his face, that he ha ‘dren all sick and living In tw We and two chil ment of the rear He haa bees our of J No. 18 Monroe street. employment tor { se ure answers tothe has come up in its | destitution. | prominent | He was | ve been uxperiencing terrible pov- | \ er | when everybody is alike concerned in the i In two rooms in the base- | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. very hungry himself. ‘wore not only sick, but and he was $11 arrears secms to be a worthy one. t those who can heip help at once. Joseph Ryan was furnished with two tickets to the How- atreet, one for food for bun- procure some “hing for his ST. JOHN'S GUILD AND THE DOWN- TOWN POOR. The Generous People of Now York Re- *ponding Nobly to the Mecent Appeal of St, John’s Guild. The ‘ollowing additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Aivah Wiswall tor the poor of the Fifth and Bighth wards: THROUGH CHK S. 2. WESTON, D. D. ® Anonymous. . $6 - ‘Anonymous. + 6 Mrs, A. Bi sone 6 00 Mrs, Aiexander Van Renss 20 00 | For the downtown poor. ‘26 00 ‘Three little chidsen. 1 50 | Mra, N........ : - 1000 | iN... . . + weer 5 00 | W., aad froma small collection of Satur- | Gay’s pennies from my little ones. 11 00 For ine down town poor, a Wo | THROUGH C. V. B. OSTANDER. From sn M. D. 10 00 Gardiner G. Yoolin . 25 00 ANONYMOUS... - ee. seers ve 50 00 | James F. Wenman & Go. + 25 00 A small giver... $00 Charity. 25 00 FE 200 Jonn W. Lawrence 50 09 , Wichae! Hyman. . & 2.00 J. D2 - » 10,00 Littic Willie, for some individual case 10'00 THROUGH G. J. N. ZABRISKL B. Schlesinger....... 50 00 | from the clerks of the People’s Bank. 9 00 THROUGH a. W. L&aGaT. A friend : : = 500 Mr. Rhinelander... + 2000 Miss Julta KRuimetandei 20 00 THROUGH D. G. WATTS AND F. HUBBARD, JR. Aportion of 4 collection mage ip the New York Cotton Exchange. Be cst | The following was sent to Rev. Alvah Wis- wail’s ofice, St. Jonn’s Guild :— 100 00 J, W. H. Waibriage 25 00 5 00 2 50 200 20 | Cha 10 00 Ss. A. Wood... 10 00 | Mrs. Jouu Atwill. 5 00 Auony mvus.... 500 | A frieud avroaa - 6000 | 3. 8B. RK. - 1000 A. dee Clark, + 500 | H.C, King. anboe Cc. H. Mount. » 25 00 J. CS hope to do more soon.. : 100 LS. co help the hungry. » 200 Mrs, brown, Jersey Uity, 100 Mios M. E. Wadie Miss H. RK. Wik 10 00 Mrs. J. 8. Connell. : 5000 MM. - 600 rom - 800 RT. B > 100 R HT. * . 200 from a@ friend, or the poor who so much need tt. o seeee 1000 J. Gould & Sons... « | “Bread for the poor,” irom J. J. L. and {| GG. Bo... ae Total. eS - $812 50 ) Previously acknowledged 793: 50 Grand total..... si Ah 506 Aud additional ci ation: ch will be re- | ported to-murrow, | Many packages of groceries and clothing have also been received, Contributions may be sent to the HERALD office, or to Mayor Havemeyer, City Mall: V. B. Ostrander, President of the Mer- Andrew W. Leggat, Collector of Assess- Inents, Oity Hail; G. J. N. Zabriskie, cashier of People’s Kank, corner of Canal and Thompson | streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon & Co., No, 677 Broaa- way, and Rev. Forty-fitth street, or to the Kev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of st. Jonn’s Guild, St. John's, chapel, Varick street. THE NEGLIGENT POLICE COMMIS- SIONERS. Last Jdane Commissiouer Myer Stern petitioned the Police Commissioners to do what the HeRaLp | accomplished yesterday—compile a complete list of the charitable institutions of New York ‘city. The artention ot the Police Commissioners was called to this matter in the following resolu- tion passed in June last by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction :— ble the Police Commission- hereby respectfully requested to Instruct dent to ascertain from each captain ihe r ation of every charitable and benevolent institution or organization Within his preeiuet, the name of the officer in e, the places where applications for admission are to be made and the regulations by which they are Soverned, and report the same to the Commis. Stoners ot Police ind by that august body to be traus- mitted to this Board Resolved formation ‘asked tor im the foregoing resolution that — humber of copies be printed and books be provided for thein by this department. _ Cominissioner stern told @ HERALD reporter yes- terday that a copy of this resolution was sent twice to the Police Commissioners, but on neither occa- ston (id they pay any attention to the request con- tained, or deign to answer. THE TRADES UNIONS. _ | The thousands of workingmen who are members | Of the trades unions in thia city are fully alive to | the stern aspect of the present state of destitution | among the laboring classes, The majority of these | men, if not all of them, have in ne way sympa- | been calling themseives Communists, and who | mingle witn some sound views as to the existing | distress @ multitude of opinions which are not shared by the old and regular trade organizations. | For a considerable time past nearly every trade organization in this city has been for the most part | conducted on the pten of secret societies, experi- | ence having shown them, so they allege, that tt 1s necessary to conceal {om the ‘bosses’ the reso» lutions that may have been formed until the time for action should arrive. | TRADE TREASURIES. Many of these organizations have treasurtes well flied, and a few nave them overflowing; but all this money Is perfectly useless to the men 80 far as the ability to use it for ethergencies like the | present is concerned. The constitutions of the organizations absolutely prohibit the use of any | money in the treasury except Jor the specified pur- | pose of paying the expenses of sick members and | for burials, and, in cases of great emergency, for | strikes. It 1s, therefore, plain that members of the | organizations who may be out of work have no claim whatever upon the trade treasuries, and other means must be taken by which relief may be afforded. In an emergency like the present each | organization has got to act for itself, and what- | ever of reliefis secured must be the result of the voluntary action of brother members toward each otner. | VOLUNTARY CONTRISUTIONS, | Itcan be stated on good authority that of the | | printers alone excepted, fully three-fourths of them | are now out of work. So far. a8 could be ascer- tained the relief afforded to these unemployed men by their own Societies has already amounted to about $15,000—quite a handsome sum to have been voluntarily donated during the last two months by the comparatively few men who were still earning wages. This money was raised at the ordinary meetings and distributed by the secreta- ries, in accordance with well understood rule: among the des:itute members, course, and still is, 4 matter of delicacy on the part of the societies to keep secret the minute particu- jars m regard to a matter of this sort, but itis plain from their revelations that the members of the several societies have been doing their best to help each other,” MORAL PRESSURE FOR RELIEF. ‘The Wor u's Union, at an early stage of the distress, endeavored to Srapple with the dim- culty by trying to procure public work for the men, and thus to giye an impetus to pees fame iss. Dennis 8. Griffin, the Secretary of the Sorkingmen’s Union, was sent to Albany to urge pon the legisiatars the absolute need there was | at this crisig for prompt and generous Opportunity for the working men. Any amount of promises were made py Senators ana Assemblymen, and thousands of men were to be put to work; but nothing practical has “de emanated irom Albany. ‘This being so, the es unions have resoived upon muking another effort, ana they will appeal to the sense of the community for redress, lieving that the hour has one destitution among those who are willing to work. Delegates from the several out tions have already met and conierred in regard to the | Method to be adopted for securing the end in view, and it has been determined to hold at an early day 4 grand mass meeting in Cooper Institute, under the auspices of the Workingmen’s Union, when the Plain truth of the situation will be expiained and ‘| izations have refused .to afiliate themselves with 1 00%! about $9,000; Fire Insurance Company, No. 149 Broad- | H. Weston, D. D., No. 3 East | That whenever this Board recetves the in- | thousands of trades union men in the city, the | It nas been, of Societies ars secret, matters of this sort are never tne next time | wit tett or wit have told for them ay chings | about the distress tn this city whieh will demand a hearing. This mass meeting will have nothing connected with it akin to a threatening dewonstra- tion, but Will be @ simple statement to the legis- lative body and all others concerned of the ab#o- lutely unavoidable need there is tor immediate work for the vast number of the unempioyed in thts city. The programme for the mass meeting has not yet been tully matured, THR UNIONS AND THEIR NUMBERS. The following is a list of the societies said to be represented in the Workingme: Union, with the numbers composing them :— | Empire Lodge Carpenters and Joiners, about 500 men; Stonecutters, 2,590 men; Cabmetinakers, 500 men; Binestone Cutters, 650 men; Laborers’ Divisions, Nos. 1 to 10, 8,500 men; Amulgamated Carpenters, 300 men; Operative Masons, 450 men; Plumbers, 350 men; Wood Carvers, 500 men; La-, borers of Brooklyn, 2,000 men; ‘Typographical | Union No. 6, 2,500 men; Machinisis and Black- | smiths, 1,100 men; Geanite Stonecutiers, 700 men; ‘Tin Koofers, 350 men; Coopers’ Union, No. 4, 1,300 men; Coopers’ Union, Nu. 5, me) Brush | Makers, 700 men; Shipjoiners, 100 men; Shoe- | | makers’ Lodge, No. 119, 450 men; Shoemakers! Lodge, No. 39, 700 men; Marble Catters, 500 men; Varnishers and» Polishers, 300 men; ‘Laborers? Unton of the Twenty-secoud ward, 300 men; Brick- layers, Nos. 1 and 2, 0! New York, and Nos. % and 4, of Brooklyn, 4,000, Total number of men in unions, 29,850. WORKINGMEN'S CRNTRAL COUNCIL. The Workingmen’s Central Council claims to be composed of delegates {rom the following organi- | 2ations :—Bricklayers, numbering 4,500 men; brass founders, 299 men, carpenters, 4,500 men; Amal- | mated Carpenters, 600 men;’ carvers, 500 men; engineers, 300 men; gas meter makers, 10v men; |.aron mouiders, 900 nen; Machinists and biack- smiths, %,000 men; paper box makers and saw- yers, 600 men; painters 2,500 men; paper hang- | ers, 300 men; plumbers, be eee ee 000 men. INDEPENNDENT ORGAN) TIONS. It 19 also represented that the following organ- either the Workingmen’s Central Council or the Workingmen’s Union, preferring to remain inde- pendent:—The bakers, the botler makers, book- | binders’, brushmakers, cartmens, cigar makers, | coachmen, Crispins’, derriekmen, ferry engi- neers, gasfitters, gasmen, horseshoers, laborers, Monshoremen, marble cutters, marble polishers, plasterers, stair buliders, steam fitters, stone cutters, sione masons, sugar Fefners, roolers and cornice makers, upholsterers, Belgian pavers, con- uoners, hat and cap makers, plate printers and calkers. ANOTHER CENTRAL BODY. | Again it appears that there is a tard organiza- | tion of unions recently organized exclusively for the Germans, the principal societies in which are the cabinet makers, upholsterers, German printers, iano makers and bricklayers, the numbers in each eLng Binal, MONRY IN THE UNION TREASURIES. Some of the unions have quite handsome amounts in their treasuries, to be used, of course, only for purposes as allowed in their constituuons, ‘They | Keep to themselves the exact state of the funds, | for the reason that they do not desire the “bosses” to be thoroughly conversant with their finai-cial status. The Printers have at least $25,000 in their | treasury, and intend soon building or purchasing a hall of their own. The Bricklayers have about $11,000, and are a powerful organization. The Laborers have about $9,000; the Cabinetmakers the Brownstone Cutters have at least $10,000; the Empire Lodge of Carpenters and Joiners $1,000, and the Operative Masons $5,000. | The Stonecutters are a strong body, and have | a treasury of at least $12,000, The Amal- gamated Carpenters are a branch of the English { society of Amalgamated Carpenters, which has | | a treasury of £100,000, A year ago the Shoemakersa | | had a splendid Jund, but owing to the strikes going | on for a considerable time past all over the coun- | try the treasury may be said to have been cut | down to $5,000. Were it not for the strikes the | shoemakers’ lodges could command at least | $50,000. The Coopers’ Central Union is a well or- ganized body and wsaid to have $40,000 at its | command, The Operative Masons and the Granite | stonecutters have each about $5,000, The treasury | of the Marbie Cutters ts low, owing to the recent strike, a3 is also that of the varnishers and polish- | ers. The Shinjoiners and the Tin Roofera have but | a few dollars in either treasury, The Plumbers } and the Wood Carvers do not foot up much of a | fund, ‘The brushmakers have fair sums, as have also the Bluestone Cutters, The carvers have about $1,500; cigar makers, $2,000; engineers, $1,000; gas | meter makers, $1,000; iron moulders, headquarters at Cleveland; and machinists and placKkemt«hs, | headquarters in Cleveland, paving about $1,000 | each on hand here; packing box makers and sawyers, $1,000; painters, $5,000; ‘longshoremen, $25,000; paper hangers, $500; tallors, $10,000; the German cabinet makers, $1,000; German upholster- ers, $500; German painters, $1,000; German brick- | layers, $2,000. The other organizations «a not command large amounts. } | THE WORKINGMEN DETERMINED. | | ‘It may be safely said that the trades unions of the city own at the least $150,000, not a cent of which can be touched in the but all of which has grown resent emergency, om the trifling an- nual tax upon each member imposed by each society. As a rule these men have burne the hard- ships of the panic with great patience. These are not the men that are daily met iu the streets with | dejected mien and hungry appearance. The ma- | jority of them are proud in their way, and even if © they were hungry would keep the fact to them- selves, so far as they were personally concerned. Conversation with some of them could not but reveal this truth, however, that they think Mhe workingmen have been left without help from our law making representatives for too long a time, and there is a determination among thei, which 1s likely to find vent in the proposed mass meeting, that a panic, Which for them at least has extenued | to over two montis, is quite long enough. | A WORKINGMEN’S LEADER'S VIEWS. | It having been freely asserted that there isa want of unity among the trades unions at the resent time, and that to dissensions among,the | leaders might be ascribed the feeble efforts made | by the unions ag a body for relief, @ HERALD re- | rter called on Mr. Blair, Secretary of the Work- | ingmen’s Central Councti, for some information in | regard to the dificuities, if any such Were in eXist- ¥ ence. The reporter had also been in conference | | with Le member of the Workingmen’s | | Union, by whom he was led to belleve that all the | trades unions in the city were under the sway of | the union, bat said nothing in aspersion to | | rival organizations. Mr. Blair, however, spoke treely || of the Workingmen’s Union and of the Committee * of Salety. He says that the Worktnugmen’s Union at the present time consists legitimately of dele- gates from three organizations—the coopers, the | printers and the rly Closing Association. All | | the other members ofthat body are ex-delegate: | When some of the members of the Workingmen’s Union began to look for political preferment regu- | lar (ei objected, believing that such an or- | | ganization ought not to be used for poiitical pur- | | poses. The leaders of the political party ielt that | | @storm was coming, and in order to accomplish | | their own purpose had an amendment to the con- | | stitution passed which gave a seat on tne floor to | { every ex-delegate of the union. The re- | sult of this was that the political party triumphed, but the legitimate delegates | were gradually withdrawn by the societies | | they represented, until finally none were left but | the delegates from the three socleties above named. Nearly all the present officers of the Workingmen’s Union are ex-delegates, some of them, as well as many others of the ex-delegates, | holding political positions, The Workingmen’s | | Union is therefore run at the present time as a political machine, all arts being practisea by the leaders to make political reputation at the ex- | pense of the workingmen. It was to establish a | legitimate central body that the Workingmen’s | | Central Council was established, and the Council | | how occupies the place formerly held by the Work:- ! | Ingmen’s Union. é number of its delegates are constantly increasing, notwithstanding all the secret efforts made by the Workingmen’s Union and the Committee of satiety in opposition to it. In regard to the Committee of Safety, Mr. Blair Says it was originally organized to look after legis- lation at Albany; but the communistie ideas of a | few of its members caused it to appear in @ new | | iight. At all events, the three organizations are working entirely on different principles and can- | not possibly come together for united action in | behall of the working classes, in whose name they are acting or pretend to be acting, | “What relief has the Workingmen’s Central | Councl, afforded to the men out of work? the | ee axes, ' “The object of our organization is not to gtve re- | Mefto workingmen. We have no funds fr tat | purpose, Our receipts are only $1 a year from | each of the fifteen societies, whose delegates com- pose the Council.’’ “What proportion of mechanics would you name | as being idie at the pr.cent time 9 | “should say that turee-tourths of the building trades are out of work. Perhaps twenty per ceut of ype os trades are stil snemployed.)) “Have these men received any a | the panic?” ny assistance during | “Nearly all of this class of men have a little money laid by for a rainy day or for old age. ‘They have been obliged to draw upon this, In those cases, however, where distress existed relief was secretly given by each organization to its own suffering members. Of course, as nearly all the | | | made known.” H | | In rep. to some further questions Mr. Biair said | he was not aware that the societies tatended, | ing any action toward relieving the dificuities | of their Own members or in joining in any demon. | eaeoe in behalf of the unskilled laborers out of ane? NON-SOCIETY WORKINGMEN, ‘Tiere are a large number of workmen in our | great cities, cagecialiy in the city of New York, | who do not, belong to any trade organization—who are “independent” laborers, so 50 spenks These men are call by the trade society men “rats,” and a8 “rats” they are generally alluded to by workingmen §0 distinguish tuem from society’ men or “the unions.” |. These “ratst’ embrace a great many first class | workmen in all departments of industry; and @ HERALD representative has recently calied upon many imdivid “rats” and upon their employ- ‘, obtained from these sources | the followi ts, fignres and opinions, which represent the ig or “anti-trades union’? | side he great labor question, with. special ref- | erence to the more immediate questions of the | hour—“What are the workmen of New York doin; for themseives afd for each other in this period of depression?’ hat are the non-society men, ‘the rats,’ doing for ¢ach other, anda now do the efforts of these latter tq aid each other compare with tire efforts of the sogiety men and trades unions??? In the first piawe, it is claimed by the nun-society | years and ope month has saved $ | “ordinary” times to save enongh to carry him | that | In conclasion it may be states | viding “warm dinners for the suffering tice by adopting a scale of prices sometimes even | as you may direct. Iam fmpetied to this public lower than the same workmen could obtain in vid ually irom their employers or “bosses.” One employer, & cigar manufacturer, claims to be entirely Ineperigehs of the Cigar Makers’ Union, simply because he 18 and has been for some time paying his men higher wages than the union itself demands for them, A workman in the employ of & merchant tailor also assured the writer that his employer nas always paid him and several of lus feliows higher wages than the union schedule. Both of these men state that any good workman in any branch of trade can always got work at higher, or as high, wages as the that the unions only help the mediocre and inferior class of workmen to the great detriment of the better or the more indastrious class. Again, it 18 claimed by the “independent” work- men that the taxes or dues levied by the trade societies work uniairly, the single man being generally taxed as much as the married man, although during @ strike the married man receives a much larger allowance than the bachelor, In the third place, it ts claimed by non-society men that ¢he fundsiof the trades unions are notoriously mismanaged. The moneys reised are oftentimes misapplied or squandered ; unnecessary salaries are paid to unnecessary officers; money is given to favored workmen to travel to and tro at the expense of the union; committees appointed to decide on some mooted case charge for their time, &c.; sometimes they even tmitate our City Fathers so closely as to charge for car tare and; lunches, and all this money unnecessarily wasted » comes out of the pockets of the hard working ‘mechanics. ‘Still further, it is alleged by anti-union men that the whole system of “societies,” by. reducing all, labor to a dead level of uniformity, tends directl; todeaden personal ambition and to relax indi- vidual effort. And lastly, it is held that as trades unions are legitimately intended to regulate “strikes” they lave no right and no power to ameliorate destitu- tion arising from spectat or general causes uncon- nected wita strikes, And all the non-society men with whom the HERALD representative has had an opportunity to converse agree on two very important points in the present agpect o1 the question of Javor aad aestitation— First—That any good non-society man, or “rat,” can earn and can suave more money m the same time than the average society man, being able vo get by bor wages and having less outside demands upon him, ‘One “rat” in @ cigar shop in the Bowery in three 252, and bas with this money bought @ house in enville, N. J. Another non-society man In the same place has saved $800; a third nas $720 to his credit in the savings bank. A journeyman tallor in Broome street has saved over $3,000 in seven years, and laughs at the idea | of trades nnioné. and it seems to be agreed gen- erally that any good workman can carn cnough in through “extraordinary” times like the present. Second—That in cases of misfortune and destitution it ia beld by all non-union men the “mutual benefit societies’ (to which many of the non-sociely men be- long and to which they hold that every non- society man ought to belong) can carrys man more safely through than the trades unions, These mutual beneftt societies are social rather than | trade organizations, have nothing to do with regu- | lating | } he price of work, but provide by small— | very small—assessments for certain considerable sums of money ta be paid to a man in sickness or | in want, or to his family alter his death. Asa | mere matter of fact tt is claimed that there are in | proportion more society men, at the present time, | out of work than non-sodlety) men, and | that the benefit societies and indiviqual aid are doing more for the latter than the former, that a movement has been talked about among Aon-society men to carry out practically an idea proposed by Horace Grecley nearly thirty years ago—t. @., to erect a lapor exchange, to be to workingmen what the Stock Excnange is to brokers or the Produce Ex- | change to the four magnates. This idea has been | lately revived among the better class of working- men and may yet produce some decisive result. TAE RELIEF FUND. pasts 9, I 3en. 3) In addition to the donations already acknowl- eciyed the HERALD has received the following sums | for the relief of the suffering poor:— P. Gray, No. 80 Broadway. 3. M. D., New York. 0, A. S., New Yor! oe A Reader, Bound Brook, N. J.... A widow's mite trom D. R iev. J. A. Kingsbury, Perth Amboy, N. J A New York Post Office clerk HL, New York, Feb, 10. “Ge Geard,! Norwich. In Work. A Sympathizer, Po k. P. KF, for St. Jonn’s Guild. Hienricus William A. Howard, Vineland, N. J inion scale, Oo | More good than you perhaps thought of. When 1 | pounds of meat to a soup house in 4he Sixteenin ward. Please notify the party having harge ot the same. Yours, &c., AMES H, BID, course because of the assurance that the liquor dealers only need the example to insure & large She solo object oF this woe ioe invoks and cnaced- a to invoke - trate. “i “et noe CHARL COBURN, Corner of Houston aud Mott streets. Effect of the Herald's Revelations, To Tus Eprrog oF THR HERALD ;— ‘Thanks for having pubiished names an? num- bers of houses of destitution. You have done called tn East Eleventh street this morning and found the parties you mentioned in yesterday's Paper as deserving of ;help I met several there | on the same errand of charity. There are a great Many poor families in that neiguborhood desery- ing of nel, especially children, who are quite destitute of clothing and bed covering, exposed to tie dampness of cellars. 1 Know there are o great many kind-hearted ladies in this iy who Would gladly render assistance to some poor fam- lites if they only knew exactly where to lind them, So, for the sake of humanity, continue, I posal- bie, to give the numbers and streets where charity is. most needed, and there are picoty of bearts and hands ready to assist them. A LADY, . §.—As blankets and old carpets are #0 much needed for distribution among the poor would it not be well to call upou the pubic for such? New Yor«, Feb, 10, 1874, Prompt Relief for Mrs. ord, To THe Epiror Oy THE HERALD :— Tam Bure the mention of special cases of desti- tution in your paper willdo much good. | called upon Mrs, Ford, the widow with nine children, this morning, but another gentleman was ahead of me; be had sent in coal and provisions while | was there. Another called and lett some money. Ii your reporter will cali there in a day or two he will find the rent paid, food in the house and the Little fdaxen-haired girl with warm snoes 2nd st ings. Respectfuky yours, W. J. He ALL Sewer, Feb. 11, 1874. POPULAR SYMPATHY. oe The Poor Who Have Been Helped by One Institution. TO THE Epitox OF THE HERALD: Many of the poor families whose names and resi- dences are published im your recent issues are now, and have been all winter, receiving aid at the rate of $1 per week in provisions and all the shoes they needed, and, upto the Ist of January, coal, from the New York Association for Improving | the Condition of the Poor, whose headquarters are in room 59 Bible House, third Moor, en- trance on Kighth street. Mr. 3 Brown 1s | President and Kobert B, Minturn Treasurer. This association 1s the best organized of any as- sociation or society for relieving yand improving the condition of ihe poor of the city ander all ctr- cumstances—iar better than is the outdoor de- partment of the Commissioners of Charities, which has but eleven visitors, while this society has 37 yolunteer visitors, wio work lor nothing and find = = | themselves, each of whom has a 1 section of ) the city assigned to his care, the poor ol | whien {tt is his duty to visit and { a duty which in all instances, 1 is faithfully and cheerfully performed. These visit: ors are selected trom our niost worthy citizen No worthy poor family need suffer or starve, as tl sections are so small that the visitors become a quainted with all the poor families in them, while the funds of the society are seldom squandered by assisting the nnworthy poor, The association expends over $50,000 annually in | its charities, 1 am satisfied that if the Commis- sioners of Charities wouid distribute their outdoor poor fund through the visitors of this association they would be tar cheaper and better and more ap- propriately and effectively distributed than they are now. M. New Yor, Feb, 1, 1874. D. An Offer trom # Butcher. To THR EpItoR OF THE HERALD: { wili contribute for the next thirty Guys filteen Knickerbocker Market, 231 Seventh avenue, NEw Yorg, Feb. 11, 1874. “George Frederick Sampson.” New York, Feb. 11, 1874. To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD | We notice a statement in your paper made some days since toa repurter of the HekaLy who was | present at the rooms of the Howard Relief Associ- | tion, by a young mun named George Frederick | S wala ks otBan S ssssssesssessss i. W., for Mrs. Ford and children, 116 Ceutre street . . TOUAh..cscercseeee 2 ‘4 & e g Let a City Charity Wagon Collect Food, Clothing, é&c. To Thy Epitor or THE HERALD: Enclosed please receive five dollars ($5) for the benefit of the poor unfortunates of whom you bave taken euch opportune notice. You will probably receive other contributions for this merciful object to form a fund to be dis- pensed by your humane agents, who are ena- bled to discriminate between the deserving and | the worthless a8 perhaps others are not. In the main humanity is charitable, and were it not for | the fear of imposition many would gladly give to their fellow mortals. 1 would propose to you that the Bureau of Charities of this city and county should cause a wagon to be sent around the city, at intervals, calling at every house to ask if there be any old clothing, hats, shoes, &c., to be given away. 1! know of many persons who would give such articles from time to time were a means | ovided in which they could have confidence. | et the wagon be warked distinctly and the ari- ver wear a badge, 1t might also be weil if certain hotels and restaurants should be dally visited agents and carts of the city and their waste mat- ter taken away. EE. G. H., Post Office box 2,297, New YORK, Feb. 8, 1874. to the Howard Relief Fund, Naw York, Feb. 9, 1874 To THE Epror oF THE BERALD: Your strong notiee has brought in many sub- Contributions scriptions, We enclose list to date, which we have | never seen published. Yours respectiully, HATCH & FOOTE, No. 12 Wall street, | many other ways. | | \ | actively engaged in organizing a committee to | | I { | be held tnis afternoon, | will preside, Sampson, as he gave his name to your reporter. He was ijately in our employment, and was dis- | missed by us tor continued intoxication, He has | falsiied the truth in stating that we owe nim $8, or thai we discharged him about the “making a | try.” We ducharged him because be was drunk | so often that he had become an impediment in- | stead of an assistance to our business. He has taken out in meals ali but $2 of his wages, and, be- sides, we bave acted kindly and tolerantly to uim in | WHITE & GREY. Action of the Twenty-first Ward. Mr. John R, Dillon, of the Twenty-first Ward, is | assist the worthy poor of that ward. A number | of the best citizens of the ward have already in- | terested themselves in the matter, and it is ex- | pected that in a few days an ofice will be opened where all that are in need in the ward wil: be ur- nished with food and fring. The Produce Exchange Meeting. The relief meeting of the Produce Exchange, to will be addressed, it | 1s understood, by the Rey. Drs. Hall and Mont- | omery, Mr. Wiswald, t. Jobn’s Guild, and hers, Mr. Edson, President of the Excuange, | The subscription paper started on Tuesday on | the floor of the Cotton Exchange, by which $500 | - was raised, was inadvertently credited yesterday | The Cotton Exchange. to the Produce Exchange. | PRIVATIONS OF THE BROOKLYN | POOR. How the poor of the City of Churches, which is John Jacob Astor. $250 00 we Jacob Astor, adaitional.... 260 a 1 100 00 50 00 50 00 . Be 50 00 25 00 25 00 , 25 00 E. oo 25 00 A. W. Lowerr 25 00 Harding, Colby & Co. 20 00 T. F. Neville. 12 50 c men Lodg 12 60 R. C.F. 10 00 W. 8. 10 00 M. T. Tripp. 10 00 10 00 600 20 00 5 00 J. Pe. . 5 00 Rev. Dr. Ruperti 5 00 Ladies’ Union Aid Society. 500 , Church street. 250 100 100 0 20 25 00 10 00 5 00 200 B. A. Simonson 100 Cash......... Mr, Stringfleld. i100 Total to date.... Hundred Dollara trom a Bowery Firm. To THE EpiToRr oF THE HeRALD:— Bnclosed please tind our check for $100—$50 of which we desire to ve appropriated to “The Ju. venile Guardian Socicty,’’ for the purpose of pro- poor,” and the paiance to any charitable institution through which it will, im your judgment, the most speedily Teach and rejieve the pressing wants of the destitute. TAYLOR & OO., 163 Bowery. New York, Feo, 11, 1874. A Prudent Man’s Example. To THR Epiror or THE HERALD :— Thave read your account of the terrible su(fer- ing existing in this city among the poor. 1 en- close you herewith $5. 1 wish it were one hun- dred times more. I hope those who can afford wo do #0 will give of their superabandance. You can use your discretion in handing it to any of the asso- clations to help the poor. 1 call myseli a poor man. Ihave nine mouths to fill and backs to Clothe on | @n income that does not allow too many |uxuries, and this small amount is more than 1 have spent in amusements on my family in twelve years. I pray God to help them, and hope this severe lesson they are now learning will teach them to practise that economy which alone has enabled me to spare this small sum to help them. “Respecttully yours, Nagw Yor, Feb, 11, 1874. A RITISHER, A Hint to Liquor Dealers, To THE Eprrorn or THE HERALD :— Enclosed please recetve $5 as contribution to Wc , the membersof the various trade orgauigations men that the ansans often do workman croat iniud | the reliefof wie poor of the city, to ve dlateibuted | also supposed to be a city of charities, are pain- | | fully realizing the severity and privations of tne i | present winter can best be comprehended, per- | | haps, by the readers who scan the subjoined un- { questionable evidence, elicited by the writer from sources Which cannot be impeached. | ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY. | ‘rhe worla renowned celebrity of this society in the cause of charity suggested to the HERaLp representative the propriety of calling upon one of the most prominent officers of the Council of *pirection, Mr. Bernard Bogan, the founder of the St. Vincent Home for Boys in Brook- lyn, and obtaining from him “an inside idea” of the workings of the institution ; during these most trying = times. The following interview will explain the result :— “Might I taquire, Mr. Bogan, whether the St, Vincent de Paul Society realizes the existence of a greater degree of want among the people this win. ter than in the nas! “During my residefice in South Brooklyn, ex. | tending over a period of fourteen years, | have never met so Many causes of actual and real want among the people. So much am! impressed with the necessity of extraordinary exertion on the part of ail who can assist the poor in any way that at the last meeting of the Council of Direction of the St. Vincent de Paul Society | suggested that | our wants be made public—this, too, in violation | of the rules of the society, which require that we keep our movements to ourselves and not make , Known = our labors, But you see, sir, tne present state of want in the | commnnity is such as to require, it | seems to me, that we should make known our con- dition to the peuple and appeal to them for aid in carrying out our work, Last year upward of | $20,000 was distributed under our direction in the | diocese of Brooklyn, ‘The society is divided into nineteen working conferences, which are under the control of the Council of Direction. ‘This coun- cil reports yearly the result of its Jabors to the Head Council, in Paris. in our conterence—that of St. Mary Star of the Sva—a parish hounded by De- | graw street, Hamilton and Tnird avenues, there | are eighty-one families under relief, Last year we | expended the largest amount of any conference in | the city, the sum being upward of $1,600. Our fund just now is at a very low ebb, as there is only $101 in the treasury, and applicants for relief are | daily on the increase,” “You exercise great circumspection, do you not, ip distributing charity?" | “No society could be more vigilant. This parish | | is divided into thirteen districts, and, whenever a | case is reported, a special committee of five mem- bers visit the family, and, after @ personal in- spection and a conversation with the neighbors touching the manner and habits of the applicants, | they report to the meetuur aa to the worthiness or | ) ants. The soci a of the lic: ety hi for its special object the. relief of widows aaa many respectable, pratseworthy. Tallies’: whee ewo! wi the” Husband. “and tather are ving. “We cannot see them starving. There are found where the husbands are drankards; but we are not to let the families starve because of the sins of the anlortunate father, or mother, as the case May be, Last month one Catholic gentleman of this parish contributed $150 worth of shoes for the poor, and yesterday a worthy grocer gave us an order for $60 worth of groceries, which can be had at his store upon orders by the poor trom us,” ‘The above is 8 good sample of the situation im the upper ine of the Twelfth and part of ¢ Sixth ward, On Red Hook Point, where teneme: houses are very numerous and the unemployed are met in groups upon every corner, the priva- tions are very great. STATION HOUSE LoDGERS, Station house lodgers are very numerous nightly, far surpassing any experience by the police in the past. Superintendent Folk yesterday obtainea for the HRRALD writer @ report of the numoer of lodgers in the station houses on the night previous, which is a8 follows :— inet. No. Precinct, Blom. STi Seventh mh Second... iz kichth.. 4 Third, 26 Ninth, Fourth Tenth: 4 Firth. Eleventh. a Sixth. ead POM. Sle eicniceestteth ac a The police officers with whom tue writer col versed upon the subject all state that never before hag the station house been visited by 50 many re- spectable people im quest of “sielier for the night.” Wotle on the subject of. shelter for the penniless and friendicss it ts quite proper here te state that Brooklyn, with all her vaauted ochari- ties and philanthropy, has not @ solitary lodging house whereat strangers can lay Uieir weary liinbs lor a night, To this matter Superintendent Folk will allude in his torthcomiug report. The accommodations at the police stations are tar Irom enticing, and consist only of & platform about twelve feet in length and seven feet in width, slanting towards the floor, There are cover- lets for the lodgers. Inspector Waddy complained, when Captain of the Fourta cinct, recently, that the great oviection to en tertaining lodgers was that there were many who made @ profession of tt, and came regulariy there at night, to the great annoyance of the house- holders in the morning. AS soon as the regular lodgers are turned adriit by the doorman they “canter off,” and go trom house to house in quest of their break‘ast. Of course, there is @ limit te au things, this sort of charity not excepted, and the well-to-do people who were bothered by the lodgers at breakfast complained of the nuisance. It has been said, however, by a puilanthropiat, that “it were better that fifty impostors should accomplish their end than that one worthy object ol charity should perish in the midst of plenty be- uf the callousness of heart begot of umpos- A YOUNG MAN, WELL DRESSED, was observed by an odicer calling from house te house in the vicinity of Police Headquarters yester- day, aud was arrested on suspicion, On bein, tal before the Superintendent he present letters of recommendation from his tormer em- ployers in Massachusetts, where he nad been en- wae aclerk tor years. His story was that ho had been unable to find work of any kind, either im New York or Brooklyn; had waiked about im | vain, in quest of any kind of work, and finally invested his last dollar in pias, which he was peddling trom door to oor, when ne excited the anapicions of a police oficer. He eat bread and cheese and slept upon a der at bight, in company with airiendly fireman. fis story was found to be true, He de- parted with the best wishes for his future success in his new line of business, which will, {t is hoped, open up a brighter avenue of lue to him, “Any- thiug is better than crime or starvation” was his orto, WOULD BE A POLICEMAN, A staiwart man, about six iect high, stalked inte the odice of the police, and, approaching an oft clul, said that he was “hard up.” He had been twe years im the country; bad come irom England. hinee Ms arrival up to within the pase few months he had been working at ms trade as a cigar maker in Albany. Losing his jeb, be came on to Brookiyn; and now, said he, “ lam im dewnright want. 1 have lost ali pride, and every vestage of feeling, save that of hunger, has de- parted irom me, and (approaching the oMeial and whispering in his eur) am desperate, and am ready to accept the position of a common police- man in this city.” He pansed ‘or a reply. The onic pple pos feed iglit lace, rejomed, “I have met several who are ready to become policemen,'* “Yes,” gaid the Kngishman, “aod 1 am aot ashamed to wear the livery of @ Grooklyn police- man. 1 must live.’ If ig neediess to state that the poor fellow left, convinced that he was in error as to the unimportanee attached to the place of even “@ Common policeman” at this trying juncture. His (ast words were threats at sel- aonihilution, against which he was charitabiy ad- vised, as 1t would entail au additional expense of iy Upon tie taxpayersin the shape of coroners’ fees. THE OUTDOOR RELIEF BUREAUS | of the Commissioners of Charities are besieged daily by hundreds of applicants for aid, Wiich ws given Oat 1n sums of $1, orders for groceries and quarter tons 01 coal. The appropriation ts almost exhausted, The applicants number many person who for the first time in their lives seek public charity to preserve their lives. Beggars are more numerous on the streets, aud few are found so hard hearted as to refuse to hear their appeal tor | money to buy food. Trades people, vutciiers and bakers particularly tell pitiful stories of taose who daily apply to tnem for meat and bread to appease the cravings of hunger. ‘Piease read this” said a Tespectable, Cleanly-looking woman, as she handed a letier to the writer, who responded to a rin, the door beil ot his dwelling house last night. contents of the letter was the oft told tale. bearer was a widow with a lamily, and no money, food or fuel. MISERY AMONG MECHANICS, “{ have never Known so many good machinists and engineers to be out of employment as at present,” remarked the Inspector of Boilers, Mr. ‘fnomas F. Powers, yesterday. I Know excellent engineers who have been receiving $3 50 and $@ per day, and they are now jookiug 10 vain tor laboring work of any description to ‘keep the wolf from the door.’ One man who was employed by the Bridge Company has a wife and six children. ‘There can be no better engineer. He lost his place and gota job to wheel a barrow on the docks. Thia, too, he lost, and to-day ue tells me he will starve in a few days unless he can get work. There is another man, Johu Corrigan, living in Van Buren street, buried two children last week, has another one sick, and has had no work for mouths. He would starve to death bat for the help of his neighbors, who are poor and cannot do much for him. His landlord, who ts » poor man, threatens to put him out for non-pay- ment of rent.” WAIL OF A VETERAN. The HERALD representative met a soldier, a maR who served as a non-commissioned Officer in the gallant 170th regiment, of the irish Legion, during the war for the Union, and listened to a sad story of national ingratitude from the veteran, who now holds «a trying position in the legion of the unempioyed, The veteran said:—“My case ts | a@ hard one. 1 am @ marblecutter by trade and was lp business for myself until last fall, when I failed, and had to look elsewhere for means of earn- ing a living. ‘The marble bustness§was doing little or notoing. What shops were going would retain none other than their old employes, In December { got a job in the Ordnance Department of the /Navy Yard, from which, after one month, I was discharged. Ihave served in the army for seven years, and never bad work from the government before ihe job I speak ol. Tiere 1s plenty to be done in the Navy Yard. Why are we soldiers treated in such an ungraterul manner? I am driven to desperation, almost, My family are in want, and I cannot rest quiet and sce them starve. There is no work for me on any side. I don’t like to beg. I snall not starve.’ ‘The reporter left the poor fellow ruminating as he went upon the alternative jefe this soldier of | the Republic, to whom. with hundreds of thousanas ol others, so much was guaranteed when they left for the war. ._A DESTITUTE CLERK. At No. 134 Nelson street, South Brooklyn, there is a cas it poverty that is deserving of tne pracsi- cal sympathy of the benevolent. In the basement o! this house lives, or rather exists, Alired Blowe, his wife and three children. — Blowe ts an English- man, about filty years of aj He is evidently @ man of superior birth and education. He is fitted for the per/ormance of clerical work, but he lias found that younger men prevent lim from obtaining this kind of employment. There are hundreds of clerks to be obtained, he found, at $9 a week salary. He has been driven to do laborers’ work, but has been obliged, from physical inability, to abandon it. He 14 now a com. mission agent for “corner grocers,” and can only earn an average of $2 or $3.4 week. This, by sick- ness, he has beén unable to continue, and the family have subsisted for weeks on $2 50 r week, earned by the eldest child, who is ning years OL . The wile is & young, accomplished woman, who Is confined to her bed by rheumatism, contracted by sleeping in this miserable, damp basement, HELPING HAND, ovr. ‘The managers of the Helping Hand call attention to thelr soup tickets, Which are for sale at the oitices of the local papers of Brookiyu, Wesiern District, and at their Kitehen corner of Atlantic and Grand avenues, The holder of a ticket is entitled to @ qu of soup and half a loaf ot pread, Which can be eaten on the premises or carried to families. The soup kitchen was opened in November, The pubiic are urged to come forward now and sustain the work by pur- chasing the soup tickets for their own distribu- tion. veral of the managers are present dally, between ten and tweive o'clock, and applicants at those hours will have the personal visits of these managers at their houses, and Jurther relief as far as practicable, CHARITABLE ENTERTAINMENTS, An entertainment will be given at the Academy of Music next week in atd of the Brooklyn poor, under the auspices of the St. Patrick Mutual Alh- ance. The Executive Council of the Alliance 1s now periecting the arrangements therefor. A lecture wiil be given at St. Mal Hall, Court street, near Nelson, next week, under the auspices of the St. Vincent be Paul Society, 1 ald of the poor of the parish of the “Star of the Sea.” To- mnorrow (Ihursday) evening the lecture in aid of St. Peter's Hospital, under the care of che Sisters of Charity (a charity that has been highly com- mended by ministers of various denominations). will be delivered at the Academy of Music by Wen- dell Phillips. The attendance will, doubticas, ve very great,