The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1874, Page 4

4 ‘THE POOR. ———E— Progress of the Work of Relieving the Destitute. VIsITs OF THE CHARITABLE. Contrast of Wealth and Poverty. The OPENING OF SOUP HOUSES. | Financial Exhibit of the Charita- | le Institutioas. Below will be found a number of communications in reierence to the widely spread sympathy ior we destitute poor. They have been selected Irom a large number of kindred letters sent for publication, These, however, serve to indi- cate that the best thought of the country has been directed to the great question ol charity, and many of the suggestions of the writers are worthy of a thoughtful consideration and discussion. Whe exhibit of charity presents the Same characteristic features that have been apna- Tentin all the exhibits yet published. Some of the institutions are managed on selfish principles, anda minority on principles of true pullanthropy. ThE soup HOUSES. New YORK, Feb, 17, 1874, To THE Eprvon oF THE HERALD:— Will you please state in to-morrow’s HERALD that the foliowing James Gordon Bennett soup houses will be opened to the public at twelve o'clock. Tickets to be procured at the Station houses of each precinct :— Sixth precinct—No, 110 Centre street. Seventh preciuet—No. 79 Kast Broadway, Eleventh precinet—No, 285 Second street, Fourteenth precinct—No. 53 Spring street. And oblige. Kespectiully, L. DELMONICO, THE CHARITY MATINEE. Our advertising columns show in what manner Monager Daly comes first before the foot lights to follow our suggestions about dramatic benetits for the poor. He bad previously proposed to perform n a fortnignt the new London comedy of “Charity,” but now he superimtends next Thurs- day a matin¢e performance to aid that New York charity which is demanded by those tragedies of penury now being enacted in every ward. The Vokes family are to characteristically second him. ‘wo of the gentlemen act as ushers, one of the ladies officiates in the sale ot programmes to the charitably disposed, and the other sister presides at the bouquet Stall. Later in the day the entire family play in one of their clever burlettas, The joint companies of the theatres under Mr. Daly’s management con- tribute their taients to the representation of a Javorite comedy; and Humpty Dumpty Fox with Mr. Frederick Vokes expect to show how sons of Morus can don toe garb of tragedy as Richard and Richmond on the battle fleld of Bosworth. Each hotel has offered to assist in the sale of tickets. So there is every reason for realizing many thousands of dollars by this prompt and effective response, which the youngest among the Metropolitan Wwanagers has made to our original call. A CHARITY CONCERT IN HARLEM. | Miss Addie Jennings, of Harlem, a young lady with a fine sopran® voice and of high musical culture, gives a concert for the benefit of the poor, at the Universalist church, Harlem, on the evening o/ the 6th of March. PICTURES GF POVERTY. Applicants at St. John’s Guild—The { | | | Poor Still Pouring In—The Contrast of | Wealth aid Destitution as Witnessed at St. John’s Chapel—Four Hundred and One Garments Given to the Desti- tute Yesterday. From morning till night yesterday there poured Into the ofice of St. Joan's Guild, in Varick street, hundreds of pour people, many of them in thread- bare, patched and ragved habiliments, asking for food and clothing. By their side came ladies who arrived in carriages, bringing hampers of food and | Paid for six physicians and janitor. Packages of clothing, which were quickly trans- | ferred to the needy. All the beneficent ones did not come in coaches, Dut many a bright-eyed, kind-hearted lady carried her offering in her arms and was as kindly re- ceived as her richer neighbor, Silks and velvets jostled with poor, faded merino and cotton gar- ments, and fine broadcloth came in contact with coarse hairciotn and linen, blage seemed to take heart from the close prox- imity in which wretchedness was brought to Wealth, and kinder ieeiings were established be- | tween the rich and the poor. Not only this but those who were far removed from suffering and knew its terrors only from newspaper reports | began to feel as ail WORKERS AMONG THE UNFORTUNATE do feel when they come in actual contact with the distress that surrounds us, Many ladies became so interested in the poor shivering and starving creatures before them that they leit the Guild in | Went with them to their | y, and Others said, “Mr. Wiswall, the scenes I have witnessed here to-day are a revelation to me. 1 had thought all beggars impostors because | have been so oiten ridiculed a3 one deceived; but now I see that my own instincts as a woman were right, and that otners’ criticisms were unjus said an Engush lady, who, stopping at one of the principal hotels, came to make am overing. “Henceforth I shall have a better opinion The motley assem. | .” “This is acharity that is a charity,” | of | America, and Selieve, with Mr. Thackeray, rather | thao retain che earuer impressions I derived. An- ther remarked to the representative of the HERALD, “i am astonished! J have for a long time been a contributor to tue different charities, ve- cause I was svlivited apd recommended to sub- | geribe, but J never before found one in whica I felt 80 interested, heart andsoul.” The loliowing is a brief resus of A PEW OF THE CASES with which the representative oi the HERALD be- came familia . Fitzgerald, No. 39 Water street, died Monday from consumption. Joan Haggerty, the landlord, collected $21 and addeu $4 from bis own pocket, with which he paid the ex- mses of the funeral, The wife has now a room ive feet by ten Jeet in size situated in a Waver street attic, and tor which she jy rent. There is asmall stove in the room but no bed, the poor woman sieeping with ber children upon @ blanket on the bare floor, The landlord gave her $9, but could afford no more. She was supplied with food and coal. \*'A UNION MAN” (%) Mr. and Mrs. French, No. 120 West Fortieth street, occupy three apartments on the lower Soor of a tenement house, Mr. French, a carpenter by trade, has bad oply six Weeks’ work in twelve months, and they nave six children under tweive | years ol age. some A were entirely destitute of jood and clothing and owed rent for the past ives months, They were furnished with iood aud clovuing. ‘There were hundreds of other cases, some of them of much greater Importance than the above, Which it is impossible to give to-day. BUY A BOOK. Mr. J. A.M. sent a contribution of 258 volumes Of standard historical, classical and miscellaneous books to be soid lor the benedlt of the puor. THE GRAND CHARITY CONCERT, Lieutenant voionei Join D, Camp, of the Twenty- second regiment N. G, Y., seul yesterday to St. John’s Guid 500 tickets to’ the grand charity concert to be given, under the direction of Mr. P. 5. Gumore, at the armory, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue, on Monday evening, March 2, 1874 ‘The tickets will be ior sale to-day at Ditson’s, William A. Pond & Co.'s, Wiliam Hall & Co.'s Schirmer's, J. L. Peters & Co.'s, sheldon & Coos, and at Brentano's, in Union square, i. he committee appointed to torward = tions and subscriptions to the tamiiy of he-cuur poser — state that they have redeemed twenty- nine articles from the pawnvrokers, wich places h 1i¥ 1M @ Much better condition. ‘There 1s a larger number of articles pledged at another | pawnobroker’s (including the actress’ ed ring), but they will soon be redecmed nd the baker's bill of $75 paid, A gentleman called jast night and paid $15 for two weeks’ rent i advauce, but resased to give Lis name. vs ys $5 per moutn | | | | | | THE OHARITY EXHIBIT. pee AS 2 FP Pea ca ‘Twenty More Institutions Heard From— ‘The Noble Work of Some of the Homes and Schools, We continue our synopsis of the financial ex- hibit of the charitable instivutions of the city. It will be observed that a number make good exhib- | its, white others, dectining to state how much of | thetr disbarsements are for salaries, merely refer to their published reports, wherein the s#laries are | darkly hid in unintelligible figures that even an | expert cannot fathom. From other sour | Total receipts. | Paid tor sala 4 | Paid ror other. purposes—ivod, | “ing country hospiual, &c. | <0 $108,813 14 the country home at New Brighton lor the care of 464 children, and is an average of $141 30 tor each child per year, Total expenditures. ‘The above includes tl he expenses for CATHOLIC ORPHAN As¥Lu! iD FLT INST STREET, FOR 1573. B $15, AND MOTT ROMAN STRERTS, FIFTH AVENUR a! MADISON AVENUE AND PIPTY. Received irom city... Kecaived from other so! Total receipts. Paid sal Expended in relief. ‘Total expended on $) 18,563 78 Ther ‘e 1,500 children im the asylums named bove. No officers or memovers of the Board of Mauagement receive pay. THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR Recetved from Clty ..-.....ce.cee Reevived from other sources.... Paid (or sataries and commission. Printing, $436 22, incidentals, $24 Total....... 4 ) Expeaded in relie’.. sees see sees To hundred and eighty-four persons were re- | heved, some o1 whom were forwarded to their | homes mm the New Lngiand States. The permanent ) iund amounts to $40,570 30, and is gradually in- creasing. THE WESTERN DISPENSARY FOR 1573. Received from citv sate Salaries paid druggist and heii NEW YORK INFANT ASYLUM FoR 1873. Received irom city Received (rom othe! Total receipts...... Paid rent, $2,500;* house other expenses, $1,075 92. * The report does not sh probably hidden in the item “house exp AND INDUSTRIAL SoctEsY, | TO FEBRUARY 16, 1874, Received from city...\.... Received from other sources 10,167 47 $5,373 52; Prow | Total receipts Pail for sewing teac Paid 1or porter’s wages. Total salary and wages Expended in actual rehef. Total expenditures. All educational branches are tavght gratuitously ladies of the society. 1,750 girls, tograpay, by ‘The socteiy had admitted and are teaching 1,500 sewing, 20 pho- 77 bookkeeping, 29 lace working, 63 writing and copying; have placed 56 goveruesses, 82 saleswomen, 3¥ forewomen, 42 finishers, 73 handsewers on fine work and 36 servants, Over 1,500 have been supplied with employment. In the course of a few days the society will remove into a building well fitted jor opening « traming school for domestic servants, agid a free reading room, where respectable girls can have access tu whole- some literature in their unoccupied hours. Other departments will be united to those already estab- lished, in order to carly out the object to which their efforts are devoted—namely, the heiping of tae honest and industrious poor to help themselves, THE MIDNIGHT MISSION FoR 1573, Received from city...... : Nothin; Received irom ouher sourc! SUS 45 | Total receipts........ $11,354 45 &e... Paid for salaries. $1,206 00 FIRST STRERT, AND | New York Lying. im Asyiui Society for Relier ot Ruptured and Crippled... : York ville Mispensar: nee 1,284 | Bor Jathoiic louse of Good hee 4 418,559 97 1,148 98 Ww 's Protective Union. 1,35) 00 ~ | nts Mission, 10,046 93 i) New York Juvenile Asylum. 194,675 @ Roman Catholic Protectory 855,042 14 10,374 38 | eHome tor Aged and Init . | brew 10,945 27 1,274 50 | Society Children... 1,931 59 Nothing. , | Women’s fHospitai + 14,138 26 = Female Chrisuan liome cesses 6,300 21 { New York Upthalmic Hospital: 14 75 New York Colored Home. 66 | St. John’s Guild 87 Shelter tor Respectable Gir! m= Nothing. | Home ior Aged Women, Chure Holy Communion 21 Nothing. Female City Mission 00 i) Chapin Home for A: i) 254 09 House of Kest for Consu: P 16 1,860 Hebrew Benevolent society. 00 750 00 New York Institute tor Blind. ; 19,805 12 | House of Reine, Randall's Island 33,238 12 | On account of mortgaze and improvements. ‘3675 85 Paid in relict......cccccsesere ieee 5.573 69 Total expenses.......+..++ : ez, +B10,460 54 ‘The report for the year ending February, 1974, shows tie total receipts from Varlods sources | omer than city (batt apeataees 7. BLL354 45 | Paid for purchase ot home and general im- | | — provements rea aoinimory ce) Balance on hand 1,087 54 jee $5,335 39 | Expense of house, includin $6,784 69 FEMALE GUARDIAN 8: Received trom State Received trom scoot tund Keceived trom other sources. ocieTY FoR 187: Total receipts. . Paid matron, nurses and assistants, Paid janitor ami servanis.. ... . Px Paid teachers of Home and Ll individual schools 18.28) 40 Paid im salaries....0.......e. cesses sevens 18,553 General expenses for Homie and seliools 4 Actual relief expenditures $10,154 08 There are no salaries paid to oficers as far ag the treasurer’s Teport shows Other than those Mentioned avove. Number in Howe, 505 for the year; total admitted, 937; dally attendance in Scools, 4,568; Dumber O! teachers and assistants, ou. NORTHWESTERN DISPENSARY FOR 1872. Received frow city.........- Keceived trom other sources. Total receipts Expended in relict for medicines... Total for relief and salaries, Number of patients treated | Prescriptions issued... | ORPHAN HOUSE AND sSYLOM, PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1873. Pox Is Received from city......... | Received trom other soure | Total receipts 3 - $13,110 12 Paid for teachers and servants and relic! $14,781 SL No salarted officers. There are 147 children in the house. The ¢alaried persous are & matron, three teachers and six domestics, METHODIST EFISCOPAL MOUSE FOR AGED, 255 west roRTY- SECOND STREET, FOK 1573, Received from city a Received trom other sources Total receipts.......... | Paid tor salaries, servants, &c. | Paid tor other expenses... Total paid out. ... Less salaries and wages. Actual expenditures for relief. MILT DISPENSARY, FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMB Received trom city..... Aaisaict Reveived irom vther sources. | Total receipts. salaries of physicians, apothe ‘expenses, interest, & Paid genera! ‘Total disbursements Total persons treate STRANGERS’ REST, PEARL AND C TRE STREETS. No aid received; supported by Jonn H. Keyser:— Tota dishursements ae =. $9,009 00 Less salaries pad superinieadents wad servants 954 00 Actual relief expenditures $9,016.00 Average number of persons relieved per annum 70 Persons are allowed to board and lodge free for K3 aud longer in urgent cases, STRANGERS’ HOSPITAL. + seseeesee Nothing BWM sossh cy cveiteck sae 4 auras of patients, $7 per including It ia private institution, ser. alari onducted by John I. K Recelpts............. Nothing Paid tor salaries $35) 00 Paid tor medicines... 24 0 Expenses...... isu ae Tn) Number of persons treated ¥ 4,077 FRENCH BRNEVOLENT SOCIETY, FOR 1873. Receipts, cash teens seeee Nothing Value of articles contributed. Stoo 4 Paid (or salaries....... ‘ Nothing expended in reliet, supplies, &c.... vovee S5,H60 SE THE FRE DORMITORY FOR WO! POR THE LAST 8: S, 20 SOUTH FIFTH AVENUE, N MONTHS. Received, contributions $543 80 Received, articles vaiued at 30) 00 Total receipts..........40 $543 8) Paid for 6EFVANtS.. vee eeeceeceeeessseee $15 0) Paid for rent, bedding, supplies, ac OO) 12 Total expenses. $65 12 Total lodgings furnist 1,219 Thirty-five can be accommodated nightly. The institution 18 conducted by the society of Fra+ ternais of the Church of the Strangers. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE BLIND, NoveMvER 1, 1572, 10 saxvany 15, 1874, Received trom city tor building tund 4 + rom donations and suvseriptions. FROM Total receipts.. Total receipts salaries, wages, ed in actual relie 1, about Total disbursed .,. Nothing. | $15,110 12 | | | entitled “Objections of Charity Experts to Charity | | Paid tor salaries, wages, &c. wo S11y 00 Vaid tor actual Feitet.. ‘S11 0D Total disbursed $5,321 00 | Average number of inmates... ” “ THR CHILDREN’S FOLD, FOR 1873. Received trom city. é seh Noping From other sources...... FAW) Value of articles contributed, about, vere ¢ SO Number of children supported... ahieoe @! The children are sent to public schools, thus Saving expense of education, ST. STEPHEN'S ROMAN CATHOLIC HOME, FOR 1 873. | Received from city . Nothing. Received (rom St. 51 $5,607 58 Vaiue of articles contributed. 150 00 Total receipts. . $5,817 83 | Paid for salaries. Nothin Actual amount exp: 317 Recapitulation, Expended Cost of Dis fa bursing, Sale Society. 3 | Nursery and Child's Hospitat. $09, 92 Ot | Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. 19311 12 SUL 09 Northwestern Dispensary . Protestant Kpiscopal Church phaas! Home and Asylum Methodist Kpiscopal Church jor Ag Demilt Dispensary. Rest French Benevolent Society Free Dorinitory ior Wo nei ‘60 v0 Society for the Kelicf of BAAR scosisics 19 3,181 00 Children's “Pold 4,00) 09 St Stephen's Roman Home... Pe os sass 817 83 Association tor Befriending Children and DIPS. «+ v0 + $4106 94 | Samaritan Home ior Aged Men.::.. "804 43 Cancer Dispensary eet 36 Fifty-first street Bread aud’ Bee! House... 9,600 00 Nothing. 6,100 005,285 1,130 00 ‘300 | Society St. Paul, 1871, ‘*""" 113.074 00 Nothing. Womans Prison Association, 1872.. 7,119 08 715 W | | Howard Mission and Howe for Lit- | 6,00 38 | New York Eye and iar German Ladies’ Aid society....0.". 4.794 87 Carmel chapel (Young Men's Chris- | “tan Association) . + 4,368 38 House of Good shepherd. -.00. °°.) "bez 04 Roman Catholic Poundting Asyliim. 150,489 35 Home tor incarables. 15,387 32 St. Vincent's Hospital... ‘524 80 | Northern Dispensary. ro 7,310 33 | & Vincent's Nome tor Boys. 5,589 Honse and Schoo! of Industry’ 16,00) 3 Home tor 3.885 16 ge Men aud Coup! Women’s Aid society New York City Mission, tor mission- | 2.156 Wp Nothing. New York German Society. St. Elizabeth's Hospital. West side German Hospital THE RELIEF FUND. Cash received by the HeRaLp for the poor, not previously acknowledged :— A Widow, for Mrs, McAuley, Ni Eleventh street. S. and E. W., for a Eleventh street. Helen, to help feed the hungry. M. D., C., Philadelphia. ANCraM..........464 oe N—a, lor the destitute composer ©. W. Catirey, Captain Second precinct police, for Mrs. MCAUICY....... sececceeseeosses sees C. W. Caffrey, Captain Second precinct police, for Leopold Unger, No. 436 South street. 3 00 i. L. W., for Mrs. Kenny, No. 139 West col Satencsseceseeess 2 00 John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. | The following additional contributions were | received yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall for the | poor of the Filta and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry C. De Witt:— (Those desiring to visit the office of the Guild | will remember that it is in the school buildings at- | tached to St. Joun’s chapel, Varick street, between Laigiut and Beacn.] | Miss E. L. iwenty-filth street. St. Messrs E. Brothers. $15 00 | Heb. XJIL, 16 2 00 | 3 00 100 100 J, 165 00 E. Vv 5 00 W. BL AL. a 80 00 Mrs. Theodore M,. Barnes 10 00 | Mrs, Geo. Andrew: 3 00 | 5 00 100 100 f eee fi) J. W. B., tor the !amily of the composer. 10 00 Arcadian. 6 00 Througn C.E. Horsely, Generai J. W. Bar- | nard, for the tamily of tue composer... 10 00 | | $189 00 8,931 56 Grand total eoseee + oee ++ $4,120 55 CokRECrIO: uonymous yesterday should have | been $5 25 instead of $5. Contributions to this fund may be sent to the | HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; ©. V. B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire In- | surance Company, No. 149 Broadway; Andrew W. Leggat, Collector of Assessments, new Court House; George Wilks, M.D., No. 16 North Washing- ton square; G. K. Lansing, Earie’s Hotel; G. J. N, Zabriskie, Casmer of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon | & Co., No. 677 Broadway, and Key. S. H. ' Weston, .D., No. 3 East Forty-ifth street, or to the Rev. Alvan Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, St. John’s chapel, Varick street. Packages of clotiing, groceries, &c., should be sent to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets, or 1! an order is sent a | messenger Will call for any packages, Mrs. Judge Brady, No, 19 West Thirty-third street; Mrs, Joseph Delaticld, No, 475 Filth avenue, and Mrs. F. P. Earle, No. ¢ est Fifty-secona Ud have kindly consented to receive subscrip- A Family Gift. No. 16 BOND SraeeT, New Youk, Feb, 17, 1874. | To THE Eprtor or THE HERALD:— Please find enclosed $15, $1 trom each of my nine | children and $6 from self and wife. Please use it where you know it will best help the needy, and | oblige yours respectiuliy, WILLIAM A, BATC! OR, Also $2 from a friend L. G. W. iar Howard Retief Committee. New York, Feb. 17, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD ‘The Howard Relief Committee will open a branch house for feeding and lodging the homeless poor at No, 61 Thompson street, on Thursday afternoon, February 19. Arrangements ave been made for feeding 6,000 persons daily, and giving lodgings to 100 persons at night. Pliin meals, soup or bread and coffee will be served from six ‘to nine o'clock A. M, and from three to six o’ciock P.M. Women wili be served with meals from eieve! o'clock noon, a EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HOWARD RELIEF. OFFERS AND SUGGESTIONS. The No Niwistweaiton: “Administration of Charity by Corporate Institutions. To THE EDITOR oF THe HERALD: I desire to thank you on behalf of tmyself, as well as Of many friends, jor your several articles in Saturday’s HkRaLD on the administration of the charities of the city, but more especially lor the one They Cannot Profit By,” With the sentiments of that article I most thor- oughly and heartily sympathize, It so happens thatl, whoam nov the distributer of any other man’s gilts, 4nd whose humble contributions to alleviating the wants of my jelow men have been made always from my own purse, have this wine ter been brought face to face with facts which rove to me indisputably the correctness of the | Hewanp's assertions. [ am especially impressed With that of statements wherein you assert that, in some cases at least, the money lavished by our citizens on Certain of these public societies is in Some strange Way absorbed to such an extent that the poor ian jor Whose beneft the donation was made realizes but a small portion ot one dollar oul of every ten that are contributed by the New York public, which has ever veen most generous to a deserving objects, t so chanced, not long since, that a man wh ad Doan 9 mre acquaintance or ‘mine fell {ato the ee . Sickness and death Pha were in his " Sent ior me, L fougd that his wretched home had be: ited an of well-paid r noted oity charities, who had prayed and exhorted with the fering and sorrowing ner, and gone away irom him and his hungry cluldren witaout one of them leaving the price of @ loaf of bread behiod him, It was by none of these persons that the dead wife was buried, the children ted and the man at iast ites in a way to earo @ tiving for him- sell and his little ones, Thave since that time taken some pains to ob- serve the workings oO! our various vreat charities, Manhattan Is.and contains only 16% square mies of land, or about 10,750 acres, with & populatio) has since, doubcless, increased to over 1,000,000, OL that 1,000,000 we have 463,492 people living in 14,872 houses, being an average of over 31 persons to each house. [tis among these people that the greatest want exists. How severely many Oo! these people suffer God only knows, and iew oi their fellow men ever take the trouble to find out, The in] | sufferers are left, for the most part, to friends who are attracted to them by per-onal appeals, to the chance visits Of the police, or to starvation, The vital records of 1573 show & to'al Ol over 909 deaths in our city from ‘marasinus Any intelli- gent and truthful physician will say that in 99 Cases out of 100 of these, “marasmus” is but an- | other name for starvation, Besides these there were, last year, 3,000 infants abandoned to the tender mercies of our institu. tions under tne charge of the Commissioners of Charities; hundreds nore found @ home in tne Orptaa Asylum of the Good Sisters of Charity; and in addition to them 113 infants, born alive, were farbage boxes, &c., d by motuers who found dead tn old ash barrels, where they had been abandon could not hope to feed them. ‘This state of facts govs to show & most horrible apathy On the part of tuese societies wiiose duty it isto attend to these matters. If they did their work hali-way honestly taese things could not oc- cur. Itis their duty to prevent snch horrors, be- cause they have recetved, at their own solicitation, the money of the public to be applied to purposes of charity. When they fatl to properly apply this they rob—they rob triple-handed—they rob the givers of the money of the good they hoped to do, they rob the poor of the nelp tuey were entitled to expect, and fast, and jeast important ol all, they rob themselves of the reputation of being fair and honest men. ‘Throughout the present hard winter, as in every | other time, the newspapers have been the truest administrators oj the people’s gifts. Let a man | give $10 to an “organized society,” it will be found that $9 go to pay the superintendent and other oficers, and halt a doilar goes for car tare and | cigars for the agent who carries the last hali dol- lar to the poor family tor whom the original $10 were given. On tne other nand, $10 given toa newspaper is at Once handed over to a trusted man, with instructions to look the case up and apply the money where it will do the most good. In this manner the amouut given goes to the exact spot it was intended to reach. It would. of course, be asking too much to re- quire the Dewspapers to take charge of the tull and proper distribution of all the funds given in clarity in this city, The principle, however, holds oud, Which is that of persouai visitation to suffer- ing famiues by either the donors of the chari- ties or their immediate and _ trustworthy agents. Visitation by society agents, | as we know, fails, These paid visitors too often walk oif with all the money in their own pockets. Tne writer speaks whereof he knows. ore times than 11 1s necessary to specily here has he this winter been made aware of che pressing needs of families who have been visited by the agents of certain of our great ciarities, who have in no case leit the suderers any the better lor their visits, once more I wish to thank the HERALD for Its 0 | stigmatizing by the names they deserve these superintendents, secretaries, agents and other lazy drones attached to some of our Charitable or- ganizations, who live and fatten on the money given by charitable peopie for the veneflt of the poor, who, after all, have to do without it. In conclusion, I desire once more to wish you God-speed in your efforts to induce benevoient givers to the needy to become their own aimoners, and to attend to the personal distribution ot their own gilts. In this way shall not only God be pleased, but the sweet name of charity be honored, and the truest help of suffering mankind be achieved throughout all our land, . FEBRUARY 15, 1874. An Appeal for Poor Susie McAuley. New York, Feb. 16, 1874. To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— Having read in your issue of this morning of the destitution of Mrs, McAuley, of No, 432 East Eleventh street, I called on that unfortunate old woman, and though it may not be dificult to find numbers of widows as poor, a8 sorrow/ul and as deserving as she anaoubdtedly is, yet I think it would scarcely be possible, large as the city and | wide as the sorrow is, to find a sadder human coun- tenance than that of her young daughter. It is almost impossible to zuess at her age (fifteen), so thin and emaciated is her frame, and her large, hollow biack eyes have the very mourniulest ex- pression that ever yet human eyes wore. If only the young, the nappy and the rich would go to her house their hearts would be filled with comvassion jor the misery of poor Susie McAuley. THEKLA, A Charity Box at the Baxter Hop. New York, Feb. 16, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Ata meeting of the Baxter Hop Association, held at the Sinclair House, Monday evening, Feb- ruary 16, 1874, the Jollowing resolutions were unanimously adopted :— Resolved, That at the Calico Hop of the Baxter Asso- | ciation, to be held at Ferrero’s Assembly Rooms, Tam- many building, Tuesday evening, February 17, 1574, a box pe placed in a Prominent position to receive any and all donations that may be made by the company present for the benetlt of the poor ot New York. Resolved, That the amount collected be sent to the editor of the New York Hkrnaup, for distribution as he may see fit. WILLIAM H. KIRBY, Jr., President. Jauxs Bruce, Jr., Secreta: Poverty Among Those Too Poor and Modest to Beg. To THE EprTor OF THE HERALD :— As a friend to the poor I desire to thank you for the great good you are doing in arousing the feelings and sympathies of the good citizens of New York and Brooklyn in behalf of the poor in our midst. You are accomplishing a good work and may God bless you for it. aiter all that has been done and 1s still being done, there is much more to be accomplished ina direction not yet observed. There is a certain class of persons in our cities who have thus tar been almost entirely overlooked. Iallude to the educated and intelligent, and, in many cases, highly cultivated widows and orphans, who have been reduced to destitution, and, being ashamed of their poverty, are 1eluctant to ask for relief at the the hands of others. They would, doubt- less, endure any degree of suffering rather than beg or make their real condition known to the public. We would do well to search out such NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. | which it is expected will be nere to-day. Meve that a case of distress has only to be made Public in urder to be generously relieved. So be~ Meving { desire to call attention to the ciroum- Stances of Mrs, Smith, a poor American widow, re- siding at No, 334 West Twenty-first street. She is @ straw hat maker, but can obtain no work at this time oi! the year, She has two children, the eldest @ totally helpless tdtot boy o/ eleven ye: ana the younger a boy oi six. The idiot coquires all. ber rsonal attention, and the entire family would ave starved and frozen during the past lew weeks except for the casual charity of one or two per- i 1 the burden according to the census of 1870, of 962,000, which | 2008. | 18 there no way to relieve her & of that idtot, to whom she clings with a mother's proverbial devotion to a deformed child? And will you not. sir, act as her almoner, to receive and | transmit to her such sums as those who read this letter may be disposed to contribute ior oue of the uncomplaming poor? F NINETEENTH WARD. New York, Feb, 14, 1874. To Tas Epiror or THE HERALD :— Wishing to aid you in your good work I will cheerfully contribute as foows:—One-eighth bag flour, one bag salt, each dav, for two weeks, Le as- Sist the deserving poor-of the Nineteenth ward. B. J. WRIGHT, No, 916 Second avenue. To- THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL! Please insert the following:—{ will give free medical advice at my oMice or visit the houses of all families in distress in Yorkville or of those rec- ommended tome by the Committee of Relief of the Nineteeth ward. Hours, eight to ten A. M.; five to six P.M. Yours Feapectfuliy, Dk, Z. GOLDSCHMIEDT. FOURTEENTH AND TWENIY FIRST WARDS. Free Medical Advice and Medicines for the Poor. 1,289 BRoaDWay, Naw YORK, eb. 16, 1874. To THE EpiTOR oF THY HERALI Please insert the following:—Dr. J. W. Van Namee will give advice and medicines to the poor free, every Friday, from ten A. M. to two P. M. Otiice, 1,289 Broadway, between Thirty-ftourth and ‘Thirty-fifth streets, J, WILLIAM VAN NAMBE, M. D. THE STRiKES. a eS Tho Lock-Out of the Capmakers and the Cigarmakers Continues—Letter from @ Prominent Capmaker—Ene Cigar Manufacturers Taking on Green Hands—The “Derrickmen.”’ The capmakers held their usual crowded meet- ing yesterday afternoon, in No. 56 Orchard street. One manulscturer, whose nume was not given, sent in @ new price list to the workmen, lt showed somewhat higher rates than the schedule formerly submitted by the combined manuiacturers, The new list Was tabled, because it did not meet the demands of the strikers, and had not been prop- erly brought beiore the meeting by a representa- tive of the firm making the offer. The Central Union received a letter from the working capmakers of Philadelphia, promising a contribution by subscription of the sum of $200, The workmen of 8, Wolff & Co, handed in $6u yester- day, Mr. Clemens gave $10, and the custom tailors have promised $500, which ought to be received Free Medical Attendance. No, 202 Rage EIQHTY-SECOND STREET, jew ‘ORK, Feb. 16, 1874. | this afternoon, The International Workingmen’s Association have paid in $13. All of tie above sums are to be employed in uid of the most needy among the people on strike. Agentleman who is very prominent among the capmakers sends us tue following letter:— To Tax LprTor oF THe HenaLp:— I take the liberty to give you the following explanation in order that your readers may be able to judge tor themselves both sides of the question between us and the manufacturers, and also for our own satist. on. We deny that we have asked 16 per cent more than we received tor the same kind of work formerly. we made the new price schedule our object Was, & still is, to fix the prices for work as high only as we re- ceived three years ago, Since that time rent has not be- Come cheaper} food, clothing and all ovber indispensable necessarivs ot lite have remained almost stationary. But | since, two vears back, business has been rather dull in But, Mr. Editor, ( i] cases, and see to it that their wants are supplied. | Let us in all this matter of caring for the poor | prove our love by giving cheeriuliy and liverally to this particular ciass of persons as Well as to others, The voice of God is to us all, “ior the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy in thy land.” W. A Philadelphia Actress Offers Her Ser= vices for a Charity Benefit. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Your article in to-day’s issue concerning the de- plorable condition of a leading actress and those dependent on her for support, should awaken the sympathies of every member of the dramatic pro- fession. Could nota benefit be gotten up for her atone of the theatres? If there could, | am sure they would not lack professional aid. I for one am wuiling to lend my humble services whenever they may be required, ELLIE RMAN, No. 719 SANSOM STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Feo, 15, 1874. A Worthy Young Englishman Distress, 70 WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET, Feb. 16, 1874, To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— A young Englishman arrived bere some time ago from London, Engiand, He has not succeeded in obtaining employment and is now jn very destitute circumstances; has had to pledge all he was pos- sessed Of to obtain the common necessaries of ile. I have assisted him irom time to time. start a subscription paper? If his case were made public very hkely he might get a situation, Wiiling to do anything. DR. BURKE, A Timely Inquiry Into the Workings of Corporate Charities. TO THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— Your brief comments on the financial reports of two of our charitabJe institutions in Saturday's HERALD deserve Much more attention than I can give them in @ communication of this character. Our present Legislature will neglect one of its in Tost important ‘duties if it fatls to have @ thorough 4 examination into the management of one of the institutions mentioned, before they make the usual appropriation for itg support. If they do this, and do it in the way it shouid be done, they will with- hold the support of the State until they have revoked its present charter and put its manage- men? into competent and honest hands, When this is done $100 will not go to the private banking account of some person who could not earn a com- Sortabie living were if not for the State, wuile $1 goes to the improvement of a poor juvenile delin- quent, Many paxgarers and friends of real reform hope this matter will be agitated until the evil is corrected, REFORMER, New York, Feb. 16, 1874. SIXTEENTH WARD. A Poor Widow with an Idiot Child Without Food and Unaple to Get Work, New York, Feb. 17, 1874, To THe EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— The heart of New York is just now overflowing with charity for the poor and the suderipg. Ibe- | ark, martin Byrne, of the same ciuy, and James Could you | He is | | the cap line, and the’ consequence was that the manu- ucturers ail eager and anxious to sell Koods, tried everyiniig in their power to gain this desirable object Among the many methods yo make the goods up cheap the ‘cutting down of wages | Was the most prominent, and of tuis method our mau facturers made stich literal use that now alt the work, without excepuon, brings, on an average, flity per cent Jess than its real value, We are striking for a tair day's Wages for a fair day’s work only, notwithstanding all assertions to the contrary; and if our demands are now ity per cent higher whan the manutacturers paid dur: ing the last two yeurs, it merely shows what cruel and oppressive use they have made ot their power. The best proof of this being correct would be for your re- porters, who see and Know almost everything, who are ever ready to call attention and direct public opi to unmerited misery and nonest poverty, to look some of the dens called tenement houses which these extravagant strikers inhabit, and see what a. riking contrast it would be to the brown stone dwellings that our poor and honest capmakers live in. it will be said that there Was a general decline of wages during the past two years. We have been living too last i admitall this to be true; but to cut down wages Mity per cent was a little too much of a good thing, ‘This os strike was provoked by our employers, and they alone | are accountable tur the consequences ot it There is not more peaceabie fraternity on the giobe than the cap- akers, and thiy appears to be why they have been taken advantage of. ‘Une of your reporters went toa manufacturer, and | was shown bv the books that a capmaker could’earn from $Y to $i week. This would — scem lik. fair wages to those unacquainted with the business, Let ive explain. Our craftsmen work, not like Christians or sews, but like heathens, seven davs in the week, and it they don’t work more it'issimply because there are no daysiett. stillthey manage to work nine days in th woek by working twelve, tiiteen, and, in some instanc that I can prove, twenty hours out of twenty four. ‘This air, is the reason why that gentleman could show you $2) and $25 as the week's earnings. Let the capmaker work for ten hours only, without help, and let him be ever +o smart, he will not be able to earn more than $15, even at our new price schedule, on the average. every one of the cap manutacturers to eontradict the above statement. Instead of pledging euch other to tor- Jeit $5.00), if any one of them accepted our conditions, it would have been tar more honorable to step torward and make up for past wrongs and grievances. A CAPMAKER, The Cigarmakers. There are two policemen still doing duty at the door of the factory from whence the hands have struck. A large number of the strikers have gone | back to work in spite of the efforts of those still holding out to keep them away. The lock-outs keep hanging around the door in large namvers, but have mude no attempt to interfere with toe people at work. Green hands are being employed. The strikers hold their mectings, with closed doors, at No. 220 Second street. The Derrickmen, ‘This body of hard working citizens were reported to have struck yesterday, but thus far nothing of iuportance has been done. THE BANKRUPT CHURCH. The Orange arch Sale Adjourned. The advertised sale by the Sheriff of the Orange Catholic church property, at the Newark Court House, was postponed from yesterday unill Tues- day next, 24th inst., at the request of the attor- neys for the Orange National Bank, the holder of the first judgment against the church for the sum of $30,000, In auticipation ot the sale, which had been announced to take place at two o’clock, quite a large crowd assemvledin and about the | Sheriff's office, and among them were many mem- bers of St. Joun’s cougregation, It is underscood that the adjournment was obtained at the instance | of the Republic Trust Company of Newark, who are judgment creditors to the extent of $10,000, The supposition is that the several moneyed institu. | tions holding claims against the church have begun to perfect some plan for obtaining the amounts respectively due them without imperiliing their united interests, The judgments amount tn the aggregate to $50,000, the mortgages to ¢9y,000 and the unsecured ingebtedness to $111,400, aking o total of $261,000, In reality, the aggregate 1s $30,000 less, however, a3 the amount of the Orange Bank's loan, tor which the Sheriif’s execution has been ordered, is aiso covered by a mortgage to John O'Rourke, a3 endorser of the paper dis- counted vy the bank, 80 that if the Sherif coliects vhe amount the lien will be cancetied, The first claim on the list is in Ex-Sherift Gamble’s hands. The remainder will be attended to by the present official, Sheriff Peckweil, at whose bureau the HERALD’s representative ascer- tained that the proceedings are to be conducted upon the following plan, whenever the sale shall take place :~The property will be parcelied out and offered in sections, beginning probably with the unimproved building sites on Mount Pleasant ber] nue, adjoming Llewellyn Park, then taking the old church on White street, next the schoolhouse, then the adjoining Orphan Asylum, then the ground and parsonage adjoming the new church on Ridge Street, ana, iastly, the church edifice itself GENEROUS CREDITORS. iehed An instance of prinoety generosity 18 ment! one in this connection ‘in the case of pene . Hecker, who resides at Llewellyn Pt rk. Saving endorsed for the church to the extent of $: q he took up the notes when due ai id returned them cancelled to Father Hickey. Many others have pursued an equally liberal course, among them ‘Archbishop Bayley and Bisho) Corrigan, the latter 4 | toe somewhat reduced in flesn siuce his inca: Ichailenge | -MoCartby, of Orange, are. reported to be in tho same Category. mR WA! figures in the list us D protected creditor to the amount: 1 and ex-Alderman.A. G. Sportis- Woode, of Orange, has taken a judgment ior $8,000, to secure himself ai an endorser, The Mutual Benefit Life lusurance Company of Newark boids ® $60,000 first mortgage on the church and the Sec- ond National Bank ol that city looks to te Sheriil for 1t8 clatm of $2,600, THE PERSIAN CONCESSION. Baron Reuter’s Expl: tion of Bis Obit- gations of Contract with the Shah—The Ratlway Works in Progres: The subjoined communication from Baron Reuter gives his side of the Persian concession story, and may serve to clear away any douts wiich may have been raised on the subject by & cable report from Europe, need The Perstan Concession. To THE EpiTOR OF THR HERALD:— Ihave hitherto abstained from noticing various rumors which have recently apyeared in the publio press respecting the Peraian concession, A telegram, however, dated irom Berlin, pub lished in one Of your contem/oraries this morning and professing to state the reasons assigned by the Shan to some of the (oretgn Powers for claim- log the rigit to annul the concession on the ground that { bai not fuldiled my eugagenents under articles 8 and 23, induces me ‘o 1equest the inser- fion of the following statement of aets:— By articles of tae concession { was bound to commence tie railway Works wituin fifteen mouths from the date of its sigaature— beiore the 25uh 0f O¢rover, 1873, Although the concession was uot delivered until four months after it was signed, the raiway works were publicly commenced in the presence of the British and Kussian Comsuls six weeks be- fore the supulaied date. in iact, by the time at which the works were ouiy to se commenced, nearly two mules 0} eartiworks had been com: pleted and seventy-five iniies of the route were surveyed, PERSIAN OFFICIAL LETTER. On the 1th of Septem er lost the Persian Min. ister 0} Public Works addressed ine following ! oficial letter to my chief enjincer acknowledging the fact: — {Translation.] ‘TEUBRAN, Sept. 11, 1873, Sin—His Impertal Maesty tue oltah, Rot having accepted the resignation oO} iis lilguness tie Grand Vizier, has dcigued to reiustate fim with ali his former powers. 1 am Gharied in bis be: satisiactiou ut seeiug Uh f to express to you his comms.cement oO. your uudertaking, and at the s. time to inioria you that His Giginess has be» el! pleased to 6ee you a@t work. Tue hope buat you Ww! aisv proceed suc: cessiuliy with tue same ehiirery, in comiormity with the concession, aflords us still grea‘er pleasure. 1 just learn with the greatest satisfactio., trom General Mohammed Aga, that ie inauzuration of the works lias taken piace to-day. We are weil satistied, 1t is needless to repeat that, as Minister of Pub- lc Worss, 1am pound and am ready, sir, to faciti- tate all your undertakings and to uitord ail tue as- sistance that you may tind necessary, Receive, sir, the assurance, cc. LLADSAN ALI KHAN, PROGRESS OF TH! WORK. % The railway works have since veen continued Without interruption. ‘The other works referred to in artici ot the concessionu-—namel,;, mines, waterwor and forests—I was nut perinited to commeace until the “Uahier des Crarges,’’ Stiptilated ta a supplementary art.cie, dated 24th o. August, L372, | had been furnisued, This “Cauterdes Charges,” | notwithstanding weated applications, | have been una. le to obtain, it would be premature at the present time to make public the correspondence between the Pers.an government and mysell concerning the interpreta- tion Of the Concession, but Mm) latest advices vy te‘egraph irom Teneran lead me to anticipate a sauisiactory wuderst miiug have the honor tu be, sir, your obedient servant, LONDON, Jan. 81, 1874. JULIUS REUTER, THE MASK’D BURGLARS. Trial of 23 “Patsy” UCouway at White Plains, Westchester County=A Story of Nocturnal Violence Told by the Victims—ithe Prisoner Identified as “Captain of the Gang.” A large number of persons, embracing nearly all classes or society and including not a few ot the gentler sex, assembled at White Plains, West- ! chester county, yesterday morning, it having been well and widely understood that the trial of the | now notorious ‘masked vurglars’? would take place in the Court of Sessions. Snortly after County Judge Silas D, Gifford and Messrs. Howe and Silk- man, Justices of Sessions, took their seats on the bench, and it became known to the anxious spec- tators that ‘Patsy’ Conway, alias “Conroy,” was the only one of the four imprisoned desperadoea | whom they could gaze upon, a ieeling of disap- | pomtment was observable both in the looks and actions of the immense throng which crowded the | court room immediately upon the doors being | opened. The prisoners, it appears, by advice o} | their respective counsel, have each demanded a separate trial, and, Knowing the desperate situa. tion in which they are piaced, will dubtiess inters pose @ most ingenious deience in each successive case to be tried. HOW THE PRISONER APPEARED. | Conway, who, with his contréres, is charged with | burglary in the first degree and grand larceny, ap- peared in a comiortabie Lusiness suit, and seems ceration in the jail. He took u seat near his coun- sel, John D. fownsend, and tried hard to look composed. Later in the day a woman, supposed to be his wile, and carrying a child iu her arms, sat near the prisoner, who, more than once during tue alternbun, appeared to be Lo close conversation | with her. After about an hour had been spent in empanel- ling a jury the case ior the people was opened in & brief though comprehensive address by District | Attorney Briggs, who immediately afterwards called the first witness in behalf o1 tne prosecution. TESTIMONY FOR THE PEOPLE. John P, Emmett testified that he lived in the house of his sister, Miss Lydia H. Emmett, wht | 4s situated avout two miles north of New Rocuelle; | recollected the morning of December 23, when he awoke in his bed to find five men standiug over | jum, all of them being masked, and euch individ- ua holding a dark lantern in one hand anda pistol in the other. He was promptly handcutted and toid to keep quiet by the masked met ny then questioned him as to what the nous tained and also the number Of occupants, | then demanued the safe key and THREATENED TO SHOOT HIM | if he did not produce it. The witness detailed how | the remainder of the inmates were secured, aud | identified the prisoner as one Oo! the men who en- tered his bedroom several times to ask the where abouts of various articles, while “van” Kelly wags standing guard over the entire household, From the manner in which the prisoner acted witness | Was timpressed with the belet that he (Conway) was captain of the gang, Tne wituess also testi- } fled to several articles of jewelry, watches, wear- | ing apparel, &c, Which were carried away by the | burgiars, who, besides breaking open the sale, ransacked every room in the house. During a cross-examination by prisoner's coan- sel the witness did not deviate from tne split or vhe Jetter of his direct testimony, Miss Lydia H. Emmett, sister o1 the last witness, testified to seeing the Masked men in her house on the morning in question; that taey took her to her brotner’s room, and there leit her while they were ropbing the house; they did not handcuff her; she Was not able to recognize any of the parties, ex- cepting that the prisoner resembled in size the man who DEMANDED HER RINGS and threatened to gag her 1 she did not produce them, William Baxter, an oysterman living at City Island, testitied that at about seven o'clock on the morning of December 28, ne was accosted by six or | seven men, who were carrying valises, and wio offered him $6 to take them across the Sound to | Lony Island; he subsequently ferried them across in his sailboat bora ceca them at Great Neck ock, on Long Island; he are POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE PRISONER t as being one of the party; the men satd they had | been to a prize fight and’ wanted to leave West- | chester before the Sherif overtook them ; they all | wore slouched hats, and endeavored to conceal | their features a8 much as possible while on the veme witness was cross-examined at greatlength by Mr. Townsend, but firmly adhered to his toriuer testimony, and asserted to the last that he could not be mistaken as to the identity of Conway. Mary Lyons, a colored woman, employed as cook on board the steamboat Sewanhaka, testified to furnishing breakiast to seven men after the steamer leit Great Neck dock on the morning in question, and fully identified the prisoner as being one of the number, She also testified that the men carried black valises, some o° which were produced in court and identified by her. During her cross-examination the witness was decidediy stubborn, her quaint answers to counsel for the defence occasionaliy couvulsing the Court and audience with laughter. At five o’clock an adjournment was announced until haif-past nine o'clock this morning. CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. Charles Smith, alias “French Charley,’ ana Henry Frettenger, alias “Ed White” alas “Charles Myers,” were arresved yesterday by Detectives Sampson and Farley charged witn committing a burglary at No, 23 Beekman street, the premises <= ‘the sum of $10,004 to the build- | of Watens & Ricksecker, which were broken into ing ‘tind. nares d_ wholly unprotected cred- | on the 7th of February and robbed of property itor 1s sald to be Joseph M. Smith, @ builder in New- | valued at $1,200. The priaouara will be taken to 1 Court this indraing.