The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1874, Page 8

Pal OOD GIFTS. Practical Responses to the De- mands of Humanity. LENIENT LANDLORDS Tenants Who Cannot Pay Retained in Hopes of Better Times. MUNIFICENT MERCHANTS. Gifts Which Make Glad the Recipients Without Impoverishing the Denors, Amid the sad tales of destitution and woe the Dounteous generosity of those who are diessed with plenty, a8 noted below, gives satisfactory woken that the sentiment of human brotnernood has a practical lodgment in the popular heart. Nobly do the merchants and business men, the iash- jonable women, and the employed working classes, give, of their abundance or of their hard earnings, Jor the support of their brethren and sisters who have been ground by the relentless mill of pov- erty. Truly winter and want bring forva (ragrant biossoms of kiuditness, and wholesome fruits tn prompt succor for the distressed, THE SOUP K{TCHENS. ‘The weather being fine yesterday there was a larger crowd than be ore at the diferent soup houses, twelve of which are Row open under tue charge of Mr. Delmonico. The Sixth ward soup house used 860 gallons of soup yesterday, 240 gal- ons of which Were served at one o’clock. Police- man Codde!l oMciated and ladied the soup to the extent of his ability. The little son of Sergeant Doagiass, of the Sixth precinct, aclever, handsome boy In blue jacket and trousers, with a bright face, helped to give the squarely cut pteces of bread to the poor, There was an increase im the demand for soup yesterday, nearly 12,300, including people who drank it on the premises, and tamilies who took it away, baving been furnished with the soup, The soup was made of beef and beans, with other vegetables, and it was never richer or better be- fore, Yo-day there will be 4 lentil soup furnished of the best beef aud vegetables, It is noticeable that many hundreds of poor people, who never betore Knew how (o make soup are gow learning, jrom drinking the portion given to them by Del- monico. The Sixty-second street soup house was quite Well frequented yesterday, and particularily the Water street soup house, which had a great hum- | ber of peopie present. There ts one difficuity, that in some of the kitchens it is almost impossible to get enough soup ready at ten ana four o'clock, as the boilers are frequently cleansed, and soup can- ‘Bot be made in less than jour hours, PICTURES OF POVERTY. Success of Mrs. Worsteji's Mission—Gen- erous Response of the Ladies and the Merchants—Scenes of Hunger, Cold and Nakedness—An infant Dying in One Room and a Centenarian in Another. The poet laureate of England has said, ‘Kind hearts are more than coronets,’ and if ever this truth has been exemplified it was in the storm of Wednesday. Women, often young and oiten beau- tiful, came pouring through the gates of St. John’s | chapel, mindless of the snow that filled the air and covered the pavement—women, full of simple’ faith, and who don’t care a fig for Norman blood. ‘They came in carriages and attended by servants who bore large packages of clothing, many of them containing new and warm, articles made for the com/ort cf poor women and children by dainty, rosy hands Tuey came gayly, and when they saw the poor wan faces o/ the half-clad ones who were waiting shiveringly to receive their bountiful dimmed eyes and choking sensations in their throats. Yesterday they came again, with others, and there was a busy time, happy faces mingling | oddly with pinched and atvenuated jorms scantily covered with rags, The demand exceeded the sup- | ply of garments, however; ‘or, though thirty-three large packages came on Wednesday and many more yesterday, the doors of the bureau closed jast night on empty tables and shelves. ‘MRS, WOESTELL’S MISSION HONORED BY THE GREAT MERCHANTS. AS previously announced in the HzRatp the brave little lady visitor, Mrs. Worstell, volunteered fo visit the merchants to obtain supplies for the sick and destitute. her residence found a coupe, s Co., of No, 143 West Twent nt by J. U. Briggs & third street, with orders to “take Mrs. Worstell wherever she wished to go on her mission of mercy." All day long, through the snowstorm, she went from counting room to office im the downtown streets. Yester- aay sie prepared to renew her iabors, and, looking mto the street, saw a handsome nee drawn up before the duor, which aservant came to te was tenderea by Mr. W. Ebbitt, of Twenty street and Seventh avenue, lor use in her visita, Messrs, Wiliam B. Jounson (of B. Johnson & Sons) and George Moiler (oi Witham Moller & Oo.) volun- teerea to accompany Mrs, Worsteli on her visita to the sugar merchants. The jollowing isa list of the firms visited and the articles subsequently sent ‘by them to the Guild office at St. Jonn’s chapel :— William Moller Son, one barrel sugar, Havemeyer & Floer, one barrel sugar. Matheison & Weicher, one barrel sugar. , Williams & Co. one barrel sugar. twice & Co., 7 & Go., one bar W. Durant ons, one barre! sucar. Huntington & rh, one burrel sugar. Moller, seirick & Co.. one barrel sugar. Ww. Hnnter & Co, one barrel sugar and haita | chest of tea. George ©. Collins. half a chest of tea. B. G. Arnold & Co., bag coffee, Samuel Wild & Son, groceries. W. H. Jackson & Co., one quintal codfish. Daniel iaimage sous, one barrel rice Sheldon. Banks &Co.. one bag cot alta cles: o. s & Co., halt acl — 4 Cag halt . chest g jonnett. Schenck & Karl, one barrel ‘coffee, eamannett, rel ‘coffee, half a & Hencock, one bag coffee, D Scott & Sons, one bag of cofice. Borden Meat reserving Company, one case of roast ‘Kemp, Day & Co., four cases of ¢ KB Daly’ & Sons’ dor tne wicky @. L. J. (ett at office), © pounds of cotfee. Among other donations to st. John’s Guiid yesterday were 21,000 relie cards by Joun Hamilt printer, No, 47 William street, and Shipman’s ex: ress rel any payment lor carriage of good fo the Guid. ee Late in the evening five barrels of crackers ar- rived from Thomas B. Harris “ior the poor.” LEAVES FROM A VISITOR'S NOTEBOOK. Mr. Denny reports the lollowing among the cases assisted by bim yesterday:—Mrs, Mean, No. 107 Bayara street, near Baxter, top oor; rooin 64 by 6% Lay Bee low ceiling; no ventilation; could hardly breathe. A small dre, made trom cinders, was burning, which mdde the room intolerable, and [had to remove my coat. the family, one a baby, teething; the motner sick. ‘There was no food, none of anything but the cin- med tomatoes. ease ot sherry wine. ders burning, which had been picked trom ash bar- | reis. Mrs, Smith, No. 207 Mulberry tailor, out searching Jor empi bursing a baby. Had been two da. food. Nothing im the houwe—no co: the poor woman's 1eet. Mrs. Milan, of No. 102 Bayard street; two of the family cripples; one of m, twenty years of age, could neither sit nor stand erect, and can only crawl avoat the floor, Another, a little child, ve- tween four and five years old, is a huncnback. The gravdmother, 100 years old, is @ delicate woman, with a skin of marvellous whiteness, pernaps owing to constant ablutions, for ner naked feet showed evideuces of a belief in her mind tuat ab- solute personal cieaniiness is often next to godll- mess and can be preserved in e midat of the greatest poverty. These poor people have neither tood hor fire, Fred English, . 720 Rast Twelfth atreet, rear basement; 4 piace unfit for anything but rats to live reet; husband, @ ment. Mother without any Mo soes on in. The mother is narsing & baby, and loat one child two weeks ago. he jather is deat from ex- posure in this damp, uuwtiolesome place, into ‘Which the water eniers. Gre, no bedisteuds, bed or bed clothing. THANKS TO THE RAILROAD LI Warm thanks are expressed at the office of the Guild for the kindness shewn by the Broadway, the Grand street, and the Third, Sixih, Seveatn, Bighth, Nina und Tenth avenue ‘railway com) anies allowing @ visitor of the Guild to piace ite notice: to the people in their cars, rita yt 6 MR. WISWALL’S DREAM of bringing the rich in direct contact with the peor i supplies they went away with tear- | Notwithstanding tue storm of | Wednesday she ventured forth, and at the door of | nix, one package of tea and one package | they had no food, no | NEW YORK HERALD, FRI and miserable seems tn a fair way to de realized. Since the suggestion made by him was published ju the Remap of Wednesday a great number of rich and fasnionable ladies Rave called at the office of the Guid at St, John’s chapel, and have re- quested lists of names, from which they make Selections Of spectal cases to visit. Many of these report since that they will take exclusive care of certain famiies with whom they were well pleased, Among the numberless letters recetved by the Master Jaily the ‘oliowing touching litule note will Yank as & lair sample :— zg N. Jay Feb. 28, 1876, bye healt od io Uttte daughter RAN Sii—Please AC mt by my little Licaie four Feats onde ta te teed for the uenelit of the youngest chiid of Mrs. Campion, No 378 West Twelfth Street Lizzie bas been saving this money for ber papa’s | birthday, but ob hearing me read trom the [ERaLD of the bitte? suffering among the poor, said. “Mamma, may } send my money to that poor little bavy? | Yours very Mrs. —— wuly, andi THE RELIEF FUND. ———_——_——— Donations for the poor received by the HzuwaLy and not previously acknowledged :— ©, BH, Handy & Co., No. 330 Broadway: Mremgun ... A. F. J, for Kev. M. Mcauley Mrs. 5. E. an an, Buttalo, for composer's family. 500 Evansville, for Mrs. T. (widow, With sick boy) § 00 Estelle Block, Yorkville. on . 50 St. John’s Gulld and the Poor, The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvan Wiswall for the poor of vhe Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry ©. De Witt:— (Chose desiring to visit the office of the Guild will remember that {t ts in the schoo! buildings at- tached to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.) ba Mrs. J. Delafield— Sas) Dewntown Through Mrs. J. P. Worstell— . C, COOper......... 5 00 Through Rev. 8. H. Weston, D. D. Eugene. 20 Through J, J. Totten— Cash 500 Pp. BY 1 00 Inivin, 6 00 Gs. 6 00 James J. e1 20 00 Through Henry C. Waiter H. Lewis..... 25 00 Sent to Guild office. Anonymous, Pierrepont House, Brooklyn 600 Mrs. Conklin, for James Ryan. 10 00 G. A... sees . 600 Lizzie, jour years old, for Mrs. Campian’s youngest ‘child... aes sos 200 Mr. Andrews, + 2% 00 Notuing.........-.- - Woo B. Johuson & Sons. . 30 00 No name . 25 Mrs. C. A. 5 00 Miss Valentine. 10 00 Mrs. D., for Mrs, 3 00 | Mrs, Fuller... ERS 5 00 |B. Pidgeon... eras) | B200Kt Little Areme. . 1 00 | Juiia, - 600 Mite, GB. . 200 Total.. + $192 2 Previously acknowiedgea Tit 6,880 45 Grand total 6,072 70 Contributions to this fund may be sent to the RERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; C, V. B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire In- | surance Company, No. 149 Broadway; Andrew W, Leggat, Collector of Assessments, New Court | House; George Wilkes, M. D., No. 16 North Wash- | Ington square; G, K. Lansing, Earle’s Hotel; G. J. N, Zabriskie, Castier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J, L. Davis, Sheldon & No. 677 Broadway, and Rev, 5. 4. Weston, ., No. 3 East Forty-ilith street, or to the Rev, Alvah Wiswall, Master of St, John’s Guild, St. Joun’s chapel, Varick street. | Packages of clothing, groceries, &c,, should be | sent to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets, or if an order be senta | messenger will call for any packages, | Mrs. Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third | street; Mrs. Joseph Delafield, No. 475 Filth avenue. | and Mrs. F. Pp. Karle, No. 34 West Fiity-second | street, have Kindly consented to receive subscrip- | uous, Donations of Clothing. The following contributions of clothing have re- cently been received at the office of St. John’s | Guild, and nearly all distributed to the men, wo- ' men and children whom the visitors found to be in actuai need of them:— Oscar Tibbals, from the Society of the Helping ixwenth ward, sixty new gurments for childcen. ymous, one barrei of clothing. Mrs I. C. Mitchell, one package children’s clothing. A Friend, through Mrs. Boyd, four nightgowns and four chemises, Mrs. Tacwat, three pairs shoes. ; Miss M, Furtescus, ove trunk of clothi Wright, one package of clothing. ‘he bundie men’s clothing. ne bundie flannels. dc. iM ackage children’s clothing, age clothing. pais wen's boots and three packages men’s dannels Mrs James R. Hosmer, one package men’s clothing, stoc Mra nerrell, one pair new boots, five boys’ suits, two tand pants. . , ope package children’s clothing. jourteen packages cloching. © package hew dergarments. men’s clothing. Mrs. Colemaii, one package clothing. Mme, T: lossey, eighteen new garmei Mrs. J. Atwell, ive pairs woollen stockings Mrs. F. Caiden, one package Gannel shirung and new undergarment. a, one package new clothing and new un- Miss P. Met | dergarments. W. G. Banta, three boxes caps. Anonymous, one package bew clothing. vA EAiue Boy,” one package clothing. one package clothing. jaiterton, one package clothing. one bundle clothing. ‘Buck, one package children’s clothing. , one package clothing and shoes. C, M. Co Mrs. J. Stanton, one package of clothing, Mrs, Aldrich, one package of clothing. Mrs, &. Hoag ne bed. Mrs. Caswell, lorcy-six new garments, Mrs. Perine, one package new clothing. Mr age men's and intanw’ clothing. in, one package of clothing. package new clothing. e of clothing. ne box of Dew and infants’ clothing. Miss. Moc rea, sixteen new undergarments. A member of ‘rinity church, Sing Sing, iorty mew gar- Anonyious, ments and twenty cast-off garments. W. J. Wateon, one package new clothing, Mrs, Dennett, one package undergarments and one package gentl lothing. Courdand package gentlemen's clothing. package gentlemen’s clothing. Mrs. John Aowell) four men’s new shirts, Mr. Frederick tlubbard, one package gentlemen's clothing, No. 30 Wi Forty-ninth street, large package shoes and package ing. Mra. Archi | } | | Mr, Henry f | | } 1 Anonym one bundle clothing. package clothing. wh, Miss M. . Wadleigh, Mrs, M, Lertow, tlipsand Mrs. C. Mail, of Jersey City, oud ning 5. #., wo packages of clothing. package of ciothin ‘0 packages of clothing. ye package of clothing. one package of clothing and shoes. 60'King Anonymous, package of clothing (wen’s). Mr. Kbinelander, one dozen flannel uncershirts, Miss Julia Riuinelander. one dozen chemises. Mrs. Dingley. one basket of clothing. ‘one package clothing and shoes. ichols, trom Veake, Opdyke & Co., one pack- lothing ne bundle of clothing by express. hing by express. thing. Packages of clothing, groceries, &c., should be sent to the Guild office. Three children in | \ THE MERCHANTS’ BOUNTY. Apportionment of the Produce Exchange | Charitable Collection. The committee of the Produce Exchange have | distributed a part of the fund subscribed for the ' reliet of the poor of New York and Brooklyn to the | following societies NEW YORK. Associa‘ion for improving the Condition of the Poor St. John’s Gui Howard Mission an derers.... ‘The Bread and Bee! House Aiman’s Mission... House of Indastry. New York City Mission. St. Lake’s Home for Women. | Association jor Beiriending Young Giris. Dormitory for Poor Women.. KLYN, k Department of Charity Young Men’s Chris- $1,000 UN ASSUCIBLION.....cesecseseesses see seee ss 600 | Association for lmproving the Condition of | the Poor.......+5 toes tare 500 Society tor the Reltet of Sewing Wom wo gocety in Aid of FPriendiess Woi { Childven....... 64. . 250 Brooklyn Heights Relief Association 100 | Specids Donation... | Total., A HS DAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE CHARITY EXHIBIT. A few additional reports from Coss of building and Attings,. Of which was made up by contrib And by loan on mortgage The President 18 Captain ©. 0. States ping Comniissione! figures, THE IRISH EMIGRANT 4 Recetved from cit; ey — Rereived from donations, 5 Sale of bille 07 exchange on Ireian. Paid in cierk hire Expended in chat The society 1s inte: Protective one in the interest of send money to their friends in guard against imposition by ticke others who operate upon the cre norant. Received trom city......+. Received trom donations, Received cash trom emplove Total receipts... ores Paid visitor's and janitor’s salarie: Pad for other expenses... Total expenses Receipts from ali soure Paid for house expense: Paid for ciothing Paid tor repairs. | », 0 West Forty-uinth street, one package gentle- | Piry benevolent societies are given below :— THE SEAMEN’S EXCHANGE, 187 CHERRY STREP? Who gives these le remarks that no salaries are paid ex cept to one Man, Who acts as engincer and janitor, Dut he fails to state the receipts and disbursements FoR 1873, ed more particularly as & THE NKLPING HAND ASSOCIATION, WATER BTRERT. Atenetved cash trom discount on goods... BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM, FOR 1873. uncture and say, “Come in from the cold and driving snow and J will give you shelter?” » Our work of chartty is fatally incomplete without the providing of @ place of shelter. Our sou houses only do one-bai the work, While the sta ton houses alford suelver at nignt to about 7,000 homeless wanderers, hundreds are turned away for want of room and compelled to walk around the streets all bight, while hundreds of others are wo proud snd hs ed spply at the station houses for lodging. ese places are naturally overrun with vermin. despite the very best efforts of the gentlemen of the police force, Now let the owners of the undreds of vacant Jofta in the city ower their use from thie to the lst of May to the Police Department, to be used as a place of shelter, duy and night, under the immediate supervision of the police for the preservation of cleanhness and order, With the lott ofered for thig purpose there will de also some kind souls who will furnish light and fuel, Our system of charity wil) then be complete iv every way, and we will then be really “taking care of the poor.” By ali means let us do this, cal inade through the columns of your pcr oo paper will be answered without louvt. New York ig the most charitable city in the world, and all that 18 necessary {s simply to call attention to the mode in which thas charity ehould be putin force, Let us not only feed but shelter God’ suffering children aud our unfortunate brethren, JAMES M, HEATHERTON, Chairman Fifteenth Ward Relie! Association, THIRD WARD. The Famishing Fed at the Downtown Relict. New York, Feb, 26, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HBRALD:— charttabie and . $120,000 0 60,000 0 15,000 00 Duncan, United punt fo $10,928 01 oun ta gsig.gee 0: emigrants who Treland, and to 1 swindler and aulity of the ig- Nothing 3 ! 4 | | } Total expenses. Will you kindly acknowledge the following dona- ‘Less wages, £0 tions to the Downtown Relief (soup house) of the Total paid for relief, Juvenile Guardian Soctety:—Whecler & Wilson, Total payments over receipts. $25; Jacob Hess, West Washington Market, 140 Tee Minitant desing yon, pounds beef; Mr. Walton, Williamsburg, one large bundle clothing; Fishmongers’ Association, Fulton ‘Total number treated... Market, per 5. B, Miller, 400 pounds fish; Jacob NEW YORK HOSPITAL, FOR 1873, Hess (second donation), West Washington Market, Receipts... a — | 122 pounds beef; Mr. Murphy, No. 15 Dey street, Rent of house 13 We: $4,500 00 | fiity Lrg Seg ee es fa a West Veaane | expenses. 1,5¥8 3 | ington Market, 100 pounds beef and tnree barrels wh ‘4 | potatoes and turnips. 4, 3 0 Yesterday 850 men, women and children received fe good dinners or were relieved at their dwellings, Total... $10,483 90 | He must be an incorrigible theorist indeed whose Less salaries. 3,377 00 | heart would not be touched at the condition of * aus oui win» nearty all the applicants for aid at No. 14 Dey ‘xpended in rel . tee eee . 9 street. ST. MARY'S FREE HOSPITAL FOR Cg! ad WHS? THIRTY: Donations of all eee of ud elt and potnine FOURTH STREET, FOR 1573 are earuestsy solicited at No. 1 street. jona- Recefved from city. . tions in money may be sent to W. M. Vermilye, Pirie ce Treasurer, No, Yo Nassau atreet. : Actuai amount expend RELIEF OFFICER, Reeapitulation. NINTH WARD. Expenied Cost of Dise ta bursing, Sal- | Relief of th P b: th Abi di Societys Relief, aries. ef oO ¢ Poor by od ngdon Paster Dispensary Sor SS sopebe Wontcrn Homeopathic Dispensary, 229000 19000 | ‘The Abingdon Club of the Ninth ward, having Booey tee EMBISYRARE STA SGUGE| 5 ee ‘ao op | cotapleted their arrangements, will commence re- | St 16,132 92 1.186 80 | heving the wants of the poor this evening at their | 2,500 00 “Nothing. | relief rooms, in Thirteenth street, near Hudson. z 20,524 71 2.535 s3 | Donations of clothing are solicited. Lacies’ Union Rllef “Association. 13,518 63 Nottung. e fi wal rphans mapa aotaer ba iiaroshis 48377 Nothing LANDLOSDS AND TENANTS. Seamen's f migrant Soc: 535 00 Hand Association Bed A Tour Through the Tenement House Tk Hosplial 711 90 Districts=The Rich and the Poor Ns Free 4 6/118 09 y PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IN THK HERALD. Landlords—Humanity Practised by omens Homme ess S1C 802 BD Many—A Crue! Season—Landlords Who pmen’s Te: : : OF Sen eel eee et ges Be Wait for Their Rents and Landlords New nos tanriary tor Women a 140 00 | Who Don't, an sur Rulet “oF fiaig’ Or. °° = | Tn such a crisis ag the one we are now passing aa sagem Oe 4,218 © | through, when so large a portion of the population 9,000 00 Nothing. | 1s idle per force, and when misery stalks through Seen ero Kink: evhnie sad 50) | the city with tts gaunt form, the question of the BEEN eens at a erten } relations between landlords and tenants becomes Sinai Hospital J $81 5 | Roma “Witthole tuadaieial School Se | sauearen the bigness feoperiense batt Oe os Soldiers’ Sale : - rich and to the poor, To the poor, because they v k | Mein tlirissstocs. sone mss) 1628300 1,882 | are dependent; to the rich, because they must [gringo 21,81 00 4,129 97 | BAturaily lose much of their expected gains, | Children's Aid society Ey 76s 8 ead 3) | The question of rent was one of the first that was St Luke's Hospita) «--..- < “ 308 : d when it became apparent that Bank Clerks’ Benevolent Associa. 4422 50 2.sus 39 | Publicly broache: | Harlem Homeopathic Dispensary. as Nothing. | tue season was going to be one of suffering; and ebrew Free Burial = f i Nothing. | Colored Mission (expense, ¥e:j."./! 1.28929 siy') | at the famous meeting of the Internationals at the acces ect ae Joy hae mee 276425 | Cooper Institute one of the main points the Com- America Seame ie icty “95643 42,15 16 | mittee of Salety was to accomplish was the reduc- Woes Ge cen”. Loma Ti foo op | tion of rents, and, indeed, their extinction until a Ceutral Dispense Sint 2,904 1,096 00 | certain period—May 1, we believe. Of course these nion Home an ool for Chili. : | pice ol, Volunteers oes 55308 2 1.196 9 tonsa sonar passed like the idie wiad, be- | Beluian Benevolent socicty’ thing, | Alsace and Lorraine society.-“----° Sl) Be BN rong fhe IMPRACTICABLE} ison Industral Schoot ati Maths ccasaee § 3.614 | but enough was done to show the idea which ex- | Rocosrcraad Oniid'e Hospital | isted uppermost in the popular mind—now to Roman caret Gerad Asy Hon oi | pas rent and how to remain with a roof over New York mutant Asylum Oe ats) | the head, The question was one whicn went bape egg and Indus 1,300 9 | BANA in hand with the question of bread; and it ts Midnight Mission i260) hard, indeed, to say which is the most im- fatto Ben pig intr 1533 82 | portant of the two. To be homeless is hairs oeconel te even something more terrible than to be abthudist Episcopal Ghuren bd | hungry. To wander the streets of this great city | tor Aged...... 10,852 81 1,717 70 | on a winter’s night, or to seek lodging in a | . Pao va Hester. ts huis o aoe OD | station house, is even more terrible than to be Strangers A 1c 0 3,000 00 | without jood to put in the month, To obtain the Eclectic Medical Dispensary 614 00 360 | Erenen senevo wnt Society : 63e Noting: | Uttle food which will keep life in the body is easy ree Dormisory tor Women. x beim Peoria edi ISL 09 1,140 00 See a ree wus ania & aside whee "Blind 4 . y money fo ee ee ie ecb ir 2 nothing 1s doing. a i poser magpie R Wen For the purpose of discovering the real relations Association for Betrienaing’ Chil- * | existing at present between the poor tenants and dren and Young virls. 196 94 733 52 | the landlords of the tenement houses of the middie not 43 1,030 29 | wards O! the city a HERALD reporter made a round a 4 tyes £0 sndeeynr ee the pepeitiea practised by landlords re: came up to the Nothing, | standard that was reported, or whether, on the Metropolitan thro other hand, decent moderation was shown by pensary..... 1,130 00 sw 00 | them. Society St Vincent de Paul. In an interview held by the reporter with Cap- Wane haa sation, 1973, YTE 2 = Nothing, | tatn Mount, of the seventh precinct, ove of pee ain tid fone he ae acne THE BIGGEST TKNEMENT HOUSE DISTRICTS sap i bes rmrn Meetlhapere le race 6,9 33 | I the city, comprising as it does all those poor Northeastern Disp Ls7u 0) | littie streets running down on the east side Irom | New York Kye and “ar $452 0) | East Broadway to the river, and such tenement | German Ladies Aid Soc 45 00 iniested ueigbborhoods ag Scammel, Cherry, Ham- ee 4oo 09 | Uitou and other streets of like character. Uaptain | atin of Good suepnent foo 0) | Mount expresned the fener opinion a that very Roman Catholic Foundiin jou few cases of actual dispossessmen' en | Home for incurable: i 6,180 92 | place this winter. He satd:— St. Vincent's Hospi 2,685 53 | “I have noticed that the landlords, as a general ig ny romme G nave ig 4 | thing, have been humane towards their tenants in Bouse and,school of Ladustcy 4879200 | Sicha season ao thie it would be. quite useless [oF Women’s Aid Society...... 6... 60) 0) | them to be otherwise, and they probably calculate New Yor Lying-in Asyluin a 823 00 | that they had betrer keep bad tenants, who will no | Society for Reef of Rupturec ana | doubt pay them in the end, to patting these out | yOnppled yocirss: 28.007 SA 1848946 | and leaving their rooms vacant, It ts almost im- Rema alaahs Gabe ee: ean 532 | possible for these landiords to let thelr rooms at ‘Shepherd say aus 93 | Present and if they once get vacant apartments | Ladies Five Points Misac "@) | they are likely to remain go at least for this sea- | New York Juvenile Asyiu #) son. They have, therefore, taken the wiser | Roman Catholic Protectory. ....._ 10,374 58 | course and determined to be lenient for the pres- Bey pad Aged and infirm ie 1a | ent. ‘They Will not probably lose much in the end | gagtety for Bete of Women with by doing What they have, as no doubt when the | SXmall Children: eee Nothing. | spring season comes On and business revives Wotnen's Hospital — | those tenants will be able to pay their rents with- | Oph : bs | GREAT TROUBLE, New York Coivied Home pid aed | Now if they were iurced to pay them they would ter for Respec Gi Nothing, | 80 on the Streets. It would be the fate of thou | Howe tor Aged Women, Ch | savda, and the humanity of the landlords is well pac! Ge ae vee waning, | consilere 4, abd has saved much ofsery to the a " q poor. | Chapin Home jor Aged aa ase on | PY, | Houke of Heat fof Coustiaj tives 14009 | nouses im the districts Sue ot the renest tenes New York Institute for Blind, ; | ment bouse proprietors is Mr. Stephen Lovejoy, Howes of etuge, Randall's Isla: BSE who has blocks of buildings at James and New York City Missiot ! Cherry streets, also at Madison and Mon- a) : one | roe, ‘and @ whole block in Monroe street, Be Elizabeth's Hospital naling: | between Gouverneur and Scammel, and stretch: | West side German Uospitai owing: ing 100 feet down these — streets, al- RETORNS MADE To BUT " | together the property of Mr. Lovejoy in tene- Sheltering Arm: : $3,000 09 | ment houses is estimated at $1,000,000, These ten- | Bt En seig ame d 33000 | ements are well built and Clean, and are mainly Wee Cans ter te a. 8% | What is kuown as “double” tenement houses, | New York Dispensary.. Not given. | They are tour and five stories high, and will ace | New. York Dispensar | commodate four famihes on a floor, though in Ohildren eevee Not given. | Some cases families take the floors through, Went ObiMsepecrt acc, 785 63 248 00 per MOREY | NewYork yrdionisdié bicveisary. ghet # HESS Witch “are worth. at a wood estimate, $20,000 euch, Phelps’ Mission Children’s Aid'So- | bring in 4yearly revenue of from $4,000 to $5,000. cigty . . NY 2,971 00 1,089 09 | Some even bring as much as $6,500, but as a gen- 2490 0 -0 00 | eral rule a medium between the first two may be 7,000 00 6) 00 | taken, The tenants of these houses, in many 3,000 00 2,000 09 | C28e8, were found by the reporter to be owing | | Protestant i | rent—some of the tenants for two months, but no | | Society......... 385 53 15,710 75 | Case of ejectment could be substantiated, The | Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan | proprietor of the houses coliects his rents througa Pe eee agee 734 4 — 10,850 00 | an agent, who calls mouthiy, and who has every- | eee ears! setoot. 28,495 0) 11ge ) | thing to do and say as to the debts which may | Home tor Palen Women’ aie $0 be made and the course which shall be taken | Friendless Girls... 7,906 99 | With the tenants, ‘The janitors of these build- | Church Mission to Deaf Mu: 4,545 00 | Ings have nothing to do with collecting moneys. | Bt Joseph's” (Roman C One of the largest tenement houses tn the district Home tor Children eR Nothing. | is owned by Mr. Henry sergh, in Scamme - | Chiidren’s Rdccstional and Relie/ tween Water aud Cherry streets, This is | pia cael aig ‘queeetonh Nothing. | large house, nd yields the proprietor } — ordinary times. value may be | SHALL WE SHELTER THEM? kept as clean as circumstances permit, and is \ tenanted im the same manner as the tenements | ——< _ ety cone rim sand es aera floor, The Need of Temporary Homes for the | soto ther tute NY Undue severity | Poor, Stee TOUS AND YACANE, PIFTEENTH WARD Ri Af and the tenants are mainy of long standing. | No, 219 Mi S aonaes, a ald Gommusstoner Duryee owns tenement bouses on In view of the suffering that, during the present | William Miles, President of the Sixpenny Savings snowstorm and consequent shelter during the there are numerous |: id and stormy Numbers of large and comn pdiou not be rented until the 1st of May, | into the day as wellas the night, Why Wealtliy vroverty owners come d weather, must be | endured by the homeless and waudering poor, | would it not be advisable to adopt some feasivie | means whereby these poor houseless ones can find ge bulidings lying tdle and empty thronghout the city that could be used as | present homes for this class of uniortunates. temporary lodgings tor these people during Bank, also owns tenements on Monroe street, be- tween scamme! and Jacksen. ‘They are mainly full, and the tenants, though they owe money for rent in many causes, have hot been disturbed. in some tepement houses visited in the same ward the people did not actually kaow the nanies of tue | Owners of the houses they occupied, doing the fs ng of paying the rents entirely wich tlic re Nsome other tenements visited, but where the landlords seemed to be smali people living evurely on the income derived from the tenements they owned, tie janhor or janitress collected the rent. Some of these houses were met with weather? Now 8 lotta, that can- | could be turned in Eldridge street, near Grand, lt was noticeable tat hn this not some of our | case the landlords were harder with the tenants, Jorward af this | ang while allowing them Maimiy to remain in vos session annoyed an‘ worried them much by con. Stantly calling for money it was Impossible fo gi But where the pinch seemed to be the tightest Was in several smal! tenement houses visited in the Seventeenth ward, in such streets as Tenth, Eleventh and Tweifth, toward the East River, where the poor abound, and where ged, dil little children seem to — spontanecusiy, many of them are there. Here the tenements are MAINLY OWNED BY SMALL L¢MvLORDS who live in them and press the pocr tenant to the very last dollar and the very last cent. No credit for rent is given here no matter the misery, landlords are accustomed to such sights and have Lo bowels of compassion. They say they must pay their taxes and their rates, their repairing aud 4 thousand other things, apd they would be :uined i they watted, This class of tenements are also far below the others mentioned in every respect. Dirty, close, fetid, filthy, no air and no cleanliness. There is no district in the be city more Godfor- Ken and more impoverished. The people seem ali to be living from hand to mouth. 7 charity is sadly needed around this quarter. But in the rounds which were made the general con- duct of landlords toward their tenante was found to be Jess onerous than might have been supposed. THE WEAVERS’ STRIKE. S The Turnout at Kensington, Philadelphia— Painful Extent of the Agitation—Nearly 3,000 Mill Workers Idle—The Em- plovers Charged with Act- ing in Bad Faith, PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 23, 1874, Just at the close of a hard winter the weavers of Kensington have struck for higher wages. Twenty-fAve hundred men, women and childrea employed in the cotton and woollen mills bave fe- fused to work, and by public meetings, speeches and resolutions have explained their reasons for this important action, Last fall, when the panic caused an almost universal reduction of the price of goods, the operatives in the Kensington milis consented to @ corresponding reduction of fifteen per cent in their wages, Tney now insist that there Was an understanding with the mill owners that this reduction was to extend only until February, and that, as the panic ts over and goods have regained their former market value, the employers unjustly seek tomake permanent what was intended to be merely a temporary arrange- ment, They have announced their determination not to work until their wages are restored to the old standard, On the other hand, the mill owners assert that the manufacturing business has not recovered irom the depression caused by the panic, and deny that there was even a tacit agreement with the employés to abandon the the fifteen per cent reduction in February. This is the natural result of the absence of a written contract between capital and labor. In such cases, even when there 1820 intention to misrepresent, it ts almost in- evitable to misunderstand. LARGEST STRIKE KNOWN FOR YEARS, Thus begins one of the largest labor strikes which has been known in Philadelphia tor years, and it almost entirely suspends one of our valaadle branches of industry. «I have said tuat the number of hands now without employment is 2,500, but it is probable that, as other mills are deserted, the number will pe increased before the end of this week to 3,000, Supposing that the women em- ployed in the factories support only themseives—a concession jar trom being just—it would still ol- low that this strike deprives 6,000 or 7,000 persons 0: regular means of subsistence. The majority of the men have families Wah Ca depending upon their exertions for support. The suffering which muat result from the movemeut will be great, bat it cannot be estimated in figures; the legrees of el Wa cannot be put nto an aritnimeti- cal formola. Tne injury the strike wiil inflict 13 two-lold:—First, there Manulacturing Interest, and second, that to the mill workers, Toe employers say that the chief loss will fall upon the latter. Tue cotton and wool- len trades, according to their accounts, have been dull for months, and some of the wills have vast quantities of is stored which they are unable to sell, and which will be for some time sufiicient to supply any ordinary demand, Their argument is that under such circumstances they could not add fifteen per cent to the wages now paid, and they throw the whole responsibility of | the evils which must ensue upon the unreasonable demands of their employés. this argument is true it is didicult to ascertain. The general depression of business throughout the winter gives it considerable plausibility; yet the renewed activity of trade has been a favorite theme of our papers, and we had persaaded our- selves that the panic was a thing of the past, like the cholera scare or the biack death. To be toid that business is no better than it was in October is rather discouraging, especially when the an- nmouncement is made upon such apparently ex- celient authority, If the story be true, taen the mill Owners will suffer very little, and they have been keeping their looms going ail winter with a disinterested regard for tue welfare of thelr peo- ple. CHARACTER OF THE STRIKE. But the 2,500 strikers have litvie faith in this statement. Intelligent men whom I nave con- versed with are firmly convinced that the mills have fully recovered irom the effects of the panic, and that the profits are large enough to justily the payment of the old wages, pe A hot protess to be enurely governed in the strike by the princi- ple involve Manulacturers made witn them, but declare that they are constrained by that necessity whica knows no law. Ii they were assured that the agreement could not be carried out without ruin- ous loss to the mill owners they would continue to endure the deprivation, in the hope of better times, Tmis they did do all winter, they say, expecting that in February the Oiteen per centum they so unwillingly turew upon tie waters would return to them tn the slape of additional preaa and butter. The average earnings of @ mili band, at the reduced wages, have been between $6 and $7 & week, instead o! $3 or $9 at the old rates. small sum is bareiy suflicient to support a vegetarian or & hermit, and even Diogenes in his tub would tn modern times find a sowewhat larger income agreeabie. it is astonishing to see upon what little money s0 many People manage to exist. The ordinary Puliadei- phian who dines down town spends for a single Meal more than one of these operatives earns by hard tolina day, and thinks that his expenses are moderate, Thoreau, wio Was as truly a stoic as any philosopher of the Porch or Grove in ancient Greece or Kome, managed to live on $604 year; but this was in Massachusetts, where, it seems, miracies are still possible, But in Phiiadelphia, even with licr cucap rents and excellent market houses, ‘faoreau would have starved upon such an a@unual income. These poor mili hands say, aud it Would be lolly to pretend to disbelieve them, that z, winter; that many of them are now in debt to landlords, vutchers, bakers, gro- cers, and that if they do not owe the doctors It 1s only because they could not afford to be sick. They cannot look forward to an indefinite continuance of Wages so inadequate with any hope, and that sen- timent, waich is said to spring eternal in the hu- Mao breast, is with some of them litte more than @ constant struggle with despair, They have reached that point when to have nothing seems even better than not to have enough, for here they Tegain the hope that oy the sirike they may com- pel the manu/acwurers to restore their fiiteen cents @ day. That they are terribly in earnest must not be doubted. No more determined sirike has ever Gume Under my observation. PLAUSIBILITY OF THE MOVEMENT. ‘This {8 not like a strike in tne coal regions of Pennsyivania,; When @ vast ly of men, thor- ouguly organized and periectly disciplined, com- bine to obtain high prices, and can, 1b tue mean- Walle, comiortably live upon the surpius of wages Which are greater thifa those paid to any other class Of laborers in the couatry. ‘he miner, who makes $10 where the mill operative makes $1, does not strike jor bread, but for what he con- siders justice. These weavers strike for bread and coal, and shelter and ciotmmg. Nothing but utter becessity will drive them again to their Jooms, Until some satisiactory arrangement has been made with their employers, and there Is too mucii reason to lear that the contest will be jong and bitter. Ol course, some of the employés did not approve of the movement thongh they were obliged to join it, but, to show the determination of the soajority, it 1s only poceseary to cite the tact that the strike begau with the girls in one of the largest mils, wno abandoned work, and then marched together to other manufactories, appeal- ing to their comrades to unite in the desperate | efiort, The list of mills in which Work is sus- ended is as follows:—Porter & Dickey, James iowle: irwin & Stinson, Thornton Smith, Wiliam Welsh, James Long, Brother & Co,, William Beatty, John Scanian, John Dallas & Sons, Rovert Mears and J. P, Brunner & Sous, and a Jew others of less importance, AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT. You will see that uwmong recent labor more ments (this strike of the Phiadeiphia weavers must take an importent place, [i is numerically the greatest strike that has been made in this city for years, and as it was only jormally organized on Saturday and already inciudes 2,500 operatives, i Is impossible to predict its provable extent. The carpet manutacture, which employs large | capital and many people, lias not yet been amected, One thing is certain, ‘hese mei and women are firmly convinced of the justice and necessity o! the movement and will not surren- der easily, A visit to the busy manu | facturing districts of Kensingron produces a paintul impression. An idie mill is like @ theatre alter the perlormance, when toe bright faces are gone from the galleries, when the lights are ex- linguished, and a saint giimmer only serves to dis- cover the empty darkness of the souiless stage, There ts the vast macninery, the Titanic engines, The shilting looms, all motionless anu dumb; bat ule busy vollers who gave le to the scene are gone; the men gathered in sullen or excited know at the street corners, the women idly sittiag on tei doorsteps, under these sweet, Unseasonabic stuger evenings which Heaven seems to have Sebi as its special blessing to the poor, The | he work of is the injury to a great | To what oxtent | ip the contract which they say the | week did pot support them during | | term of the | Miss Emmett whea the robver! ge THE ERIE STRIKERS. All the Demands of the Brake- men Conceded. Eds | Quiet Once More Along the Line and Trave) Besumed—The Genera] Suporiutend- ent’s Version of the Case The strixe on the Erie is ended, avd in a manner most unexpected, The strikers themselves aid not anticipate such @ speedy and decisive trinniph. All thelr demands are conceded. Brakemen and switchmen alike share in the common good for- tuae, The strike opened on Monaay evening about six o'clock and ended at half-past one o'clock yes- terday morning—about two days and « quarter. ‘The first train (NO. 12) Was allowed to leave at once, but 1t was not iM readiness to depart till three o’clock in the morning, and it arrived in Jer- sey City at seven o’clock last eyen- ing, bringing about seventy-five passen- gers, including Mr. Wright, General Superinten- Gent, and Detective Brown, Until the arrival of Mr. Wright 1ew particulars could be ascertained, Mr. ‘Tyson, one of the Vice Presidents, told a HERALD reporter in the afternoon that a telegram haa been received from Mr, Clarke announcing the satisfac- tory and amicable adjustment of the troubles, but he was entirely in the dark as to the terms of the compromise, The only definite information trans- mitted to him beyond that mentioned, was that trains were running regularly, The train follow- ing No. 12 was No. 8, and it was six hours behind, It was expected in Jersey City at midnight, Mr, Wright, alter a respite of ten or diteen min- utes, unbosomed himself on the whole case, at the same time exhibiting @ map showing the grades of the several divisions of the road. “You observe,” commenced the Superintendent, “by looking at this map, that while ail other divisions of oar road have steep and heavy grades, the division extend- thg from Susquehanna to Hornelisviile ts quite Jovel, or nearly 80, It will be clear to everybody, therefore, that it 18 mot necessary to exert the same force In breaking cars, checking their speed—on a level surface, a8 in running down inchnes, We wanted to reduce expenses, and I consuited with the superintendent of the Susquehanna Division as to whether we could not dispense with one brakeman on every train in his division. He thought it could be done, and I ts- sued an order accordingly, to go into eitect on Monday, never dreaming that any difficulty would arise trom the eniorcement of it. I was at Pater- son on Monday, and at ten o'clock that night I re- ceived the following despatch: Hornausvitix, Feb. 23, 1874. P._P. Wnaiont, Superintendent Erie Hailroad :—- ‘We, as brakemen and switchmen, cannot work with out our fourth man put back on Stsquehanna Division and $29 day tor al brakemen and switehmen and $2 15 for head switchmen in Hornelisville yard and $2a day for all brakemen on the Butfalo and Western Division, and $2 aday tor all brakemen on the Kochoster Divi- ion. No trains will leave Hornellaville yard nntil wo receive an answer in our tavor, THE COMMITTER. By order of P. 5.—No man to be discharged on account of the strike. 1 set out next morning for Hornelisville, where I had @ conterence with the men, assuring them hat I had no power to yield to their demands, promising at the same time that if they would re- sume work | would recommend their case favora+ biy to the directors. This assurance had no effect, and matters remained in this way Until the arrival of Mr. Clarke, Vice President, about twelve houra after | reached the place. Mr. Clarke and I spent wwelve or thirteen hours in consultation with the men, when we conceded their demands in fall, and they not only at once abandoned their policy of obstruction, but helped to prepare the rains for departure. The nuts, bolts and broken wheels, which they had removed to a place known only to themselves, were all replaced. The state- | ment in oue paper that the men took hammers | and smashed the wheels of the cars through @ | spirit o! mischief does great injustice to the men. | Tmust say that a better class of men under the circumstances I never met with. I must do them | this justice—there was very little excitement and | 1 did not see one man intoxicated out of that crowd of 500 or 000 men, We do not want these men to labor under the impression that we are actuated by any unfriendly ieeling towards them | On account of what has taken place. | This isa compendium ot the case. Mr, Wright | observed incidentally that while holding @ pariey | with the strikers he endeavored repeatedly to in- | duce them to allow the passengers to go through | ana leave the freight standing there till they could have a conierence with Mr. Clarke, but they were | inexorable, Some humorous incidents were related | by some of the passengers who arrived No. 12 train. The strikers resolved to get up @ parade | and march through the town. A company of ; begro minstrels, it s0 happened, had arrived in the town irom Corning, ahd these the mob im- pressed into the service as a band. The proces- | Sion, it was added, was orderly. Another equally | amusing incident occurred on Wednesday morning. A deserter irom the United States Army was being conducted back to St. Louis, under an escort oL two soldiers. ‘They kept the poor devii,” relates | apassenger, “handcuffed all day and ai) night in the car, without affording him a chance of going and getting something to eat. The strikers got wind, and didn’t they rush to that car? 1 tell you they had that fellow taken out in a jay god brought to a restaurant.”” The sequel is that, after the poor fellow had ravenously guiped down a meal, @ baud of ten strikers, by a dex- terous movement, closed around the guards, and reveuted their exit from the house | till their prisoner had made his _ escape, | Vice President Clarke met witn a slight mishap on his journey. When he arrived at Coraing a crowd of the strikers boarded and “cut” the train, thus hoiding him a prisoner. Mr, Clarke, who has growG gray iu the railroad and canal business, 1s @ SUCCESS as a diplomatist, and he was equal to the emergency. “Come along, boys,’’ said he in a | cheertal tone, “come along to Hornellaville; I want to talk to you as weilas to the rest of the boys.”? | The “boys” were unprepared for this. They were contounded; and the train was released, the men accompanying him. Mr, Clarke will return to chia. city to-day. | THE GILLESPIE HOMICIDE, | Examination Without the Jury, Who | i] Failed ‘ro Appear. Coroner Eickhof yesterday morning commenced Qn investigation into the circumstances attending | the death of Michael Gillespie, thirty-eight years of age, late of No. 116 Mulberry street, whose | Geath, it ts alleged, was caused by a stab wound alleged to have been inflicted at the nands of John Gillen, a young man with whom he had a quarrel, ‘The parties had been drinking to excess tn Cum: mins’ groggery, No. 63 Muiberry street, during the night of Saturday, the 7th inst., and, after exchang- ing threats and abusive language, Gillespie and | Gillen went out on tue sidewalk, Where they had a clinch and a fight. While prostrate on the walk it is charged that Gillen drew a penknife and stabbed Gillespie in the abdomen, from the effects of which he sppeeguently died in the Park Hospital. It also. appeared that just before going into the street Gil- lespie struck Gillen 1n the mouth and made tt bleed, previous to wiich he had recommended that Gillen be pat into the street because he had made | some noise in the place. James Mackie was in Cummins’ place and suw trouble there between Gillespie and Gillen, aiter which the latter weut out, but soon returned again; Gillespie and Giilen then weat ouside and had a clinch, both falling, Gillen underneath; while Gillespie was on top of Gilen, the witness saw a penknile in Gillen’s hand, but saw no stab- bing; they were separated and Gillespie went back into the place, tive minutes after wuich he tell on the floor, and was taken away on a stretcher by Une po.ice, Some other testimony of similar im- portance was taken, Judge Garvin appeared Jor the prisoner, and a8 tie jurors who had been summoned did not come the most important evi dence was taken, and will be read, to the jury to- day, to which Judge Garvin assented. B | THE NEW ROCHELLE ORIME, Ancther of the Alleged “Masked Bar- glares” in Court—An Effort to Have “Billy Woods” Admitted to Bail, The many spectators of both sexes which filled the Court of Sessions at White Plains, Westchester county, yesterday morning, in the expectation of witnessing the trial of John Burns, ahas “Billy , Woods,” whose three companions are now serving Sisve m Sing Sing Prison, tor the crime perpe- trated at the residence of Miss Emmett, near New Rochelle, were doomed to disappointment. When the Court had commenced District Attorney Brigus | stated that owing to the absence of three or four important witnesses jor the people be lt un- willing to proceed with the case, and asked that the triai be postponed until the April f court!” 1D. this Culonel John R. Fellows responded in behalf of the prisoner ' that the latter had @ perfect defence; that they were prepared to prove by most respectable wit- nesses that it Would have been pi, ally impossi- bie for Burns to have been at ae the bang and asked that the accused be admitted to bait. In support of this latter proposition the counse) assured the Bench that if their Honors would in terogate the witnésses for the defence, when the Court adjourned, he was satisfied they would be | come convined of the prisoner's innocence of the oflence charged, to the end that he might be liner- ated on bail, e Court consented to ascertain | from the wit a what they were prepared to prove, pending which an adjournment was effected | until ‘next Wednesday, when he anestinn of hail | wit be decided.