The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1874, Page 7

DIVES AND LAZARUS. The Way the Rich Help the Poor. VISITS OF VOLUNTEER VISITORS. oon €ad ad Thrilling Stories of the Desti- tution of the Decent Poor. a EX(MPLES OF PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY. The story of the destitution of the city, as given m the HERALD of to.day, has two distincuve phases that are worthy the attention of the actual ovservation, the sufferings of the poverty- stricken, who have hidden their dire condition until they have nearly grasped the cold hand of death, and have only been res- eued from an untimely end by starvation by some accidental cause that rendered necessary the putting forth of the helping hand, On the Other side is the cheering and encouraging sight of ladies who have left elegant homes, abounding with luxury and plenty, to personally visit those of their fellow creatures less fortunately situated, and, with the tender thoughtfulness of women, gladden gently and kindly many @ sad heart that was nigh unto breaking because no one cared for it. THE SOUP KITCHENS. ‘The administration of soup at the twelve kitch- ens in the charge of Mr. Charles Ranhoffer, ches to Delmonico, is now very well systematized, and every detail is perfected for the good of the indl- gent. About 13,000 persons were yesterday fur- Bishe@ with soup made of beef and rice and len- tila, To-day a good mutton broth will be served up to every person who desires it at ten and at four o’clock ; and at nearly all of the kitchens bread will also be furnished, as our citizens @re doing their utmost to help the good work inaugurated by the kitchens by sending a plentilu) supply of bread to many of the places where soup 18 distributed. The present mild weather has had a very beneficial efect for the poor, and those people who have no money for fuel to cook food, even ii they bad any food, find it very comfortable tobe able to get as much hot soup as they can drink, No one is turned away empty-handed, and in only a few cases where able- bodied impostors have tried the repeating dodge have they been dismissed with orders not to come in. ‘Two thousand gatlons of soup are now daily distributed, and it being in every case of the best quality that can be made the cry is still for “more.’ PICTURES OF POVERTY. Four Thousand Garments Given to the Poor=—Three Thousand Destitute Fami- Mes Supplied with Groceries at Their Homes—A Dying Englishman Longing for Home—A Little Housekeeper—Dyin: in His Chair—A Dismal Prospect and a More Dismal Reality—Subjects for ‘Womanly Sympathy. St. John’s chapel was all alive yesterday with pretty, happy faces and with old, careworn and wrinkied ones, There was many a@ poor soul there who received for the first time kind and en- couraging words from the lips of the rich, There ‘was many a richly dressed woman there who was for the first time brought face to face with the ter- rible struggle for life which is being waged day by day by the miserable. It seemed as though all the “opper ten thousand” had suddenly joined in sing- Ing these lines— Let us pause iy life's pleasures and count its many tears, While we allMsup sorrow with the poor, and that they had then stolen softly to the doors of the Guild, and, with all the angel in woman up- permost, were endeavoring in a silent aud unob- trusive way to play tue part of Sisters of Mercy. Many of these ladies have been admired for their beauty and their rich toilets in grand balls and fetes in town and country; but they could never have looked so enchantingly beautiful as when in their simple dresses they came to mingle among the unfortunate and furnish food, clothing and joney to those of pearly every creed, race and tolor Among the poor. Let those who coolly shrug their shoulders at what they term the “exaggerated accounts” of the destitution that now reigns in the city read the following reports of volunteer visitors, each one chosen carelessly from scores, and then turn lightly away from ail this misery about us if they can. And, first of all, let them pause to consider the fact that kinder bearts have furnished to St, Jonn’s Guild ‘ FOUR THOUSAND GARMENTS Within the past two weeks and that these have clothed over 1,100 men, women and children who else must have suffered terribly, notwithstanding this providentially mild winter. Within these same two weeks last past the volunteer visitors of the Guild have called upon and relieved at their homes 3,000 families. Countless visitations have been made, as well to localities where false ad- dresses were given, some lady visitors reporting as many as twenty such from their list In a single day. And before we give the experiences of these visitors 1t will be well to mention a case of especial interest to Englishmen, ‘who, if they have hearts to feel for the misfortunes of their countrymen, will, before another steamer galls, have generously aided ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE, Richard Stoaks, dying ot consumption, He was formerly a shipchandler at Pool, in Dorsetshire, and came to this country, where he had been lured by the golden prospects held out to him by those interested in Canadian immigra- tion. He found out his error too late, and went from Quebec to Detroit, where’ he had acquaintances. The rigors of the climate brought on a “quick consumption,”’ and when he found himself declining rapidly there arose in his breast a longing to get home betiore he died. He had left a wife and two children in his native village, from whom he has had no tidings for weeks. He arrived in New York with $18 in cur- rency, aml expected to get aid from Iriends here © pay his passage home. ‘The friends were not to be iound, and he went to the British Consul, who said he could give him no aid. Then he applied to the st, George’s Society, which gave him fiity cents. While he ‘waited his $18 was swallowed by the expense of living from day to day. He came to the Guild that = ta wornout, feeble “ruckle of bones,” with white, sunken cheeks and Jaded, longing eyes. He said huskily, “I don’t know how it is; I tried to get into the hospital, but I have a wife and little children at home, [t may be foolish, but I should like to see them once more before I go away forever, and I am dying.” He lanced sadly enough at the writer, as he con- Einuea doubtiully—"l suppose every one would rather die at home than in @ strange land and among strangers.” He was given @ supply of food and a promise that, if English hearts were not callous to all feel- ing, he would sail vy Tuesday’s steamer for “merty England.” THE LITTLE HOUSEKE! Mrs. Albert Hendricks, of Fiitieth a volunteer ports of destitution and lunacy. A tamily named Griner, living at No. 635 East Twelfth street, consists of a father, mother and six children, ‘The oidest child 18 twelve and the youngest two years of age. The father, a tailor, has been for a long time out of work, and the mother has been confined until quite recently in the Lunatic Asylum on Biackwell’s Island. She is now idiotic. The oldest child, a hitle er, works out, receiving $6 a month; the second eldest takes care of the house (which she keeps very neat and clean) and of, her little bro- thers and sisters and her poor idiotic mother. They were without food, The same lady jound at No. 333 East Bleventh street @ Mrs. Main very destitute. There were three children, and they had neither food nor clothing in the ‘house. A FRESCO PAINTER AND HIS LANDLORD. Mrs, Worstell reports'a visit to a family in West Forty-second street, The husband lives with his wife and two children in the basement of a brown stone house, owned by his father-in-law. The young- est child 18 a baby two weeks old. ‘The mother was married twice, and ® short time since she died leaving $2,000 to the eldest of her daughter's chil- dren, wie is four years old. The jJather, who lives above administrator little girl's father and moti will Keep it ior her for fourteen years.” He duns the Gaughter and son-in-saw incessantly for rent, ho ever. The husband is @ fresco painter, and has nothing to do, He subiets tne front basement to another fresco artist 10r $1 50 @ week, to obtain monev to keep them from starvation. ‘The second ER, No. 62 West visitor, re- thoughtiul reader. On one side are portrayed, from | 8t No. 237 West Thirteenth street. They painter 1s now unavfe to get employment, and the steplather at this juncture proposes to turn out fresco painters, daughters, babies and all, AN IMPOVERISHED MILLINE} Mrs, Hudson, at No. 141 East Twelfth street, living with her a mother and one child. She was visited by Mrs. + Mrs. Hudson is in delicace health and her mother is suffering trom acute rheumatism. They have hitherto occupied a suit of elegantly furnished rooms, and in these Mrs, Hudson carried on her business as a milliner, till, in the panic, her customers, one alter another, de- serted her, and the furniture began to disappear, plece vy piece, and now only a ew articles are lett, and these the poor woman Went forth to sell yes- terday to obtain money to buy tood. DYING IN HIS CHAIR. ‘The same visitor found @ sad case of destitution at No. 436 East Sixth street, where a Mr. Voik is dying oj consumption. He cannot He on the bed, and sits, almost a skeleton, on a hard wooven chair, The motter has but lately given birth 10 a baby, and, from lack of proper nourishment, is now in a@ critical condition. There are in ull four children, They were without food. It is hoped some kind person will send to Mr, Volk a comiortabie chair, in which the poor man may at least find an easier death, A FATHER'S DEVICE TO KEEP HIS LITTLE ONES WARM. Mr. Hodson, & volunteer visitor, reports the fol- lowing distressing facts:—There is a family living ve In & dirty back basement in the rear building, The father’s name 18 Ford and he 18 a widower, He has three little children—two boys and one girl—tbe eloest being nine years old. Before the panic he was & metal worker. at Richards’ foundry., When the foundry was sold he was thrown out of employment, and he has been unable to obtain work at any time since. The little girl has gone out with @ | basket to beg daily. Often she supplemented the scanty supply by fragments taken trom garb: barrels. ‘Ine food thus obtatned was often it for dogs. The fire was made from chips, cinders and garbage. At night the father slept on nis back on an old lounge, holding his three children in his arms and on bis breast, and spreading over them his tattered coat, In this way he endeavored to keep them warm, and was tolerably success(ul, save on one coid night, a month ago, when one was “frostbitten.”” A SUBJECT FOR WOMANLY SYMPATHY At No. 134 Mott street, on the second floor, there lives @ poor pouee mother. She is only twenty-three, She has » little daughter three years old, and a husband who is ous of work, and whom, all the neighbors praise as an in- dustrious, sober man. This poor wo- man is about to be confined, and the only furniture in the room is an old bureau and two chairs; no bedstead, and the only bed- ding ® straw mattress, without any covering whatever. Her food had been furnished her for several Gays by neighbors almost as poor as her- sell, Sie had barely enough clothes to cover her person, and Was shoeless and stockingless, Miss Upham, the volunteer visitor of the Guild who found her, procured for her coal, oil, food and other immediate necessaries, leaving much to be done. NOT EVEN A BANDAGE FOR BABY. We have seen in the preceding story how bleak are the prospects of the innocent unborn who is about to see light in an empty garret. Tarning from that picture we are contronted by one stil more pitilul. Early yesterday morning intorma- tion was received at the office ot the Guild that a young wile, scarcely twenty years old, had given birth to a child at her room, ina South Filth ave- nue tenement, and that she was so destitute as to be witnout even a bandage in which to wrap her new born babe. ‘The visitor who brought the message at once returned with Dr. ‘Thoms, who was 1n the office at the time and volun- teered his services, Mrs, Cowan, a volunteer vist- tor, immediately selected irom the wardrobe such articles of clothing ag were necessary for motner 4nd child, and in @ few minutes was engaged in clothing the little mite of humanity with that per- fect trenzy of delight which only a woman who has obtained possession of a living doll can ever ex- perience. RESULT OF MRS. WORSTELL'S VISIT TO THE GROCERS. Yesterday Mrs. Worstell made a visit to the gro- cers of the west side of the city. Mr. F. B. Thur- ber (ot H. K, Thurber & Co.) and Mr. Clapp (of Pat- terson & Clapp) volunteered to accompany her, and she was kindly furnished a carriage free of charge by Mr. Samuel C, Mott, of No. 119 West Twenty-third street. The following are the fruits of the day's visits:— H, Seymour & Co., butter, &c. Hunter, Walton & Co., box cheese. A. ©. Little & Co., tub of lard. Caverly, Beare & Co., twenty-five dozen eggs. Patterson, Clapp & Co., five cases mazola. oT. ‘Smith, one barrel of potatoes. James G. Powers & Co., groceries. Kotho & Stemmerman, barrel of flour. A. G. Conant & Co., ten pounds of sago, McLarren & Raynor, provisions, Parker & Perrine, provisions, J. T, Wilson & Co., groceries, Underhill & Stewart, bushel of beans. George C. Parker, fitty pounds of smoked beef. ‘Totten, Cather & Co., provisions, Horton, Clark & Co., bag of meal. B. F. Tt & Co., bag of meal. J, Romer & Co., bag of meal. McDowell & Dickinson, barrel of hominy, Baker & Clark, provisions, George C, McEwen & Co., two bags of meal. Baker & Co., seventy pounds of peaches. John G. H, Ahrens, one demijohn sherry wine (tor the sick). A.uriend, One box of corn starch. THE RELIEF FUND. Donations for the poor received by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged :— | Une Patriote, for Joseph Rosier, named in the HERALD Of Feb, 26......... seeeeeee $15 00 Charlie and Gennie Rouss, for the soup houses..... soe 7 0 Ex-broker. ie 210 00 In work for St. John’s Gulld.,... » 100 Total. eeeeee $28 10 Howard Relief Committee. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— We have to report the result of our last week's relief, irom February 22 to date: Fed. No, 49 Leonard street. 5,574 No, 61 Thompson stree! 7,989 TOtAIS....++.s000-4 13,563 Graud totals from Dec. MO GER Li8s ba cslderenesre 66,470 We have applications Jor clothing from a large number of worthy poor men, women and children. Any persons having clothing they do not want may send it to No. 49 Leonard street, where it will be given to only worthy people who are very much in need of garments to cover their naked. ness, Respectfully yours, J. D. WILLIAMSON, Chairman Executive Committee, St. John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. ‘The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall for the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry ©. De Witt:— {Those desiring to visit the office of the Guild will remember that it is in the school buildings at- tachea to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.] THROUGH MRS. JUDGE BRADY. For the needy from sympathy. $5 00 THROUGH MRS, F. P, EARLE, 500 500 5 00 25 00 SENT TO GUILD OFFICE. J. K.D., for the little hunchback of Mrs, Milaw’s, with love to him 100 . 100 . 0 6 . 5 00 8. Wagstat, ra 200 J. Hewes sees ‘ 200 M. Muldeaur... i 5 00 JA. B. eee Anonymous. 10 00 S.W.C. 10 00 Cash, throug! 100 Total. seeeee Previously acknowledge Grand total....... + $7,063 06 Contributions to this fund may” bé sent to the HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; 0. 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, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon & Co., No. 677 Broadway, and Rev. 8. H. Weston, D. D., No. 3 Bast Forty-flith street, or to the Rev. Aivah Wiswall, Master of St, John’s Guild, St. John’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 ifan order be sent a messenger will call for any packages. Mrs. Judge bl No. 19 West Thirty-third street; Mrs. Joseph Delafield, No. 475 Fifth avenue, and Mrs. F, P. Earle, No. 34 West Fifty-second street, have kindly consented to receive aubscrip- tions. Warstor Howe, 405 West Twenty-nine Starner, To re Epiror oF tae Heratp: T have read with deep interest th» thrilling ac- counts of destitution im the lower parts of” the city, and as one of the volunteer visitors of the St. John’s Guild for the upper part of the city I desire to say. that I, too, have witnessed scenes of poverty which It would be ‘impossible tor me to de- Scribe. Prominent among the cases of actual star- vation and destitution ‘and one well worthy of ‘mpathy and restoration is that of Mrs, Nichols, No. 362 Went Fitty-second street, first floor, rear house, confined to her bed and in last stages of ‘consumption. By the bedside of this poor, unfortunate woman was the son, six ears of age, and he, too, suffering and blind. At the foot ot the bed sather husband, suffering excruciating ‘and with swelled limbs trom rheumatism. And the ughter, being the only one to assist and comfort her afflicted parents, was a mere child ot cheerful and pre- Possessing appe e, bute xh: y constant attend. ance and confinement with her affiicted parents, T'soon found. what. was requisite and. gave in: stant relief in food. The case was soon reported 0 Mr. Caswell, our egteomed friend, of the firm has + of Caswell, Hazard & Co. druggists, who supplied them with what'was required in their line. Mr. W. Sommer, Thirty-sixth street and Ninth avenue, kindly supplied them in beet. Mr. Walker, Thirty-tourth street and Ninth avenue, grocer, instantly supplied Mra. Nichols with groceries, which ‘were all promptly delivered the tamily were overwhelmed with happiness. ‘fo the thousands of sympathizing hearts in this city “go thou and do likewise.” HENRY KING. THE CHARITY EXHIBIT. The following information is derived from re- ports of charitable and other institutions yester- day received at this office :— (ST. VINCENT DE PAUL ORPHAN Received trom city two years Received trom other sources. AsyLum ror 1872. Total receipts.. Paid during the Less wages, &¢ Total disbursed in rehief...... Number in asylum January i, 1872. ents or put to employment ylum December 31, 1872. BAPTIST HOME FOR AGKD, 41 GROVE STREET, FOR YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 3, 1574. Received from city 5 Nothi Received trom other 801 Value of articies contributed Total receipts.. Paid salaries, servant Expended in reilef an Total disbursements ae.. rent. Number of inm sin Home... te ee Lapixs’ SITORY, 576 BROADWAY, FoR 1873. Received trom city... : ~ $1,008 09 Received from oth 6 from 1872. 8,855 00 Total receipts. $9,856 00 Paid tor salaries $552 00 Paid other expe: 9,273 62 Total disbursements. .. 99,855 62 This society gives no other charity than work for poor women, who are paid @ liberal remuneration for the same. Relief ol this character is given to persons of all deuominations, SEVENTH WARD. ae Donations to the Poor by Residents of the Ward. New York, Feb, 28, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Colonel Jonn W. Avery, No. 152 Henry street, kindly donates 200 loaves of bread for the use of the soup kitchen in this ward, Richard Dalton, liquor dealer, No, 161 East Broad- way, contributes twenty quarts of pure milk a day for twenty days, to be. given only to those worthy arents Who have sick or young children. Respect- ‘ay, JOHN J. MOUNT, Captain Seventh Precinct Police. The following letter, received yesterday by Cap- tain Mount, of the Seventh ward police, was ac- companied by tickets for coal, of which fifty tons have been distributed to the poor within the last week :— New York, Feb. 28, 1874 Captain Jony J. Mount, Seventh precinct police — VEAK Sin—With this we torward the last instalment of tickets, fling your quota, and, in doing so, tender you our hanks for the great care and impartiality m_ which Yourselt and officers have acted in the distribution of our donation of coal among the deserving of the Seventh ward, Very respecttulty, '¥ RespectUSUANDLEY & HEFFERNAN, Union Coal Company, No. 413 Water street. FIFTEENTH WARD. The Work Dont with a Small sam of Money. FIFTEENTH WARD RELIEF ASSOCIATION, No, 219 MERCER STREET, NEw York, Feb, 28, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— ‘The officers of this association with pride refer the citizens of New York to the following exhibit. it shows what an incalculable amount of good can be accomplished with @ small amount of money, when that money is wisely applied and no salaries are to be distributed. ‘This charity was commenced on the 14th inst, and has just been carried on tor two weeks. ‘The following is an abstract of what has been aone, briefly set forty, viz. :— Contributions of money and provisions donated, calcu- lated at market price: giits of alt kinds from a 4 all sources, except as herein set fort 25 Rent (donated by the Chairman). - Cooxing range (donated by the Cl a = Two good cooks, empioyed trom the first b of poor applicants jor reliet—no sulary—they being furnished tood and lodging tree - Cooking utensils donated = No salaries of any kind.. - Total amount, money and provisions. $253 25, Total number of meals turnished durin teen (L4) days of existence 1773 Number ot families relicyed, 206 Cost per meal, per capita inc approximate. 8Xc. This is the result of the most careful and accu- rate accounting. A division of the amount e: pended by the number o! meals jurnished wiil pro- duce the above result. Comment is unnecessary. ‘That this result can be attained will doubtless be new to mapy of our old practical philanthropists, When we consider the vast amount of good and happiness resulting from so small an expenditure we cannot but hope that our fellow citizens will continue in the good work. There are {ew so bumble that they cannot furnish at least a meal to a hungry waytater, JAMES M. HEATHERTON, Chairman, THOMAS HASTINGS, Treasurer, ALFRED E. LOZ Secretary. é EDWARD J, HEATHERTON, Superintendent. SIXTEENTH WARD. A Citizen Calls Upon His Neighbors to Join in Aiding the Distressed, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— . On the 14th January, 1874, [made a proposition in the New York Sun to join any of my fellow | storekeepers in the northern, southern, eastern, western and middie portion of my ward and give one day’s sales to the peaceable and unemployed workingmen and their families, of all creeds, colors and nationalities. My intention is to provide fuel, clothing and food to the worthy ones. I have not as yet had any one willing to unite with me, and I make this second proposal as a challenge, Itis a shame lor the Sixteenth ward to lie still when the cry of hunger is ringing in its ears Respectfully, . K.P. " No, 230 Seventh avenue, Sixteenth ward, New YORK, Feb, 27, 1874. NINETEENTH WARD. A grand entertainment, under the auspices of the Nineteenth Ward Relief Committee, will be given at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Fifty- eighth street, near Third avenue, on Saturday evening next, in aid of tne poor of the Nineteenth ward, The Murray Hill Dramatic Association have Kindly consented to give one of their recherché performances. The plays selected are “Morning Call” and “Everybody’s Friend.” Tickets can be had of the following committee :— eneral F, Sigel, Register’s office, City Hall; IT. W. Conway, No. 25 Beekman place; Theo. C. Pohle, No. 120 Kast Fifty-sixth street; Emil Sauer, Presi dent German American Bank, No. 120 Broadway Washington R. Nichols, No. ‘18 West Forty-third street; E. T. Smith, No. 286 Bowery, and Charles G. Bull, No. 788 Third avenue. Reserved seats and boxes can be had of Charles a TWENTIETH WARD. Meat Given to the Poor by a Packer. New York, Feb, 28, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Please give notice through your paper that I will who are too poor too buy with meat on Mondays and Fridays at my packing house, on Tenth ave- nue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenth-seventh streets, to continue for four weeks from date, F. M. GILLETT, A NOBLE EXAMPLE, The following correspondence, which speaks for itself, indicates a movement in the municipal de- partments that is wortby of attention: Derantuxnt or Punic Wonks, Crry Hatt, New YORK, Fob, 28, 1874, Hop. Gronan M. Van Nort, Commissioner of Public vorks: Duan Sim—A number of the officers and employes hav- ing the honor ot serving under you in the Department ot Public Works, recognizing the suffering existing through- out this city in consequence of the want of employment, not only among the laboring Classes but others, and de- ring, as far as in them tes, to relieve the same, have contributed the sum, i) 60, which they herewith of {a enolose (ag well as @ jist of the naines of the sioscribers), fribute the same among the poor of this city in such Imanner as in your judgment will Dest serve to. re- their offering. On behalf of the subscribers, . £, P. BARKER, Chairman, Dxrantuxnt oF Pusiic Worns, CoumisstoxeRs’ Orricr, Roow 19 Ciry Halt, To tw Orricens AND ExrLOYxA OF THe DEPARTMENT OF Pontic Wonks :— by the Deputy Commissioner and the Chief Clerk’ ot th Gepurtment on. your behai& transtaitting ‘the sum, of ers, and requesting me to distribute this contribution among the poor and needy of this city, almoner, { beg to add the sum of $250 to your fund, and take this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation br regpecttully requesting that you will recelye and dis- fever distress aid carryout the motlvos which prompt Ronert H. Currorp, Treasurer, New Yous, Feb. 28, 1874. } GentLEMRN—I am in receipt of a communication, signed $2,090 50, contributed by you, with alist of the subscrib- While accepting with pleasure the duty of being your of your practical and time. benevolence, and the supply families in the Twentieth ward and vicinity | | Iowa and Minnesota with a without making some effort to aid the sufferers, | | ture to this important subject at once? NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. I fee! in being at the head of a department whose em- plovee thus remember: ip thelr comparative prosperity, he necessities of their less fortunate fellow men. Very Fespecttully, GEO, M. VAN NORT, Commissioner of Public Works, AID FOR THE POOR. Mr. Gilmore’s Charity Concert. To-morrow (Monday) evening Gilmore's Twenty- second Regiment Band gives, at the Armory, on Fourteenth street, a grand charity concert in aid of the suffering poor of New York. Tickets have been liberally distributed among the principal churebes of every denomination throughout the city, the pastor of each church dispensing the total proceeds from the gale of tickets allotted to him among the poor of his district. Mr. Gilmore has spared no pains to make the programme of the 3) | Most attractive order, Charity Concert in the Tabernacle. A concert for the benefit of the Bethany Insti- tute for Woman’s Christian Work will be given in the Tabernacle, Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, on Tuesday evening. Some of the most popular Yocal and instrumental artists wili take part in the entertainment, which promises to be one of rare excellence, aside from its charitabie object. A Charity Lecture This Evening. Bishop Quinlan, of Mobile, will lecture this even- ing, in the Church of St. Rose of Lima, Cannon strect, near Delancey, for the benefit of the poor of the parish im charge of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The Musical Family Benefit. Notwithstanding the weather, the net proceeds of the benefit at the Lyceum Theatre on Wednes- day last, a8 paid over to Miss Glover, were $133 25, A Charity Entertainment. . Un Tuesday evening next a number of dramatic artists propose to give at the Lyceum Theatre a Denefit for the Central Dispensary. ‘bis imeavitu- tion gives the poor medical advice and treatment gratis, and the draits upon its resources are ver} large during this seagon of distress. Robertson’s comedy of “School” and the operetta of “Tne Waterman” are the main features of the bill. A Church Charity. Among the active but quiet charities which have been spurred to earnest effort by the unusual dis- tress of this season that of the ladies of the Catholic Church of St. Teresa, in Rutgers street, is worthy of commendation, Last Sunday the collection lor the poor reached the sum of $1,050. Clothing of all kinds is being made by the ladies connected with the church, who constantly visit the tenement houses of the neighborhood searching out and re- leving cases of want, QUERIES AND SUGGESTIONS. Ss The First Soup House—A Question of Mr. Poase’s Claim. NEW YORK, Feb, 27, 1874, To Tae EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— In looking over yesterday’s HERALD I noticed | the result of an interview with Mr. Pease, who stated that he was the originator and founder of soup houses, and opened the first one in the city in 1855, but we beg to correct his statement. In the year 1849 there was a soup house opened for the relief of the poor under the auspices of the following named gentlemen :—Ex-Alderman William Drake, John Stratton, Frank Guest, Charles Campbell, Captain James M. Byrnes, Judge Coulter, aod Peter Bogart, who acted asthe Deimonico of the kitchen. The soup house was situated on the southwest corner of Forty-second street and Ninth eee Mr. Barnard as an Almoner. New York, Feb. 28, 1874, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— As the 7imes so heartily endorses the integrity of Mr. Barnard | would like to ask if the editor has forgotten about that $100 which was given to Mr. Barnard during the summer of 1872, with explicit ‘structions that it-shoula be expended for sick and dying children and old women who had been discovered by the Five Points missionary? Per- haps the editor does not remember that Mr. Bar- nard kept that money in his possession so long that a request was sent him to turn it over to Mr. E. M, Shuitz to be expended in the required way. ; It. the champions of Mr. Barnard wish to know what lie finally did with that $100 [ think that can enlighten them, as I am iuliy POSTED, How Salaried Benevolence Executes Its Trust—Is This Mr. Brace’s Method ot Finding Homes for City Children? [From the Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel, Feb. 21.) On yesterday the agents of a New York society | for the amelioration of destitute and homeless children passed through this city on their way to large number of the boys and girls of Gotham. They left the metropolis on Tuesday, and had lost over fifty of their charge along the way. “Lost or run away” is the report the agents will re- turn, if any; but this will be Jar from the truth, if the tale of two Jads at the police station is an honest one. They gave their names as Albert and Jarvis Keep, and stated that they were told to remain here, The boys are thirteen and fitteen years of age, and quite intelligent as representa- tives of the bomeless children of the great metrop- olis. They are plainly clad, and each had a cneap oilcloth satchei for odd articles of dress and knick- Knacks. They informed tne station keeper that the agents had dropped two or three children at every town and city of importance along the route. ‘They were told that they would be provided with homies among the large-hearted, generous farmers of Minnesota and Iowa, and though disappointed in their anticipations are not downcast. Albert and Jarvis are old enough to provide for tnem- seives if employment can be procured for tuem. | They will be obliged to go the Poorhouse unless | some benevolent citizen interests himselt in their benalf. ‘The course of the agents of tne New York society is censurable and should be vrought to the notice of the ladies and gentlemen who have interested themselves in procuring homes for the poor chil- dren among the farmers of the West. ‘Thougt it may be that the torsaken ones are better off in any other place, and under any circumstances, than in the densely populated cities of the Bast. it is un- charitable, unrighteous to cast them off in this heartless manner, after promising them the com- fortable homes they had prayed and longed tor as they wandered the streets in search of a place to Fest their heads, Model Farms to Teach Paying Industry to the Unemployed. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Would it not be well for the State to establish model farms, where boys and girls could learn the various departments of farm labor, and to which farmers can resort tor help for their farms? The model farms could nearly be made self-supporting | after a few years of experience—at any rate they would be aplace to teach industry of the kind most needed jn this country. 1 would recommend that description that would require most labor, 40 as to give the most occupation—gardening, fruit, poultry, butter, cheese and those things that are needed to supply the datly markets of our large cities—turning non-producers into producers. We have our West Point to teach the art of war, Why not have our West Points to teach the arts of peace and industry? You may fight pov- erty with charity and your wariare will be ineffec- tual, unless your charity provides work. To organize labor is the great field of practical duty, and agricultural labor is the most important of any. Will you draw the attention of the Pag oa . Me THE CHARITABLE, GRE REINA Family in West Twenty- sixth Street. New Yorn, Feb. 20, 1874. To THR Eprror OF THE HERALD:— ‘ I would respectfally cali attention to @ case of dtstress, The family of Mrs. Sherlock, No. 353 West Twenty-sixth street, consists of seven per- sons—father, mother and five small children, The father has been unable to procure employment for several months, and, therefore, he was unable to provide for the necessary wants of his family. Any donations for the same will be thankfully re- ceived, and in recompense will receive the prayers of the needy, CHARITY, A Call for Benevolence in East Fifty- ninth Street. New Yor, Feb. 23, 1874, To THE Error OF THE HERaLp:— I ask you to call the attentign of the benevolent to the condition of a family named Muichehy, living at No. 323 East Fifty-ninth street, in the rear. The family consists of man, wife and four children. They are in a very destitute condition, and, being in arrears in their rent, they are about to be put into the street, Mr. Mulchehy is a sober and in- dustrious man, but has been out of employment since early in December, 4. D., East Sixty-first street, THE BROOKLYN POOR, There exists @ great deal of suffering among the Brooklyn poor, Yesterday no less than 2500 people were fed with beef and barley soup at the Fourth precinct station kitchen. im Vanderbilt APPEALS TO A saffering avenue. At the Tenth precinct kitchen 1,000 peo- ple were fed. Contributions are coming in slowly. An entertainment in aid of the poor of the pari of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea will be given next Week, under the auspices of the St. Vincent de Paut Society. The performers upon the orcasion are amateurs, Whose services will be gratis. THE BUREAU OF CHARITIES. Comments of Keligious Organs. Salaried charity, which tends to make the ad- ministration of popular benevolence an avocation to be followed for a livelihood, or a field of enter- prise in which to build up an estate vy commis- sions and perquisites arising from the generous sympathy of the charitable for the distressed, is attracting the attention and remark of those who munity. Church and@ State, an Episcopal journal, edited by Rev. John Cotton Smith, in 1ts last issue Bays:— We cannot speak too strongly of the importance of the plan proposed by the Committee of Nine, at whose instance a public meeting has been recently held. Several years since we pointed out the im- Mense waste of charitable contribations in conse- quence of the absence of intelligent and systematic co-operation among our numerous benevolent as- sociations. What wag then a greatevil has become still greater now. A Vast mass of idleness and imposture has fastened jtself upon us and we are threatened with @ permanent mendicancy like that which inieats the cities of the Ujd World. We are satisted that Dr. Hall did not exaggerate the evil Jn nig statement asto the number of able-bodied men M this city, who might easily obtain work at reduced wages, but who prefer to live upon charity, So long as there is mere sentimental almsgiving, without any knowledge of the charac- ter 01 its recipients, so long as there are numerous societies, occupying the same field without any knowledge of each other’s operations, just so long this mass of imposture aud mendicancy will con- tinue and increase. The true method has been adopted in Boston, where the Bureau of Charities has systematized the whole benevolent work of this city. We trust that the committee who have taken the matter in hand here, will be so sustained by pablic sentiment that they will be able to ac- complish the same result. Similar views to those of the low church organ will be found in the subjoined article from the Jewish Messenger for this week :— At a meeting held at the Cooper Institute on Monday tue ion of the Bureau of Ciiarities was approved, and the committee continued, e are glad to learn from the proceedings, and especially irom the remarks of Kev. Dr. Hall and other speakers, that the abuses heretolore preva- lent im the Christian charities of New York are to be. corrected. We had no_ idea of the extent of the deception and hypocrisy practised by the officials of so many Chris- ‘uan charities. Of course, among the Hebrew chart- ties, our experience is of an entirely opposite character, 1t is av least gratifying that somebody has mustered the requisite courage to speak the truth concerning the management of the institu- tions under criticism. ii the eminent Presbyterian clergyman who took occasion to speak of the Christian charity characterisuc of our city would embrace an early opportunity of acquainting himself with Jewish benevolence perhaps he would succeed in acquiring more enlarged views on the sub- ject. It was @ little absurd to ask Mr. Selig- man to act on the committee—if he be selected to represent the Hebrew Benevolent Society—for | the existence of Israelite citizens was ignored in the addresses. We are glad, however, that the Bureau of Charities will continue in aheraners and hope the Christian clergymen engaged in the work ‘will not be too proud to learn how the Jews, who systematically practised charity towards the widow, the orpban and the destitute centuries be- jore Christianity was founded, are nobly imitated by tueir descendants. Not a Hebrew is an inmate of any Christian charity in our city, and Hebrews Gre among the liberal and intelligent supporters of non-Jewish institutions, while our hospital has Often sheltered more Christians than Jews. The true system of Christian charity isin part understood by this Bureau, The detection of tm- position is unquestionably a public service. Tne action of the Bureau has prevented new and need- less charities trom being founded; for 315 societies ought to sufice for every case of destitution in our | midst, and the immigration of hordes of indolent and thriftiess persons from the country was an evil to be dreaded and now nappily averted. Let the Bureau by ali means continue its good work, discover and check all abuses in the ad- ministration of Christian charity in New York. The Hebrews will warmly appiaud their eftorts and will aid them with their liberal contributions; no less than by the stimulus of their own example ota well conducted and economical system of re- lief, including not alone the detection of the un- worthy, but the seeking out and substantial as- sistance of the modest, deserving and suffering poor, A Presbyterian uracle, the Evangelist, discusses the subject in @ similar vein, hinting that there are in our midst some “organized charities’? which it believes ‘‘not needed and not useful,” and stigmatizes as “mere leeches on the charity ofa generous public.” It says:— A meeting of very unusual interest and tmport- ance was held at the Cooper Institute on Monaay aiteznoon, to hear the report of the Bureau of Charities. 1t was @ remarkable meeting, not so much im the mumbers (as in tue char- | acter of those who attended it. It was largely composed of business men. Bankers and joeronants left thei count houses, and along with lawyers and judges, well ad clergymen and the representatives of different mstitutions of charity, met to consider a matter ‘which is the common interest of all, as it concerns the welfare of our whole city, Mr. Stewart Brown ‘was chosen chairman, and Mr. Theodore Roosevelt read the report. The ta ne of this Bureau, which has been quietly at work for some months, is to bring the charities of the city into such relation to each other that tuey shall know what each other is doing, and suall not be working at cross pur- poses, or half a dozen be aiming at the same thing. At present there aro over 300 charitable assocta- tions in the city, great and small, the vast majority no doubt honestly organized and faithfully admin- istered, and doing @ most necessary and useful work. But some there are whict are not needed and not useful, which are mere leeches on the charity of a generous public. It would be a vast ublic good to have all these institutions inquired Into, to the end that the false charities may be ex- posed and the true ones may receive that hearty support which 18 their due, But not only do the charities need to be inquired into, but the objects of charity. At present pro- fessional beggars drift from one plaee to another, living on ail, and thus oer away the honest and really suffering poor. All these points were brought out at the meeting on Monday, in brief re- marks by Mr. Roosevelt, Dr. Hall and Father Mc- Glynn, members of the committee (we are glad to see a Protestant pastor and @ Catholic priest co- rousing Vote of thanks to the committee for what it nad done, and a unanimous request that it con- in these acknowledgments, as we feel that the public of this city owes a debt of gratitude to these men, who have 80 patiently and faithfully pursued what seemed a thankless task. All of the com- miltee have done well; but it will not seem invid- jous to the otuers ii we add that the success thus far is largely due to gne econ judgment, clear head and strong will of Dr. Hall, and to the mndefat- igable activity and organizing skill of the secre. | tary, our friend, Proiessor Charieg A. Joy, of | Columbia College. THE POOR OF NEWARK. Yesterday Superintendent Caldwell, of the New- ark Poor Relief Bureau, intended to close up en- tirely, after distributing the remnants of proven- der still leit in the store, in consequence of an | emptiness in the treasury and an unlike- lihood of getting it replenished. On Broad street, however, he ran against a gentleman who gave himacheck. This checked his closing up movement, He reopened, and during the day eight or nine clerks were kept busy as bees dealing out supplies to the poor. The report of the con- | dition of the Bureau spread and excited quite a | spirit of charitable hel Mrs, Spencer Goble, spent the best part of the di begging for | 1tim Centre Market. The results of her lavors were some dozen or more liberal contributions. Mr. Rodwell states that only about one-half the num- ber of persons now seck assistance that did a month ago, Among those who applied yesteraay and were relieved were @ great Many very re- spectable, neatly dressed women. A good deal 0f the falling off 1s due to persons procuring empioy- ment and the exposure of fraud. The Bureau was opened on the 6th of last December. The ambition of the managers is to keep it going full three months, which wili be rounded next Friday. There has been raised_and distributed in funds and pro- visions, &c., chieiy funds, nearly $15,000. The run- ning expenses have been only $25 per week, or about $300 altogether. SUICIDE IN BROOKLYN. Yesterday William Sillman, forty years of age, and residing at No, 109 King street, took @ quantity of opium while under the influence of liquor, As wife discovered the fact she summoned heres but 1b was too late, The uniortunate man died from the effects of the drug last evening, | and the Coroner was notified to hold an inquest over his body, panes FIRE IN BROOKLYN—LOSS $165,000. At about seven o'clock lapt night @ fire broke out in Dr. Furegas’cod liver oi refinery and manufactory for extracts of beef, in Eighth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, A dam: of er ‘was done before the flames were subdued. ‘he fire wag caused by the apron 0/ one oi the boys taking fire trom the stove. The surance on the property. waa no in- ‘ study the true interests of the poor and of the com- | operating in a work which is for the od of the whole city), and by Dr. Crosby and Judge Daly | and others. The result of the report was @ tinue its most important work. We join heartily | 7 LL Oe lt HENRY SMITH'’S SUCCESSOR, —— ‘Who Call to Counsel the Mayor on the Expected Nomination—Self-Sacrificing Patriots Swarming Apout ¢! City Hall—Additions to the List of Worthy Men who Could Se Persuaded. Mayor Havemeyer has had a hornet’s nest brought about his ears by being the unfortunate oMcial who is to nominate a successor to the late Police Com- missioner Henry Smith. If His Honor were not robust and healthy, of @ cheerful disposition and excellent good humor the worst fears for his men- tal and physical safety mignt be entertained, He 18 80 beset with candidates for the vacant Commis. sionership that he might as well make up his mind to lay aside “all business and excuses,” as legal subpeenas have it, and devote his whole time and attention between now and next Thursday to the Patriotic legion anxious to do the city service in the late Mr. Smith’s position. AN EXHIBIT OF PATRIOTISM. Recruits are coming in by scores, Thejr num- bers can only be compared with the enthusiastic “gathering of the clans” in ‘61, when volunteers Were more bumerous than could be accepted. In this instance the attractions of ofce—not the tocain of war—call forth the patriots; andif there 1g & person living who is so insane as to pelieve that the disposition to sacrifice one’s self in order to serve the country ts extinct he may learn his folly by scanning the ample list of names of those anxious to be tmmolated on the altar of publio service. MODEST CANDIDATES, Yesterday Mayor Havemeyer arrived at his omfce alittle later than is his wont. The aspirants for the Police Commissionership, however, played the part of the worm, and were “up” before the bird, but did not catch him. By eleven o'clock the siege of the City Hall had commenced. Most of those gentlemen who were named in yesterday's HERALD and many more paid their respects to Mr, Havemeyer, “merely to assure him of their sincere friendship, you know,” and “hoping that he would be guided in his selection of Police Commissioner by the best, of counse] and nominate only good and true men and such as would carry out practical reform.’’ Good natured soul, that Mayor. He stood the assaults like a bombadier—never flinched worth a ee ara Promised to do exactly what was right, COLONEL SPENCER’S CHARGE. The Mayor retained the utmost placidity while the string of patriots paraded before nim, At last the ubiquitous Colouel “Charley Spencer” appeared onthe scene, The doughty warrior, commanding 720 true-biue helmeted Pragsians, on entering tho Executive sanctum, saluted His Honor thus:— Mr, Mayor, allow me to assure Your Honor at the beginning that lam not a candidate for the Police Commissionership under any circumstances what- ever, even if it pad $50,000 per annum, as it is & thankless office; but, your Honor, as the legislative representative in the Assembly of the people and to express their preference, I call upon Your Honor in benalf of Mr. (naming Mr, Weed’s candi. date), andI nope, sir, that when you have arranged the list of the prominent applicants you will give due consideration to my friend and remember that {,as the representative of the ie. have urged his name upon Your Honor's kind considera- on. Mayor Havemeyer assured the military chief that he would bear the fact in mind, apon which the Colonel retreated in good order, THE MAYOR'S INTENTIONS. A HgRatp reporter had an interview with the Mayor subsequently, in which he was assured that it was impossible for him to name any candidate as yet, but that he would be ready by next Thura- day, when the Aldermen will hold their session. THE MUSTER ROLL, The following is an amended list of the aspirants for the vacant Police Commissionership :— Alderman John J. rris, Mr. Weed?’s ir. Shepard F. Knay it. #obn Morrissey. Ex-Senator Abram Lent, Ex-Ald. Henry Clausen, Jonathan Sturgis. William H. Al Jacob M. Patterson. Jackeon 8. Schultz. D. H. Brower, Gen. Alexander Shaler. Thomas 0, Act Bernard Casserly. George W. Quintard. B. F, Manierre. James G. Maguire. lacob M. Patterson. henry Bergh. Seth C. Hawley. Shepard F. Knapp. Ex-Assem’n Jas, Hayes, Edward P. Hogan. E. Coniter. General Frank Spinola. Thomas Dunit John E. Devlin. Colonel Jacob Long. 8. B. Ruggles. Nich. R, Connor, Willlam Laimbeer, Lawson J. Faille Henry N, Beers. Nelson K. Wheeler. John O*Brien. Gen. John Cochrane. Mr. Dexter A. Hawkins called on the Mayor yes- terday, and is supposed, also, to be a candidate— pressed by the Compircuer, who was with him at the time. Frank M. Bixby is also mentioned as @ candidate, likewise Mr. N. Hill Fowler; but at an interview with him he disclaimed any such in- tention. It is stated about the City Hall that Colonel Joel W. Mason might be induced to accept the position tf tendered to him, but that be willnot apply for the same. Mr. Kurtz, who claimed to be elected State Sen- ator last fall, indignantly denies having an eye on the vacant seat. MUNICIPAL RETRENCHMENT. Investigation of the Dock Commission by the Joint Commission. The joint committee of the Common Council on municipal retrenchment met yesterday in the omce of~the Department of Docks, corner of Broadway and Leonard street, and pursued their investigation of the affairs of the Department. Alderman McCarrerty, Chairman of the com- mittee, said a delegation had called upon him this morning and represented that immediately on the committee leaving the dock foot of Christopher street yesterday sixty men employed there were discharged. He asked if that was so? Commissioner WESTERVELT sald they were not discharged, but merely suspended for a week or So, as there was no work ready for them, They would be put back to work very shortly. In reply vo questions from the Chairman Com missioner GARDINER said the amount of stock tasued Jor the Dock Department, since 1t was organized in 1870, was $3,500,000. Of this there remains to the credit of the department $742,613, leaving the expenses of the department $2,757,386, The de- partment turned into the ae Fund $1,575,087 as rents received from docks an ‘ae a thus leay- ing the actual cost to the city of the department, since its organization, $1,182,208. Assistant Alderman OLANCEY, of the committee, said he wished to define his position in the com- mittee. Although they were a committee on re- trenchment they were not a committee to throw poor men out of work. Rather were they in- clined to give all the work they could. It was no retrenchment to totally stop work, and he desired an explanation of the action of the Commission- ers, who yesterday discharged sixty men from the pier at Christopber street immediately after the committee leaving there. No doubt these men thought the committee had recommended their discharge, and were even told so, He wanted it understood that he did mot countenance such action. ‘Mr, GARDINER said the material had run ont, and that the men were only suspended. Mr. CLANCEY—Strange colpetdence that the ma- terial should suddenly run out just half an hour alter we left there, and so many as sixty men had to be discharged all at once and without notice. Mr. GARDINER—The men were only suspended, and can go back when there 1s material. ‘Mr. CLanceY—You know, and I know too much of the workings of public departments for that; men are suspended idefinitely, ana that is the end; a ‘are always suspended—never dis- cnarged. Mr. Clancey went on tosay that the body to which he belonged was peculiarly the repre sentative of the poor Ngee | classes, and he lieved he expressed the sentiment of that when he said be _cisconntanancns the tion of the Commissione: men, and unless @ Sacisinctory xplanation was given he would resign from the committee; he did not want the impression to go out, amo the working classes that we committee advised the discharge of laborers. He then asked how many foremen and engineers had been “sus- pended,” and Mr. GARDINER replied noe. Their dischi would tend to diso! the working ent. ofr’ GeexceY—ail colonels and no privates, I do not believe in ae , ey Sarniag 2 ‘and keeping 10 Sane ave motaing to do ‘when there are no t work. " mi was stated by the Commissioners that the men had only to watch jor the arrival of material, and go back to work. This episode created gels a and every one seemed excited when the investigation wenton. ‘The e; tion, the books and payroils e! d the committee until’ pe three o'clock, shortly after which it ad- journed, PEOPLE'S REFORM eo OF BROOK. Last night a meeting of the People’s Reform Asso- ciation was held at the rooms of the Committee of Fifty, on Fulton street. A committee of three was appointed, consisting of Messrs, Cottiren, Gilbert and Mayhen, witn the Chairman, Mr, Gilbert (ex-opicto), ta confer with the representatives of two dominant parties regarding the nomination of an Alderman for the Sixth ward in place of ex- Alderman Rodman. A committee of three was appointed to urge the, the Committee’ amendment to the charter Ww! of Fifty sent to pease A resolution complimentary to Major John W Hunter for his advocacy of reiorm was unani- mously adopted,