The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1874, Page 4

KIND HEARTS. | Generous Gifts Towards the Re- lief of Destitution. A “WIDOW’S RENT FUND.” Contribution of a Sympathetic Citizen Towards, Securing Shelter for the Helpless. CENTRES OF CHARITY. Localities Throughout the City Food May Be Obtained. Where, | temporary relie by charitable persons, but the greater part of the necessary articles comes trom the society itself, THR HOWARD RBLIEF ASSOCIATION SOUP HOUBE, Tv association, already well known for its good done, has somewhat onsnged we character of its work. The building in Leonard street, Where the system was first put in torce, la now almost exclusively used for lodging and the meals are furnished at No. 51 Thompson street. For some time meais were given in both places; but 1t was found that many of the disreputable class took meals at each place, so that the giving out of food has been contined to one of the establishments, Good meals are given, however, in the Leonard street establish- Tnent to a few of the more respectable when tt 1s thought fit to save the public tbe spectacle of thelr misery. At present some two hundred men cap be lodged in the Leonard street house and @ few women, while the Thompson street house jurnishes meals to 1,500 persons daily. These consist of bread and’cofee im the morning, between six and half-past seven o'clock, and soup between five and half-past seven o’clock in the evening, Many very respectable persons have applied for lodings here, aud they are generally allowed to stay until they manage to find work; but the “bummer” class are either no mitred at all or are rapidly disposed Of the hext morning. Amwong those wo have ap- plied for lodging and food have been an ex-Member of Assembly and ex-Judge, @ well Known doctor who thr eursago Kept bis horses and carriage in this city, anda once very wealthy broker—ail at present totally destitute. Clerks, dry goods salesmen and teachers have often applied tor Women who now apply are THE SOUP KITCHENS. In Charge of Mr. Delmonico, Fourth precinct, No. 327 Water street, Captain Uiman. Sixth precinet, No. 110 Centre street, Captain Kennedy. Seventh precinct, No. 79 East Broadway, Captain Mount. Eighth precinct, No. 114 Wooster street, Captain Williams. Eleventh precinct, No. 235 Second street, Cap- tain Murphy. Thirteenth precinct, Oaptain Hedden. Fourteenth precinct, No. 53 Spring street, Cap- | gain Clinchy. | Eighteenth precinct, No, 202 avenue A, Captain Tynan. | Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner of? Sixty-third street, Captain Guaner, | ‘Twentieth precinct, No. 611 West Twenty-ninth | Btreet, Captain McElwain, Twenty-first precinct, No, 218 East Thirty-fourth street, Captain Allaire. } Twenty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between Sixty-secund and Sixty-third’ streets, Captain Kil- lilea. Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-first etreet, near Seventh avenue, Captain McCullogh. Otner Soup Houses. Juvenile Guardians’ Society downtown relie, No. 11 Dey street. Mr. Orcutt’s soup kitchen, No. 17 East Seventn street, near Third avenue. | Howard Rellef Association soup houses, old police station, Leonard street, and No, 61 Thomp- son street. Industria! School for Women, No. 47 East Tenth Btreet, near Broadway, gives meals and furnishes beef tea for the sick, Fifteenth Ward citizens’ soup house, No. 219 Mercer street. \ Twenty-flrst Ward Reform Clab’s relief house, No. | 232 East Thirty-third street. Bread and beef house, No. 306 West Fifty-second tureet, near Eighth avenue, Sparta Club soup kitchen, opposite the Court House, Filty-seventn street, near Third avenue. Twelfth Ward citizens’ soup house, Harlem Mar- ket, 125th street. Manhattantille, 130th street, near Broadway. No. 224 Delancey street, Scenes at the Deimonico Soup Houses— ‘The bill of fare yesterday at the soup kitchens of | Mr. Delmonico consisted of a splendid beef and pea soup, and to each person who took soup there Was given also half a loat of bread, made of the whitest four in the market. The peas, with the large masses Of tender veef, made one of the most excelient soups that has yet been offered to the poor, Captain Murphy, of the Eleventh precinct, reports that soup was furnished to 1,600 persons yesterday at the soup kitchen in Second street. | Captain Henry Hedden, of the Thirteenth pre- tmet, whose soup kitchen is in Delancey street, reports that soup has been {jurnisied to 1,200 people, and also that he has received the fol- | lowing donations:—F, Germann & Son, No. 65 Suf- lolk street, 100 loaves of bread; Henry Walter, No. | 191 Delancey street, fiity loaves of bread; Caspar Kremkle, No. 198 Broome street, 100 loaves of | bread, In this precinct an engineer of the neigh- | boring marbie works applied, by his wile, for soup, ‘nd after it was discovered that he was receiv- | wg $18 a week she was | ignominiously ex- | pelied from the soup kitchen, A Mn Fred- erick Stone, of No. 111 Mulberry _ street, has donated to the soup kitchen at No, 110 Centre street, in charge of Captain Kennedy, filty loaves of bread. Ai over tue city there isa splendid manifestation of charity toward the poor, and every day it seems to be on the increase. Captain Murphy, In the kleventh precinct, has over $400 to dispose of in his Ward, and there’ ts a demand for Bll that may be received. Ail the police captains, many of whom have been very dilacory until a late day, have at iast been stirred up to do their work 11 @ systematic manner, and it is now being one success uily by every one. The soup kitchens have now been established twenty days. During that tune chet Ranhoffer has distri- buted about 47,000 gallons of the best soup, and Over 185,000 desutuie people, prin consist ing of women avd childre v areiieved, It is calculated that avou of bread have been distrivuted, and xth ward, under the adtuainistra Caddell, there are 250 loaves & day given out to those who take soup. It is almost impossible to teed the n { poor who apply, yet the system is so well periected that none who apply can go awayempty banded. it now needs but a littie more exertion from the police in every ward by instructions to the patroimen to in- Jorm the poor of the reliei that 18 Waiting for them, and the entire poor population of the city will be relieved at once. In the uptown wards the system is not yet as periect as it is in the lower wards, but every day it isimproving. The loafers and bum- mers and dock rats no longer receive relief, aad are turned away without hesitation. S . Scenes at Other soap Houses, ‘Théextent of relief to the outdoor poor existing tm this ty mainly through the establishment of Bonp house's 18 uoW believed to be amply suMcient, if not inde! more than sufficient, to supply the need that is Nit by the destitute. Many of the regularly organia’d charitable instituuons have adopted the idea whx’h bas been found to work so admirab| TEE JUVENILE GUARDIAN SODiETY SOUP HOUSE, | The Juvenile Guardian Society sp house, at No. | 14 Dey street, is uow in full and suedeasful opera- tion, It is situated on the second floor of @ bulid- ing 25x100, aud offers ample accommodation for the work done. The Kitchen portion of the estab- | lishment is situated in the rear of the large room, | and occupies but asmailspace. Running the en- | tire length of one wall and against it is @ table upon which the poor feed. Dpon entering they are given a iarge slice of bread and are then furnished with one plate of soup each. Un the other side of the room | is @ counter over Which poor famiiies are furnished | with various Vegetabies, suc as potatoes, carrots and turuips, as they muy need them to cook at home. These are mainly the result of voluntary contributions, When frst the establishment was bpened the rush of men was so great that all the lacilities of the soup house were exhausted by them, It was found necessary, therefore, to be more discriminating with those who came for help, | boas to be able to relieve many worthy families who applied to take soup howe in kettles, | These now form the majority of those who are re- | leved, and a system o/ Visitation has been organ- | ized, 80 as to verily the needs and the honesty of the applicants for help. ‘Tickets are furnished to | thése, and they obtain the soup on presentation of | the tickets to the Superintendent. The latter re- ports that very few cases of -imposition have been Biscovered; but that, on the other hand, an enor- mous amount of the direst misery has come | to light—peoplie who have pawned their all, | tnd absolutely are without cooking utensils + or stoves to cook their food, even bad it. The hours when soup is furnished |. ire between eleven and four in tue day. About | 100 persons @ day are given soup, the majority of | Wuom take it home, As many as 1,200 have been | fed in aday, Many of those who apply are re- Spectable persons, who find it impossible to obtain employment, mainly belonging to trades, such aa | carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. A portion of | jue Meat, bread and provisions used is contributed i | crease. \ pot turned aw Each evening those who | apply for lodgings are arrayed on the sidewalk in front of the building, and the most respectable are picked out of the crowd to the extent of the capacity of the dormitories. Clothing 1s also furnished to those apsolutely mm | need of it, not old clothing, but. new, bougut by the society. The salaries of the whole instituuon mount tO some $30—tue Superintendent of the hompson street house and the cook being the only oues paid, Since the society opened its two places 70,200 meals have been furnished, 21,092 pe sous have been lodged and 600 have been turnished with clothing. It Seems surprising that the entre cost of all this good done has only been $2,500, Ln- cluding $600 ior repairs and cost of neaters, boll- ers, jurnaces, &c, THE FIFTEENTH WARD CITIZENS’ RELIEF SOUP HOUSE. The work of this association has only been com- menced of late, but a vast amount of good has been done in a short time. No, 219 Mercer street, and is under the direct charge of a body of citizens who take an interest in the work. Tue office is located on the’ first Noor and the soup house in the basement, where a French cook is employed. The accommouations are smull, but suficient for those who apply, as the help is| meant principally for the residents of the ward, Of Jate, the mana- ‘The soup house 1s located ab | \ ger reports. the attendance of men, Whoare mainly | of a decent class, has been lound to diminish, | while the needs of families have been on the in- | From what has been seen in this way the amount of suifering tu the ward has been found to be much greater than was supposed. Bread and coffee or tea are surnished he morning between Six and half-past seven 0" ‘kK, and in the even- ing bread and soup {rom five to hail-past seven o'clock. Asingular iact exemplifying the good the Soup Houses accomplish 1s stated by the manager, men applying were found to be under tbe infu- ence of liquor. This was caused by tueir begging, When, receiving too iiule to buy lood, they would spend their driblets in liquor, ‘The giving to these ol good, noursting food has taken awa, the guaw- ing desire for stroug liquor, and, as 4 cousequence, many o1 those Who Were rapidly going down bill, have recuperated and have found work. Tickets are furnisied to residents in the Ward who con- tribute, and these are requested to give no money to beggars but ove of these tickets, Which entities the bearer to @ meal, ‘This is another means em- ployed to discourage beggars and make them bet- termen. Lhe Work Of tis suup Kitchen last wee was as 1ollows :—Meais iuruished, 4,0° iamilies reileved, 126; given clutinng, r THE On The Orcutt soup street, furnishes 100 kitchen, and, besides tnis, relieves an average of 300 daily outside, that is to say in families, The accommodations are small but ample Jor those who apply, none being turned away bungry. As elsewhere, the report bere is that the great ma- jority of those who apply are deserving Oi the help that is extended, and many of the poor families | who have been relieved were on the verge of starvation. Many voluntary contributions are re- ceived, but the main portion of the good done is through the instrumentality of the gepUeman Whose name the soup kitcheu bears. THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION, Since the headquarters of this society has een moved to No, 47 West Tenth street, pear oadway, its uselulness has been greatly in- creased. The new building 1s an ample one ol Jour Siories and basement. in the basement tae read- ing room for women and the kitchen, where honsehoid servants are trained, are situated. On the first Noor are the offices and Visitation parlors; Ou the second the roows jor sewing Classes, some fiity sewing machines being employed; on the third and fourth floors are situated the dormitories jor Cestitute women, for wuom situations will be found, but who will be lodgea in the meantime. One large Toom is put apart for any respectable lady whom the society may wish to relieve without the onus 0! mingling with the poorer classes, To state that the institution is managed by the ladies of the so- es | clety wituout pay or reward is enough to mane it undersiood that delicacy, love and gentieness are the sentiments which govern the managers in their action toward the poor of their sex who may be destitute. Work ts obrained irom large man- ulacturers and given to poor sewing women, the society becoming responsible for its being properly done, and the (ull benefit going to the poor women. The outdoor reiie! afoided 1s mainly in the shape Ol beet tea to the Sick poor, and it has been iound that this supplies a need which has been long Jelt. Many oO! these are unable to eat the coarser iood that is Often sent them, and the beel tea lurnished, Which is of the best, is precisely the kind of nour Ishment that is wanted by Lhose too sick to par- take of stronger stimulants. A quantity of this is Sent out daily. Meals are also furnished to those wuo apply tor them at the house, and relief 1s also extended to the girls who are being taught in the estadlishment. Young Women are also here instructed to become saleswomen and Keep accounts, and a steno- graphic ciass has also been imsututed. ‘he only persons under salary are the teachers, THE SOCIETY FOR AGED AND DESTITUTE POOR soUP HOUSE. This society has established a soup house at its estaviisiment, at No, 323 bast Thirty-third street, in addition to the regular work of the charity. The Soup 1s Cooked in the kitchen of the establishment @ud dealt out dally to those who apply in quantities suilicient to relieve their need, Many of the sad- work | | When first the soup house opened many of the | | bome, | Gest cases have applied here, aud each day new | Oues present themsetves, The best poruon of the Work of tue society, however, has been wone by a reguiar system of Visitation, at which a large num- ber of poor who Would not apply ior help vave been relieved jrom actual starvation, tea, codee, bread aud vegetables are datiy fur- nished to these; clothing, groceries aud provisions given out on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and 3 also been done by the free gilt of BREAD AND BEEF HOUSE, This institution at No. sué West buty-second street, Was established for the reliei of the poor through the tedium of good lood velore the late epidemic Of Starvation broke out upon us. The bread and up uo: has furnished meals to 1,691 persons, J one of tue best pots of the charity is that no are paid. Ib tact, it hag been jound that istribution of the help to the poor has cost than less seven per cent of the value of the articles give: The poor are also visited at their dumiciies and heiped in their need, and, ag elsewhere, the system has been found to be a good one ior the discovery of misery which hid itseil irom public . A majority o: the meals dealt outare | Jurnished at the houses of the destitute instead of obiiging tuem to attend at the imstivation. The poor tn this locality have been found to be in very small ratio of Sis beggar class and the re- lief given itis found is in the great majority of cases really needed by those who receive it. Seven hundred atid three articies of clothing and quan- tities of ali kinds of provisions have aiso been fur- fished, These have mainly been purchased by the society itseif, INE SPARTA,CLUB SOUP HOUSE. The Sparta Club soup house, in Filty-seventh Street, near Third avenue, has been opened of late, and has done, it would appear, @ great deal Of good to outdoor poor—so much so that hnndreds are relieved datly of the curse of hunger. Since Marcu 2 the club have served 7,804 Meais, Making @ total of 19,272 since they opened. The average amount o/ provisions distributed here each day has been 150 loaves, 120 gallons of soup aud coffee, meat, vegetables in proportion. The soup house is located on the first floor, and boilers, kettles and a handsome range have been intro- duced to such ap extent that as many as come Liberal contributions bave been made to the project, and the club propose to con- tinue in the Same manner until there proves to be no further necessity of tnis mode of pubite charity. Adetalied report of the workings Of this institution Will be found elsewhere, PICTURES OF POVERTY. The Crowd in tne Court of St, John’s Chapel Yesterday —One Thousand Hungry People Waiting with Empty Baskets—Feeding Paste to a Sick Baby—No Home and Narsing a Child in the Streets—A Generoas Gift from the Department of Public Works, Do the thousands who live in fine houses, who dress elegantly, who ride in carriages to balis, theatres and the opera, who give sumptuous din- {f they } ners and who are happy, really remember the | poor? Do they picture to themselveg not only those who lack all of these things, but those who are dying in the nether depths? How many ladies, when they sit in their own cosey and richly furnished apartments, where the | carpets are tnick and soft, where the light is mel” Jow, the air perfumed and the fire in the grate is glowing with a ruddy and generous warmth, think Of those Cast into the outer darkness, Where there Soup meat, | | succor the sick, to clothe the naked and to shelter | 1s only cold, hunger and despair? As they nestle their little feet tn tiny satin slippers deep in the recesses of the soft, fleecy folds of a foot rug, do they see in their minds’ eye visions of feet as small as theirs, but bare and cold. and bleeding—a dark and dreary room, where there is no fire, no food, no bed, no anything? The garrets and cellars, where poverty has its home, are infinitely more ; numerous than the abodes of wealth, and this simple word, “poverty,” nas a world of meaning. It means to be houseless and cold and hungry | and half clad and sick. It means to be naked and dying from destitation. It means that here is the jumping-off place, where men and boys become thieves and vagabonds and women and girls enter upon a iiie of shame. It means this, or the river, the Morgue and the Potter's Field. To say, “Ah how Sad is all this destitution!” 1s not to say much. To send a few dollars and a small bandle of cast- off garments to the poor is not to do much, To say, ‘There is unmeasured misery ac my door and | 1 wiil be for the nonce a good Samaritan,” to throw | aside pleasure for duty, to feed the starving, to the homeless—that ts CHRISTIAN CHARITY. Think of the fact that 1,000 ragged and wretched men, women and children stood before the doors? of St. John’s chapel yesterday, weak (rom hunger gud shivering from cold, waiting tor food. Think of the fact that these poor creatures represented 6,400 destitute families whose names and addresses are now on the Looks of the Guild, Think that among these were cripples and those who were aged and helpless, those who were young and de- fenceless and innocent, that there were faces old and wrinkled by suffering, faces young and pinched | by want, faces that had the hectic glow of con- | sumption and faces pale from starvation, These | are the pictures that poverty paints, PASTE AS FOOD FOR A SICK BABY. How many ladies living in Filth avenue will be shocked to hear that within a few blocks srom titat | street of palaces on Friday last @ sick baby was being fed upon paste made from flour and cold water! Yet one of their own circle witnessed tuis, A lady, fasvionable, wealthy and beautiful, who ha! given up the pleasures of society jor a time to | minister to the destitute, calis daily, with many others, at St. John’s chapel tor lists of the suffering | poor. On Friday she found in Tnirtieth street a mother with an emaciated babe to whom she was jJeeding a spoontul of flour, Which she nad begged | Ata corner grocery, and which she had mixed in | cold water, Lack of food had caused, her to lose the power to nourish her little one from her own bosom, and the child was starving in her arin3, MIRRORED FROM THE DEPTHS. This episode had its counterpart last night in one that came out of the lowest puriteu of the city. After nightiall, when the light showed dimly to- ward the streets from the closed blinds v1 the schoolroom, which is the Guild’s headquarters, & poor woman came hesltatingly through the court and knocked at the door. She had in her arm baby, and in an unmistakable English accent told her simple story. It might have remained unuttered, for the “dispossess” writ in her hand told it before she had spoken. Her name was Catherine Quinlan, and she lived in the rear of No. 18 Cherry street, Her husband, a laborer, had been disabled ive months ago by | jailing from the upper story of @ building in the | erection of which he was employed as a hod car- | rier, Since then their sufferings had been terri- — ble. Three weeks ago the poor woman gave birth | toa baby—a baby so small now that it could be | laid comiortably in a gentleman’s silk hat. The | secret of its diminutive size was revealed by the mother when she said, “I was without food s0 long I could give it no nourishment.” Yesterday the landlord served a legal notice on nine Jamilies, in the iront and rear buildings, fo leave. Some owed three months’ rent. This poor family, who pay $6 a month for their room, owed $4 The land- lord included them with the others, though he had to pay $38 60 for the Justice’s summons. The Guild rarely pays rents, for the reason that to do 80 would require large sums of money, and the daily expenses now greatly exceed the receipts. ‘The wouan sat before the grate, with her child on her Knees, and her face wore @ hopeless and de- | jected look, The Master was despondent, and his | jorehead began to assume the knitted expression that it wears when doubt and things disagreeable | assail him. Just then a lady entered with a check | irom Commissioner Van Nort for $250, and in an instant his face brightened. The poor woman was | al once given the money to purchase the right to | stay in the miserable room she had called her HARLEM POVERTY AND CHARITY. Mrs. Talman reports @ case of the most extreme desutution in Harlem, A man and wile and five | children compose this picture of wretchednes The mother 1s very sick; the lather has fora lon time been unable to find employment, thougn searching till weary and sick at heart. The chil- dren have been ted by the poor of the neighbor- hood—another among the countless instances the Guiid has found of the truth of the old English bal- lad wherein Gaffer Gray explains that only the poor Can feel tor the sorrows of the poor. Some of the people have been so generous to these little ones, appealing so strongly to their sympathy, that they have now no money to pay their own rent, and a delegation of these came to | state the facts to the Guild, Tne great throng which filled the spacious court- yard yesterday (tuere were at One time 800 in line) was kept in perfect order through the exertions of the officer who was, as usual, detailed to attend at the Guild office by Captaln Petty. Otherwise, in the contention for places by these hungry people, the feeble and those bearing chudren in their arms might have been seriously injured. THE RELIEF FUND. Donations for the poor received by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged:— Beaver Street on V. B. S., for the ‘Prolessor day's HERALD.. 320 00 5 00 John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall tor the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry C, De Witt:— {Those desiring to visit the ofice of the Guild will remember that it is in the school buildings at- | tached to St. John’s chape!, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.) THROUGH C, V, B. OSTRANDER, St. Anton Metz + $15 00 | Auonymou! oe 200] From Lituie 8. B. L - 60 | THROUGH THE H. COOK. | A Friend . 200 A Friend . 8 00 THROUGH A. BE. COLMAN. ] Samuel Wals on ° 10 00 | SENT TO JOHN'S GUILD OFFICE. » §. M. Burrough, “Philadephia” . 5 00 C. F. A. Hinrichs. ° . 25 00 A southern, tor “Protessor’ A 5 00 | A collection trom St. Cornelius’ Cb 2 76 | Mrs, Wiluam T. Col 5 00 A Friend, tor the Pro 1 00 1 00 | 2 00 2 00 10 00 § 00 +e 5 00 | Mrs. C. M. Brown, ior Poor Woman 200) THROUGH MRS. A. W. LEGGAT. George M. Van Nort, 00 26 | to the following societios:— $352 8,698 13 davsssecceccesedcvaessqusSOOOn OO Contributions to this fund may be sent to the HERALD 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, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of | Canal and Thompson strects; J. L. Davis, Sheidon | & Co., No, 677 Broadway, and Rev. 8S. H, Weston, | x No. 3 Bast Forty-tiith street, or to the Rev. Alvab Wiswall, Master of St, John’s Guild, St. John’s chapel, Varick street. Packages Ol clotning, groceries, &c., should be sent to St. Jonn’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets, or ii an order be sent a messenger Will call lor any pac¥ages. Mrs. Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third street, and Mrs. P. P, Earle, No, 34 West Filty-sec- ond street, have kindly consented to receive sub- scriptions. The Merchants’ Donation The committee of the Produce Exchange have made a further distribution of the fund subscribed for the relief of the poor of New York and Brooklya Grand total...... NEW YORK. House of Industry. hag pet. < Association for Beiriending Young Girls, St. Luke’s Home for Women, Ladies’ Union Ke ASSO Hebrew Benevoienut society Special donation ns Association jor linprovin, the POOT.............6. BROOKLYN. Heme for Jncuranles.,.... BrooklyD Association tor toe Poor. sees $1,600 reasurer. EDWARD HINCKEN Charity Concert This Evening. ‘The poor in St. Paul’s parish being urgently in need of relief, the lady associates of the Confer. ence of St. Vincent de Paul announce that a grand | February 16, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1874.—TRIPLE (ieeesay) vening at the Institut th avenue, the en roc: be devoted to charitable purl Pitz raid and other excellent ladies well known in society hay en an active part in promotin, this iaudable enterprise. my, - . CHARITY FROM THE CITY HALL. Contribution by the Department of Public Works to St. John’s Gulld for the Poor. The following note, received yesterday by one of the ladies whose charitable work in connection with St, John’s Guild daily relieves hundreds of the poor, contains its own explanation and honors the kind hearts which prompted it:— New Yi March 9, Mra. A. W. Leacar:— beeen sua MApdwe—The empioy*s of the Department of Public orks teeling protoundly grateful lor tue inestimable blessings they enjoy, and being mind(ul at the same time necessities ot the poor and needy of this city, have subscribed a sum of money and placed the same in my hands tor distribution. AS their almoner, it affords me much pleasure to enclose you herewith my check tor $250, which Ihave to request you will see properly dis- tributed among the poor of St, John’s Guild in such man- ner as Will best subserve to relieve distress aud care out the motives which prompted the offering. Very spectfully, GEORGE M, VAN NOT, Commissioner of Public Works, THE WIDOW'S RENT FUND. ‘A Remittance of $500 to Start It—A Practical Charity Without Shrinkage from Salary Expense. STURTEVANT Hovss, New York, March 9, 1874. To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— Reading the article in your paper headed ‘Food and Shelter for the Poor,” and knowing how much good is being done in supplying food for the poor, ithink too little attention has been puld as to affording them shelter, Many deserving families, especially lone women, are daily undergoing untold agony as to how the means are to be obtained to pay the rent necessary to keep a roof over their beads. 1 am told that the average price of a room 1s $5 per month. I propose you open a subscrip- Uon for a fund to be called “The Widow's Rent Fund,” under the charge of the St. John’s Guild; and, to start that subscription, you will please find $500 enclosed, whicb will bis at least 100 months’ rent. Ishould have seut this direct to the Treas- urer of the Guild, but preter to send tv you, in hopes that by your friendly notice many may be induced to pay at leist one month’s rent for sume poor Widow, and thus the (und be increased many- Joid, As the Guild is under no expense for agen- cies each Subseriber will Know exactly how mach he is doiug for the poor, Truly, yours, FRANCIS P, FURNALD, FOURIH WARD. Gifts of Bread. New Yors, March 9, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: The following contributions were received tenis | day for the benefit of the poor of the Fourtn ward :— Patrick Divver, No. 81 Chatham street, 50 loaves bread eckly. pligttY Punchaid, No. 65 New Chambers street, 100 loaves, John D. Speliman, No. 67 Chatham street, 100 loaves. Owen Healey, No. 23 Cherry street, 100 ioaves. F, P, Carnivux, 66 New Chambers street, 100 loaves. ‘A poor woman who reiused her name, 1) loaves. Respectfully, CHAKLES ULMAN, Captain Fourth precinct police. ELEVENTH WARD. Donations of Supplics House. New York, March 9, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— H. E. Donnelly, tea store, corner of Sheriff and Second stréets, generously donated two barrels of peas for the use of the soup house in Second street, Also, Aaron Aarons, of the Sheriil’s OMce, 500 loaves of bread tor the benefit of the poor of this ward. Yours, &c., M. J. MURPHY, Captain Eleventh Precinct Police, NINETEENTH WARD. for the Soup Contributions for the Sparta Club’s Soup House. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL! The Rellef Committee of the Sparta Clab desire to acknowledge, through your paper, the receipt of the foliowing donations to their soup kitchen since their last repor' Jordan L. Mott, corner of Beckman and Gold streets, 1 forty-five gallon soup cauldron. John L, Canorey, No. 115 Bast Seyentieth street, 109 loaves of bread; second donation. Bloomingdale & Broth: . 933 Third avenue, 200 loaves of bread ; second donati G, C, Mlium, No. 800 Yhird avenue, 2 boxes of sausages. Lang & Robertson, No.1 Front street, 200 loaves of bread. Thomas Ryan, Union Square Hotel, 1 barrel of pota- toes, | barrel of turnips. ‘Mr, B, Marshaul, through John Davidson, 2 barrels of potatoes. West Washington Market Butchers’ Relief Association, through Jacob Hess, 400 pounds of meat; fourth dona- tion. Mr. Leonard, 5) loaves of bread. Mr. William’ G. Marshall, through Dewitt C. Ward, 1 box smoked meats. Fulton Fishmongers’ Association, 230 pounds of fish. Philiv Suner, No. 49 Vesey street, 4 packages of coffee and sugar; second donation. Fitth Avenue Market, corner Fifth avenue and Forty- fourth street, 150 pounds of meat; third donation. Mr. Brennan, 5) loaves of bread. Isaac Lauterbach, foot of Kast Forty-fourth street, 1 barrel of oxtails and beet hearts. ‘Theo. Neander, Third avenue and Fifty-cighth street, 5 Pounas of oatmeal. Jeane Wallach, No, 46 East Sixtieth street, half barrel of beans. Mrs. John F. Seaman, No. 16 East Fifty-third street, 1 barrel of flour and 5) loaves of bread. Anold Nineteenth warder, through Captain Gunner, 500 loaves of bread. ‘i 5 Mrs, Francis I". Brugman, No. 327 East Fifty-seventh street, 2 large bi ng. H. Moses, 3 Pounds ot cofiee; seco William Gussow, No. Last Forty-second street, 100 loaves of bread. ate Francis F, Brugman, No. 327 East Fifty-second street, 20) loaves of bread. A generous stranger, through B. H. B.,1 barrel mess beef, 1 barre! moss pork. z Mrs, Norman 8. Kenyon, No, 129 East Seventy-ninth street, 100 loaves ot bread. * Mr. Norm) Keuyon, No. 129 East Seventy-ninth street, 100 loaves of bread. Altred G. Nason, No. 214 East Sixty-first street, 50 loaves of bread. Butcher & Butler, corner Fitty venue, 1 $12 a Mr, A. stadler, corne uue and Fifty-fourth street, ae #as bill, $12 St. Mr. A. Stadler, through W. H. Richards, 1 bag of cotlee. , 100 pounds of sugar, 35 tonation. nrth street and Third CASH DONATIONS, William P. Earle, Esq., No. 12 Kast Fifty-seventh street, . No. 106 East Forty-sixth street, $10. p. 106 Kast Vorty-sixth street, $10. No. 106 East Forty sixth sire ‘Three ladies, for tickets, through A. Bedeil, Esq., $10, Juage P. J. Joachimsen, $10. Sheriff Wm. C. Conner, $10. Simon Herman, No. 40'West Fifty-second street, $10. Since our last report (March 2) we have served 7,894 meals, making a total of 19,272 meals since We have also been able, through the generosity of the friends of the poor whose atten- tion has been called to the distress that exists among many Worthy families, to extend our aid to them in the way of coal, bread and potatoes and other vegetubles, and, when required, money in such sums as to be of much service. Hundreds of families have been relieved with food cooked at the kitchen, such as mess beef and pork, with potatoes, turnips and cabbage, salt codfish and potatoes, codfish chowder on -Fridays, bee!, bean and oxtail soups for dinner, and bread, meat and coffee for breakfast. ‘The average per day since the opening has been 150 loaves of bread, 120 gallons of soup, 80 gallons of cofee, 100 pounds of meat, 1 barrel of potatoes, &c. We are in hopes that, with tne continued liverality of the citizens of our ward, to be en- abled to continue the good work as long as @ ne- cessity exists. The goud work done by the HERALD in arousing the wealthy to a sense of their duty to relieve the necessities of poor suffering humanity has encouraged us and enabied us to accomplish What at first seemed impossible. JAMES L. MILLER, Chairman, JOHN DAVIDSON, Treasurer, ROBERT MCGINESS, Secretary, Relief Committee, Sparta Club, DEATH OF DANFORD WN, BARNEY, Coroner Kessler was yesterday notified to hold an inquest upon the body of Danford N. Barney, Pre: dent of the Elevated Railroad Company, who died suddenly on Sunday at the Windsor Hotel, Forty- sixth street and Fifth avenge. Mr. Barney went to Ajbany early last week to look alter some business connected with the railroad, He returned to his hotel on Friday jast and complained of having taken cold, but did not think it serious enough to cali in medical assistance, On Sunday he vecame suddenly worse and died without medical assist. ance. Mr. Barney was a native of this State and in his sixty-sixth year BELLEVUE MEDIOAL COLLEGE. dames White, Miss Downs, Miss Annual Mecting of the Alumni for the | Election of Officers. y At the annual meeting of the Alumni Associa. tion of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, held last evening at the college, foot of Twenty-sixth street, tae following named oMcers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Dr. T. R. Pooley Vice Presidents, Dr, Bryant and Dr. Newman; Ke- cording secretary, Dr. Wells; Corresponding Sec- retary, Dr. Leale; Treasurer, Dr. Kaphael; His- concert willbe given under theis auspices tis torlan, Dr, F, A. Castle, The mecting then ad- Journed, NGLAND. Pen Portraits of the Members of the Disraeli Cabinet. Who Will Be Leader of the Opposition P Lonpow, Feb. 23, 1874. On Saturday Mr. Gladstone and bis colleagues formally resigned their places, and the members of the new Cabinet, of whicn the following is & complete list, waited upon the Queen at Windsor, to kiss hands and receive tne various seals, key8 and other insignia of office First Lord of the Treasury Lora Chancbuor . Mr. Disraeli. . Lord Cairns, uncil. tue Duke of Rich- mond, .Lord Maimesbury. hhe Earl of Derby. the Marquis of Salis bury. Secretary of the Colonies.....The E.tl of Carnar- < you. Mr. Gathorne Hardy. Se or War. Home Secretary. Mr. R. A, Cross. First Lord af the ralty. d Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer. afford Nort te, Postmaster General,.........Lord John Manners, A brief personal sketch of each of the new Min- isters will probably be acceptable. I do not pro- pose to enter into any biographical detail con- cerning Mr. Disraeli, for the particulars of his life are too well known to need recapitulation. It will suMce to say that, springing from Jewish origin, having no advantage of wealth or position, and having been openly jeered at when he first at- tempted to address the House of Commons, he is now, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, for the second time Prime Minister of England, apd on this occasion with a firm, compact and de- cisive majority, More than ever now does he seem {| to me the realization of Teunyson’s “Divinely gifted man of low estate,” Who breaks his birth’s Invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of hap} And breasts the blows ot circ And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees And shape the whisper of the throne, Are not these prophetic words, which seem in Mr. Disraeli to have had thet exact fulfilment? 1 Met him two days ago walking down St, James street, leaning on the arm of his faithful private secretary, Mr. Montagu Corry, @ long, brown great coat reaching nearly to his heels. He looked remarkably well, more animated | and less Sphinx-luke than usual, Oddly enough, I encountered Mr, Gladstone five minutes alter- wards, The result of the election and the east wind combined seem to have had a bad effect on the ex-Premier, Wito looked as seagreen as Robes- pierre himself, Lord Cairns, who for the second time holds the Lord Chanceliorship, 1s an Irishman, and was educated at Trinity College. In appearance he is tail, thin and foxy looking, a sound lawyer and an excellent debater, with a power of keeping his temper, but unforgetful and vindictive. The Duke of Richmond, though not very aris- tocratic to look at, being broad and stout, with a homely face and the usual Engiish side whiskers, is of old famiiy and bas always been eminently patrician and conservative in nis tendencies. Hav” ing held @ commission in the Guards, it was tuougnt he would be made Secretary at War, but he is far better placed as Lord President of the Council, an almost honorary oilice, yet with title and position. Why Mr. Disraeli retains the services of Lord Malmesbury cannot be explained, tor His Lordship is a very weak vessel. On two previous occasions he wus Foreign Secretary tor a short period, and kept the nation ina constant stare of Jermenta- tion lest 1t should find itself involved in war. He is @ worthy old gentleman, but with peculiar crotchets about ortuography and the civil service, and is quite sutticientuy brilliant or the sinecure oilice of Privy Seal. In Lora Derby the new Premier has one of the most poweriul and most popular of iollowers. A | tall, ungainly man, with heavy, dull face and awk- | ward figure, his appearance much belies him. With good natural gilts and a Rugby aud Cam- bridge education, Lord Derby has worked hard at the pioiession of statecraft, and laboriously climbed up the official ladder until he has almost | reached its topmosts rungs. He has been successively Unuer Foreigu Secretary, Colonial Secretary, Secretary jor india and Foreign Sec- retary. He now holds the latter office for the sec- ond time, aad there is no one in Whose discretion and foresight the English people would put more vtrust, In any further Franco-German complt- cations it is understood that the leaning o/ the new ministry would be towards the latter nation, Which isin accord with the general ieciing of the peopie. For some time there was a doubt whether the Marquis of Salisbury would serve under Mr. Dis- raeli, with Whom he has been for some time on not the best of terms, title of Lord Robert Cecil, wou his spurs in the House of Commons, is looked upon as tue head of the old tory party, who are sup- posed to regard Mr. Disraell as @ charla-. tan and his doctrines as dangerous. Bril- hantly written articies embodying this idea, and appearing from time to time in the quarterly Review, have been publicly ascrived to the Marquis, | The statesmen, however, seem to have laid aside ) their points of diserence, and Lord Salisbury has returned to his furmer post as Secretary tor India, where, under tie present circumstances of | the jamine, his tormer experience and his | business qualifications (notably shown in his Management of the altairs of the Great | Eastern Railway, of which he was for some lume chairman), will be Invaiuable. Lady the weil known judge, very spurituele, aud, it 18 reported, un occasional contmbutor to the gal- urday keview, on which her brother, Mr. Pakenham Alderson, is an authority. There 1s an alliance between the houses of \erby and Salis- bury, Lord Dervy having married the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, stepuiother of the pres+ | sent Marquis, | THE FARL OF CARNARVON is another of the old tory party, and it was doubt- ) ful whether he wouid join Mr, visra: Ministry. He has, however, followed Lord Salisbury’s lead, and returned to his jormer post as Secretary Jor the Colonies, He 1s tacile, Nuent and forcibly iee- | ble, a heat speaker and a conscientious offcial. He 1s much interested in the amelioration of tne | social Status of tue working classes and has a turn | for amateur authors | raeli’s Weakest Important appointment. e ‘The new Secretary at War, Mr. Gatnorne Hardy, is, to look at, the beau tdeal Oo: an English country gentlemen, tall, handsome and somewhat reserved in manner. He was was Home Secretary under the Derby administration o/ 1866, and 1s univer- sally admitted to nave discharged the duties of the position better thaa any one with- in the last quarter of a century. He |, Would have probably retarned to his old | post, but Mr, Disraeit leit it necessary that some | One in whom the general public have coniidence should be at the head of the great spending de- | mene of the army, and heuce the selection of ir. Hardy. As similar reasoning placed Mr. Ward Hunt at | the head of the Admiraity, Lhe biggest man in the House of Commons, with a ly hand- some and intelligent face, Mr. Hunt’s heart is as large a8 his body; but he has been a Chancelior of the Exchequer, and Knows how to | control bis feelings. His predevessor at the Adml- | Talty in the Jast conservative administration was made & peer. Mr. Richard Assheton Cross, the new Home Sec- retary, is at present an untried man, and without | oMcial experience. It is seldom that @ Minister *obtaius @ post of such eminence without some training in subordinate service, but Mr. Disraeli is not a man to be bound by red tape letters, and is given to reliance on his Own instinct, Moreover, Mr. Cross 18 said to have distinguished himself as the Uhairman of the Lancashire Quarter Sessions and to be a man of great business energy. Mr. Disraeli certainly cannot be congratulated On his pew Postmaster General. At filty-six years | of age Lord Join Manners is as bigoted a tory and | 4s Weak and namby-pamby a creature as wuen, in extreme youth, he wrote the poem in which was the celebrated couple Let laws and learning arts and commerce dle, but Wave us still our old nobility. Mr. Disraeli seems to forget that the Post Omice, ‘With Which is combined the Government Telegraph Departinent, is one of the must important offices | Of the State, and should be governed by @ man possessing, not inerely business qualifications, but @ strong Will, in both of which Lord Jonn Manners is jamentably deficient, Finally, Sit Statford Northcote, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, would be able to cope with far greater diflicuities than are likely to beset his path At present, Indeed, alter Mr. Giadstone, he is Supposed fo be the best financial minister whom England boasts, his theory of ways and means being based on that of his great predecessor, to waom he was private secretary many years ago. Readers of Mr. Trollope’s “Three Clerks" will recognize asketch | of the new Chancelior as “Sir Warwick Westend. | Sir Statord, who was one of the Alabama Com- missioners, is well known in America, and every- where esteemed as an intelligent, courteous gen- tleman. AS regards minor appointments, Mr. W. TH. Smith (“Newspaper Smith”), proprietor of all the railway newspaper stations 1D Great Britain, mem. ber for Westminster and an excellent man of busi- esa, becomes Financial Secretary to tue Treas ihe Marquis, who, under his | Salisbury is a dauybter o1 the late Baron Alderson, | ‘bhis 18, perhaps, Mr. Dis- | Sir John Pakington, who has been ejected trom tus | | borough at Draitwich, and who will probably be } apne cy ury. Mr. Forster, the celebrated Presi. dent of the Councl for Education, Po ancoeoded Tord Landon, whose principal qualification ts that he represents Li ind Lord Henry Len- nox, a fini ait weak-kneed brother of the Duke of Richm: mes First Commis- d, sioner of Pubiic Works, in place of the Ayrton and the unknown XGar, It is supposed that the cent Duke of Abercorn, who might well cry “save me from my friends, ‘0 mercilessly Was he caricatured in “Lothair," Will be sent as Lord Lieutenant of lieland, = position for which his wealth and his love for pom) and glitter Sarg eee It is not yet khowR whether Sir John Karstake's state of health will Permit him to become Attorney General, but in any case his reward cannot be long forthcoming, a8 itis stated that four judges are anxious to re- lire trom their labors, and that among them is Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of Engiand, who 1s merely awaiting the conclusion of the Tichborne trial to subside tnto private lite, The London correspondent of your contempo- rary, the New York Times, sent over to his journal & most elaborate account of the real reasol which impelled Mr. Gladstone to decree the recent dissolution, laying most of the blame upon Mr, Bright dividing the Cabinet— alter Ms own fashion—into three section: ascribing various passions and animosities to dite ferent ministers, and, 1n a word, writing as though he were Sir Oracle, and that when he oped hia mouth no dog should bark. This account, which was copied into the London Times, has been made bitter fun of by the Daity’ News, which, alter remarking of the correspondent that he has forsaken the duties of a mere chroni- cler and risen into the serener realms of creation, and that “our brethren across the water must have been gratetul for the news if they were halé as much astonished by it 88 persons on this side to be,” winds up with @ playful, satiri- Xplanation which seems to me worth quot e hasten, however, to add that this particolar Authority is quite misinformed a9 to the real causes hich led to Mr. Gladstone s sudden resolution to dis- solve Parliament. ‘That step was taken owing to a thor- ough disagreement among the members of the Cabinet as to how the financial surplus was to be distributed and as lo the new taxes which would have to be imposed if schedule D were abolished. At the very last meeting of the CAbinet all the ministers brought torward their own schemes and mo two of them could be made agree. Lord Granville, holding in his band a. petition from 75,00) authors, artists, students and invalids, pro- oved 10 place # prohibitive tax on barrel organs; but f, Lowe strongly objected to any Interierence wit these insiruments; remarked that but for the charms music, which were of proverbial efficacy, ald never’ get into the proper ‘mood 14 which to receive deputations, and added that his friend, Mr, Ayre ton, if he had had’ a yoice in the Cabinet, would have | said the same thing. Mr. Forster's proposal to lay a tax ‘on novels written by 1 (excepting those of George Ehot) and on linported French dran with no better fate; tor Mr. Gladstone binntly d to make his budget an instrument of moral cunture, and spoke with some bitierness about the result of Lord’Aberdare’s slut- ting up of the public houses. ‘Two o! the Ministers had, however, so (Ar agreed as to recommend a tax on photo- graphs as an article which w ay atonce cheap, a luxury and of universal consumption ; but those members of the Cabinet who had not been introduced intb burlesque groups and put in the booksellers’ windows considered that the poor photographer should uot be harassed. A great number of proposals of this sort were brought forward only to be — negauved, until the “discussion got very warm — indeed, Mr. Gladstone ovservi that the preparation of the budget was hisown busivess, and tiat he would not be inter. fered with; at the’ end of which speech seyerab Ministers said there was nothing leit for it bat to propose the simple abolition of the income tax to the country, and see whether the constiinen- cies would be content to in in darkness as to any nore definite scheme, se revelations are made tardily, and only tur the sake of correcting the erroneous impressions Which have been difused abrom and are finding their way back to Engiand, to the serio danger of historic truth, One need not, however, pretend to be in the se- cret of the Cabinet to give assurance that the de- feat of the liberal party is 80 decisive as to have broken up that once well organized phalanx and left the dejecta membra scattered and Spiritiess. There is no talk of a ‘united and vig- orous vpposition,” there is no rallying cry for the ranks, and there seems to be littie question that the new government wiil have 1 all its own way for some time to come, it may be taken as cer+ tain that Mr. Gladstone will at last pay some at- tention to the warnings which nature and nia physician have recently given him on more than one Occasion, and will at once relax from those great exertions by which his strength has been over- tasked, Save on great occasions he will delegate his powers as leader of the opposition to some subordinate—probably either r. Forster, Mr, Gischen or Lord Hartington. Neither of these politicians has any great weight, and Mr. Forster, while the clearest and most vigorous-minded of the tnree, is personally offensive to the dissenting members and their constituents, Perhaps, on the whole, Lord Hartington would be the most popular man of the tnree, but he has a duil, heavy way with him which nothing seems to cure. Mr, Gladstone, however, must make his own absence’ irom the House simultaneous with any delegation of his authority, as he has too much of the old warrior spirit in him Co sit by and allow any challenge to pass unanswered, and he has been too long at the head of affairs to allow any lieutenant to taxe his place while he is present. THE STRIKING ST. CRISPINS. What the Men Say—What the Bosses Think—A Lively Time at Hand—The Old Fight Renewed Between Capital and Labor. Mr.“Lawrie, a boot and shoe manufacturer, of No. 62 Church street, said yesterday to a HERALD reporter that the society men are doing every- thing in their power to drive their trade out of | this city. The craftsmen are never content. Ao cording to Lawrie, when there is a business bone to pick, the workmen want the “first pull of it. The cutters nave struck Jor shorter hours (nine), the reason of which unprecedented proceeding, Mr. Lawrie avers, is that they want to “get home beside their wives.” Country manufacturers can get up a cheaper boot than those of New York, for wages with them are lower; and if things were ta go as the men want them employers might as well shut up their iactories. A cutter stated that two years ago this branok ofthe trade passed a resolution demanding the observance of the nine hour rule, ‘Then the society men were not strong enough to enforce this law; but now taney think themselves suf. ficiently well organized to oblige compliance, and | hence a portion o/ the cutters went on strike yes | terday, or, rather, “suspended work, 80 as to have a clear understanding” witu the manuwacturers, | The cutters are satisfied with their rate of wages, | and only dislike the long hours (ten) which they are expected to work datly. A first class cutter makes $24 per Week, a second class $22, Mr. M. Kegan, No. 20 Colieze piace, has had thirty five men off since yesterday moroing. The reason seems to be that Kean clatias to run a third class | shop, while these men wisn to rate nim in the sec ond category, a class higner. This distinction fixes the class Of work (of which there are three kinds turned out), aud would bring @ higher price to tue sioemaker’ if his employers make second instead of third class goods, if is stated that the country manufacturers can get up work tiiteem per cent chedper than tueir city feliow tradesmen, The principal makers have gone to the country in consequence of this. The city wakers cannot com- pete in the same class of work with prison labor, and lose much trade by reason of tuis kind of com- elition, ‘ine diterence between Mr, Regan and his men seems to be eleven cents on the bottom- ing of each pair of boot hat is to say, this is the sum that divides second from third class work, ‘The Jjodowing is a st of the principal shops from Which men are reported among the lock-outs:— | Baw & bios., Reade street; Dowling, Warren street; Rich, Warren street; Williams, Warren | street; M. Regan, College place; Levi, Warren street; Sawyer Bros, No. 50 Church street; | Neeites, No. ‘91 Warren street, and a few other | places of minor importance. it was difficult to learn even au approximate to the number of men | on strike. Mr. Rich says that during the panic and dull times ali winter his house kept the men at work on a@ reduction of only ten cents a pair (boots or shoes), and now the men, when times are brigotening up again, want the frm to go back to old ante-panic prices. He thinks the lock-out may | continue ior some time, but appears to believe tliat the men cannot hold well together. He says there are someting like 912 society men in the ‘They lately had on hand about $700, but this | would last only a short time. He also states thas | during the entire duiness of last winter bis house kept all hanas at work, they making from $15 to | $20 per week, to the manifest loss of the firm. Tue strikers, Who look like a steady, hard work- ing set of men, say that they have been completely in the hands of the capitalists. The late duiness of trade enabled manufacturers to wring the most grinding terms {rom workmen. The trades- men say that it was only possibie to make $4 or $5 per week, and, therefore, their famuiies bad to suifer great privations. ‘The manufacturers promised jong ago to vay old prices from the beginning of this month, but have since flatiy re- | fused to fulfil the agreement, and hence compelled the men belonging to different branches of the crattto organize in Sseli-defence. Tue workmen are retigent about Beene keke rerun but look confideht of triumph, They have the appearance of men who, stung by acts which they consider injustice, have determined to resist, THE CAPMAKERS! STRIKE, Mr. Marks, of the firm of Marks Brother & Thomp- gon, capmakers, Greene street, stated yesterday to & HBRALD reporter that the rumor about the new strike is untrue. He says that their firm did ad- vertise last week for 100 new hands, but alieges that they are tutended for hat work, with which the capmakers have nothing todo, Seventy-five ofthese green operatives are now at work. The house claims to have taken back all the old handa and additional ones besides. Mr, Marks admits that there are numbers of capmakers now goin; about out oj employment. The strike did @ Book deal to destroy the business of this season. He thinks that three-quarters of the capmakers are a\ rte out of employment apd considers their by- | city. Kept them, jaws bad, although bis house agreed to and hae