The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1874, Page 5

IDING THE HELPLESS, Continued Contributions for the Destitute. “PITY’S AKIN TO LOVE.” ceebenamdamenae How {he Prosperous Provide for Their Suffer- ing Brothers and Sisters. THE s0UP KITCHENS. In Charg: of Mr. Delmonico. Fourth precinct, No. 327 Water street, Captain man, Sixth precinct, Noy 110 Centre street, Captain Kennedy. Seventh precinct, No. 79 East Broadway. Captain Mount. Eighth precinct, No, 114 Wooster street, Captain Wilhams, Eleventh precinct, No. 285 Second street, Cap- tain Murphy, Thirteenth precinct, No. 224 Delancey street, Captain Hedden. Fourteenth precinct, No, 53 Spring street, Cap- tain Clinchy, Enghteenth precinct, No. 302 avenue A, Captain ‘Tynan, Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner of Sixty-third street, Captain Gunner, Twenueth precinct, No. 611 West Twenty-ninth Btreet, Captain McElwain. Twenty-first precinct, No. 218 East Thirty-fourth street, Vaptain Allaire. Twenty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, Captain Kil- Mlea, ‘Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-first street, near Seventh avenue, Captain McCuliogh, Other Soup Houses. Juvenile Guardians’ Society, downtown relicf, No. 14 Dey street. Mr. Oreutt’s soup kitchen, No. 17 East Seventh street, near Third avenue. Howard Relief Association soup houses, old police station, Leonard street, ana No. 51 Thomp- gon street. Industrial School for Women, No. 47 East Tenth street, near Broadway, gives meais and furnishes beef tea for the sick. Fifteenth ward citizens’ soup house, No. 219 Mercer street, ‘Twenty-first Ward Reform Club’s relief house, No. 232 East Thirty-third street. Bread and beef house, No. 308 West Fifty-secona street, near Eighth avenue. Sparta Club soup Kitchen, opposite the Court House, Filty-seyenth street, near Third avenue. Twelith ward citizens’ soup house, Harlem Mar- Ket, 125th street. Manhattanville, 120th street, near Broadway. In Brooklyn. Fourthsprecinct temporary relief soup house, Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue, Tenth precinct soup house, corner Bergen and Pearsall streets. Helping Hand, Atlantic avenue. HOW THE POOR ARE FED. Lentilsoup tothe extent of 2,800 galions was yesterday distributed by the Delmonico kitchens to the poor throughout the city. Cold and hunger compelled the attendance of over 12,000 people. ‘To each boiler there were eighty gallons of water and 160 pounds of beef, besides the lentils, which gre little brown peas. There was also a goodly mixture of vegetables in the soup, and Dread was plentilully supplied to all who came for relief. In the different precincts the police captains are working pretty hard, and giving all the assistance that they can toward the good work. There are only three exceptions, and these three captains, who shall be nameless, have too Many other interests to occupy their minds, so that it is almost impossible for them to afford any help to the hungry and destitute inhabitants of their precincts. But too much pratse cannot be given to the oMcers who, witnout neglecting their Public duties, have spared time to help the poor. FOURTH PRECINCT KITCHEN, This precinct is bounded by Chatham street and apart o! Park row, the East River, Oliver street and Spruce and Ferry streets, and is noted for misera- bie and degraded wretchedness and all that sort of poverty which is ailied or associated with crime of. Various shades. Yet in this precinct, which is commanded by Captain Ulman, who has given his Personal services and attendance at the soup Kitchen for several days, there is o terrible amount of honest poverty. Wno can tell the stages whereby a decent family afflicted with ‘want have to descend from roomkeeping in a re- Bpectable neighborhood tothe purlieus and slums of the Fourth ward? Itis only given to God to know how the decent poor suffer, strive, struggle and die in this city, Here are a number of women crowding in through the narrow doors of the soup house, haggard, worn and prematurely old belore their time. Their heads are covered with ragged — and torn calico dresses envelop their One woman said to the policeman who gave her @ loaf of bread :— “{ don’t know what to do sometimes. I have three children and the eldest is only twelve years ofage. One of them has been a cripple since her birth; and | have not had a nouth{ul jor three days. One lady that [ spoke to gave me a poundof butter from her meat safe. Well, the lady was very good, but 1 had nothing else to eat, and the butter ‘was no use to me, so I swapped it off for a loal of bread with the woman that keeps in the basement. Then a good man came to visit us and he gave Bugar-cured ham for the family; but he had to give us filty cents to buy firewood so that we could Ook it. ell, now, 1 have been getting soup here every day, and as it is aimee, hot and good I can do without firewood. God bless the people who help the poor, for when you are poor there are very jew friends to help you.” A number of negroes Were giving assistance to the poor at this place ior their soup and bread. Captain Ulman distributed 501 tickets to the women and children wno cailed at the station house for reliei. These 691 tickets represented about 2,300 persons, nearly all families. One hundred and ninety-one loaves of bread were also given out, and in every quart of soup, which, by the way. was excellent, there were three or four lumps of good tender beef. Mr. Ranhoffer, the chef, stated yes- terday that the soup was made in a satisfactory manner, and that as fast as the people came for soup he would ve able to serve it, A little Italian boy came with his fiddle on his arm and got half @ loaf of bread and drank a quart of soup, Which he gulped down with ail the terrible intensity of a famished young wolf. There are a large numberof Chinamen in this ward, but they do not seem to Want soup, as, in fact, they would rather have rice in bags, which they would like to cook in tue miserable dens which they frequent and inhabit. Three hundred and sixty gallons of soup were made at the kitchen in Water street, but there was not enough to supply the crowds who came, many women and chiidren having to go away withont relief, To-day four boilers of soup will be made here, each boiler con- taining 120 gallons. A mutton broth will be made %0 do service ior the poor on Sunaay. PICTURES OF POVERTY. eneaalins Childhood and Poverty—12,000 Garments Given Away—A Pastor Without a Church or a Home=Lost and Found— Good Cheer trom the Clergy—Bare. footed Girls on the Cold Pavement. Studen‘s of human nature as well as philanthro- pists would yesterday have found a study full of deepest interest in the court yard of st, John’s chapel. The long line extending trom the schvol- room door to the street presented every phase of Yaggedness and wretchedness. Little children playing in the vestibule wouid sometimes peer out ‘with curious eyes upon the throng of the miscra- bie with whom they had become familiar, and, such is the innocence of childish hearts, they ‘would laugh immoderately at one who was pointed out, and turn away to cry at the sad spectacio of another, whose face was intended to be careiuliy hidden from their prying glances. These little ones seemed like flecks of sunshine falling here @nd there in the midst of all this shadow. They added to the picture of m*sery by contrast, and, no douyt, they brought hope ang | ; Surance Company, No. 149 Broadway; Audrew W. Pleasure to these poor beings, who ac- cepted the baim of their smiles and queer questions and merry laughter as they did the bread and meat that was given them, with thank- fui hearts. The children, too, were there tanght the great lesson of charity, and saw ata glance how pleasure entered into many hearts where bit- terness had hitherto dwelt, and how kindliness and thankfulness bridged many a gulf, Over 1,000 families received food yesterday, and over 3,090 garments have been distributed in the last:three days, OVER TWELVE THOUSAND GARMENTS having been received and given to the poor during the past three weeks, AN EPISCOPAL CLERGYMAN IN DISTRESS, Few of the episodes of Iife’s struggles and disap- pointments that have been brought to public no- tice will appeal more strongly to the sympathies of the educated than the following:—A col- legian who graduated with high honors and subsequently passed through the law scnool and the iull course of the Theological Seminary, and who has received the highest testimonials from well known divines, has applied at the Guild for assistance to procure some immediate employ- ment suited to bis extreme necessities, He brought to the pulpit a varied experience as an editor. a lawyer an. @ traveller for many years in distant lands, Above all, he was sincere and eloquent with the eloquence born of carnestness and honest conviction, Years passed by, during which he en- joyea A PLEASANT PASTORAL LIFE, and now he finds himself without a church in which to preach or @ house in which to live. He came to New York with the expectation of get- ting a pastorate, and has been disappointed. What resource has he? He cannot well la- bor bota the fold of the Church and outside. What can he do? ‘The Church and the world will both judge him harshly il he does not choose his secular employment carefully, Yet how can one stop to choose irom the positions by Means of which he may obtain a livelihood? In the meantime his wile and children may be starv- ing. Such is his case, and if ever a man deserves the sympathy «f those who call themselves Chris- tians, itis the clergyman. There are pecullar cir- cumstances in this Case which only appeal tor and amply justify a kinder consideration, # Warmer sympathy and a more willing aid, LOST AND FOUND, Mr. Palmer reports that a few days ago he visited No. 237 West Thirteenth street to pay $10 donated through the Guild by “£, N. L.” to the family liv- ing there, and found that they had moved, and furthermore that tue said famtly beloce ieaving had received ample assistance from various sources, The visitor therelore suggests to “H. N. L.” that the money be paid to “W. 5. H.,’? whose case is noticed below, unless a diferent disposal shall be determined upon by the contrivutor. “W. 8, H.”” was visited In answer to @ letter written to the Kev. Mr. Wiswail, in which he writes, “l have abstained from asking help as long as I could, but 1 am starving.” He was found to | be an duteliigent gentleman, a copyist, and out of | employment since November, His wiie has done | some Little sewing, making about fity cents a | week, Tue landiord has been very kind, but is poor, and cannot keep them any longer. Without plompt help they will be houseless, without sufl- cient clothing and almost starving. Both huspand and wife are anxious to get work. Mrs. Schaffer, No. 439 West Thirty-ninth street, is very ill. Her husband, who is a veteran of the Mexican war, has long sudered irom wounds, and is now utterly unable to work. Tere are two children, the oldest being the principal support of the fam- ily, and now out of work. They had no shoes but the soles of old boots, tied around their feet with strips of cloth, They had no iood and no bed clothing. Yet the mother of these poor children belonged to an aristocratic famuy, and her parents, the Wakeleys, are buried in Trinity Churepyara, GOOD CHEER FROM THE CLERGY, The following will expiain itself:— 223 West Twenty-Tuinp Stree. March 12, 1874. My pean Ma. WiswaLi—My relations, Messrs. award and John Burke, have sent me $100 for the poor of New York to be applied ag T see fit. 1 enclose the check to you for the use of St. John’s Guild in their good work, which may God bless and prosper. Very truly yours, FREDEKICK OWILBY, “{ GIVE IT WITH PLEASURE.” Mr. Walter Parker, agent of the Norwich and to Boston to the Guild for a poor woman and her child, saying, “Sir, I give it to you wit the great- est pleasure.” THE SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY. ‘was opened yesterday for the benefit of the poor, and many fine pictures were placed on exhibition for the first time in this city. THE RELIEF FUND. nT EN Sates Donations for the poor received by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged :— » Locust Valiey, P Charles Francis Adams “Mitcueil, ior WhO Was fed With PASte....-..seeesseereee John McClave Mitcheil, for the baby who was fed with paste... state eeeeeeeeeee $1 ; for widows rent the baby Jonn’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 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 GEORGE WILKES, M. D, St. From M. D........eseeccccccccece +» $500 THROUGH C. V. B, OSTRANDER. E. A. DL. - 10 00 Mrs. Henry sees 25 00 Mrs. E. 8 ae “ 10 ov THROUGH REV. F. OGILBY, D, D. Edward and John Burke,..............0.+. 100 00 THROUGH MRS. HAYS. F, Humpheys... 10 00 Wheeler & Wilson. 25 00 J.T. Van Rensseler. 10 00 Howe Machine Company. 25 00 . P. Dutton.. 10 00 Frederick A. 0. Schiraz, 10 00 Mr, Bogardus. 200 C. H. Read. « 5 00 Caswell, Hazzard & Co # 4 25 00 The Singer Manulacturing Company " 25 00 Puckhotier . 100 JA. D.... oe 500 Anonymous (put on ta! 5 00 A Friend. 5 00 2.00 5 00 2 00 Grand total se eee+$10,918 61 Contribution: y be sent to the HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; C. B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire 1 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, und Key. 8. H. Weston, . D., No.3 East Forty-fiith street, or to the Rev. Alvah 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 if an order be sent a misenenaee will call tor any ko Mrs. bel) Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third street, and Mrs. F, P. Earle, No. 34 West Fiity-sec- ond street, have kindly consented to receive sub- scriptions, THANKS TO M&. STEWART. aoe ‘The ladies of the Dorcas Society, connected with the Berean Baptist church, corner of Downing and Bediord streets, desire to express their thanks to Mr A. T, Stewart for hia generous gift of fannels and muslin to aid the society tn relieving the poor, SIXTH WARD. Bread to Accompany the Daily Supply of Soup at the Centre Street Kitchen, New York, March 13, 1874, To THE EprTor oF THE HERALD:— As we have no bread on hand at present for dis- tribution at the soup house located at No. 110 Centre street, aud are apparently not likely to have any, I think it would be prudent to have a portion of the amount realized from the late benefit at the Bowery Theatre for the relief of the poor of the Sixtn ward converted to the purchase of bread for those who are suffering and apply tor reliet in that particular locality, It will take at least 250 loaves per day, and that number lam satisfied, with care, will supply the several demands, Consequently during every day that the soup Louse will be in operation it will re- quire $20, 1 do not think that the money could be expended to any betver advantage, owing to the extraordi- nary pmouht of suffering in the district. Most re- spectully, THOMAS J, KENNEDY, Captain Sixth Precinct Poli {In answer to the above suggestion irom Capta! Kennedy, of the Sixth Precinct Police, ne is authorizea to procure the bread needed for dis- tribution at the Centre Street Kiichen to the poor Of thy Sixth, ward and the bY theyeioy will be Worcester line of steamers, yesterday gave a pass | wee on presentation at the HERALD office.—Ep. BRALD.) THIRTEEN!H WARD. Contribations of Bread by Citizens. New York, March 13, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have this day received the following contribu- tions of bread for the poor of the Thirteenth pre- cinet:— Rouss, Bell & Co.,No. 435 Grand street, 500 loaves, Adam Kutzelman, No. 31 Lewis street, 50 loaves. Joun J, Kennedy, No, 162 Clinton street, 100 loaves, Peter Relyea, No, 3 Willett street, 100 loaves. Jotun Reiss, No. 115 Delancey strect, 50 loaves. ; William Koster, No. 212 Delancey street, 100 loaves, Abraham Strauss, No. 167 Delancey street, 25 loaves, Gilbert B, Wood, No. 103 Clinton street, 150 loaves, Satter & Bros., No. 127 Attorney street, 400 loaves. Peter A, Walsh, No. 443 Grand street, 100 loaves. ‘Total, 1,575 loaves, Total contributions of bread to date, 6,215 loaves. Respecuully, HENRY HLDDEN, Captain Thirteenth Precinct Police, NINELEZENTH WARD. A Donation of Bread. New York, March 11, 1874. To THE EpivoR OF THE HERALD :— Enclosed please find an order on Mr. 8, B. Clark, No, 496 Grand street, for 100 loaves of bread, which I should be pleased to have distributed to the poor of tae Nineteenth ward by your generous ald. Very respectfully yours, 5. 'T. DAVIS, No. 65 William street. TWENIIETH WARD. Gifts of Bread by Generous Citizens. New York, March 13, 1874 To Tue Eprror or THE HERALD :— Messrs. Golden Brotners, batters, of No, 617 Eighth avenue, having lately contributed 1,000 loaves of bread to the poor of the Twentieth ward, and said contribution having been ail given out, I take pleasure in announcing to the destitute families of the Pwenweth police precinct that the members of my comingnd have cecided to iurnish tickets for 2,000 eighs cent 1oaves of bread. The tickets are | now ready to be distributed at this station, I have also received this moruing 100 ten cent loaves of bread trom Mrs. Margaret smith, No, 248 West Twenty-ninta street, And fiity’ trom: M, Weinstock, keeper, No, 366 highth avenue, JUHN McELWAIN, Captain Twenueth Precinct Police, TWENZY-SECOND PRECINCT. livery stable New York, March 13, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The following additional contributions have been | received at the I'wenty-second precinct station this day :— One hundred loaves of bread from B, Richardson, No. 692 Kiguth avenue, Fiity loaves of bread from James F, Farrall, No. 703 Eighth avenue. Futy loaves of bread from Edward Flynn, No. 831 Tenth avenue, Fiity loaves of bread from Walter Stafford, Fifty- seventh street and Tenth avenue, Fiity loaves of bread 1rom Miles A. Stafford, Fifty- seventh street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, Fiity loaves 01 bread from Mr. Lowenstein, No. 707 Eighth avenue. 2 ‘twenty-five loaves of bread from William J. Colvy, No. 831 Pentn avenue. ‘twenty-five loaves’ of bread from C. Stirn, No. 640 Eleventh avenue. ‘twenty-five loaves of bread from Joseph Barker, No. 831 Tenth avenue. Filty pounds 01 meat every week from W. Brad- ley, stall No, 44 Central Market, Seventh avenue and Forty-nintn street. Thirty pounds of meat from an unknown lady, Pear hated be loaves of bread trom an unknown ‘end. Alot of children’s underciothes from W. bridge, No. 685 Ninth avenue. ‘THOMAS KILLILEA, Captain Twenty-second Precinct Police. TWENTY-NINTH PRECINCT. Donations of Food. NEw YORK, March 13, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have this day received the following contribu- tions tor the benefit of the poor of this precinct :— Mr, Thomas Gillis, No. 138 West thirtieth street, 100 loaves o1 bread. Mr. Wiiliam McMahon, Nos. 494 and 496 Sixth avenue, 300 Loaves of bread. Mr, John H. Dresier, No. 261 Sixth avenue, s0 loaves o! bread. Mr. Clifford, No, 296 Seventh avenue, 25 loaves of bi read, Mr. John Crawford, No. 396 Sixth avenue, one barrel of bread aud crackers, Mr. Edward Batley, No. 518 Sixth avenue, 11 loaves of bread, & J. wet & Son, No. 338 Sixth avenue, 10 loaves of read. James Hogan & Co., one barrel of potatoes and one barrel of turnips. JOHN H. McCULLUGH, Captain Twenty-niuth Precinct Police. ST. FRANCIS’ HOSPITAL. This institution, in Fifth street, between ave- nues Bund ©, was founded in 1866, and is in charge of ‘The Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis,” who were incorporated by special act of the Legis- lature in 1866, The object of the institution is the gratuitous care of the sick; aged, infirm and poor. | In 1873 the whole number of patients treated was | 1,564, the daily average number being 180, ‘The pa- tlents are entirely from the poorer and working classes, without any distinction as to creed or | nationality, althougn the majority are of German origin. The receipts of the institution during the year 1878, with the exception of $3,000 trom the | city, $500 from the Irish Emigrant Society and | about $300 from personal friends of the patients, consisted entirely of voluntary contributions, col- lected by the Sisters of St. Francis as alms from door to door, and of which no accurate account is kept. Tne Sisters also in the same manner collect: the provisions and supplies irom charitable per- sons. The services oi the Sisters and most of the | medical attendance is gratuitous; also most of } the other work done in the institution. Nearly the entire income, therefore, is used for the cuari- table purposes o1 the institution. The detatied account Jor 1873 18 as follows:— RECKIPTS, Received from the city... Bur- Keceived trom the Irish Emigrant Society meee) Received from individuals tor the support ‘of | re trie | butions: 7,583 | Total receipts 11,388 | DISHURSEMENTS, Interest on $62,250, indebtedness of the institution. $4,357 Sularies to the ‘attending physicians carpenter and one male waiter. Paid for clothing... Paid tor fuel and Ligh Paid tor medicine an c Paid for turviture, beds and Total... he engineer, $11,383 | The permanent inde}tedness of the institution 1s $6: , Which has been increased $1,500 during the present winter, as,on account of the hard times, the contributions have decreased aud $675 had been charged by the city tor Croton water tor the hospital MALEADMINISIRATION. How the City’s Charities Are Misman- aged=—Che Abuses of “ihe Free Labor Bureau”—Worthy Poor Kept Out of Work, and the Unworthy Obtain Em- | ployment. Of allourmany municipal public charities there is none more deserving of encouragement than that “charity” winch professes to have for its ob- | ject the enabling the honest poor to obtain that | winch they need more than all the mere money and mere bounty in the world—“work.” Butin this very department of our public charities the grossest abuses are said to prevail, and to such an extent as to neutralize the “charity” and to ren- der it a “nuisance,” The charges brought against that branch of the public charities of the city of | New York known as “Lhe Free Labor Bureau” by those who claim to have watched the workings of the institution from the first are very sertous and | militate strongly against the tdea of its being a “charity” at all. It is alleged that only or principaily the lowest | and vilest characters of both sexes resort to this establishment; that such help as it is calculated to afford is tuus given almost wholly to the unde- serving. Male and female thieves are said to be | among its habitual frequenters, wno attempt through its agency to get entrance imto respect- able families in the semt-confidential capacity of “help.” Women, too, of the loosest reputation are alleged to haunt the offices of tms so-called | “public charity,” and to trust to its agencies to | | made the subject of legal investigation. | Britton, when interviewed yesterday, stated that | and woul obtain situations which they could never expect to gain by any other channel, “Go there in 1875 and you will see just the sam* faces as you saw there in 1874,” said an habituc of the place to the Heratp representative. “Every time I have come here for a place I have always seen the same men and the same wowen, pretty nearly, ‘Lhe men are merely loafers and loungers, who don’t want work, but just come here to sit by the fire and chat and idle, as it costs them nothing.” Secondly, it 1s alleged that the “tallesv” kind of lying is practised by the clerks in their reports Ol the “beneticent operations” of this “charity.” Of course it is “a point” with the officials to make out that this bureau of theirs has given the greatest possible amuunt of employment gratis to the greatest possible number of men and women, to whom this employmentis the greatest of earti:ly boons. Consequently it is the interest of every attaché to swe!l the number of ‘situations pro- cured,” and it is distinctly and definitely charged that the clerks have not and do not hesitate to grossly magnily the amount of “employment? ov- tained through the agency of this Institution. HOW FIGURES CAN LIB. It has been alleged that tne so-called “oMcial Teport” of the “free Labor Bureau”? “exaggerated” the number of situations really obtained ior women by 7,079 over and above the actual number in the year 1870 ajone, and by 1,208 too many for the male situations obtained in that year. In 1871, 1t is said, the “otticial figures” lied by 17,017 “situa- lions ;” in 1872 the official Mgures lied by nearly 16,000 situations, and in six months of last year the figures lied by nearly 4,500 siiuations, These “lying figures,” it has been officially charged, were “cooked” by clerks in the employ of the Bureau, and have tended to cast discredit and dis- grace upon the institution. But not oniy by figures and report have the oMicials of this institution misrepresented it; but it being their “point’? to swell the namber of “situations” afirined by them for the ‘poor’? they have, 10 is alleged, in all cases of troubie between the employers and their “help” taken the part of tue latter, no matter how undeserving they may have been, Has aman or woman been found uu- worthy of his or her ‘‘situation,”” and veen as such “reported” to the office of the Bureau, his or her fault has been overlooked and the man or woman, despite of It, sul been recommended and sent elsewhere, because such 18 the interest mdirectly of the employés of the Bureau. Consequently the “help’? have been thus in- directly eucouraged to be impertinent, and as they soon discovered that whether they kept their places or not it made no difference, but on the con- trary it was rather @ pomt im their favor ifthey changed viten and thus added new “situations” to the Bureau’s list, confusion became worse con- founded, and the *#ree Labor Bureau” became the pest of housekeepers, Meanwhile, the really worthy poor and indus- trious, for Whose reliet the charity was organized, were keptinthe background. They were not in Javor with the managemeat, and tier claims were completely lost sight of im the noisy sell- assertion Oi the worthiess, Besides ail this, “A CHARITY RING” was formed in the course of time between the clerks anv the men and women seeking situations. ‘The latter began to Jee the iormer, Who, in re- turn for their “littie rake,’ wouid recommend those parties, even when they knew them to be utterly wo. thiess, to employers. ‘The “tee” system works badly in two ways. First, the wortuless man or woman who is not Teally In want uses the city’s charity thus jor his or her own selfleh ends, while, second, the really poor and deserving, lor whom this very charity to fee the oOfticial, are deprived of those benefits for which the city pays. Again, it 1s alleged that various officials con- nected with this Bureau add to their gains by re- ceiving fees trom “employers” for giving them just such “help” as they want, Now, tere is nothing dishonest in this, so far as the employers are con- cerned, but it is in violation of the regulations and of fair play, lor the city pays its money to those very officials {or {furnishing these very employers With “just the help they want” for nothing. it has even been hinted to the HeRALD represen- tative that certain male and female thieves and criminals have been afforded the iaciuties of the Free Bureau “ior @ consideration,” and that in one case Where @ gir! was reported to tue office asa thief, she was yet within a week aiterwards strongly recommended for a new situation by a clerk Who had been “seen,” HIGH SALARIES have also been paid to the administrators of the city’s charities in this line. The superintendent 0: the Bureau has received $3,500 per annum, and the expenses of the Bureau have exceeded the ap- propriat.on by over $11,000 yearly. ‘I'né Ulegal fees of clerks have been alleged to exceed $10,000 per annum, and there have been several sinecures. Several af the officials are alleged to have been utterly unworthy of their trust and to have been men of dissolute and drunken habits, whose lives have brought the institution into bad odor, Several ladies have assured the HERALD repre- sentative that they have always been compelled to associate the ofiicers of the Free Bureau witn the idea ol impertinence and insult, while several apparently honest and intelligent working men and women have stated him that it is next to impossible for a @ situation through its agency, while the verdict of many seemingly unprejudiced | people is that itis a mere shell and a mere sham, aus Wering no purposes of true “charity” or true use- fulness, It has been confessedly mismanaged trom the start, and has thus far wasted not far from $100,000 oi tue public mouey without any adequate beneiit to the poor. But it seems to be simply & matter of justice to state that the present head of the Free Labor Bureau, Mr. Eldridge, who has recently been appointed, is aware of the bad odor which has pervaded his institution, and is attempt- ing to remedy its abuses. Mr. bidriage Claims that the office of superintendent has been abolished and that he himself receives but $800 a year and “no perquisites; that he 1s gradually reducmg the monthly pay roil from $1,200 to $300, that he is prepared to remove at once any clerk who will take a fee from either appiians or employer, and that he 1s dong all in his power to weed out the unworthy and to aid the deserving poor to obtain honest work, which was the original and sole object of this most worthy but until recently at wolully managed “charity,” BROOKLYN SOUP KITCHENS. There were 8,394 persons fed on soup and bread at the Fourth precinct kitchen, Vanderbilt avenue, yesterday. Inthe Tenth precinct kitchen, Bergen street, the number fed was 1,092, During the past three weeks 55,000 people have been supplied with soup in the kitchens named. Contriputions to continue the good work are solicited by the Captains of the Fourth and Tenth. THE NINETY-SIXTH REGIMENT CONTENTION SETTLED, Afinal meeting of the Ninety-sixth regiment was held last night at No.9Second avenue, at which the report of the committee appointed to visit General Shaler, on the advice of General Adju- tant Rathbone, was submited to the regiment. The committee reported that General Staler de- clared his high esteem and confidence in the regi- ment neraily, which he had not intended to offend in any way by the order relative to the evacuation of the Central Market Armory. The regiment, he thought, had received lull satisiaction in the delivery of its arms and equipments and by the appointment of its oldest captain to its command, The unfavorable position in which the regiment had been was due to the disobedience of the three fleld officers, who | refused to evacuate the armory and whom alone he desired to blame. The General further gave the regiment his weli meant advice not to have quite as much to do. with the newspapers as hitherto had been the case. The report was received by the assembled regiment, and, the explanation of the General being considered satis(actory, the regi- ment concluded for the future to abandon all op- position to the order and go on with its duties, drills, &¢., @8 usual. THE MURDERED PEDLER. The Mock Inquisition at Princeton— Coroner Britton and the District At- torney to Investigate the Case. The Star Chamber inquisition into the murder of the unfortunate New York pedier, Krauskopf, was continued at Princeton yesterday. The refusal of tnis high Court to admit either the HERALD re- porter or the public has not only aroused public indignation to the highest pitch, but itis to be Coroner he would ignore thaentire proceedings as a farce hold ah inquest. District Attorney Beasley, of Mercer county, also assured the HERALD representative that he regards the so- called inquisition at Princeton as @ disgrace and he will insist om @ thorough investigation before the Coroner. It is also the intention to have the conduct of the juntain the Star Chamber brought betore the Grand Jury. The body of Krauskopf was taken to New York yesterday for interment, His pistol was foand about flity yards trom the place where the body was found. No evidence of an important chai acter was given yesterday, Coroner Britton has ett jury to investigate the case prop- erly. ST, PATRIOK’S DAY. The Irish Convention, to make final arrange- ments about the procession on St. Patrick's Day, metat Hibernia Hall last evening, and after a lively discussion about the implied change of pro- gramme, as to the review by the Mayor in Union square, the meeting finally resolved to abide by the and adopt whatever route the authorities designated. Mr, EB. L. Carey, Secretary of the Convention, prepared a prog proceedings on St. Patrick’s Day, legates unanimously accepted, A stormy time had been anticipated by the members of thé Conven- tion, bat the proceedings passed over with great unanimity, Toe programme will be announced to-morroWe which the de- ‘Was started, not having the flity cents or dollar | really decent and deserving man to obtain | Tamme of the general | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. PEACE IN EUROPE, A General Review of the Situation as It Is. WHAT THE GERMANS SAY. Pen Pictures of Bismarck and the Kaiser. Religion in the Empire and Condition of the Chorehes in Prossia, BERLIN, Feb, 24, 1874. “Yes,” said a famous general, who was speaking to me, with an earnestness and gravity peculiarly German, “yes, we desire to have peace with France and with all other countries. We Germans have no love of military glory. We look upon war as a hard necessity, which takes us from our studies und our interests, and which brings noth- ing worth having in return, We conceal our trophies of victory even, and put them out of the way ; for in sober truth we are ashamed of them. We have said to ourselves over and over again, ‘fs this world so constituted that the race through it is really to the swiit and the battle to the strong? Wewere unworthy of victory, yet we won it. If success hadcome to us in after years, when we had done enough for mankind to deserve it, we should have understood aud appre- ciated our triumph. We donot understand it now. it confuses our ideas of right and wrong. We were culprits, and yet we have been rewarded.’ Ithonght that the old warrior looked very noble as he spoke, and that as he humbled himself he | was exalted, “Yes,” he resumed sadly, “we wish for peace and it is very far irom us, France is again arming. She is seeking for allies, France has allies in all the Catholic States of Europe. Austria, too, is bid- ding high for the support of Russia, We are sur- | rounded upon all sides by doubtful iriends or open enemies. Our army is one that fights well, but which, from the nature of its organization, cannot fight often without putting a complete stop to our social machine, leaving our fields untilied and our workshops untenanted. We are determined to put an end to this state of things. We will not be kept in a state of perpetual alarm, France must either conquer us or we willhave her friendship, or we | will erase her name irom the worldly map. What we are determined to have 13 PEACE, PERMANENT PEACE. “Our people do not like military government, but they will submit to it till France and Austria are reasonable and quiet or dead. Ail sensible and honest persons are dissatisfied with the terms of peace granted to France. They say we should have taken no money. We did not want it. It has all gone and must go to the army, and now we are still so frightened of the French that we are obliged to keep up a military establishment alto- gether beyond our resources. The expenditure necessary to maintain it leaves us nothing for our schools, nothing for science, nothing for art, and the standard of our education 1s already materi- ally lowered. large anarmy. We will make friends with France or we will destroy her, and Austria, too, if she in- terferes on religious grounds. What we should have done at the close of the last war with France, and what we will do next time France troubles us, is to take away from the country and export to our own every sheep, every ox, every fowl, every horse | she possesses, bridge, we will tear up every French railway, and then France nmst spend fiity or a hundred years im repairing the damage we have done.’ PRINCE BISMARCK SEEN FACE TO FACE. The mightiest statesman in the worid is a tall, bald man, with some white hair. He wears a mili- tary uniform to please the sovereign, though he is rather inclined to ease and looseness, having a certain flabviness of flesh aud a stomach not easy in tight clothes, But the man is very upright, very strong, very ‘pleasant, very affable. He 1s s0 wonderlully elastic in his movements that he might be an India rubber man. He looks in robust health till examined closeiy, and then an observer begins to notice painiul spasms and contractions of the face, which reveal over-excited nerves. In manner he 1s a rollicking, overbearing man. Wile, children and friends stana in awe oftim. He will not even listen to remonstrance, still less to con- tradiction. He strides over his enemies and ac- quaintances, nodding to the latter as he puts his foot upon the former. The man is of a giant appe- tite for work and food. He eats cold sausages and black bread, served without a tablecloth, for breakfast. His dinner is of mighty meats in plenty, washed down or floated in large goblets of strong Burgundy, He smokes and works and taiks per- petually. His home is like a volcano in constant eruption. His secretaries cannot stand his work long; they are obliged to give in from sheer ex- | haustion, Prince Bismarck is very funny when pleased; very formidable, very rash, very impu- dent at all times. He is not a far-sighted man or he would not have rushed into a religious war so abruptly. He is rather an astonished man, who has become mighty in spite of errors; often be- cause of errors, and who believes that everything may be done by eourage and opportunity. He is, so to say, @man who has stunned himself with hus | own noise, and who keeps on bawling because it seems to bewilder other people and to make every- boay shut his ears and give in to him, BISMARCK’S CHARACTER, He isa man of very bold and ready wit. Some learned professor, member of the German Diet, told the House that the German Ambassadors were too highly paid, and quoted the anecdote ofa poor | Ambassador of Frederick the Great who com- plained of the smaliness of his salary, ‘Tell those who langh at your poverty that you have 100,000 armed men behind it." heard of that dead nonsense,’ Bismarck, “and I even thought I had been present at its tneral.” Up jumped the Professor again, and maintained, with some heat, the his- torical accuracy of his story. ‘Ah,’ observed Prince Bismarck, with a rollicking laugh, “Il dare say you believe it to be true, but my doubts about it first arose when I was an Ambassador myself.” THE EMPEROR KING. Every one whose opinion is worth having agrees that a more respectable man than the present Em- peror of Germany never sat u;on a throne. has so rigorous an idea of his duty that it lately nearly killed him; for a few months ago he con- sidered it right to receive s0 many peopie who had come to him for an audience that be took his alter- noon drive for iresh air somewhat later than usual and caught cold; but he would not rest, and then he caught cold again and had inflammation of the Jungs. He is better now, but still very feeble, and the old warrior will probably never mount his horse again, For some years past he bas not rid- den save when obliged to do so; but last summer he passed eight hours tn the saddle at a review. He cannut walk easily now; but he is still able to receive his Ministers standing, and, when he does 80, he looks not uplike a chained lion, His physicians have been recommending lim & warmer climate, which {s another form of death warrant, but he hesitates to take their advice, be- cause he is jealous of his power and unwilling to loose his hold on it, Besides, he is afraid of a re- gency, because the precedents for aregency in Prussia are not encouraging. His son, too, the Crown Prince, and espectaily the Crown Princess, who are said to rule him, are unpopular, The Crown Prince is charged with insincerity, He is a dim and shaaowy person, who, doubtiess, means well, but does not see lis way clearly in any direction, The old newspaper quarrel between father and son is healed now, and the Emperor King has an unspeakable love for his heir. Prince Bismarck, too, has been included tu the reconeiha- tion, boti he and the Crown Prince having been frightened by the King’s illness. But such recon- culations are fragiie things, and there will be great changes when William, Conqueror, is gone. A CATHOLIC BISHOP IN THE GERMAN DIET. The prelate was seated with his back to the | love him because they lave hight, in a dim room at a Berlin hotel, We cannot, we will not, keep up so | We will blow up every French | “T have | answered | He | 5 grave, reverend, old man, and his manners were marked by that exquisite courtesy which seema like an inborn grace und 1s & striking character. istic of the French superior clergy. I knew that he and the Catholic party had been just outvoted, They had counted upon that; but they nad not counted on seeing so large & majority against | them. They had expected the support of the Catholic Polish mempers of the German Parita. ment, but even these politicians had stood aloot | irom them. Yet the bishop did not look dis j couraged, It is very diilicult to discourage a French bishop, and this one seemed patient, as | though he was prepared for a long struggle inst worldly errors and worldly uworeason, but by no means tnelined to give way, “Notning can be more | contrary to the truth,” said he, mildly, when we | had begun to talk, “than to assert that we have intrigued against the German government or that | We have acted in any way nostile to it. ‘The pow- | ers that be are ordained of We have not Sought to overthrow them or to diminish their vemporal authority; but we cannot and do not ac- knoWledge their supremacy over the revealed law | of God. We have endeavored firuily to explain his to the German people, and we have been pre- Vented irom doing so. All that we asked was to be heard in cur own defence, and we have not | been heard. We desired to speak m French, and | Our Wish was not granted, Then we desired to | Speak upon this question’ only in French, and again our request was denied, We cannot speak German; the language current in Alsace 13 & patois, or dialect, which 18 neither French nor German, Jt could not with propriety be used in a wrilamentary debate. Phe Depu- ties of Alsace aud Lorraine, therefore, are officially dec to be deat and dumb, and there 48 a sort of mockery in requiring their presence at @ Parliament where can neither speak nor hear. A rumor been industriously circulated by influential persons that we are trying to obtain the chief power in the state. It is an uniounded rumor. What we ‘demand is mereiy religious liberty—liberty of couscien-e, iiberty of belief. We wish only to occupy the same position us that which is occupied by THE CATHOLIC PRLESTH ma OOD IN AMERICA AND IN LAND. “That is briefly our case, a3 it now stands, and you may state the facts of it, upon my authority, though | must beg you to withnoid my name, 1 Nave the courage of my opinions, shal! probably svon be in prison for them, but i am uuowilling to do anything which inay offeud the German govern- ment unnecessarily.” THE PRUSSIAN COURT. It is a stiff, steim military court under strict discipline, but very splendid on occasion. Those parsimonious kings of Prussia can dine 1,600 guests | In state at their palace and have 400 laci in royul liveries to wait upon them, But the daily lite of the German monareh and his family is very simple and inexpensive. Them equi- pages differ in nothing irom those of private persons, save that the Empress Queen sometimes goes out with four mdifferent horses and an out- rider. The Crown Prince and Princess merely have an ordinary brougham and patr, of a sort rather shabby than otherwise. ‘The King sits daily | at an open window of lis palace and walks about without guards or attendants, like the poorest of his subjects; but notwithstanding this absence of Pomp and all the outward manifestations of roy- alty he is so careful of his authority that he will not speak one word—no, not even to Prince Bis- marck upon auy political subject unconnected with the particular department over which the Prince presides. ‘This tact accounts for much that | was inexplicable during the late war. The King | would never consult Bistnarck on military matters nor Moltke upon dipiomacy, and consequently they | often gave contrary advice, which rather c plexed fis Majesty. Court etiquette is very rigid in Prussia, but there ave some jew old and trusty iriends wuo are privileged to speak freely to the | Emperor King. Field Marshal Wrangel is one of them. It was he who advised tir King to | issue an order of arrest against his son, “Phat young man must be locked up,” said the Fieid Marshal sternly when the heir of the Prussian throne had ran away and be- gan writing to the newspapers in his own interest during tie first constitutional struggle between bismarck and the Parliament. The King signed | the order of arrest, and it was for some hours in Bismarck’s possession; but on consideration he was afraid to issue it, because he leared that the old man would have a stroke of apoplexy on hear- ing that his son was in captivity, and that the new King wouid have to be brought straight from a prison to the throne. Field Marshal Wrangel had a right to give stern advice to ius sovereign, for he himself had acted with undinching resolution in | the sad case of his own and only son. Young | Wrangel, Who was an officer in the rrussian army, had got into some scrapes, and his father contemp- tnously paid him out of them. When he had done 80 he handed his son a pistol, saying briefly, “For a Prussian oMicer who has disgraced himself there |as no way but this.” The son, obedient to com- maud, there and then blew his brains out before his tather’s eyes, and the stoical old soldier has never since mentioned his name. Of such grim iron | stuff are Made the triends o1 the Emperor King, EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH RANSOM UP ON PRUSSIA. ‘The prices of food and iodging have doubled since the Franco-German war, whereas the price of labor has not materially increased, The German Victories, therefore, have been very expensive to | the poorer classes, both patrician and pleveian, Prussian official persons, whose salaries have not been raised, are literally half starved. They are, imdeed, cruelly underpaid, ior honorific distinc- | tions have been substituted for pecuniary rewards tothem. Thus there are. about seventy different ways of conierring decorations upon then, but not one Will fill an empty belly or clothe a ragged back. So materialism is gaining ground in their convictions, and there will probably soon be a noticeable decline in their 1aithful punctilious and zealous service. The chief cause of their misery is the tremendous cost of keeping up the army. It either hag or it will entirely absorb the French indemnity, and it requires, more- over, an annual expenditure of 100,000,000 thaiers. All the body corporate of Germany suffers from this enormous wen upon the neck of the Empire. Those families even who were counted rich a jew y= gs Oo have now a difficulty in keeping out of dept. The cost of honse rent in Berlin is quite surprising, and good lodgings are let at rates to make one Wink. ‘The Austrian Em- bassy only occupies a small part ot Prince Blacher’s house, but {t pays nearly $25,000 a year for the ac- commodation. The English Embassy pays $9,000 a year jor quarters, und Mr, Bancroit is handsomely housed, so that he probably pays as much or more. Twelve thousand doliars (our money) is the rent asked for some apartments near the Brandenburg gate; and small suits of rooms in inconvenient heigborhoods let for $2,000, American money. ‘The cause of this rise in the value of house property at Berlin is the enormous rapidity with which the population of the city has increased since the German victories in Austria and in | France. Formerly Berlin offered tew attractions | to the traveller, and still fewer to the resident, No | | one who could helpit would live at Berlin. But now fc is the centre of European news—politics, dipiomacy aud stockbrokerage. Every one who has @ serious interest in tue business of the world must have @ representative there. So, whereas -Paris, even between the splendid years of 1862 and 1887, When the Bonaparte Empire was in juli bloom and {ull feather, only increased its population at | the yearly rate of 43,000, Berlin ts now increasing its population at the rate of 60,000 yearly. The United states of America alone among nations can | furnish precedents for such ti ie growth as this. Jv must be remembered in considering the serious difticulty of living at Berlin thateven the wealth- jest of the Prussian nobility are not rick. Prince Pleas is beileved to be the richest of them, and his revenues cannot exceed $500,000 a | year American money which is hardly a | Second class jortune in New York or London. | Prince Bismarck has about $200,000, or at most | $250,000 a year in American money. ‘the King has | about $850,000 a year of the public money, and pos- | sibly as much more from his private estate since the recent deatu of the Queen dowager. The Crown Prince of Prussia has $80,000 a year and $30,000 a ear more from his wue, the Princess Royal of | Eugland, OPINIONS OF A STOCKBROKER. The gentleman before me was a stout man, with an exuberance of health and high spirits, His body was so round and his. legs were so short that he looked not unlike @ barrel turned upside down aud standing on its vent He had an amazing quantity of watch chain, shiny boots, a shiny bald head, and appeared altogether as thongh he were made of some coarse substance nly | varnished. ‘We know,” said he, in a loud | Strident voice, that is to say, “we,” ‘kbrokers, | “that Prince bismarck will have his way with the Catholics, and that 18 all we want to Know. If the Prussian Ministry could be upset by a Pariiamen- tary division, as in England, we should watch the | struggle as we watch our cash boxes; but, as iv j cannot be upset, we do not trouble ourselves about futile opposition. The Cathoitcs are, I be- lieve, in a minority, It they were in a majority it would be just the same while Bismarck lives. if Bismarck Were to die our best paper would suffer @ depreciation of ten per cent, and all speculative business wouid come to a standstill or % to ruin. I have no confidence in the future. Bismarck, Moltke and Von Roon will leave no su $ but 1 have every confidence 1n the present,’” THE SIXTY CHURCHES OF BERLIN. It would be interesting to inquire into the pre- cise number. of Christians who attend the sixty churenes of Berlin, considering that this imperial city is the headquarters Of the Protestant army how mustered for the final overthrow of the Koman Catholte faitn. The famous Sore clergy- man, Rowland Hill, once told a st in the puipic ot how he had met a man tn an ale house w! }- claimed iuriously against the Bible, Rowland Hill asked him wt he had ever read the Bible, and the man in the ale house said he had not read it be- cause he did not believe init. A Berlin Rroreaoe | of European reputation told me frankiy that no educated German was a believer in revealed religion. Only some uneducated persons are believers of a PIXD energetic sort. 1 have been given to understand, upon good authority, that there are not 20,000 ‘wor: shippers in the sixty churches of Berlin; and per- hape tf wens 8 are worshippers of the description above mentioned, they are not much edifi by their devotions. There are now, however, 1,000,000 inhabitants in the an coptal, and though the house of God is empty, the house 61 Baal ts full, and no city has more drinking shope of a disre; kind. it 18 utterly ridiculous te talk of Church and State at Berlin, for it is all State and mo Church there. A few persons of the upper ten thousand, afew of the better class o! tradesmen go to church, nobody else goes, because the Church 18 notin fasnion under military gow Srnment. Thereiore, all the social relations of lit are changed. Women for instance, at Berlin, d¢ | not marry because they love aman; they merely married him, and they He was @ | are not bound to obey the soldier law of discipline