The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1902, Page 2

gS as WF RICHARD GALVIN CF JOE CHEERY ST AND ABO ECR WHICH SE PHD « 5¢ ZITILE) ETHEL PRICE OF 8 PEARL. <5T, ANDTHE HREWOOD SUE HAD FOUND nig: 2OOR WHO CAN’T BUY COAL ~SCOUR STREETS FOR WOOD, —-+¢> —— Ruin Stares in the Face Those Who| Hundreds of Children Sent Out to Have Never Known Need, (he overwhelming pressure of the H @oal strike Is grinding the rich «nd th poor alike, but While t means the mete Moss of moncy, or Ipxury fo the, uae lass, it means’ bitter suffering and, lt}, may be, death to the other AB a Urect result of strike not only has the price of 1 soared to ‘beyond the reach of any but the well- Mo-40, but the pric many other commodities dependent upon coal for /thelr manufacture have rison and a iikely to rise further. Wood and char- foal have already gone up, for there #@ an increased demand. Wood ts bring® ing from $14 to $18 a cord, and char- Coal Gc. a bushel. The petty bakers have raised the price Of bread. Restaurant keepers have beon obliged to charge more for the food they sell. Laundrywomen are forced to charge moro for their work to recoup themselves for their increased outlay. Renta have. risen in all apartments | Where the owners supply heat. On all @ides the consumer is being fore! ear the extra burden as best he ma Neceasitios of Life. To add to the miseries of the people, the price of milk has risen two cents a Quart, meat is uo 10 cents a pound. and | the gamblers In the Chicago wheat pit are forcing the price of wheat toward the dollar mark JeBVith coal at 3 cents a pall no sec- tion of the city will suffer as seriously gs the lower eust side, where are housed the poorest the In all the} modern tenoments th Lowery eastward, between Chatham Square and Ninth str there are anywhere from twenty-five to one hundred children. The winter outlook Is blue Indeed. The most thickly populated portion of this @iatrict is Rivington street between Allen and Orchard Number 73 Orch the “Howse of Bo Mo other spot in families are po : if Uittle to do with the world o: ~ Guett, Bome idea of what suffering the coal trike will bring to those living tn ft alde tenements may be had from tt from ‘d street is known as paps there 13 | where the us have side of tae has no more than $10 a week to On the first floor live the R aman and wife, with nine ehile eldest of whom is a girl of fifteen. Hive In f rooms, The only heat comes from the kitchen stove. No one in the! Whole flat-hovec has a “parlor stove: “Phat would be a luxury even with coal &t 4 fair price Wext to the Roserbergs lives the Relse family with four children. From thera to the top floor ‘the. familles-and the / number of children are: Nam Abramowitz Laundes Grenberth bowitz . in Gasacheneig Fox NEW BURDENS FOR THE POOR TO BEAR. Coal 30 cents a pail Milk Increased two cents a quart Wood increased to $17 and $18 a cord, Charcoal bushel Meats increased 8 and 10 cents a pound. Price vanced. Increased to 59 cents a of glass and crockery ad- Wasrerman ..... Goldamith . Godfried ... Rosent Rosenthal « Gamber Goldvrook Tognell .. stole eo Average Income 87.05 a Week, In the above table only the families are given who are either very poor without childron and those who have little ones under fifteen years of age. altiough throughout the whole house Js no one who can afford to pay nts a pall for coal and $10 a month ent an average Income of $7.65 a week While restaurant-keepers aren't sut- fering physteally, the + pocketbooks a sadly pinched, Some of them are as high as $8 a ton for firs anthracite their cooking It is neceseary that good hard for that jiurpoke, mod asf restaurant: men are com any price arked. Warldorf-Astoria and is at present a loss ¢ ath due to be saying es. ral be used uly the ed to pay t 's and wood hi en the glass and crock ; las increased twenty pe n Nozice haa been sent out by the companies that the increase is due y the advanced price of coal. Fruits and vegetables are dear, the price of corn {s very high and’ t Steaks that are sold at the hig Testauranta are completely beyond the reach of the poor man. All kinds of rime beef has increased In price any- Where from & to 10 cents a pound, nd other pork products pr, , The only, meat that ave i R tn cost is lamb, hag not Increased “ag to the coal famine, we do not know what we shall do here at the Manhattan if the strike contintes much fonger.. We shall simply have to pay the price for coal no matter what "that price should be. All the other hotels and dig apartment, hotels of the city are In the same postion. Coal must be had at any price Tt is ne ry that a fine quality of anthracite be obtained for cooking purposes, and every restau rant In town Is compelled to aecure good coal for thelr cooking or let their fires burn out We are losing probably from. $2,000 to $3,000 a month on the increased cost of meats, while the advance in coal has also been a large figure tn our in- creased expen —<——__—- More English Coal Ordered. LONDON, Oo: ording to the St. James's Gazette a Cardiff firm yes- terday book a single American order for 18,900 tons of steam coal. a PEANUT TRUST. SUFFOLK, Va., Oct. 2.—The proposed Peanut Trust, which meant to control the chief output of Virginia and North Carolina, has fallen through, Pick Up Shavings and Splinters. While plans are being formulated to enable the poor to get coal by the pall at ® price commensurate to that at which tt js sold by the big coal com- pantes to the retailers, the poor are doing the best they enn to make wood substitute, Hundreds of children re out all over the city picking up the ps and shayings around the bulld- are belog renovated or new- HK ings whiet ly constructed, v And even wood Is scarce. is morn- ttle Richard Galvin, of No. 104 erry street, was seen by an Evening world reporter paying ti cents for @ box of wood which he sald he was tax- ing home to chop up and make Into | jag wood and fuel combined for the hen fire, And this was not an ex- ceptional case, All about him other ta: ris and old wom were engaged same occupation, Seek Wood in River, +t On Canal street The ening World yapher took a picture of little Price, of Pearl street, who, had gone down to the river front and had found two pleces of boxwood that later. would be the fuel for her mother's fire. Other children found some sodden old pleces of timber In a house that was ‘being demolished, and they were busily aged in haullng the sticks away Sorry fuel was this, but fuel there must be of some sort or another! “Falth, ‘ts terrible,’ said Mrs. rick Murphy, of No. 110 Monroo street to an Evening World reporter, “Coal is at 30 cents the bucket, and we #0 poor that we cannot buy, ‘Tis gas that I'm usin’ now, but gas don’t give much hen th’ cold weather comes grewt sufferin’ in this dis- jin th Pat- b nd what Mrs, Murphy sald is abso- lutely tru al cannot be bought w is sc and burns too rapidly, and 1s cheap enough but when tho cold already here becomes be terrible suffering’ in the crowded dis- « for weather which { cgider there will among the poor tricts of the cit: No Conl to He Bought. At No. 35 Oak street Carmine Tilla, one of the retail coal dealers, allowed the photographer to get a plcture of his “coal yard.” It is underneath his fruit and vegetablo stand, and in it he hats just one-fourth of a& ton of coal loft to serve @ population of 30,00), For coal he has he charges #0 cents @ bucket and makes litte, for his dealer had ‘charged him $18 a'ton for what he had bought. very day the lumber yards are be- sieged by wild-eyed men and women, |who beg that they may be permitted to gather a few sticks of wood for thelr fires, and If the owners of the yards acceded to their requests ‘there would be nothing left of the piles of timbe: that aro stacked away. As it ts, some of the yards are selling smail ‘blocks of wood for kitchen fires and charging round prices for them. too. —————_____ WIFE'S PITIFUL PLEA. band Will Return, Mra. Tucy Amerosi, No. 471 Ocean ayenue, Jersey City, has appealed to her husband, who deserted her August 28, to return home, On that day she came to New York on a shopping tour. While she was away he stripped the house of Its fur. niture, took. her jewels and her three children, the eldest on nine years gid, and left Jersey City, She belteves he 8 in New York ail she pyamd forgive all 1¢ he will retgurm. ee Ready to Forgive All If Her Han-) THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVEN “FAMINE HEAPS NEW BURDENS ON “¢ aL e5 Zz AAS "CCENE! ON MONROE ST CHILDREN HELPING THEIR MOTHER) CARRY FIREWGD: NOS. 69 TO 83 RIVINGTON STREET, WHERE 100 FAM- ILIES, WHO ARE UNABLE TO PAY 80 CENTS A PAIL FOR COAL, SELL ANTHRACITE AS A RARE JEWEL, Fakirs Offer Bargains in Pre- cious Stones to Forehanded —*Buy for Five Cents; You'll Soon Pay a Dollar.’ There {s a harvest these days to the street venders who are selling the new Coal Trast emblem, which bears this inscription: ‘We must bust the trust or it will bust us." Strange to eay, the | greatest sales of the embiom ere in the | Wall street district, the home of the operators who hold Jn the palm of thelr hands the entire coal situation | m consists of a minbature coal bucket and shovel mounted on a The bucket, which ts made to |Have the appearance of being full of rite, has impressed upon it che “Bust the Trust." These are being sold at tive cents, and the sale 1s enormous, The fakirs are also selling atick-pins mounted with small bits of anthracite, hawking them from the street corners as the “newly discovered black dia- monds." One fakir pleases the crowds b ling: “The anthracite diamond has taken the place of the first water stone. Every- body wears these black diamonds, once known ag coal. ‘This precious stone, gentlerhen, a no longer used for pur- poses of combustion. It is a mare Jewel, the possession of which any one may be proud, Jump at them now like a lost child at its mother or a hungry bull at a haystack. They will soon be worth dollars instead of cents, Take ad- vantage of the opportunity while the chance affords, Now is your time and now is your minute, Only a nickel aplece; a nickel aplec ————__—— Hudson Valley Strikers Weaken, (Special to The Evening World.) SARATOGA, Oct. 2—The strike of motormen on the Hudson Valley Rail way, which went Into effect on Augu 80 {n Saratoga, Washington and Wai ren counties, {8 raptdly losing ground. as a large number of the strikers have veturned to work and soon will be fol- lowed by others who already have ap- plied to be reinstated. Company K of Glens Falls and Com- pany 1 of all, which went on duty September lith, this afternoon re turned home and were dismissed. = Al BUCKET OECOAL. THAT COST 30# AND A 4SACK THAT COST 208 ONE TON AND A. HALFOP COL IN CONWAYS YARD OM PEARED. GAS CO. PAYS $21 TON FOR HARD COAL Manager to Get One Hundred Tons from a Mysterious Source—Compelled to Pay $14. a Ton for Coke. The Unton Gas Company, of Brooklyn, has paid $2,100 for 100 tons of anthracite. ‘The seller was Gardiner Pattison, who agreed to deliver the coal at the gas company’s dock for the price mentioned, Just where or how Mr. Pattison se- cured the coal for delivery is a mystery to local coal dealers who have been unable for weeks past to get coal even In the samilest quantities to replenish their empty bins. ‘The sale is the largest that has been made at the prevailing exorbitant rates, It flatly contradicts recent state- ments from the operators that the price of coal had not advanced. Many of the dealers were hopeful to- day that the supply of soft coal would be replenished before the end of the week, An immense quantity is being mined, put it been scarce in this market because of the inabfity to get it here. Every obstacle In the way of delivering the ater has been interposed by the coal-carrying roads, which control the anthracite mines. In addition to its purchase of anthracite at $1 a ton, the Brooklyn Union Gas Company has’ purchased six- teen hundred tons of coke at $144 ton. James Jourdan, president of the gas company, said to-day that his company consumed 30 tons of coal a day and was trying to keep its supply up to the tilrty day limit. He admitted that, he had contracted for Welsh and English coal and coke. Residents of the borough of Kings are threatened with a gas and water famine if the coal shortage continues, —<—<—=>__— FRIEND KILLS BOY GUNNER. m-Year-Old Hunter Dies After Operation Following Accident. SUFFIELD, Conn,, Oct. 2.—Clarence Lamberton, ten years old, died to-day from the effects of a shot wound re- ceived while he was gunniag In the woods yesterday with john Berrett, onl at tide v twenty-five years old. 2 ‘A charge * shot trom Barrett's gun entered Jamberton’s thigh, shattering the leg so batly that it was necessary te amputate it closo to the boly. The Medical Examiner decided that the tlooting Was accidente: BREAKS NEW HAVEN RECORD Seventy-three Miles Are Made in 7. Minute: NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct, 2—A new record for a regular passenger train was made between New York and New Haven Tuesday by ie New York bound Bay State express, which arrived here eleven minutes late, and then ran the distance of seventy-three miles to New York in seventy-nine minutes. The engine was In heres of Pngineer Will- jam Hackett, of this olty. —___. HORSE INJURED DR. GREER. Rector of St. Bartholomew's W: Thrown from Carriage. Frienda of the Rev, Dr. David H. Greer, rector of St. Bartholomew's Epi copal Church, learned yesterday of an accident which befell him recently at his summer home, Easthampton, L. I. Dr. Greer a week ago Tuesday was riding his favorite horse when the anj- mal stumbled and fell, throwing ite rider heavily to the ground. It was at first thought that Dr. Greer had received a fracture of his collar-bone, but, the injury proved to be nothing Worse than a general shaking up and & disldcation ‘of the shoulder. UTICA HAS NEW BISHOP, Vicar Olmsted Made Coadjutor of Central New York Diocese, UTICA, N.. ¥., Oct. 2—Charles Olm- sted, until recently the Vicar of St, Agnes'’s Chapel, New York, was conse- crated Bishop-Coadjutor of the Hplsco- pal Church Jn the diocese of Central New York, tn Grace Church, ‘thts city, to-day. Dr. Olmsted formerly w; & tor of Grace Church, LD Sl The consecration service was a most imposing one, The yaerable Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse, officiated, and the sermon was preached by Bishop Henry C. Potter, of New York. Other bishops present and taking part were, Walker, of Western New York; Niles, of New Hampshire, Worthington, of Nebraska: Leonard, ‘of Ohlo, and Oim- sted. of Colorado. ‘Over three hundred prominent clergymen from different sec- tlons of the country were i attendance, BADLY HURT BY TROLLEY. Councilman Conlan, of Bloomfield, May Not Survive His Injuries, In a trolley accident last night et Bloomfleld, N. J., Councilman John R, Conlan, of that place, was so badly injured that the attending physicians, Drs. J. G. Shaul and J. A. Allis, do not give any hope for his recovery. Conlan's skull 1s fractured and up to a late hour he had not recovered consctousness. Conlan, in company with Clarence Smith, was driving through Clark street, and in crossing the tracks a west-bound car struck the rig. Smith escaped injury. The carrii was wrecked, ‘The horse ran to Dodd's liv- ery stable, where it belonged. 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