New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-13


How do you get something 10 est Tel me all"
She bust into tears; 70, some httie time she coult
not sresL. At length she grew esldp and ssid;
eve hsv ut had a mouthful Of bre,akfast to-day
~ my mother knew Of no way in the wc,td that she
could get spytbng, or indeed, Sir, she would cs-s
let ne come here"
And he~ has it been before to-day Did you
have any supper sss pghtr'
NO. Sir; but that is no,hipg-we are used 20 that
this winter; but we lad nothing al day yesterday,
ard this morning sald: Please, mother let re go
and see that gentleman who sent Mrs s. the 6cur
and am surei'he people will not let US starvs"
NO, my dear child, said I, they will not, mu.s
not let such mother as yours, such daughters a.
hers s,arvs while there Is plenty of food in America"
On Thursday morning though not quite so Intensely
cold the snow lay deep and unbroken, and still fell
before driving wind. Through that s.orm-through
pathe.s snow almoet up to their knees three women
walked early in tn. morning from the East
River, distance Of almost two miles, 80 as TO be
sure to get here" 90 they said, before You would
leave home, or else we should perish.
One Of them was an elderly woman, widow Of 8
physician, native OF this City, and mother Of three
grown children, all out Of work. Another young,
healthy woman, widow Of q New York pilot, with
two young children, who, til this winter hsd never
known want ina, she could not crafty.
Are you greatly in want now 7"
Look at me- Would |, do you think, face this
storm on foot for anything but to my little chill
dren from starving l live in the house with this
girls mother. We shared our last crust yesterday.
We went TO bed cold and supperess. went last
week TO the Ward Relief Committee. and he gave me
two shilliDgs, and told that wss all he could allow
for a week Can we live upon that What have
my innocent little done that they must starve
Beggars, paupers and criminals are fed. am moi
tber. l an willing to work. l am wiling to suffer
famine myself, but oh do not let my children
perish"
They had come with heavy hearts, in sort of fit Of
desperation. They went back with lighter ones; and
while the public continue to respond to our appeals,
we will not let such children perish.
The storm still ragged on furously through the day.
Towsrd night genteel-looking woman still on the
ycupg side of thirty FIVE, strong, handsome and
healthy came on foot almost literally without shoes,
from Thirty fhst timidy asking for little aid to
save her from pertaining in this terrible storm, as she
was entirely without means, and did not feel
though she could 90 to OF the kind ladies who
bad helped her before in her pressing need.
This woman was dozen years the wife Of clerk
in this City and Boston, and is the mother of four
children under ten years of sge. She gets O. month
for building fires in uptown Church, and pays 81
that for the rent Of her little back Rain or
shine hot or cold abe leaves her babies and goes out
to earn that scanty pttance, for that work for
her needle has failed, it is her only stay-her only
help 10 keep famine from her little ones. Her
clothes al bedding have, in most part, been lost at
the pawnbrokers but what grieves her most is the
thought that the Jews have got her great fsmily
Bible. She did not walk home nor did she go back,
with her frozen stockings treading upon the snow at
every step, as when she came.
The storm king rode all night upon the cold blast,
and the fsmine-fend looked into many widows
home. From one Of these, early on Friday morn
ing, Issued an aged widow of q master mechanic,
mother OF six grown chldren-one widow also,
with two little ones-and walked all the way through
the storm n snow from Thirty.ninth.st., over two
miles and halt, because she had not sixpence in
the world to pay her stage fare and no. single loaf
OF bread for breakfast. She had formerly been in q
condition to help others-now was helpless herself.
She has two sons-mechancs-who got good wages
when at work, but who cannot go out Of the house
now for want of shoes. Her daughters ere book
foicers ard straw sewers, without work. Il is al
most needless to say that this family are among the
pawnbroker's victims
This woman, who Is suffering the horrors Of tho
present famine, was born In Boston, of good Nox-
England stock, and until the death of her bu.h.nd
never conceived that she should live to soc her chill
drens faces CHASTITY with starvation in the City that
gave them end their father birth.
shall add bat one more case now; and, suppress
ing the name shall let this woman speak for herself
NEw-Yosx Wednesday Feb 1laa
/ " iyipx on Last dish hzsfy Du3d .,1
here tie will from and
should forget on account having many attend
have through necessity been compelled to DO.
Respectfully y0srs,
/ remembered the name at once, as had been
struck when first cav this aged woman, with her
geneel LADY like l remembered that abe
told NE that her husband held q responsible city
Office for many years and until his DEATH his salary
being just sufficient to give comfortable support to
bic family and coed education to his sons and dsugh-
ters Two of the latter are married to husbands out
of work, and one is sickly in the country, among
frierds. Her two sons live with and would guard
her now, they have heretofore, from famine, but
they, too, are out of work. This woman was born
in Philadelphia, of Boston parents, and from luxury
and comfort in well-furnished house, she las come
TO the last dish Of mush in q gsrre.. She went
once to tie Ward Relief Committee and got some |
rusty pork and beans. Her could not go to look
for the food of charity and their mother could not
zee them patiently suffer, and 50 she went once to
the sou house but came away sick at heart at the
vulgar profanity ard obseenity Of the crowd that she
was compelled TO sort with, determined to suffer on
rather than submit again to such degradation Of hes
honest American psids
sueh are few Of tks evidences Of the existence Of
famine sore and terrible fsmine- now upon shis
9Th day Of Febr nary 1885, that prevailing in the
CITY Of Nev.Yosk | eoad aaltiply thsae evidences
, -. IL o.ba, on ses of lika import 10 an alarm