The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-11
The Simple Annals Of the Sick, SuferinA
and SOrrowing Poor.
What Is Done for Them by tho Society
for the Relief Of Poor
Sick Children.
Stories Of Sorrow in the Ninth Ward-The ProA
posed First Excursion for Sick Children
An Appeal to tho Benevolent for
Help in Sickly Season.


readers Of the HERALD have recently had thei4
attention called, with more than usual emphasisj
to the work being done by the Society for the Red
lief OF Poor Sick Children, society that has been
mainly organized under the direction OF the STD
Johns Guild, in Varick street. The poor we have
always with us, and shah have until the millenniun4
or the golden age comes Until that time arrivesf
according to our tastes and according to our men&
tai build. we reflect ON their condition, and then
build up our little theories as to what is best to b9
done with them. The bulk Of us are conten4
The above society has its theory about the p0orS
but 1t is united with practice that overlays th
theory that the latter is quite hidden by the glory
Of the former. Its theory Is that the poor need g
helping hand and because they are very often Int
circumstances that they cannot nelp themselvesS
it is the duty OF those who can nep them to do 1T
and the society does it. The theory Is very smpld
and the daily practice OF it has the
ENDORSEMENT OF CHRIST. a
A reporter OF the HERALD yesterday visited dts4
trict where this society had been at work. 1t waa
In the Ninth ward. 1t Is bounded by ClarksOnR
Houston Hudson and Varck streets. He found M
one block IN King street that there had BEEN
twelve funerals OF children last week. There
were twenty-seven SICK children In the same
block, not only without medical attendance, bug
without even the most ordinary comforts and ne3
cessities requisite for even chance OF rest0ran0Q
to lfe-mothers bending over their children WITH
mothers SORROW but without mothersjoy. In
Franklin street nine children had died this week.
In another block there seven children who
for several days last week had only tasted f0o9
once in twenty four hours. In o room in tene4
ment house child had been left by Its mother
every day, from morning until the evening, witR
no one to care for it, and without OF course, III
natural nourishment. In another room was boy
who had accidentally broken his leg, and VINO ha1
| it broken for Two days without any surgical at<
tention. A woman was seen IN grocery 6t0rq
on Saturday night with
THIRTEEN CENTS, /
to buy something to keep herself her husband and
two children from hunger. Her husband had met
with an accident by the falling Of safe, and hi9
| legs were crushed and the supply OF the breadS
winner had been stopped. These are but specij
men leaves In the bulky volume Of the book o.
This misery need not be, is the answers It's allevia3
ton is provided for; we pay our taxes l0r IT, an9
CATION. This is quite true, but the humble, genunel
poor do not know enough OF the oniciai an9
benet Of IT, one day last Week poor
| q regular attendant on fashionable 1pt0wH
church. the pastor and congregation OF which are
| the season, lost her child by death. She was t04
poor to pay the expenses Q, Its funeral IN . ne5
her story at some OF the houses there She did thl
for two days aGg shs ~ r !
| Had she gone to the Commissioners OF Charltie3
aud Correction, on Eleventh street. her chil1
would have been buried; but she knew nothing Of
the Commissioners OF Charities and, therefore, did
| not CO. Somebody told ner o. the st. Johns Guildr
ana sae ~e tns oor woman had the Keen edge
| its humiliation taken OF, given under the shadow
OF church, that 1t would not nave had In the cold
hard offical dispensaton OF 1t by the COMMISSIONS
OF Charities. What about the twenty-seven sick
children in King street and the other Instances OF
| ,Ir nru mar
| tant inquiry OF some tender-hearted reader They
are all cared for. BY whoms This society. me
ance, receive nourshlng food, have given to then5
| the medicine tnat Is presented the volunteer
fore he starts labor in morning. and sees him-<
self that these children get the lo0d, get the med
HnS cdfen ~ R al
and grow up healthy: TO help them TO 40 tnlsa
they, with hundreds of Others with their motners
River and then down me bay. This will be free
| excursion, and the children Will get the
| BkNEFIT OF SEA AIR,
which physicians say will do them more good than
| drugs and apothecarles. But the poor little child
whose mother left 1t for the whole day without ts
natural food well, that child Will go the FREQ
| excursion When the visitor found this little ones
! CRYING for its mother he found out also where the
mother was employed. He represented the case to
| her employer, and the mother Is now allowed tQ
and in order that she may not be hurried over it,
her employer pays her car fares and she Will hav6
d he Tse
boy whose leg was broken has now surglca5
attendance and is dong we'll The poor woma9
with her thirteen cents is watched over and cared
for till her husband gets well again. But there IS
distress and misery elsewhere, besides the Ninth
is terrible amount Of II; but the society does its
| best to meet it, The society
| COVERS THE WHOLE CITY
by an admirable system. 1t has not one paid onl-
GER l. has had hundreds . Of visitors but they ara
al DO Well hf Te1 e a oe IN
and 1t is this, "Do you need hepr They
ask the nationality Or the ds sn a,S g
need OF human creature. answered BY human
heart. Religious instruction does not even GO
Of prayer there is no distribution Of tracts. It ~
a concentrated care for the body that this society
Soss 70 Whom ss s to
thoughts about the Christianity that 'found tnem
sk ana ssS he
needs Is help either In money or Kind, to save tn9
sicky Summer. Those who ieel disposed to ASSIST
| them may send either money or kind to the fellows
The NEW YORK HERALD ONCE.
Mayor Havcmeyer, City Hall.
Francis H. jerks. PRESIDENT GENT saie deposit Com-
Andrew W. Leggett. Acting Collector Of Assesss
ments Of New YorS room 10 CITY Hall.
| George Calder, superintendent east Side DisS
| trct,n comprising Seventh, Tenth Eleventh. Thir3
Charles 0'Conor, superintendent "Down Town
District,n comprising risL oecomu; iMru rouPtH
Rev, Arthur II. Warner, superintendent "Wess
| terly Sectionn OF the Ninth Ward, headquarters
| AT Hudson street.
j. Z. Davies of sheldon Co., 677 Broadway.
| Theodore Moss, Walack's Theatre.
| Dunlap & Co., ia Fifth avenue.
| Charles H. Kendrick, General Passenger AgentS
| New York Central and Hudson River Railroads
| room 8, Grand central Depot
John p. Faure, secretary and superintendent
| s'Easterly Sectionn OF the Ninth ward; heads
| quarters, 23S West Eleventh street.
Gouverneur X. Lansing Ear's Hotel, treasurer
| Rev. Avah Wiswall President. and SuperlnS
| tendent "West Side District,v comprising Fifth
and Eighth wards; headquarters, ST. Johns chapelj
Varick street.
Packages OF groceries, medicines, &c, may b4
| sent to the Rev. Alvah Wiswal who Will 10rwar0
| them TO the various superintendent.