The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-28
PICTURES OF POVERTY.

EoIlOT f>n11amtnTOpy anu =" hO
Know of q Case.
Yesterday was full OF interesting episodes at
St. Johns chapel. There was the usual num-
Der Of half clad women and children, the
usual number OF sick and broken-down
men, and the usual number OF drunken
people OF both sexes, who needed ready money to
buy rum, and were 'ready to denounce and ex-
pose institutions that could AFFORD nothing but
groceries to a poor man, who was cold, and
and-everything." Scores OF ladies with servants
brought packages OF clothing, which disappeared
the frost disappears, Tor 541 garments were
given to the poor during the day. The additional
number Of ladies who came asking for addresses
OF the poor whom they might administer to
were warmly received, and they went away with
smiles which will be changed to sadness when they
come face to lace with the poverty which the
HERALD has but family pictured.
the following is a VISITORS account of the origin
OF sewing society for the benent Of the poor
whose destitution has been described IN the col
umns OF the HERALD. "Daniel" is the head of
charitable family. "Mary" Is one Of his daughters,
and the Sewing Society mas sent a large suppl, Of
clothing and wel-nlied purse to ST. Johns chapel
HOW 1T CANE TO PASS.
Now it came to pass in the days OF Ulysses, that
the land was sore, stricken by panic, labor was
stopped, and hunger and nakedness went about
help or the people perish And the cry Tiled
the ears Of the patriarch Daniel, and OF
all his house; and as they sat at meat
we do p Then spoke Mary Cirst IN every good good
word and WORK., why sit we here all the day
gether all the young men and the maidens; then
will we put our hands to our pockets, our fingers
TO the work. and we win make o that shall
be covering. SO shall. restitution be succored.'
And the thing pleased the Patriarch and all his
ri hot QtA sand late hawo
ana there, saying ''COme over and help u.s." And
1t was that as soon as the people heard the word
their hearts were k1ndled, and on the second
month, the third day OF the month, they came to.
Twenty second" nign unto the avenue called
Then said they one to another, "Behold, we are
ready for the work but who snail give to us 9
us togetner ~ And as they questioned among
themselves, the same Mary answered.
I'VE ARE Sewers AND REAPERs.
"Bessed are we that sow beside all waters-in
due season we shall reap II we lall not"
THE STORY OF HARRY BURKE.
Harry Burke Is a fine looking young man. with
an open, honest face, Drowned by exposure. He
is twenty-five or twenty-three years OF age, and
was an employe Of the Erie Railway Company two
bone was s' broken. rhe surgeon who "set' the
fracture did 1t cumsily, causing incessant suffer
OF November last young Harry went to Erie, Pa,
where he shipped In the navy on board the United
m s0s snp ar ne was
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and from thence
to the rsgs6ip Of Commodore Stevens. Falling from
a yard his collar bone was again shattered He was
thrown Tor a day or two into the cockpit from
whence DC was discharged: No arrangement was
OF enlistment, and Commodore Stevens gave him
RON his own pocket money 70 pay his are to New
YORK od He was pfodea n at the Guild win
General Passenger Agent OF the Erie Railway. who
kindly gave him a passage ticket to his home.
PARLOR PHILANTHROPY.
The following Is VISITORS glimpse at Inherent
households where the HERALD's poverty page Is
read, and the varying effect 1t produces-
dssny Citizens view nS
Of ne&aS The her
fast duty OF looking over the morning HkRALD-
scenes Of want and HUNGER there must be
ss @ Me psS
Hsd Be s, Hsy s = Ss e The
ps % a VISITING
m look in three oSy % AVER
~s e adpDa e lady Would like 70
sssa g sas
cessTvsS iSst hsS needed .as
Ing my third Sss upon ms aresSai
ne asqo1 ens
sed patroniznsly to send something At some future
tickets and generous supply OF groceries and
does not imagine that charity Is boiler,
where, If fre is lighted and water supplied,
steam will of its own accord but she found II
be something that needed heart to prompt hands
and will TO execute. -
The smiles and kisses Of this lady's little ones
x ,Ss coSa she had
and fed, the little hungry, shiyering flock
on the cold river front What she did that lay let
thousand ladies do each day they will never miss the
time They will ever ieel glad they did it Let them
II they apply at St Johns Guild the books there will
shovvt hen a
case for them. May Mrs Merritt have many prompt im
tatOrs in this great city.