The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-29
H U N G E R.
The Work of Charity for the
Past Week.
St. Johns Guild and Its Gifts of Food and
Clothing

0es VVuu % 0u1lu ouu AVo NAiHS ~
Clothing,
The POSSIBILITY or a mem issue q tnConuertibte
paper fregord NTH anazement and ancaety and,
IN my judgment. such an issue ,ooud be defr,
Daem ana a shame. -CHARLEs SuMSR.
The Soup Kitchens In Charge of Mr.. Del
mOnicO.
Fourth precinct, No. 321 Water street.. captain
Ulman.
Sixth precinct, No. ITO Centre street., Captain
Kennedy.
Seventh precinct, No. 70 Fast Broadway captain
Mount
Eighth precinct, No ia wooster street, Captain
Williams.
Eleventh precinct No. 2s5 Seconi street, Cap
tain Murphy.
Thirteenth precinct, No. 224 pencey street,
Captain Hedden.
Fourteenth precinct No. S. Sprin! street, Cap
tain Clinohy.
Eighteenth precinct, No, 3oa aven,e A, Captain
lyman.
Nineteenth precinct, Second averle, corner OF
Sxty-thlrd street. Captain Gunner.
Twentieth precinct. No. 5ll WestTwenty ninth
street, Captain McElwaln.
Twenty-first precinct, No. 2tS East Thirty-fourth
Twenty-second precinct Tenth avInue between
sXty-second and SiXty-third streets, captain Xii
lnaa.
Twenty -nlnth precinct. Thrty-nrs street. near
Seventh avenue, Captain McCulagn.
Other Soup Houses.
Juvenile Guardians Society, downtown relief
No. IA Dey street.
Mr.. CIRCUITS soup Kitchen No. II East Seventh
street near Third avenue.
Howard Relief Association soup houses, old
police station Leonard street, and No 81 Thomp-
son street.
Industrial scnool for Women, No. Al East Tenth
street, near Broadway, gives meals ard furnishes
beet tea Tor the sick.
Fifteenth ward citizens soup house, No. 219
Mercer street.
Twenty 'hird precinct police soup and lodging
house, EightysiXth street, corner OF Fourth ave-
nue..
Bread and beef house, No. JOG West Fifty second
street near Eighth avenue.
Twelfth ward citizens soup house, Harlem Mar
Ret 125th street.
Manhattanville, 130th street. near Broadway.
Twenty-tnlrd precinct police lodging and soup
house, Fourth avenue and Eghty-siXth street.
Soup Kitchens In Brooklyn.
Fourth precinct temporary relief soup house,
Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue.
Tenth precinct soup house, corner Bergen and
Pearsall streets.
Helping Hand, Atlantic avenue.
Pictures of Poverty-Thirty-i Thou
sand People Being Fed by st. Johns
Guild-The Immense Amount Of Grocer
les Required for Disbursement--The
Guild Must Close It's Doors in Another
Week Unless Assistance Comes Promptly
to ii.
Yesterday closed week Of great labor at st.
Johns Guild Some idea OF the magnitude Of this
charity may he obtained from the following facts,
taken from invoices now being audited and paid
During the week there have been distributed
1900 oaves of bread, or an average of over 1000
loaves per day. In these six days the tea dis
trbuted amounted tess ohr,p. The following
are among the grocers' bills Of the past week.
I45 barrels oat meal bought OF Patterson, Ciapp -,
26 lag. corn meal bought OF J. e. Powers Co. Go 90
.0l bags corn meal and homny, bought of e. A.
1917 packages prepared -four, bought Of X Nj.
80 chests tea bong ht OF Borrie Dash 400 II
% chests tea, bought of Martin j. Bum. 257 Is
Total paid for groceries, ,..............s Sg3l IS
Cost OF 1900 loaves OF bread 365 10
Aggregate ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1886 Go
The above is only a partial exhibit Of the 1OOd
delivered to the poor. as there were in addition,
many packages Of groceries given out which had
been donated in kind.
THE WIDOWS RENT FUND.
The sum total OF widows rents paid during the
past week is 1910. often rent bills of double the
amount paid are cancelled, and several days
bills Tor rent running as high as 1914 were receipted
on payment Of SIS by The Guild. This exhausts the
fund.- over 5000 having been paid the previous
week. The receiptcd bills OF landlords Will he for
warded to Mr. Furnall who generously instituted
the fund
Bills and exhibits of groceries viii be published
in the HERALD as soon as uy audited.
The number OF persons led daring this past
week is $4,000. forming over 1000 families
THE GUILD UNABLE TO CONTINUE ANOTHER WEEK
WITHOUT MONEY.
Unless assistance is promptly rendered TO this
great charity IL must within week close its
poor In every direction and between $4,000 and
$4,000 is now IN the hands Of committees as the
receipts OF recent entertainments, these $4,000
persons are depending upon the Guild for susten-
auce. IL Is To be hoped some OF tins money VIII
lind its way to the almost empty treasury OF ST.
Johns Guild otherwise the anticipated income
(even taking into account the expected receipts
from the concert at the Academy OF Music last
night will not warrant the nope that so vast an
army OF destitute ones can be longer supplied.
A GIFT OF CLOTHING.
Yesterday q large package OF clothing was re-
ceived at the Guild with the following letter.
LlvrRpoor, NEW YonK PHILADELPHIA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY P.ssrSofsn DEr4nranXr),
To the SUPERINTENDENT 81 JOINS iioILn:-
pcx OF cothng to be distributed aiaohg Inc deserving
poor whom you have 50 nobly undertaken TO provide
ior MAY God make IT blessing to You wei as 10 the
poor.
For the company, j. HILL.
st. Johns Guild and the Downtown
Poor.
The following additional contributions were re-
ceived yesterday Ivy Rev. Alvah Wiswall Tor the
poor OF the Firth and Eighth wards, and handed TO
the Almoncr OF the Guild, Mr.. Henry c. De Witt
Those desiring 10 visit the office OF the Guild
tached 10 St. Johns chapel Varck street, between
Lalght and Beach streets.l
THROUGH MRS. =. =. EARLE.
G. C. Observation-Disclosures. 81 90