The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-10

their little feet In tiny satin slippers deep in the
recesses Of the soft neecy folds OF q foot rug, do
they see in their minds eye visions OF feet small
as theirs, but bare and cold and bleeding-a dark
ana dreary room. where there is no hre no food
no bed no anythings The garrets and cellars
where poverty has its home, are Infinitely more
numerous than the abodes of wealth, and this
simple word, poverty" mas q world OF meaning
1t means 10 be houseless and cold and hungry
and hall clad and sick. 1t means to be naked
and dying from dsstitution. 1t means that here Is
the jumping.or place, where men and boys become
thieves and vagabonds and women and girls enter
upon lie OF shame. 1t means this, or the river,
the Morgue and the Potter's Field. To say "Ah
how sad Is all this desttution" Is not to say much.
To send few dollars and a small bundle OF cast
of garments 10 the poor is not to do much. To
say, '1here Is Inmeasured misery al my door ana
! will be for the nonce good Samaritan" to throw
aside pleasure for duty, to feed the starving, to
succor the SICK clothe the naked and to shelter
the homeess-that Is
CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
Think OF the fact that LOCO ragged and wretched
men, women and children stood before the doors
OF ST. Johns chapel yesterday, weak from hunger
aud shivering from cold, waiting Tor food. Think
OF the fact that these poor creatures represented
6,4oo destitute families whose names and addresses
are now on the books Of the Guild Think that
among these were cripples and those who were
aged and helpless, those who were young and de-
fenceless and innocent, that there were faces Old
and wrinkled by suffering, faces young and pncbed
by want, faces that had the hectic glow OF con-
sumption and faces pale from starvation. Ihese
are the pictures that poverty paints.
PASTE AS FOOD FOR SICK BABY.
HOW many LADIES tn vng IN fh b aceaus ro w5 THAT az
street OF palaces on Friday last SICK baby was
being fed upon paste made from nour anu coa
var pff hnfr oir uIf ~
lady, fashionable, wealthy and beautiful who has
given up the pleasures OF society Tor time 10
others at ST. Johns chapel Tor LISTS OF the suffering
poor. On Friday she found In Tnlrtieth street
mother with an emaciated babe to whom she was
feeding spoonful OF -four, which she had begged
at a corner grocery, and which she had mixed IN
cold water. Lack OF food had caused her to lose
the power to nOursh her little one from her own
bosom, and the Child was starving In her arms.
MIRRORED FROM THE DEPTHS.
This episode had its counterpart last night In
one that came out OF the lowest pureu of the city
After nlghtiall, when the light showed dimly to-
ward the streets rom the closed blinds OF the
schOolroom, which Is the Guilds headquarters, a
poor woman came hesitatingy through the court
and knocked at the door. She had in her arms
unuttered, Tor the 'dlspossess" writ in her hand
told it before she had spoken. Her name
the rear OF No. Is Cherry street. Her husband,
q laborer, had been disabled i've months ago by
falling from the upper story OF a building IN the
erection OF which he was employed as a hod car
rier since then their suferngs had been terri
Bile. Three weeks ago the poor woman gave birth
TO baby-a baby SO small now that 1t could be
laid comfortably IN gentleman's silk hat The
secret of its diminutlve size was revealed by the
long could give 1t no nourshment." Yesterday
the landlord served legal notice on nine
am ssvs In 'e Some 'front.' owen snd ase mens
month 1Or their room, Owed s.. The land:
had to pay So SO for the JUSTICES summons. The
Guild rarely pays rents for the reason that to do
so would require large sums OF money, and the
The woman sat before the CRATE with her child on
her knees and her face wore hopeless and de-
jected look The Master was respondent, and his
forehead began to assume the knitted expression
that 1t wears when doubt and things disagreeable
assail him. Just then lady entered with check
IRON Commissioner Van Mort Tor $3.50, ana in an
instant his face frightened. The poor woman was
at once given the money to purchase the right TO
stay in the miserable room she had called her
home.
HARLEM POVERTY AND CHARITY.
Mrs. Talman reports case or the most extreme
destltutiOn In Harlem. man and wife ana five
children compose this picture OF wretchedness.
The mother Is very sick; the lather has for long
time been unable to find employment, though
searching till weary and sick at heart. The chill
dren have been led by the poor OF the neighbour
hood-another among the countless instances the
Guild has found OF the truth Of the Old English bal
lad wherein CATER Gray explains that only the
Can feel tor the sorrows of the poor.
Some OF the people have been so generous to
these little ones, appealing so strongly to their
sympathy that they have now no money 10 pay
their own rent, and delegation OF these came to
state the facts to the Guild:
The great thrOng which filled the spacious court
yard yesterday tnere were at one time 500 in llne)
was Kept in perfect order through the exertions of
the Guild Office by Captain Petty. Otherwise, in
the contention Tor places by these hungry people,
the feeble and those bearing children in their arms
might have been seriously injured.