The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-27


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Twenty ninth precinct, Thirty-nrst street, near
seventh avenue, Captain McCuilagh.
Other Soup Houses.
Juvenile Guardians Society," downtown relief,
No. ID Dey street.
Mr.. Orcutt's 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 School for Women, No. At East Tenth
street, near Broadway, gives meals and furnishes
beef tea for the SICK
Fifteenth ward citizens soup house. No. PIG
Mercer street.
Twenty-third precinct police soup and lodging
ouse, Bighty.siXth street, corner of Fourth save
nue..
Bread and beef house, No. BOG West Fifty second
street, near Eighth avenue.
Sparta CLUB soup kitchen, opposite the Court
House, Filty-seventh street, near Third avenue
Twelfth ward citizens soup house, Harlem Mar
ket, 125Jh street.
Manhattanvile, 13Oth street, near Broadway.
Twenty-third precinct police lodging and soup
house, fOurth avenue and Eghty-siXth street.
Soup Kitchens I'm 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 P0verty-The Sick and Dying
Warming to Lifc-TOo Proud to Beg,
Yet Dying for Lack OF FoOd-From
the Deathbed of Consumptive to the
Streets OF the Cfty-GOing Down in the
Struggle for Life.
With the first warm breath of spring yesterday
there came to the Guild rooms at st. Johns chapel
hundreds whom the March winds had before con-
fined to their poor lodgings In all quarters Of the
city. They were the weak, the exhausted and the
dying from fevers, asthma and lung diseases
that parched their skins and shrivelled their
forms. They seemed like those whose fount
OF life was running dry and who thirsted for CON-
passion they nungered for food. There were
also the crippled and the aged and the innumer.
able army OF the young, who have felt the bloom
OF health chased from their cheeks by the pale
spectre Of want While others OF their own age
are crying for toys, Tor rare fruit, for costly oon
OOs these little sufferers beg for bread to appease
the hunger that bites and pinches them. Many of
the old who tottered forth yesterday had prayed
for the grateful warmth of the day all
through the long winter. Some had, doubt
less. as earnestly prayed for death a relief
from the misery that encompassed them. Many
Oi them will never again encounter the terrOrs OF
frost and snow or ever again welcome the return
ing spring time They Will have endured the last
sad year OF want and sorrow and viii pass away
with tears and prayers blessing those whose
kindly hearts nave made the last moments OF their
lie less miserable.
lew OF The many cases that came to light are
given below.
TOO PROUD TO BEG--Too HUNGRY TO LIVE
Yesterday the following note was recelved:-
DEAR sIssII bear that at No --z street lives a
ss has we sS sa4 She Ss P R
young children would the Guild and food
Win You please have the case examined Yours, =,
A woman with eight young children was found
at the place Indicated IN the note in an attic room
on the verge OF starvation. They had no ood in
the mouse and the little ones were crying from
hunger. The woman was acting as janitress of
the building, but had only two rooms to care
for, and from the occupants she received only
y small pittance. Her husband was killed while
~ work-crushed to death by the lall OF two tons
to support her little ones, but was unequal to the
task, and, though she refused to apply for assist;
ance, kind neignbors, plying the children, had
maQe the case known.
FROM A SICK BED INTO THE STREET
Mr. McAlister reported yesterday as follows-
'McGraun tMrs.l, No, 629 East Twelfth street, q
WIDOW N woman lying IN e. bed sick with eonsump
morrow to Mrs Maroni, the housekeeper, she VIII
The same Visitor reports "Mrs Cox NO. AIS East
Ninth street, widow woman, SICK with consump-
ton; nothing to eat; lives with her sster-ln-law,
Mrs. Kobe, who - almost as destitute, and can
GOING DOWN IN THE VOYAGE OF LIFE.
MrS. b lives aJ NO, oh CHdlNOu Sbrecl. SNc IL
widow, with one little chlld-a bright girl OF six
years. The mother is the daughter of
wealthy Philadelphan, now dead, and was
delicately reared and married to rich
husband. Wealth takes wings, however, and
now she finds herself in tenement
house, dependent upon her daily earnings for sup
port. she had worked at umbrella making but
weak and consumptive, she could not compete
with healt her women when prices were reduced
and she gave way. She Is now dying from quick
consumption. she can 90 little, and though her
immediate necessities Will be supplied by the
Guild her case merits the KIND consideration Of
the charitable.
The Relief Fund.
Donations for the poor received by the HERALD
and not previously acknowledged
J. l.. T., Red Bank, n. J......................E 10
Messrs. w. b. h. Nj, for st. Johns Guid... Is 90
st. Johns Guild and the Downtown
Poor.
The following additional contributions were re-
,eived yesterday by Rev. Avah Wiswall Tor the
poor OF the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to
the Almoner of the Guild, Mi. Henry G. De Witt
~ thar IN