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

neart, and coming oack TO his desolate home told
| than oeg-lor IL Is begging, after all, you KNOW
The next day, however . benevolent lady commu-
him some relief; out he and his family still need
all the aid that can be given them by the charita-
! bic.
A Mrs. Kehon, No. 1856 avenue C, is another very
deserving and pitiabie object Tor charity. She has
three boys Lall out OF work. and daughter who
who Is now non-producing, though consuming
She describes herself pointediy as
VERY OLD AND VERY HUNGRY
Mrs. kinsiey, in the same house. has two Sons,
and Is equally poor and wretched; s,-..,
MIS-. AcGuire, No. 7o4 East Thirteenth street;
near avenue Il. has not a cent IN the worm, anu
has also two sons and one daughter out Oh employ
menL
FOUR BLONDE BOYS
An extremely sad case is hat OF Jonn HoGgson,
No. Dos East Fourteenth street, top moor. he Is
wood carver by trade and worked at Dessolrs
warehouse, In University place, while there was
work TO do. He formerly lived In good style on
Fourteenth street, near second avenue put naving
by moving 10 his present quarters wbere ne mas not
been able to pay the rent At an he mas Jour oeauti-
himself is a nice, handsome blonde, while his wife
is a NICE good looking brunette. but the parents
are wasted away with hunger and the boys are
failing lasL The children barefooted and their
last meal the proceeds OF their iather's last
coat. Mr., Hodgson has sought work, as Esau did
repentance carefully and with fear but equally in
vain, and ne sees no escape from freezing and
ae S1aT Of those more
one OF the ladies', "he burst into violent ut of
weeping, In which he was joined by his wife, who
Is, ia about two months TO become for the fifth
time mother, TO her intense grief"
SIX BEAUTIES FOR THE POOR HOUSE.
"Perhaps no prettier sight was ever presented
to womaniy eye," said the elder OF the ladies to
the HERALD reporter, "than the SIX children OF
Mrs. Amelia Baber, No. 200 avenue A. In the rear.
frst house, basement moor. Each OF these SIX
Children was beauty, DARING handsome as
picture. and as neat and clean as wax; yet all
had nothing IN the world to depend on but the
scanty proceeds Of their mothers knitting work,
which she peddled round the streets Some days
she would sell lew cents WORTH and then the
six beauties would have some bread and milk.
Some Gays she would not sell anything at
to bed supperess-only the chance results
OF one poor woman's JOB work between
SIX charming children and the street or the poor
house. In the evening the faithful mother, having
peddled her handlwork all day, would steal ont for
lew moments, leaving her brood in bed IN the
which might serve for fuel for she has money
to buy coal or hight and as ior meat, her children
NO noNEY-No MEDICINES
In the rear OF No. 200 avenue A resides, on the
extraction, a widow, with five children and her
old mother aged Seventy-fo years. Two OF the
children are sick In bed, but there is no money In
the house for medicine. One OF the children may
die, and the mother knows 1t, but she has not the
b 70 lee doctors or to pay Ior drugs
get well how are they to live without sufficient
food or fire
ECONOMY IS WEALTH pArHET1cALLY ILLusrRA.
III as are told" SAID one OF the ladies "Econ-
omy Is wealth" how very wealthy must be the
family OF Mr.. inland, No. SOC East sixteenth street.
for assuredly they have to be very economical.
The family consist OF husband Ia tailor, out en-
ploymenI since December), vile. husbands
mother, seventy-two years Old, dying OF lack Of
nourlshment and asthma, and SIX children The
whole family, nine In number live and have lived
for months entirely upon the earnings Of two Of
the children, who are 'cash boys'' in y Broaoway
dry goods store, at $40 IS month. Out
OF this scanty sum $l2 month goes
for rent which mas 70 Do paid promptly;
OF nine human beings for thirty thirly-one days,
the case may be, oelng at the rate OF II Us per
human being per month, or only three cents and
han per day Tor board, washing, fire. light spend
ing money DOCTORS bills, and extras. Surely this
is economy indeed. No millionaire, surely, was
ever In his poor days, more economical than this.
Yet, strange to say, the Ntlands are not becoming
millOnnaires: so far from II indeed that Mrs. inland
was, at the time we visited her, nursing a baby q
year old, for the simple reason that she had not
lood enough for 1t ''Outsde OF herselfo
THEIR LAST PIECE"
Near those economical Nilands lives Mr..
Stanley, tailor, No. 431 East Fourteenth street,
who has been out OF work all winter; and who on
Monday last sold his last piece Of furniture, an
old fashioned SOFA, Tor food for himself and child
and wife, who expects to be confined shortly.
HUNGRY IN THE HONEYMOON.
In No. 599 First avenue there is s6ung married
couple, still in their honeymoon, who are without
food furniture or fire, or hope OF home or work.
The man is a painter, with nothing to pant; and
the VIE can sew well, but has nothing 70 sew.
He is too proud to beg but she Is heart broken and
SO very hungry.