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

soup AOuses-Operatton OF the system.
Our reports continue to show the vast num-
bers of persons relieved by the establishments
maintained in various parts of the city for the
practical administration of charity, and they
indicate that the labor has become SO sys-
tematized, under the personal supervision OF
benevolent citizens that the amounts given for
the poor suffer very little, if any, from the
depredations of habitual and persistent pau
pers. In addition to the thirteen soup houses
In charge of Mr.. Delmonico, of which We have
previously given the location, we find the fol-
lowing thirteen in operation under the direc-
ton of various societies:-
Juvenile Guardian Society Soup House, No. IA
Dey street.
Howard Relief Association Soup House, No. 81
Thompson street.
Fifteenth Ward Citizens Relief Soup House, No.
2l9 Mercer street.
Industrial School for Women No. Al East Egh-
teenth street.
Orcutt soup House, No II Seventh street.
Society Tor Aged and Destitute Poor Soup House,
NO. 1873 East Thirty-third street.
,. TWe a Ward Reform Club Relief House.
Bread and Beef House, No. 800 West Fifty-second
street.
Sparta Club Soup House, Fifty-seventh street,
Twelfth Ward Citizens Soup House. Harlem
Market l25th street; Manhattanvllle, laOth street.
In Brooklyn are the following:-
Fourth Precinct Temporary Relief Soup House.
vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue.
Tenth Precinct soup House, corner Bergen and
Pearsal streets.
Helping Hand, Atlantic avenue.
Some of these establishments feed as many
as fifteen hundred persons daily and in the
greater number personal supervision is exer-
cised over the recipients, and they are visited
at their homes to make sure that they are not
impostors- In some of the places it is found
that persons of excellent character, reduced to
great distress by the pressure Of the times,
prefer to take the nutritious dole rather than
starve in solitary garrets. 1t is also found
that many persons who, when the places were
first opened, came there smelling of liquor
which they had obtained with coppers begged
on the street, have given up their rum, and
prefer to depend upon the soup rather than
trust to the precarious chance of a few coins
from a passer-by. Thus the soup houses
seem to tend directly to the decrease of drunk
enness and of an offensive form of mendicancy
PERILs OF THE DEEP.-Elsewhere will be
found the story OF the voyage from Liverpool
to Philadelphia of the steamship Pennsylvania,
which encountered weather of extraordinary
severity. On February ~, at midnight, she
shipped tremendous sea, which washed
away nearly everything on deck, and carried
overheard the captain, first and second off,
GERS and two ordinary seamen. For time
this event was not known to any one below,
nor even to the men at the wheel, and when it
was discovered its effect on the sailors and on
the third officer was so demoralizing that they
could not be induced to go on deck. Fortu-
nately there was brave officer on board as O
passenger-Mr. Brady, who will be remem-
bered as third officer of the ill-fated Atlantic
and ne assumed command and brought the
Pennsylvania safely into port.