New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-28
! pURIJC CHARITIES or TIN UNEQUAL Io
sspzs THE sTASKs or RELIEF a. .
IN ha Editor or The Trtb"ne.

To tho Editor or The Trtb"ne'
SIN Charitable people are constantly warned
AGAINST giving aims in the street and oiuthiah'u WI"
a list OF institutions 70 which petitioners mY po
The winter OF this article then tuN'Ve' 4" wy
once rashIv promised n respectable ~cfaan just aus
ha,,ed from, a hospital that she ehodid not Da leH
shelter for the night other than The statlohoo
had been found for her The MsAfon Chapel wnere sue
BED, once eeen a member. and TO Which she mao lo'
bong time been an expense, having temporarily i'
Themselves OF her, would not resesume the pu',e"'
This for bows THAT one for girls; hnotnr
relieved cnly those who presoUte ticket trO inoin
her OF tte Society; another gave emily temporS s tne
Sc,a av would allow; ,rnsther took care Of the
moor OF only cevShin church or lonomi
natior; her husband wss IN an iu.ahs ssJ uid
and therefore she was net subject 9, sne ,,'av
ows'Relief Society; another restitution w9s
full aud had been Obliged already 10 scoa a.s t
When night came on, tie "aeper ohnt"1 ,,io To-
waikns and SlmGini sns O %Ss S AZ was the poor
S wsIu -" The women at Last fopld shelter
win the minstsr OF mi SS St and pissed
her back to her original home In isre cly, lIou
ether frops nor reia9i1es DouOoss the managers
INSTRUCTIONS and soceueS td ,i un1 ~ a.
specially intended than they could vel care IUr.
the only eect Of tns paper - 20 pIts5is tne M r
of the peer, which there is di7pes"o' III s0D'
This osesfion was s,centy put &c several agents OF
ing mar havirz family Of five. who receives AVERAGE
good wages ~ ne industrious, sober, and ecohomea
| .Ay ~
carry him comfortably through me ,N!hnr Vi ~ -;
seasons q" Tue reluct"ut but the m'u III
| truthful, and wlthuuV 'hV'p,''tI1
| ansyered mo" Political economists hhoud keeD "a
mind fact that it costs muley 70 NC poor t'ht
e,ueut houses att no, conducive 10 health IN proportion
10 tbe Weld OF the rentro; that buying tue necesses
OF life by the and pound at thlIiae RETAIN e'Sio
| Is ~ the cheapest 1000 on
That tho respectable poor VIII Nc fpnnu IN 'oe oe
ar other az the churches" recently said ~ 'td
only III . limited sense. IL i udc ma lne POO, WIZ
are act church w0rkers seldom tuuei lfom cA'l"ho
hanger and cold. Yet there are many unIehtNeu Pop
whose Nance church rolls VINO nave moo lnolu'
courag, toescrt themselves among thJ more prcrP'r-
ous and lost sight Of Ana, a-b, 'heic ~" ,il.f
respectable" poor whose names Gre nor On cnuIcu
IL unjust 10 say tnat inc converse
is There h general IMPRESSION '4dl uo
business Of the missionaries OF the VARIOUS cnuoh's
the relief OF the ph4si'dl ne
cps sties the DOOR, while they, vhe contrary arc
constantly on their guard against creating TINS oh'o'
Their work TO sou ;, aGd the ehtIchts i"t WV
they work unwilling that members thOul1 ~ "ui'u
| IN consideration 81 the loa'cS az !
| dshesr the missionaries send the suiclef5 WHOM
| they fud in their travels 10 the COmh's' IVhtt %
| and they finding that tie applicants come rom
church missionaries give them ntte or no sttentOn
except them back 10 the cbufch anu ibe puoc
~ repeaters IndCcd, ~ che ide az Wulch 'hcy
| are balped, they should receive from a fauV"H W
sources escape suffering. Oh 90 or 60 deStFns PR
Commissioners lhia winter ny cue "
sloBary onehalf visited ami hye OF Elk assisted
! In one case "A visitor" promised coal A We hes
passed the coal had not YET come 10 was tie ii
! die at January before the Commissioners purchaser
| coal Tor disIriuutOh ,.-.t,-- .,.-o
are scores of pDy scans aud Bible rclers who w RVe
| privately benevolent pc.sJus the lanes "uu "l'
dresses Of unaded OF inadeq Iately AIDED aul
| poor o.
Nev FORK, Feb. %, 1874