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


Encouraged by the substantial charity which
was promptly AFFORDED by the benevolence OF New
York to the deserving poor whose names and locs-
tons were published in the HERALD representa-
tives' account OF their investigator Of Destitu-
zion, the lew LADIES' who. on Friday and Satur-
day OF last week, visited the poor, Continued on
the Monday and Tuesday following their visits
and Investigations.
THE CHORUS SINGERS WIDOWS.
prominent among the cases OF real suffering
which We encountered" said one OF the ladies 10
the HERALD representative, Though OF a much
higher and more refined grade OF misery, and
therefore claiming all the more our sympathy,
were the cases Of the two widows of the two for
merly favorably known chorus singers Aessrs.
Huck and Schroeder. Each OF these ladies was
visited, and each presents as It were, her own
peculiarly OF suffering"
Mrs. Huck is young. prepossessing interesting
American lady, not over twenty-five years of age
At the Iurthest with face as sweet as it is sad
clear brunette, with dark, languishing eye, who
seemed TO be perfectly bowed with sorrow. She
resides on the fourth floor OF the house No. 3O5 East
Ninth street, and has q beautiful little daughter
about four years of age, one Of the prettest and
most playful little children in the world Her
rooms are very clean and are Wen furnished. She
respects herself and ID q lady in grain. She
dresses in the extreme OF neatness, though also in
the extreme Of cheapness and simplicity, her
voice Is soft and low, and her manner is wonder
fully prepossessing. Her husband, who was musi-
clan, joined the Lucca troupe as a chorus singer
and went with Lucca to Havana, where he died
OF the yellow lever, leaving his widow
and family utterly penniless. This Is Mrs. Huck's
trouble. She is utterly pennIless.n She has
literally not 81 in this world. Nor is she at present
able to earn ST. for she expects in less than three
months to become again mother, and Is in very
delicate health. with one child, soon to have
another, and without husband or $l.n Such was
the true statement OF her condition made by a
party fully cognizant OF the facts OF the case Mrs.
Huck would long ago have starved had II not been
ment were the charities OF her neighbors them.
selves poor people, TO stop, would be compelled to
sell her little furniture At fourth OF its value or
beg or starve. She is literally dependent upon the
bounty OF Others lor her own present and Tor the
future OF her little daughter and Of the other babe
its mother has not 81. IL has been proposed to
give this woman q benent at one oil the theatres
THREE LITTLE ORPHANS.
Mrs. Schroeder, whose nQsbaQd Shared the same
employment and TIDE same fate as Mrs. Huck's
lives With her three little children in No. 1876 Allen
fully as pitanle as her companion in misery Both
OF these cases are very worthy and cry out for in
THREE LITTLE N1wssrRLs
There il Mrs. Semack at NO. 100 East Fourth
street. She has been seamstress, but can get no
WORK. She has also three chiidren-nice little
girls 100 young to labor. even If there regular
employment Tor them. SO as they must i've these
three little girls, whenever they can beg few
over and above the barest and most press n
Decessarles OF lie, invest them In newspapers and
sell them If they can. Would il not De a good
thing ior the newspapers proprietors give these
little girls their newspapers thus enabling them
TO start in an honorable business which may help
TO make them, even at their tender years, sell
SUSTAINING The little children are really darlngs.
They cont want charity If they can help it. Tney
want newspapers for themselves and some sewing
Tor their poor mamma
wRETCHEp PAxILY
In the rear OF the house NO S3l East Eleventh
street lives, or rather breathes, a Patrick Elan
merry, very old man. sore-eyed from want OF
food and nearly bind. he has been a shoemaker,
but mas oeen out OF work ior months, aud out oil
meat or IN fact any nourishlng lood, for weeks
He mas SIX children, and their mother Is dead. All
the children but one live lat homen and starye
with their father. They too little to work are
all very young and, as one OF them said are ali
very hungry. Their rooms dirty, cold, barren,
desolate The oldest daughter Is a married woman
with nursing baby. and husband out of work
VINO, although on the verge Of starving herself,
alter her little brothers and sisters. She ia good
daughter, and between her hungry. snivering and
husband, her ever hungry and cold and ragged
sisters and brothers and her own imperfec;iy sus
tanned babe, has her hands aud ner heart and
everything, save her mouth and her pockets, full
THE POOR OLD STUDENT or SIXTY.
There is Mrs. Beckwitn, NO. l92 Bleecker street
who has always sewed on parasOls for a living bl
hand, but who Is now at Mrs. Hodges. No. So
Broadway, learning 70 WORK on Sc wing machine
she Is perhaps, the oldest pupil OF her kind IN tbs
clty but studies as hard as IL she was sixteen In
stead OF sixty. Meanwhile the poor old studen
has not dollar IN the world to furnish her will
food and tire while she Is pursuing her sewlnl
machine education.
AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN WHO WOULD RATHER DI
THAN BEG.
cone OF the saddest most hcartrending case
which we have ever met with. either at this
other time, SAID the younger OF the hye Iadie
20 the HERALD representative, "was that OF Mr.
BACK, ia the rear building No. Is SsGoii
street on the top door. Mr. Black is al
American by birth, ana most gentle
manly man in manner and appearance. II,
has vile aud tour children. he has tough
Tue world for some time 1t disadvantage, bu
has 6naily yielded In the prostration Of despair
10 use the terribly terse phrase OF the wife anC
mother, the family are without anything tha
NE requires Piece by piece Mr. Black parted
WIN hls furniture, then with his clothes, then Will
ms books TIL now they have nothing left to pavI
OF set. Finally the other day the coal gave out
anu oo Tue lainiy for two days huddled together In
- W, w net 70 Keep warm. On the third daV Mr..
D,a.n m.ue UP nus mind to apply TO Mr.. KellOck
the SUPERINTENDENT OF our of1cia charities for the
feHel ol ms amIly. aud with unutterabe anguish
fesoiVeo 10 make Wis FIRST Appearance In public as
pauperj but when he reached the on, 90 and 40 "
the crowd Of applicants already there he lost All