The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-11
GENEROUS GIFTS.
Sympathy for the CarewOrn, the Fam
iShed and the Destitute.
A LADY'S JEW ELS.
Youth and Beauty Casting Her Ornaments
Into the Relief Fund.
THE SOUP KITCHENS.

THE SOUP KITCHENS.
In Charge OF Mr.. Delmonico.
Fourth precinct, No. 1927 Water street, Captain
Ulman.
Sixth precinct No. ITO Centre street, Captain
Kennedy.
Seventh precinct No. 70 East Broadway Captain
Mount.
Eighth precinct, No. ia Wooster street. Captain
Williams.
Eleventh precinct, No. 2S5 Second street, Cap
tain Murphy.
Thirteenth precinct, No. 224 Delaney street,
Captain Hedden.
Fourteenth precinct, No. SO Spring street, Cap
tam Clnchy.
lyman.
Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner Of
bixty-third street, Captain Gunner
twentieth precincr, No. 511 West Twenty-ninth
street, Captain McElwain.
Twenty-hrst precinct, No. 21s East Thirty fourth
street, Captain Allaire.
Twenty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between
Sxty-second and Sixty third streets, Captain Kill
lilea.
Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-h street. near
Seventh avenue, Captain Mccullough.
Other Soup Houses.
Juvenile Guardians Society, downtown relief
No. IA Dey street.
Mr.. Orcutts 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. a. East Tenth
street, near Broadway, gives meals and furnishes
beef tea for the sick.
Fifteenth ward citizens soup house, No. 2l9
Mercer street.
Twenty-drst Ward Reform Clubs relief house,
No. 232 East Thirty-third street.
Bread and beef house. No. 800 West Fifty-second
street, near Eighth avenue.
Sparta Club soup kitchen, opposite the Court
House, Fffty-seventh street, near Third avenue.
Twelfth ward citizens soup house, Harlem Mar.
ket, 125th street.
Manhattanville, 13Oth street, near Broadway.
In Brooklyn.
Fourth precinct temporary relief soup house,
Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue.
Tenth precinct soup house, corner Bergen and
Pearsafl streets.
Helping Hand. Atlantic avenue.
Scenes at the Relief Kitchens Yesterday.
The cold, clustering winds OF March which pre-
vailed yesterday biting through the folds of the
scanty clothing that covered the applicants for
soup, caused tremendous rush to all the soup
kitchens in the charge OF MIR. DelmOnicO. Over
1000 persons were fed yesterday with soup and
bread. The soup was made Of beet, rice and vege-
tables, and was Of an excellent quality. Chief
RanhofTer visited all Of the soup kitchens yester-
day and personally inspected the soups. Below
VIII be found an account Of the manner in which
soup Is distributed at the kitchens visited by the
HERALD reporters. From day TO day the workings
OF each Kitchen Will be described.
EIGHTEENTH PRECINCT KITCHEN.
This kitchen Is situated on avenue A. near Nine
teenth street. IN feed store on the street floor.
ana its dimension are about 40 feet In depth bv
20 in width. There are two OF Mr. DelmonicO's
cooks stationed here and in addition there is a
volunteer assistant, who peels the potatoes,
onions, turnips and carrots for his daily bread and
SOUP A number Of bags of feed are piled up
against the whitewashed brick wall. Sanitary
policeman No. 943 who Is a little deaf, but who is
an excellent man, Is placed on guard here to
keep the applicants in order There is large iron
boiler here which holds 40 gallons OF soup ana there
Is second soup served every day. Yesterday about
l90 gallons OF soup were distributed to the ap-
phcahts. There was also served about fifty loaves
OF bread, which have been donated Among those
who have donated bread to the Eighteenth pre-
clnct Kitchen are the American Tea Company,
1000 loaves Mrs. Judge Roosevelt, SO oaves, and
John LOora1n, a liquor merchant, one barrel Of
crackers. Andrew Mcbride, an undertaken in
East Fifteenth street, has offered to serve the poor
OF the ward with LOCO loaves Of bread. Captain
lyman, OF the Eighteenth precinct, informed the
HERALD reporter yesterday that II Mr.. Mcbride
win send orders fer bread to the station house he
will be most happy to deliver 1t to the poor
people who want to eat 1t with the soup.
The western part OF his precinct is very wealthy
locality, and there are large number OF pros
porous hotels situated in it, such the Claren-
don, the Westminster, Gramercy Park Hotel,
Union square HOTEL Putnam House WASHINGTON
Ashland HOuSp. n
these hotels, who are all known to be charitable
men, should feel disposed to send some OF what Is
LETT rom their daily business, or loaves OF bread
to the station house. whatever is sent will be gwen
TO the poor as soon as delivered. In this district
the majority OF the applicants for soup are Ger
mans, many OF the women who have applied hav-
ing husbands working in the gas houses and earn.
ing So ana "a day. At dinner time these
out they can no longer get any soup, the police
Will not allow them to have tickets. Tickets were
for some days given to children, but are not now
given to them as $50 tickets were either destroyed
or lost II the child is known to be sent for ticket
by respectable mother a ticket is given, but not
otherwise. Before the strike among the gas house
men, who were at that time principally lrishmeE
many OF them had saved $1,000, $500 and ST. 900
strike, all their money Is gone and a number Of
their wives and children have to apply for SOUP
IS welcome to these people, and If sent to the
station house Will be sent to them. There Is
great deal OF suffering in this ward, and soup was
furnished to 1900 persons OF both sexes adults and
NINETEENTH PRECINCT KITCHEN.
This soup Kitchen Is located at the northeast
corner OF Sixty-tnird street and Second avenue on
the ground floor premises, formerly occupied as
saloon. the precinct Is commanded by Saptain
Gunner, and he has detailed to it Onlcer Liilien.
doll, No. l24 who Is also stationed at the second
Avenue Railroad depot The premises are quite
clean and airy, and are about fifty by twenty-five
feet In dimensions. The precinct has Tor It's boun-
daries the East River, sixth avenue, Forty second
street and Seventy.ninth street, and the appli.
cants FOR rehef are principally composed OF Ger.
mans, irish and Americans two negroes only hay-
ing applied during the eight days that the Kitchen
has been opened. The premises looked yesterday
ike regular COOK snop, with ninety-gallon
nouer Ia the 'front.' room and asixty-gallon boiler
onions, turnips, carrots, cabbage, potatoes and
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