The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-25
ST. JOHNS GUILD.
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS FOR THE DESTITUTE
PROMPT AID ASKED FOR.

ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS FOR THE DESTITUTE
PROMPT AID ASKED FOR.
To-day Will see the beginning OF the most thor
ough WORK at st. johns Guild. While for some
days past the stock OF provisions has been each
morning exhausted before all of the needy were
supplied. the recent subscriptions 10 the fund Will
now enable all real sufferers TO receive assistance
Tor lew days at least. The continuance O the
work Will depend upon the cash receipts as all the
donations received by this volunteer society go
directly and intact to the poor, and no moneys are
diverted from this object under cover OF salaries
or ONCE rents.
TWO DAYS. SUPPLIES,
consisting In part OF fifty barrels OF hour. fifty
barrels oil hominy, fifty barrels OF oatmeal and NIFTY
barrels OF corn meal will be placed In the store
room oy ten O'Clock this morning. The distribu.
ton Will be made according TO a regular standard,
the amount OF each article being apportioned TO
the number OF persons In each family (as reported
by the volunteer vsitorsl, and supplies Will be de.
ivered only on the visitors orders. by means OF
the thorough organization ana system which are
the features OF the Guild It Is said the volunteers
terry .ns e'y Harlem peUn RVer In IRON twenty ens
hours time. Tue protection and safeguards
against imposition on the part OF professional beg
CARS renders the Guild an economical machine for
dispensing charity while It's visitors, being volun-
teers IRON among many OF the best FAMILIES OF the
city and enthusiastic in their mission, are not
apt 70 slight the claims OF the really deserving.
CASES OF POVERTY MORE APPALLING
even than those already described IN the HERALD
will doubtless be daily brought to light for in
every quarter Of the poorer wards the desti.
stan Of the Guild report daily az No. SO yaricE
street Tor duty. ana the SICK nave been cared for,
Not the least wretched are the cases that lail
under the doctors eyes and they are often as
urgent IN demanding food Tor the wen ones OF
family Is they are In ordering medicines lor tue
SICK.
LA fnA . fhncA
where FAMILIES are about to lose shelter for nom
payment Of rent Many families are now wander
ing the streets Sleeping In areas, Railways and
Getaways or In the sta tlon houses should rent
fund, like that suggested by francis p Furnald, IN
q letter to the HERALD. last winter be founded u
would De rne greatest oiesslng that could belall
Thousand amiLes tnat are trembling with appre-
'.rHE WIDOWS RENT FUND.-
says M. Wiswall in mis- annual report, PREACHED
in amount S3,757 81 but this amount furnishes no
idea OF the actual rent bulls settled. In some
cases bills amounting to SIS were recelpted in lpll
upon the payment, by our visitors, OF IS, while
many landlords freely lorgaye their tenants their
entire bills and some receipted bills for months
SATISFIED ~ our visitors that they were
OF Work I"Ao to pay" Gwen some means
OF retaining the humble room when serves
creatures preserve a hope that strengthens them
in Integrity and usefulness. Homeless, they be-
come really abandoned to all the evil influences
THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO.
little to luse and much TO gain. ''Hlgh moral
idees" may MAINTAIN certain friendly relation
ship with an empty stomach, but they don't thrive
when driven Tor any length OF time about tine
streets, while the thermometer Is sinking below
zero. And alter all. the general morality and
prosperity OF the city is dependent to great ex-
ten. upon the industrial classes resident In Jene.
meDts and affected by these dull times, aud which
constitute nearly sevententnS Of our entire p0pu-
latiOn.
ST. Johns Guild saves the families Of working
men and women from being broken up under the
strain of these occasional seasons OF distress, and
has accomplished a mighty WORK since the pros
porous times before the panic.