The New York herald., 1875-01-24
PICTURES OF POVERTY.
SCENES IN AND ABOUT ST JOINS GUILD YES
TERDAY.

SCENES IN AND ABOUT ST. JOINS GUILD YES
TERDAY.
Another day Of terrible scenes at st. Johns
Guild has passed. Until after dark last evening
the ragged and wretched, as well as the neatly
clad poor, knocked at that door in Va,ick street
that opens to all alike. 1t was another of those
days that have been so numerous Of late, when
there was meal and flour enough for only tenth
OF those who come begging so piteousy for lood.
Another OF the days when women and children
impored the Master and his assistants to give
them nights SHELTER and at last had to 60 cry
ing into the street because there was no money
with which to help them, and nothing left but to
send them to the institutions that advertise to
give the worthy poor Tree lodgings. About 700
families were represented at the Guild yesterday.
HELP ASKED FOR THE DESTITUTE SICK.
AS usual large NUMBERS OF letters have been re.
ceived IN the past lew days from physicians asking
aid for their patients in the way OF food and lue
DR.. Prescott, OF the Eastern Dispeusary, writes -
Mrs. c., OF No. = Ludlow street. is a very de.
serving woman and In great need OF suitable nOur-
ishment. She Is SICK with consumption and has
large family OF small children. II the Guild can
furnish her with some uatmeal or other nourish.
ing tOod 1t will be very gratefully received.
Mrs. P Is destitute and needs immediate as.
sistance. Is suffering IRON intermittent fever:
mas iOur children and no husband TO help support
them. DR.. PAULIE.
SICK, STARVING AND FREEZING.
the 'front.' basement OF NO. 10 - street. She has
babe iour weeks old and they are destitute OF
worthy S and Ds are ACTUALLY starving and reezing. ing
Please be SO good as TO assist them men tonght to-
One more. IL take the liberty OF calling your at.
tention TO a Mrs. c., of Second avenue She has
for a long time struggled with poverty, until all
her resources are cut on and she Is now In AFFECT
want. Ii you will please have some good ladies
call upon her and render portion OF that aid
which your kind heart has prompted IN so many
instances VIII be act or great and deserved
charity. >. l.. MOSES, VI. D."
In addition to such appeaIs as the above from
the medical men Of the city, there are great
numbers Of letters and notes received through
the mail and BY messenger daily from the prnci-
pal merchants, bankers and professional gentle
whose destitutlOn and deserving character the
writer's pear witness. With
A sToRERoOM FILLED WITH EMPTY BARRELS
and with only enough in the way OF current re-
ceipts to buy two hours supply each day for the
iamlshing applicants, what answer can ne made
to these letters? IL Is trying position in when to
place man, when he mas, empty handed to iace
the hungry concourse that Desieges the Guild
office ana listen to the prayers OF mothers and the
piteous cries OF chlldren whose hunger will not
let them reason and who can only clamor without
lunds'' is to be to them unin telgib e. ana they
only repeat the story of their necessities and their
misery. Give them a lew pounds OF -four or OF
meal and little sugar and their whole manner
changes. Tney become hopeful, joyous radiant.
These people are needed III the economy of this
Ill
find work to 40 III beautying IL and enargng Its
They toll in LAYING the foundations upon
which all the beauNiul suDerstruCtures OF our
civilization are erected. But, working so lar down
among these foundations, they are subject TO all
the disasters that are won't to beal those who
labor in the mines.
THE PRESENT SEASON OF GREAT DEsTITUTIoN
is only to be compared TO the great explosions
that occur IN the cOllieres. Tne entire industries
OF the city disrupted by the financial disasters
that have accumulated one upon another since
the panic OF 1878. 1t Is no ordinary season OF
distress, and it Is one not likely soon to be re-
peated Work is sought ior by every one Of these
sufferers from day TO day and week to week; but
no employment can be obtained every enterprise
seems at standstil SO, some way or another,
these tOilers must be Helped TO bridge over
the abyss that yawns between the present
and the spring time, and so ST. Johns Guild
stands manlully at Its post crying ior assistance
and working as best It can to save these humble
households from going to pieces and these humble
individuals from starvation and the streets.
IL IS to be hoped tnat our citizens win support
the Guild In the present Crisis as warmly and
effectively as they have done in the past. Good
cheer should 60 out o! the humble house In Varlck
street from thousands OF homes as 1t will find its
way TO thousands and the bond will grow
stronger that binds all classes together and is
fast undermining the work OF demagogues and
trades union organizers who have done mucn to
cstrange those who should be mutual ftiends."