The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THs BEST OF ALL CHARITIEs-MoODY
ASD SANKEI-sPRING FAsHIOxS-PO-
-BUsINEsS-HEALTB
NEW YORK, Mar. u, 1876.
THE BEST OF ALL CHARITIES.


NEW YORK, Mar. -, 1876.
THE BEST OF ALL CHARITIES.
AstheTe are poor people everywhere
who must be relieved, am going to give
your readers the method of work adopt
ed by the most useful and effective chari-
ty in the world. st. Johns Guild is a
body of men and women in this city, or
ganized for the purpose of helping the
deserving poor. The officers and work
ers get no salaries. Every dollar con
tributed goes directly to the relief of the
poor, without being pared down a parti-
Gle. Any member may recommend de-
serving people, and Oh their recomme3-
dation visitors call and ascertain the eX-
act circumstances. They get the mum
ber in the family, its earnings, and what
they most need. Then the head gets a
ticket, and on presentation, ticket is
issued on which they can draw rations
once a week. The Guild has an immense
warehouse on Varrick St., which is filed
with meats, -four, groceries, and medi-
cines, all of which they buy at prime
cnst, and 5000 families are wholly, or in
part, supplied therefrom. AT this time
25, 600 persons are living on this charity,
and there is not an unworthy person
among them. Every one has to give q
reference before an ounce is drawn, and
the moment the pensioner gets work the
supply is stopped. In summer their
work is mostly caring for sick children.
The Guild own their own barge, and have
it fitted up for excursions up the river
with sick children, which they give every
day. 1t is q sight to go down TO the
warehouse and see the crowds of hun
cry people carrying away their rations.
Last Thursday, over 10, 600 were present
during the day, and all were supplied
The Guild shows what organization will
do, and how effective it may be. Every
dollar is contributed without solicitation
and they have no difficulty in getting
funds, for every one knows that what is
given goes directly to the object for
which it is intended.
MOODY AND SANKEY.
The meetings at the Hippodrome are
increasing, if anything. Extra services
have been put on this week, one in the
afternoon to accommodate people who
live out of town. These are announced
as lectures, and Monday the streets were
placarded with huge posters in the shape
of theatre posters, bearing the title of
the first lecture, son the Blood" No
other intimation was given that it was
not a medical discourse, as every one
took it to be on reading it at first glance.
The church members who can command
their time, have given up every other
pursuit and attend meetings at all hours
protesting to find great enjoyment in
them. 1t is necessary to give up every
else to attend, for one must go an hour
beforehand, and there Is no time left of
half a day if one attends a meeting
The great doors fianked by the winged
Assyrian figures, that saw the Hippo
drome put TO other uses, and ike their
antetypes, survive all changes, are open
at half-past eleven for the morning
meeting, and the throng which melts
into the hall half fills it at once. The
audience is unconcerned, ladies chatting
gallery seats close to the speakers
railing are deep in low toned earnest
chat about the advisory council, the
prospects of Oliver Johnson's new paper,
or the latest from the inquiry rooms, and
Mr.. Moody's last method. The only
thing that would distinguish the meeting
from a coliseum concert in jubilee time
in Boston, is the number of very poor,
wretched looking people who come. 1t
was the only sign that these meetings
were called in the name of the Christ who
gathered the multitudes together, and
had compassion on them because they
we're as sheep without a shepherd
There We're such poor, decrepit old wo
men, in garments barely decent to cover
them, past all decency of neatness, and
bonnets barely rescued from the coal
hole, children with unkempt hair, and
frowsy garments, brought by bending
grandmothers, or drawn by curiosity
into the free meeting; men evidently
out of work, filthy, despODding and for
l0rn; the back streets and alleys sitting
down beside ladies in furs and velvets,
and spruce young mPn " : '~rrs in
their button hcl ). ir MAS :; piiiful
sight, and one long i that ti4esr noor
souls, who had 30 ~. '.;y !iope or COM
fort might find some lIei;) and promise
TO lift them above their troubles. Mr.
Moody and his wife are tlIe Guests of
WIN. Il Dodge, Jr., Of the finn Phelps,
Dodge & Co, AID his sons have lately
been placed at one Of the best schools
on Fifth Avenue. their expenses being
betrayed 10y wealthy friends The evan
yelists do not receive anything for their
abors beyond their expenses, bat their
friends take care that they shall have
IS good living as New York can give.
rhe money made by ilie sale of hymn
books goes to the Iogug Mems Chris
ian Association. IT is said HAT the
iebt of this body has been extingnished.
md the fund from the Sankey hy mn book
will be available for charitable work.
The space given this theme is not out of
to the interest it excites here.
The fashionable talk is what is done at
he Hippodrome, the newspaper squab-
lies, and the fashionable efforts for the
fund.
SPRING FASHIONS.
The warm weather allows the greatest
attitude in the matter of fashion. 1t is
iot uncommon to see thick jackets dis
arded, and the black silk suit worn with
lace fichu, or the head fringe cape of
lst fall; again suits in two shades of
ray or brown debege, will be the first
hange for good, and with these are over
resses of soft striped, basket woven or
'ool matte cloths, in large stripes of in
etinite shading, or subdued colors.-
'hecks are found in all "a ahrics wool