The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-24
"ALWAYS WITH YOU"

CASES OF DISTRESS THAT APPEAL TO THE PUB
Lie FOR RELIEF-CoNTRIBUTIoNs FOE THE
POOR.
The following OF distress have been investi-
gated aud found worthy of relief
Among the cases of want published in Sundays
HERALD family of seven at No. l2l Norfolk street,
mentioned. 1t should have read family Of
four, ut the above number in the rear, on the first
floor. They are in great want.
In the rear of No. 239 Henry street. second floor.
family of six are i'll distress. The father and
of the children ian infant OF weeks) are Ill.
family Of three consisting of very aged woman
and a widow with her little girl, are in extreme
poverty at No. 253 Monroe street, back basement.
On the third floor. front room. of No. 426 West
Sixteenth street, man and his wife and their two
children are nearly starving They have but scanty
clothing and very little bedding, aud that of the
most miserable description. The man has been out
or employment tor some time.
In room No II. of No. 1l3 avenue A. German
widow. her child and her aged grandmother are in
great distress.
At No. 237 Monroe street rear house second floor,
family of five are in need OF assistance.
An aged couple and their orphaned grandchild are
i'll great need OF assistance ut No. IL Sullivan street.
second floor. back room.
There is of great desttution at No. Alb West
Thirty-ninth street. second floor, back room.
Frenchman' and his wife and their two young
children need immediate assistance at No. II West
At No. 1874 East Thirty fourth street. second floor
his wife and five children need food and cloth
ing.
In basement room of No. IS Monroe street q
family are in need of assistance.
Three little children almost daily lack the neces-
saries OF life at No. 526 West Thirtynnth street.
Their father can get work and their mother Is
sick and unable to do anything for them
Word was brought to the Sixteenth precinct police
atation day before yesterday that poverty stricken
family were suffering from want and disease III
tenement house i'll Nineteenth street. 1t was DIR.
Denslow, of West Twenty-third street. who made
the report. He said that he had been summoned to
attend sick man, and had found the third story
of the house, utterly destitute of and without
the bare necessaries of life. conductor, Peter
Rooney by name, surrounded by his wife and ive
children. The man was suffering from an affection
OF the lungs, and the Doctor believing that unless
he had better treatment he must succumb repaired
the station house to bring the to official notice.
the particulars to Bellevue Hospital, and ambu-
street. There painful scene ensued. The family.
the husband and father whose heplessness endeared
him all the more and they objected any interfer-
the part Of officials. Mrs. Rooney, in partic-
ular, opposed the removal of the sick to chari-
table institution and said that while she had life and
strength no other hands than hers would tend her
husband. The result was that the ambulance had to
leave. and the Rooney family reconcied themselves
to their poverty by retaining IN their midst the
they had looked to for protection and support
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED.
The following contributions have been received at
the HERALD ofice:-"M. H." for general fund, So:
&c. H., for No. 236 Greenwich street. 81; "Anonyn-
GUS" for general fund. 75c.; "F E. for No. $50
Cherry street, 49, "F f. " for No. 18 Cornelia street.
$2 "New Orleans" for No. 404 East Eighteenth
street, 81. Total, $12 IS.