The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-23
"MORLEY's" LETTER PROM NEW
YORK.
BY Our Special Correspondent.
NEW YoRK. April 90, 1879.

NbN Ohh. ApIil ~, 1917
THE BETTER SID OF NEW YORK
While the tenement house tells The
story OF the Dives and Lazarus of the
nineteenth century. let it not be sup
posed that only Dives inbabit yon-
der brown-stone row. Neither should
you iufer from our gambling dsus,
brutal walking matches, drinking
holes. and f~sundpg social evil
that New York is q modern S dem
Thank heaven, this IS but the heaths a
side of what | called in au earlier
letter lhs most Christian and meet
heather city west Of The Atlantic
Ocean"
The rich centurion. and Dsrcss,
aud Cornelius, all live just across
Fifth Avenue from Discs, but all the
syBag"gues they rave bullr, all the
poor pc pie clad, and ali the ATM
oesto~ ed by them have made less
noise in the world than The blind
oeggar, full of sores, lying al
Dives gate. Fair play, gentlemen !
How TUE WEALTH OF NEW T RK is
GIVEN
This CITY has lesrIy five hundred
churches aud chspels, costing farty
million dollars To build, and FIVE mil
lions more per sunum To keep them
going We have 6f.y-nine hospitals
oud asyluws for the tick, aged, blind,
deaf aud dumb, iuaatics, i0ebriatss,
orphan, aud soldiers, which have
cost twenty milliuDs 70 build. and re.
quire i've millions a year 10 sustain.
The public school edifces have cost
Fix millions, and four millions a year
to operate Ths amount spent in
pJiyate charitiesno man can estimate,
but IL must be several mill ms TIE
beautiful city of ~ beth. containing
y-eighf tn .u-sud inbabiGanis, IL
valued Al Sl4 000, 000-end the an-
nual benefacuoas Of New Yolk, not
C iun'ing privSe Charities. amoui Ia
over SIS, 000, O00-Tnat's 10 ~!
WHAT THE Money Dues
don't know how NAM missiona-
ries there may be in Japso. but | do
know how many are st work 10 the
Sums, and am,ng t$e Arsos of this
city. Before YOU read further, ,jast
stop and guess how many there are.
| asked q hard working Presby IerisD
deacon, this morning, and he guessed
twenty-five. That was a miserable
guess Toilisg among the tenement
houses, sailori' boarding houses, ten
cent lodging bpuses, aud along wharf
and street, day aud night. are no less
than two huuered and sixty six city
missionaries!
1t il doub fal If any missionary
field in The world csa show two hun
dred and sixty.six lab,fs 10 q miiiion
ot population. The forty three mis-
~sionaries employed by the City Mis-
sions alone held three thousand seven
hIndred religious meetings last veal
in the worst sections Of the city, and
gave p~ecuniary aid to six thousand
people. This regiment Of untiring
workers visit and care for the sick,
read the u bic 10 those who will listen,
organizs prayer meetings in tenement
hcuses, ,on street corners and ship
board, and every day and every night
hold meetings in their 50 mission
churches.
This money supports, besides, 10
churches for sesmen, I sailors read
ing rooms, l6 other free reading rooms,
8 coffee houses; aud a "hower mis-
sion" through WHICH the sweet fra
GRANGE and beauty OF rose and lily,
heliotrope and geranium, are brought
into thousands Of sick rooms, in hos
pitfalls and tenement houses. Those
blessed dollars snstain q Whole corps
of trained missionary nursea. giving
them preliminary instruction 10 a
Nurses Training School they sup
port an IDianis Day Nursery tor
children of working mothers, where
the little che is tenderiy cared for
while the mother is out at work and
a cheap lodging house for women
How often this house, with lis health
ful moral atmosphere has stood be-
tween o homeless girl and perdiiion
only the last Great Day will unfold.
Besides these there is a Workingmen's
Club, which is about self supporting,
designed as aG offset to the drinking
saloon, and the Midnight Mission
for the rescue OF girls from a life Of
shame.
TEMPERANCE WORK
The 5000 drinking holes which the
genius OF Chancellor Crosby has been
rspidly transforming into ''hotels,"