The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19
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The following of destituton have been inves-
tisated and presented to the charitable worthy
of immediate ASSISTANCE
family, consisting of man, his wife and their
three infant children in distress in the house
OF No DOB Hester street. The husband is painter
and has been out of employment for the last five
months and for the last two months he has been
sick The wife is also sick. They need food.
On the second floor, rear house, of No. SO Henry
street man. his wife and their six children are des
titute The father has been out of work for the past
three months, and two of the children very ill.
At No. 800 Cherry street. third floor. man. his
wife and their four children are wholly destitute.
of great distress is at No. 4O6 Cherry street.
room No. %, rear house. The husband has been out
of employment for over year, and his family need
food and fuel.
On the attic floor of No. 1856 Allen street family Of
in great poverty.
At No. III Norfolk street rear house, family Of
in great need of food and clothing. The
man has been out of employment since March last
and had to part with nearly all his household goods
to buy the necessares of life for his family.
family of four. at No. 10l Eldridge street, top
floor need food and fuel
On the first floor of No. 1913 Mulberry street an
aged couple and their two daughters are in great
poverty.
woman and her three children are in need of inn
mediate help ut No. 80 Greenwich avenue. top hoor
rear house. The husband died about seven days ago.
while the family were crushed with poverty. Only
one room was rented by them. and closet adjoining
occupied bedroom In this closet Mon
day evening last. when Sergeant Carpenter. OF the
Ninth precinct, visited the place. the husband was
lying dead In the room itself lay the mother. with
her three days old child The baby was tied up in
bundle the table This family had been actually
starving for several days prior the death Of the
father and the confinement of the mother At length
the neghbors attracted by the death and the BIRTH
became acquainted with the circumstances OF the
and notified Sergeant Carpenter who in turn
quainted Mr.. Wiswal of st. Johns Guild, with the
facts. The family were then temporarily relieved,
and the husband was buried at the expense OF the
charitable neighbors. The mother and children
now, however, in need Of immediate relief as in
their long struggle with poverty they were left
utterly destitute Of everything
There is poor family in great distress at No. 526
West Thirtyn street top floor. The family con-
sists OF the man and wife and three small children.
The father has had no regular employment, though
willing to work ii he could get it, and times the
family has been in very sore straits, to the
tent of lacking food for whole day.
A stranger in this city, who has been reduced to
sore straits by sickness and other causes writes to
the HERALD to say that he is in need of undercloth
ing socks rubbers boots and adds that he will be
truly thankful to the one that will supply him with
those articles. Those willing to help him may adj
dress Necessity, HERALD once.
small sum of money has been sent to this office
in letter. the writer OF which signs himself B. b..
1t is intended for the person who III letter to the
HERALD. headed DISTRESS in America, signed IL
Gan English Resident in and Well wisher of this
country
Mr.. A. p Burbank assisted by Mile. o. Gomien.
contralto, and Adolph Sohst, baritone. will give
readings at Chickering Hall tomorrow evening;
tickets fifty cents and the proceeds will go to st.
Marys Lodging House for Girls.
charity ball the proceeds of which will go to ths
poor in the upper part of the city, will be given ut
Terrace Garden Theatre. Fifty-eghth street, near
Third avenue. on the evening Of February 49,
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE POOR.
The following contributions have been received at
the HERALD office Err e" for No. II Roosevelt street.
5Oc; r., for lawyer going South. 5oc.; Staten
Islander for clergyman not attached 81: 'St. Clair
H." for clergyman. Osborne family and No. IA Roose-
welt street SO: as b. NJ O., general fund.- $1U I'll.
H. &c. for general fund, 81 Mrs c. H. l., for No. II
Roosevelt street and No. Manhattan street. So;
Emma. for No. IA Roosevelt street. 81; "Potomac.
for No 1876 Greenwich street so Stranger for No:
Greenwich street. 81; lola, for No. 4s3 East Seven
tecnth street. 81; ..E. d., for No. l95 Greenwich
street, 81; ~ H. for general fund. $50;
Il. Billsland for lawyer and clergyman. So:
"S w. S." for general fund.- 81: "Schoo Teacher,
for No. 433 East Seventeenth street, 81 10; "a r..
for general fund, So; "A A.. for lawyer going south.
street. So: "a Poor Woman. for No. III West Fifty
second street. 81; "a. H. for general fund. 81:
''Anon for No. 1875 Greenwich street 81; IN. G. H.,
for No. 195 Greenwich street. 49, "a. W., for three
cases. So; THE Lords Opportunity for produce
business broken. S2 anon" for produce business
broken. $5 &C. q. H., for No. 433 East Seventeenth
street, 81 "Anon." for No. 1875 Greenwich street.
25c III. p. A., for five cases, So: m. f." for No.
2l2 West Thirty-seventh street. ST. - J. Pr for
two cases, So; "A. n H. for general fund. SIS;
ar Tenney H. for general fund. 81. Total Sll0 rs.