New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-04


the furniture has gone. The police have been sum
moned by tho scared tenants who have not
seen their fellow lodger since New Years
day. The door has been broken in, and
this sad sight has been disclosed. Little
enough is known of her. Tho testimony hastily
gathered by the policemen Is that she seemed to be
of melancholy turn of mind. and quite destitute
and friendless. Perhaps it was on New Years Day.
when there was such access of happiness
IN So many homes that in her home, squalid
aud cold and cOmf0rtless, she sought Tor tue
last time comfort in the lees of the empty bottle
and SO died without employing the other Further
inquiries elicit the information that the dead
woman once had a husband, ship carpenter
druulard, who died or who deserted her nine
months ag0-that her child was also dead. IL was
the opinion OF one of the gcsps that she learned TO
drink Of hiu They had heard, too. that she had
sister living somewhere in the neiGhborhood
When we read OF these things in novels we are
profoundly moved the tears come into our eyes
and we experience the pieasantest OF palntni
sensations. 1t is much nicer in print than
in reality When we asked to contribute
something to relieve Distress it will be well
to remember that1t is real and tangible. and with
out any poetry about itthat 1t s disagreeable and
disgusting. and that those who have undertaken Its
relief ought not to be left without sufficient
material means for carrying on their WORK.
which is work of saving human me-
This woman did not probably starve, tor
there was food found in the room. But all the cir
cumstances show that she needed friends and assist
ancc and kind words, for these might have rescued
her from the whiskey which probably poisoned her.
New Years Day furnished good many temperance
lessons, bat none Of them more touching than THIS
The opponents OF the schemes for systematic
benevolencc by which the whole almsglYihg oil
community is placed in the hands Of an organized
bureau of clarity, have scored point in their
favor in the annual official report just sub
,nitted by the Philadelphia Bureau of the Society
for Orgauizing Charitable Relief and REFRESHING
Nepdicapcv. This Society was started IN the
Quaker CITY after much preliminary consultation
with the professional phlanhrOpsts OF all the sea-
board cities after many ward and general meetings.
matchmaking and circulation OF appeals 10 the
General public, who were urgently lmp!0red not 70
give n penny Individually to beggars, but TO send
their aims instead 10 this Central Bureau, and to
direct ali applicants to the same Bureau, which
would carefully examine INTO the true condition
Of each case, aud give Whatever material ara
moral ard was needed. The Christian duty
of charity for the whole city, IN word,
panization. Public confidence does not appear to
have flowed 10 it in an Astounding stream, as tue
total receDs for the year according to this report,
amounted to 81, S2s n Out of this $3.45S II
were paid for salaries, S4,049 OF for office
cxpepses and precisely 1920 73 reached the poor.
The individual householders of PHILADELPHIA, we
suspect will take their alms-giving into their own
hands, the next year. Charitableik all other OFF,
cial machinery needs very costly OIL To keep II III
motion. There nre ponderous arguments III favor OF
such machinery, but it Is certain thar tue dollar
dropped into such gigantic organizations Is trltu-
rated into very fine dust before 1t reaches the poor
The Socialistic Congress, last week in session in
PIttsburg Penn. has adjourned. II had highly
hot dispute upon the question of nominating candi-
dates for the Presidency and the Flce-Presl-
dencv. and settled 1t after this fashion,:
Caleb Pink of Kings County, N. Y; A.
+. Bishop of Chicago. and Osborn Ward
were selected These will be referred to the party,
and the two receiving the highest and the next
highest votes of the party will be the candidates for
the greater and the lesser Off e. How or when the
vote of the party is to be taken we are not in
formed; nor is it, in our opinion. of much conse-
ouence There were open charges that certanmenn
the convention were trying 10 sell 1t out. We
have no doubt of the fact. The party is of no cou-
sequence except as piece of merchandise, TO be
sold tor so much to some party of greater preten-
sions for the benefit of those who may negotiate
the transaction. 1t will to truck and dicker ut
last. unless it should come to nothing. which is
more probable
Numerous letters continue to be received daily
asking for back numbers of the papers contain
ing the tax lists which The TRIBUNE is now
publishing. We regret that we are not
able to supply some of the early copies, and
shall also be unable TO print the lists in any of
our extra issues. Readers are therefore advised
to secure copies as they regularly appear Another
norton of the lists is published this morning and