The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-29
FIGHTING STARVATION.
TERRIBLE sUFFEkING AT SPRING
VALLEY.

Halted Children Forced to Go Beg
Eing e ore Going to schCol-Many
of the Little Ones Too Proud TO Ad-
nit Their ConditiOn-The Relief
Work.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2s.-Henry D. Lloyd of
this city, who has just returned from
visit to Spring Valley. Ill, whe e be dis
tributed among the des itute miners the
medicine furnished by a charitable New
York lady, writes a long letter TO
the Tribune in which he describes
the wretched condition Of the people
there. He says: "Among other mems
of getting intelligent and unbiased
information as TO the exact state Of things
visited the Catholic school and public
school, in which together there are over GOO
children, and tai ed with teachers aid
many of the child en-. The SIS ers who
teach in the Cath lie schools say that their
children gave unmistakable evidence of not
having sufficient food.
POOR BUT PROUD.
"They were poorer than the year before,
and thew could not stu lv as wei. Children
would frequently fall asleep at their desks
from weakness. But 50 sturdy was their
impossible for their teacher to obtain fr IN
them any acknowledgment that they
did not get enough to eat at
home. Children who were unmistakably
suffering for want Of nourishment would
even refuse food when offered them by heir
teacher, and in some cases, tue sister supe-
rior said whe food was taken by so ne such
child, it was Immediately rejected by the
stomach, showing how far the exhaustion
of hunger had gone.
SOME FORCED TO BEG.
"One Of t e teachers in the public school
stated that on her way to school in the
morni she would someti,n mes meet as
miny as a dozen Of her class out with
baskets going to beg. AS they saw ber,
the little, things, ashamed, would try
to hide from the sight Of the
teacher until she had passed. In both
schools numbers of children were Insult
GENTLY clothed, little boys and girls of
tenderest age having only a light sack
jacket with no underclothing. 1t was a
cold, bleak,,daY, but many were bare-footed.
HOW THE PEOPLE LIVE A MYSTERY.
Chow the people have lived at all is a mys-
terry. There have been during the four
weeks ending Sept. Is five distributions by
the relief committee, all in goods. No
money has been given out, and the ex ent
of this charity is sufficiently indicated by
statement taken from the account of the
committee that each family of seven, aid
others in proportion, had received for the
entire peri d of four weeks, -four, meat,
etc., to the value of SIS So. or 81 cents
worth for each person, for the whole four
weeks.
SAVED BY THE CONTRIBUTIONS.
"The mayor Of city, the edi. or of the
Spring Valley Gazette, the congregational
clergyman, Mr.. Stringer, all phi Ysicians
of the place, every one in fact, stated with
out qualification that were it not for the
relief from without the people would have
starved. M. Lloyd declares that the death
rate Is high there, and that it will be greatly
increased as the weather grows colder. He
declares of his own knowledge that the sick
and poor have been refused medicines and
medical advice by the poor authorities
there. He urges that contributions be sent
to these people,"