The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-28
THE CHILDREN SUFFER- MOST.


september. ..............-...t.En %o6
THE CHILDREN SUFFER MOST.
That tells the story. 1t is needless to
say much more.
Strong men and women who seem in
the pink of health; young men and wo
men, who can dance all night and still be
fit for work in the morning; stout youths
and lively young girls are sent to their
beds by these diseases, while the old folk
are laid up with the terrible shivering
and agony of heat of the dreaded fever
and ague, or chills and fever.
But the children are the ones who suffer
most. Poor thin little ghosts, they taste
fresh air for the first time when their
pinched little souls leave their thin bodies
and leave the squalid misery of life in the
poor quarters of the city behind them
forever. These die by hundreds when
the hot sun of summer bakes their lives
out of their puny bodies.
| Mothers with little babies suffer, too,
and they are. more benefited by few
hours in the clean, refreshing pure air of
| the country than they could be by all the
| physicians Of America SO long as they stay
| IN the noxious vapOrs of the city.
This is the reason for my wanderings in
search of some church. some society, some
| man-it does not matter what the moving
force may be-with enough real love for
man and for God to make an effort to send
some of the needing poor into Heavens
freshness in the country. found none.
ST. PAUL's CHURCH HAS NO POOR.
The Rev. William p Brush has sue
ceeded the Rev. DR.. Putnam as rector of
St Pauls Episcopal Church on Duncan
avenue. He is tall, handsome man, in
the full vigor of early manhood, and
might be supposed to feel that there is no
nobler work for church than to improve
the health and, possibly, save the lives of
many of the poor people in the parish
for there are poor people in every parish.
When called on him, however, he failed
to see it in that light.
mo" said he, answering my question,
"we do not think of doing anything in the
way of special summer charities. Our
parish does not contain two or three mil
fionaires, like the great parishes of New
York-men on whom you can call for
goodly sums of money for any charitable
purpose, and we cannot afford to do any
thing of the kind.
Besides that, do not know of any
people in the parish who are dependent
upon that sort OF thing1there II are no very
not properly the work of a church. 1t is
the common cry of the day that the clergy
men are always begging-it is rather irk-
some to us to have to hear that now with
out adding any other burden to those we
already have.
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house in the country or at the seashore,
and it costs still more to maintain one and
to transport people to it and back. We
have incidentally spoken of the subject,
but have not thought of doing anything,
this year or at any future time, in the
way of sending the poor people into the
country"
GRACE CHURCH GIVES AN EXCURSION.
The Rev. George S. Bennett of Grace
T,,ie fhaf h low
School will join that of St Johns Church
in an excursion to Idlewild Park, June
90; and that number of free tickets will
be distributed among the poor children of
the parish.
"That is about all that has been done,
so far, toward sending any poor people to
the country" said he "But we have con-
nected with our church what is known as
the Woman's Guild, composed of fifty-six
women, with Mrs. Benjamin nlingworth
as pre- sident.
''The guild is divided into eight depart
ments; or, perhaps, / should say commit
tees, one of which is known as the Relief
Society, whose duty it is especially to
look after the needs of the poor of the
parish. The society is divided up into
committees, who divide the parish into
districts and canvass them thoroughly.
"All the women of the guild are inter-
ested in this work Through their efforts
we last year gave to the Home of the
Homeless $50; to the Home for Aged Wo-
men, $43; to the Children's Home, $3.50. 25;
to Christ Hospital, over $500; besides dis
tributing $3.50 in the homes of our own
poor families.
"Some of these women visitors are
wealthy, and often give money and cloth
ing, of which the guild hears nothing
ut is not an unusual thing for case of
sickness, one that has some claim upon
the church, to be removed to the country
for fresh air during the summer months"
Rev. Dr. McKelvey, of the Third Street
Presbyterian Church, said that the Sun
day school would give its annual picnic
at Woodside Park, June ~, and that the
pleasures would be shared by number
of poor children. While the church was
doing noble charitable work, he knew
of no special efforts to provide the needy
poor with summer recreation or amuse-
ment.
HEDDING DOES SOMETHING.
saw the Rev. w. C. Snodgrass, of He'd
ding Methodist Church, at his house, last
evening.
''The only thing like a fresh air fund.-"
said he, ''is our annual excursion. Be-
side that, we have among us an agent of
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund, DR.. s. w.
Clark, of Mercer street BY that means
we send number of persons on the Par
sons excursions.
$50 far as our own excursions are con-
cerned, we send members on them who
would not otherwise get away from the
city We have two extremes in our