New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-18
FROM SQUALID CITY HOMES
WHAT TIE FRESHAIR FUND Is DOING.
ryoUsANDs OF POOR CHILDREN SENT TO THE
oouNTRY-wHEEE THEY ARE BRING IN.
TERrAINED-PITIFUL EXAMPLES OF

TERTAINED-PITIFUL EXAMPLES OF
DEsTITUTION IN THE CROWD.
ED TFNEMENTS.
rour thousand eight hundred and sixty nine chill.
Ian collected from the poor tenementhOuses IN this
o aud Brooklvn received the benefits OF The Tri
,'rs Fund last week. This almost unpge.
..aonted record Forty-six parties. or d total of
, COZ children were into the country for Il two
rets outing. The larger attachments were invited
. che following places Randolph. Y. Y. Canas-
.ca y Y Ross Mills. Y. Y. sinclarve. Y. y;
n,tt.dcld Mass; Brdsboro'. Penn; CORY. Penn.
Sorth East Penn; Utica, y. y; Purdys. y. y:
narsyllIe y. y; Peasantve, y. y; BYGnchvile.
Conn; Wilton, Conn; Purified, Conn; New-Windsor.
y v salt Point ~ y. IarrytOwn, y. y:
rranklin Penn; Ellington ~ y; Alegsny y y,
psnus Point, " y. Jamestown. y. Y; Busu y. y:
Carry " y. KantOne. y. y; Pope Hollow. y. Y.
rewsburg y. y: Fltvana, y. y. Lakewood. y. y.
prrs ~ y; salisbury Penn; SEQ. \. y. West
said v j. sing Sing. y. y. and RldgewOod. y. J.
The grand total sent by the The Tribune Fund 10
te country this up 10 date is j262 children.
I'm addition TO G07 children last week there
we're three day excursions 10y The Tribune Fund to
Alpine and Excelsior Grove, on ia" Hudson. opposite
Yonkcrs These three excursions carried 3,l72
Vomrn and children. ON one OF tie day excursions
were over 100 babies les than eighteen months old.
There thousands upon thousand, OF people who.
IN the course of twelyemonth. visit the great city
Of New-York for the purpose either OF shopping
visiting points OF Interest As everybody Well knows,
the leading points OF interest and the Of
trade and fashion are found almost exclusively upon
tho more important thorougharcs. In consequence,
ore safely say, hardly tithc Of these myriad
visitors get TO the prOSy. unlnvng. and
sometimes dramatic pictures daily 10 be seen In
Mulberry. Cherry Suffolk and kindred class Of
streets. This truth I, applicable. too. TO many
people OF higher cast socially who live within the
~. a.. mt e
the tenement districts. exclusively cons dcred, but
they possess n similar lack OF knowledge concerning
the lives Of the city'S poor the aspirations Of the
latter the.r extreme poverty. tlelr suppressed op-
pOrtuniues. their sOrrOwS the poet would say.
"ther homey Joys and their destiny obscure The
denigens of these poor districts have series Of pro
blems TO solve. and problems too, which confront Few
Others In wide land They have been taught
that two and two makes four" but how to stretch
two. or three weeks OF wages over four weeks Of
rent and provision is pretty tough she'll to crack.
Perhaps the lmnitated will ASA the N0son why
anybody should be out Of work. clos" observer OF
social questions will readily note Ia" fact that the
unskled labor market In NewYork CITY Is IN
state OF periodical congestion throughout the wear.
condition which is duo. in great measure. TO The
heavy tide OF immigration The Immigrants who
have money as a rule, do not settle In the citv.
their destination beng the farms oi the West. The
Immigrants GhO havr money lave recourse %
one plan only, that Is to squat In the "N. ana
thereby add 70 the already overcrOwd"d tcneinrhd
population. They increase the number Of workers
without increasing the amount of work to be done
They likewise add the competition for house
room. Rents are pushed up. they rise u Az eN-
orbitant price q, compared with rents IN country
district Where is the man In village who would
pay 800 year for three small rooms on the th1rd
floor rear. and one Of Tho rooms have no window IN
IT. High rents mean just 50 much les money on
which the family have to suh~i>t. statistics ten Us
that in 1891, in Ncw->ok City there were 2l'7'5
evictons for non-payment OF rent. most sig
nfcant fact.
Immigraton However Is not the sole can-e o; social
misery The liquor habit must enter f,r It's Just
share OF condemnation. A man OF large income can
drink and his family moi suffer, but 40 dan al0reF can
tpple and not make his wife and little ones u''
victims Of his sellindulccncc on" Of 'I' ha'' sue
missionaries who sent forty-eigAt children BY The
rrihpno excursions la-i week. ~aId "I know all Of
these children personally. visit their homes day sitef
dsv in my work for the poor ana can assert p'S'
vely that the father Of every clll Of The iof} esA
T. addicted to the liquor habit" Dozens OF Inc c"'-
drcn have 10 bc clothed by the missionaries before
th, start for the country is made. Food, as we'll Is
fine f,eoucnt gft ~ the mission visitors inasmuch rs
corc, Of families constantly tend. in their poverty 10
,,i,, below the line o. subsistence Add 10 All these
ire cllarltios the act that for the most part, the
families are large. and safely belicv" thA'
Matthias had just such people in mind when ne pro
pnnded his famous theory Of popGhtil)h
20 much in general terms. for the henehciar1eS I'll
The Tribune Fr.sh-Air Fund. In the following para
rIuphs are given examples OF tile poor Children We
seek TO benefit one family sent three gils III Il
Tribune Fresl-Air party last week Their ia'her MS
deserted his family. He il drunkad ana is 700
larry to work. lie would STAY Al home II rs VIII"
would support him. Last winter his fsVorlte anus
ment was 10 come hong. upset the table ana KNOCK
,be mother and children around the room l'
mission visitor frequently carried in food Tor inc
family This brute Of man -Te"iily pushed All 'l'
food OH 10 his own plate and let the cliidi'h 20
hungry The Oldest girl Is m Invalid. Sic 'A' 1"
Mace in store. but repeatedly tainted whie al WORN
Tn. pbysjcan has forbidden her to WORK any more
lie ssys she cannot live through another year In;
mother is not able TO work either, she is suhernS
IRON cancer Of the stomach. While the chldFeh are
In the country the physician VIII take her 10 MS OWN
house and give her personal ,up'Fl7lol' 0FN''"
kind welltodo women have promised to pay l- r'"''
10 that the unfortunate mother can n'ain her nome u"
heser and little ones after ihc auerS return nom
the country.
dov or TWO ago TREE other children were sent by
The Tribune Fund ard their history Is lorioin one
Thar father has been out OF work Tor SIX moi'~s'
lie formerly WI; spnecutter but he injured his back
IN lifting stone and has beer ailing ever since lie
rs well advanced il years and it Is hard ior MN ~ ~
anv work to do Lately he Ia, been filing ths place
OF tnltor 80 a. TO catch up win tie REM N"' ''
day h. zoe, t,rtl in quest OF work. OCCASIONALLY ne
picks up an odd job, nahng Thereby - Or ~ ''os'
There are seven children in the family ana 'Nese WIN
Tie father and mother 1--we Ia iwo smti' 'o''"0' ~
TIE seven children ihore were two pairs ol WINS
Owing L, the uother, no, having proper iO0i one
o. the twin babies died Il" free doctor INV" '"'
HE Of The other ve. A, night, tue teacher say u'
Old mattresses are thrown down on the hcH"l "'o'
ard on these the children sleep. For over TWO N'C"s
The children OF tile family lad lived Oh cohee anu
"cohcebread.r that Is. a dark, hard substance 0''
monty used By the very poor OF thr city NO "O"'ei
the children were reduced 10 skin and bone.
The father Of two OheT children, Who Z" ~ Ao
country to-day periodically DESERT his family ior 'hs
SPACE Of two weeks. They can't find Inn "''u nc
refuses TO tel where he has been and wal ~ "0''
The mother supports the family by wasAins' 's"e