The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-10
TO FEED TEE HUNGRY
The Newman Rescue Mis-
sion Will Supply a Ply
steal as Well as a
Spiritual Need.
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT NEXT.
Working for Homeless Women-An-
niversary Exercises-Local
Church Matters.
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT NEXT.

Tomorrow morning will see a novel
branch of mission work set in operation
for the first time in Jersey City. The
Sunday Morning Breakfast Association,
Newman Mission. will spread a table at
the rooms of the mission. on Montgomery
street, where homeless men will be served
with a good breakfast. bread, meat AMI
hot coffee, at nine OF lock tomorrow
morning. The association ia composed
entirely of reclaimed druukards, for the
most part converts made at the Newman
Mission, and has for officers, n. G. New
man, President; T. j. Cl ,rk, Vice Pres
ident; Edward Orton, Secretary, and
fast over, there will be IA short religious
selvice TO consist of testimonies from re-
cl4imed men, with singing ugd prayer,
MS in the regular evening meetings.
The entire expense of the breakfasts
Will be borne by the Association for the
present, but as its fluids are very meagre
they cannot continue tue work without
aid from outsiders. Donations OF money,
food or coffee may be seut to the Secre-
tary, Thomas McMahon, at the Mission,
where they will be gratefully acknowl-
edged.
AllHOuRu 6uS N0Wufdu N1lSSlOu mas DeGu
In existence but a comparatively short
time, it is already crowded with appli-
cants, and has all it can do TO meet the
calls made for its assistance, physically
and spiritually. This is mainly due TO
the fact that IL meets q definite demand.
which. in a city of this size, is bound to
exist. Homeless men ana ineoriateS We
have with us always. The Mission can
provide lodging for "a dozen msn at pres
ent. aud under force of necessity could
stow away more.
AN INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.
The Superintendent. h. Z. Newman,
has in Prospect an Industrial de-.
Tor meals and lodging. as in the Salvation
Army Barracks in Darkest England"
thus putting the applicants on the basis of
honest laborers, earning what they re-
ceive. In the course of a month Mr..
Newman proposes to open a wood yard.
to be conducted from the nrst GU bust
ness principles. Persons who subscribe
money toward the establishment OF the
industry Will be repaid AZ the end of a
given time in either money or wood.
There is no reason why the enterprise
should not be entirely self-supDorGing in
a short time. This is TO be followed
shortly by a laundry, at which the desti-
TUE will be given employment.
There haVe been some remarkable
cases OF cures from the drink habit at The
Mission since its establishment. On the
23d of this month, Thomas McMahou will
celebrate the first anniversary of tie day
when ne turned over a new leaf at the
mission aud began TO be something more
tina "a wandering outcast in the streets.
This will be The first occasion of
the kind to be celebrated at the
mission, and there will be a great
jubilee. SUPERINTENDENT Hadley of the
famous Water Street Mission, will be
nrocapE and fell of tho work in the maat.
ings when II. C. Newman was rescued
from sixteen years of drunkenness, and
delegates from the Cremorne, Eighth
Avenue, and other missions will attend.
On the 18th there will be another similar
anniversary this time by a woman.
A RESCUE HOME FOR WOMEN.
The point which the Mission is now
striving to attain is the Institution of a
rescue nome for homeless women, which
will do for them a work similar to that
which is now being done for men. It is a
remarkable fact that in this city of 100, 900
inhabitants there is not an institution
where a homeless, pennies woman can
obtain lodgings for the night, unless, in
deed, she commiLS a misde meanor, in
which case there is the shelter of The sta
ton house. A month or so ago o
woman came to the evening meet
progress she rose and asked for
prayers, saying that she had that day
come from Jail. She had no money and
no home, and with her past record known
all gates were seemingly barred to a bet
ter way of living. The people of the Mis-
sion made up a little sum TO give her
lodging at q neal by hotel for tae night.
There was a bar az the hotel and next day
she returned to the Mission under the in
fuence OF liquor. The woman seemed as
anxious as her advisers to be free from
the thirst, but the sight of liquor had
been too much for her. The wife of one
OF our most prominent merchants was
told of the case and offered her a position
as house servant. Since that time she
his given perfect satisfaction and seems
to be determined to live down her past
no W that she has something to live for.
This is not an isolated case. There have
been many such, one only d few nights
ago, of a young girl with a baby in her
arms begging for a nights shelter The
need for a Rescue Home exists, the crying
need. 1t is hard WORK to get women in
terested in this branch of mission work
and rs they are the levers that move mis-
sions, the ENTERPRISE has progressed very
slowly. Atlength the daughters of the
late George w. Mckenzie took up the
work in good earnest and gave 1t a great
impetus. Public meetings were held In
the West Side, Linden avenue. Taber-
nacle and Scotch Presbyterian Churches
and considerable interest aroused, SO that
it may be safely promised thai before
long the Newman Rescue House for Wo-
men will be something more than a name.