The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-19
DISTRESS ON THE EAST SIDE.
THE PRBsBTTERY APPOINTS 4 COM
MIITEE or INVEsTIGATION.

BILE Organizations Unabie TO Meet Demands
Census OF IN Allen Street Tenement.
The New York Presbytery Is going to take
MP the subject OF the relief OF the suffering
poor. At it's meeting Yesterday committee
OF seven was appointed, to whom the matter
was referred. and the Presbytery decided TO
make the committees report its first order OF
business at the January session.
The matter was brought forward by the Rev.
John u. Devins, pastor Of Faith Chapel. at 800
East Fourth street. Mr.. Devns said.
Our brethren are in dstress Their life
blood is oozlng away. They are dying from
starvation while politicians are discussing the
',ilson bill Factories are shut down. Mills
are closed. Stores have reduced their forces.
Men Independent q year ago are walking the
streets to-day beRgars. Men with little bank
accounts have drawn the last dollar to pay
rent and to buy food. and the end is not yet
One triGe after another which made their
rooms a hons has found its way into the pawn
shop, and starvation stares them in the face
Shall the Church stand idle in such a crisis?
The Charity Organization Society says that
the applications this year are much greater
than usual. averaging different weeks from 80
TO $50 per cent Nearly all the men applicants
have hitherto been Independent. "A small pro-
portion o; the increase is due to the fact that
many persons are taking advantage OF the
increase is very largely due to the fact that
men are out OF work 1 quote Charles d. Kel-
logg. who adds: Personally feel that many
Industrial establishments have been strug-
Cling to keep up to the end OF the year to make
The best possible showing. and look for many
more persons being thrown out OF en- poyment
after the Let OF January unless the tariff agita-
kion should meanwhile cease. Not all OF our
workers sympathlze with me In this it 10 a
m NJ Ind nj xuit oh
There IL nothing deanite to 60 by
The Secretary Of the Young Mems Chris
Gan Association says: Hundreds apply.
whose applications We cannot consider. seeing
no chance OF helping them. In that case we
Fry to refer the party to some other bureau or
place. as our Bowery branch. &c. suppose
expecting more or less help from US. We have
enywhere from IS to $50 call every morning in
The Children 5 Aid Society find more fam
lilies than usual Obliged to surrender their
times Did You ever think. brethren my what It
means to a family to send their children to an
To lie ssa PS Ss. s thai S TS4
are too feeble to express Poverty causes ex;;
help those called on to meet this tempta i
The I nited Hebrew charities has daily
awe N 81 tSsy sppyns M wo
80 pe nniI1i, Goodly 1um6er but In that
daily average Of 400 Applicants for relief sI Five
persons receive the applicstions Tor ten hours
doors Tssyns sGss9 800 and then
has been used BY this office in relief;
shap Ss BSG1s 81 tao s Army
9s BODY Sse Been w snsed fh ss s
aass gs9pt but tR spite q this
among tho daTsest ever fecosded in thts city
and Sthsrs for the last ten or fifteen years. I
cal and sociological questions for some time.
and am not q pessimist or an alarmist. put
and Sis and se sResre sas
sdes as suffering from the lack OF coal lack OF
never more sorrowiui or depressing.
lev weeks ago. In a quiet manner. few
give OF at oR rate eG
s w4gss we have section % Of the RaltLiest
IN the Hebrew aaarts ss'' w6 S p0T SIs
square there Is third OF million people.
ps sixty are arg to es So. Per
day at a dollar each. and hundreds stand
garment factory W6sPs forty men sn sT Women e
work, the wages ranging from 90 to a. cents q
days willing to work eight hours for so cents.
Of the haHdrods that are coming SSsr gH wees
The finished ns work Is given to the south caro-,
here d all not sufer through ccmpstition,"
ment house In Allen street:
Fifteen families house-ten families in great
two families have usual amount Of WORK, one family
Children as s:as :s only
' ons y.a m fs%d s out s q
i.a. man Formerly fTais staud Ting. nov 'i IN
year SON la: worked As nc"a. 1MG
%SPs a n:.d n
Enh-Fiys IN family man out Of toHn looking tor
:sSaasd S:ioT. si.tsSt~o o%'H f.& a
woman scrubs earn. 81 per week: son is married
snth-foar IN family svicted last month; collection
No mopey S coal rem, IN IN tss5 10 sTqesT
s.Ss5ss %S. -: q
u y s Sa .s4n Ig4 n, ~G
ssa s4 SSa cn o. @d. a ns.
in family no desperate need ESysnti-Fiye IN fam
LIN I've G 10 s GS. 81 . SHT Of sn "a:
h .ms out Of 0s rS SsI Tor month";
Mr.. Deyins said that there were 80 600 union
men ana fwics as many non iS gp 40 men out OF
ing men work at cleaning the streets, but
some one must furnish the money with which
establish Workingman's Loan Association.
sort Of laborlng mans pawn shop. where he
dsP ssags % 6s Eds@s 5Hs Church
thought the PresbyTeryshould not go into Vro-
miseu9us charities. and ought not 70 encroach
upon the work OF regular organizations
DIR, Birch OF the bethany thurch on Fast
MN street. said he thought that By the timS
port The work i was Intended 10 attend to
natons in ali the distcts in Ht the city later
Dr.. birch said that all the ministers. Protes-
tant and Catholic, in the TwentY-thITd and
Twenty fourth wards We're 10 meet nj M
O'clock tomorrow morning in the North New
York Congregational Church. in last l4:id
street near Willis avenue, and organize for
the work Of relieving the suffering in their
districts. DR.. Birch said similar meetings
mere TO be held in other parts % the city.
KiliAen Van Rensselaer, said the present pow
srtY and distress were due to the craze OF
this country a year ago" but he thought ID vas
the Guty OF the Presbytery TO help those in
trouble.
mittee appointed at the Cooper MON Weet-
ing in the hard times OF 1873. and he found
that many men who could earn fair wages m
the country came to New York, where they
heard charity was being literally dispense Z.
He said there Was a practical side 10 the mat
ter of helping tho suffering. and suggested
that the promoters OF charity Should profit ~
the experience Of the Relief Committee N
15I3
Mr. pevins,s resolutions that the committee