The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-12
PASSERS-BY MOVED TO PITY.
AN ETICTED FAMILT RESCUED M
SPONTANEOUS CHARIIE

The Strengthens, III, UaIC clad and unnrrS,
Presented such n won't = Rht ~ Fast
broadway Yesterday Afternoon that
Sympathetic titIzes- Raised Money on
the spot to r,o,ide n Home for Them.
Aaron Strengthen. iourneyman tailor who
has been out of work for months together
with his sick wife three small children. and
their few household goods were turnod out VI
their one room upon tho sidewalk Yesterday
afternoon at 800 East broadway. Their plight
was SO pti!u as they stool in the cold with
their goods about them not knowing where TO
turn, that q crowd Of sympathetic rasscrS bv
subscribed nearly $40 with which the cvicted
FAMILY was enabled to secure quarters else
where
The house at 100 East broadway is owned
hy u. kemrner & Son, who are said to own
seventeen other tenement houses in the city.
besides valuable business property. The firm
conducts n general real estate business. hav-
ING an office at GO2 Eighth avenue.
The strengthens were only one month no.
hind in the payment OF rent and had sold and
rawncd almost all their furniture aud clothing
In order to Keep paid up Mrs. Strengthen has
lately become n mother. and when one OF the
kcmpners came yesterday to tell tnou that
the family must got out at once. she says she
got out OF bed and begged him to grant them
few days moro that she might recover
strength enough to walk. Tho man she says.
paid no attention to her supplcations but
went away saying that they must move out in
an hour.
Strongiern looked at his mengre array Of
furniture. which cuns sted of n bed IL stove a
table and one chair and after Kempncr had
gone he statrcd oil with table anu chair to
Try and rails" some money. He lrit his vito
and three "hildrcn in bod. covered with AN odd
assortment OF rags and blnnEetI. The stove
he might have taken as we'll, could he have
had contained none Tor several DAYS. the
family having spent good Part ofthgt time in
pea Trying TO- keen warm. The father came
cents, having sold tho table and the family
awaited tho return II Eempner. As GOOD as
hour with some hp! rers.
Strengthen offered the man the thirty-six
II he would let them stay few DAYS longer
but lie SAYS kemrner laughed at the money
thethings out The room Is on the second floor
back. aud Mrs; StronGiern protested that she
vas too weak t. walk down tn" stairs.
DELAY would be permitted. She obrYod and
started down stairs supported by her hu~-
selves in the meantime taking tho bed apart,
and. Strengthen says. did not offer to assist
!ne sick woman, At tho first landing Mrs.
Her husband lall her uron the floor. AMI
the furniture to bring tho bed back S so tha t
the woman might Dc put in it,. They paid no
attention to him he says and he left the chi.
drcn cry ing by the unconscious woman's side
while he went in search OF u doctor.
Mrs Esther kamitole, another tenant in the
building. who is almost rs poor ~ the strong
Terms and lives on the iirst floor IN one room
with large family, realized that the woman
could not DO nut out in the street in her con-
ditton, 80 she took her into her room. where
she stu remains. and whore II SIN reporter
saw her last night. Mrs. kHmi:olo has only
ono bed. md the sick woman WAS lying on tllo
floor with the children by her side. She was
In great pain.
Strengthen stood on the sidewalk in front OF
the tenement with two OF his children for u
couple Of hours after the eviction. not know
ing what to 10 nor where to 10. Several neigh
bCrs, who have known him ~ n sober. indus
triOus man. started u subscription to rnaIlC him
to secure som" place for himself and his family.
Persons passing became Interested in tho
destitute little group, aud soon nirkelS. limos
and quarters began to drop rapidly into the
hats held To receive them. Iy u O'Clock nearly
80 had been collected, and Strongiern left his
children with his wife and started Off to find
quarters Early in thu evening he secured
rooms at 800 Madison street an removed his
furniture there. His wife will not DO able 10
be moved for several days.