The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-20
THEY LACK WORK, NOT BREAD
THE IDLE HEBREWS ARE FORCED
TO SPEND THEIR sApINGS

It IL This Chiefly That garages Them-Ei
forts TO find Genuine Cases or Hume
Not Succc-sfui-The Jewish Race Take
Care OF Even Its Unworthy Members
Ifthere is any actual hunger among tho in
habitants OF the jewish quarter of the cas-
side It is very carefully concealed. and yet l
any exists there is good reason to believe tina
evidence OF It would DO conspicuously paradet
at this time.
That there Is suffering resulting from over
crowded tenements. from poor and insufficient
food. and from filth and neglect. is true: but
that there is a degree OF poverty which actual,
derives any number OF the inhabitants Of food
10 denied by those who have the best emporium
ity to know OF the real condition Of affairs.
This does not coincide with the statements
| which have been made with considerable vio-
lsnce by the speakers who have sprung up
among tho unemuloyed during the rast few
days. but 1t exactly comedies with the observa.
! tions made by a Sun reporter. who yesterday
walked miles through the district making sucl,
| investigation rs his opportunities afforded.
| which. however. only supplemented other and
much more thorough observations made in
company with an Official interpreter from the
Tombs. when the reporter was Investigating
criminal news cases. and whom scores Of the
poorest tenements were searched from base
ment to roof.
1t will doubtless surprise many readers that
reporter. having q considerable knowledge
OF the district visited. should have for hours
pursued II search for an actual ease OF hunger
before learning OF one alleged case. Remem-
her. 1t was not poverty or discomfort that was
being looked for: there Is plenty OF that.
and it can b, found there and else
where in the city without much OF n
search. The first clue to tho condition
sought for was received from policeman
on Suffolk street. near Broomc. He said
that he had heard from a man named Oscar
Abraham. who keeps tobacco shop on
the east side OF Pitt street. two doors north OF
Broome. that n woman who was carotaker Of
the big new tenement at % Pitt street. and
her four children. had been relieved from
actual hunger recently by small donations
from neighboring families. The story was
that the woman received the rent Of hcr apart
ment as wages. but had no money with which
to buy food. and that she and her children
were found in q starving condition.
visit to Abraham's tobacco shop was first
made. He was ont. little girl said. who spoke
English. but IL Abraham was out there were
plenty OF his friends who were In. for suddenly
from somewhere. from nowhere visibly. six
husky Hebrews appeared ana evnced a very
porter. Their fervOr was somewhat modified
by the display OF n stout walking stick. and
sue his inquiries until no learned that the
family he was looking for lived at 126 Broome
There are two mum hers 2sin Broome street.
one Just around each way from Pitt street on
the north side. The case OF starvation was
which is also in the rear Of the big new Pitt
street t;nemcnt. The family live in two rooms.
unusualy large for the district and furnished
better than the average. too. the larger room
having n good-siZed cook stove. instead OF the
Ssen ' the s rh Of
ten or twelve years. spoke English and inter-
preted to her mother the object Of the report
er's visit. That made the bother laugh very
"she, was not starving. Why should she
bors told lies. Interpreted the little girl while
her mother laughed The mother volunteered
that her nci4hbors were something which II
tho f tte eh iii f Ta bad Out ""'n
The reporters were all at Golden Rule Hall
told them that he could take them TO a woman
who was starving to death; They all went;
Delnncey street, where a woman. apparently
at the point of death. lay on lounge. Her
ssa S s Sns beea au q %dIk
the he - day before. His aged fathsT. Who Who
The the
eight pawn tickets and some articles which |
There was n clock on the mantelpiece. and the !
place looked clean. The reporters, made up !
To Ss The Gp h Stages Of
ton, Her name is Golda Bodansky. Her son
said that she could keep nothing on her stom-
ach. He said that he had applied to the Health
Board. and that n doctor came who looked at
the woman and gave q prescription. bodan
! druggist the latter wanted dollar for it, AMI
Why did you not go to dispensary Pa asked
4, went at 3 in the morning" he said. then
It 1. then at T.. and nobody came"
One police officer was found who has served !
many years in the district. who made some
positive statements which are given for what
hey nre worth; the reader understanding that
he officer had no information to volunteer.
out gave the information in answer to many
luestions. Here is the substance OF what he
THE riotous element In the Hebrew district
consists in a very large proportion OF men who
German and American workers In tho clothing
rades; They are now unemployed. Thore is
money saved. and their present rage is caused
=, e. the TACT that they are comGetled. now that
"Ts h.y ssn. to
Their food costs them from to 10 cents a day
N \, =, they go to work they carry with them 9
re; That e ali they eat until beeo IN sA too
more food Of the same kind All those Who
ont APARTMENTS make money BY subletting
for two or three and take IN as
many dodgers as can BIO accommodated on the
oors In the summer their accom- m odation is |
increased by the sleeping space on the fire %.
npes the roofs. and the Railways. While
naki ing the 81 late tour" one night recently the
eporter's informant had been accosteq
y a young Hebrew who complained that
Is Landlord" had thrown him and
is mattress into the street. The fficer inyes:
gated and learned that the complainant had
cen sleeping in the coal hole which belonged
} the first floor tenement rented by his land.
ord The lodRer had paid dollar a week for
no privilege OF sleeping there. which he
lought excessive. as he supplied his own bed.
he bed" was a mattress he had picked up
landlord" explained that his conl hole lodger J
as day behind In his dollar-a- week In -ad-
ance rent, SO OF course he had thrown him out :
hey complain very bitterly when they are dis
,eir dealings with each other. but deserve great
redit because they mover let their own kind I
ctually suffer for food. There is no starva- r
on among them hem, but they nearly Al suffer
erieed in order to save. When they are un- i
n poyed they reduce the, amount OF their !
'od to n grenter extent. because II nearly q
riyes them insane, som etlmes quite insane. c
nemployed they sometimes refuse to nav | 4