Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-27
TBE RELIEF WORK.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED MEN At WORK ON
FaE STREETS
While Five Hundred Others ars Waiting for a
Job-Ths Headquarters TO b Only Kept Open
Three Days Week Hereafter.

The Relief Committee continued it
work in all departments yesterday, and
the gentlemen on duty were kept rea-
sonably busy obtaining information or
minIstering to the wants of those who
applied to them for relief. Up to last
evening nearly four hundred applica-
tions for food and clothing had been
fled at the headquarters, and about
three thousand bushels of coal have
been distributed. During the after
noon the delivery Of coal had to be
stopped, owing to the supply in the
yards running out, but ii is thought ad-
dltional cars will be on hand this morn
ing. The Committee is still short OF
coal haulers, and could use half-a-dozen
moro horses and carts. The work OF
delivering coal is naturally slow, as
most of the hauls have to be made To
remote parts OF the city, up on the hill
sides, and in other out-of-the-w way
places where there are no paved streets.
Mind and heavy grades are encountered
by all the haulers, and they can't make
as many trips day as they could 10 the
natural course OF paving business.
The receipts at the headquarters yes
terday in the way Of donations included
thirty-slx sacks of flour from the Joseph
Speidel Grocery Company, box OF
clothing from Mrs. j. j. jacob, and
table from House & Herman. Manager
Simpson had to purchase provisions and
also couple OF boxes OF mems shoes,
the demand for the latter being
large. Stockings and clothing for
boys Of from nine TO thirteen years
of age are also wanted. The manage
ment yesterday determined upon an i'm
portant matter in regard tothe head
quarters. This was that after the
present week the store house would be
open but three days week-Tnesdays
Wednesdays and Saturdays. The room
will be open to-day, will be closed to-
morrow and Friday, and will be open
all day Saturday. IL is the opinion
OF all concerned that all the
distress which exists can be
relieved by keeping open three days a
ought to be some provision, however, to
keep the hauling OF coal going steadily
on every day. until all the orders APP
proved have been filled. There were
sessions of the ward relief committees
Yesterday, and great many appica-
tions were passed upon. Messrs. b. b.
Drabelle and James Gray have been
added to the Fourth ward committee.
The work Of cleaning the streets was
resumed yesterday, about one hundred
men being given work by Superintend-
ent Brandt. Gangs were put to work
in all sections Of the city, and an aston
ishing amount of mud was raked up
ready for the carts. Some carts were
at work, and the mud piles were carted
off Market street. One OF the worst
streets in town was twelfth between
Main and Market, and enough mud and
filth was cleaned up there TO keep half
a doZen carts busy for a whole day.
Some OF the back alleys and unfre-
auented streets need an overhauling
badly. and there will be plenty Of work
OF this sort to last a couple Of hundred
men for week or more.
luGIb dlO HOW nNO uuuuIbu duu
Lightweight applicants for work at the
police Office, while over hundred have
been turned away, not being citizens.
II is manifest that there will be nothing
like enough Of work on the streets to
keep even half Of this number at work
during the cold months, or until they
are self-supporting, and there is no
doubt but that Council or the
Boards, or the Committee, or all
combined. will have to devise and put
in operation something of a permanent
nature If work is to be given the appli-
cants in sufficient amounts to do any
permanent good. Councilmen and Com
mitteemen are recognizing this situs-
tion, and there is quite an undercurrent
OF opinion that big mistake was made
in not promptly starting some public
improvement like grading some Of
the hillside streets. At that sort eli
work the whole list OF applicsnts-or
those OF them who are deserving
could be employed, while if there are
to be only 100 men employed on street
work, an applicant would have time to
die Of starvation before his turn came
to take up the shovel or the hoe, and at
best would not get over one days work
in four, granting that 200 of the 600
applicants are unworthy OF public re-
lief through work. This isn't carrying
out the original idea with any very
brilliant success