The evening world., 1894-02-19

The dreary, dismal weather OF this
morning did not Interfere with the work
Of THE Evening World" Free Food Com
mission, at 80 Murray street.
As early as s o'clock the poor began
to gather. and by IL o'clock, when the
doors were opened, there was a line OF
men, women and children which ex-
tended from 90 Murray street to Wash
ington street, down Washington street
to Park place and up Park place to
Greenwich street.
1t was the same old, sad story with
ali OF them. No work. no money, rent
In arrears cupboards empty.
The appalling throngs of Saturday.
when 5,u2 families were represented In
the crowd hat blocked business in the
neighborhood for six hours, had taken
away every morsel, even to the last po-
tato, n this morning THE Evening
World Free Food Commission was as
empty al a soap bubble.
But Phil Peters and two or three
other good hustlcrs were out among the
commission merchants who had con
tributed, and whose contributions had
not been collected. They had trucks with
them, INC the poor mothers at the head
VI Tx llIt lOIlIltu ny IDllCtT1tn saw
with eager eyes truck after truck back
up to the curb and unload their carsoes
Of things to eat--things to stave off star
walton for them and their little ones.
When the doors were opened siXty-fve
sacks of potatoes had been carried into
tho place on the strong shoulders OF
hu.rty helpers of the most substantial
charity ever known in New York.
Sixty-five sacks means 1875 bushels Of
as good potatoes as We're ever eaten by
a Vanderbilt or an Aston. When one re-
allies that the average purchase of po-
tatoes by the laborins classes of New
York Is two quarts, and that there are.
allowing for the heaping measures given
by small! grocers, fourteen measures to
a bushel, one will understand that there
are potatoes enough in that mountain
Of sacks 20 supply more than $500
families for three days each.
There Was "a proportionate provision
of turnips. ru~tabagas, Russian turnips.
cabDages, onions. carrots, parsnips ana
other Vegetables, besides many cases Of
fresh eggs, salt and smoked fish. oranges
for the sick. lemons, soup greens and
soup meats.
Capt. O'Connor, of the second Pre-
cinct, sent two roundsmen and "A dozen
patrolmen to the scene tins morning,
u'i' N'iN ''St - '
in the distribution.
The line was made To extend all
around the square bounded by Murray,
Washington and Greenwich streets ana
Park place, so that the people who came
from Harlem and Brooklyn. Hobolten
and Long Island City and even as far
be protected from the storm under the
friendly awnings around the whole
block,
tpi1hhnFhpDl has hppn S0Tgly tested Dy
the immense throngs gathered every
day about the Free Food Commission,
and II ~ only fair TO say that there are
who nave accepted this hindrance and
obstruction to their business with cheer
Max Mergentime, young Hamburger,
H,eiiigus Hall and the other noble men
work. were or hand and everywhere to-
day with the same simpleness OF pur-
pose that has sustained them and THE
Evening World" Free Fund Commission
AmGrg the first TO arrive this morning
was a palc-iaced. huilow-eyci young
mother from Monroe street She carried
shielded her GWn shoulders. "A great,
healthy baby of fifteen lAurths. She left
at home Il husband III with InigmmatorS
rheumatism. another chilt and an aged
and drcrepit mother
she left nothlng In the cupboard. Sh,
and her family mad for Breakfast c!nre
loaf OF the bread Itself, A neighhOr
had given II scuttlc OF coal 10 her last
night. and this was the condition that
had brought her to ~ Murray street with
A note from n missionary telling IN" tale
The poor woman WAS almost exhausted
when her turn came IN the listribu.
ton and a volunteer from the crowd OF
spectators carried her well-fillcd basket
TO a Madison street car, and, paying her
fare, sent her rejoicing on her way home
one woman. old, weakened and thinly
clad. had come on a. given ear fare from
Ninety-eighth street. not on her own be