New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-08
PROMPT ACTION REQUIRED.
PRESIDENT LOW AND DR. COLT ON THE
POLICE CENSUS.
MAYOR GILROY SAYS THE CITY AUTHORITIES
ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN TO RELIEVE
DIsTREss-HE APPEALS TO WEALTHY
MEN TO COME FORWARD.

DIsTREss-HE APPEALS TO WEALTHY
MEN TO COME FORWARD.
In view Of the appalling fact the police GEN.
shows that there in this city $3.50 I'M
employed persons who the bread-winners OF
1851 families. which include 2O6'W persons.
Tribune reporter called yesterday on President
Seth Low, of Columbia College; Superintendent
Charles d. Kellogg of the Charity Organization
Society. and DR.. Stanton Colt, of the University
Settlement Society. and asked them what. in their
opinion could or should be done more fully to meet
the startling emergency by which the public is con-
fronted.
President Low replied: AT present have no
opinion to offer beyond that expressed in my letter
transmitting the tabulated police census to Mayor
Groy, referring to the magnitude of the problem.
the necessity for prompt action on the tariff ques-
ton. way or the other, and the giving; both by
the city and private persons of whatever work can
be given to the unemployed. l have just received
a letter from Harvey f. Fisk Of Harvey E. Fisk
& Sons, saying that If will send him the names or
the unemployed In the Twenty-fourth Police Pre-
cinct, extending from Fifty-ninth-st. TO Eighty
sxth-st.. west of Central Park, the Riverside AS
ISOLATION Of No 259 West Sixty-ninth-st will rally
the we-to-do people Of the West Side to the practi-
cal non-pauperizing assistance Of the poor In that
section. / shall apply to the Mayor for permission
to turn over the police census books OF that pre-
cinct to Mr.. Fisk II other organizations would
do in other sections what the Riverside Associa.
be afforded. The Committee on Relief by Work. Of
which President Charles S. Smith. of the Chamber
Of Commerce, is chairman. is conducting the WORK
Of street cleaning and maintaining shops where
women employed, at an expense OF Si2VO
week. but more money is needed. as the census
shows. Relief work should be continued till the
middle Of March and. possibly, the first OF April.
The census also clearly shows that there should be
no abatement In giving but rather that 1t should
be freer.'
Superintendent Kellogg sad The figures Of the
police census are stupendous that have not yet
had time to get them through my head. am too
busy to study them to-day but shall analyze them
as soon as possible The census clearly emphasizes
the fact that the charitable should now be more
charitable than ever before 80 -, ..,,
DR.. Colt expressed positive views. He said: The
census only confirms me In my oft-repeated opinion
that public work should at once be provided
literally and extensively. 1t is fallacous for any
to contend tina; this would be Socalists En- En-
for instance. would be Socalistic, but my plan is
perfectly legitimate and proper NeWYork Is far
Our streets should be repaved and kept clean; and
the dn k ps n an The
railroad should be built Wharves and piers OF ma
wooden ones we have now, which are disgrace to
the city. There Is no reason why we should nGt De
docks are her pride Yes. private citizens ought to
improve old buildings and erect new ones, but we
compel ali property:owners to put their sidewalks
in good repair and keep them So which wTuh haze De
TO pay for it themselves. The making of public
improvements is the prime factor for the relief OF
the unemployed. Every man who is put to work
means help for family. There should be no delay |
in starting all these public improvements . and
they would furnish work for the masses Tor three
years to We should beautfy the clty. In |
short we should do for New-York what Napoleon |
III did for Paris -, -
Mayor Gilroy was asked whether the police CEN |
sus OF the unemployed had caused the city govern
ment put forth increased efforts for hndlng Work
for so many people idle by compusion.
II do not see that anything. more can be done al |
present than doing the Mayor replied |
1.-THE heads of all city departments have their or
ders to put every laborer that their appropria-
tions will warrant. and know that they are doing
It. The numbers which the speedway and the park |
Improvements will give employment TO Will in some |
degree alleviate the prevailing condition OF suffering
which all much deplore. i do not think more
can be done by the city now. bur 4 do think that
this Is the time for the wealthy men OF this town
to come forward and give substantial aid to their |
fellow men who are in need. There are men among |
us who have been blessed by Providence far be- |
yond what their families will require for genera
lions. 1t is in their power to put summary end 10
all fear OF want in NewYor | trust that the ap-
prehenson of some who fear that their charity may
be enioved by poor man who should work
FOR what he gets may be quieted and that those |
who are abundantly able may open their hearts and
loosen their purse strings in some measure proper
tionate 10 the dire conditions which confront u.s."