New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-18

ceres were sent directly from Tne Tribune + una
headquarters Each family received food. the
actual cost of which to The Tribune Fund was 81.
The portions were follows:
one package Of hominy pounds
One package Of rice. POUNDS
one nackage of Goldfish. pounds
one package Of pork Pouius
one package Of tea. Pouhu
one can Of condensed mix.
\ variety comprising seven articles. was thus
given to each family and everything that they re-
cclvel was strictly useful The amount allotted to
each one filed a large market basket There was
sufficient TO last large family for several DAYS
Every dollar contributed buys just such baskeuul
! Des,des the groceries which were given out, loo
orders for coal emitting TIE recipients to haii ton
each were sent to deserving faniiies'
THE CHILDREN SUPPORT THE FAMILY.
The first distribution took place at the lndustriai
schoo. At No. 20 East Twenty-first-st, at noon.
Forty families each received groceries worth 81
there. About onc-third Of the children VINO at
tend this school are Germans. and the rest are
BohemIAns French Spanish. Italians. irish ana
English with a few native-born Americans. MISS
Annie w Strathorn Is principal of the school, MISS
j. y. S;ansbury. who has charge or the instruction
Of the children In kitchen work, personally inVesr-
gated the cases OF the families who received re.ei.
Among the families whom Miss Stansbury visited
was thai Of a Iongshorenan who broke his leg
lat August. He taken 10 a hospita! ana as
charged about two months ago. but the wound dld
not entirely heal and h. has been unable to wax.
The mother Is dead little girl thirteen years oId
helps the teachers in the school. and earns enough
to pay the rent for the family. boy fifteen years
old peillcs fruit on pleasant days. When he
he's work he earns about 50 cents day He has
earned all the food which the family have had this
winter. The younger children pick UP coal In
the streets. following the coal carts or proving
about the pier. the canal boats. In this way
the family have got all their fuel. The little girl
thirteen years DID, beside working at school, does all
the household work for the family and Keeps the
house scrupulousy clean.
The father always had plenty Of work in the
summer but no, in the winter. In the summer he
has been accustomed TO pay the winters rent In
advance 50 as 10 be sure OF his home When he
broke his leg had his paid up TO the lst OF
November This fact shows that the groceries
which were taken to that home not given
T. support likeness AMI encourage thrlftiessness.
BRIGHT roy WHO HELPS HIS PARENTS
one little boy. nine years old. who goes to this
school brings w!th him every day his baby brother
eighteen months DID, and two other small children
four and I'VE years old. He is remarkably bright
and quick t. Learn. When he came 70 the school
last fall he had never been 10 school before. He
hli taught himself to read 10y learning the letters
on signs In the street In about four months he
has risen to tho highest class in the school When
he Is not al school he picks coal and does errands
20 earn fow pennies to help his family.
In another family the father has two hours work
a day. His employer has little work FOR his men.
but Instead Of discAarglng many Of them. he gives
them all two hours work day. The father pays the
rent with the money h. earns for this work The
mother earns . little and two three Of the seven
children are old enough 70 pick up a few pennies,
thus earning preclrous livelihood for the family.
The little girl who came from this family WAS
oycrioyeI at getting the basketfu of groceries
that she forgot 70 say Thank YOU" and her
mother sent back to school 10 tell the principal
how grateful she was for the food.
Tho father Of three little girls who attend school
Is a shoemaker. II has hal work since last
August, lie has earned his rent by mendlns shoes
for the landlord and The people in the house. but
the family have had extremely little TO eat all
winter The little girls have come to school hungry
Il noticed" said Miss stansbury that one of the
little girls the other day WAS weak that she
could hardly stand NJ. In reply To my question, she
said that she had had no breakfast and had only
showed that the family a thrifty one. but that
the father and mother were both sick ana iye
OF the seven children were too young To- work.
Until recently a daughter worked in II drygoodS
store in Sixth-ayc but she had been lad of until
s. " q week which Is earned by son fifteen years
old. lie gets 81 week. bat has to spend 60 cents
week for carfIrc. On this small pittance the
family has manasea 70 get along somehow .,u
ThEee e Tpnan i9Ign was ave S %tn heir
butcher shop until he stricken with rheuma
tlSn. Inen the GfhNl1lolItI anu lHc Quest boy
got permission from the butcher to do the grand
fathers work. and they run errands all day long
Fund came as "A godsend. They are making earn
efforts To support themselves. but the hard
times aud misfortune have been against them.
FORTY PAWN TICKETS IN ONE HOUSE.
At the school in West Flfty-second-st. l3s faml-
lies received groceries. The tenement-house popu
lation in that district IL mixed There Germans
Italians French Scotch English and some Amerl-
cans The men are ongshoremen, laborers. cellar
diggers rock blasters. truck drivers etc. Miss
Bishop Is the principal of the school. About 400
children attend the school. Many or them nave
suffered great privaton this winter In one of the
homes the visitor found forty pawn tickets on the
shelf EVERYTHING of value that they had had been
sacrificed to buy food. At this school. as well as
We're TO- be given out many people came to If
they could not get snare VI course no one re-
celyed The groceries unless the case had been per-
sonay invcstigated. but the stories which the
people told were listened to and addresses taken SO
that the visitors may 80 10 ther MONIES ana ma
The Industrial school, at No. 1856 ieonard-st. In
by Italian Children. They live mostly in Baxter-st,
Mot-s Mulberry a,a oie ,Ig
Of this scheei is about io7 children Hot dinners are
SST The 70 ds s sp among these people said Mrs
Van Rhyn to Tribune reporter Is q VET 10 come
In making INVESTIGATIONS for toe families Who e' re-
S %hC them s"a t suppS:ei srS%m
stances were really on the yer Esrown as phil
anthropist she has literally helped her neisnpors |
who have been distress and has oG Ph ,r ~ nan r
many times mis- winter and besought anu LOT poor
people whom, she knew. She has never nS h ioT
aid for herscif but when | went 70 nei iunie !
round tbat ,here was absolutely nothing there Tor
her seven children to eat. Her hus9an,u. ~ ''N
lost his work and they were deS'''"'
THIN DIET FOR THE p""
"Another family which 1 found 'o, nnS.o Vi nv,
father and mother and three helpless nah 49,
o,,,ooa, mad, ecarcclv older than papy' came
70 school ~or,I DAYS with nothing to eat except
bread which had been soaked in wa'e' ,ovo .
"onc of the most ptlful things tnas ,ned :, ever
seen took place house where enemsnts which
OF fhse oh the tue ea
est q the family was % scn 1 Of the pjanes
Kind had been Secured and plate N We'd the fnn upon
it. into which the friends who Ssse Contributions were
to pay the funeral expenses ,,end this school have
Many OF the children who a,se something by work.