The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-20
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600; Pittsburg, $4,000; Detroit, %, 900;
Newark, 90. coo, and various smaller cities
numbers quite as startling In their pro-
portion to the totality of residents.
Naturally enough, it is in Chicago,
but recently the scene of international
gayeties and extravagant festivities,
that penury Is most severe and poverty
presses hardest upon the people. The
condition is a natural consequence of the
suspension of such gigantic enterprise
as the Columbian exposition. There is
always an aftermath of misery attend
ant upon such affairs, and it is increased
In the case of Chicago by the unusual
number of men out of work because of
the depression in business. To these
must be added the men whose occupa-
tions are such that they cannot be fol-
lowed In the winter season. Some pro-
portion of these always require assist
ance when work suspends, and there
are more of them this winter than ever
before. Then there is also the omni-
present tramp.
Chicago is making heroic esTCrts to cope
with the condition that confronts her,
however, and has gone to work in her
usual businesslike way to minimize the
suffering SO far IS possible. Some CT her
best citizens have organized themselves
into q body known as the Central Relief
association, which has taken general
charge of all charitable work in the city,
and is endeavoring TO systematic it so
that adequate relief may be given to the
greatest possible number through the
mediumship of the regular charitable So
cieties. The Central association does not
itself dispense charity TO individuals o.
families, but gathers information and
collects funds. clothing and provisions
for distribution through the ordinary
channels.
The keynote of its methods may b.
found in the following paragraph from
one of its circulars:
In dispensing food and lodging through any
agencies now existing or that may hereafter be
created, the money furnished by the central
bureau will not DC used except under the con-
dftion that ablebodied men receiving food and
lodging shall render the equivalent for it in
work. and with that end in view ork for those
who are willing and able To perform il will be
provided by the street cleaning bureaus IL
cleaning the streets and other agencies inGi-
eating desire to furnish employment througi'
this bureau.
7. W. Harvey, the chairman of TIE
association, is one of Chicago's sturdiest
champions. He believes the Lake City
is destined TO become the metropolis ca
the world and is fond of producing facts
and figures to sustain his theory. The
facts and figures with which he is deal
ing just now in connection with the as
sociation's work would discourage most
men, but Mr.. Harvey has the optimistic
idea that they are, after all, another evil
denca of ChicaoO'S erreafDeSe He 10 one
of the oldest lumber merchants in the
city, and the town of Harvey one OF Chi
cago's suburbs, was named after him.
Other cities are also making extraor-
binary efforts to relieve their poor. The
New York Association For Improving
the Condition of the Poor is trying to
collect $500 which sum it considers
viii be needed in addition to its ordinary
revenues, and all the other metropolitan
charities are making similar endeavors.
If the matter were not so serious, there
would be something humorous in the
scheme Of a saloon keeper in Milwaukee
who proposes that all barkeepers in the
city agree TO abolish free lunches and
contribute % per cent of the amount
thereby saved to the relief fund. He
thinks 81 500 a day could be raised IN
this manneS.
Hardly less unique was the method
adopted by the congregation of Bostons
famous fremont Temple, some of the
members of which went without their
dinner ON recent Friday and thereby
raised nearly $500 for the benefit of peo-
pie who had no dinners to abstain from.
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