New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-04
FEEDING THE HUNGRY.
BREAKFASTS SUPPLIED BY THE EIGHTH
AVE. MISSION TO 100 MEN
RELIEF WORK IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY
TIE REV. JOHN A. Il. WILSON MAKES
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.

/ A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
| About fifteen hundred had breakfast yester-
| day morning between the hours Of taf-past 4
and half-past at the Eighth Avenue Mission. No.
| EOS Eighth-ave. ThiT charity, which is maintained
| almost exclusively by stephen Merritt is known as
| the travellers Club Breakfast" and consists Of
| coffee and rolls and soup alternate days. Long
! before the doors opened yes terday morning
| great throng of men waiting for the first Ia
| blc" but while all appeared hungry and only too
anxious to have breakfast thr was no crowding.
| no pushing; every man s.-nsd willing to wait. if
need be- and in the 1T sakfast room many
served others before they helped then selves There
was a noticeable absence Of the tramp element. The
men with few exceptions OF the respectable
unemployed" class, and after being served went
| quickly away to make room for others. At these
breakfasts the walters are mission converts 1t is
the object Of TIE managers OF the mission to ins:
| tute n woman's club. and give needy and worthy
| women a midday meal This mission Is an incor-
porated institution of which Bisnop William Taylor
! Is n director md IN which he Is active worker
No subscriptions asked for from the public, but
the mission will cooperate with any ore wishing to
do the kind OF charitable work.
A clergyman speaking recently on the subject of
| the prevailing distress said: Mix n little bust
ness spirit with your charity. study the science Of
charity. and you Will accomplish the most good
II tho reverend gentleman will 10 No. $ij Grand
St, where there IL a public benefactor who insists
on being unknown IN the matter. he will see a sam
pic OF ideal charity. ana in which the science OF
charity is excmplincd. Bread. tea and coal are
sold here at nominal prices. Provision Is made TO
furnish 500 10 Geo loaves Of bread day. at .
loaf OF thirty ounces. or 2i2 cents for loaf
OF thirteen ounces. Bread one day old is sold at
and cents per loaf. tea at cents for a slx-ounce
package and on the floor below coal Is given to
all who cab for Il at cents bucket 1x, o, ,or,,
putting mp tea packages. -. 49,. c,. .,o,,
cts Clt cents each). and by this means those VINO
would make traiic OF the charity are excluded
way and Jcrerson-st. cards were displayed yester-
day IN English and Hebrew giving notice that no
work tickets would he issued there. Tho report be-
came current no one knows how. that the Alliance
was finding employment for 'he uncnpioyed; , ana
persons In that part OF the town are seeking that
The - woman's Conference OF tho Society for
Ethical culture had eighty WORTHY women en-
poycd Yesterday making garmmnts IN" woman mann
10 rhicb is contrbntcd said the young woman,
~. I'm e,i,e aor,c woman ono months work and
n she works hard the society furnishes her meals
NV D mes,iDr which Is TO BE- hid to-
night nj the University Settlement Han, 40. -
hanv win be pctitioncl TO take measures toward
giving employment. and large manufacturers VIII
AZ " downtown restaurant gentleman; after fin,
ishing his lunch YESTERDAY put dime into "A brand
new purse winked AZ the untlpp'd whlt.r ana sag.
Together with nine others have resolved Tor me
Heretofore 10 walters. BARRIERS and others. % a
charity fund These men have work. and though
they may nc'u Inc 'Ntih pay NNi'H a.
I'm The shane Of tips they do not need II so badly
a. thos. who have no work AT all and until We near
OF less distress intend to turn In $40 week
The walters are really doing the charity. but they
don't know It."
In order 20 ascertain for himself how the poor ana
unemployed men were housed. ana how those who
had no habltation spend tho nights. the Rev John
A Il wilson OF the Eighteenth street Methodist
Eu,sropal Church and three friends spent me Wnpe
81 TUESDAY night IN visiting the poor sections or
this city. The party found shocking state 81
affairs. and pr. Wnson dc ,arGs himself r"aty i 10
throw open the doors Of hts church u h" cannot
secure rooms for the many men who are compelled
10 walk the streets.