New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
FOOD FOR THE POOR.
CHARITY GIVEN FREELY BY THE
TRIBUNE FUND
MUCH DISTRESS IN THE CoLoRED COLONY on
TIE WEST SIDE RELIEvED-A WOMAN WHO

MUCH DISTRESS ~ THE CoLoRED COLONY ON
TIE WEST SIDE RELIEvED-A WOMAN WHO
WALKED TEN MILES FOR WORK.
The Tribune Coal and Food Fund distributed
groceries TO 2i9 families yesterday. Each case had
been carefully investigated by experienced workers
among the poor and the need and worthiness OF the
recipients had been established. A distribution TO
seventy-seven families took place at the Ohvet
Chapel in Second-st under the direction OF Mar
garet Fair. who represented the New-York city
Mission The food was carried to the homes OF the
people by men who had applied for work and re-
ceved it in this way. Some of those who were
aided have been known to the missionaries LOT
years as peculiarly unfortunate. owing to Illness OF
some innrmty: others were found by visiting thc
districts where the poor live.
Miss Mckinnon superntended a distribution 10
seven families at 40 40 East Twenty-sixth-st
The principal distribution was at the ew-fork
Coored Mission. No. lS5 West Thirtieth-st.. where
lGJ poor colored families received food The grea'
distress which exists among the colored colony on
the West Side between Fourteenth and Forty-sec-
ond sts has been told in The Tribune. Aid has
been sent to these people from The Tribune Fund
several times No family. however. has received
two gifts Of groceries. The lists have been entirey
new each time. The suffering among the coioreu
people is daily Increasing" said n worker ut the
mission. MANY Of them are becoming desperate
This list contains the names of many people VINO
have never asked for charity before. The new ap-
plicants who come here now are nearly all OF the
better class. The hard times however. have hnaiy
driven them to dependence.
FERsEvEEING EFFORTS TO GET WORK
one Of the workers in charge OF the employment
bureau at the mission said that the efforts of many
OF the poor people to get work were perseVerihs III
the extreme. one woman she said had walked nearly
10 Harlem on one OF the stormy days this week 10
answer n request for n servant She found that the
place had Just been filled. and walked back 10 the
mission house. There she heard OF another pacee
open stll further uptown. ana ihnneulat1ely 81 vi,
hack 10 apDlv for IT, She must have walNcd near y
ten miles the storm. She rot the IiSc% ann W.
begin work in day or two. She ii mil her
The employment bureau at the mission Is open
every duv AMI places found for many app''-
The following letter was sent The Tribune late
Yesterday afternoon by the missionary III chd'so u
'''"o1 women came to-day who were found cover,
ing over their ncighb)rs fires. having netheT 700"
nor fire in their own cherries rooms IN not OILY
/ ~ thirty homes visited Saturday afternoon ana
/ evening last VAS there any sign or smell or COOK
ING APPARENT. a little bread on the tdue anu ""
on on the stove seemed all that they had. To ihc%
] b"m,s tine generous portions OF clrncd pork cam,
/ AZ A great luxury. Nobody seemed TO i ii ,na
/ thcir Six bag Of Hour was to- heavy; niue boy
/ vent gtlererIng ana smiling under the !oad' am
women So lame that they had 10 use canes '"'"
aged 70 handle the much-pr.zri sht
CONTRIBUTORS ARE FRIENDS IN NEED.
"I, yas touching to note the look Of lstiess hope
/ lessness which was beginning 10 come mo "''
7 faces Of the younger women. especially those "h'
had families Of children. They have such mar
struggle, What they would have done II me i.or
had not raised up for them such Il'hlS ~ 1"'
D. - m. Tribune no one can tell. on" woman ~
. ,,n. violently insane unlrr the pressure VI IL
l. tr,.hl. and has ben sent 20 nm asylum, - .n
/ Among those who were hero ana a'l'.l vas w
commemorative OF a family VINO have HV'l lor - ~
I'm 4 comfortable home. the Widowed d"uSl'
/ 40 AFFLICTED with an incurahle cancer icc'ntl!
,h~v hnv.. been disqossessed and the afct'' VIM
is now extremely H. What On" woman sam - ~
..f maj ~
80 food no fire. AMI the rent staring me IN u"
'. Among those aided last week was one ian'
quite respectable. but entirely des,iq'e ,l t5n
,r !, b,rI place the husband has founI "ot'
AMIN ana thrir pro- poets have hrItn' i,'''' , ,
To,h family received o." following ih" Cost "
,.'irr H. ne Tribune Fund was 81.
one ractare Of ii
one package ~ pork. md
= A.