The evening world., 1894-03-07

The magnificent S%pring-like weather
Is being enjoyed to the fullest by all
New Workers. but there are no residents
or Fifth avenue who can have half the
appreciation of natures genial mood
that fills the hearts of the poverty
stricken people who have had n long
Winter of idleness and want.
Spring means a return of employment
and wages and comparative prosperity
to them. and already 1.-The Evening
Worlds" Free Food Commission has
felt the symptoms in lessening crowds.
1t Is gratifying to note that there has
been a perceptible falling off in the num-
Der Of applicants for food during the
past three days. It means, first of all,
that the family wage-earners are re-
ceiving employment Better still, 1t
means that with a return OF work and
wages want is disappearing. and 1t is
convincing proof that people did not
visit the Free Food distribution except
when starvation was staring them in the
face.
1T may be practicable to conclude the
great work of this charity by the end OF
this, week; 1t has done an incalculable
good II has fed the hungry and the
ate man or woman from stealing or
from going to the bad. The memory of
their work will be a bright thing in the
retrospect of every one of the men and
women who made the enterprise success
ful by their contributions of food or
money.
The Evening Woridh Free Food %Yr COM nl
mission several clergymen, representing
nearly every faith. ave worked con-
scientiously and unselfishly to make
lhl0 Nhnifu a
make It what 1t was intended, a source
Of food supply to those who were in alb
solute destitution. None has been more
faithful than Rev. John Finch, pastor OF
most fashionable First Bap-
fist Church.
Mr.. Finch has been %splendidly sup
ported by his estimable wife. They have
personally investigated hundreds of
cases. and when the manager of the dis
~tribution at 30 Murray street receives
from Mr.. Finch n letter like the follow
ing. 1t is sure to be honored and obeyed
In the letter and the spirit:
Dear Evening World
This boy and girl come from the poorest homes
Finch has visited them. and she says they are
very, very poor Don't give them money. but
give them good baskets full. Yours as ever.
Rev. Peter Gravel, OF the Church OF
st. Jean Baptiste. in East Seventy-sixth
street. was another interested Onlooker
at to-day's distribution of food, and r.
Flushing, l.. l., declared that 1t was a
Perhaps the most pathetic case that
WAS q yss a 81 q saun as W d@Srf from '' WI.
loughby avenue, Brooklyn.
she had been widowed in the early
H %itnte55; b. slsee. had ans sS %as her HEINZ fuIT m = s
furnished room with an oil stove and
misery. Her engagement ring, her ear.
rings. a brooch. a bracelet. and at last
the plain gold band that symbolized her
happy marriage some years ago had
gone to the pawnbroker' as the slips in
The rent was unpaid for three weeks.
One baby girl she had left with a neigh
Dor, one fair-haired little girl of six
years toddled beside her, her great,
fae sat OF her eiue mother s WITH an up ex pee iina
OF unknown trouble at her mothers
tears.
young mother was in hat condition
which appeals to the strongest emotion
OF man.
when / started" said she, because II
bears my name and address, IL any
thing should happen that they had to
take me to n hospital, they could learn
from thl5 paper who l was and where ]
lived"
Twenty men, ~rough-handed and hoarse.
voiced marketmcn, tumbled over each
other In their anxiety to be first in serv.
ing this woman OF unutterable woe. The
result WAS such IL load of foodstuffs az
would have taxed a strong woman to
carry q block.
Marks schlessinger's. pity took the
form OF n s. bill. 4 dozen others put
quarters and dimes and nickels into her
purse. She had walked with her double
load from Wiloaghby avenue, across the
long bridge, and dow to 30 Murray
street. Returning, one young man car
ried the sleeping baby, and another the
bountcous provision OF food. They rode
on a bridge car; they took a street car In
Brooklyn.
AS they crossed City Hall Park the
woman half tainted. and frightened her
young escorts very much. But. thanks
to the tact OF a kindly woman. passing
she was revived. Baby's eyes opened.
great orbs as blue as heaven. and ba-
by's lips murmured f'dhmma," softly.
Then the journey was resumed.
There will be another born to this lot
4 OF misery before the clergymen OF this
grant mefrOpOlla Dfaach nuDtler SUNDAY