Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-08-25
ALreELp AT PULLMAN.
Tho Governor Makes a Personal Inspeo-
tion of DestItution's Haunts.

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the model town were literally starv-
ing in their homes. He didn't thirk
that such a condition could possibly |
exist in Chicago After he had spent an
hour or two in Fulton street among the |
tenement blocks and in the shanty |
districts of the bricbyards, and found |
every man, woman and child in des- |
perate straits for want of fuel, food |
and clothing, he was satisfied that the |
time for immediate relief had come. |
''There is no doubt" he said, about |
the absolute distress and want in Pull |
mai Relief has got to come from
some source, and come soon"
1t was after this investigation into
the physical condition of the town
had been made that the governor met
Manager Middleton, of the Pullma N
company, and the two did little figur-
ing. When they had finished the gov
ernor said:
"The situation as find IL is just this: Here
are 800 families practically on the verge OF
starvation. In the city there are many more
destitute families, but when you find one
family In want you find u neighbor next door
who has food and help to give It, The locality
more or less takes care of Itself. Here your
ucSbibulcS uTt ull DunCneu Inc IuUllleS OUT
of work have nothing and their neighbors who
have gone to work are themselves without
money and only able to get food through the
credit which the fact that they are again at
work gives them. You should alternate the
work so that oil the men can get little of it,
and absolute starvation be avoided"
Mr.. Middleton said he didn't see how
the company could change it's present
plans, and so far as he could see there
was no way that he could prevent the
people from starving to death.
The governor said it was the first
time he had ever been asked for aid to
help starving people and he wanted to
think it over. This morning at 10
o'clock he will receive the relief com
| mittee of the Pullman strikers and
ways and means of assisting the suf-
| fering will be discussed. In all proba-
| bilitS the meeting will bear fruit in a
proclamation calling upon the people
of the state for help.
The governor made his tour of in
| spection at the head of an army of
| curious women and children who
thronged around him eager to at
tact his attention. Scantily clad
mothers with their babes in their
arms edged their way through
the crowd and begged that they
might be allowed to pour out their
stories of suffering. Disheartened
strikers, who had seated themselves
with their families only few hours
before and consumed the last morsel
of food in the house, told their needs
with trembling lips and tears in their
eyes.
In one of the houses which the gov
ernor visited widow lay dying of
consumption, and she related, between
paroXysms of coughing, how it had
been impossible to get the bare neces-
sites OF life, to say nothing of the del
icacies which her state of health de-
manded. She said she had done her
best to get her boy back into the shops,
that he might earn enough to keep
her while she lived, but the foremen
had grutfly turned HIM away. At an
other home blind woman was found
securing the stove in her kitchen, al
though it had been long time since
she had had any coal or wood to put in
to it. The governor asked her how she
supported herself. ION misery" she
answered.
A pale, barefooted woman with a
wan-faced baby on her arm and an
other tugging at her gown said that
her name was Mrs. John OConnor and
that her husband had been refused
work in the companys shops
again and again. Up to within
the last two weeks the family had
been able to get enough from the
| .alinf 70 hut fA,.
few days the three little children had
been hungry all the time and there
was no chance of getting anything fol
them to eat. Alexander Erickson, OF
S01 Fulton street said he had tried tc
make application for work a mum
Der of times, but the watch
men would not let him through
} the shop gates. At the time the
strike began he had some money
saved up, but it was all gone long ago
Besides not having cent in the
: house he had nothing to eat except a
little flour, which he could not bake
| into bread for want of fuel. He has
family of six.
Otto Wolf, who lives with his wife
and six children at room %, block L
lOIu Will SUI, WHICH SlOOh HIS w WllOIt
body, how he and his family had only
: had one piece of dry bread to eat dur
ing the day. On Saturday the relic
; committee had given him two pounds
l each of cornmeal and oatmeal, and h,
said that if they hadn't done so hi
children would have died
Thus it was throughout the whole
tour, The governor expressed him
:elf as much surprised at the squalo
If the brickyard shanties. He haC
not thought that such spot existed
within the limits of the ''model town.
o tie was told that the residents of eacl
of the dingy, half-lighted three-roon
: shanties paid a rental of eight dollar
/, 4 month. He made a note of it.
: Tragedy in Arkansas.
a LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. 21.-Ga brie
t 2rock was shot and killed and Mrs