The evening world., 1894-01-08

ne World Appeals TO Every One 10 Help
the Starving Poor Of New York 0iyi
A LOAF NAY SAVE MORE THAN ONE
LIFE.
Prsviously Distributed. .9ee,sys
The Worlds New Subscription. ..... 10000


The cry for bread goes up from the
city.
1t 10 deeper, hoarser. broader than It
has ever been. 1t comes from gnawing
stomachs and weakened frames. 1t
comes from men who tramp the streets
searching for work. 1t comes from
women sitting hopeless in bare rooms.
1t comes from children.
The people of New York will heed this
cry as they needed It In August last, and
again The World will act for them In
giving food to the starving. Rich men
sent checks. Children sent pennies. The
World headed the first fun with q sub
s~cription of 1000 loaves Of bread. 1t
heads the second fund with double that
number, 10000 loaves. for the necessity
for them Ia twice as great. The fund
opens to-day. A nickel means a loaf OF
bread. The distribution Of the free
bread begins to-day at No. no East
Houston street.
1t was during the hot days Of August
last. that this cry for bread irst came
with such force as to command atten-
ton. Factories were closed and mer-
chants discharged employees. The work.
ing poor, who are next door to want al
ways, found tha they lacked bread.
Agitators made this an excuse for trying
to arouse rage and hatred. Their only
argument wal based upon the statement
that 1900 people were starving. TIL
people Of New York tool the argument
out of their mouths by placing bread In
the mouths Of the poor.
THE FORMER BREAD FUND.
The World opened Its Free Bread Fund
A. ne ~ tko NM AaU ~ NxNnnoH
a distributing depot at No. 1H Allen
street. That day 1000 hungry people
we're fed. The good done by the people
who gave 80 freely can never be known.
Many thousands Of men. women and
children were really saved from death.
The loaves Of bread stood between them
snd a trench in Potter's Field.
So many were the applications for
bread that 1t was found necessary to
move on Sept. 9 to larger quarters at
No. IS Delaney street. On many days
hundreds were turned away because
there was not enough bread to give them.
Bread was distributed free from Aug. rs
to Nov. 1. sixty-ive days. In all 266,z73
leaves were given away, an average Of
over 1000 a day.
Then came an Improvement in the
times. There was more work to be had.
The b~read-winners managed to earn
enough money to buy food. The bread
fund had served its purpose. Its work
was done and 1t was closed on Nov. /.
Since that time. in the city Of New
York. the poor nave reached straits OF
destitution hat have never before been
known. Probably NJ living person fully
understands how awful Is the suffering.
how terrible the poverty. No one person
can see It all. No ones imagination can
ASP 1t.
In Tho Sunday World you will fnd q
page about the unemployed. Columns of
figures show, with cold, brutal exactness,
that 1896 900 persons belonging to the most
populous trades and employments are
walking the streets searching for work.
Samuel Gompers. the President Of the
American Federati IN of Labor. says that
5000 wage-earners, men, women and
children. are out Of work, and that this
10 the lowest Of estimates.
Every tenement-house has its object
lesson In poverty Inc suffering. Slips
Of pastebosrd represent furniture in the
homes. The pawnshops are glutted well
nigh to bursting. Houses where modest
plenty made content are filled with de-
spair. The cry for work has been
In the cry for food.
THE PEOPLE ARE GENEROUS.
The people of New York are generous,
The idle beggars who swarm In the city
In ordinary winters have, by their per-
sistent opportunities, hardened and made
suspicious those who are glad to help the
really worthy POOR. Appeals for aid are
many. All over the city earnest people
have devised plans for helping those who
are suffering. These have sprung up re-
Gently. and they are doing excellent work.
There are the peoples hve-cent restau-
rants and DR.. Madison Peters's fve-cent
restaurant, the '6-16-89' club scheme.
which promises well. The East Side Re-
lief Work Committee has found employ
ment for 400 people. The Women's Con-
ference OF the Society for Ethical Culture
has set ninety women at work. All these
have their peculiar felds, yet they do not
meet the pressing and immediate demand
for aid.
The Worlds Free Bread Fund e~ncroaches
upon none OF these. The collecting of
-Shscriptions and the distribution of the
bread Tree has been undertaken only
after a very careful survey of the whole
held of metropolitan charities and the
demands upon II. 1t is the most simple,
direct and necessary charity In the city
OF New York. 1t Is ten times more neces-
sary than 1t was in August. The the
warmth of summer lessened the suffer-
ing. Now the chill OF midwinter accom-
panies the pangs OF hunger.
THE DUTY OF A NEWSPAPER.
The World believes that the people of
New York who can do m will helm In
this good work when once they under
stand its great necessity. 1t became con-
WINGED OF the necessity only after care
full Investigation. As a great Newspaper
resting upon the foundation OF the well
fare of the people. 1t undertakes this as
n duty which It owes to the public Il
represents. 1t FIRST makes its contribu-
ton Of 1000 leaves an a part. and then
II acts az trustee. II recognizes the fact