New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01
expense TO the Business Mems

al winter. with expense TO the Business Mems
Relief Committee having this work in charge.
For five cents. for one ticket, which Is good at
any of the restaurants groceries. is given good
meal of hot food, to be eaten on the premises; or
IL wanted for home consumption, one quart of
rich nutritious meat stew, one quart of coffee and
half loaf of bread All of this Ga substantial meal
for family Of three persons). for five cents.
Groceries are sold only for tickets for cash
when the purchaser is recommended needy by
pastors. priests rabbis, officers of the Charity Or
ganizaton Society, the Society for Improving the
the Horne for the Friendless, St. Vincent de Paul
Society. Kings Daughters. principals Of public
schools. and officers of similar organizations. On
such written recommendation. or for tickets. gro
ceres not TO xeceed 80 cents to any one person on
All the provisions furnished are of high quality,
and the surprising results as TO prices ana quaint,
dealers have co-cperated TO make money go as far
as possible in these trying times
NINE DEPoTs IN THE CITY.
"The directness and efficiency OF this charity"
said Mr.. Milbury. QUICKLY commended it to the
judgment of experienced persons and the demands
OF other organized charities have grown so rapidly
that it has been found necessary to open nine
depots In the different sections of the city.
About quarter of million Of meal and grocery
tickets circulated through different char
table and religious organizations. and the weekly
bills for groceries and other supplies amount to be-
tween two and three thousand dollars
The organizations that have co-operated with
the Business Mems Relief Committee are those
which come in closest contact with the needy. and
therefore best able to Judge as TO the genuine
ness and extent OF the distress and the practical
effectiveness of the relief afforded through the
'"The committee is convinced that there will be
little amcloratiol of existing conditions be-
fore May, and has planned TO continue its opera
tons until that time"
have been opened at No. q Safest. No 81 Market
ST., NO o. Avenue q. nflr w 2si SeconJeye
between Observation-Disclosures ST. and One
ed-and-seventeenth-st.; No 3i5 West One-hun-
dred- and twenty hfth-st, near Eghth-avc and yet
another that is soon 10 be opened IN rory aecl-sl
near Tenth-ave. Here is what may be obtained at
any one of these places for five cents, or ve-cent
ticket and either eaten on the premises or taken
A substantial meal of hot meat stew, coffee and
bread, TO be eaten on the premises.
one quart meat stow, one quart coIice, ana nan u
loaf of bread, or any one of the following articles
Five and one-third ounces pure roasted and
ground coffee. five and onethird ounces fne quality
tea eighteen ounces best quality sranuiateu suSaI
quality broken rice. two pounds best quahty oat
meal two pounds best quality peas. two pounds
two loAves best quality bread, one can condensed
milk.
THE VALUE or TIE CHARITY.
at is charity" said Mr. Milbury, (which Is
well nieh a perfect exemphcation of the possbili-
ty or relieving distress without encouraging pau
perism and melting imposture Through its sys-
TEN of supplying hot meals and the most essential
groceries parcels costing five cents EACH ana fur'
niShcd on tickets when are SOOu Only at tHc NC
pots about 1900 people now being fed daily
at a minimum cost"
The secretary then submitted the opinions OF some
wel-known clergymen about the woE, that Is being
done, of which few extracts are here given The
Rev. Dr. X. $ Macarthur pastor of Calvary Bap-
fist Church, says: Il have never known an lnstitu,
tion that has speedily and so certainly proved
! it's right to be- 49,, -.
| This is from the Rev. Or. David James Burrel. OF
the Marble Collegiate Church: The very pest ahe
most sensible of all the Christian benehcences Win
/ XVh |
/ The Rev d.. Ransford knows "of no more nope
full sign of the times than the conception ana lncep
ton of the Industrial Christian Alliance .
! The Rev. DR.. Henry NJ StOrrs, OF Orange y. j.
| submits this tribute Your work goes down int
the very heart of Christian ideas ana principles
II is a sight which must impress any one 10 see
the crowds which surround 30 40 Bleecker-st
each evening waiting for the chance TO get IN an,
| have supper y couple OF blocks away, at Soutf
! Fifth-aVe., is of Nathan strauss iVe~eh
! lodging houses where hundreds may be seen Whel
! the shades OF evening fall, awaiting their turn t(
| enter and rest for the night. 1t has become SC
common that nobody minds II now; but 1t IS nc
! harm to recall the fact that this exhibition OF IN,
poverty able-bOdied. honest men, wiling TO Woif
but finding no work. aud unwilling to starVe, IN TN
metropolis OF the richest country in the world was
never seen never believed 10 be possible, dur
ing the long period of years when the PATRIOTISM
and statesmanship OF Republican leaders guided th'
destines of the country and formulated her laws.