The Washington times., 1894-12-30
Those Who Can Give Have Given
Quickly and DoubIy.
HELP FOR COLD AND NEEDY ONES
Associated Charities Receives Funis
from Generous Citizens.
Pathetic Pictures of Privation and Poverty
Presented Little Children Suffering fer
Food and Clethes-Cases for Quick Relief
Police Fund Exhausted People Who
Suffer in Silence Rather Than Complain.


past forty-eight hours penetrated the great
coats eff the rich yesterday and touched the
hearts OF many Of them with a thrill OF hu-
name generosity. The result was that many
dollars came rolling into the treasury OF the
Associated Charities. and Supt. Lyman s.
Emery was kept busy all day Issuing receipts
for donations and giving relief to the shiver-
| ing applicants for aid.
The callers were many and the stories of
suffering they related were heartrending. As
a TINES reporter was talking with Mr.. Emery
an intelligent looking man entered the Office
| and in quiet but nervous tones beseeched the
superintendent to extend relief to his wife
and little children.
Il left my poor little babies home crying
with cold and hunger" he said.
Mr.. Emery marked this case for "qIiek re-
lief, and turning to the reporter said the ap-
| plicant not many months ago was a pros
porous merchant in this city. Business re-
verses, however, had reduced him to the
straits OF beggary. His once happy and
cheerful home was now the scene OF suffering
| and hunger.
Another caller for aid was thin little
widow who appealed for food and warmth
| for her three little fatherless ones. She said
| the children had been without food or fuel
during the preceding bitterly cold twenty
/ four hours. and were seantily clad in addi-
/ tion. supply of food. fuel and east-on cloth
j ing was sent to this poor woman's address,
| and Supt- Emery went out IN person and Sc
cured positions for the mother and oldest boy
! In dairy lunch rooms in the neghborhood.
An aged white woman from the southeast
section totiered into the Office and informed
| the superintendent that she had charge Of
] large family OF children. whom she had left
in their cherries home shiYering with
COLD AND CRYING FOR BREAD.
During the bitter weather on Friday night,
she said, there was not spark of fire in the
/ house and the little ones nearly "froze to
death" This family was furnished with
| supply OF food. fuel, and cloth ng
Il cannot bear to hear my poor children
crying for Bread said nice looking man
who had called for aid. 81 don't mind suf-
fering myself, but TO see them shaking with
| cold and almost perishing for food is too
much, and cannot endure it any longer"
Mr. Emery gave this applicant temporary
employment and sent a quick relief order
of food and fuel to the family.
One of the Associated Charities visitors
ported In The sout Invest section of the city
an aged white couple, both man and wife be-
ing over seventy years OF age. The husband
1 is confined to his bed with rheumatism and
there was neither food nor fuel in the house.
I The old people were suffering the pangs OF
both hunger and cold. They were promptly
relieved
A case was reported from Northeast Wash
ington, where a sober and industrious silver
smith, his wife, and six small children were
found hungry and nearly starved The man
had made every effort TO obtain employment
but without success. Food and fuel were
sent to this family at once.
Another pathetic case from the northeast
was that OF a man seventy-threa years old
and his aged wife. They were found TO be
| ,xrifb aif md funl df1rin M
this extremely cold weather. The old gentle
man, who had once held positions OF trust
aud honor showed his eagerness to obtain
employment by Drawing the icy north wind in
his weli-worn and scant garments. and tramp
ing seven miles over the frozen roads into the
country, where he had heard there was an
opening tor a farm hand. After his long and
chilly journey the aged Sufferer was met at
the other end
By THE HEARTLEss REMARK:
i'You are too DID,"
He thereupon sorrowfully retraced his
steps over the ice and snow to his poor old
wife. who sat hopefully awaiting his return
beside the fireless chinney-place. Last even
ing Supt. Emery sent the old couple load OF
coal and wood.
Among the late callers last evening was a
former grocer, who not many years ago
could draw his check on one of the city banks
for $4,000. He told a pathetic story about
, the sufferin - of his family, and concluded
with the remark:
When 1 had plenty I little dreamed that
the gaunt wolf OF hunger and cold would ever
come snarling and barking at the door OF my
} home"
These are only few Of the cases of desti-
tuition reported to the Associated Charities
every day. But they will serve to illustrate
/ the privations of the poor during this terri
blv cold weather. On Friday fiity-five
families applied TO Supt. Emery, and his kind
hearted lady assistants for relief. Yesterday
there were forty-six applicants. OF these
, about fifty per cent. were relieved directly,
! the others being referred to the Associated
, Charities divisions in which hey reside or
! refused. There are ten of these branches
scattered throughout the District.
Among those TO whom aid was denied was
= a man living in the northeast section of the
! city. He related a touching story of suffer
ing. and when the case was investigated by q
i visitor il was found that the husband was at
work earning S1-50 per day. while the wife
was addicted to strong drink and spent every
cent she received for liquor.
1.-The great cry now. said Mr.. Emery to q
i TIMES reporter. sis for fuel. aud many of the
, applicants aged and intrm. We keeE
two teams running every day delivering fuel
| to the poor. THE statement published in an
: | afternoon newspaper in an interview with q
receives an appropriation from Congress. is
untrue and misleading. We had surplus o
\ apout 81 500 left over from last season, and II
was a very fortunate thing we did, or We
l would have been caught In tight
pinch IN THIS EMERGENCY"
A force of male and female visitors ar,
Kept on duty at the main Office every day
and cases OF destitution are Investigated a
quickly as they are reported.
: The amount received from contributors fo
the relief of the poor at the central Office o
L the Associated Charities, No. Sll @ Stree
n northwest since Christmas will foot up abou
# $500. The contributions up TO last nigh
A were:
4 Davidson & Davidson. S100; Matthew G
n Emery. S25; Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, SO: Mrs
3 H. W. Myer $40; Mrs. A III. McLochien, S5
o Col. Alexander. So; Henry Wells, 50; Hon
h Horatio King. so; James a. Lowndes S20
: Mrs L. T. Russell. $40; W. r. Russell S2
Endicott King. S5; Mrs Peter Parker 81
Rev. Sheldon Jackson $40; Rev. George o
Little. -; n. p. Gage, supervising prime. pa
;. of the public schools, 50; Mrs. A. 81. Brown
VI SIS: Mrs M. E. Norment, S5; Rev. and Mrs
n George E. Kelly. "a: cash. SIS; j. r. Deeble
" SIS; katherine NJ. Schmidt, s. 50; Miss Lath
a rop, 81; John Kennedy. one ton coas, ]. Z
Rose, one ton coal; E. ". Tuekennauper. S5(
u ". j. Sibley. So: Evening Star Santa Clau
Club. $500; T. Moses, So; Miss F. i. Stidhan
81: E. NJ BuZzell, 81, Mrs. j. NJ Clarke, ;.
n st. Paul's Lutheran Church, $3.50, and
II number of 81 contributions from all section
D. 1 of the District.