The evening world., 1894-03-07

The magnificent %spring-like weather
Is being enjoyed to The fullest by all
New Workers, but there are no residents
OF Fifth avenue who can have half the
appreciation OF natures genial mood
that fills the hearts Of the poverty
stricken people who have had a long
Winter of idleness and want.
Spring means n 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 of In the num-
Der OF applicants for food during the
past three days. 1t means, first OF all,
that the family w~age-earners are re-
cefvlns employment Better strI. 1t
means that with a return Of work anu
wages want Is disappearing. and It 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, 1t has fed the hungry and the
A'1S sh Iiphy u utHptT-
ate man or woman from stealing or
from going to the bad. The memory OF
their work VIII be a bright thing in the
retrospect or every one of the men and
women who made the enterprise succsss-
ful by their contributions OF food or
money.
.. From nv the eeglnnI1Es Of the work Of
mission several c%lergymen. representing
nearly every faith. have worked con-
scientl9usly and unselhshly to make
make it what It was intended, a source
or food supply to those who were In sb-
solute ~dertitulion. None has been more
faithful than Rev. John Finch, pastor OF
list Church.
Mr.. Finch has been s~plendidly sup
ported by his estimahle wife. They have
asrsann Srsed and RAGE; and have
cases, and when the manager OF the dis
tributlon at ~ Murray street receives
from Mr.. Finch a letter like the follow
In the letter and the spirit:
Dear Evening World"
This boy and Girl come from the poorest homes
N %iioboken. They live In the same house. Mira.
Finch has visited them, and she SAYS they are
very. very poor. Don't sive them money, but
give them good baskets full. Yours as ever.
J. FINCH.
Rev. Peter Gravel, of the Church OF
81. Jean baptiste. In East Seyenty-slxth
street. was another interested onlooker
at to-day's distribution OF food, and r.
:. Martin, OF the Bloodgood Nurseries,
Eushing, l.. L., declared that it was q
glorious charity.
Perhaps the most pathetic case tina
has yet appeared at 30 Murray street
.oughby avenue. Brooklyn.
She had been widowed In the early
Winter. She had sold her fu%rniturs
furnished room with an oil Stove and
misery. Her engagement ring, her ear.
rings, u brooch. q bracelet. and at last
the plain gold band that symbolized her
happy marriage some years g had
gone to the pawnbroker. as the slips In
her purse told.
The rent was unpaid for three weeks
Dor, n ~fair-haired little girl OF sis
years toddled beside her. her great
Pleading blue eyes gazing up into the
OF unknown trouble at her mothers
tears.
woman ys%%s mot 5rms' was snd IN mat 't eySnaIt tsi'
which appeals to the strongest emotion
This old rent recelp, l put in my purs,
bears my name. and address. II any
thing should happen that they had L
take me to n hospital. they could. leart
from this paper who was n where
Twenty men. rough.handed and hoarse
voiced narketmen, tumbled over eaci
other In their anxiety to be first In serv
Ing this woman OF unutterable woe. TIL,
result was such a load of f~oodstuffs a,
would have. taxed n strong woman Il
carry a block.
Marks schiessinger's pity took tn,
form OF a g bill. A dozen others pur
quarters and dimes and nickels into hei
purse. She had walked with her doubl,
ISSaass fT Ss!as wi'l sSa down sysn 10 e sef Sart "a,
ried the siespIns. bsby, snd! another Ii,
on q bridge car; they took q street car II
As they creased City Hall Park IN.
woman half tainted. and friEntensd hsl
abe was revived. BSby's syss Owned
by's nps murmarsd aiismms. stftiy
There win ~ inelheI bern 10 thls le|
& nl5 na eesl.c ~ S'ssss ( AZ !,