New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-30
GIVING WARMTH AND LIFE.
COAL. DISTRIBUTED YESTERDAY BY THE
TRIBUNE FUND.
ONE uI-NDRED AND FIFTY-roUR AND ONE-HALF
TONS DIVIDED AMONG 800 DESTITUTE FAMi-

ONE, HUNDRED AND TY-ForR AND oNE-hAi'f
TONS DIVIDED AMONG 800 DESTITUTE FAM
LrEs-MUcH SUFFERING RELIEVED.
The Tribune Coal and Food Fund entered On us
fourth weeks work yesterday Orders for one-hali
ton of coal each were sent 200 families, loiia
tins beng ordered This is the largest number OF
orders for coal that have been sent out on any one
dav The severe weather Of the last rev DAYS
made the need for fuel among the poor greater
than ever Such a day az yesterday which was
10Th damn and cold caused great suffering. 1t was
iupossible for thinly clad men to go ABOUT III 'ieH
almost hopeless search for work. askinS even Il
small lob by which 20 few cents 30 they
STAYED at home with their wives and cniidren, anu
helDessiv waited until charity or perhaps uea'h
should relieve their distress.
Notbinp c,ud possibly be more ptiable than the
condition of many families to whom coal was SENT
Father mother and six seven children IN some
cases were huddled together In one ROOM The WIN
dow frames are not carefully joined IN many Oh
these tenement-houses the doors nave many cra.n'
about them and the sills are almost lh'ariao's
worn low by the constant passing OF many lee''
The cold and moisture easily creep III 10 torture
tho wretched inmates Where there was neither
,,arrn clothes nourishng food nor fire. the pawn
shon vos the last resort. Many wedding Ting
and cherished keepsake were sacrificed to relieve
messing unbearable want. Those VINO pa"heu '"e''
las, article Of value yesterday will have no resource
to-day Some exhausted their reSoul'es hi""' "N"
ago. ,,,,o Co
The rumble Of the coal cart was sweet ihus'c "
those moor people They FASTENED TO carry Tue
fuoI In small parcels from the Sidewalks " ''i'"
,nortments and lost time In lSh'ihs "'"O"
needed fires and drying and warming thel' no"''
Every case Of want which was relieved hau o'e"
carefully investigated. and the people iouiu ~ "
in tho most desperate straits owing 10 slch'eH' VI
lack of work II, oo,,o In thick and
ri. vi
,tns,erav 70 bring list OF needy faTnilles Wis
homes he had visited told Of several yp'cal 81
vmnnn he said whom found living IN an ae nd
room They had been married many y rain aid
h9I never been separated When they beam Ld o as
nn ,i tbeir novers declined they bJth Woihtu 90
,,h a.. ,bav were able, in order to Keep ,,7S
,h rsr,indar of their lives They conld 49, 49,
80 - charitable institutions, ana nav !,
LIndl,. cared for but they chung 10 eacH 'i'hcid
,yas their greatest wish that only ufd' nrite
rart ,hen and. doubtless. they wouu DC P"
pa ntont ~ die Together al any time. od
,.Then Their. was young fnarrlei 'ouP,c and
,hair child The man a pottery WIZ 49, tia
'nr,od rnnd wages until the hard times Ciihe
- Int All his money in furnishing ms ~
and pettng started in He. Then ne lUs. nin
wv n ana h. has seen his home grddldllE shPrnnt7s
,y1w from him. and want ana stllei rs L., npne
49, and closer to MS wife and baby. lheSe Paot
~ n.orij NOT receive charity except as d '"7'
one hundred and fifty of the orders t ,I c T,vesn
con, IA rolored families on the 80 ~ r,iers
;, ~ and Tortv-second SITS The otncr oiu t,
49, cont i'm small numbers ~ different SeN''0''7
of the city.