New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-11
RELIEF WORK ON THE WEST SIDE.
THE REV JOHN A II. WILSON'S LABoR ANp THE

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TIE REV. JOHN a. h. WILSON'S LABOR AND THE
COOPERATIVE HOME SCHEME
Distress among the poor In the tenemeni-house
districts Of the West side is sti acute. ana the reet
resources Of the different schemes Of the Rev j. A
B. Wilson Of the West Eightcenth-st Methodist
Church. are more severely taxed than ever before.
Lately 1.-THE Christian Herald" relief fund made Mr..
Wilson and his assistants agents for distributing
supplies and the support Of 10 families was III TINS
way provided for. The hard-wofking minister sain
TO a Tribune reporter: I'VE are working herolcaAy
and successfully and without regard TO creed Inc
calls on our people are eGua!ed by the calls on
any society in this city There Is large Cath
nonuiatlon In this district and three out OF four
lIeved this winter by have been Roman 'dtho.'c''
A large share Of our work now - ceNo'ed 10 nv
relief Of people VINO will not let theA wants DE-
known openly The number Of peope OF TINS khd
"a astonishing We have found families literally
starving to death because OF the bread-"nhhs "e"-
bers OF the household being out OF work nut they
are too proud to appeal to charity for relief Tn"y
pawn everything they have in the house We srhn
supplies to them at night. and IN every way Try ~
persuade them that there are many IKE men, hhu
that there Is nothing to be ashamed OF IN accep'"9
hep.
of distributing relief there have been. o. i4'e'
good many cases where people have received sup
nles from two or three sources. But a duphcatoh
is better than an insunicency. The Cathohc 'ouh-
ell wrote 70 US not 10 relieve any CathoAc fdn'"es'
that they were able to provide rehct without ""'-
side help. have not respected That prohbiiioh or
in fact any other. The simple question OF h''u
and suffering Is all that have regarded don
believe in limiting the feeding o. h""s'y P'oP'' -
Genomlnational lines.
"po,ice Captain Donahue has been Of great service
10 us He has kept Informed OF extreme ih'iee"t
cases Some OF my Methodist brethren hcaueh py
Bisbop Andrews. have started fund FOR the RELIEF
OF poor Methodist families. regulated the move
ment when It was begun on the ground OF us mar
rowncss and am not at All surpr'Seu 'H't II IA"
not struck a popular chord.
"Ivo have como across many distressing cases. \
few days ago / found an educated hlghy rehhed
woman who had been reared In aihuence She h'i
lately been deserted by her husband. VINO ran OH
with n younger and prettier woman leaving MS
,gal wife destitute She tried keeping boarders, but
made a failure OF Il. When found her she was ILL.,
desperate. and actually In need or the bare neceS-
sttles OF life Yc, she was too proud to acknowledge
her want. and very likoly would have died rather
than ask aims.
lone day week. in a back tenement house
found a man and his wife and a baby born but one
hour before reached them. The room was bitterly
cold there being fire. The baby was wrapped in
y ,ablo-cloth The only available clothing in the
house. ana the fathcr wrnging his hands In
despair and cursng the day he was born. The
mother and baay would doubtless have died IN
twenty-four hours II / had not found them
Mr. Wilson spoke enthusiastically Of The new Co
lucrative Home for Self-Supporngs Women. just
established through the efforts OF lis church .Ac-
computations for twenty-four women have been
nrovlded and more beds will be put up" said he.
There young women OF good character can get
hoard and lodging at from 81 10 a week. The
rues governing the home are simple being well I'M
dSrsood by every selfrespectlng. well-bred Ameri
can girl and others can be taught.
"a Catholic girl, who, a week ago came with OK
ce,Ien references but money, and no other place
IN 90 tod me morning this week. as she left for
- aood situation at SIS month that she didn't know
mai she should have done but for this little place"
Mr.. Wilson said that The Tribune Charity fund
had been OF Great to the poor in different paris
OF his district