The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-23
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DON'T
Drop bills or anything else but
coin i'm The NEWS 3 cent
Bread Fund box. The cent
box is designed for coin only. Bills, ETC.,
will be gladly received over the Office
counter. The box is designed solely for
the too-modest contributors OF small
amounts who don't care to be mentioned
in print except as leash. u Larger con-
tributors who prefer not TO have their
names used have their wishes treated with
equal respect.
There was $3.50 in the 3-cent slot box
last evening. Isn't that fine?
That and hundreds OF other contribu-
tions, from three cents TO 30 cents suggest
an interesting inference, namely that the
Bread Fund offers an opportunity to per-
sons who have no large resources available
for help in this time of need but gladly
take advantage of the Bread Fund and
the splendid work it enables them to do.
The aggregate of these small contribu-
tions is enormous, and what is accom-
plished by them Is great. The willing
heart is able to express itself to splendid
advantage through the Bread Fund even
though the purse may be slender.
Yesterday was notable for some big
contributions. Since establishing its
Bread Fund with its own gift of
1000 loaves, The NEWS has not solicited
a single penny save through the medium
of it's columns. Nobody has been asked,
much less urged, by THE NEWS represen-
tative to contribute cent. The News
well knows the demands made
upon the well-to-do in time
like this and it's theory that there were
many persons who were practically de-
barred from giving, but who would gladly
contribute according to their means, were
any available method proposed, is borne
out by the facts. The Bread Fund gave
them the opportunity, and contributions
have been pouring in with astonishing
freedom and with no other solicitation ex-
cept the announcement that THE NEWS
fund was open. At the very beginning,
however, number of prominent men
volunteered to contribute from 100 to
1000 loaves. These generous offers the
Bread Fund has not yet stood in need of
though some of them have been liqui-
dated. Governor Brown and Mayor Olney
were among the first to send
in their contributions, while equally
as big gifts were received from private
individuals, often unknown TO THE News,
the money being sent in the mail and
anonymously. 1t is newspaper principle
not to accept anonymous contributions
but this otherwise invariable rule
is suspended in the interest of the Bread
Fund. Then, too, patrons of restaurants,
employees of stores and manufactures and
organizations have contributed large sums
in bulk-THE NEWS composing room
leading of as The NEWS corporation led
the generous fund.
Today l.. III. Humphreys OF the Nara
gansett Hotel, heads the list with con-
tribution OF 500 loaves, and several other
big ones are also received day. The re-
suit of all this helpfulness is
that the Bread Fund is in
capital condition with two or
three thousand loaves ahead of the de-
mand-two or three days stores ready TO
be drawn upon. This is as it should be,
for THE NEWS wants to see the pace kept
up at least until the end OF January when
the clouds of distress already breaking
shall show clean rift.