The evening world., 1894-02-09
EVENING WORLD
FREE FOOD COMMISSION.

They found big. kindly Policeman
Patrick Mccullough at the door. He was
assigned to the duty Of keeping order
through the kindness Of Capt. Richard
ond Precinu. 1t was an easy duty to
perform. fnr the people who gathered
here. were already subdued and humbled
by days and weeks and months OF un-
successful buffetting with that relentless
observation-disclosures.
Passing in they came upon Max Mer-
uce commission merchant. from across
the street. who was neglecting his own
profitable business in order to take a
hand in the distribution OF food to those
body else's because they were penniless.
In the language of the smaN boy.
"Mergentime, Is a corker." Alongside
and aiding In every way was =; c:
truck" belined the hastily-improvised
counter OF planks resting on two bar.
rels. that constituted the furniture and
was given to ""The Evening World"
Free-Food Commission by Mr.. Martin
Teschmacher, OF 25s Greenwich street.
,a AT a a aessra Vas m yTnns 'a of Me mam-
times establishment, the most wide
awake cashier that ever handled no
cash, getting the story OF each miserable
open-handed commission merchants OF
''Negetablevllle,' as this quarter of the
city is sometimes called.
Haggerty. George Greenthal. Samuel
Myers and James Meehan. having I'M
ished their market day work In Megenr
name OF charity, the days work begun
at 4 o'clock this morning. And Mark
Schlesinger. OF 40 Second street, had
come in from his duties as inspector q
by acting as interpreter between the
statesmen named above and the Gus
toner's
Timldly they came. these derelicts on
the sea OF fortune. With voices faint and
faces frightened. abashed or Inundated.
they told the story of loss of employ
ness of wife or husband or darling babe
at home. the lack OF Goals. the emptiness
of the cupboard, the gaunt spectre OF
s ihe Iast visit sh t to the fsFp pawnbroK uGtSc
helplessness, the hopelessness, that had
stricken their homes, where nothing but
sorrow. suffering and trouble lived,
The bread procured at THE world's''
Free Bread Bureau in Houston street or
Eleventh avenue had been the only food
for some OF these poor creatures, and
Juggling away the material offered
here for many feasts.
1t was such a scene as would have
made Dickens's pen cry out, and the
great novelist OF the weak would v
1t so that every readers eyes
would have been too much dimmed by
tears 10 see lnt page
The Evening World and its friends
can't feed 2O6,0O0 destitute people!' ex-
the Croaker, with his useless
hands in his pockets. quoting she mum
police census takers last week.
But we can feed a few OF them at
least, and II other people would act on
the same principle Instead of croaling
on their inability 10 do 1t all there
wouldn't be an empty stomach in New
York tonight
The last speaker was Max Mergentime.
and he showed how earnest he was q
moment later, when n wan-faed widow
from West Tenth street appeared with
out bag or basket.
Go over to the bag dealer across the
way n get a couple of hundred paper
bags OF the largest size, and tell him to
charge 1t to me- he shouted bolsterously
to one of the statesmen.
The bags We're soon procured, and the
widow was sent away a minute later
one OF them chock full OF vegeta-
bles,
Young Jacob Hamburger--everybody In
calls him young Jacob