New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-26
A PLAN TO SECURE 100000 MEALS A DAY.

A PLAN TO SECURE 100000 MEALS DAY.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Thousands may be fed every day in the cities
Of New-York and Brooklyn without dollars extra
expense by the careful saving OF the surplus food
and pieces of meat and slices ard scraps OF bread,
etc. which are now wasted In the houses OF fortu-
nate and thrifty people of good position and apun-
dant means. II they could only be made 10 reach
the hungry promptly when needed.
\ glance at the garbage cars set out in the
street will show you pieces of meat, potatoes. slices
and crusts OF bread and the bones OF roasts that
for the poor people would make good. substantial
soups and stews. yielding far better meals than
often came to our old soldiers In the war, II they
had only been saved apart and kept ceany' so that
they could have been so used.
| would. therefore. suggest that every FAMILY
make It solemn duty to put everything eatabe
which they may have to spare every day In the
clean paper bags in which heir groceries come to
the house-surpus cooked vegetables and SOFT ma
teral could be saved in the waste vegetable ana
fruit cans and set in these bags-and place them
in the grangs OF the front basement windows
every morning. or. perhaps better, every evening,
so that those suffering honest working people, who
have never before known what 1t was to want or to
beg. can know where. without publicity or humllia-
ton. they can daily or nightly find something with,
out begging that will keep starvation at bay until
these terrible clouds roll by.
3@00D Of people. averaging 10000 homes; lVlcQ
homes are suffering; 20o0oo homes are reduced and
cannot help. leaving 100000 families In wealth and
comfort. which. with the hotels and restaurants;
would average each suflciency for a square meal
a day easily, without any cost but the little trouble
and care of saving IL from the kitchen fire and the
garbage pail only think for a moment OF this;
Three hundred thousand square meals day saved
from waste What immense relief. so easily
ana Immediately rendered without cost and
machinery and ubiquitous. wherever needed, and all
set in motion at once II only the newspapers and
the ministers I'm their churches would take this up
and keep II going until the people who can spare
will adopt the plan and the needy will know that
wherever they see a package At a basement window
IL t. meant for them freely and without question,
The hungry thus relieved every dollar OF money
that be- spared for charity can be saved TO help
the suffering out In rent and in sickness. through
societies and churches. each taking care of its
immediate ncghborhOod parish. Systematic
work and great economy are necessary TO meet this
terrible dispensation OF sorrow. which seems yet
I'm IT'S lncpiency. and make the means of relief.
already fearfully strained. hold out through this
night Of darkness. which is growing apace. almost
rayess OF hope.
VIII not the grand old Tribune. which has been
the voice Of advancing humanity and the pioneer
~ every amcliorating and ennObling work for the
well being OF the people. and especially the working
people FOR half a century. make the welkin ring in
this behalf? JOHN w. JONES.
No. so Bedford-ave.. Brooklyn \. Y. Jan. 90 1894