The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-04
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
A Plan to Furnish Work for a
Greater Number.
THE RELIEF COMMITTEE ] ACTlYE.
Several Additional Donations Re-
ceived Ycstcrday-Coal has to be
urchased-Interesting Conference
of the Executive Committee and.
Board of Public Works.

Board of Public Works.
The work of relieving the distress of
the unemployed goes on, the citizens
committee still issuing the necessaries
of life where needed, but aiming so far.
as possible to afford relief by furnishing
employment.
The relief store was closed yesterday.
but will be open to-day from 9 q. m. to
5 p. m. To date CSC orders have been
issued. Yesterday only some coal was
sent out. The committee ran out OF
coal and had to buy three car loads
from Florsheim to supply the demand.
Yesterday forty sacks of -four were
received from Jacob Snyder, his second
donation. John Gavin sent in dona-z
ton OF clothing and other acceptable
articles worth about $lG0. Mrs. A. G.
Egerter sent one lot of clothing.
John Helnleln, the genial manager at
a. @. Miller's, has the gratitude of the
busy clerks at headquarters for sand
wiches sent them several times.
Yesterday twenty men selected by the
relief committee were put to work by
the city gas board on the extension OF
the gas main on North Wabash street,
Island. Twenty-seven others were en-
ployed by the board of public works.
At 4:30 the largest crowd yet gathered
in and about the police court room,
anxious for employment Only forty
seven tickets were issued by the COM
mittee, as it was thought more could
not be employed.
The gas board and board OF public
works both audited their pay rolls last
night, and the men who have worked
for either board will be paid at the city
clerks Office at 2 p. N. to-day.
BEFORE THE BOARDS.
Last evening committee from the
central and executive committees on
relief. composed of Messrs. Hart, Gro
gan and Bauer waited on the board of
public works and the board of gas
trustees for the purpose of obtaining
from each board something definite
regarding the number of men VINO can
be employed at city work during the
winter. The committee also submitted
proposition regarding the payment of
wages to the men.
The committee first visited the board
of public works, the entire board,
Messrs. Schmidt, Hamilton rnd Schmul-z
bach, being present. Mr.. Hart stated
the case from the committees stand
point. He said the committee wanted
to hear from the city boards regarding
the number of men that they can put
to work. He said the committee has
already on its register the names of>700
men, who are out of and have been out
of work for a long time. The committees
have SO far relieved 425 families, repre-
senting fully 1000 persons. This work.
has been done sparingly and with good
judgment. It is necessary to face the
fact that fully that number of people
have to be carried over this winter
He then outlined plan for the pay
ment of wages to the men. For
eight hours work the board is to give
the workman an order on the commit:
tees store for groceries or supplies to
the amount of 81 20, making the rate
fifteen cents an hour as prescribed by
council recently. For this the board is
to pay the committee 81, and the COM
mittee makes up the twenty cents from
the subscriptions made voluntarily.
The price put on the supplies by the
committee would be low. This would
enable the board to employ larger
number of men and TINS reach and al
leviate more distress. Unless some ar
rangement can be made with the
will have to depend entirely on volun-
tary assistance from the public. The
total
COST OF THE RELIEF
thus far extended is between 81, 900 and
81, 100, but not much more can be e1-i
pected because donations like those of
Floersheim, the Monongah company
and Baer will not be repeated. The.
work of extending relief SO far as it has
already gone has been on purely busi-
ness basis, as correct as any in the city.
There are two points to be considered:
to give work and to give work to all
possible at rate that shall be fair but
not too big to attract people from jobs
at which they are now working. Mr..
Hart here made the proposition that
the board pay the com mittee 81 per
day for the men and that the committee
other supplies, the object of this ar
rangement being to employ all the able.
bodied idle men.
Mr.. Bauer remarked that nearly all
of the men on the committees register
are young able-bodied fellows, very few
being oyer fifty years OF age. The sub
ject of real estate came up and mem
bers of the board wanted to know
whether persons owning property
made known its rule on that subject,
which is that the ownership of real es-
tate is presumption against the appli-i
cant, though in some cases owners OF
property are in most pitable condi-
ton and are being helped because they
are utterly unable to realize on the
property. The mistakes made, if any,
remarked amen bers of the committee,
are on the side Of humanity. at this
point the committee left the board to-
take action on the proposition. The
commmittee then went down to the
gas boards office where all the mem
bers were found.
BEFORE THE GAS BOARD.
Mr. Hart made statement similar to
the one he had made before the board
of public works. He asked the board
to;undertake other work, if possible, in
addition to what has already been.
mapped out, 50 as to relieve the destitu-#
ton that now exists in the city. If.
there is any such work the committee