Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-18
CLOSING UP THE WORK
There Will Be Little Further Need of Re-
lief Headquarters.
The 500 Men Paid or and Kept Mt
WOrk-Relief Committees Total
Fund Amounts to $4,000.

The headquarters of the central relief
| committee on Louisiana avenue will be
| empty tonight. All the collections have
| been made except as occasional notice is
| received of something overlooked in some
way. Hereafter" said Mr.. Gardner this
| afternoon, 1--WE shall have no contributed
| clothing, boots, shoes, hats or underwear
to give out. The patrol wagon will clear
out all we have in a couple of hours. and
| then whatever is wanted will have to come
| out of our fund"
| 'The extent and fury Of the distress seen
| to have given way before the warmer
| weather. l am at a loss exactly how to
| account for it. 1t does not seem as if hir-
| ing 500 men should cause such a difference
| We paid out Saturday only $40, and that
would hardly make such difference in
| the situation. We have something like $500
| more to pay out on last week labor ac-
coInt-that being the amount held as Sc
| curity for the tools We had to borrow and
| loan to the men,"
Mr.. Stephen Cassn and Frank ]. Donnel-
ly did very nice job in paying off the men
| Saturday night. Superintendent Mckenzie
| thought they would not get through until
! 10 o'clock in the evening, but they handled
the affair so smoothly that they had the
| men paid in an hour. Mr.. Cassn and Mr.
Donneliy have been in charge of the relief
| headquarters since it opened January H.
! and have done their work admirably on
| BOOQ business principles from start 10 IlIi-
| iSh. 1t is likely that the headquarters VIII
| not be kept open much longer, as there is
| no longer occasion for a distributing depot
Mr.. Tolson asked the committee today
| for money to hire needy men in AnacoStia,
| where there are 200 who would be glad to
| go to work. The committee told him to
| see Mr.. Mckenzie, and report later. Criu-
ciSm has been made that the men employed
| in AnacoStia were paid but 30 cents day,
| when the men at work here got 81. This
| grows out of the fact that the relief COM
| mittee has hired no men at all in Ana
| costa, but that the Associated Charities
| gave seventy-five men three days work
| there at 30 cents day.
| The 500 men were at work today in all
parts Of the city with CARTS getting the
! slush and big cakes of frozen snow and ice
| out of the cutters. They average up well
with the usual STRENGTHENING labor en-
| ployed here.
The soup house fed 400 men and women
| today. The supply of meat has kept up
| steadily. but there is little dearth Of
bread The men who come are about half
| OF them white and all look like the idle
| class who do not stir themselves very hard
| to get job
Relief Committee Meeting.
At the regular meeting of the citizens
| central relief committee, held Saturday
afternoon at the office Of Judge Cole, City
Hail. at which Judge Cole, Mrs. Babson,
Miss Loring. Col. Tracey, DR.. Richie and
| Messrs Cook Blout, Gardner, Emery and
Somerville were present it was decided
that the work of providing for the further
employment of deserving men should De
carried on. Col Tracey explained that the
original appropriation by the committee OF
81 900 made for such purpose had been ex-
| hausted and the amount exceed by 500,
| for the reason that the committee had been
obliged to pay for the carts. which, 1t was
| understood, were to be furnished free OF
| cost. There had been not little dlfhculty
| in preventing non-District men from peing
h,,% halI
| difficulty would be removed and only Dis
trict people employed this week. After
| some discussion it was decided to continue
! the employment, and the sum of S2,ooo was
| appropriated for such purpose, such
| part of it to be used as in the opinion OF
| the committee on distribution might be
| deemed necessary and proper.
MIR. Gardeners Report.
| On behalf of the committee on distribu-
| ton Mr. Gardner submitted the following
report: The committee on distribution Deg
| leave to report that under authority and
| appropriation made by the central COM
| mittee, at it's meeting on the 10th, num-
Der of men were placed at work shovelns
| snow from the streets. AS FAR as your
| committee has been able to learn the plan
| has worked reasonably Well Ihere are,
| however many disadvantages that cannot
| be overcome in hurried work OF TINS klno'
| and before asking an additional appropr1a-
| ton we would like to have the OPINION OF
the general committee as to whether TINS
work should be continued or NOT. Duf I'm
| the last twenty-four hours We have mad
calls from many coming in from the sur
| rounding states.
| We would respectfully ask APPROPRIATIONS
| as follows: Metropolitan Police, S1,ooO; AS
| sociated Charities, $1,000: Young Mems
| Christian Association (colored), 500; 81;
| Vincent de Paul. $3.50, and Hebrew United
| Charities $50.
| the two soup houses We're being continued
| with excellent results, although the former
| stated that he had observed that the great
] est crowds at the Georgetown house col
| lected during the noon hour and he was OF
| the opinion that the charity was being
| taken advantage of by men VINO, although
| at work, were making luxury VI Tie
| matter.
| Finance Committees Final Report.
| Chairman John B. Wight of the commit
| tee on canvass submitted the final report
of the committee, showing collections made
| nv chailmen of various districts, as fol-
lows:
| (B and c streets, Mrs. r. N. Harper.
$3.50; Cd and streets, VIM. Redin Wood
ward. s76.s5; IF street,. Woodward & 10th
rep, s7S4.5S; C street,, Palais Royal 4.
Lisner, $3.50; Oh street., w. l. simpson,
s2S237; Il street,. A. B. Carly. 1921 20: OK
and L -streets), Miss Trescott. s4S s3 TO-
| 20 and P streets), Mrs. A. P. Carr, 50;
10 street, Rev. ]. A. Aspinwall. Ss4I.93;
| Is and T streets), Mrs. c. S. Clark, $l32.50;
q. v and " strsets,' Miss Robinson Sbnnaan
| s2i35 (New Hampshire avenue), Miss
Sampson, s14735; Connecticut avenue and
18th street,. Mis-. Francis Walker, s4S9.35;
| Massachusetts avenue), committee on can
vass, s3l1.32: Rhode Island avenue), Rev
Frank Sewall, $197; vermont avenue). Mrs.
]. d. Terrell. s221:75; New York avenue),
| Beni. Miller, $50 40; (New Jersey avenuel,
| Miss Suman, $50 Is: pennsylvania avenue).
committee on canvass, $414.4O: Ohio,
Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Indiana
| Sd streets), Miss Lizzie E. Carter, $41.O6;
| (4th, Az, 9Th and 9th streets). Mrs. Joyce,
s13792; 9th street,. 1. l.. Blout, s2s2 Is;
| streeO, NJ. D. Peck s234.10; doth street,,
Elphonso Youngs. s5o.25; 9th street,,