Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-14
The Cold Wave Has Brought Ad-
ditionaI Suffering.
SOME NIPPLE CA S E S

pirched by lack of the neceSSar1eS OIL me-
Free zng weather now intensifies their suf-
fering: starvation and death by freezing
threaten today many home. The CHAR
table institutions of the city are utterly
unable to meet the exigency. Their ac-
cumulated funds are already exhausted,
and they are relieving as best they can
with the varying contributions received
from day to day a fraction of the suffering
to which their attention is directed. With
no less Of local want and distress to be
met than at the corresponding period of
last year. the funds at hand for charitable
relief are smaller than at that time by
about $4,000 In fact, there is no fund
now available for Immediate relief. There
fore the central committee urges upon the
benevolent and beneficent Of Washington to
contribute literally and to contribute at
once. A systematic canvass of the city
will soon be made, but do not wait for that.
Men, women or children may starve or
freeze before the proceeds of this canvass,
however promptly conducted, will be avail
able.
Contributions of food, fuel and clothing
will be received at the distributing head
quarters of the central relief committee in
the building of the Central Union Mission,
or, upon notification of a desire to con-
tribute, the committee will send for such
articles. Money contributions are invited
through any of the local newspapers. or they
may be sent direct to the treasurer of this
committee, Beriah Wilkins, Post building.
C. C. Cole. president; Miss H. B. Loring,
vice president; l.. S. Emery, secretary;
Beriah wilkins, treasurer, John F. Cook.
l.. w. Richie, Isaac l.. Blout, James w.
Somerville. Mrs. ]. W. Babson. Jno. Tracey.
II ThpO-
dore w. Noyes. C. G. Conn and John G.
Slater.
Added Suffering From the Cold Wave.
The cold wave reached here yesterday
morning all right according to the prom
ises of the weather bureau. AS cold
wave it was a success of generous pro-
portions, for such a sudden and complete
change in temperature has not been seen
here before this winter. Coming as it did
right top OF such long stretch or
rainy and diSagreeaDle weather 1t served
to clear up the atmosphere, but at the
same time it has brought in Its train an
i'm mense amount of added suffering to peo-
Pile whose coal bins and larders are bare
and removed from all likelihood of being
replenished in the near future.
The change came very suddenly yeSter-
day morning, and the result was that yes
terday was one of the coolest days of the
winter, the mercury going down TO d de-
All those who had warm sitting rooms
and pleasant CRATE fires developed strong
taste for staying home, and the streets
were comparatively deserted. The bottom
limit of the cold wave was not long in
passing over, however and already the
weather prognoSticatorS give promise OF
better things. Today has been rather
pleasant in the matter of temperature,
while the bright sunlight and the absence
of wind has made it seem warmer than 1t
really has been. The predictions, too, are
for warmer weather. with sOutherly winds
For the hundreds of people in this city to
whom cold weather means added suffering
1T was a tremendous hardship, that cold
wind Of yesterday morning and Sunday
was day they will long remember with
a feeling of horror. To these the prob
ability of a let-up in the cold snap will be
good news.
Applicants for Assistance.
1t has been very busy day at the head
quarters of the Associated Charities and
the Central Union Mission. At each there
have been far more applicants for assist
ance than could p ,ssibly be attended to,
ard many Of the helpless ones told pitiful
stories of suffering, of little children who
were without food and with not enough
bed clothing to keep them warm last night.
The men and women who are charged with
the distribution of assistance have been
as generous as they could, realizing that
at such a time as this the needs of the
poor are greatly enhanced. So it is that
many a barren home has been cheered
with presents of coal and food in cases that
must otherwise have gone unrelieved.
To chronicle in anything like detail the
cases of suffering that are daily reported
to these two headquarters CT charity would
fill columns of the newspapers. The very
crowd of people who hang about the doors
Of these two buildings waiting their turn
make picture of grim distress that Is
more than enough to appeal to any heart.
At the Central Union Mission today there
ror, fr<,
the cold that the reading and sitting rooms
were crowded to their fullest capacity,
while some could not gain admission and
were compelled to stand outside the doors
in cold and hungry groups, waiting
chance to get in and sit down. In the big
room where groceries and provisions are
distributed to those whose stories and
appeals have been investigated the long
ton made up for the most part of women
who had their baskets with them in the
hope of getting something to carry back
to hungry little ones at home.
Some Sample Cases of Need.
Among the cases that have been relieved
within the past few days are number
that are marked by features that make
them particularly hard. One man who was
given enough to last him for two or three
days was young fellow who was form
erly In government employ. He lost his
position, and finally took to driving a cart
to support his wife and little child. He Is
q sober and Industrious man, but some
weeks ago he was thrown from his cart
and run over. He only got out Of the hos
pital last week, out of work, and to find
his family in the most desperate straits.
In his crippled condition he could not do
much for their support, even If he could
find employment, and they would starve
were it not for help that has been ten
dered them.
In his daily rounds one Of the visitors Of
the mission has come upon very hard
case. 1t is that of a woman in South
Washington, whose husband is In the hos
pital at present, and who has been out Of
work for long time past. She has six
children, the youngest Of them four years
of age. The eldest is a young man, but,
so far from being help to his mother, he
is an idiot, and an additional trouble and
expense. The family are in absolutely des-
titute circumstances, and what little the
woman has been able to earn by washing
and doing odd jobs has nowhere near suf-
feed to keep them in food. Another family
in South Washington, which has been tenn
porarily relieved, consists of man and his
wife, with four children. The husband,
though a hard-working man, can get moth
ing to do, and has not been able to earn a
cent in weeks past. There was no food or
fuel In the house, and scarcely enough