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committee, and will give per cent on all
its cash sales today at all it's stores and
market stands.
For six years the Wcman's Relief Corps
OF the q. A. r. has looked after poor army
same work. Next Friday night February
s. the corps will give pound party at the
headquarters. in the Atlantic building.
The Market Mems Guild.
Disconnected with every other organiza-
ton of the kind in the District, the citi-
zens, who do business in the Eastern
market house have started an association,
composed solely of their own number, and
are using the basement of the building for
storage and cooking. Their efforts are ex-
clusively intended for the class of working
men and their families who have been
long out of employment, have exhausted
their credit and are now forced to look to
any quarter which VIII render temporary
aid. The market men do not as
sumo TO be dispensers of charity,
Their means are too limited for
that. They consider the working man a
guest who would return the complime Mt
10 them If matters were reversed. The
labor leaders have been asked TO indorse
the tickets of invitation. The citizens of
East Washington are trying to strengthen
nations will prove. The following was do
mated the first three days.
Loaves of bread-R. E. Smith. 10; r. w.
Blair 81: NJ. Barber. 80; VIM. f. Arandees,
80; NJ. Reader, %; J. Kraft, 80; NJ Cook
10; Chas Schrodt, 80; Richard Rathwell
80; J. q. Menburg, Go, 100 biscuits; Levi
Meredith, 80; George F. Harbin, 80. Beef
A Loeffier 30 pounds; ]. T. Varnel 80
pounds; p. Kennedy, flour; w. H. Mehler.
soup ladies': NJ. Perry, boiler; NJ. Martin,
gasoline: Harvey Co, corn pork; Mrs.
Emily Briggs. s.. The market men have
also furnished 1 barrel turnips, bushels
% punches celery, "A cans corn and toma-
toes, 81 loaves bread, 100 barley.
Quartermaster NJ. A. Dillon of La Fayette
Post, No 20, G. A. r., has issued "a stirring
and feeling appeal to his comrades. He
urges the members to assist in making
grand success of the pound party in aid
of the suffering comrades, which is pro-
posed to be given on the evening of Feb
ruary 6, s pm. at go street northwest.
Gifts yesterday to the Associated Chari-
ties direct We're: Mrs. NJ. b. Morgan, $lo;
Wales Hubbard, 50: NJ. D. Peck, 50: Vir-
ginia s. w. Fox, $50: DR.. Roeber, 81; e.
II. Booth, 81; A. T. Britton, $40; John F.
Ellis, 80: J. A. Dribble, $40: Mrs. F. J.
Huntley. 81: James w. Loundes, So; Miss
L. NJ. Powers, so: go loaves of bread. Eul-
lards Obelisk Flour Company: 7. H. Alex
ander, 50; Mrs. w. Pitkin. So; Mary A.
Cushing, S25: Noble d. Larner, SO.
Mrs Adele keane of 1929 Pennsylvania
avenue will give 20 cents on the dollar to
the poor from the proceeds of all sales OF
her stock of ladies' furnishings for the
next thirty days.
Poor Women Out of Work.
Mrs. La Fetra Of the w. c. T. U. esti-
mates that the smallpox scare threw large
numbers of colored washwomen out of
work-probably as many as 2.OoO-and
from inquiry at Woodward & Lothrops,
Lansburgh's and the Palais Royal, be-
1,.I Of irlS
iCus to get work as saleswomen at $50
or s. a week. Others say this Is far below
the actual number of unemployed girls.
- Sewing Work Given.
Mrs. Michael who receives a great many
of the petitioners at the Central Union
Mission, said yesterday that twenty-five
to thirty new cases apply during the
month There are a great many who want
who do not call at the mission, but who
are known there. Only recently the mis-
Sion gave sewing work to seventy-seven
deserving cases. These with those who
applied for work other than in sewing for
the past two months, alone number nearly
200. The sewing work is, OF course, only
a temporary relief. There Is large num-
ber of women who by reason of their in
cumbrancss, cannot leave home to work
even if they got it to do. conservative
estimate gives this number as fully 1OO0.
Mr. Flack of the Hope and Help Mission
saws that on an average forty-five per
month come there to stay for while and
others applied who could not be accommo-
dated. This class does not go elsewhere,
so that there is possible duplication of
the numbers. They are all women out of
work and who would accept it If they could
get it. 1t is not easy to estimate the.whole
number of this class, perhaps impossible,
but there are at least 100 of them now in
need.
At the Wimodaughsis there are numerous
calls for work, but no record is kept of the
callers.
At the close of the last report Of the AS
sociated Charities the number of applica-
tions for work were 557, and for the last
two months there have been 1GS, making a
total of 720 persons, of whom not less than
500 were women, asking for work. There
are no duplicate calls on this list. The
great number of appeals for two months
of the present year at the Associated Char
tiles shows that there Is every prospect of
a continued increase of applications. 1t
can safely be estimated that for the three
months there will have been 300 applca-
tions from women alone to the Associated
Charities.