St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-12
SINCE LAST NOVEMBER.
Nearly One thousand Men
Were Furnished With
Employment,
AND EARNED OVER $4,000.
Money for Fuel and Food
Raised Entirely by Sub
scriptions.

An interesting report of the work
thus far accomplished by the citizens
relief committee in procuring work for
the unemployed from Nov. % up to Jan.
5, was submitted by Chairman Wilson
yesterday. The report shows that the
committee has succeeded in accomplish
ing more than it thought possible at the
outset.
Nearly 1000 men were given employ
ment, and the total amount earned by
them was S5.326.40. Of this amount the
$50 men who worked in the parks re-
c4ived $3,2l5.40 in cash, while the re-
mainder who were employed OH the
streets received payment i'll orders for
provisions and fuel to the amount of
S2.1ll The $3,215.40 paid by the park
board came out of the fund placed at the
disposal OF the park board by the coun-
Gil, but the citizens relief committee is
entitled to large share of the credit for
suggesting and bringing about this ac-
ton of the council. The money eX-
pended by the relief committee
in supplying the workingmen with
fuel. provisions and other neceSsares
of life, was raised entirely by private
subscriptions, winch speaks we'll for
the generosity of the citizens. as we'll
as for the industry and perseverance of
the committee. Considerable difficulty
was encountered at first, as the sub
scriptions came i'll slowly, and when
they did come in, it was frequently
some time before the subscribers paid
i'll the money. But in spite of the dis
couraging outlook, the committee kept
on working, and succeeded in furnish
ing work for nearly 400 men.
The committee opened its office at
Market hall Nov. %. A week later it
began issuing weekly assignments TO
work on the parks by giving tickets to
147 men. The following week, on Dec.
7, tickets were issued to 100 men en-
titling them to
work on the Streets.
The assignments were continued as
to the parks every succeeding week
down to the present time, making
five weeks in all. Tickets were
issued for tour successive weeks
to tie men who worked on the streets.
The second week 50 men were put to
work, 81 the third week and 90 the
fourth week. The men who worked on
the parks received in cash $3,2l5 10, as
already stated, while the $50 men en-
ployed on the streets were paid III
orders for neceSsarieS to the value of
50, III. Thus the total amount earned
by each man of the entire 975 was S5.46.
Every man who applied for work re-
ceiyed a blank and was instructed to
have it filled in by some responsible
acquaintance familiar with the appi-
cant's circumstances. The committee
issued 1.739 Of these blanks up to Jan.
5. Of this number 313 never returned,
which reduced the whole number of APP
plicatiOns for six weeks to 1926. They
come from the various wards of the
city in the following proportion:
First ward, ISL, or 1929 per cent:
Second, 1S5, or 1890 per cent; Third, 2S,
or 2 per cent; Fourth, 10. or 0.7O per
cent: Fifth, 245, or 17.1S per cent;
Sixth, 100, or 1910 per cent; Eighth,
473, or 80. II per cent; Ninth, 126, or S.S7
per cent; Tenth, 8, or 0.2l per cent;
Eleventh, 2 or Ola per cent.
The nationa!ities were represented as
follows: German and Austrian, Sc 50
per cent; British, 1886 per cent; Poles
and Bohemians, II per cent; Scandi-
navians, 1870 per cent; Italians. III
per cent; Americans, 6.75 per cent, OF
only 81 applicants out of the 1,426.
! Tie vacations Of the applicants we're:
| Common day laborers, 1,061, or 74.40 per
cent: common railroad laborerS, 16S or
11.77 per cent; railroad mechanics, 49,
or l.27 per cent: carpenters, 81, Or 4 .2S
per cent; masons, So or per cent;
miscellaneous, 4.2S per cent.
The committee Will continue to issue
blanks and receive returns at Market
hall every "Wednesday afternoon and
Saturday morning. On Friday mornings
at O'Clock tickets emitting the men to
go to work will be distributed. The
men who work in the parks receive
their weekly pay on Wednesday at 9 a.
m. while the men employed on the
streets are paid at 2 p. m. the same
! day Every Saturday morning the
committee will hold general hearings.