New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-14
FOR STARVING CLOAKMAKERS
GOOD WORK HAS BEEN DONE. BUT MORE
IS NEEDED
FERINGs OF THESE POOR PEoPLE-CIoTH-
ING. MONEY AND FUEL Will
BE APPRECIATED.

ING. MONEY AND FUEL WILL
BE APPRECIATED.
1t was said at the Cloakmakers Relief Com
mittees headquarters yesterday that 800 Of the
men would be at work on the streets to-day This
number represents the full quota Of tickets which
VIII be issued every days. The cloakmIker
holding OF these tickets is entitled to ten days
work. AT the end OF that time men will have
a chance to work and a little money. which
Will enable them to prevent for a time. at least
the dread and gaunt wolf of starvation from en-
terinG their humble quarters which they call
home The pangs of hunger have been by no
means unknown the clOakmalsers and their
wives and children. Poverty does no; respect age
and fears nothing but the rattle of money bags.
Those who have had the work Of distributing
money. clothes and food among the destitute
cloakmakers and their families extremely
thankful that the appeals for aid have been so
generously responded to- II has made their work
much easier than 1t would otherwise have been
1t is awful ordeal for a man or woman to b.
brought into contact with such absolute destitu-
ton and suffering rs has existed among the strk-
ing cloakmakers of the East Side during the last
three or four months without having the means
to relieve it. Thanks to generous public in
only this city but in other places also. the relief
agents have been enabled far to relieve tenn
porarily every of restitution brought their
notice
DR.. Lumms and DIR. Bryant of the University
Settlement Society. have investigated hundreds OF
OF suffering among the families OF the cloak
makers and the good and prompt work done by
these women is highly spoken OF the East
Side.
DR.. Lummis told reporter for The Tribune
yesterday that she thought the public had
sponded nobly to the call for aid, and that the
newspapers also had behaved splendidly in pub
fishing the facts and making known the distress.
She said that the spring cloakmaking season was
yet good way off Give six weeks and many
of restitution were being brought to the
attention of the society daily. Many OF them
are among families that have never asked for aid
families OF cloakmakers and cloakcut,ers who
had formerly earned 500 or more week and WHOSE
little homes show evidences OF having been once
comfortably furnished But everything has been
pawned. the stove and bedding being about the
only articles which have not been disposed OF for
money TO buy bread.
Although 1t had not previously been within the
province OF the University Settlement Society. OF
No. % Delancey-st.. to do such work. nobody else
had taken up tho matter OF relieving the distress
existing among the cloakmakers with the eXcep-
ton of the trade unions. and at last the society
felt morally called upon TO do So
DR.. Lumms said that although the society hai
received considerable clothing. much OF 1t had
come from out Of town bundle had heen r re-
there yet great need Of clothing. and espc-
cially shoes for children ranging from eleven 10
fourteen years Many Of the children had to stay
indoors being without shoes. Or. Luminis told
the reporter or many tOuCninE scenes OF i'NOlDn
amid all the suffering which she had recently wit
messed in visits of charity.
The cold weather which set in yesterday is
bound to increase the suffering among the families
of the cloakmakers in large number OF which
there are many little children and a lack OF nu-
trtious food clothing and fuel ami the University
Settlement Society hopes 'hai those VINO can 90
so will still help IL in the truly charitable and
Christian work which IS now In progress among
the destitute people.
Manager jones and Treasurer Goldsmith, OF the
Relief Committee, gave out bread. potatoes and
sugar to about 100 people yesterday The bcne-
fits resulting from the $1,000 fund provided by
the Society for Improving tho Condition Of the
Poor is plainly seen in the fever people VINO Apply
10 the Relief Committee for food None OF those
who are receiving 9 share OF this fund by working
the streets receive other aid or food change
is also noticeable in the men. They have more
hopeful air and are eager TO work although
blisters cover the hands OF Of them from
handling the picks and shovels and their toes
stick out from the rents in their shoes. Many ~
the men are actually too III 10 do outdoor labor.
especially during the severe weather. number
Of them are undoubtedly In the first stages OF con
sumption. while others are suffering from the grip
and kindred diseases.
a meeting OF the clOakmakcrS has been
led