The morning times., 1896-02-16
WHERE HELP IS NEEDED
Pitifu| Cases Found by The
Times Charity Bureau.
SUFFERING STILL PREVAILS
Sad Case of a Family Where "A New
Babe Is Without the Least Thing
OF All 1t Needs-One Desperate
Woman's Appeal That VIII Surely
BE Needed.

The Times Charity Bureau still keeps
diligently at its work of relieving the
worthy poor.
The mission has many obstacles to face,
not the least of them being the difficulty OF
distinguishing respectable, world-bea ten
men and women from plausible impostors,
who have apparently considered the bureau
a fair field for raradinS their ficticious
woes.
This city is so beited and veined with
charitable organizations, supported by both
church and District. that il is next TO inn
possible for a homeless creature 10 either
freeze or starve.
The Associated Charities sends its agents
10 all quarters to investigate cases referred
to them, and those found worthy of help
are given work, food, or clothing, as they
most may need.
The st. Vincent de Paul Society lras its
officials working in every parish in tie
District and all worthy aestitutes are
helped, and helped substantially, regardless
of color. sex, or creed.
CARING FOR THE OLD.
Old people are sent TO the Home for the
Aged, and young children housed comfort
ably in orphan asylEnls. where every Op-
portunity is given them 10 develop into self
respecting women and men.
out of employment and bavens of refuge
for word-stained, repentant creatures who
have the heroism 10 commence life new
and clean again.
Still, there is no diSpGting the fact that
there are people who would rather die
than solicit public aid, and these are the
people The Times has cndeayOred to reach.
A capable mechanic, clerk oTla hOrcr thrown
suddenly out of work with no money
iS twice EGlniCSS = a
in such straits.
When such men have applied to the
bureau advertisements inserted in the
paper in their behalf, have, in many in
stances brought them honest work. Not
such work as they most liked or were
best fitted for, perhaps, but employment
that will pay for food and shelter until
they can secure for themselves better posi-
tions with more rcmunerative pay.
Then, too, there are women who by
sudden loss of place have become want
stricken and applied, Shanled and tear
full, to the bureau for help. As far as
possible that help has been granted.
Yesterday an agent of the bureau was
sent to relieve the wants of a destitute
family in the extreme northeast. The hus-
bands wages, at present, average 81 a
week. The wife is about to become Z
mother, and there are two children, boys
of four and eight. They were absolutely
without change of clothing, the family trunk
having been held for nou-pa yment of trans
portation, and the expected little one Will
not have Il stitch To wear, and this is
February. Thanks to the kindness of their
landlady they shared the comfort of her
kitchen, but with the exception nf a pound
of flour they were absolutely without food
land no prospect of any tomorrow
ended the woman, with Il sigh.
The reporter suddenly developed a de.
sire to go to market. The landlady pro
duced a capacious basket, and her small
son offered to carry 1t. and pilot the re-
porter to a shop
With promise to attend to the immediate
restoration of the trunk and TO the getting
together an infants outfit the reporter cut
across the windiest. muddieSt common in
all Washington in company of the small
boy, who confided his ambition TO ride
car horses up the hill and get paid wages
for thatsame. That baby needs someSlipS,
and gowns and-and-all the other indispen'
sables that winter babies must wear. Here
is the last letter received:
For Gods sake help me. have nine
| in family. My husband is ont of WORK
| and can get none. | am sick and have
| not had one mouthful to eat III two days
| | am actually starving, inch by inch. My
! dear little ones had a corn cake each fol
break kfast, but l have not a morSel more &c
| give them. II is hard to have your little
| ones cry in vain for food. have sold my
| furniture, piece byspiecc, and have moth
| ing more to keep us from starYation''
| door