San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-02
DALLAS LETTER.
Newsy Bit OF Gossip From Texas
Second City.

| NeWSy Bit VI GOSSIP rroH texas
Second City.
Dallas, Texas, January 2S.-The cold
and snow was unwelcome to all. To the
improvident and indolent it made but
little difference. The United charities
were here to call on. Charity is a
good thing to be sure, but the result
of the work of the Dallas Charity or
| ganization has led your correspondent
| to believe 1t is far better for the good
of all concerned to put those persons,
| who are able to work, in a position to
help themselves, instead of supplying
them with fuel, provisions and clothes
just as they see fit to call for same.
To accede to these calls for help makes
them perfectly Indifferent about get
ting work. For the past two or three
years charity has kept one family, CON
sisting of a mother and four children.
To the writer's certain knowledge ev-
cry member of said family was quite
capable of earning his or her own live
lihood. The mother was so kelly SEN
sitive about her children that they did
not long remain at any one place, and
at the present time the city is furnish
ing provisions and fuel to a family
consisting of an able bodied woman
and her 1S-year-old boy and girl, all
of whom are able to make their living.
The boy was getting IS per month and
his board, but, as he expressed it, he
could not stand 1t to be bossed" and
threw up his job, while the girl said
her mother was very cranky about
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difficult to get help here, and it is like
ly to continue so as long as this state
Of affairs exists. The man in charge
of the charity headquarters has to be
paid. believe he gets $50 per month.
This sum is not too much but this sum
could be put to a more judicious use,
and so far as some of the indolent ones
who received adds concerned, certainly
to a more beneficial use. The whole
sale cahrity as distributed in this city,
is an incentive to Incidence.
Mrs. W.L.Hall was standing in front
of her CRATE when her dress caught
fire. She was severely burned and it
is not known whether she will recov-
er from the shock. Mrs. Hall is an
invalid and is very frail. Had it not
been for the timely assistance of the
colored cook she would have burned to
death in a few minutes.
The many friends of Mr.. c. e. Gill
bert, of this place, think a more COM
petent man for expert printer could not
have been found. Mr.. Gilbert is an all
round capable newspaper man, and,
while the papers lose a bright writer
the state will have a most efficient
public printer.
DR.. Pitcher, the celebrated organist,
is in the city. The music loving peo-
pie will have several opportunities of
hearing him play.
A certain Dallas attorney, young and
ambitious, was an aspirant to succeed
Judge J. H. Rector, when it was ru-
mored that the United States District
Judge, northern district of Texas, was
going to resign. The gentleman him
self, who is in the best position to
know, says positively II have no idea
of resigning."
The remains of Ludwig Tarantino
were shipped to San Antonio, where de-
ceased's wife and children reside. He
was an Italian, 65 years old, and had
lived in America forty years. At the
time of his death he was conducting a
grocery store.
The menagerie in the city park has
become so Objectionable to the resi-
dents of that portion of the city, on ac-
count of the bowling Of the wolves,
that the entire collection is offered for
sale.