The San Francisco call., 1897-03-11
The Unemployed Cleared
Nearly Two Hundred
Dollars.
Old Clothing and Old Shoes
Badly Needed at Head.
quarters.
Railroad to Be Asked for Low Rates
for Unemployed Leaving for
Country Jobs,

The unemployed were busy yesterday
to the extent of gathering in unsold tick
cts and determining just how much they
made from the show in the Auditorium
on the night before. Al latest accounts
they had cleared about $3.50. or over $40
in excess of the original estimate.
This cash is sadly needed at the head
quarters. where applications for relief
come in daily from women and little
children in dire distress and threatened
with ejectment from their miserable llv-
ing places. What is most needed, and
what should be more easy TO obtain, Is old
clothes for the destitute and needy among
the unemployed and those depending
upon them.
The relief committee wishes to make
special request to benevolently inclined
individuals Tor old clothing of any kind,
and especially for shoes, for men, women
and children. If the address be sent to
the relief committee at the headquarters
for the unemployed at GA Howard street
some one will be detailed and properly au-
thorized to collect the contribution at the
home of the donor.
Yesterday a bundle of old clothes was
sentIn by Miss Fanny Muraskey OF 10l4
Harrison street. L. a. Bryan of 300 Mar
ket street gave eight pairs of new shoes,
and other kindly disposed persons sent
old clothes and some fifty loaves OF bread.
The relief committee assisted eleven
families yesterday and relieved forty-four
of the unem mployed with allotments of old
clothes from the small supply on hand.
A communication was received fro m
Mrs, Emily Z. Lassague of 311 Van Ness
avenue offering shelter for three or four
persons.
The chairman of the relief committee
asserts in explanation of his request for
certain accommodations for unemployed
cases at the City and County Hospital
and at the County Almshouse that some
provision is necessary for dangerously i'll
persons such as have been reported to the
committee and for aged persons who are
beyond the working age.
They are cases for public care and can
not be provided for by the unemployed,
but if life is worth saving the City and
County should upon application offer some
shelter to those very urgent cases. He
asked for three cots in the Almshouse and
for three cots in the City and County Hos
pilal that the little funds of the army of
unemployed might not be heavily taxed
by having to be used in paying for care at
private hospitals, where humanity de-
mands that attention be given particular
cases of dangerous illness.
employed, apprised at late hour of the
Ihird-street celebration, formed a rough
and-ready parade and marched round
into and through Third street before re-
firing.
To-day Presi mt LeffingweIl purposes
to see The proper Southern Pacific Com
pany officials 10 see if some low rate may
not be made for unemployed men going
into the country to take work promised
them. One man recently sent out cost
the unem ployed quite sum, as 1t was
imperative that he reach the place at an
early day or lose the opportunity for
work.
President Leffin gwell has a "kick," to
use his own expression, against the tug
of-war tournament that was advertised as
q benefit for the unemployed. He de-
clares that the men were compelled 10
distribute handblls and that the public
was made TO believe that the show was
benefit whereas of the 30l3 persons pres
ent in the Pavilion by reason of the ex-
tensive advertising, the boulevard fund,
not the unemployed, will get $ll5. He
does not wish a wrong impression to go
out that the unemployed are actually
reaping harvest from benefits, for he de-
clares that the tug-of-war was purely a
business proposition, without any pro-
vision made for n representative of the
citizens relief committee OF the unem-
pIoyed at the box cffice to determine
whether or not the percentage benefit an
nounced was actually given.
The prospects are that in few days
some men will be put to work on the
boulevard, but there are not funds
enough TO give employment to more than
a small fraction of the whole number. In
the meantime efforts will be continued
through the improvised employment
bureaus to find places in and cut of town
for different persons. There is a prospect
also that before long several hundred men
may be sent to the mines If President
Loft nUwalI7a rIsn dons not r,iScarrv