The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-08
MANY DISTRESSED FAMILIES FIND A
FRIEND IN NEED.
HELP FROM MANY PLACES.
TIE NATIONAL CLUB COMES FORWARD
WITH A GOOD DONATION.
CHILDREN DOING THEIR SHARE !
The Juvenile Club to Give an Entertain
mont Next Saturday The Vaudeville
Club VIII Also Help the Work
and Give First Glass
Minstrel Show


The calls ior aid at the genera relief sta-
tion on West Centre street Saturday night
were not as numerous as on the preceding
days. The committee accepted this as an in
dication that those who were in need and
had any money coming to them from the
collieries preferred to make the best of what
money they received than to ask for aid al
though there were several cases in which
pay was received and aid asked. In most Of
these cases those who did make appeals were
widows. One was the case of woman who
had two sons working in the mines and the
combined wages of the boys for two weeks
were 81, and the widow owed a months rent
In another case a man with wife and four
children to support received three dollars as
his pay day allowance On account of yes
terday being Sunday meat was furnished to
nearly all the applicants Saturday night.
Some discussion has arisen over the prob
lem as to whether aid shall be extended to
families where distress has been brought
about by dissolute habits of fathers and
mothers. The question is a delicate one for
the committee and caused much reflection
In many of such cases it has been found that
the family is in absolute want and many
children have been suffering from lack Of
food hence another question, Must these
children starve as a penalty for their un-
worthy parents 2" To cope with the situa-
ton the committee has been following plan
by which necessaries for the relief
Of the children are furnished and
a watch placed upon the heads
of the families, so that they may be prose-
cuted should the fathers or mothers be caught
selling the relief articles. One man has been
detected and his case will be held in reserve,
so that the prosecutions can be made in
batch, and thus avoid the expenditure of
time and money that multiplication of suits
would entail.
Will the assistance afforded by the teachers
and pupils of the public schools the committee
has been excellently equipped to meet the
demands upon it for aid in the form of such
necessaries as flour, coffee, tea, sugar, canned
goods beans, oatmeal and crushed wheat for
few days to come.
The Juvenile Relief Club has begun active
operations to help the general relief committee
and next Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock,
will give a concert IN the High school build
ing for which an admission fee of but ten
cents win be charged There is excellent
talent in the club and the children should be
rewarded for their efforts in the worthy cause
by good patronage.
The National Club has come TO the front
with donation Of twenty-five dollara to the
general relief committee. The members of
this organization are always to the front with
any movement that has Cor its object the
general welfare Of the borough.
The Vaudeville Club, of town, Of which
Michael Durkiu is manager, is arranging to
give minstrel show at Fergusons theatre on
the 22nd inst, for the benefit of the relief
fund The club is composed of young mon
who have had considerable experience in
minstresy and can give performance as
complete fresh and sparkling as most COM
panies on the road. They will have Mr.
George B. Lowrey, the well known pro-
fessional negro dialect comedian, as an as
sistant and director and he is arranging a
program to embrace a burlesque Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight, humorous sketches, songs
and dances, acrobatic turns, and everything
calculated to give a clean up-to-date minstrel
entertainment. There win be about thirty
performers in the entertainment.
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