Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-11-26
REAL CHARITY.
\ POOR MILY FROM
MISSOURI ASSISTED,
Fed aud Clothed at the City Build
ing This Morning and Sent on
Their Ways Rejoicing-Were
Very Geat ful-The o. Rick Fam
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This morning there was a forlorn
some scene in the city prison back oi
the city building. There had gravita
ted to that place family that present
ed as many different phases of misery
al they could have presented with
out having been a bigger family. A
| it was there WAS the mother aud
four children, all hungry and cold
and destitute. They had started from
Missouri, southern part, several
weeks ago, and had been max
ing their way eastward. to 81
Mary's, o. The husband and father
had been a wood-chopper End had died
out there. The relatives lived at St
Mary, 0 and thither they must go
They had a COW, sold ii and with the
part payment that was made on that
animal they started. Sometl mes they
would ride. but most of the rine they
would walk They were typical pore
white trash, land could stand ucore ex-
posure uncomplainingly than any other
people on earth, but thy were IN bad
shape indeed when they arrived here
Their clothing was dropping off OF
| tucDls LucIc w ds nut lAptC tARh ott
pair of stockings in the lot, Did rags
serving the purpose of the more con-
ventional garment; there WAS not more
than one good pair of shoes in the lot,
and they were not the best. though
whole and reasonably comfortable.
Tue feet of the rest were on
the ground. in spite of the
snow and frozen ground. All we're
actually suffering for the necessities of
life. They walked through Indiana
polls yesterday, the mother carrying
her little two-year-old tot and followed
by her two little boys and one girl, the
children ranging from two to twelve
years. When they passed through the
cspital city they received no lti lief, out
when they go, to Irvington maD
gave them money to buy tickets to
Richmond. They Gid that, and ar
rived here broke. When they struck
the city building they were sized up
by as good hearted set of men a
ever had charge of such a place.
Motherly old John Seaman looked al
them with all sorts of pity III his face,
and then tore out for dry goods
store. Pretty soon they had on stock
ings. Ell Livelsbergor saw the gen
eral condition of affairs, and, as il
it were all joke, he went out too.
and returned with more stockings and
some other things. Mayor Zimmer-
man looked in on the gang and
laughed at them. Then he went out and
bought shoes and every other old thing
he thought they might need. Joe
Hassenbusch went and took one look
at them and left. He returned soon
with an armful of clothing for the
baby. Others standing about bought
things to keep the dirty and freezing
little ones warm, and laughed at each
others soft hearts. 1t would have
done the ordinary citizen who does not
know the people be sees every day,
good, to have seen the way
John Seaman aad Livelsberger
and Demas Coe dressed those
little tads with stockings and
shoes, showing them how to fix them
so they would be the most comfortable.
They were grateful indeed, and we're
sent out of town on trustees pass, to-
ward their home in the Buckeye state.
So Richmond isn't quite 'dead,' as
long as she's the only city on those
poor peoples route that could warm
up to them. Every contribution was
private and unofficial.