Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-14
POUNDS OF RELIEF
Generous Response to
Appeal for Poor
THE STAR POUND PARTY
Washington Citizens Are Alive
to the Emergency.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW
Sympathy in Substantial Form From
All Quarters.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW
LIST OF CASH DONATIONS

Everybody IN Washington was i'll
vited by The Evening Star Yesterday
to attend and bring money or pounds
OF the necessities of life to the pound
party for the relief of the poor which
is in progress today in building on
the nth street side OF The Star build
ingS.
In order that none shall miss the
pleasure OF giving the party will con-
tinue tomorrow and probably the day
after, and convenient pound party
stations have been established in the
school buildings named in the article
below
Those who missed reading the
pound party story in The Star YES
terday are reminded that, while they
were threatened with coal and milk
and provision famines, even though
they had the money to buy, the poor,
who number thousands, are facing
misery from hunger and death from
cold. Even with the complete energy
OF every relief or charitable agency
strained to Its utmost, there are many
who will not be reached except
through the medium of The Evening
Star pound party.
Bring or send to the main pound
party building or to the stations in
the school houses all that your means
or your heart affords in the way of
fuel, food, clothing, money-every-
thing that you would need if YOU
were freezing or starving-and per-
haps a life may be made happier or
prolonged through your charity. The
Apostle Paul said that of all the vir-
tues the greatest is charity, and the
pound party is proving it.
1t was reasonable to believe today that
everybody seen on the streets bearing a
package was one of the guests invited yes
terday by The Evening Star to The Even
ing Star pound party in progress today in
the building on llth street near Pennsylva-
mia avenue.
Certainly the way the pounds in money
in fuel in clothes and in food poured into
the pound party building led the active men
receiving the goods there to believe that
all people and all roads led to them
From o'clock in the morning there was
no break in the line of Good Samaritans.
on foot and in vehicles, bringing bundles
TO succor the needy and the perishing
The almost impossible streets and the
popularity and helpfulness of the benea-
cence have caused The Evening Star 10
continue the pound party tomorrow, and
probably the day after. When the streets
become thoroughfares again and the car
lines are in operation then the pound party
will reach its height of charitable interest
and material increase.
Pound Party Stations.
In the meantime those persons inspired
by the spirit of charity the greatest of all
attributes, who cannot in person or by
messenger deliver their offerings will find
pound party stations established in the
school buildings named below. At each of
these places there will be persons who will
receive all the pounds brought to them.
They are authorized, in turn to distribute
these to any accredited agent of a repu-
table charity organization or to any appli-
cant or other person desiring relief for
himself or for others. The advantage of
this arrangement is that It saves time and
trouble in the delivery of the pounds. and.
moreover II enables the needy i'm those
neighborhoods to get relief close at hand
without having to make long and painful
journeys to the main pound party building.
The school buildings are:
The johnson. Mount Pleasant
The Curtis, Georgetown.
The Seaton, street between I'd and 3d
northwest.
The Taylor. 7th and G streets northeast
The Wallach. 18th street and PENNSYLVANIA
aN enue northeast.
The jefferson. 9th and d streets south
west.
The Van Buren, Anacostia
Freely receive, freely give is the motto
of the pound party. and none shall say he
was a stranger and was not taken in. was
sick and not ministered unto. was in need
and not fed. The practical out-worklng OF
this purpose and process can be observed
hourly at the pound party building The
people who gave, the people who receive