New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-07

daily allowance as follows: cup Of coffee only at
m; dish Of rice at 10 a. n rice and potatoes
boy OF fourteen had coffee to-day, but not every
day; at 10 a m bread ana rice cooked VIII , iIru,
dinner at p. m. OF Goldfish and potatoes This BOY
had had meat in year.
A beautiful little girl ten wears old: coffee only
not very often; dinner yestsraas black beans and
rice; sometimes no dinner az e, but gets some es
meat. small piece three weeks Ago as a present.
This chld's father is dead;
ing; may get breakfast. may not; breakfast when
there is any Of rice and goldfish; dinner doubtful
but generally gets one meal day. The father be-
ing Sick the family will be compelled 10 draw
lions from the Americans.
has coffee sometimes; never has breakfast family
10 vet 's{ Ssn sss ~ is
been In the same condition since the war began; an
A girl thirteen years old. very intelligent had
coffee at 7:3o a at her cousins house because
bed had bea yesrdaT Of bpead and OH
dinner yesterday OF bread and rice: sometimes has
orally gets little This child r @ HH admits
that she sometimes is hungry.
father: had coffee only. $50 a. m. had breakfast
yesterday Of rice and pigs skin which neighbor
rice white beans br.ad and coee has often had
no % G Years. srsa DID, aRa n Is ahd pretty
mas mas coee only generally at m; family has
when they have nothing they 20 10 bed when the
father who is cobbler; has no work there is no
a
at 20 ,g had COFFEE only moth
fo had fresh % 6ne d iayp t% Sn weeks ss sgs
chid's mother IS a seamstress.
III this is the life led by the children Of the self
supporting class OF Cubans In Matanzas" said |
Mrs Freer. what be the lot OF the very poor7
The imagination falls TO conceive OF any one living
on less. The country district, were swept bare OF
lrh
order Of concentration. Nothing was left which |
could sustain life The country people were crowd |
ed Into the towns and cities. where nearly half |
million died OF starvation and disease. The sur
vivors are still there, receiving occasional dole
Of United States Army rations. They are unable
TO return to their homes, because they have only
empty hands with which to rebuild their burned
houses. They cannot resume the cultivation OF
their Idle fields because they literally beggars
without oxen agricultural implements seeds or
domestic supplies with which to work
The American Government has done nothing to
help the Cuban farmers. 1t has given them Army /
rations. but 1t has no legal means Of providing
them with oxen. tools and seeds. 1t has attempted
to do no more than keep them alive until private
philanthropy enables them to take care OF them
studied he S soD ., Of b people nO
that, l.. there is Just one way OF perma-
ton Of restitution and suffering. That way is not
% give the people free soup and old clothes until
hem work The plan Of he Cuban Industrial Re
lief Fund is 10 help the poor TO help themselves. 1t
s follows:
"First-To provide immediate employment for the
and idle POOL by es est Tee
AN farmers. Ordinary food crops will be grown
IN these farms and sold in the best available mar
tet The proceeds will be returned 10 the fund, 10 (
'e used over again in the same way
"Second-To advance as loans TO small land |
wners sufficient work-oxen. agricultural impie-
esume the cultivation Of their farms. The advances .
hus made Will be repaid. The money will then be :
lsed to help other farmers The rehabilitation or
hese desolated farms will give employment to Idle
when no further help OF this kind Is needed in
'uba the funds remaining on hand Will be returned
o the subscribers or disposed OF as they may d. {
ect. ,
'The Cuban Industrial Relief Funds plan for y
airing for orphans Is simple and inexpensive, In
tead OF spending great sums OF money IN puiolhs ,
rphanages and maintaining large nuhDers OF , g
rled attendants. homes In good CUBAN tamln.es
iii be found as quickly possible for the chill a
rem. -. - 4. | y
''As a part OF this plan each farmer who .,i
. 10 return the cultivation OF MS iahu VIII |
: REQUIRED TO receive into his family one or more
-phans to be cared for his own children.
"Of course the children are always under our su,
.ryision As for the widows they VIII only Dc TOO T
"a 10 helm themselves II employment can be iound
n them They are used 10 the nelds' ana arc y"
"A 20 40 light work there. They can sew. 100. pi
ID the fund Proyiaes 5ne for the orpSans aHd
e eo msks them TO sell In the market-places OF
az az -, 40 use 10 send old clothes down there r.
aists but plain cotton cloth for dresses ana I'M
rSe rusan Industrial Relief Fund has established
nrst relief station at Guines n the rrovinUe hs
Havana It's first werk consisted IN GYMS en- | NJ
oyment 10 the idle. In It's next work II sougnt w
give help 70 the half-hundred reconcenuao's ~