The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-16
THE FAMINE IN INDIA.

Men, Women and Children Dying on
Maximum Charity Wage of -Four
Cents Daily.
| I reached Amraoti at midnight. Mi
Mudholkar, an Indian pleader, and
well-known congressman, was waiting
! to receive me. He drove me to the OAK
| Bungalow These travellers bunga-
lows are found nearly all over India,
and supply the place of hotels in the
smaller towns. The heat in the build
ing was so great that had to open
doors and windows But though the
famine refugees were lowering round
the town, PROSTATE with want, L slept
safely and we'll. There are large relief
/ works near Anraoti. At one alone
there were 5,14S men, women and chill
dren working. The work given them to
do is stone breaking. Stones are want
ed for roadmaking, and the public
works department has found 1t conven-
lent to get the material done by cheap
! famine labor, Since tho governments
circular, issued at the beginning of jan
uary to the officials, enforcing the
strictest economy in the giving of re-
| lief wages have been lowered consider
ably Work is paid for by the amount
done. The maximum wage is for men,
/ eight pice, for women six pice, for chill
dren (boys and girls from ten to four
| teen years of age) five pice, The mini
mum was, men five pce, women and
children four pice. On these works, on
the day l visited them, sixty-six per
cent. of the men and forty per cent. of
the women received the maximum
wage. Many of the others received the
| lyOWest wage, five and four pice day,
Ca pce equals one farthing at the pres
ent rate of exchanged | was very per
sistent in questioning officials and nom
officials, both on the works and in the
town, as to whether five and four pice
per day were sufficient to provide food
to keep in good health an adult person.
Some maintained it was, and others as
/ stoutly said it was not. The controver-
sly over the reduction of wages is keen.
The wife of one official confessed that
the food purchasable by four pice was
less than was allowed to a person in
jail, and that her husband was advoca-
| ting that it should be, slightly increased,
That there should be any doubt on the
4 matter was disouieting. for one is cred
fling thee government with giving sub
| stantiat rsl Of wbereeyer the relief works
are set IN and the neople work hard
enough for tho miserable nav thew get.
But I was glad to know that the lower
wage Is not yet fixed. 1t has been tried
as an experiment only, and some of the
officials are recommending it's enhance
ment r was assured that thew would
endeavor To get If 80 regulated. accord
inc to tho nrrice of grain as to provide
"a subsistence waee to the worker So
far tbe workers lnol. In good condition
and as we'll off as the laborers one
meats with in tba averapa village In Tn
dia Tho work thew do is bard-hour af-
FOR hour sitting an Inc pround breaking
stonee from three IN five inches in
E,anotb into small neoes and this under
an oaetern S,xv Tr,,1x, tba raal test of
need Ia tba worlx ;tsaIf Onlv starving
roon,e would 1aavo THAR bor,os IN corne
and work lika that II is we'll to hear
IN mind +hat avian far tbosa on ralief
yo,ls tbare is ntantv of room for chart
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siclx tha hind the half and the lame
and tbav arc verv grateful for some ad-
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