New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-18
WITH THE EAST SIDE POOR.
GOOD WORK THAT THE DIET KITCHEN
ASSOCIATION DOES IN FEED
ING THE SICK.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting Of the New
York Diet Kitchen Association was held yesterday
afternoon the assembly hall in the United Chart
ties Building, Twenty-second-st. and Fourth-ave-
Hamilton W Mabie presided. The object Of the
association is the furnishing Of uourtshtng food TO
the sick poor and four kitchens maintained for
this purpose. The president, Mrs. Henry Wizard
unable to attend owing to illness, but her
nual report read by Oswald G. Willard She re-
GREETED that the association often taken for a
cooking aol. In the year 1899 111,s45 quarts OF
milk strfbuted at a cost OF s4,sC7 g. the total
expenses OF the association being 1856 81
DR.. Annie 5. Daniel, outdoor visiting physician OF
the New-York Infrmary for Women and Children
told some Of her experiences among the sick poor
There were 500 families on the inhrmary list last
year. whose average income was "a IS a family
Ordinarily a family lived in two room apart
ment, or, rather. two or more families lived IN
such a place. the usual rent being s. a month
There 1133 workers in these families but only
123 were classified as skilled workers. DR.. Daniel
added
Ir one case I found five families living in one
apartment. Some of the Jewish women tell me
they keep ledger and give him two meals a
day at 50 a month, and make money. The meals
simply bread and tea Often some kind OF
Gently saw a woman who held In her lap a ten
months-od child that had pneumonia, and with one
loot she rocked cradle thaJ c0hlalheu emu So
fering from measles. And all the time that mother
working the everlasting button holes. re-
Gently told one woman she must clean up her room
and when I called the next day upbraided her Tor
I
than four hours sleep a night for three
weeks. and she asked me rather savagely II !
1 confessed that would not. These sweatshops
are undsturbed by the new factory law, which, II
ment house manufacturing There are, however.
might - not believe it, but recently ran across a
case where a woman could not spare the labor of a
age actually useful in fixing trimmings on
women's dresses.
DIT. Daniel gave account of East Side
superstitions principally that corpse must be
driven all around the block and back 10 the door,
else the soul viii not be separated from the
body and there will be hitch at the resurrec-
ton She also said that one % the growing evils
in that section is the policy shop generally in the
back part Of tenement house, tempting women TO
squander their hard earned money She especially
praised the Diet Kitchen Association for not at
tempting to solve that impossible problem, rs she
worthy?" but simply asking, rs she poor and
sick?'
The Rev. DR.. W. S. Rainsford. who in late,
made the mistake that Mrs. Willard in her report
had deprecated, for he seemed TO think that the
association ran cooking school for the poor He
denounced the internal frying pam which, he
declared is the greatest enemy to civilization in the
United States
DR.. A. Jacob, who followed. confined himself
more strictly to the subject He heartily praised
the work already done by the association, but he
said it should do still more adding:
It is not enough to give double portion of milk
on Saturdays. The poor do not have refrigerators.
And the amount which is given quart day, is
only enough for infant. And you should have a
greater variety OF food IN your stores, Food can
not be digested without salt, yet the person whom
YOU help may not have one cent TO buy salt. You
should have tea and coffee and sugar. They are
not luxuries. but necessities. Many poor waif
has been restored by them OF course. you will
need more mouey-ask for 1t. There are people
dying of starvation in this city OF riches. Your
mission field your China. your Luzon is right
here. Appeal to the public and you will get the
money. There is a solidarity to-day that should
prevent despair to the future Of the country or
of mankind. =