New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
i" CURBSTONE RELIGION
GREAT RESPECT SHOWN FOR UNIFORM
OF THE SALVATION ARMY LAss1E.
''cITT MISSIONARIES, AND TRAINED NURSES
HAILED WITH DELIGHT By THE
DWELLERs IN TIE TENE.6ENrs

| tory OF an organization numbered among the pio-
neers IN the field Of Stun work." sometimes termed
| 'cUrbstone religion" outdoor relief work. and
other appellauons indicating activities covering all
| the means by which help may reach the poor and
| suffering
The work accomplished by the women Of the Sal
walton Army has been marked by self-sacrihce and
hardship sufficient to dishearten the most coura-
| geous. but has been carried on with marked
| cess The ministrations Of these women
ried on in the homes Of those they striving to
reach "slum" worker for instance, will go into
any home where her services needed, and re-
CARELESS Of the sometimes dangerous character Of
the neighborhood, will do the next thing" If
dirt, confusion ard Illness there the Salvation
Army lass proceeds to scrub the floor. clean up
the place generally, make the sick comfortable,
that immediate necessities such hunger,
cold and other bodily wants, relieved and bring
hope for better conditions incentive 70 the
discouraged toilers.
Material help OF this kind having preceded any
conversation spiritual subjects, the hearers are
prepared to believe a religion which has asso-
ciated with it desire to relieve suffering and
carry out the Golden Rule. The recruits OF the Sal
walton Army are obtained from every walk in life,
and among the hardest workers will be found sew
erel delicately nurtured daughters Of wealthy
parents.
The soup kitchens carried o in the crowded
tenement house districts downtown have been dur
ing the recent cold weather a inestinable boon to
the needy. For one cent comfortable meal can be
obtained at any of the branches. The food, while
simple, is hot, nourishing and sufficient The hold
these people have obtained the most
hardened is evinced by the fact that the uniform
carries them unmolested through all localities at
any hour of the day or night.
The National staff Of New-YOrk City includes
Colonel E J Higgins Colonel T. Holland, Colonel
Charles Sowton, Leutenant-CoIoneI William Brew
er. Lieutenant-CoIoneI Alice Lewis. Brigadier Niles
Brigadler Hicks, Brtgadier Cox. Brigadier Caygill
Major Reinhardsen, Major Ferris and Major Annie
Osborne.
rO-1 r1f2atf inn wing Wild VVOT n
the poorer portions of the city is the Woman's
Branch of the New-York City Mission and Tract
Society. Here. again. the work is carried directly
into the homes Of the poor, and the women who
are designated city missionaries. although not
distinguished by any ecclesiastical garb hailed
with delight by the jewellers in the tenements.
Trained nurses, who go directly 10 the tenement
houses and care for any cases of sickness needing
special attention, form part OF the work. No
charge is made for such service, and the nurse,
making the best Of things as she finds them, pro-
ceeds to relieve the sufferer without interfering
with any work that may be carried on in the
rooms. Unpleasant as il may be reflect upon,
many luxurious garments later 10 be worn in
homes where all contact with Illness is thought to
be avoided, made amid surroundings Astounding
with sickness Many little martyrs found in
those homes working without one days rest. al
though struggling with weakness and disease.
One nurse found girl fifteen years Old in need
Of a physicians care. When she broke down her
lament that she must add 10 the trouble, Tor
she said: We've so much trouble already" Had
she been the child of wealth her illness would have
been averted. but things We're her brief career
closed the next day.
Cooking is taught by the missionaries, who
adapt their methods 10 the surroundings and
kitchen where cooking was taught was improvised
in a BroOme-st- tabernacle basement. where,
with gas stove and trunk of cooking utensils,
together with such necessary materials as could
be obtained in the neignborhood, practical but
simple lessons were very soon under way The
class attended by enthusiastic lot Of pupils
One Of the cooking school teachers gave this work
its start and the instruction is along the line OF
cooking that their will admit OF. Fancy
and expensive dishes are not desired or needed. and
the value Of these lessons is found in the fact
that the pupils taught to do the best possible
with available materials and utensils
woman frying FISH and suggested that it would be
I never heard Of such thing. thought frying
The missionary improved the opportunity to give
hungry man Of the family returned 70 enioy the
novelty OF carefully prepared meal, ne announced
IF that's the kind of things you learn at a
church, you may go TO them meetings al yol IKE.
stock was delighted TO learn how 10 make soup and
utilize meat bones etc which she mad before been
in many homes the daughter who had known moth
soups, stews. Ash cakes, bread, biscuit and pud-
OF one OF these gTs had tasted eTeaed potatoes
s6L1,eWhsTe and e1pa[lated on MS enjoyment OF
Of il was mystery. The sister was taught how
win it took a nigh place in his Estimation
Inc Intelligent assistance of daughter in the
household work is . great help TO many OverwOrked
mothers of large families and still more is the help
needed in families where the mother Is no longer
the missionary found dirninutive girl of seven
another nome boy Of twelve years Of age, whose
father is dead and whose mother goes out TO work
IsA5s care o. tnree children and does the WasHIng
ne cIlL1i-n nave q limited kncWtedge o. oTul-
nary sights and sounds. One little girl, who was
rived in the evening and was driven in carriage
10 the friends mouse just as the fun moon was
ing 10 the friend who was caring for her WHISPERED
in 4 hUshed voice. rs that GOd?'
WORK OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS
Excellent work is carried on in the very heart Of
the crowded AMI poor part Of Network by the
WOmeA's Auxiliary Of the University Settlement
Society with headquarters at No. lS4 Eldridge-st
Phuanthropic and educational branches Of work
are carried on daily
The vast organization known as the International
Order of Kings Daughters and Sons has over two
among these is the NeUy-Yo-j, TanernaEpr TI11ss
Chapter. which recently legally became The Kings
Daughters Settlement The Settlement House is
located al No As 5eury-sL
Mrs. Julian Heath is chairman and Jacob Riis
who Tor SO long period mas been associated with
honorary chairman
The work Of the Kings Daughters in that district
has been under way Tor many years, and from
the first was most gratifying in It's results Fami-
lies are visited MOWERS are distributed TO the sick
nurses PROVIDED Tor N cases needing such care and
ghilanthropie work on broad scale IS carried on.
peratve before waiting 10 investigate
IN one house there was not vestlge Of furniture
the mother discouraged and the four children were
hungry The iaw invoked TO rescue the family
established, with a months paid, and work
found for the mother and the two older children.
erTange The furniture and rrena-e sInra T NO." -
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