New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-13
COAL SUPPLY FOR THE POOR.

COdL SUEfL1 FUN liz 4OOAe'
There il no extraordinary demand for coal
for charitable purposes, and the needs of the
poor who are able to buy the coal are being
well provided for by the numerous dealers VINO
are selling coal by the pail at low prices. &C
cording 10 a statement issued by Robert w.
de Forest president of the Charity Organlza-
ton Society and Tenement House Commissioner,
last evening
Mr. De Forest said in part:
There is greatly increased demand for coal
from those who accustomed to apply each WIN
the great charitable societies This has been
the situation for the last two months ana Is nne
ton received to-day and YESTERDAY fq0 eaS s
ciety from the Association for Improving The Con-
dO9 Of the Poor and from the
demand for coal had been made upon the he's society n
municated to the Charity Organization Society. for
have arranged to help them in meeting it. IN
ten years when labor has been so generally en- en-
were better able to provide for themselves and
not to rely upon charity. 90
to it if nes5 S eoa
mong the Working easse agd partie@ar
working classes who live in tenements Their 6sir
accustomed to buy by the pail or by the bag. and
they are accustomed to rely very largely upon PED
dealers. 1t is these people who for the past few
Sese sold of 1 hs e
the hat fG NJ srife had
tons Of coal in England for distribution among the
in q Das IT Ma Mor
PS ee a me oGR fr9 Of
dependent type. In the distant BACKGROUND Were
shPS e this cartoon
these words do not remember a, them e1 ks We
only want the opportunity to earn il and pay for
this rGSsnd e spirit than Mr. Morgan
It is this type of workman who most to nfdd se 0a at
Money viii not produce this coal If 10000 were
IA MaT not a a1
to the supply which being brought to N NeT
ing but corporation between the great Goa, conf co
IS datrbnted to the working classes. will avail
What is being done to bs strike 5als s
arrangements made by The larger coal com f
P of coa 10 in s small qnantites by the pail bag
through different retail dealers who had yaf f6s
city Chief among these were Messrs Curtis <
now apparent that these depots for distribu
ZION to the wesbns n that the
points must be opened. and that the supply OF Godi
at these points must nf T6 Messrs Curtis
BiasdeI and Burns Brothers what they propose
from some of the large coal companies whether e,
distributing depots Will be opened and 1 am as,
sured that they will be kept suppilea: / t na,me
There many other public spirited retail c f
6 be sho asked aFe by
friends of the aces where coa car.
BOUNDS pc hds 3 I Price pm in ordinary lines Is
cents for larger quantity. Besides the Wei aG-
yertised wards of BARRIERS Sons at No 81 water
lowing Yards of Curtis & Baisdell: No, 100 WASH
ington-st Fifty-siXth-st and East River and there
viii be such distribution within day or SO from
their Yards hundred and ntnth-St ana ttSt
River Twenty -eighth-st. and East River and NO.
4Is Avenue A Such distribution is also belng mace
from the following yards No. 30 Jetferson,st NO
60 Deancey-st No. 275 Sufolk-st-. No 20 Monroe
St: coal cellars. No. -o4 cerry-st No 81 JACKSON
St No. So Bayard-st. No ~ Bayard-st: NO 10
| Nilberry-st No 40 Mott-st.. No. 81 MoU-str 10
4 Oak-st No So Oliver-st, No 255 Willan-st- No
27S Broone-st. No. 35 Oak-st, No % JaInes-st
No 30 Mulberry-st.. No. % Roosevelt-st, NO u
Rooseyet-st No 10 Eaxter-st. No ~ Roose xeit-st
No 81 Eliza beth-s No. "a Oak-st No. 43 Aser-st
No 50 James-st.. No 55t Grand-st- No as Orcnard
St No. Jos Orchard-st. No. 176 Orchard.st NO 10
EIdrtdge-st., No 40 Eldrdge-st. NO 80 Monroe-st-'
No 40 Monroe-st. and No. 1@ East Broadway;
Do not understand that these are the only places.
There are innumerable cellars and small dealer S
by whom coal is being sold by the pail. ana
there are nnumerabe pedlers who are buying their
ton or half ton and distributing il themselves ,
Is there nothing that the rich can do to heip me
Is to econornize coal themselves and not 10 demand
from their coal dealers any than suffices for
Immediate needs. I heard OF man to-day VINO
nrrssineIy demanded half ton of coal for friend
who was dying of pneumonia and had no coal with
which 10 heat his house. and when the sympathlz-
ing coal merchant delivered this half ton at great
Inconvenience quite outside of mis- ordinary district
| sly IONS were found in the cellar such man
1 20 hn M