New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-17
.STARVED By STRIKE.
Mother and Children Cry for Bread
in Storm.

Wet TO the skin by the rain which beat down on
them. and crying softly for something to eat four
children the oldest six years and the youngest one
year. walked into the East Twenty-secOnd-st- sta
ton during the height of the storm yesterday tug
ging at the skirts of their mother. The woman
was weeping and in choking voice addressed
Sergeant Jordan
For Gods sake give my little ones something to
eat. sir. Oh. please dO-theyre hungry
Sergeant Jordan from the desk. overcome
with emotion the sight of the foriorn woman
and her children hut he had no sooner leaned over
the rail than he the mother fan to the floor.
The little knelt down beside her. crying as II
their hearts would break. and kissing her thin.
emacated face.
Please don't cry. mamma" they said, and we
won't ask for bread any more"
The sergeant rung for the matron, and the woman
carried into the back room. where restoratives
were applied. which revived her. When she
covered her voice she told Sergeant Jordan that
she Mrs. Julia Moahr. German.
"Oh. please, sir, give my children just a little to
eat and don't let them starve to death; they're
hungry that I fear Oh, l can't think OF my
darlings so hungry"
The sergeant Immediately made arrangements TO
get food.
The troubles Of the Moahrs began when the
building trades strike called last May. The
husband and father. John Frederick Moahr. is
expert electrician. and when he called out he
thought that the strike would be OF short Duration
But he doomed to disappointment The little
money he had saved spent. and a few
weeks after the strike he found himself and
his family destitute. Do what he would he could
not get employment without invoking the wrath
Of his union, and he lived in the hope that the
strike would be settled
The MoahTs occupied rooms at Thirty-ninth-st
and Tenth-ave-. where they sold their furniture
piece by piece. On Monday the last they had in
the world was sold for few dollars. and then
they were compelled to leave the bare apartments
Taking her four children with her. Mrs. MOahr
went to live with her sister, a Mrs. Haggerty
whose husband is woOdchopper. He earns Httls
pay. and soon found IT impossibilty TO provide
for HIS own family and the Moahrs.
Yesterday morning, at o'clock Mrs MOahr told
Sergeant Jordan, her sister told her she would have
TO go. she found it hard enough to get along
and provide for her own children. This was the
last straw.
With her four little ones. who only had morse
Of bread between them, the mother started out
whittier. she knew not All through the storm
from morning until they reached the station. they
wandered. the children crying for food
Sergeant Jordan sent out for five dinners. and IN
a short time the back room Of the station was the
scene Of feast The little ones ate ravenously.
and when their appetites were appeased they were
told that they would have to be separated from
their mother. She was detained at the station on
q technical charge Of vagrancy. and the children
sent TO the Children's Society.
Mrs. Moahr said her husband went to look for
work Tuesday morning, and she hadn't seen him
since.