The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-17
A FAMINE BENEFIT
Colored Musicians Of Twin Cities
Will Give a Concert Next
Sunday Afternoon.
Servant Girls Union Contributes $25
for Relief Work-scenes in
. Stricken Districts.

Next Sunday the colored musicians OF
the twin cities will give concert at the
metropolitan upera-house, Minneapolis, for
the benefit OF the famine sufferers. The
chief performer will be Gertrude Imogen
Palmer, the st-known female violinst Of
her race. She IS said to be musician of
marked ability Among the songs to be
heard will be a ballad entitled 'Dorothia.
BMy Dorothia," the words Of which were
written by Henri B. Bledsoe of this city.
The music Is by j. Hayes Robinson. Mr..
Bledsoe himself will sing the ballad to q
cello accompaniment by Mr.. Robinson.
The program will be:
Paul; William Tell" Rossini, Lafayette Ma
son: mandolin, Come Ye Disconsolote,'' Sci;
Rate smt song
dante Conmeto" s. Coleridge TAYLOR Gertrude
auee JACKSON e.
Amen Harding, Mrs OLIVE Marshall; " Lost
Meet Of st. rpe eeo aad
Marshall: ballad. .'Dorothia. My Dorothla."
Henri g. Bledsoe with cello and piano, Mr.
Of Zion from Messiah Handel. Mrs Frances
| Elizabeth DeLeo; .'Cavitina,'' Raj, Gertrude
Imogene Palmer.
Cases Of Destltution.
Typical cases of restitution in northern
| Sweden are described by Guy Cramer,
the American correspondent, in letter
written Jan. 49, from Vittangi, Sweden, to
| a Chicago newspaper.
1.-THE first home we met" says Mr..
Cramer, was that Of Johan Henrik An
| derson. His six children clustered about
him as he told us that he had no cows.
/ no horses no reindeer He had MOTH
:. ing. He could not even find work at cut
ting any trees for the lumber companies.
He must depend on some one-he didn't
know who-helping him to get food.
| We've had to care for the family since
November said Police Inspector Berg
strom, who accompanied us. we must
keep them until next fall.
| Seven children were in the little room
which Johan Erik Lindstedt called his
home. He had saved one COW and one
| horse He would get along, he said. Blu!
the empty cupboard and the few bits OF
thin bread told the extreme OF poverty.
SO We are trying to give him hay enough
to save the cow and horse explained
Bergstron. He is a. laborer and wants
work, but as, everywhere up here, there Is
no work.
miles away to the east, shut in by the
forests, we found the little home OF Lev
Harsh His wife is dead and the HUSBAND
is trying to care for five children, tn
youngest being but years Of age. and tn
eldest Is years. The two eldest boys aidet
him in wood cutting when he could tint
work but there is no work this year. Th4
family has no cows no horses, no mean
Of securing charity's food except by lon:
trips to the village. All live in one bar
rem, cramped room.
Twenty one miles back in the WOOD
we found stephans Johansson Hanse, hi
wife, and seven children. They are bur1e
in the woods without a single horse, COW
or reindeer. He had pleaded with neigh
burs who owned horses not to forget hlr
when they made their long trips to get
, portion of the relief supplies which ar
dumped at the railway stations put nc
distributed. The family has nothing else.