New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

sufficient. Thereupon the wanderer will be pro-
! vided with good square meal warm bed in
| an adjoining lodging house and employment if
possible on the next day
I'VE often puzzled" said George Calder,
the almoner of St Andrews Society. the
other day. ito distinguish between Scotch
man and an Irishman from the North of Ireland
Oftentimes the latter speaks 4 dialect which
would convert me instantly into thinking that
he is a Scot. And even when L not sure
whether man is trying II deceive me to his
real nationality. the society helps him just the
same, for We believe it is not best draw the
line too closely in matters OF charity"
The gift of $10o00O to the funds of the So
ciety by Mr.. Carnegie recently stirred up ap-
peals of every description. The society was
asked to contribute large sums to pure hase
farms, pay off mortgages, buy pianos, educate
| school teachers, send boys to colleges and 60
other things wholly without its sphere of work
Occasionally a case comes to the attention Of
the almoner however. which is SO pathetic that
funds furnished Immediately to whatever
extent the circumstances seem warrant
only the other day a woman entered the up
town office of ST Andrews Society in the
United Charities Building. with a letter of in
, PRODUCTION from the British Consul, to whom
| she had already made an appeal. She told
brief story of distress and disaster. She said
| lldl Sie Hdu just Durled her husband. VINO hIu
been killed in accident and had
she buried him than her youngest child died
There were two children with her, whose faces
were thin and pale that Mr. Calder said:
These children do look at all strong
Don't you fear for their health?"
Yes" replied the widow. They have not
had anything to eat to-day" To the woman
given 81 for food, and the board the next
day authorized the almoner to pay the passage
of the widow and her sons back to their former
home in Glasgow
St Andrews Society also pays out about
500 month in regular pensions to Scoysman
and Scotch families living in this city who
have been made destitute by misfortune. It's
officers the present time are W. Butler
Duncan, president; Robert Frater Munro and
James Mclean. vice presidents; 4. B. Hepburn.
treasurer; George Austin Morrison jr. secre-
tary. and George Calder. aImoner.
The three thousand Scotsmen whom st
Andrews Society helps in the course of year
are, for the most part, transient visitors TO he
city. The others live chiefly in the cong4sted
district between Fifty-ninth-st. and Sixty
fourth-st., west of Columbus-ave. The great
majority of the Scotch colony of New York,
however, of that thrifty character for which
the Scot at home in other countries is noted
Among the members of the various Scottish
societies to be found many of the leading
financers and business men of the city. Besides
such men Andrew Carnegie and John Stewart
Kennedy, ST Andrews Society, for example.
has its roll the names of Alexander Maitland.
/ Townsend Burden. William p Douglas. w.
Butler Duncan, John y. Hadden, John J. Me-
Cook, Even Mcintyre. John Sloane, w. D.
Sloane, J. Kennedy Tod, Hugh D Auchncloss,
John w. Auchncloss and Robert VI. Galloway
The Burns Society has been in existence thirty
two years, and at its annual dinners, the
anniversary of the poets birthday, there have
been many guests of national and international
prominence At time William Black, he
novelist, present and at another Lord Rose
berry. John Reid is its president William NJ.
Macbean treasurer, and James r. Paterson
secretary.
The Scot, according to many leading citizens
who have emigrated here from the Old Country
is a general thing exceedingly loath to take
out his naturalization papers In this he s
strikingly different from the Irshman and
somewhat similar to the Englishman. He does
not like to break loose from his mother country
unless it is a absolute necessity.
ct is this innate love of ou;r native land
said a Scotsman yesterday to 4 Tribune re-