New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-08

house also comes each wear an army of thousands
of young and middle-aged men attracted by the
stories OF work and large pay and chances IN the
first city Of the land. There come also many with
consfderab bic money who prone to convvial ac-
uuaintanceships early in their city career end VINO
wake up some morning in a cheap lodging house
with funds and clothes and chances gone and only
the empty pocket of a strangers SUIT OF ragged
clothes left behind.
Men in all these classes and in many others are
at present reading in of the lodging houses
the cards that have lately been distributed by the
Joint Application Bureau which is maintained
Jointly by the Charity Organization Society and
the Association for Improving the Condition of the
Poor at No. 100 East 22d-st. These cards read as
follows
If You are out Of work or in need Of food or a
Application Bureau and efforts will be made TO
get you what you need. If you are sick we can
can get treatment If you are in need Of work
We can supply you with temporary empio ; 1d
permanent positions. often are asked to rec
IF Ron have en be a1 IN the city but short me and
have friends in another place who could fine work
for you should you return home, we will help you
TO G The Office zee is scope 9Pen from m
Although the cards have been in distribution only
a. few days. many men have appeared at the bu-
reau. and almost all have willingly undergone the
first test Of earnestness employed by the bureau,
which is chance to split wood at the
woodward for several hours IN return for lodging
believed ii wise give 70 each applicant a kind
of "coaxer" free lodgings and meals. but long
perience has convinced the administration of the
bureau that all efforts at permanent betterment OF
the homeless must be directed to making the ap
pcant self supporting In case this not too easy
task of saving wood and saying nothing" in a
literal sense, has been accomplished for several
days by the homeless man the bureau puts him on
its list Of who deserve the best efforts OF the
bureau to put them in touch with more permanent
work.
In investigating the statements made by the
upon their first interview at the bureau II Is
frequently found that the addresses and names
given as former homes or working places IN other
cities false that answers from the charitaole
organizations elsewhere. which willingly at all
times will investigate on request of the Apphca-
ton Bureau show the mans career elsewhere to
have been dissolute or practically useless Never
theless the bureau is very willing 70 give every
man chance VINO shows he is even temporarily III
Many OF of the homeless class who have hardly
known in years any other rooms tnan me oqEie e
house .domttories cannot De long assisted my
fall away finding easier to beg perhaps anG yaTR
day in plain clothes. they are actually spent III
force and will power as the result Of
Yet it is certainly better 10 keep this mass NOV
work than to permit it stand still While S, the
homeless FOUNDER is working ne is 15 sf he in
cited to see that work after all is the only self
69f tS waX large 9eF eabes &c Of who
thirty thousand cards of the Application Bureau I1
or who receive them from the police td tSs
Island there will be residue at the APpHcdIR ,t
Bureau who are distinctly ''savable ana 49,
can be put In touch with permanent VOTE or ;sinr
hack to their homes and their work in other citle
This work has been undertaken by tR ne, At Of
ton Bureau for several reasons IT Is telI Hiht VI
all that not right TO rest idle IN tes l and
of the vast migratory army OF homeless SsiIu
unemployed Charity means ASSISTANCE stan 20 has
needv.and not only those whose past rtoli 20, ~
been fairly good who have fanlllles fepeI M a.
on them Moreover, the question OF WHAT 70 ~
with the homeless is difficult problem N al
ohio
The bakery with its bread line offers one metnod OF
aIieJiatiOn the mission with its devoConai serves
and its assistance in lodging and meals f, aIot IN
~ Salvation Army has its Industrial oullulhk ~
his cty where the outcast can take 49,. 1lTS!!
stsr, ard work in part payment OF ms heep
MN he feels that he again keep MS head, y,
90 economic sense. above water me a ppctSluti
Rnreau feels that its best work is twofola IN en-
i -, Gospel Of work to speak ana IN etl
lils hy every in its power the man
,bc viii work TO regain his standlnG ....
Nforenver by meeting in the course or Wlltftl
t,,Indreds OF the homeless class VINO perhaps oIS
- the cards would not enter It's doors. the Appl-
oo,;or T2ureau IS accommodating information "hiC1'
t1ar ,ronsrIv digested should throw hght on tIle
ra-,ses extent qualifications and results OF NONE
iass1css only as accurate knowledge ana no I
F5,i ,ninion is obtained Will charitable societies
he asbie 10 construct programme FOR dealing WIN
n Questions OF vagrancy that Will Stand the test
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