The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-21
BUREAU ASKS
Cash TO AID
THE NEEDY
Associated Charities Appeal
for Assistance in Carry
ing on Work..

The managers for the Bureau of AS
ISOLATED Charities are In need &C money
to make a success of a special line of
work, namely. the giving of immediate
relief to people, mainly poor widows
and deserted wives with small children,
in need of food. fuel. clothing. medicine
and also some money to help pay rent
so they will not be turned into the
street. During the three months of last
summer BIG of these cases were investi-
gated. and $3.50 distributed am,.ng the
worthy. the % not being one-ffth
of what was necessary to help the un-
fortunate poor and deserving people out
Of their trouble.
During the winter months the num-
Der OF widows and deserted wives who
will apply at the Office of the bureau
on the second DOR of 20 Academy street
will more than double. Therefore the
managers of the bureau hope that men
and women who are well to do will SUBJ
scribe to a fund to be used solely for
immediate relief cases. The bureau in
vestigates the cases of applicants for
relief to Protestant and Catholic chart
table and church societies, and its ex-
perienced investigators report If the APP
plicants deserve assistance oil not.
A. w. McDougall. superintendent of
the bureau. said that money donated
for the fund for immediate relief will
not be used to pay salaries or any other
expenses of the bureau, but will be
used only for the purposes for which 1t
is subscribed. Each person who sub
scribes $25 to $50 or 500 or more to the
fund may state in his letter to Benja-
min Atha, the treasurer. h class of
people to be assisted, and a report will
be mailed to cach one giving the names.
addresses, nationality and creed of the
persons helped through his subscrip-
ton.
Early one morning this week several
poor women with children were in the
waiting-room of the bureau when an
EVENING STAR mar called. A young
Italian widow with two children, one a
baby, said she had been Ill, had no food
or fuel in the house and no money to
pay rent for a couple of rooms. An
employee in the office was sent out to
investigate her story and to supply
food and coal If her story was found
true.
superintendent McDougall gave the
reporter a few of the immediate cases
1AA1 W IL ~ IhAS AiAAA 80 $3.50
ed on the books of the bureau. A
widow with four children, the eldest 9
years, had. been i'll, could not get work,
and she had no money to pay rent.
One boy worked and arm a little
money each week, enough to buy bread
and coffee. Her rent for a mont was
paid, she was given food and light
work was got for her, and the three
younge children were sent to a sum-
mer school.
Another woman was deserted by her
husband. She Inc five children were
left without money or food. She was
sent to the City Hospital because she
was too i'll to work. OF the children,
the eldest was a boy 9 years old.
Work was obtained for him, the three
smallest children were sent to a Cath
Ollie institution, and one boy got meals
at home for the boy who worked. A
nurse from the bureau called at the
house daily to see it was kept clean,
and the ent was paid for one month.
A woman has five children and a
husband who is drunk nearly all the
time. He pawned furniture and cloth
ing to get money for rum. The wife
and children would nave starved but
for kind n~eighbors. The bureau got
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child and paid the rent for a month to
keep the family united.
There were other cases in which the
wife and mother was sent to a hospital
and the bureau kept the children in
the poor apartments and supplied them
with food. This was done through the
contributions of charitable to
whom the cases were made known, and
who were assured that the persons
were in sore need and deserving of aid
at once.
The Bureau of Associated Charities
was organized upward of twenty-five
years ago, and 1t has procured tempo
rary and also permanent employment
for several thousand men and women,
and 1t has beer the means of keeping
q great many families united in their
poor homes. The original purpose was
to Investigate applications for assist
ance and report abe results to church
and charitable societies.
1t has been of assistance in this way
to the Female Charitable Society and
to the st. Vincent de Paul Society.
which has a branch in nearly every
Catholic parish in Newark. But the
bureau found many cases in which
prompt assistance was needed, and this
class is increasing. so that the bureau
must have more money, In order to
give the relief needed and where 1t does
the most good. Any contributions to
the special fund may be sent to Benja-
min Atha at the Essex County Ma
tional Bank and they will be acknowl-
edged in the EVENING STAR.