The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-20
Unfortunate Situation Found
In Home in FairvieW Where
Poverty Ruled, by Officers
Called to Investigate.
PALLADIUM FUND GROWS.
More Than One Hundred DOL
lars Were Reported Thurs
day and Today Donations
Were Continued.

4 sickly. emaciated young woman,
carrying a thinly clad baby, entered
the office of the Associated Charities
on South Fifth street Thursday and
told story of suffering that Mrs.
Elizabeth Gambler, city missionary,
states is one of the most pitiful she
has heard in her long career as a
charitable worker.
The woman said that she and her
little one were living in the north end
of town with her brother and his fam
lily, which consisted of the wife and
two children. The woman stated that
her husband had deserted her. Her
brother she said. had been out of en-
ployment for some time and that re-
Gently he was taken i'll and is now
confined to his bed threatened with
pneumonia. The woman also told
Mrs. Gambler that her sister-in-law
was i'll and confined to a bed.
THE two little children are scantly
clad and are unable to leave the
house, because they have no shoes.
The house is cold My brother is pc H.
niless. helpless and so discouraged
that he Is fretting his life away.
said the young woman, looking pathet-
jcally at her half starved infant. Mrs.
Gambler sent shoes, clothing, medicine,
fuel and food to this house of gloom.
The Associated Charities will have to
care for this unfortunate family for
some time--and it takes money to do
this kind of work.
HuddIed Together for Warmth.
Over in Fairview. there is family
article of food in the house and burn
ed its last piece of coal When Mrs.
Gambler and Township Trustee Potter
called there, the woman and her little
ones, were found huddled together in
IN effort to keep the sting of the cold
out of their bodies. The man of the
house was not there. He has gone
out to the country to see if he can't
get job chopping wood. He has
been unable to find employment in the
city, said the woman
These examples OF suffering are
given in answer to a charge made
Thursday by a Main street merchant,
that the Palladium was wrong in at
tempting to raise charitable tund
because there were no worthy poor in
this city who were in actual want.
Mrs. Gambler Busy.
In the face of his statement. Mrs.
Gambler says that Thursday from ear
" morning until nearly two o'clock
In the afternoon, she spent her time
calling at the homes Of worthy poor
people who live in every section of
the city. 1t can be said without eX-
aggeration. that Mrs. Gambler is the
busiest woman in Richmond.
II it is believed that the tales of
suffering related in the columns of
this paper are hot air.. for the pur-
pose of advertising the Palladium and
stirring up maudlin sympathy in the
hearts of its readers, one has only to
visit the headquarters of the Associat-
ed Charities or South Fifth street.
Every day respectable, hard working
people, swallowing their pride from
sheer necessity, go to that little build
ing and with dropping heads ask for
charity. One can tell by the actions
of these supplicants that they have
never before begged of charity and
that this time they have brought
themselves to do so. only after a hard
fight with their pride.
Contributions Coming In.
The Palladium hopes to at least
raise fund of $1,000. Over s100 and