New-York tribune., 1907-12-31
WANT BINGHAM'S HELP
MUST DRIVE OUT TR4MPS.
City So OUercome Charity Officials
GrOC Worried.

Commissioner Bingham will be asked by the
Sharitles DEPARTMENT aid in clearing the city
OF trarnps- Superintendent Yorke the Municipal
Lodging House. said yesterday that it would be i'm
possible to the situation unless the police
And the magistrates were enlisted in the effort TO
rad Kew York Of the thousands Of wanderers. The
ieniency Of the police in dealing with Migrants
discussed by Ny Yorke and others interested in
taking care Of the city's poor. IL said that
raid or the ''panhanGlers, who becoming so
orazen that they dc not hesitate TO stop persons
on Madison and Lexington avenues in the early
afternoon, would drive at least ten thousand of the
unemployed from the city within a short time
Unless the police step in. Superintendent Yorke
said, wave OF crime would be the outcome of the
present conditions From the number of applicants
who have appeared at the lodging house he was
surprised that few robberies had occurred and
that the vast number of tranps had not yet as
serted themselves more forciblY in various parts
of City. He added that the situation had be-
come alarming during the last few days
To the army of tramps is added the long list "f
unemployed mechanics. clerks and men of other re
spectacle callings who have spent their savings OF
the summer and are thrown on the mercy of
the cty's charity Father Ducey, of St Leo's Ro-
Catholic Church spoke of the situation as fol-
lows last night:
In the last four weeks 1 have found constant
stream of and women flowing TO the rectory
These persons do not live in the city. and many Of
them not Catholics. but never consider peoples
religious convictiops when they apply for relief
from their suffering end want
"A week ago last Saturday night sixty-four men
seated themselves before the confessional They
waited until L disengaged. and each Of them
told me how he had come here from Il smaller town
in search of employment, and foand all places al
ready overcrow6ed. These men were sent TO lodg-
ing houses and given whatever comfort could he
arranged. The daily number OF applicants for aid
has doubled and trebled. and in the last two
days more than thirty well dressed young men
called at the rectory for help, and from their
stories they appeared to be of good families but in
dire need Of immediate aid
There are cases much more narrowing than these
among who have me for aid
within last weeks. They do not wish 10 be
pauperzed. but it is almost impossible to find work
for them at present. A number of respectable
young and have applied TO me TO in
tercede for them when the large number of changes
will be made in department stores following the
Christmas rush. They feared that the notice which
has come to many of their associates within tie
last two weeks would leave them pennileaa-
The reports of the daily press. charity workers
end the organizations not in the least exag-
eerated. as / know what conditions present.
The only hope is that the workingmen outside OF
New York will realize they have no prospects
here
1t is almost impossible to estimate the number Of
unemployed in New York the present time On
the East Side it was said yesterday that total of
seventy-five thousand union employees were out OF
work. forty thousand cloak and garment workers
and thirty-lve thousand skilled and unskilled la
borers being included in that number Other esti-
mates given by leaders placed the number Of
unemployed at a much larger figure. A canvass
will be made by those in charge Of the labor bu
reaus TO determine the exact number of men out OF
work.