New-York tribune., 1908-06-16
DEARTH OF GOOD THINGS.
Workers at Floscer Mission Deplore
Failing Off IN Contributions.

I'VE want everything we can get" said OF
the officers of the New York City Flower Miss'on
its rooms at No 1o4 East aoth street. yesterday
Tea jeIlies condensed milk. fruit vegetables az
well flowers Nothing comes aniss"
For food delicaces and fruit are
teng received in meagre supply. Many flowers are
in but the mission has trouble in disposins
of them and could dispose of more II 1t had them.
Last Thursday the rooms were bower nun
dred magnificent roses came from j. Pierpont
Morgan's place and were sent to Gouverneur HOS
pita Four hundred roses were sent TO Lincoln
Hospital in The Bronx. A hundred potted plants
came from Sunday school in Orange. N j.. ana
distributed among kindergartens and day
nurseries and tenement shut-ins Yesterday, also.
quantities of peonies, roses. pansies ana othe,
blossoms were received and were promptly eafiieu
away by missionaries to the places where tney
would Go the most good.
We need helpers TO assist In unpacKing lhe
flowers and arranging them for the missionaries.
said one of the workers. but, dear me, afen
things contrary in this world? Not long ago We
published appeal for helpers and the next day
six volunteers in. But. of course it just hap
pened that that day there were hardly any now
ers We tried to assure the ladies that generally we
mad many flowers and would be very glad OF theif
relp: hut I'm afraid they didn't really believe IT,
and only of them ever came back
missionaries saw that the sick in tenements beg
for ielIies So Condensed milk is one thing OF
which we used get a great deal, but for some
reason it isn't coming in now. and we mss IT.
In ways there is almost more surefihe no"
than there last winter Out OF work people
who lived good while after the hard times
began what they had saved up, or with the heip
of relatives coming to the end OF fher re-
sources now
Il hope we'll get as many vegetables and fruits
this year as we did last" said another worker
Some of the wealthy people would have their
and ship vegetables regularly, the crates
being carried back the next day by the express
companies
Il used to wonder why gifts of fruits and vege-
tables from the same people would vary so year
by year. One year we'd get splendid things from
some estate up the Hudson, say. and the next
year from that same only skinny offerings
or nothing at all. ] concluded it the garden
ers Probably the owners were away in Europe
and left orders with the gardeners to send US
things. If the gardener was generous we reaped
the benefit. II he had an eye to the main chance
he probably sold the vegetables and kept the
money Maybe that one of his perquisites
In recent years the mission has purchased deli
caces for the sick, but at present the treasury Is
very full, because many contributors have been
compelled to halve their checks or refrain from
sending them at all. Still, the mission is going
as it has gone since L founded, more than
thirty years ago.
The missionaries are chosen with great care,
and most of the people helped are found through
Settlements and schools, so those who contribute
may be that their gifts not wasted on
the wrong people. The mission rooms at No l04
East Goth street open every Monday and
Thursday. Miss Frances Rufet is the treasurer.