New-York tribune., 1908-06-03
STARVED PUPIL FAINTS
ALL EAST SIDE HUNGERS.
Reports of School Teachers Shoss
Unusual Degree of Misery.

The economic condition of the great East Side Of
Manhattan, recognized ordinarily as the spot in all
New York where the tide Of human conditions is
always at its ebb. is revealed in an even more
hsartrending phase than the mere casual investi-
Estion o. the district would indicate existed there
That school children OF the Ghetto literally
starving was the story told yesterday ano
vouchad for truthful by school officials Of the
district Instances were cited Of pupils OF the
public schools faintins in the class from lack OF
nourishment
A committee wncse aim il will be 10 work for
the amelioration Of these conditions has been or
eanized and will meet to-day, at which the date
for a mass meeting Will be decided upon, from
which Will ernanate an appeal Cor funds TO be used
in the establishment of free diet kitchens
The I'd and Sd school districts are those
most affected these districts special com
rnittees have been appointed, Of which lsdor NJ.
Levy ana A A HimIoHich. school inspectors are
members ex-ofhcio There eleven schools in
the two districts-four and seven, respectively
The boundaries Second District BoVery.
Grand street. Orchard street. Allen street Rutgers
street. East River and Canal street: Sd District,
Orchard street Delaney street Sheriff street East
Broadway. Montgomery street, East River, Rut-
gers street and Canal street.
The existing conditions. it is said. the result
OF the greatly increased number of unemployed on
the East Side. which has been steadily growing in
the last three or months Thus further in
ability Of the fathers OF families 10 obtain employ
uent has brought the poor Of the district 10 the
point Of starvation. Most of the fainilies anectec
Russian Jews and Italians
Miss Julia Richman. district school superin-
tendent, the call public attention TO the
situation the monthly meeting Of the district
school board held at Public School s. in Fldridge
street on Monday She received at that meeting
reports Of principals Of the different schools under
her charge. The report OF the principal of School
= in Chrstie street showed that in that institution
there twenty-one pupils who were INSULT
ciently fed other principals reported like condi-
,-e-1 of
hoy who had rot eaten in two days. while there
were many cases where children had gone n school
in the morning without mouthful Of breakfast
and stu others where the pupils did not 20 home
st the recess hour because they knew there was
no luncheon there for them. The principals ano
teachers have done all their power To relieve the
conditions their effoyts have been meagre COM
rared with the eNigencies Of the pressing demands
At The meeting to-day appeal PROBABLY will
re sent 10 the Board Of Education for support of
the movement in hand. Also. there will he de-
cide5 the date for mass meeting at the Educa-
1ional Alliance. in East Broadway. The plan is to
arpeal for contributions from charitable persons
cf 8 month. 50 that the diet kitchens that VIII
he established can he maintained even after the
close Of the schools next month for the summer
vacation The rlan includes the issuance Of tick
ets for the children through the principals. The
kftc.en is already being in a small way N
Public School :. where the children can Obtain
milk and crackers for one cent
Miss Pichr1an said that she thought or suggesting
q class cobbling for the pupils, SO that they
could mend their own shoes, thus enabling them
70 go 10 school with dry feet rainy cay.
N wilinsBy, Of No. 3 Canal street, one Of the
committeeman, rold of investigating one Of the
cases reported -vhere he found fhree children in
one family that school breakfastless every
morning.
The conditions worse than ever before,
said Nr wilinskv. Only those people living on
the East Side can thoroughly understand the pa
thos and misery of IT."