The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
NEWYoRK'S K'SB0HEMIA.
GIfsfrsEs or LIFE or. TIE REAL
Ex4napies sf Herslsm e. . Poor cusr-
 ter ef the Town in which the s.sS sfrussie ef Exfsfspee fs ste;- Hard.

fENeW York, Feb. 3.--fSpecial1-- ---
 Though tbere are two -Bohemiase in the metropolis. the great majority of the citizans. as well as the visitors to the city, know of but one.--the say Bp-
 nemia. the land where nobody goes This careless region of gaisty. where all Is glitter and laughter and light and display where the popping or; corks blends all night long with the happy. tinkling music of the orcheF- tras. where .ttere Is no suggestion of the stern and strenuous business life of the big city--this region naturally attracts attention througAout the length and breadth of the land. sAnd all strangers who come to the city wish to get . glimpse Of this Bohemia. the center of which Is the Great White Way. between the two FIatirops.
 No visitors tpsthe city on pleasure oud Bohemia, where there is no glit- ter and display and little laughter, and life is anything but say. This Is the cigar factory district. on the middle East Side. a. region of crowded tene- fnents extending from the turbid shores of the East River to where the elevated trains rumble past on Second Avenue. of Bohemia. but the long hours of toll in the cigar factories and the still longer hours of enforced iflenesa when hard times shut down these factories have robbed them of many of the care free attributes which the word Bohe- mia calls to mind. RoAemianism tn this quarter, whatever it may mean on Broadwsy msafis toll, and, not iufre- quentiy. economic heroism. A
 One seldom sees newspaper stories of the quarter, for the people guard their many tra gedies and their few comedies most zeaiousiy, but the settlement workers and the public school teaensrs of the district know incidents or he- roic sacrihces on which could be build ed tales of exquisite pathos.s Such an incident has just been concluded in . little wooden shanty in the rear yard of one of the Fest Seventy-foprth Street tApements.
 A tired young woman worn with the burden of four small children and . cousumptive. epileptic husband, lives in a shsnty. Two rnopths ago the soafd of Health decrsed that for the sake pf her health and that of her children, her hus6and must live away from her |! Tha couple loved each other. and al. thouRh each realized that the parting yVasl for the best, it did nnt make thetF grief any easier to bear.
 The immediate bangs Of tnetr sepaE- alton had not been assu4ged before ens &SNfNb3SNCAtS been assisting the mother to pay ner rentissued the ultimatum that she must place her children. except tne yonngest, an eight months otd oepy' ;n some asylum, or else forfeit the IT. nanciai assistance which she was Fs- ceiying from the organization.
 This. was the final drop that nlIee sHo wonan's cup of bitterness 70 oysen1 ,ses ~ ing aud all the mother love In ner rS- beIled. .a sha said to the agent of the society Wno nresented the proposition to nsF.
 love my children and as long as an able to bend ovek a washtup' VIII nos be parted from them. The charitable essoci!tion IF W es.s.ss l Iv dropped her from Its list Sipee thAn tfe woman has struggled alopE. | ekinE out an existence for herselI ana | her babies by taking home. Wratevsr l waahintx she can obtain. Her huHpend i is staylue .n Brooklyn with his fam- | fly, who themselves are iEii such straight efied circumstances that they can go | nothing for the wife ana ths. tour Hs ss | lie ones in Manhattan. feature or this case which Is. typical of the Hohe- milan district, is that the brave young | mother has made no appeal to any oshsr char.atable organization since the one l which formerly assisted her stopped | paying her rent.
 A few days ago, however, one or the
 visiting teachers from the tones Ms morial School. which is maintained m I the neixhborh ood by the Chtidfen's Aid society, discovered the woman's pre- | dicament and a:ded her in her heroic | fztt to keep the children With her. py l giving her, small orders on grocery store and a butcher shop. | This pathetic case Is only one 9t af sst. IL. "a aa neopIe there. bear the burdens with a ] sfoic philosophy that placps them Tn a class utterly distinct from the syerase l tHnen1ent dweIlers. When they need eharity, they accept 1t but they seldom ask :t And when conditions improve 30 that they feel that they can set | along without outside aid, they go im- zations that have been sselattpg them
 and tell them that this assistance IS | needed no longer. ginoe the recent financial panic there has been more need for charity in this | pesghborhood than has evsr been re- | corded on the books of any of thefehsy- | itabls organizations. This ts due 70 | two distinct causes---the laying oh of hands in the cigar factories aud the 1 great influx of unemploSed men frem | other cities. In former years. when the | men employed in the cigar factoriqs 1 were dismissed, their wives, who In | nnany Instances worked in the same | Factories with them, were permitted to | keep their positions. But this year | both men and women have been laid | of, and the scarcity of work in the city
 has made 1t impossible for the men | 10 gst work as laboFers.
 1 Az a result Of the great need for
 charitable assistance in the netghhef.
 | hood, unidue form of charity h$S
 been evolved by the workers in the
 Jones Memorial School. Instead of
 | giving money to the destitute families.
 inc school supplies them with dollar
 | orders'' on a nelghborhood grocery.
 | Similar orders on butcher shops are
 also given them. and when they are
 without fuel, they receive an order for
 | a hundred pounds of coal. Owing to
 | the limited resources of the school, 1t
 is only possible now to extend aid of | thie character to about fifty families a
 month, out of more than 200 faraltes in
 the quarter who really need such as- 1 siStahce.
 7tDespits their dire straits, nearly all
 the families manage to send theIF chill | dren to school, This eagerpeas, on the | parents part to give their little ones l aIl education so that they may escape | the sordid life of the tepernents wRen | they grow up, has met with the hesrty | co.operation of not only the charity l school workers, but the public sch opl teachers as well. Many of the latter.
 out of their own small salaries, supply | children with clothing SO that lucy
 nay not be kept away from school for
 lack of wearing apparel. The Memorial