New-York tribune., 1908-01-24
BREAD LINE GROWS.
TRAMP INFLUX KEEPS UP.
Number of Bona Eide Unemployed
Decrenses-35 900 Homeless Here.

r,. rv,ar;+, Organization Society, In report
,ssued Yesterday following an investigation Vi ~
a;.io, of unemployed throughout the country
stated that at least thrty-fiye thousaho ho'Ne. ~
-. . majority of whom are classed as udihpS'
are now in this city. The most serious phase Vi 9
situation is the continued influx OF trahpS "l a. o.
exploiting the plight of unemployed "oiAei' ~
their own USE ,., .,,o Char
a.. rgantzaton Society sent circulars to all the IN
sttutfons and men active in the WORK Oh leiei '
as we'll as In other cities. At the same 'iihe i'
uere sent to the lodging houses ana mlsSlohS " ee
detailed reports the situation
The overflow the municipal lodslns mousse ."
<.- this month is 1136 while last month 1t was
renorted to be 2,590 Commissioner Hebpero anu
Superintendent Yorke have been vainly attempting
to obtain additional quarters for the vagrants nalS
of whom, ere forced to sit up all night IN tile
waiting room On ue Nhu'i'S D'l ~ -
26th street.
The bread lines at Fleischrlan's bakery and the
Bowerv Missions have so increased within the las-
few days that an average of five hundred men have
ia be turned away hungry every night. The Had
lev Mission. in the Bowery. was overcrowded a
month ago but It was said yesterday that the IN
crease is overlapping the record made last Decem-
her The officers of the mission have arranged for
an extra bread line.
while the report Of the investigators of the Char
iv ORGANIZATION Society shows the same figures as
nrnted in The Tribune December 2S Il is point
ed out that the present condition Is In many ways
unprecedented in the societys experience since the
winter of 1s93-94 The Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor reported on January IL
that since October 1 1t had applications from 1888
| families an increase of more than five hundred
| over the same period of the preceding year.
The number of calls from homeless persons at
| the Joint application bureau of the Charity Or
ganizaton Society in December is placed at 1854.
| as compared with 751 in December, 1906 OF the
| applicants this year e-fourths said be
tramps who have been coming here since last sum-
| mer. Reports from missions Settlements and the
| Young Mems Christian Association conflict
| ing in some respects. but agree that the who
! call for aid largely of the vagrant type and
| notceably from outside the city who IN no
way affected by the financial conditions. The NUM-
| Der of skilled unemployed is almost reduced
to minimum.
| increase OF 25 per cent in the number of with
| drawals the period last year, but de-
| crease in the total amount paid out. Both the
| amounts deposited and the number of depos-
itors show great falling off. Many of these de-
| postors foreigners who have drawn money to
return home. and others are men who have worked
on part time, while payments have been made to
| 1aborers who draw enough money to live every
week during the dull
According to reports from other cities the condi-
| tons in Chicago appear to be acute. The
Municipal Lodging House there had II .220 dodgers
| in December while in the eleven months pre-
cedng 1850 cared for.
The number of the bona fide UNEMPLOYED this
month shows decrease. particularly on the East
Side, where many of the cloak and garment makers
are again employed. DR.. Franke of the United
| Hebrew Charities. said that comparatively few
| applications for aid were received at his office
during the last week, that the situation is be-
| coming brighter every day. On February 1 most
of the shops will be running full time It was
| said