The sun., 1908-06-03
SCHOOL CHILDREN LACK FOOD
LOCAL BOARDS LEARN or MANY
CASES or SUFFERING.

nichman Ono of Th0sa interested
Shoes Another Need. she says--seme
Pitirul Cases OF Desttut,on Reported.
There's mother living In one OF the
crowded tenements of the East Side just on
Grand street who. because she does noe
want to hear her four children ory before
starting for the public school for tho broak-
fast that she cannot provide for them. has
been getting up every morning for days
past as the sun rose and. with her husband,
has gone over to Seward Park and has sat
on one Of the benches there for hours, or
until the crying. foodless young ones havs
left the house for their classrooms. ~
A olothier named M. Wellnsky. at ths
corner Of Canal and Eldridge streets. .
member Of one Of the local school boards
Of the East Side. told yesterday of ono
household consisting Of an able bodied
father and mother and three children. Hs
has investigated. he said, and has found
that for many days the three children havo
, been going to school without breakfass
because the father and mother are unable
| to get work,
| Philip Sachs, restaurants keeper AMI
baker at u Division street. also told yestsr-
day Of the hungry youngsters that his little
daughter has brought home With her at
noon 10 the restaurant to be fcd because
they had had no breakfast and. like many
Of the other East Side sohool children.
would net 30 to their homes as noon for
luncheon because they had learned from
hard experience Of late that there was no
luncheon to be provided for them
Some children have tainted In the GLASS
rooms during the last few wseks In Dis
tricts and Sin which there are about
A.Ooo school children and, which include
practically all the lower East Side from the
Bowery to the East River-because Of a
lack Of food. There's one little lad that
Sachs knows Of who had to leave school
the other day to earn money by selling
! newspapers TO that he might buy something
to cot for himself and his parents and little
sisters. As he 10 under the age limit he was
arrested on Grand street on Monday even
ing while crying aloud his newspaper wares.
Miss Julia Riohman. superintendent Of
school districts 2 and 8. told in detail some
Of these instances Of hardship at the
regular monthly meeting Of the local
school boards Of her districts on Monday
afternoon. The meeting was held in Public
School e6 at Eldridge and Canal streets.
Miss Mohman's instances Of hunger and
privation among the children, whose par
| ents. owing to the violent shaking UP Of
business conditions Of tho country during
the last few months cannot get any work
to do. confirmed the rumors that have
been running through tho East Side for
many weeks.
Miss Riohman had with her list Of ahout
twenty-five children in Public School o.. Of
whom It was learned by their teachers
upon investigation that they were coming
to school without having had anything 10
eat before leaving their homes. Another
list Of about twenty-one children living In
Forsyth. Allen. Eldridge. Madison. Chrys-
tie. Division and Rutgers streets were re-
ported to Miss Richman by the principal
of Public School at Chrystie and Hester
streets to be in weakened condition from
hunger. Most Of them have parents who
cannot get work owing to the unsettled
condition of the garment making and other
trades in which they ordinarily earn their
livelihood.
The chairman Of the meeting, Isadore
M, Levy, upon learning that little ones
were fainting in the schools because OF
coming to their studies without having
eaten anything, appointed a committee
among the local school boards of the two
districts to do something at once to help
the starving children
The committee viii meet shis Afternoon
at O'Clock at Public School 65 at Canal
and Eldridge streets to appoint a day for
general meeting to be held In the auditorium
Of the Educational Alliance, East Broad
way and Jefferson street, to organize q
"Children's Relief Society," 90 that the
children of the East Side might not longer
have to decide between choice OF eduoa-
ton and starvation or no schooling and
breakfast.
The committee appointed consists OF
DR.. Max Herbst. Grand street dentist;
Mrs. Sidonia Feltenstein, secretary Of To-
cal district 8; Philip Sachs, M, Welinsixy
and two ex ofiicio members, DR.. A. A.
Himowich and Isadore Levy, chairmen
respectively Of the local boards Of districts
2 and g.
To-day the committee at their meeting
will issue a statement signed by them and
which is founded upon Miss Riohman's
report. and which runs:
The following 10 only one Of many cases
of appeal which have come and continue to
come TO the district superintendent and
principals from the teachers Of public schools
in this district:
Can you furnish relief for the family OF
----- living at - Monroe street. The boy
attends this school. He looks very III, and
found upon investigation that No had had
no food for two days. I gave him enough
for the present. and referred the case per-
sonally to the United Hebrew Charities.
Tho offioial In charge there regretted her
inability TO give relief. 40 the family con.
ssts only Of the father and mother, both
able bodied. and this one child. She states
that with the limited means at the command
Of the society and with the extraordinary
demands now made upon its funds u must
reserve It's relief for large families In which
illness or widowhood depriyes many children
of the means OF life. refer the case TO you. asI
am helpless in the matter
Severalprincipals have reported individual
cases Of physical weakness due TO lack OF
food a few children have tainted from sheer
exhaustion, Principals and teachers are doing
ali they can but even though they tax their