The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-12
Charitable Organizations Re-
port Demand for Help Was
Not So Great Yesterday,
But Is Still Heavy.
TWO LADS ARE SURE
OF VISIT BY SANTA
Boys Sighed for Toys, While
Gazing in Window, and
They Were Overheard by a
Charitable Worker.

With the snow storm. which visit
ed this city Friday night, the back
bone of the cold spell was broken and
as result the intense suffering
among the poor of Richmond is not
so great as several days ago. Howev-
er the Associated Charities and Sal
vation Army are daily besieged with
appeals for fuel, clothing and provis-
ions, for during the terrifically cold
weather of the past few days every
available bit of fuel was consumed by
the suffering poor in an effort to keep
comfortable.
With but two weeks before Christ
mas, the charitable organizations of
the city are putting forth every effort
in an endeavor to spread Joy in every
home and bring gladness to the heart
of every poor child. whose happiness
is at stake during the gay holidays.
Pathetic Case.
Yesterday afternoon two ragged ur-
chins stood gazing wistfully into a toy
store on Main street. Their shoes
were worn full of holes and the north
wind whistled through their tattered
and torn garments. The Sleet and
rain fell with biting sting on their
! weasened faces. pinched by the pangs
of hunger and want. And their bod
blasts of the winter wind. But still
they sazed longingly into the store
window where the brilliant array OF
toys and playthings dazZled their eyes
and seemed to mock them as they
looked. Finally. after gazing in ST
, lence for several moments, the quiet
was broken by t. - clrger of the two
boys, who, manfully checking back the
sobs. placed his arm protectingly
| ion and whispered, Never mind broth
er, maybe Santa Claus won't forget us
again this year."
The pathetic remark was heard by
a well known charitable worker and
| the boys case was investigated. 1t is
| needless to state that the children S
! home will be visited by Santa Claus
| this year and their stockings, which
| in former years have dangled empty
abundantly filled by some Good Sa
maritan in the guise of the Benevolent
Santa. And the childrens' dream will
| be fond reality
| There are many such cases in the
city and the opportunities for spread
ing bright rays of sunlight into the
lives of the poor are unlimited. A lit
tie time and very little trouble or
one day in the year will bring joy te
the hearts of score of people. who
feel that they have very little to live
for during the Christmas holidays.
| Waere centenarian Lives.
| In miserable shanty' on South
Sixth street, with the wind creeping
in between the large crevices in the
side of the wall and with the weather
boarding battered and ripped off IL
places, lives Granny" Maria Taylor
colored, 1o2 years of age, in her hum
BILE pretense of home. And she i:
purported to be in 4 dying condition
from over exposure in her advanced
age The Salvation Army and Asso
ciated Charities have given her ait
but she needs more care. and here lie!
an opportunity for some excellen
charitable work Granny" Taylor ha:
lived in Richmond for over IS years
She was an old slave and can remem
ber Abraham Lincoln. She needs hell
now and everything should be done
it is said, to make her last Christina
on earth the happiest in her memory