Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1910-01-27
The Full DInner PsiI7

4, printed the following news item
illustrative OF conditions in the cites
to which so many rountrymeu are
fiocking. No suck suffering as is
there depicted cou,d happen in
God s county" where there ara
no colossal fortunes, bu; where there
is always plenty g eat ard where
anyone may earn good living by
the sweat of his fsce."
The old man died 6rs.. but the
young man seemed to be the weaker
and the huugrisr as the two friends
in adversity tottered to the door
of the Municipal Lodging House, at
Twenty -fiftb are. = ard the East riv
or. last night: 30 it vas thai the
starving man Of sixty supported bis
starving companion Of twenty eight
as they dragged their dreary way
along the water front TO the city s
bread line, supported him and urg-
ed him to hold out for another block
or two, to keep up his spirits for a
few more minutes until he could get
to the free food and thus strengthen
himself for the next days hunt for
work.
The starving man OF only twenty
eight groaned and staggered on
with tho help of the fee eble arm about
his waist.
The starving man of sixty said
chez rily, There's the lodging
house light now, only the next
block. Wen smell the coffee in a
minute.
HUNDRED HUNGRY MEN MADE Way.
There were hundred men in the
line ahead OF them when they reach
ed the goal. Those hundred were
merely hungry, suffering from hun.
ger. but they did not have to hold
each o.htr up till their turns came.
So these derelicts recognized tha,
there were grades of suffering even
on the bread line. They stood
aside to let the old man and
the young man pass in ahead OF
them. They risked their own pre-
cious places by stepping out OF line
to let those who were starving get
to the bread.
Don't you smell the coffee now?''
murmured Sixty to Twenty eight;
but the younger han was senseless.
1t was only the support of his friend
OF the streets that kept him from
falling before the py ramid OF bread
and the stesming urn OF coffee.
Hes starving; | know him. but
| don't know his name. Feed him.
quick" quavered the old man.
Superintendent Newhouse and
the attendants took the younger
man and placed him on a bench.
Relieved Of his burden, the old
man stretched out his hand toward
the bread. He touched it and fell
dead
The hungry hundred knew that
he was dead; no need for the red
tape of the coroner TO tell them that.
The red tape merely required that
be should be covered with a sheet
and left where be fell, between
them and soeiety's dole OF the bread
and coffee.
Pooh FELLOWS HoNoRED THE DEAD
The evening rites went on with
one little difference. AS each one
reached out across the man who was
no longer hungry for the allow ance
OF bread with one hand, he raised
the other to remove battered bat
In honor OF the dead brother.
The younger man was revived for
a few minutes. He said that be did
not know who his friend was. We
were together on the street. He
helped me get here. don't know
his name" Then the younger man
became unconscious again and was
taken TO Bellevue The doctors say
he too will die OF starvation.
Neither man had been drinking
Neither man had an overcoat or un.
derclolhes-justenough outside rags
to conform to the lawif they did not
ft the temperature. Neither man
had so much ss a scrap of paper
that would suggest his identity.
But the police must have statistics
and here is The best they could do
for q record of the incident op the
blotter of the East Twenty-second
street precinct
Man about sixty years old, un.
known, i've feet, eight; died at tn
Municipal Lodging House; starva-
tion.
Man, about twenty-eight years
old; unknown five feet and a-half
removed in a dying condition from
Municipal Lodging House TO Belle.
vue; starvation.