Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-28
THE FULL N N PAIL"

Do you remember the republican
party's slogan -four years more of the
full dinner pailr' asks Bryan's Com.
moner. What has become of that
slogan now The New York World in
its issue of Tuesday, January 4. printed
this news item:
The old man died first. but the young
man seemed to be the weaker and the
hungrier as the two friends in adversely
tottered to the door of the Municipal
Lodging House, at Twenty.fifth street
and the East river, last night. SO it
was that the starving man of sixty
supported his starving companion of
twenty eight rs they dragged their
dreary way along the water front to the
city's bread line, supported him aud
urged him to hold out for another block
or two, to keep up his spirits for a few
minutes until he could get TO the free
food and thus strengthen himself for
the next days hunt for work.
The starving man of twenty-eight
groaned and staggered on with the help
OF the feeble arm about his waist.
The starving man of sixty said
cheerily. There's the lodging house
light now, only the next block. Well
smell the coffee in n minute"
There were "a hundred men in the
line ahead of them when they reached
the goal. Those hundred were merely
hungry, suffering from hunger, but
they did not have to hold each other up
till their turns came. So these derelicts
recognized that 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 precious places
by stepping out of line to let those who
were starving get to the bread.
Don't You smell the coffee now? y
murmured Sixty to Twenty-cight; hut
the younger man wa senseless. 1t was
only the support of his friend of the
streets that kept him from falling be,
fore the pyramid of bread and steaming
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 u 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 he should he
covered with a sheet and left where he
fell, between them and society's dole of
the bread and coffee.
The evening rites went on with one
little difference. As each one reached
out across the man who was no longer
hungry for the allowance of bread with
n hand he raised the other to remove
the battered hat in honor of the dead
brother.
The younger man was revived for u
few minutes. He said that he did not
know who his friend was. I'VE were
together on the street. He helped me
get here. / don't know his name"
Then the younger man became uncon.
scious again and was taken to Bellevue.
The doctors say he, too, will die of
starvation.
Neither man had been drinking.
Neither man had an ovcrcoat or under.
clothing just outside rags to conform
to the law IL they did not fit the
temperature. Neither man had so
much as a scrap of paper that would
suggest his identity. But the police
must have statistics and here is the
best they could do for a record of the
incident OH the blotter of the East
Twenty second street precinct:
Man, about sixty years old, unknown.
five feet eight; died at Municipal
Lodging House; starvation.
Man, about twenty eight old.
unknown. five feet seven and a half,
removed In q dying condition from
Municipal Lodging House to Bellevue:
starvation.