The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-26
A Glimpse of How the 9th
er Half" Lives Reveals the
Fact that the Wolf Howls
at Many a Door.
EXTORTlONATE RENT
ALLEGED BY NUMBER
Heads of Many Worthy Fam
lilies Are Out of Work and
Children Are Ill Saliva
ton Army's Work.

Captain H. H. Deuter Of the local
branch of the Salvation army says
that there are fifty or sixty worthy
families in this city who are forced to
ask for charity, while there are quite
| number of families who are shiftless
and do not deserve help This latter
class is helped but Httle-only in case
Of extreme poverty. sickness or
death
Provisions are purchased by the
Army each week and distributed
among the needy poor. More than one
woman informed a Palladium reporter
Saturday that If it was not for the
! Salvation Army, and other benevolent
and charitable organizations and the
few individuals who are engaged in
personal philanthropical work, men,
bers of her family would go for days
and days at a time without anything
to eat.
Landlords hold up the poor people
in the matter of rent, they say. One
family on North Fourth street pays 81
a month for a dingy. dirty. two-room
shed. Others on Bridge avenue and
in the north end are forced to pay
more for the houses than they are
worth. They declare that they move
into the houses in order to curtail Hv-
ing expenses, but still they are oblig-
f1@ - A- ~A~
i Woman III, Man Idle.
Living in a house which faces an
alley, one half square from North A
street, between Main and A and BE-
tween Third and Ft. Wayne avenue,
are two persons who fight day by day
for living. The woman IL a CON
sumptive and 10 forced to remain In.
doors all the time for when she steps
outside she says she becomes choked
and finds it difficult to breathe. Her
husband is sick and is out of work.
and says the only work he can find
to do now is to help other people do
washings and odd jobs.
Next door is a family with five chill.
dren-two just getting over typhoid
fever There is no carpet on the floor
The woman says they have barely en-.
ough to eat and that it is the plainest
: food to be obtained.
On North Fourth street there is q
family with six children, the Oldest
being nine years, and the youngest
six months. At this house the chill
dren have been sick. AS the father
has been unable to pay rent for the
past sixty days the landlord has or
dered him to move.
A family which includes seven chill
dren resides at 229 North Fourth
street. The father works every day
There are no Injuries on the table q,
this house, as it requires all the mar
can earn to procure the barest neces
sites of life. One of the boys is blind
and an attempt is being made to have
: an operation performed on him.
e He Cannot Find Work.
4 my husband is out of work. as thu
+ shop has shut down, and there ha,
+ been no money in the house sine,
I several days ago, when I did a wash
= ing and got 81 for it, but that did no
t buy much" said a woman on Bridg,
t avenue. He tries to get work whil1
D the shop is not running but he can
b do it."
8 An old man living by himself, TO
e the present, was found in house Of
0 Bridge avenue. The room was litter
l. ed with old furniture ashes, garbag'
q and other refuse. He was frying SOM
e meat on the stove. He said it was tn
b first food he had had since earl,
:, morning.
q An aged negro and his wife live a
t IS Bridge avenue. The captain of tn
t Salvation Army was greeted enthus
:. astically by the two as both were gla
e to see him. The aged negro and ne
l. gress are ex-siaves. There are but tw
4 rooms in their house and the wifi
y earns what she can by taking vast
q ings.
+ my husband is in Jail and will no
|. be out for ffty-two days." said a Won
r an, living on Sherman street. Sh
, said he had been fined for attemptin
to kill her She had little to eat an
e was in a serious condition She wa
e being cared for by her mother who
l. 80 years of age. ,' 81
d WeiLTo-0o Liberal.
Cases on North Fourteenth an
d other streets in Riverdale are just a
n bad as those in Happy Hollow and o
. North Fourth street. There are fe'
l. cases of extreme poverty in the sout
d west or east ends.
T. Captain Deuter says that the Ricl
3. mond people responded literally to hi
n appeal which he sent out to theE
It some time ago and that large amour
Il of money, clothing and merchandis
r have been received
r Arrangements are being made fo
e Thanksgiving and Christmas, whe
t. the Salvation Army will help the poe
= families II will be the army's aim {
lCoattnned On Psee Eghtl
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