New-York tribune., 1912-01-08
COLD WAVE SUFFERING
RELIEVED BY CHARITY
Public and Private Means Go Out
Freely to SuCCor the
City's Poor.
CHURCHES SHELTER MANY
Thermometer Higher and Fewer
Gases of Exposure Reported
j. D. Rockefeller Enjoys
Walk to Church.

Walk to Church.
Fronting from the experience of the nisn'
before when the relief facilities OF the vari-
Gus charitable organizations were sadly
overtaxed in providing shelter from the coiu
for the poor and homeless. the problem was
met last night with better results IN al
quarters. A moderation Of few degrees
in the temperature was not enough 10 war;"
the bodies of the hundreds OF ragged wan
derers who were still driven by the coio
waves To seek food and refuge along the
Bowery and In other poorer districts oil t"'
city. a death or two was reported as uue,
directly or indirectly. to the continued trigiu
weather, but generally conditions were pet-
ter.
The empty coal boxes in the tenement
houses. wherever they could be found, wer'
filled after the first colo night by the nei"
forces Of the organizations and something
was left in the poor family's larder In many
cases of suffering which had not already
come within the ken Of the active cnar-
liable workers.
Several OF the churches Joined In the
work OF providing shelter for the overnoW
from the Bowery Mission. the Bowery
branch OF the Young Mems Christian AS
sociatIon and other places OF refuge Tor the
human derelicts. BY order OF Michael d.
Drummond. Commissioner Of Charities, the
use Of the chapel at the norge was discon-
tinued for the accommodation OF the over
fow from the Municipal Lodging House. at
No is2 Fast 18th street. but added facilities
were provided by the complete equipment
for lodging and feeding purposes Of the
large steamboat Thomas Brennan, OF the
Charities Department which was ued up
TO the pier at East 26th street.
Numerous electric lights had been In"
stalled on the steamboat. and her saloon
deck was furnished with several hundren
cots. She was also we'll heated. As carry
as I o'clock the full capacity OF 'Ss lodgers
al the Municipal Lodging House had been
reached. and superintendent William :.
Yorke began to send the extras on ooard
the Brennan.
Ready to Care for All.
"If we should reach the record marx
again before morning" said MI horSe ias'
night with 200 or more applicants, we
will be able to take care Of them all WIZ
OUR preparations on the Brennan. TOM
missioner Drummond and his assistant MT
Goodwin. have Instructed me TO Keep "
touch with one or the other Of them every
hour during the night In case any emer
gency should arise. but do not look to'
any trouble
: James Y Hunt. business manager OF the
| Bowery Mission. yesterday sent letters "
twelve Of the pastors OF the larger churche'
asking them II they could arrange 10 throw
open some of the churches or provide othei
means for accommodating the overflow oi
| the homeless seeking shelter from the colo
Three ~ the churches promptly responded
| Grace Church al Broadway and iotf
street opened It's settlement house at No
,l2 East 18th street. and the Rev. Charles
l.. plattery, the rector sent word 10 MIR
Hunt that 10 persons could be accommo
dated there
The Rev. ". 8 w Wood vicar Of St
Bartholomew. at Madison avenue and
4ith street. Informed the mission manager
| that the church's Lyceum Hall, at No. 20s
East i2d street. would he ready ~ lodge
and furnish breakfast for a hundred and
| fifty persons. A trustee of the Madison
| Avenue Presbyterian Church. at Madison
| avenue and I'D street. called at the Bowery
Mission and left money enough TO pay for
one hundred and nifty beds At outside lodg-
| ing houses.
Mr. Hunt received personal contributions
| during the day sufficient to provide foi
about five hundred beds at the various
Bowery lodging houses. The mission wa:
crowded TO overfowing early In the even
ing, and hundreds more were expected be-
fore the time for forming the bread line
| at / a. IN.
Among the sufferers from the chilllnE
blasts of yesterday and the day before wal
the lone policeman on his fixed post.
Some of them dog -trottcd around In small
circle to keep warm until the pavement be
came too slippery for a rapidly executed
football. Then they resorted TO the sta
,ionary "treading water" movement, shift
ing from spot to spot within a discree
circumference.
The fine crystallized flakes OF snow whicl
were falling yesterday morning, forebodlnI
a cold and drifting storm happily dissolved
and disappeared in midair as the sun
worked we'll UP on its course.
John Ritter, sexton Of the Fifth Avenu
Baptist Church had just remarked to
parisioner that che guessed Mr.. John Il
Rockefeller wouldn't walk TO church to
day. when the Standard oil man opened tn
outer door and stepped into the vestibule
He had walked from his home. in SAT-
street. 10 the church. at Fifth avenue am
4sth street
Great weather" he said. when Rite
and some others eyed him anxiously. I'm
for walking-just the kind OF weather
| like"
The lowest temperature recorded yester
day vast degrees above zero at i2:i5 a. m
| II reached the highest mark. 81. at l1a
A. m. The local forecaster said last nigh
that 1t would he fair to-day, with practl
cally no change In temperature and snow
| tonight
| Chicago. Jan. All local cold wave rec
ords since 1883 were broken to-day. wher
the Thermometer registered Is below zero
| Sternon, Kan. reports a temperature Of 2.
degrees below. Cold weather records foI