New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-04
BLOOMS EASE SLUM WOE
If You Have Blossoms, Wild or
Tame. Cheer the Unfortunate.
SEND TO FLOWER MISSION
And Learn How Intense a Crav.
ing for the Beautiful Exists
in Tenement Houses.

Anybody got any flowers 10 give away
Anybody got any ransies or snowhallS. Wild
flowers or tame flowers. conservatory bios
CONS or garden blooms. that can be spared
to cheer the unfortunate folk who live
where no flowers glow and who can't af-
ford ~ buy them-underpaid tenement
house dwellers. children OF the sums. SUI
ferers IN the wards Of the city hospitals?
Because II ANYBODY has and will send
them 10 the rooms ~ the New York
Flower Mission, No ~ East 3'ih street,
on a Monday or a Friday. the workers
there Will see that the gifts go where they
Will do the most good.
Not that the mission isn't getting flowers
now. Ever since It was founded, forty
three years ago by Miss Ella Russell.
there have been many persons with gar
dens and country places 70 remember H.
All these years Miss Russell and her sister.
Miss Fanny, have kept Il faithfully going,
though now, as neither Of the sisters Is
very strong. they are leaving the work
more to the various women who volunteer
10 help them. Last year many thousands
Of punches ~ flowers were received and
distributed, al well as jellies and other del
,cacies, and good cheer" baskets at
Christmas time.
Even before the mission opened this year
four hundred lunches OF flowers were sent
in from the country by some one who
didn't know that II wasn't doing business
vet None Of the women was there. OF
course. but fortunately the janitor was one
who had heen on tho Job through oth'r
summer campaigns, and he put on his nat
and hustled those flowers 10 the hospitals
before they had time TO Wilt.
The mission had its formal opening day
on THURSDAY. but II was Memorial Day
and as the heavy rains Of the day before
were not propitious FOR flower gathering
receipts were not heavy.
Yesterday the influx began early with A
huge box of pansies from Mrs. Crosby
Rrown But the New York Flower Mission
,s Ike Oliver Twist--it wants more.
The longing for flowers. for even bit
of greenery. in the men and women ana
children whose summers are spent IN the
hot choking streets Of the tenement mouse
distr,cts is something, these mission "ofk-
ora say. which people who have never Deeh
,hara can hardly picture The very TOD
AIers m the doorsteps reach up their nanos
ond hog. please give me flower. lady'
Yes. ana lUtD NDlA ! i<''
either: they really love them
ca ~ YOUR conservatory or your earoeh
hos soroe flowers 10 spare. or II you nave
srare morning 10 spend picking WHO
eo,,ars IN the woods and fields, rememoer
the ro,asion. There are women VINO sPen'
boure there twice week, sor'lhs INC
hloeaon,s received and making them INTO
ooeeqavs Other volunteer workers go OUT
"a d,a,rhute them Some are distributed
-, u,oroen attached 10 various settlements
IA missions Many are sent direct 10 hos
pitfalls. u
Tho secretary. Miss Fanny Russell, re-
ouee,s that no boxes Of flowers be sent
s,aieb,re more than twenty pounds. as II
-, ue,eh more than that the express
ooronanies will not send them free. the
stenns OF flowers should be cut not more
,har eight inches long and the MOWERS
sbou,d be we'll spnnkled and covered WIN
-,.n, ravspaper. The boxes should be Ia
,ouad with the nape and address OF the
o.nnr and sent by an early train, on Mon
DAYS or Thursdays
o,o visitor 10 the mission rooms yester-
dav was a woman in deep mourning she
ia lost her only daughter. ere said. and
.ha wanted to do something In her name
o., sorne one who was suffering. so she
..,rgbt q huge lar OF the very incest pre-
.or,,es II was Immediately divided into
several portions and sent 10 sick children
IN tenement houses.