Bisbee daily review., 1913-02-14
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 NOT LACKING
Severe Winter Rains and Cold Have Left Harsh Mark in Poorer Quart
 CTS of the District
ALL WORTHY AID WORK

The recent wet weather brough,
 torth many varying exclamations ot
 Joy and disgust, depending on wheth.
 CT one was farmer or a resident
 in town, but very few people are
 aware of the fact that distress also
 attended the unfortunate of the city
 Not a few Mexican cabins were flood
 ed, the waters destroying the little
 that the unfortunate had. Several of
 the houses were washed away. and
 inc erstwhiie occupants suffered from
 cold, wet weather. and lack of sufi-
 cient clothing.
 The first of the week a little girl.
 from the Chihuahua Hill district an
 piled to the secretary of the charity
 committee of the Board of Trade for
 clothes for her baby sister. herself anc her mother who lay i'll at home almost at the point of starvation. Al. though it was cold and raining, the child was barefoot, had but a few rags on her body, through which the flesh showed blue with cold. In her arms, she carried a practically naked baby which she hugged to her littl, breast to keep warm. It was her baby sister, so she told the secretary. Cloth was supplied the child and her little charge, food and medical at tention was given the mother and bedding and shelter provided.
 During an interview this week with the secretary several children en. tered the room occupied by the char. iiy committee of the Board of Trade. in the Central school build. ing, and picked through a box of rub Der overshoes for q chance pair that might fit their little feet. Some of them were supplied. but several left 1 the room with saddened hearts. for most of the shoes were many sizes too large. The secretary told the re. | porter that the supply was greatly | diminished owing 10 the big demand | Tor them. None were given except In such cases as was necessary and | had been investigated.
 There is a distressing number of | cases of neglect and Restitution ImoRg the poor families Of Bisbee," said the secretary. This is especial y true among the Mexican people i where irresponsible husbands who pick up and move to other parts without ever a though for the wife and the houseful of children, are the treat cause of trouble. When the ather goes. he is immediately dead | 70 his family, who never expect to tee him again, or even hope to. for hat matter I have found it hard n investigating cases, where it was 'tated that the father Of the family lad died, to ascertain whether he 'eally died or whether it was a case ,f desertion. In most cases it was although the family stout. y maintain that the head of the fam y had died.
 Just what the neglected motherl md family do after desertion is de- ,endent upon chance to a large ex- cnt. The children in many cases are ,erhaps fortunate that they fall upon he charity of an induIgent public II So such cases are neglected by the !, 'harity committee. and every thing is 'eing done to relieve the pain and misery. What the committee seeks n it's work is not so much the alevi- Ition of the pain after 1t has been in- lIcted, as the insulting into the minds ( # the ignorant a sense Of respect for he body and family, and a stringent ibiding with the lawful marriage re- ations."