Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
sixty SIX DRAW WAGES
Thss0C|ATED CHARITIES
unemploycd Heads OF Families Eager
TO Work ITO Relieve Sting
OF Charity.
FEITUATI IN UNPRECEDENTED
sslA Spite OF Liberal Responses, Largo
Y @SSuM Is Needed to Garry on Work.
Tragic Drug Company to Give
Share Of Sales on Thursday.
Con, ributions Yesterday

Pride glowed from the faces of sixty
six men yesterday afternoon as they
received from DR.. James Buchanan.
secretary of the Associated Charities,
tho wages earned by the sweat of their
brows during the past week A mis-
4 cradle pittance the largest sum might
!. be called, but to each of those sixty
y six unfortunates. the coins represented
: manhood and seif-respect. They were
Z not begGars. but men collecting for
honest toll. and receiving in return
something with which to appease the
munger OF their destitute families
{ Richmond people responded literally
Hast week to the urgent appeal for
: help sent out by the Associated Chart
ties More than $4,000 in cash was
donated, and contributions of cloth
Ing and food were received.
- Liberal and continued support will
! be needed to carry on the work un-
Z dartaken of keeping families togeth-
-er and Carrying for those who, in other
times. are self supporting members
Of the community.
MANY SKILLED MEN ARE
= OUT OF EMPLOYMENT
SIT is an unprecedented situation
Which Is being met by the Associated
; Charities. In spite Of the local fac
Sf3rtes. holding their own, and budding
spIosperity seemingly in sight. there
EEssRFe hundreds of people dependent on
Z s,5dharity, and DR.. Buchanan asserts that
sstheres are more skilled men out Of en-
y ployment here than ever before known
ssshS hirn-and he has been engaged In
-Sthes local field for eleven winters.
:. .yTheA Associated Charities Is under
taking to supply every demand on It
within reason. Not n case is reported
but receives attention. If 1t Is a
worthy case. something is done Oft
& times 1t Is impossible to do as much
as Is really necessary, but within lin
tied bounds something Is done.
Yesterday there came into the office
OF DR.. Buchanan Swapping big fell
low. He had been working all day In
the basement OF the big building
housing the Associated Charities. saw.
ring and splitting wood, that he nigh,
ssearn money for his wife and childr en-
ssaay before and. the day before that
.s:Efts wages amounted to 1915.
SEyICTED WHEN UNABLE
NJ no PAY HIS RENT
man Is living in two rooms al
1.-THE home or relative. For nine years
s he had enjoyed a comfortable living
ssant four months ago he was laid Off
s,and when he was unable to meet hi.
! rent he was evicted. A neighbo
kindly consented to permit him to stor,
4 his furniture In woodshed and loanet
I him So to move some bedding and othe,
Z necesSarles, keeping the furniture O.
security. Now the family sleeps on tn,
i foor.& One child must be operated OF
Z this week and the other Is developing
pneumonia. This man went thirty
n seyenFSmiles away to get work bu
was unable to secure employment. ant
4 walked the entire distance back
Many such instances are brought t,
4 the attention OF the Associated Chari
7 ties and these cases are the ones tina
demand money. This man Is willin,
4 to work. but cannot get any work t,
do He. will saw wood at 12h cents
an hour. but, meanwhile. he cannot ge
\ his kturnlture. nor can he buy medicine