Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-12-11
RELIEF SOCIETY
AID TOMORROW
. At TRADE BOARD
$998.25


Plans for furnishing relief to the
poor of Perth Amboy have been for
mulated to such an extent that ap-
plications for aid will be received to-
morrow morning and daily thereafter
at the Perth Amboy Board Of Trade
rooms, No. and 6, In the Boynton
building at 101 Smith street. Investi
gators will set out to work Monday
according to the system inaugurated.
The fund which is being made to car
ry on the relief work Is now within
$1.75 of the $1,000 mark 1t had
been expected that that figure would
have been reached today but the
three donations received during the
past twenty-four hours falling to
reach sufficiently large amount
kept the fund down below the first
thousand mark.
Applications for aid can be made
daily, commencing tomorrow, from 8
to 10 o'clock In the morning at the
Board of Trade rooms. Persons in
authority will be on hand to relieve
the appeals there at that hour each
day. The applications will be placed
in the hands of the investigating
committee immediately and will be
looked up the following day, unless
there are circumstances that indicate
more urgent attention is necessary.
Applications for help have been
pouring into the hands of President
George F. Reynolds of the citizens
relief committee the past several
days and he has been exceedingly
busy giving attention to the charity
work.
Four members of the investigating
committee, which is composed of
twenty men, will start work Monday
morning, next. The city will be di-
vided into two parts to carry on the
work. Harry r. Wilson and Alder
man John W. Kelly will do the in
vestigating south of Washington
street and along New Brunswick
avenue, while Arthur Reichmann
and H. N. Dinesen will investigate
north of Washington street. These
men will follow this work for a
week, at the expiration of which a
new set of Investigators will be
chosen from the same committee to
carry on the duties the following
week, and SO on the squad will be
changed each week.
While the cash fund for the fur
nishing of relief has been climb bling
each day, the relief workers have re-
ceived offers of food stuffs and indi-
cations are that there is a large
amount of clothes available for the
needy. 1t appears that all that is
necessary to make use of these, is to
have central place of receipt, or Sc
cure conveyances to go about and
collect them. Two of the largest Of
fers made involve the presentation
of bread and potatoes. Joseph Keh-
rer, a baker, of 1872 Market street,
has promised to donate one hundred
loaves of bread to the poor the day
before Christmas Another business
man whose identity is withheld, has
promised to donate certain amount
of potatoes each week for a certain
number of weeks.
The committee of women repre-
sented on the citizens relief COM
mittee of one hundred will hold
at 1880 O'Clock tonight In
the rooms of the Perth Amboy Board
Of Trade to take up the subject of
collecting clothes for the poor of the
city. They will discuss ways and
means for securing clothing with
which to keep indigents warm dur
ing the cold weather.
Members of the employment COM
mittee of the general body will hold
a meeting in the trade board rooms
at o'clock to take up the problem
Of procuring employment for the
men able to work. Those who con-
stitute that committee are: ]. K.
Bryan, G. C. Baldwin, A. c. Clark,
r. L. Fowler, Victor w. Main, Franz
w. P Runyon, John F.
Reilly, Jesse Seaman, w. Guy
Weaver, c. C. Convery and John
Pfeiffer.