Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-27
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TAKES UP BURDEN AGAIN
Notwithstanding Christmas LIBERAL
ity, Unemployed Must BE
Fed and Warmed.
GREAT NEED FOR CLOTHING
SDowstorm Adds to SufYerings of
Poor, and Many Loads Of Fuel Are
observation-disclosures Will Go On
All Winter.
Contributions for
Associated Charities

Though Christmas bay has come
and gone, and the ever-recurrent tide
OF joyfuncss is IN the cob again. there
is still need OF the larEessc with which
Richmond people met the urgent situa
ton which had fallen upon hundreds
OF unemployed In all verify il Will
he Christmas for long time TO come
with the Associated Charities. The
people who were cared for on Friday
and yesterday will need To be cared for
again to-day and tomorrow and the
next day, and SO long as there is no
work for them 10 do. so long as their
lardcrs are empty and their hands are
unusucd to toll. just so long will the
Associated Charities have TO look to
their need
Yesterday it was rather quiet in and
around the big building where so many
have been housed and fed, and from
where SO many loads OF fuel SO many
hundreds OF baskets Of provender and
so much other assistance have gone
forth. ii was quiet because on Christ
mas Eve the needs of all who applied
were filled to last for several days
until Tomorrow Mt least. And then
the unemployed will troop in again.
seeking work all over again. renew
ing work which, though il is not
always equally pressing. never really
ends.
ALWAYS \ SEASON OF GIVING
AT ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
II is always Christmas with the AS
ISOLATED Charities; IL has always n sea-
son of giving, for the poor ye have
with you always" The need already
acute and distressing, has been greatly
accentuated by the snowstorm and the
severcst cold weather which has Wis
tied Richmond In many years. Cords
upon cords OF wood have been given
away by the Associated Charities:
a. = c nFty e Il,
out TO those whose hearts had long
been unused 10 fuel, and now that
winter has laid It's heavy hand upon
the city and the ground Is covered
with snow. the need will not become
less.
Though yesterday there was not IN.
usual small army come to beg its daily
Tread there were scvcral who came
10 ask assistance for some special need.
There were several who had been un-
able to pay thei: rent and who were
threatened with eviction If they did not
Immediately pay all that they owed
MI were cared for. The demand on the
Associated Charities. aside from tho
cry for food ana fuel. has been enor-
nous, AMI hundreds OF dollars havc
been sent in relief.
More money to carry on the work
VIII he needed. and IL will be needed
every day until the present stress il
Over ana men return TO daily work
oi' OF the most inSistent demands
made upon the association now Is for
clothing and blankets There are hum
dr.ds OF little children who have not
Su'licient clothing to guard them
against the cold. who shiver beneath
i'Rht covering on nights when the wind
nio"s cold and Keen. and there Is no
hiaze upon the hearth. There arc
women who Shivcr as they press their
BABIES 10 their breasts. and there are
iatncfs VINO must look away when the
niue ones crowd around them and aYk
why they a." 20 cold Clothing is AL
most az necessary as food Much cloih
ing mas been donated, but it has all
hccE given away.
Though the ncSst is stfll pressing DR.
Buchanan, spG!Ikimc for himself and
FOR the board Of directors Of the Asso-
ciatcd Charities expressed the decncs,
gratitude Yesterday for the generous
response which has been made to the
appeal Every need up TO this tim.
has been met. and tie Associated Chart
t"s was able to meet every need pr.-
sehted. because il was made possible
by Senrons people. And among the
hearts OF hundreds VINO have been
helped Their" is Il gratitude that cnn
never be voiced. gratitude that is all
the more Yea! and true because il has
no power of expressions
EXTENSION WORK
FOR '0IoRED People
Yesterday and last night the Asso-
ciated Charities distributed 900 meals
~ the "ways!!c INN" and put In TWEEN
t%-hVe extra beds for the trunsicuI.
VINO sought refuge from thc cold In
the emergency department for the r.,
Hci OF IN" negro poor. twenty gallons
-: stew and 500 loavcS OF brcad yyer,
distributed among the applicants ANA
several wagonloads OF fuel were scnt
out. On Monday there will bc more
applicants for hcip. and the Associated
Charities asks that hos. who arc
happS ana content to remember those
uron whom misfortune Ia. c,s; IL.
pail
Neutrality-suspicious..
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