The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-01-26
MANY LIVES SAVED
,,o pecent Blizzard in that City Dc
,,,ustratrd the Need OF Such an
Neutrality-suspicious. of the
House.
py CARLTON TEN EiCk.
Written for the United Press.i

Now York, Jan. 2G.-The recent
,,,nraradputea cold snap III Ne"
yort WHEN Old Boreas went on 4
ramnaqp and kicked the mercury
,o,rn 10 the lowest notch recorde q
i, fourteen wears worked untold
h,rdshiDs ON the poor of the metrop-
ogs and gave the upper half some
rov Nght Oh how the other half live.
when the thermometer dropped to
fye degrees below zero, a "a mile
gallo swept up the bay to add to the
demoriacai gIee OF the elements.
da9tb and destruction was left in its
wake
In this great city, with its bill
lions Of wealth, its thousands Of
houses its palaces and hotels, its re-
fngc, and charitable institutions, 9eN-
eral persons actually were frozen to
death others We're made so Ill they
died The cold wave, in various
WAYS took toll OF sixteen lives.
Perhaps the most popular place IL
town during the forty eight hours of
exceptional cold was the Municipal
Lodging House on the East Rige''.
There. upwards of 1000 persons
we're cared for nightly, Among then
we're 80 women. all with babies and
small children Those 1000 man
and these mothers and their little
ones had ne home at all They. We're
wanderers in the city, sleeping IN
good weather in parks, empty build
iHgs aud such places and eating what
they could find. Assuredly in The
beow-2cro weather they would haze
perished, hut for the city's charity.
The Municipal Lodging House was
an Interesting place during the rush
hours l. has accommodation for
1900 persons. The women and chill
dlen and the male overfloa were
cared for on boats anchored at the
foot Of East Twenty Third street,
The boats are owned by the city.
Many Of the homeless men, the con-
irmed "aoboes' preferred to sleep
On the boats, Tor then they were !Iot
compelled 10 take baths The boats
are not provided with bathing IA
elities
But all corners at the Lodging
house are compelled to take shower
paths, When the applicants first an
ply, they are registered and given
oFaSs che KS numbered. which the
are told 10 hang around their necks
lhey then file through dining
room, where they are compelled to
Shed all their clothing. During The
Alght their der-garments-if they
nave dRy--are fumigated. Men
Wearing eelluloid collars are advised
" put them inside their shoes to pre-
vent spontaneous combustion. The
o'dSs checks enable them to get
'1eh their belongings in the morn
ing
folio" ing the disrobing, the men
are herded into the bathroom, huge
apartment in which there are scores
VI showers. AS they enter the room
i" attendant swats each man vigor-
0uSiy en- the head with club of soft
-oou' thlckly coated with soft SOAP.
'H7 soap that sticks to the man IS
eaa is what he must use for his
D''" Inc newcomers always dodae
''e cub, thinking 1t Will hurt them
'' the oid-tlmers. used to the
p'S iaush heartily at the novices.
AT the showers each man is given
0a'se scrubbing brush and told to
use 1t Attendants through the room
4se mat the soap and brushes are
1Seu thoroughly and any lodger re-
''''aht to take to the water, brush
N''u soap, is scrubbed by an attend
"'' Cleanliness is insisted upon in
'-oaglng House. Once clean, the