The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-09
BREAD FOR ALL.
AT "SUN" DEPOT
Every Needy Person Can
Get Loaf Free at 26O
Elizabeth Street.
$1,000 STARTS FUND
Robert Kamber. New York
Merchant. Aids the
Unemployed.
MISERY IS INCREASING
Number of Men Ont Of Work
in the City Said to Be
Unprecedented.


afternoon n store az $50 Elizabeth street
where a loaf OF bread will be given to
any who needs and asks for II. man.
woman or child The store will be open
until 40 o'clock. Thereafter during
those hours every day free bread viii
be dispensed to the needy until no moro
good can be accomplished by that means.
THE Sun received a week ago from
Robert Kamber. New York merchant.
. letter referring to the lamentable num-
Der of unemployed men and women in
the city. II spoke Of the suffering, the
privation and the hunger which many
deserving persons have been experiencing.
and II contained q check for $1,000.
observing the present conditions In
New York." wrote Mr.. Rambler. "the vast
army Of unemployed and the Intense suf-
fering which Is undoubtedly being borne
by well intentoned persons, and knowing
and admiring the good work which you
have done and are always ready to under
take, take the liberty OF suggesting
the establishment of a free bread fund
ms means OF allaying at least some OF
the misery which exists about us.
ut In therefore with pleasure that I
enclose my check for $1,000 to start such
Q fund"
To Do Good His Only Aim.
SuN reporter went to Mr.. kamber
and talked to him. The money was given
Internationally to helm the moor 10 MAS
found thar the donor had hu, IN. y,,.h
to do good-that he had selected mi,
means OF accomplishing his end. and that
he desired THE Sun TO undertake the
dispensation OF his charity. 1t WAS found
That many friends and business as.ocia,a.
M \. 1hAr
toward the same cause
The idea was laid before Jame. Hun,
who for fourteen years has adn,in,.tsrad
Kindness and help TO UNEMPLOYED person,
a. the Bowery Mission NJ Hunt :.
man who constantly wears a very merry
twinkle in his eyes listened With a.
interest that could not be rnistaken while
the scheme was being detai'.i to him.
and IN the end expressed his sympathy
and approval by rubbing his knee. anil.
ing and calculating: Fine =
"A need for free breadT' he exclaimed
Certainly. And a great need. too. q
very great need. can assure you. Men
out of work? Thousands Of them. de-
serving men. good. clean fellows who are
going around with a vacuum In their
stomachs. an unsh.d tear in their eyes and
a very substantial desire and wish. air
for the work they can't get"
More JobIess Than Ever,
w. ,.. 49, -
ST., you see many OF them here, Mr..
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LILY ! 10. ana l never saw so many
"-ahu l never saw so many before
want to work. thousands Of them " are
going about hungry al this very moment .
haven't got enough TO eat. can ret n, and
there you are Free bread IN a spiendid
idea, Just now especially"
90 on that night the reporter who had
observed the twinkle in Mr.. Hunts eve.
dropped into IN. Row.ry N,.s,on 70 ~.
q look at the men there and ace What the,r
faces said
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a long room with news uhich u,,S scco,,,-
Tnodate $50 persons-was .n,,ra,v NI,.d
with homeless and UNEMPLOYED men They
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