Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-17
Contributions for the
Associated Charities

With the coming of freezing weather.
the distress of the poor who arc poor
mainly because they have no work, is
becoming all the more severe. and
there is now every day n steady stream
of applicants pouring into tho central
building OF the Associated Charities.
asking either for bread or work and
as often for both.
Work ut saving and splitting wood
and OF such other sort as DR.. Buchanan.
Seneral secretary. could find was given
TO thirty-fivc nen. and fifty-two were
turned away because there was not
enough work for all, and told to come
again. But 10 man left the building
with empty hands il he said that his
loved ones ut home were lacking for
food. Or. Buchanan was very sure OF
that. He asked every man. and every
woman, too. who came TO him if there
were necd of food, and if bread and
meat were needed n basket of groceries
was given forthwith TO the applicant
To those who were turned away yes
tcrday because of the lack OF wood to
saw and split. work will lie given to-
day. Work is given to squads Of men
IN rotation, so that every man has u
chance to show his actual need and his
Willingness to put his hand, hgura
lively speaking, TO the plough.
Or. Buchanan mas recently received
several letters of gratitude from poo
pie who have been helped by the as
ISOLATION. There is one from n man
VINO obtained a position of trust and
honor In Il small North Carolina town
a man who. with his wife, was stranded
in Richmond and in actual need Of
1000. There was another letter from a
woman who had been aided in sccur-
ing home among friends and there
arc innumcrablc small pencillcd notes
10 snow that gratitude is as real rs
was the original want. Most of them
are written on cheap pad paper, and
All OF them are pencilled, showing all
the moro that the writer's had sought
the first means they could find, or, pcr-
maps. the only means. To express their
appreciation of What had been done for
them.
One of the most pitiable cases re-
ported yesterday was that of IA family
IN which both husband and wife are
III lie is suffering with an internal
ailinent and is unable To work, and she.
with baby and Il young child to car.
1or. Is almost in the last stages of
tuberculosis. Both had worked until
disease had stricken them and rendered
both unit They appealed to the Assoc
ciated Charities. Fuel and food and =
bag OF groceries were sent to the
mouse and Dr. Buchanan was careful
10 send also seven tickets. each for a
pint of milk, for the little baby 10
Whlca the mother can no longer give
natural sustenance.
FATHER STRICKEN AND
HOME WITHOUT room
mere was I'm appeal from another
lainliy, in which there are four chill
dren. The husband and father is seri
DUSTY Ill with pneumonia, and there is
neither food nor fuel in the house. Ala
was given them. Application was made
ny another woman. the mother of
three children, whose husband is Ill
And so the story goes
There is 4. trcmGndous amount OF i'll
ness among ,ihe poor. and many who
are ir fun possession of all their physi
cal powers have no work. Many fam
i'ies are supported In part by the labors
or their children; many more are they
"hich can get no support ut all OK
ccpt that which is furnished nv Tie
associated Charities, and now. when
'hc nights are cold and hearths are
hTeless. their need is great
with others there is the constan.
rear OF being put out into the streets
ny landlords who want their rent TN,
rent must be paid, or the consequences
he suffered And men and worcn who
are slowly dying from tubcrculosis mr.
VINO are III with pneumonia must havc
NJ least a roo: above their heads The
associated Charities has to pay rom
10 supply provisions. Civ. fuel. and
When II can, give work. The associ,
'ion asks, therefore, monetary aid Tror,
All who can afford to give