The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-16
IDLE ARMY GUEST OF
CHURCH OF MESSIAH
100 Walk Two Miles to Get Free
Meal and q Place TO
Sleep.
SOME DROP By WAYSIDE
Other Half Of I. W. w. Force
Spends Night at Univer-
sity Settlement.
SOME DROP BY wAYsIDE

The unemployed who meet every eve
ming nj Rutgers Square before seeking
their nights lodging split last night into
two parties
About n hundred got 90 cent
meal and walk Of two miles or more
before they stretched out In the parish
hall OF the church Of the Messiah. Thirty
fourth street and Park avenue. The rest
who were left at the Square we're well
coined AZ the University Settlement. 1t
Eldridge street. where the whole army
slept the night before.
II was admitted that those who got
the restaurant meal earned II. With
the others. they gathered. as usual. about
: o'clock TO listen TO the !. W. W. leaders.
An hour later one OF the Socialist
women workers had arranged with tho
Rev John Haynes Holmes. rector of the
Church of the Messiah. TO have the men
housed by him. He extended an invita-
ton and furnished ,hc money for the
suppers.
Fifty Of the soldiers" were lined up on
one side of Seward Park and deg
patched TO wehrs lunch room. ut Third
avenue and Sixteenth street. The other
fifty relieved them when they had finished
the meal. and the number was increased
by few moro. picked up by the wayside
as the march proceeded.
The army went further north last night
than ever before since IL was enlisted. 4
few deserted on the way UP Third avenue
after they swallowed the 90 cents worth.
but most of the men stuck TO tho hike.
When the second detachment reached the
church Mr. Holmes WAS being entertained
by the !. W. w. songs with the unem-
ployed Joining in this refrain:
HaiieluJah. I'm bum. haileiujah. bum
again.
HsllciuJAh. give Us a hsndout to revive us
again.
Breakfast will be served TO the men In
the same restaurant this morning.
The same leaders, Frank Hamilton. Al
bert Wilkes, Percy Marmore and Theo-
dore Freeman. addressed the men with
fiery speeches last night. Hamilton said
II would probably be the lasT time tho
men would invade tho churches. as the
committee OF unemployment expected 10
have Il han by tonight or tomorrow.
Marmorc urged the men to rebel against
charity. but there was not murniur when
Mr.. Holiness offer came Hamilton
thought the men might be invited TO tho
Rev Percy stickney Grants Church of
the Ascension, AT fl'tn avenue ana Flew
enth street but apparently IL could not
"be fxed"
The Socialist Party handed out circu-
lars las, night announcing an 'unem-
ployed mass meeting at Cooper Union
on March IL Mayor Mitchell has been
invited to speak and hear their woes. in
asmuch az the attempt 10 present them
at City Hall Park last week was not sue
cessful
The circular says We demand unem-
ployment insurance Come to the meet
ing and demand it" The same forces
held meeting yesterday afternoon Mt
the Modern school. 20 East 101th street.
The J. w. w was represented. but the
speakers emphasized the fact that the !.
W w. was not running the meeting.
That organization had "a meeting OF
it's own. however. yesterday afternoon at
Beethoven Hall to enlist the unemployed
who have been thrown out of work
by the failure of the Sicgel concerns. DR..
Robbins Gilman OF the University Settle
ment offered them the use Of the rooms
for rest.