Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-31
FRICTION IN CHARITY
KEEPS HOMELESS
MEN FROM BEDS
Wayfarers' Lodge Rejects
Derelicts From Tnasmuch
Mission Because of Op-
position to Bread Line.

Charity circles were stirred today over
the order issued to the wayfarers Lodge,
1l5O Lombard street, that derelicts sent
there from the Inasmuch Mission, 1Oll
Locust street. should not be taken In be-
cause the Society for Organizing Charity,
which operates the Lodge, was opposed to
! the bread line supported by the 1nasmuch
! Mission.
| Four men who were sent last night
from the 1nasmuch Mission because there
was no room for them there were told
! they could not be accommodated They
| returned TO the Inasmuch building and
two of them spent the night standing
against the wall in the corner of a
crowded room on the first floor When
| George Long, superintendent OF the In
dsmuch, asked the Wayfarers' Lodge Of
ticials why they had turned away the
men he was told that the Rev. Riley
NJ Little, secretary of the Society for
Organizing Charity, had ordered that they
could not take in men from the lnas-
much Mission because Mr. Little did not
approve of the bread line run there.
. OPPOSED TO BREAD LINE.
That this was the reason the four men
were turned away was confirmed this
morning by c. II. Vandewalker, superin-
tendent of the Wayfarers Lodge Mr..
Vandewdlker said he had been acting
under orders from Doctor Little. At first
he refused to discuss the reason the men
had been refused accommodation, Then
he said
"We're not taking men from the
inasmuCh Mission now because we have
strong objections TO the bread line they
run there. Yesterday I had orders from
Mr.. Little that we were not to take in
any men the lnasmuch Mission sent TO
us. The night before we had taken in
number of men, but / had these new
orders Yesterday because of our opposition
to the bread line.
It was very hard to get any of the Or
gani2ed Charity officials to say what they
disliked about bread lines Doctor Lit
tie said he would discuss il in a formal
statement later today. Finally Mr.. Nade-
walker said:
~ don't think that the men sleeping
at the lnasmuch Mission ought to be
turned out at $3.50 in he morning so that
they can stand in a bread line. That is
what they do down there. Why, | sup
pose they do it to swell the size of the
line and make it look as though there
were a good many starving men who
need help"
EMPTY BEDS AT THE LODGE.
There were empty beds at the Way
farers' Lodge last night when the four
men were turned away.
Down at the Inasmuch Mission, George
Long had 500 men sleeping on the floors
and In every available bed the mission
could muster. After the mission services
were over, few minutes after 10 o'clock,
the men who had gathered during the
evening were assigned to places for the
night. II was found there were four
men over. They We're dispatched to the
Wayfarers' Lodge, but inside n half hour
they. We're back with the story of their
rejection.
There has been n growing disaffection
between the Society for Organizing
Charity and the Inasmuch Mission ever
since plans for the mission were dis
cussed two years ago, before the build
ing at 1011 Locust street was put up.
Since then the mission has been regarded
with. tdisfavor by the society officials,
George Long says.