The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-14
NEWS OF BREAD LINE
CIRCULATES RAPIDLY
Need Emphasized by Supt
Whiting Of the Municipal
Lodging House.
OPEN AT , =. VI. TUESDAY

While the rain and the sleet and the
snow were sitting down with a sort OF
dismal satisfaction into the cramped and
wretched purlieus Of the Rowery yester-
day there travelled here and there by the
mysterious channels of rumor the news
that a new bread line is to be opened
tomorrow afternoon at O'clock
Il was spoken, this news, in the various
resorts of homelessness, in the dreary
lodging houses oi tho Bowery and In
the crowded and unsavory restaurants
where a meal may he had for 10 cents. II
was passed hero and there by the men
who lounged in the comfortless chairs az
Squirrel Inn, and 1t was picked up ana
scut along by the unfortunates who filed
ln and out of the Bowery Mission. the
Hadley Rescue Hall and the Municipal
Lodging House.
Rut what liz probably OF more inn
portance, the same news travelled quickly.
as such news always does, into the n1!ser-
able tenements of the lower Eas; SIDE,
where there is from present indications
more poverty. privation and want than
for many years 1t is in these tenements
that Investigators working recently for
charitable societies have found more cases
~ absolute destituton than ever before.
Many women In Need.
II is a curious fact. for Instance, that
the Municipal Lodging House, which
maintains a womens department. has
never had so many applications for help
as during the las: six months, MI
Whiting. the superintendent. thinks this
is mainly due 10 the war and the recall
of so many rcscrvlsts who have picked
up bag and baggage and left their wives
and children to sCrape together a living
as best they may. He has never he says,
mad So many cases Of abandonment and
he has never experienced such difficulty
in finding plaHs for the women who come
to him
1T would be-" said he. almost impos-
slble 70 tell the number OF women with
children who are struggling for an honest
living In this city to-day. Many OF them
are in need OF immediate aid and many
of them will be helped along by Just the
sort Of work THE SuN is undertaking in
establishing a depot where bread may I've
had for the asking.
And what is true OF widowed or de-
sorted women i just as true Of countless
cases whore there are men in tn" house
hold. | hear continually of families where
men have been out OF work for three and
six months. men who are anxious 10 work
hut who not being able 10 lind II have had
to sell their furniture and clothing by slow
htelff'S u EfN lllpl'N A'l lp'h'
10000 LOnves Given Out.
During the two months THE SUN's free
bread depot was open last winter there
we're nearly 900 losvcs Of bread given
away, an average close TO 1000 day.
The depot was open from ? o'clock until
4 40 in the afternoon. This was 10 pre-
vent men with jobs from calling. The
new bread depot at First street will he
hat ~, ha
same reason.
Last winter some Of the ctys chart
table organizations kept trained investi-
gators at tho depot daily. They used Il
"a sort OF clearing house through which
they located deserving families IN need
NJ help, In this way aid and work we're
gwen to hundreds, There were many
cases found ~ children and women who
did not have enough clothing 10 keen them
warm. BY ono means or another cloth
ing was bought for them and In several
cases back rent was paid for women who
otherwise would have been disposscsscd
during some OF the Interest weather OF
the year,