The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-17
BREADLINE'S HUNGRY
MEN GET MUSIC TOO
Hurdy Gurdies Play and Chill
dren Dance During
Feast in Street.
CRIPPLE STILL HEADS LINE
Old Man Says Wife and Four
Children Live on Bread
Given Him.
CRIPPLE STILL HEADS LINE

Spring entered Elisabeth street yester-
day afternoon and found the narrow East
Side thorouehfare transformed for two
blocks into an outdoor eating place. Hun
cry and unemployed men who called at
the free bread depot OF THE Sun a. 26O
Elizabeth street stood against the sides
of the buildings all the way to Bic c,e"
street eating their bread and talking.
The hurdy gurdies seemed to send forth
their rollicking rastime tunes more
merrily and the little children dancing ir
the street furnished the cabaret entertain
mcnt for the men who broke their fasts.
When the free bread station opened its
doors yesterday at 2 =. NJ the same old
! man with two crutches stood at the head
| @. the waiting line He had headci .hc
! line every day since the depot began to
| give away free bread. He said his name
was Ba,co Acuss that he lived 1t $50
| Elizabeth street and that the only thing
nc and his wife and four children had
in the house to eat was the bread they
had got at THE SUNS depot.
! Antoinette Pietro, a little girl who lives
| at 255 Elizabeth street, came rushing into
the bread depot to tell the attendants that
| two boys had stolen her brother Johnny's
shoes The shoes were bought for Johnny
with money sent in by some one who had
| r. ad OF Antoinette and her brothers and
sisters.
Antoinette said that on Sunday eve-
| ming the two boys took her little brother
| to the roof Of the tenement IN which theT
| live and pulled OF hts new shoes. After
| that the little fellow wandered cryirS
! about the streets without any shoes until
! a policeman took him to "A station house
/ There the child was sent to the Children
I society where Antoinette found him. She
got johnny back home at o'clocS !es-
,arday morning but without mis- sh"ss.
The Association for Improving the Con-
dition of the Poor has sent to ! HE SUN a
statement in reference to thu comments
Of Investigators for the association printed
IA TT. Sun Bailey II. Burr!'t acting
4 general director Of the association, says.
81 feel confident you will give Us thC
opportunlty through the columns OF your
{ uaper to stat. the results OF our inqurle'
and to correct the impression ihht th''
association is in favor OF u bread line ia
| a means OF relief for families that are II
need This article implies that as "a re-
suit OF our inquiries 1t was found that
There was no food or money with "hicl
10 buy IL in any of the eight homes ;no
that eight families had been subsistnt
since the free bread depot OPENED ON Mon
day Oh the bread which they had receiver
Two OF these families each OF when con
sisted OF three small children u mother
and a father were found absolutely desti
tu,e The men were sick and unable L
work. the women were exhausted and II
moor physical condition becdGs" OF IN
prop,r nour ,shmcnt and the children were
all ON N. verge OF sickness 70. the Siliil'
reason
"Dur visitors went Mto tHeuty-si,
I,,,,s instead of eight. In none OF thes'
tv,nty-siN homes va th.r. evidence %
there. beiug no food or money with Whici
70 buy it, Furthermore, non" oi tHe lam
lie. had been subsisting exclusively
since the free bread depot opened on Mon
duy from the bread which they had re
CuiNtl'
In nom. of Tn. tw.i.ty-slx families wer'
: th. men SICK and unable ~ work aud II
/ non. OF them w.r, the women 'eAhaustt'
because of improper uourishneii no
yy.r. the 'childreu on the verge OF Sickhes
} for the saiuc reason. These are Only
; Few u the inaccuracies IN the statement
&! In that article
b Mr.. Rurritt IN detail outlines what MI
= Investigators reported 70 the assocluu0'
: adding:
, IN vieH Of these facts the statemen
ruauc IA tnis article that IL vas found h
e ~. investigators that 90 per cent. OF IN
, men, Womei, and children who r.ceiE
Z bread not only deserved IL bat we're /
pressing need or food ana All o' the"
= Investigators agreed without hesiG-co
, that the charity being dispensed at 20
y Elizabeth street cannot lend L. p"uperlz
:. those wnom Il benefits IL without POUNDS
T uoU IN fact
, The statements printed IN TIE Sun wer
I made by Investigators vi tine assoc .iNol
not AS representatives Of I'll. assocl"uo
c but AS Individuals.