New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-11

clad 10 see you helping those who
need helm. am glad myself to have a
mart in the work Of helping those IN
he hospital. here and abroad. ] am
Glad 20 see YOU working under the
American flag, the only flag whlch any
one here has right 10 give allegiance
to. No American has right 10 g''o
allegiance TO any other.
John Tighc. veteran OF COMPANY
T. fist New York Volunteers, who also
served eight years in the navy ap,
proached the Colonel here and asked
that he use his influence to get MIN u
iob. The cx-President promised that
he would do his best for comrane Vi
tho Spanish War, and the party then
iourneycd to 4l6 Lafayette Street ana o
thence TO CSC Mott Street, where 4oo
women were at work, =
Here Colonel Roosevelt inquired OF
Miss Charlotte Huey. the superlin,t,ehu emu
ont. if all of the workers had chlldren'
He was evidently delighted when IN
formed that most Of them were noun
ers.
Colonel Bars Fakes.
Tho University settlement, at los
Eldrid0e Street. and the College set.
Element. at Sc First Street, were VISITED
newt and the party then proceeded 10
Tho workrooms Of the Children's AID
Society. at l54 Hester Street. where
600 women were employed and day
nurserv maintained for their children.
At the Salvation Army Headquart-
ters. 1912 West Fourteenth street, the
women and girls employed at part time
heard Roosevelt speech from the
platform. where the Colonel wedged
himself In between a dozen sewing ma
chimes. which were stopped while ne
spoke, and the footlights.
He then retired TO one OF the board
rooms, where he lectured to the news
paper men upon the needs OF the KIND
Of work which they had seen.
you have seen girl OF sixteen
whose father has deserted his family,
and whose mother. with two smaller
children. depends upon the money she
gets here" he pointed out. You have
seen 200 Italian women working in the
nursery. You have seen multitudes OF
self-respecting men who, through no
fault of their own, have been thrown
out Of employment.
THE funds of the Mayors commit
tee are about exhausted. and it must
nave SSU,UUU more 10 CoHIlnue iNo WIN
until April /. ! hope that you will
make all good people realize what Is
being done for the unemployed
Would Segregate Hoboes.
"In some philanthropies it takes 80
cents expenditure to get cents TO the
sufferer In this work, out of every
dollar it takes II cents to provide ma
terial-7 cents to feed the worker and
. cents for other overhead charges.
All the rest goes directly into the
pocket of the person for which 1t was
intended"
The Colonel then spoke of the neces-
sity for national consideration OF the
unemployed problem.
"The professional hobo. the gentle
man who is permanently bum through
disability, must be garnered up he
said, land put off by himself, where he
cannot bring forth little hoboes. The
big, healthy tough who won't work
should be put where he will be made to.
1.-THE work Of the Mayors committee
has been purely that of emergency. 1t
has been met in capital shape by the
people doing it, who have proved their
faith by their deeds and done more To-
administer an antidote TO the |. W. W:
and other similar institutions based
upon hate and unreason than any
amount of preaching"