The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-14
Suffering III Nen York
Is Beyond Descript iion

die day headquarters after clothing.
One OF them bad only a vest, shirt and
pair Of trousers: They refused to give
their names.
Those who have been active In char
ity work have commended that most OF
the unemployed in New York are
rom other cities, and canvass OF
the lodging houses and bread-lines
CONFIRM this fact The out-of-town UNI
employed are not able to cope with
conditions as well as the New York
unemplo yed,tias the latter know where
to go for charity and how to get
there and the visitor becomes hope
lessly confused and overwhelmed by
the bigness Of the metropolis.
That the cond itions among the poor
are growing more desperate Was em-
phasized when $15s was offered for a
quart OF blood for, transmission op-
Grafton at Bellevue hospital. More
than so men respond ed-all OF them
big and strong and willing to work.
Nearly all Of the churches are ex-
erting every influence at their COM
mand to relieve condf tions and there
are many notorfety seekers, who are
seeking to break into print through
their sphilanthropdes. One city editor
on Park Row said that several en-
bryo, phi1anthrop had hired press
agents before they started to open
bread lines for the poor.
Much surprises was expressed be-
cause among the gifts for the poor,
revealed by bundle day, were fifty
pairs ofywhite kid gloves, most OF them
suitable for wear. It may be that the
donors were thoughtless II not, heart
less. and yet they may have acted with
wise elaboration.
There are poor women who for pur-
poses Of Ibread-winning may need
white gloves, even seedy ones, as much
as others need coats, and 1t is con-
ceivab1e that the lack OF evening
gowns, dinner coats and even high
hats may be all that stands in the
way Of certain kinds OF employment
for deserving people. Poverty touches
eopulence atsmany points, and 1t is mo-
-ttceable that poverty In 1nodish appar-
ell, II in good taste. stands q better
chance OF getting work in some places
than poverty in rags or outlandish
.raimeilt. The poor of great city do
not all require oyercoats, shoes or un-
derclothing. Not a few of them are
obliged to keep up appearances, a con-
sfderation which perhaps the giver
of the white gloves had in mind.
Different Class Of Beggars.
There Is one man in New York VINO
believes that while the bread-lines are
"a good thing they are like patching
an old coat. They merely extend its
usefulness and really make 1t shah
bier than ever.
DIR. Franklin Warren Sears, the psy-
biologist, has in an interview in New
York newspapers, declared that the
bread-line Is the result OF wrong think
ing and that unless the wrong thought
is corrected in the Individual the
bread-line will always be with us.
However, DR.. Sears believes that there
Is a condition to be met and he has
given OF his own funds plentifully to
aid the poor, but insists that poverty is
q condition OF thought just as Presi-
dent Wilson contended bad business
was psychological.
Big Babe Mcdonald, the traffic cop
at Forty-second and Broadway, de-
clares that there are men down and
out" in New York at the present time
who formerly owned their automobiles
and used to stop at the wave Of his
hand during the traffic rush hours.
II never realized that man could
have SO much and then have so lit
tie in a short space Of time" he said.
Just the other day gave a man a
dollar and not only two months ago
I noticed in the society news that he
was among those present at the OPP
era, where he has had box for years.
ia different class OF street beggars.
too. have sprung! up There are men
begging who actually are ashamed to
beg, which IS quite contract from
the hardened old timers"