The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-24
BAR HOBOES,
SEEK NEEDY.
7. R. ADVISES
Former President Makes
Tour Of the Brooklyn
Relief Stations.
ZINE BUSINESS"
HE SAYS OF WORK

That question, What shall we do
with our ex-Presidents% bobbed up
again yesterday when Col. Theodore
Roosevelt made a call Upon the different
committees In Brooklyn which are striv-
ing 10 ease the distress caused by un-
employment. The Colonel Is out Of a
job. He admitted it. for he signed his
narne TO a time card OF the Mayors
Rumrnage Committee at 20 Bergen
street. The card showed that IT. Roose-
volt OF Oyster Bay. J.. L." had worked a
quarter of an hour for the committee
and had taken his pay in groceries"
The Colonel laughed gieefully and
said. by George. that's right when
Capt. John kingsepp of the Salvation
Army asked him at the end Of his in
v~estigation of the committees workshop
TO sign his name to the time card.
The card will he kept among
the flies of the committee. II anybody
has a job to offer the former President
he should write to the committee. or
preferably 10 Col. Roosevelt himself.
Needn't Worry About Him.
But tho Colonel. in his lively and pic
turesque study of the work being done
TO help the unemployed. demonstrated
that nobody need worry about one ex-
President. He is feeling bully is
alert and intensely absorbed in the work.
lie had more questions than his com
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out others.
Col. Roosevelt wanted to know how
the articles for the poor collected by the
Bundle Day Committee could be kept
away from the professional idle. Most
of all. he was eager to learn what ef-
forts were being made to reach the de-
serving poor who We're too proud to ask
for help until their necessity was ex-
treme. When the trip was ended the
Colonel expressed himself as being i'm
mensely pleased with what ne had seen.
The trip was made on the invitation
OF William II. Childs. one OF the Pro-
E~ressive leaders of Kings county. who
also is chairman of the Mayors Rum
mage Committee. He left the Brook
Club at 3 O'Clock. going first 10 the
headquarters OF the Brooklyn Bundle
Day Committee, ia Fulton street. He
was received there by Mrs. John Will
lam Tumbridge. chairman of the COM
mittce John II. Gould. the secretary,
and Capt. f.. j. Bransiield of the Saliva
ton Army.
With them he examined the different
departments of collecting. asserting and
distributing the articles. He was told
that $50 churches. many charity organ-
izations and thirty-two police stations
were aiding in the distribution of the
goods that $50 orders were filled yes
terday. the first day Of tho distribution.
Recommends Police "Tips."
You've got to get the help of tho
policeman on the beat to tip YOU off
as 10 the worthy and unworthy" said
tho Colonel. speaking in his ex-Police
Commissioner voice.
The former President was taken next
TO the Belgian relief worlroom on the
eleventh floor of the Hotel st. George,
where Mrs. Tumbridge has thirty women
at work making bandages for the Red
Cross and baby kits for the Belgians.
This is splendid said the Colonel.
1T is splendid from the viewpoint OF
those who receive and of those who
give"
The party then went to 1SS Atlantic
avenue, where 2SS men are employed
and get food as well as money. When
he entered the room he was greeted
with Three cheers for Teddy. =" He
waved his hat and said: III there was
enough of me I'd give three cheers for
all of you. Bully for YOU n good
luck. Keep your hearts up, boys"
In the kitchen he met Or. Thomas
Reilly, secretary of the Brooklyn Bureau
OF Charities, who explained the work.
When pr. Reilly said more funds were
needed the Colonel exclaimed
"By George. ! hope everybody in
Brooklyn will come up with money! I
want to see everything done for the
sufferers abroad. but We must take care
of our next door ~ncighbors too. These
people are our next door %neighbors. you
know"
Meets Suauish War yurs~.