The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-23
TIRED SCRUBWOMEN
IN LINE FOR BREAD
Twenty Marked by Hours of
Toll in Office Buildings
Get Free LOaveS.
LEANENED WITH WELCOME

Twenty scrubwomen snatched a hair
hour of between scrubbng times and
came TO THE SUNS bread depot at Fist
street yesterday to get free LOAF OF
bread. Twenty scrubwomen with pals
In their hands twenty scrubwomen with
scrubbing brushes In their pals. twenty
scrubwomen in scrubbedout clothes,
twenty sclubwomen without any hats.
twenty scrubwomen with shawls over
their heads. twenty scrubwomen In need
OF bread They were all Of these things,
these twenty scrubwom we're, and they
formed the biggest delegation OF working
women that has ever called at the little
bread station just or the Bowery.
a few OF them have been observed In
the bread line from day TO day, but never
IN many in one day and 1t did Tom
Merry's heart good to welcome them.
Come in! Come irl' shouted Merry
holding the door open for the scruhwomen
and their scrubhing appliances. You're
hard working women. You earn all the
money you get and you need the bread.
Don't I know Yoh wouldn't he here "
YOU didn't There's no fake about you
not bit Of IT,"
And while Merry was cherrilv getting
the ycrubwomen I'm limo with the other
2. 900 scrubbed-out or scrubless men and
women Dick Bright was doing his snare
Of bread distribution nv handing out the
loaves as fast ~ his hands could move.
There was package OF clothing there
for one OF lhe women and Tom Merry
gave II to Mrs Louisa Cassasa Of "a
Roosevelt street. who has five children
and whose husband is out of work.
This woman, Ike the others Of her
sciubbing profession. gets up at \. NJ.
to 20 scrubbIng thirty-hvc offices I'm -
building near the Battery She has t0
knock Off work In the carly part Of the
afternoon because some Of the thirty
/ five offices she cleans for total wage
/ OF 81 cents q day have to be inhabited
offices Then she goes back 20 them
when the persons doing business in thosa
! Offices quit for tho day. and she scrubs
! late into thc night.
ITS my opinion" said Tom Merry "a
Dick Bright in a proud tone, that we
have fifty scrubwomen In our bread line
/ They drop in on the way to work or or
the way home, but they all don't lug their
pals and mops with them"
! While the twenty scrubwomen with
1 their pals and mops were giving the
bread line more picturesque touch than
/ il has ever had before the usual GROUP
# sghtsecrs stood across the street and
:
I the crowd Of tho curious and each handed
Tom Merry a dollar. one said his initials
were A. b and the other said
Just put il down as coming from
l.. H. y. It's 10 little 20 give, you know
but i'm help some"
At that moment note arrived foi
. Merry and Bright. 1t was from an in
teIested person who wrote: why moi
1 make use ~ regards the bread. OF VIVA
! the London poor woman said regarding
the ocean when she was taken to the sea
| shore for the first time My sakes Blu
rs good to see something there il
I enough OF
Merry laughed and Bright smiled. anC
Merry announced that the supply OF brea'
:or 20 !ay would 10 Increased - . 9n'
lotves in order that there might be
enough for Saturday, which is rusi
day at the bread line.
After that Tom Meyry's pencil marke,
down ln his notebook contributions OF tn
day t,tallug $3.50. They were S2j
l.. G. Morse $50. Hotel Ansonia barbe
shop s., Janet NJ $. s.. Milton l.
Kuoepke; 50. NJ r.: $3.50. j. A Nigel
81. G.. VI. $. So r. A. $. 81. W. y 81
n. W b 81 F. II: 81, A. h., and 81
T.. n. y
Checks for the bread fund should h
made payable to THE SUN. Checks an
money should be sent TO the main ofiic
in TIE SuN Building