New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-19
AUTOS TO CARRY
FOOD TO HUNGRY
More than 200 Restaurants
and Hotels Will Give
Lunch to Thousands.
WORKERS FAMILIES
BENEFIT CHIEFLY
Unemployment Lessening, Says
Superintendent Of German
and Irish Bureau.

Delivering lunches TO destitute lam
lilies by automobile truck is the latest
method used to relieve the unemployed
and their families. Lunches enough
to feed several thousand will ne gwen
by more than two hundre hotels and
restaurants, President McAneny OF the
Board of Aldermen announced yester-
day.
Food will be collected from some OF
the hotels for the first time to-day
Lunches from others will be taken as
RAPIDLY as means of distribution are
provided. Auto-trucks will take 1000
90 tne workshops supported by the
Mayors Committee on Unemployment,
and workmen will be given food ana
cans of soup for their families.
The plan was devised by Mr.. NC
Anenv in consultation with representa-
tives of the Federation of Churches
and with Thomas D. Green, proprietor
of the Hotel Woodward and president
of the Hotel Managers Association;
Frank Case, of the Hotel Algonquin !;
Albert Keller, of the Ritz-Carlton, and
John J. Cavanagh, Thomas Heaiy AND
Charles z. Gehring, Of the Society OF
Restaurateurs.
~ talked it over with some of the
leading hotel managers two or three
weeks ago." said Mr.. McAneny. They
were eager to help, but the chief dim
GUILTY was in getting in touch with the
needy. The hotel and restaurant men
Joined me in smoothing away the dit-
ficulties.
"Some of the food will be used where
the needy are at work and some will be
carried home By those who have fam
lilies. Yesterday in the shop at 344 west
Thirty-sixth Street the manager asked
how many men wanted to bring cans
in which to carry soup home. All
cheered loudly.
This new relief plan does not mean
that new bread lines will be estsb-
lished. 1t is intended primarily for the
families Of the destitute"
The report of the State Bureau OF
Unemployment on its free employment
Offices shows that the Brooklyn Office, at
262 Fulton Street, has found work for
697 persons out of 1870 applicants
within six weeks. Many have been
women. More machinists have been
sent out than men of any other trade,
but work obtained includes domestic
and personal service, building and con
structlon, transportatlon anu PupllS
utilities, clerical and professional ser
vice, wholesale and retail salesmenship
ard all services in which women and
girls are employed. Many calls for
Telephone operators have been left I'M
filled for lack Of applicants.
The report shows corresponding
activity in the Offices in Buffalo,
Rochester and Syracuse. There is an
increasing demand for help and the as
sistance Of the bureaus is rapidly being
recognised. The bureau considers
opening several additional Offices.
Carl Heinzmann, superintendent OF
the Free Employment Bureau of the
United German and Irish Societies OF
New York, at II Pearl Street, says I'M
employment is lessening.
During the last two weeks this office
has been swamped with demands from
farmers and contractors who want
laborers," he said. "The trouble is there
are only limited number of men will
ing to do a laborer's work. The unem-
ployed may be roughly divided into
three classes-those who do not want
work, those who want only certain
kind of work and those whose strength
restricts them to light work"