Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-27
10000 BUNDLES
IS ESTIMATE FOR
BUNDLE DAY"
Thousands of Persons Contrib
ute to Help the Poor
& of City.
DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS
TO START ON THURSDAY
Clerks Are Busy in Headquar-
ters Sorting and Check
! ing Packages.

Packages for Bundle Day came
into headquarters, SO Market street.
today as rapidly as they did yester-
day, and now it is estimated that IN
the neighborhood of 10000 bundles OF
clothing and food for the worthy poor
of Newark will be received. More
than 1000 packages. three-quarters OF
them containing wearing apparel TOR
tyrown-ups, have been received DIT
Headquarters, and reports from the
Gottfried Krueger Association, the
Sixteenth Ward Republican Club tie
Joel Parker Association and the
numerous other organizations that
set about to assist Mayor Raymond $
committee indicate that the number
of pc ages received will come up TO
the number specified.
Should the Bundle Day commicN
tee find it impossible TO make al ln9 ,7
collections of bundles today, the work
will be continued to Monday ana
Tuesday.
William J. Hagan, supervisor OF the
work. has a force of twenty men at
work at headquarters today unwrap-
ming bundles and sorting the various
articles Of clothing and food. Inc
work is being done thoroughly ana
efficiently. Supervisor Hagan mas
worked out plan Of his own IN lne
matter. As each bundle is unwrappeo
its contents are placed, accoralns 20
their natne On tablet set aslue
for that Mems suits are put
1n ona ms shoes in another
and y,1er1 in still another. Wom-
aT's and fren's wearing apparel
js separa and when all the bundles
shall have been unwrapped and SORT
al tbe headquarters will be turned
over TO the Board of Health, VINO VIII
furnigate all the clothing tonight ana
tomorrow.
To Sort stock.
On Monday morning Supervisor
Hagan will put TO work large force
If women. who will take stock. He
'oas acquainted himself with he plan
5,sod in department stores OF sorting
articles. and after the sterilization
work has been completed each arti-
Gle. according TO it's nature and size,
will be placed where the clerks can
reach it In a seconds notice.
MED most OF the time OF Mayor Ray
Tnond's committee. VIII 'ch met iass
night in the rooms of the Board OF
T~ade. The committee finally SET next
,rhursday as the date for the d'stribu-
+ion of the clothing. Applications
from public and parochial schooi
teachers and principals Will be gwen
first consideration by the commlttee
and 1t has so instructed supervisor
Hagan. The comnittee leit tnat IL
would be impossible to investf-
gate all the applications, and al
Fhe same time 1t was its desire to
avoid as much red tape as possible
n Is felt that applications from sucn
sources as the schools have already
been investigated and are entirety
worthy.
Next in the line of consideration
will be the applications from the pas
tors OF the various churches IN the
city. The Bundle Day" committee
asks that this notice IN the Newark
Evening Star be taken by the pastors
Of the city as an invitation to send in
reouisitions for persons they know to
be worthy of assistance. Such appli-
cations will be taken on their face
value and no further investigation OF
hem will be made, 1t being the de-
sire of both Supervisor Hagan and the
committee to make applicants feel as
comfortable as possible.
Then the personal applications VIII
be taken up It is estimated that 500
d09Aot~1sA0O
ceived through the mail today by
Supervisor Hagan. Many Of these
viii be investigated by corps OF
women who have volunteered their
services.
Most of the bundles of clothing re-
ceived came from persons in the more
moderate circumstances, according
10 Supervisor Hagan. OF course this
does not mean that the weather
class did not DO their share, because
they did. Many of them not alone
sent bundles, but donated the use OF
their automobiles and many proml-
nent women came forward with Of
ters to work personally in any man
ner that Supervisor Hagan would as
sign them. But 1t seemed that most
Of the bundles were not from tic
wealthiesI homes. but rather from
persons who felt themselves. just q
tribe more fortunate than others
"