Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-14
CITY ICE MISSION MAKES
APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE
Hot Wave Attacks City, Causing
Much Suffering Among the
Poor
NEED HELP TO SAVE BABIES
Little Ones and Mothers in Dire
Need OF Ice to Tide Them Over
Iorrid Season = Times-Dispatch
Will Receive Contributions.

appeal for funds to carry on its
philanthropy was issued Yesterday nv
the CITY Ice Mission. which for monv
years past has provided ice for the
poor OIL noth races. especially for moth
crs and their babies Contributions
VIII be received by Tie Times-Dis
patch, which last year received more
money for this purpose than any other
agency. and by Mrs. Charles e. Boiling
OF s"Z West Grace Street. president
of the mission.
Last year the mission received mora
than $1,000. and sent out more than
10000 pounds of Ice to the moor and
SICK, and not = call that came was
refused.
The ice is distributed through the
visitors of the City Ice Mission, tho
visiting committee of The Associated
Charities and the Visiting Nurses In
structivc Association. All calls for
Ice are investigated by the visitors
and tickets each for ten pounds Of
ice are left at the horcs of the de-
serving. Tie ice Is delivered free of
charge. and the tickets are accepted
by the ice companies in payment.
MISSION HAS MANY
REQUESTS For ICE
Many requests for ice have already
been received. and the mission is in
immediate need Of funds with which to
carry on the work. No charity, mem
bcrs or the mission say, has made n
greater appeal TO the public, and none
has met with quicker and more gem
erous response. Last year hundreds
of families were aided. and hundreds
of babies were carried through the
summer and saved to their mothers
The mission works in all parts OF
the city, and among both races.
whether 1t be on Oregon Hill. in
"Butchertown." or in jackson Ward"
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serving appeal. from whatever quarter
it may come. is ever declined What
the Associated Charities is to the poor
and needy in winters time Of stress,
the City Ice Mission is TO the mother
and her feeble baby in the long. hot
days OF summer.
MANY ARE ILL AND
NEED ASSISTANCE
And the hot days are here. Unnum-
bered mothers with newborn infants
swcltcr in the hidden places where
never the breczes from the river blow.
Unnumbcrcd others. men, women and
children, waited by disease, lie in dark
rooms, with small chance of recovery
because they lack n bit of ice to cool
their brows and assuagc their fevered
thirst. 1t Is for these that the Ice
Mission works. II has no record of
those whom its efforts have saved unto
a better day. The record dscloses
simply the number of families which
have been relieved
In order that everybody may con-
tribute to the fund, charity boxes will
be placed in all the soda water foun-
tains and cigar stands. and collections
from them will be made every week
The members of the mission hope that
the generous response of the public
last summer Will he repeated, so that
no babe in arms may suffer for the
lack Of n little piece Of ice. and no
mother hear her children cry in vain
for cooling drink. Every contribu-
ton, however small, will be gratefully
received and acknowledged, and funds
received nv The Times Dispatch will
bo Immediately turned over to Mrs.
Boiling.