Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-03
DISTRIBUTION
/. OF BUNDLE DAY.
GIFTS DELAYED
Postuonement Until Next Tues
day Due TO Late Arrival
of Packages.
RE0UISJTIoNs OF SCHOOLS,
HOWEVER, BEING FILLED
Supervisor Hagan Seeks More
Clothing and Shoes for
Children.

Because OF the large number of
articles which are still being received
at tho HEADQUARTERS of the Bundle
Day committee. SO Market street.
and an unceasing flood Of requests
for food and clothing from needy per-
sons of the city. Supervisor William
]. Hagan announced today that no
distribution will be made to the gen.
eral public until next Tuesday morn
ing.
There is such general interest
throughout the city in the work of
aiding the poor of the city" said Mr..
Hagan. ''that we are receiving tele-
phone messages every five minutes
from persons who had meant to con-
tribute clothing but had forgotten to
do so. All these calls have to be
answered and the goods sent for.
They must be funigated and sorted
before they can be distributed.
I'VE are going on with the work of
filing requ sitions for the schools
and the Board of Educat on sent a
truck this morning for use in de-
livering packages to the various
school buildings throughout the city.
The first truck had of from twenty
five to thirty packages was sent out
this morning"
Mr.. Hagan said that all of the
schools and the day nurseries would
be supplied with articles as rapidly
as possible, and that he could use
more shoes and clothing for children
than has yet been received. as many
req tests were coming to headquar-
ters.
Two or three thousand bundles
have come in within the past two
days, according to Mr.. Hagan, and
he believes that before the close of
this week the total of articles re-
ceived for distribution will be well
over the $4,000 mark.
Busy scenes We're enacted at the
Bundle Day headquarters today,
and members of the committee and
the men and women employed TO as
s'st them were getting the goods
ready for the automobile truck as
rapidly as possible. Many OF the men
! have been o1t OF employment fol
some time, and the 81 a day paid
them by the committee will do much
to relieve them.
! While the greatest present need
appears to be for shoes for scrooi
children, food OF the imperisha BILE
kind will also be received. The co n
m ttee has list of families that have
applied for food. and are not seeking
clothing, even though the garments
they wear are threadbare and unit
TO stand the wintry winds
Crackers, cannedt goods, potatoes.
flour. cereals. smoked fish, and, In
fact, any kind of food that will not
spoil by being kept few days, will be
received and will be a boon to many
fam lies that are actually hungry as
well as being cold,
Alderman Charles D. Littienelo, at
the monthly meeting Of the Sixteenth
Ward Republican Club last night, an
nounced that the club had sent more
than 500 bundles to the headquarters.
He stated also that nearly 100 moro
bundles are still in the clubhouse,
awaiting transportation to the head
quarters.
In addition TO the bundles. he re-
ported that the organization had OBJ
tained a sewing machine for woman
on High street. who asked the mu-
nicipal "Bundle Day committee II II
could get one for her The woman
does not live within the confines OF
the Sixteenth ward. but the clubs re.
lief committee did not allow this TO
interfere in helping her