Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-23
PROSPERITY BRINGS MENDICkNTS INTO THE
 DISTRICT IN PLENTY
Warren District Relief Asso- ciation has Much Work to
 do Contrary to the General
 Belief

Owing to the prosperity of the War ren District Delief association has had its own peculiar problems to deal
 with The high wages paid and the idea that there is plenty Of work for everyone, have brought many fami- lies here from different parts of the United States, to. find on arrival that
 there are already plenty of people here waiting for the "job' they
 thought it would be so easy to ob-
 tain. Their next difficulty is to find
 a place to live in, then when they are fortunate enough to find some
 house or furnished rooms they are required to pay a months rent in
 advance, which they often cannot do
 as they have perhaps only a few dol lars left with which to buy provisions
 until they can get anything at all'
 to do.
 Then they are invariably sent to the
 Warren District Relief association,
 where sufficient aid is given to tide
 them over until they can find em-
 ployment, if they are found to be
 worthy cases of need. Many of them
 say to the general secretary that all
 they want is work and have the idea
 that if she will only give them let
 ter to some mine superintendent or
 foreman they will surely get work
 This she only does when il seems absolutely necessary, as she realizes
 that the mine superintendents and
 foremen are being constantly appealed
 to for work from many other sources. These are facts that the general
 public is apparently unaware of, as
 so often the remark is made by good
 business and professional people Tn
 the district that there should not be
 any poor people here any more" etc.
 But they could hardly be expected to
 understand the situation since they
 are not generally appealed to by that
 class of people for work or aid. They
 are more often approached by the
 professional grafter" and the hobo,
 which the general publicity of pros porous district will always bring in.
 This is the class of people that VIII
 sometimes work on public sympathy and try to blacklist the relief or ganiZations, because they are unable
 to obtain any substantial aid from such organizations without satisfac-
 tory credentials and certain amount of investigation. A caes of this kind,
 a family of father, mother and four children, was compelled to leave the
 district a few days ago, evidently
 very much aggrieved and disappoinr- ed that they were unable to ''work" !" the district as they had done other districts from Oregon down the coast, and through Arizona up 10 this look ed-forward-to" point of destination for the time being. In this particular case the father was not well, having had a slight touch of lung trouble, | the mother had had spinal meningitis i some months ago, and the eldest daughter had merely avoided an op- | eration for appendicitis recently, so i that none of these could do any work, although 1t was suggested by the gen | eral secretary of the Relief association l that there would be plenty of work | for the mother and daughter. Yet | they came here because they heard | before they started from Oregon that
 Bisbee would be the best place for ] lHtill lO NOlllt Lb btiduSt NhNAt was | plenty of work for all of them to ! do" here. To quote their own state ments, they were no ordinary tramps, 1 but just unfortunate, that was all. They had never been obliged to ask aid before. Their relatives had been people of very high standing. con nected with various lodges, etc, but every method of investigation that was made during the five days they
 were allowed to remain here proved
 that this family, while in appearance much like any one else, was practicing
 deception in every possible way. v- nen Ithe Warren District Relief association and other interested people on whose sympathies this family had worked, were convinced of this, they were giv- ! en only until train time to leave town. which they did, accompanied by trunks, suitcases and bird cages, etc.