Edited sentence: Hoople was elected treasurer.In the first four months of 1894 the Alliance provided a million meals to the impoverished unemployed.On 18 June 1891 the non-sectarian Industrial Christian Alliance was organised by merchants of New York to give "practical help to the outcast poor" in a similiar manner to the methods of the Salvation Army.Plans were to establish a depot for women, rescue missions, and to establish kindergartens, day nurseries, and industrial schools.The Alliance established a depot in the Swamp, near Hoople's business, where the poor could stay for up to sixty days, be cleaned, clothed, treated medically and mentally, and given the opportunity to work in one of the sponsoring businesses.Unemployment and poverty increased dramatically in this area as a result of the Panic of 1893