Year: 1874

Four Hundred and Two Victims Tkfs


Wcek-A Plea Stronger than Words


for Funds for Floating Hospital.


Every passing day develops It's additional cases
of sickness, destiution ami death by the score in
the tenements and cellars. The dreaded guest has
indeed come and the plague now sits ris-a-pis
with poverty In many chimney corner and occu-
pies place at many homely table. From all the
slums are being carried the bodies of little ones,
from whom 'the light and luck of Iiien has gone.
From all the narrow, close and dingy rooms
they had made bright to a mothers eve
there come the hushed sounds of grief ana
the wailings Of those who cannot now be COM
forted. 1900 late" the sorrowul eyes Of these
poor m0urners seem to say TO the visitors who
cear them relief Too late now to offer the basket
that may De laden with life to other sufferers
with happiness and joy to other homes In the
places where charity did not follow fast on the
heels Of disease only sorrow may now abide. Ana
even In many rooms where evidences lie thick
strewn that the volunteer visitors Of st. Johns
Guild have found entrance ana left necessaries,
comforts and delicacies for the sick, Death has
stolen in and set his pale seal on lips and eyes


Every visitor feels that while his duty lies
straight before him in the homes OF poverty.
contagion and death the hearts that should
beat in generous response to his efforts
and his struggles and the purses that have
hitherto been opened to SO abundantly aid
him are no longer at his side. Thc mothers OF the
rich, who, by some subtle thrill that cord of sym.
pathy which makes all the world akin, have ever
felt for and pltied the sorrows Of the mothers OF
the poor, are no longer In our midst. No longer
can tley listen to direct appeals, and only through
the press-.hat voice which will reach them over
land and sen be they never 80 far away-will they
know Of the gloom and the shadow they have left
behind. Many OF them WILL no doubt, stretch
forth their saving hands, and while they feel all
that gladness or lie that makes the watering
places SO ENJOYABLE, they will find time to pity
those whom the fear OF death makes desoiate.


sad are the scenes the volunteer visitors are
called upon to Witness the writer VIII tell OF two
incidents which came to his own eyes in o single
day.


me first was % at No; no " yar!ck street, the once
Master was standing near table. engaged in
conversation with visitor. The door leaGing
entered. She was very young and very pale. Her
dress was somewhat tattered, and one could marx
here and there where 1t was torn ana had be IN
not very smoothly c0mbed, was knotted tip6tIv
behind her head. Her hands, her face ana meek
Were Were clean; In & her arms she held an emacaied
ragged, clean and starving These two waited
near the door, and finally the mother said, looking
told there was to be q free excursion for sIck
babes, and that II came to you and showed yOu


e er naSy aeaa von ow ana beginning to w)


me Inc Master approached her kindly and gave her
q a,n chair. she thanked him, saying, ~ was so
thought II you did baby would die. and that YOU
would see that when yon saw her. and for her sake
Wmrm WEw wSna SoHs ase lax u.s. am so glad came now


INC Masters lace fell as he said, mot to-day:


CONTINUED ON NINTH PAaEj