Show HUNGRY ARMY ASKS FOR WORK IN ST LOUIS st louis jan 14 hungry and out of work thinly clad men marched through tho snow and cola to alio city hall today seeking mayor wells in order to make application for ills assistance si in securing employment james eads philanthropist and and scion 0 a prominent family who proudly styles himself a hobo led the procession and the welfare association of which he is tho founder and benefactor the nucleus of the army while the hungry horde lined up in the city ball grounds a committee representing the armye waited on mayor wolla mayor wells assured the men that he would do all in his power to glye 1 them employment I cannot give you charity work said mayor wells under present conditions the only thing I 1 can do Is to divide the work now being done for the city and give part to you this met with the approval of the committee and after its departure mayor wells instructed street corn travilla to prepare an ordinance calling tor an appropriation ot for street world |