Show Eighteen Hundred Beggars You want to know how many mendicants tbere are in Philadelphia Well I should say there were 1800 said Charles D Kellogg general secretary of tbe society for organizing charity in reply to a question from a Record reporter Last winter I Mayor Stokley took a census of this class of our people for the benefit of I tbe society and be found there were 1600 per nnu dependent upon street begging for support while in the house of correction and almsbouae I there were 600 more seeking food and shelter during the winter months but who would bpcome con lI1JU beggars when wsrm weal er returned Of course somp of these were forcpd by circumstances to beg but th = greater number did = o from choice or laziness whichever you wish to call it Business Busi-ness being better tbis winter than taut there ut fewer men out of work Besides this the society has cut ofl the sources of supply of many mendicants andas a consequence of these two facts we find the number of persons needing relief reduced by several hundred Nine tenths of the I street begeara will refuse work if I offered them Last winter the super I intendent of one of the district associations asso-ciations sent 200 ablebodied men to tbe wood yard and how many of them do you suppose reported to the manager and earned their bread by i work Just thirty the other 170 preferring pre-ferring to beg from softhearted per Eons who would give them food or clothing without inquiring into the needs of the recipient Wfcen the society began its operations it found butdreds of families that depended upon soup houses for their food and the guardians of the poor for fuel JJ cheating the landlord out of rnu by moving as often as possible Neither tbe men nor wcmen would work when opportunity offered It ia i th s kind of pauperism that the so lety is socking to break up and already Philadelphia is shunned by the pro 5 1 a f fessibnal beggar as a city where hIs trade does not thrive It ij our aim to find employment for the poor and permanently relieve their miseries spending 10 for such a purpose rather than 1 for temporary relief We only resort to this latter method in urgent cases How many families fami-lies are under our care Well about 6000 This is a large number but when the society aids a family our agents keep an eye on its suture movements and by this means we have a supervisory Clue over large J numbers to whom we give no relief Philadelphia Record |