Show distressing SCENES SAD CONDITION OF applicants rob FOR COUNTY AID A mothers appeal for a coffin for her child pitiful case of a shoeless lad old couples privation i T the he opening act in yesterdays drama of 0 destitution as it Is 13 dally produced in the department of 0 charities charlt lex down do at L t the joint building was furnished by a sobbing mother whose child had perished the day before and who pleaded for a klain laan coffin in which to lay it away her tory of the struggle through which he had passed bilth tt iab death and destitution both at her door was wag a touching loushine lou chine one indeed an and d an order was finally issued by r selectman e geddes gedden that not only brodu produced ced tho the wooden shell in which the child was placed but something to keep the body a and rid soul or of the anguished mother together C ether A youth of 8 years who has been bean attending one of the tha publio schools until ills its feet mere worn bare appeared at the Select mans desk during tho the afternoon and an d placed on it a note from his mother that the eho be al allowed lowel to borrow 0 a ton of coal she want to beg bee it her pride recoiled at that and so ah tho the youth assured the samaritan t that A t his mother would pay 11 31 a week until the price wan wais pail paid SeleCt selectman Mam geddes concluded to investigate and found the mother and three children struggling to keep out the frosts with ea Bace bruah th thai a t had been gathered by t ahr he little f fellow ellow for a halt half dime alma johnnie had pur purchased chasel a rabbit and to a companion trad traded c d it for a set of wheels heels with these ho he constructed a wagon wacon and with it began laying in nh na an the hie winters fuel then johnnies Johnn los sprang A leak the tha soles followed and ills his assistance was lost tile principal of the school who had misled the lads lada presence sought him at his home arid and that he may return to school a pair of shoes will be provided him ira while the c county 0 anty provides tor for the coal bin and la larder der an old man of nearly 75 7 5 years hobbles hobbled into the chamber during tho the day having walked from the hut in which he find and his bis aged wife managed to exist until driven to seek assistance at tile ali hands of the tha county by the cold ceather nc ue ather ile ha had walked through the snow from a point not tar far distant from aiu rort fort douglas Dou glae arid and provision was made tor for him an appeal reached tho the selectmen yesterday from it a waran who has been toiling at tile the washtub to maintain her ile elt if and five children but who lost her customers and was forced to give elv up the unequal un rual struggle willett sh she e found herself without shoes D dependent P on tier lier are ivo five children two of v horn hom were vero attending tile the public schools until to quit because they c re without shoes many other cases figured in the drama irria before night came and the curtain were dl ak 11 on oil a tired samaritan |