OCR Text |
Show POOR OF BUDAPEST . Children Steal Wood, Coal and Food to Save Their, Live, Is Report i BriiAPfT. Feb. 4. Many of the i poor people of this city are being driv- i e to wholesale thievery by the fuel f shortage. The recent theft or twenty- ftve carloads of wiiod from one train of 100 carloads as it entered the city how the extent to which the stealing is going on. w'o'hJ in so scare that when a wagon lond in driven through the streets people peo-ple t o and gaze after it until it in out of sight. Paring small boys are ever on the alert for a stray piece of wood or anv- H.wg-4ha4 lv beat 4 home. They scamper after every papains; wood was;on, tut are soon frightened away Iv Ions; whips In the hands of two a nmen who sit on guard astride the load. The operation of unloading a ton of Hnnirary'B Inferior brown coal before a house attracts many neiRhhors. who make a. pathetic picture as they watch basketful after basketful disappear into the coal bin of the more fortunate one. Because of the urgency to obtain fuel, by dishonest mean. If honest one Fare of no avail, the Juvenile court were never so crowded with youthful offenders. M-fttU'ITV OF 11 KI,. Tbe wtrr'iy wf met aww mnr ytue daily as winter advances. The st reel railway service has been snarply curtailed cur-tailed and people wait for hours ex-Ooned ex-Ooned to The hitter rtild The wnrM operated American streetcar never tol , erated such crowding. ' I Was factories are provided with coal 1 1 for only twenty-four hours at a timelj and the gas is turned on now only at noon and after o'clock. Only one 1 1 i i Kitt Is permitted In a room and" not i more than three rooma In a house or i single apartment ma v be lighted at the "SttTBg. time. Kven nnn mosr expen- 1 sive hotels there Is no running hot i water. Saturday Is bathing day. On j other days feaths can only be had at the public baths, for which Budapest is famous. One of the, latest and most drastic steps of the new government is the deportation oC undesiraMe citizen. J those suspected of bolshevik tendencies' or who are known to be opposed to the present form of government. Hundreds Hun-dreds of these have come to Hungary ! since the outbreak of the war. Now I their houses and flats are being commandeered com-mandeered and turned over to homeless refugees from Transylvania and othr i sections who have been living in 1 freight cars in the railroad yards. ( PAU KYKIM THIXi. The majority of the people have j parted company with the last of their' articles of jewelry and the dealers from ' other land are not getting many tak- j era of their offers of fabulous prices ; for gold and silver.' What Is called 1 the state exchange bureau, a sort ol . national pawnshop, has pain as high . as t0 uoo rrowna for a kilogram 2 -'0 i pounds) of Kt-rap goM. and dealers nre offering li'o.ooo crowns la an effort t; (uai an oilier kilogram t rom - people., whi may Ue hoarding their pre ions metal For pur" gold iT.O.Ufln crowns a kilogram is offered with no takers The expianatiuo is that .most of the gold has been smuggled to otner coun. trie whfTf the money has more value. The Hungarian newspapers print a warning to ijO.000 laborers of Hun- gurlan origin in the t niti-d Htatea to (It-fist from their reported intention to return to their native land at thin time. The paper say that the economic crisis in America ran never be as bad as It I is here and urjtfti their i-oun: rr men 1 not to further embarrass Hungary'a unmniovnient problem, i As if the country's cup of misery was not full it is now visited " : r. epi- "n . nnr-r-n u ,t i . rm o u f h "7n7. .- e n n t people nre prohibited from buying cat- i tie from neighboring stales. All 1 ron -ttrs are closely watched and all tattle tat-tle within twenty kilometer of the' border must be re gist r-d w it h th-health th-health authorities. '! |