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Show I'M m The story of tho boy's heroic efforts 9 to support tho dear ones dependant S upon him is but an exaggerated laid la-id H stance of what is occurring every day H in New York and elsewhere. Despite t m tho fact that tho banlc clcar,nss or lm tho metropolis increased over 100 per ii IB cent last week, tho fact remains that 19 all over tho city poverty and destitu- ir H tion prevail to an alarming extent. IH Only a few days ago 200 men were ;r wanted to shovel snow at ?2.oo pei day, and tho rush 'for jobs was so e Kreat that tho police had to bo sum- moned. Starving mon and men with I hungry families fought for tho prm l lego of working. During tho recent I storm, men who were trying to earn n a small sum for their families, fell I rron exhaustion, brought on by lack r or food, or wore compelled to quit bc-I bc-I ?a"so they were not sufficiently -clad I i? th0 weather. This, too, when , I Jim Hyde, of tho Equitablo Life, which has made millions out of tho people, I 5 oxPonding $100,000 on a ball at rys restaurant. This, too, when t ' hili?M0rks woro POPPAS in every 'igh-class cafo in the city; when every rrml,Q,and p,ace of amusement was mWf!!? : ayo' whcn ovory Prayer K?? wai runn,ns ful1 blnst and Pe-m Pe-m Z V a ltlnd Dolty wero rising like mists from summer waters. |