Show I 1 r ru i hard hara times hard Hara times limes prevail all over the country but the destitution in new now york yolk city is said to be something appalling never in aa the history of t that thab at city haa has there been such a con scantly increasing army of home less lesa the m many n benevolent institutions are taxed to their utmost and the papers daily make demands for means to nill fill the ahe exhausted comfers coffers of the charitable associations colle collections alons are taken daken up on sundays in the churches churched to buy ouy food rood and clothing forthe starving poor and the ladles ladies odthe of the differ different eilt congregations i meet neet dally daily in the church rooms and sew and distribute articles among the needy without regard to creed or caste or kind in id jersey olt cit city Y brooklyn and new york alone are six hundred thousand people crowded into tenement house soften ten forty or fifty families living in one tenement there are people living in 2700 tenements and with all that public and private charity can do how are these people to be fed and add clothed while gub gut of work the tile increase of crime and evil doing isi ise owin to the increased z pauperism the rich have responded generously wealthy la die shave gone in their carri carrl carriages ages ageg and s personally bestowed bestone d money and given othor other help but the at tempts have been spasmodic and the nany benevolent organizations cannot begin to s succor all the needy fleedy poor frequently families are picked up on the street who have b ad rift the streets because pf af unpaid rents aud and who have havo literally neither fedd food clothing nor shelter it is now a serious problem with wi th thought al fat abo people le what is to become all these theio houseless hungry poor wath ranks constantly growing larger largen ivash englon star jan jar 27 |