Show hundreds of applicant for clothing food and lodging are being burped anav daily new york bands of migratory mendicants and hundreds of anem aloyed workmen from other cities are pouring into new york and the inrush of dependents on the has developed a situation which the charitable institutions are unable to meet hundreds of api tor clothing food and lodging are being turned away dally by ic in and to consi ler those ex tra ordinary conditions an informal meeting was held Sa by representatives senta tives of twenty charitable organ Izat lons the records showed that hundreds of applications for aid came from those who had come here from other cities and plans were discussed to stem the rush of mendicants while no decisive action was taken it was the sense of the meeting that the de apartment part ment of charities should provide an adequate work test in connection with its treatment of lodgers it was suggested that each person who de sires a nights lodging should spend a short time at the stone quarry on blackwell s island officers of the municipal lodging house report that between december 1 and december 23 2 persons were refused hodg ing because of the inability to accod the applicants |