Show TETTER BETTER THAN NONE ahat IS WHAT SOME WILL SAY OF SULLIVANS DINNER arap lile ileaure of coverty arty lo 10 a ew lork irk Tener tenement nent i of eight half a loaf at of bread for their christmas a dinner S them thern any reader who did not have enough to eat on christmas liy Is there thero any roade ot of this page who did not hao hale a christmas binum 1 is there any reader of this article who can really understand what w hat it means to be to io poor that halt half a loaf of bread must do for our chrisom is dinner os half halt a loaf of bread divided among tauer mother and six little ones christmas afternoon a new now york world reporter and a photographer barted down into new j I 1 oita o ita cast side tenement district 1 ti find just such i 1 picture of suffering and want as this 11 in firesides happy children and men and women wera clustered tables were spread with bright silver glistening glasses luscious turkey rich red cranberries anti flaky pumpkin and mines minco pies ples in otier households while there vaa was less plenty christmas cheer reigned over ell all but on tho the slope of cherry at no 20 cherry street in a tiny room on thit wit dark anil and noisome byway known as murphys alley allay the sullivans Stilli valls father mother and six oung sat deso ahto despondent with barely the halt half of a loaf between atheni and starvation it vas was an instance mcimely not lot an cise tho the report ir could have found r thou thousand zand more equally wretched families no fancy picture this merely an actual atory story in simple and unexaggerated detail of 0 what ac actu twilly illy Is tho the photographs hero here reproduced were taken with difficulty in thia this little room so tiny that the photographer found it almost impossible to focus the camera indeed even to act set it up alone almost with the need of hardly a uno line of letter these photographs tell vividly tho story of the tho hapless sullivans you have can at night time out in the open country tho the lican headlight it of a locomotive tar far away but growing brighter and brighter an it sr opt en on towards on oil so tor for the two bearg john sullivan has had to p pis ly by and watch starvation creeping closer and closer to his little tam family Y when the vv horld orld reporter stood before him christmas afternoon the mana mans head was bent and he sat crouched in a low chair a figure of despair itself christmastide 1893 1895 was to this strong inan a mockery able bodied willing willin even oven leon to rcck a ma nan ver clorn n limbed who looked as 03 it if ho he would bo a prize to ane an one wanting a pair of good lood hand and a cleir cle ir head ho he had yat not a cent in his ills poc pockets koft and but little more than halt hall a loaf on the bare shelves that did duty na as a cupboard I 1 up to two yeara years ago he was a prosperous workman sure ot of GO 50 a month and none times making a trifle over atiat hat neither drink nor incompetence has brought this man down to where ho h Is today but simply the implacable juggert it ot of hard luck this as the picture presented in tho the oni ow jom join of john ul ilvan stationary engine fireman by trade now longshoreman eh oreman by necessity and anti out of work it rood good part of the time tho the room toom itself vis wax about 17 feet square it 11 aa W on t 3 arcu 1 l accor cf of to tao begrimed tenement in tho the alle just one step up from the broken ill III kept pavement the door did not oca cen open upon a hallway but on the alley itself ono one small window lighted tho the low room from the courtyard court yard another opening on a dismal air shaft in this ill ventilated narrow room eight people had to eat cat live and sleep bleep hardly the barest necessities of liff were between these tour four walla walls at tho the back stood end to end two tumble down bedsteads and a ramshackle crib they had ne or pillowcases pillow pIllori cases and tho the vero mere ragged and worn almost eat entirely rely through the mattresses wore were ol 01 tho the coarsest straw A cheap pino table stood oer mer by tho the window a cool stove by tho the mantel there acro four wooden chairs and opo cro old fashioned robler covered in horsehair that was all what scant clothing tho family posses possessed qed eave savo what they were actually wearing vas was hung up on an nails in a little recess A few plates cups aad and saucers heip aci scattered in a lonely way on an tho the row 0 shelves along by the mantel upon one of tho wooden chairs duill ian nan bit wit his faro face buried burled in his hands on another chair close by tho the stove was nia nis wife holding a puny pallid four montha months old babo babe to hor weast by the shelves stood tho oldest child mamle a girl fourteen ierra errs ot of age a cn en deiv oring in her baor little way to tidy up tip landmake and make things nice for mother mother needed to be helped no one nwe A nl V 71 41 40 f I 1 ap lir L i av ave o 0 Q 0 K I 1 I 1 Z 4 t 7 11 I 1 I 1 4 IN JA r M itza lilt V X 4 DINNER FOR SIX LITTLE CHILDREN ON HALF A LOAF DREAD BREAD more for it 1 Is not one of the least of john sullivan a troubles terrible and anti barans hard as they are th tint thit it be he has a crippled wife between mamie mamle the little housemaid and the baby of four months willie there are tour four little Sull hans nine came in nil all to this household the moat most of them in the days of sullivan a com pa prosperity but three have died tho the six living aro are mamie who bids fair to be the prettiest girl on cherry hill JIM a few years with her piquant int mouth her prettily tinted skin and her beautiful black hair lizzie lizzle aged ten johnnic johnnie six and a halt half tommy nearly five joey one and a half hall and the bab whom they call willie troubles of course never come bin sill ely II 11 Is 1 not alone poverty that ehlt man sullivan has to fight dakides bis his maimed malmed wile wife and his baby that looks almost aa as if it a breath of air would blow it away the nest next to the younge cit it child joey is 1 a pitiable sight joey was born with what arc called in the talk of the great cast side tab cabbil bil folt 1 that la Is bis his delicate little limbs have hane been twisted from birth eo so thit they cross each other almost pad are belled pad do not grow tho the toes turn in instead of out and the eight sight ho he presents ie to a nery cry ead cad ono one it was at bergen point eald gald sul sullivan aa as ho he looked with gad sad eyes towards his wife that she herself you know the houses out there have high stoops an I 1 she slipped on the ico ice on ours one di dai in the winter ten years agone and had a bad fall id a little mono saved up then wint on the etring limbed man in the blue jumper but we had to spend it all she was la in bed boa three years I 1 got a doctor ut from new york and ho thought it first that ho be could pull her through but he enigo m taige IV it what will N ill bo be the fato fate of sullivan his wife antl children 1 I dont want charity he eald said manfully stretching out his ewd kd right arm and looking at 1113 stife ito with the baby at her breast and at his elx six children 1 I want work and I 1 want to meet the man who will give it to roe me that s all 11 |