—Nixon Walterman, Epworth Herald.
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UNEMPLOYED, PROBLEM OF THE
The problem of the unemployed is emphasized by facts and comments such as these from the metropolitan press:
James Kelly, seventy years old, a homeless wanderer, was found frozen to death within a few feet of the General Philip Schuyler estate, near Irvington.
Wilson Meyers, seventy years old, and homeless, was found dead in a stable near the Long Island Railroad tracks, at Rockaway Beach.
And 2,000 people in the Bowery bread-line on these freezing nights.
At the extraordinary meeting held in the Bowery Mission, where five hundred men from the bread-line met at the invitation of the Rev. J. G. Hallimond to talk over the facts of their situation, it was made perfectly clear that a large proportion of the company had nothing whatever the matter with them as individuals. They were skilled and sober mechanics and clerks, capable of rendering valuable services to society and eager to do it. (Text.)
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UNEXPECTED, THE