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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