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Evening Journal
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Economic hard times have swelled the ranks of homeless at police stations, including a young couple and their two children from Bristol, unemployed due to mill closures, walking to friends in New Castle, Del. Officers at an uptown station provided them shelter, food, and $5, but locals worry about aiding all the suffering.
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The hard times are responsible for many sad scenes at the station houses, where the usual army of tramps and outcasts has been reinforced by many deserving people thrown out of work and forced to apply to the police for shelter. At an uptown station the other evening appeared a young man and woman, carrying two little children in their arms and travel stained from a long walk, which had made them lame and faint. They said that they were from Bristol, where the closing of the mills had thrown the husband out of work, and that they were walking to New Castle, Del., where they had friends who would take them in. The sad plight of the couple touched the officers, who, after providing them with shelter and food, made up a collection of $5 for them and sent them on their way rejoicing. What is worrying the good people here now is the fact that they can hardly 'take in' the suffering ones already here.
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Primary Location
Uptown Station
Event Date
The Other Evening
Outcome
the couple received shelter, food, and $5 from officers and continued to new castle, del.; locals concerned about capacity to aid all suffering people.
Event Details
Hard times have increased deserving unemployed people seeking police shelter alongside tramps. A travel-worn young man, woman, and two children from Bristol, where mills closed throwing the husband out of work, arrived lame and faint at an uptown station while walking to friends in New Castle, Del. Officers provided aid and collected $5 for them.