Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — Old Men’s Workshop Is Unique New York Charity [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Old Men’s Workshop Is Unique New York Charity

NEW YORK. —The Old Man's workshop, conducted by the New York association for improving the condition of the poor, is giving respectable, elderly men a chance to remain self-supporting and an opportunity to pass the

evepings of their lives in something else beside idle and eventless days. Another purpose of the workshop is to provide light work for men temporarily handicapped by sickness until they can go back to adman’s fullfledged job. The working capacity of none of -these men is great and their tasks must be comparatively easy. As a result, the workshop schedule calls for six hours a day and the minimum wage paid is about 60 cents a day. The average attendance at the

shop during the year is about 70, running as high as 100 in the winter and dropping to 40 in the summer, as many of the men are able to secure some kind of light out-of-door work during the latter period. The association makes an effort to get them such, using the shop only as a last resort when nothing else can be found for them. At the present time the .shop is especially busy turning out toys which are being sent into all of the hospitals and- the homes where children are suffering from infantile paralysis.. 'L'heyare also being sent to children wh<\ while free from the disease, have been quarantined in their homes because —of the remo valof some member of the fa mHy-to-a-hespital