Endowments; Fund raising; Eviction; New York (N.Y.); Mail & Express (Firm)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
The N.Y. Evening Mail it seems has been the most active in writing about the eviction cases. The Mail even went so far as to have a special Save A Home Fund, for the purpose of paying off the unpaid rent for those about to be evicted. Each day brought many cases to their notice. Each day they would print the reasons for these near-evictions. Invariably it would prove to be the lack of employment on the part of some of the breadwinners of the family. So pitiful did some of these cases become that little children gladly sent a little something to swell the Save A Home Fund. This column has been running in the Mail for months and is still running in it and threatens to do so for some time to come." [SOURCE: Weitz, Louis. Out of a Job? Peoples Educational Society, 1915, pp. 16. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=TlQXAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 12 Oct. 2018.] "The New York Evening Mail (1867–1924) was an American daily newspaper published in New York City. For a time the paper was the only evening newspaper to have a franchise in the Associated Press... The paper was founded as the New York Evening Mail in 1867 and published under that name through 1877. It then went through some minor name changes, becoming the New York Mail for about a year (November 1877 – November 1878), and then The Mail (through late 1879). It then became the Evening Mail from 1879 through December 1881, when owner Cyrus West Field acquired the New York Evening Express (which had been founded by James and Erastus Brooks as a Whig paper in June 1836), and created The Mail and Express. It retained the Mail and Express moniker until 1904, when it eventually became the Evening Mail once again. In January 1924, the paper was merged with the Evening Telegram upon being acquired by Frank Munsey from Henry L. Stoddard. This later became the New York World-Telegram in 1931." [SOURCE: "New York Evening Mail." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Evening_Mail. Accessed 12 Oct. 2018.]