Sunday, June 3, 2007

To Feed 500 Outcasts

1914

Helen Gould-Shepard to Celebrate First Wedding Anniversary

New York, Jan. 22. — To celebrate her first wedding anniversary, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, who was Miss Helen Miller Gould, will provide dinners for 500 Bowery outcasts tonight and 200 beds for the homeless.

The dinners will be served at the Hadley Rescue Hall, where Mrs. Shepard entertained 1000 at dinner on the day of her marriage. The repast will precede the nightly gospel meeting, and will comprise soups, roasts and all the accessories of an appetizing and substantial feast.

The 200 extra beds for the homeless will be furnished in addition to the forty that nightly shelter the city's wanderers at Hadley Rescue Hall, in order to care for many who will partake of the dinner.

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