OLD-AGE PENSIONERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 3

OLD-AGE PENSIONERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Now that we have got a popularly elected Charitablo Aid Board it will perhaps be possible to get a little more consideration given to old age pensioners than they at present receive. \Ve know that under the present system they arc admitted to the Ohiro Home, but they are placed on exactly the same footing- as the other inmate* and their pensions are paid into the funds of the institution, although it Is more than the average cost of maintenance. Many of these worthy old veterans, who are without fri«uds, refuse to go to the home and be classed with the permanent residents, and are therefore compelled to eke out a miserable existence round the city, sleeping and eating at ihe s cheapest possible lodging houses and restaurants, and loafing the time away about the libraries, wharves, or recreation grounds. It is deplorable to see men, past work, finishing their days in this dreary discomfort. These men do not expect the impossible, but, seeing that their maintenance doos not come from the local rates, they think that the new board, if it would go into the matter, could, with comparatively little trouble, make arrangements whereby they could be accommodated in a separate ward at the Ohiro Home or elsewhere, so that they would not be specified in periodical reports as "inmates" but be known simply as pensioners. Hoping that some of the newly elected members will interest themselves in these pensioners. — I am, etc., CITIZEN. Brooklyn, 31st March.