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"DOWN AND OUTS," WORLD OVER, WILL MISS NEW ORLEANS' QUAINTEST COUPLE ui . j MnHBBHHHMHBaNH$KMPaaaaIRnNliM ! Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Hoffman. New Orleans. The quaintest old couple in quaint old New Orleans is .gone! The Helping Hand mission in Ba-' ronne street, where more than 200, 000 "down-and-outs" have been given foodt regardless of creed, na tionality or state, is closed. Old Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hoffman are buried in a Canal street cemetery in the tomb he himself carved and put together a year ago. Their wish that they die together was granted. With in 24 hours they died, he of pneu- INSTITUTION EMPLOYES ARE BENEFITED BY UNION An organization committee of three visited the state institutions at Jacksonville and Lincoln this week. It represented the Hospital Nurse and Attendants' union. The commit tee arrived back in Chicago yester day with 500 new members, which brings the total membership of the union close to the 2,000 mark. G. A. Neil, sec'y of the joint coun cil of union, and Catherine Thomas, A. P. of L. organizer, made the trip with Wm. Jones of 'the Chicago State monia and she of apoplexy. Never was a man turned away from the high iron gate in front of tfie Helping Hand mission in the 13 years the Hoffmann's ' operated the Helping Hand mission. Just how the Hoffmanns kept spending their funds for the poor is shown by the fact that at the start of the fourteenth year of the Help ing Hand mission there was only $1.10 left of a fund of over $15,000. They died in poverty, giving their last cent to feed a hungry family. hospital. The union was organized to bet ter the working conditions of nurses and attendants in state -institutions. Prior to the organization women at tendants and nurses worked 14 hours a way, seven days a week. Illinois did not obey its own 10-hour-day for women laws. The union has obtained an eight hour day and a six-day week. A flat increase of $5 a week has been ob tained and the wage scale of the women is now the same as the wage scale of the men. gmmmmmaammmmmmmmaji