New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-01-27
BRITISH BENEvOLENCE.
Tur COLD MEDAL AWARDED.

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TO THE MEN WHO RESCUED THE CREW or
THE BARK CHARLES WARD.
To me EdltOr Of The TrfbuHe
SIR: Some people do not do generous things bY
halves. even in the old "effete" monarchies re-
Turned from England where had been spendings
sort of business holidaylin November. IN the Cunarn
steamer Batavia, Capt John Il. Mouland. In ma
ocean we encountered fearful gale-a gale thats
known to have destroyed great many vessels and
il supposed to have made away with great many
more that have never been heard of TO this day.
The storm lasted two days with US; then subsided
for n few brief hours then burst forth again and
biIo tbis last effort was in full swing we cana
nnon a dismasted vessel. the bark Charles ward
She was nothing but bursted and spoutlng huIK'
surmounted with chaos of broken sparS ana DiH
g a,,,,or;no raos-a sort of ruined 1ower-pot hung
with last years spider webs so to SPEAK Inc Vas
seas swept over her. burying her from slSht ana
then she would rise again and spew volumes Vi
water through cracks in her sides and bows ana nS
charge white floods through the gateway tha' wa
left where her stern had been. Her captain anu
eight men were dashed III the remains Oh INC MAJ"
rigging They were pretty well famished and frozen'
for they had been there two nights and apart Oh Two
days of stormy wntry weather. Capt. Mouland
brought ND broadsde to wind and and called Tor
volunteers to man the life-boat. ID. Gillies, Third
Officer; H. KYLE Fourth Officer, and six seamen
answered instantly 1t was worth any money 10 SEQ
that life-boat climb those dizzy mountains OF water
in a driving mist of spune-fakes, ana ngnt !"
way inch by inch in the teeth of the gale Just tho
mere memory of it stirs body so, that would
swing my hat and dIsgorge cheer now. IL couiu
do il without waking the baby. But II you get
baby awake you never can get IL asleep again.
and then you get into trouble with the whole family
Somehow don't seem to have chance to yell, now
the way used to- Well, in just one hours time
that Iife-boat crew had rescued those shipwrecked
men. and during 30 minutes of the time their own
lives were not worth purchase at sixpence, their
peril was great.
The passengers showed their appreciation OF this
thing as far as they able and we were 80 PROUD
of our captain and our lifeboat crew that we ven
tured 70 ion in a communication to the Royal HUI
name Society of London, detailing the circum-
stances and pettionng that they would take notice
of our sailors gallant achievement L have JUST
heard the result, and would like TO communicate IL
70 the passengers and to all who take an interest In
things nober than theusual daily feast OIL congress
corruption and judicial rottenness.
The Humane Society promptly conferred the goid
medal and vote of thanks upon Capt. MOuland; they
also gave silver medals to Officers Giles and Kyle.
and money reward suited to their official grade.
and thanked them; and they likewise thanked tho
six seamen and gave Ct gold $50, to each OF theih-
say somewhere about two months wages we are
NATHAN of forty millions and we have some little
nancy Cannot we have a society like thatf Why.
it is the next most nOblest thing to sending moral
tracts to Timbuctoo. And would cost less money.
too Not that L object to sending moral tracts 10
TimbuctoO far from it; | write the most OF them
myself and gain the larger part of my living in that
way | would grieve to see Fimbuctoo redeemed
and have to loso its custom. But why not start
Humane Society besides' We have got one man
worthy to conduct it, and that is Mr. Bergh. IL God
did not make Bergh. He certainly did not make the
insects that try to thwart his purposes-and do not
ENGLISH GOOD-HEARTEDNESs.
We are the offspring of England; and 80 it ia
pleasant to reflect that the very first thing that
astonishes stranger when he arrives in that coun-
try is not its physical features not the vastness OF
London not the pecularites of speech and dress OF
It's people but the curious lavishness with which
that people pour money into the lap of any high and
worthy object needing help. is not done ostent-
tiously, but modestly. 1t comes from nobody knows
where about half the time but it comes. Every few
DAYS you see a brief item like this in the papers:
The such and such a charity desire to acknowl-
edge the receipt of e1 900 from Y Y H. This Is the
fifth 900 from the same source" X. Y. u. don't
give his name he just gives his $4,000, and says
no more about 1t. Some hospital will put up q
hundreds upon hundreds of pounds from
known passers-by. The porter of the Charing-
Cross hospital saw a gentleman stuff SEINE
thing into the contrbutOn-boX and pass on. Hs
opened the box to what it was; it was roll Of
bank bills amounting to $3.50 One day an un-
known lady entered MddleseX Hospital and asked
leave to 90 round and talk with the patients; it was
found after she was gone, that she had been dis
tributing half sovereigns among them; she had
squandered $3.50 there. But why go ont l got
worked up about charity matters in London that
was near coming away from there ignorant of every
thing else. | could reel off instances of prodigal
charity conferred by stealth in that city till even
THE TRIBUNEs broad columns would cry for quarter.
"Ginx'sl Baby" could not satTize the national dis
position toward free-handed benevOlence-it could
only satrize instances of foolish and stupid methods
in the application of the funds by of the char
table organizations But in most cases the great
benevolent societies of England manage their affairs
admirably.
IL makes dizzy to read the long list of enor.
nous that individuals have given to tho
London hospitals. People die of want and starys-
ton ia that huge hive just as they do in NewYork
merely because nine people in ten who beg help arc
impOsters-tbe worthy and the sensitive shrink
from making their condition known, and perish
without making appeal In either city .
Thousand hands would be<stretched forth to save
such if the need could be known in time. | have
forgotten many things / saw in London. but I
remember yet what outbust there was, and
what pang seemed to dart through tho
whole great heart of England when a
poor. obscure, and penniless American girl
threw herself from Waterloo bridge because she was
hungry and homeless and had no friend to turn TO-