, 1874-03-15

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the 'Park" already, one Is tempted TO admire
| and envy the dear creatures who have crowded
| with s1ch pr0fusiou into all tho most 1asilon'
| able stores.
Then let us open the door and step out On to
| BROADWAY.
| What contrastt Tl,cro ,s always that ire
| pressiple boy, with black shawl-PiBs and but
tons, who follows and itnportunes you. until, IN
desperation, you invest as cg0ts and bnv ont his
| whole stock in trade. There is the professional
| beggar, 1oud-roiced, dirty, whining, and inter-
ceptipg your onward progress, that con never
look you openly in the face aud that you feel is
fraud and iumbug. Then-saddest sight OF
Of all-there are groups and groups of poorly
clad men snd ptiful-looking women, vacantly
staring into the SNOWY shop-windows, for want
These follow you humbly perhaps begin 10 ad-
dress you, but atop, aud cough, and ill up, aud
ohoko,-unused to beg, Jet perhaps homeless
aud without food for tho whole day. The busy,
bustling Broadway Is
FULL or THEM
people without work, and who have exhausted
everything they had Of comfort; people desPo-
rate, daspairiug yet those who cannot speak the
wordH, - am hungry!"
Not many evenings eince, ne had furious
northeast snow-storu1. All day the streets had
been blocked, cars and buses delayed; and all
day the cold, aleety snow fell without cessation.
At nighsfall it raa still falling, and, as was
awake abont daybreAk, arose from my bed,
and went to the window, looking out on Droad-
way, to sec If it still WAS showing. A gas-lamp
fron the opposite sido Of tho street showed me
three figures: two policemen disappearing
around the corner on thoir downtown boat; and
. man without oyercoat, who stood look
ing into 3 window Of ongravings right
against the gas-light. It lad ceased showing.
but tho ground Was white. and the snow lay full
three inches on q level. He seemed 10 bo star
ipc at the window, but, in reality, be was wnteh-
iug tho policemen. and shivered, and stamped
his feet to keep hia blood from freezing. When
he was sure that tho policemen had gone he
turned, and cropt. and shut'ea down aomo base
mcnt-stairs TINT led into q trunk-store. I watch
ed him double his feet up on the stops, and,
fearing TINT hc should freeze, woke up Kind
servant in ths louee, and sent him over the
street to bring the mau into my lodglng-placc
He came gladly enough, but so benumbed with
ting him warmed, and gging him ! bowl Of hot
coffcc, he told me bis storv.-ouly one of
THOUSANDS As HOPELESS AND PIuFuL3
4 friend in Brooklyn had written him that hs
could get work hero he was houae-painter by
trade. He left tho West. where his work was
not very ramunerativc, and came to New York,
with the mistaken idea that he could get steady
employment, aud better pay here. During the
early fall work was plenty, and he did wcl. say
ing o little from his earnings. Before Christ
mas his friend sickened and died, and. almost
stranger, ho WAS left without work. Day by day
Finally he was turned from his lodging-hcuse,
having no money to pay for his board. - have
no SHIRT; I pawned the last one had,
to buy bread;' and I saw that be had only
thin summer coat On, and no shirt OF yest; and
for forty-eight hours ho had walked the strcctsi
he had been to ono OF the soup-kouses, had
boen warmed aud fed. "But had to move on
for others to come, and tried to go to ono OF
the potice-Btations to Sleep. But the bad ven.
tilation, the stencil, tho yerfnn, the bumma-s.'
wore too much for this decent young man, and
ho could not 1io down OF sleep in such quarters;
SO be walked tho streets, By day and night, 1.
WEARY. F4M1sHEp, sIEAnT-sIcK.
afterwards found that bis story was true,
and through the kindness Of friends, got him
situation for the present.
There are numerous charities, and Bou.o OF
our wealthy residents hare dono noblv, visiting
the Door themselves and with their families, and
leaving substantial relief. Many families have
taken some entire poor family. to attend to until
the panic is over and spring shall come with its
need for workers. As city, Ecw York has re-
spondcd literally and nobly to tho demand for
aid; hut yet there are class Of our rich people
who give $40 or goo bill, and think the poor
vrotches sre abundantlv supplied. We're 1t
not for repeating much that has appeared OF a
singular character in the New York Herald, I
could fill my letter with cases that have come
under my own obseryation,- ,-scn.e even moro
heart-rcniling than anv that have 1told in that
paper. The Observation-Disclosures 4 are becoming
defiant and scowls and ieers arc thrown at many
n fair occupant Of q carriage, as she Whirls up
Fifth avenue to her Lenten service; md fear
that tho riotous demonstration in To'npkins
Square will soon agan be repeated. unless these
hungry men can be set to work. I believe that,
but for our very efficient policc-force, a
EIor WOULD HAVE BROKEN OUT
long ago. For those rich people who seek ont
the suffering, and give not only Of their means,
but Of their symPathy, bave only
Of orr wea1thy men, who worship in aristocratic
street, content themselves with giving little
money, and leave all the work, and all tho SYM
pathy, and the help to come from others. It hns
found starving this winter. It has been the In
dustrious, deserving. worthy poor, who have
suffered cold, and nakedness, and hunger.
rather than make their necessities known. And |
can hear that Divine Voice that spoke SO |
sweetly nineteen hundred years ago, repeating |
to the generous ones who have contributed 50
much toward helping the poor, the same ei1yery |
words, t'Ina9Enuch as 30 have done it unto one
of the least Of these NY brethren, ye have done
It unto Me"
But fearing this subject may DO worn ont for |
you already, want to ask you il you would like |
10 buy the copyright. or patent, for new, per- |
fcctiyharmIesa Gas the circulars say) little par
or-toy, called the
pAnLoH-ARTILLERY-
It WAS simple little rubber-ba[l, lying in |
little tin-baac. like mortar and was exhibited |
IL the large platc-glas8 show-window on Broad |
Tay, In the cornerstone opposite Lord d. Tay- |
or's establishment. Mothers wcro fond Of TAX
mr. their little boys into that store and, rs tho
agent assured them that tho bail bounded with
spriug, and was very ingenious little p1aything
ittlo urchinB innumerable induced their fond
nammas to buy them one Of these miniature toys. |
The opposite show-window was occnp:ed BY q
'urr1er: aud aoalsacquoB. aud capz, and furs were
displayed in great .profusion. Suddenly, Mt
lbout p. H.. while, fortunately, the Immediate
,1cinity was comparative clear t1ore came
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
rom our infantine battery. The whole building
arred and quirered; all the lights Of glass in
he four stories wero blown out; the trout doors
yore blown out; the entire front WAS warped
md blistered; not yeshga Of .plate- -glass door
'r windows was left, all being ground to fine
powder; and the agent was found lying in the
Eebrls mangled aud bIoodng and his clothing
literally torn of. Not only that, but two ladies'
Who were just then passing wero blown into the
treet, aud, from tho force of the
not only, but from cuts BY
lass and powder, we're rendered inseusiblo.
t not seriously injured One OF the
aides had on a soal-skin sacqne and cap the
ap WAS cut into iuch-pieces, aud the Racque, as
rell Us the rest Of her clothing, WAS torn into
mnl shreds. The poor furricr had hardly
iece OF fur rcmaining,-a1l that Was not blown