The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-11-20
Letter from NeaC York.
BERGH's GOOD WORK.


Henry Bergh's new Society, for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children is doing as good work as
his old one for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO An
imals. He has turned his attention to the thous-
and and one shows in the city AT the Tivoll
Gardens, in 9th street, is boy acrobat, edver-
tised under the name of "Prince Lee" who
nightly performs the most difficult feats on the
tight-rope. He is little, wee child, not over six
years of age delicate andspretty as possible. A
man named Leonard, brute of fellow, owns
him, and has taught him not only the common
feats of tight-rope performers, but many more
startling and dangerous. Leonard compelled
him to walk the tght-rope blindfolded, to ascend
and descend a rope fastened at angle of for
ty-fve degrees, and score more Of feats which
the oldest equilibrists decline to undertake, and
all without any netting underneath to save him
in the event of falling.
Bergh stationed few officers in the audience,
and when Leonard and the boy appeared they
sprang upon the stage and seized them BOTH
At the examination the next morning, it was
shown that the child was the son of drunken
rag-picker in Philadelphia, that the father sold
him to Leonard, who has trained him. Leonard
has habitually beaten, starved and abused him.
When practicing, if the child failed in the slight
est particular, the brute would kick and bruise
him, without mercy. He performs none of the
feats willingly in fact there is terror in his face
| from the moment he is forced upon the rope till
| he is through. He trembles so with fear during
| his performance that the chances of failure are
largely increased but he does it because he knows
that if he fails he takes The chance of being kill
ed by the fall, and that if he escapes that, his
brute of master will halfkill him with beating.
| Think of putting boy seven years old, on a
small rope stretched from floor to ceiling, dis
lance of sixty feet. at an angle of forty-6ve de-
grees and compelling him to crawl up the terri
Bile incline And then when at the top, sixty
feet from the stage, to slide down the steep de-
cent with frightful velocity, grasping the rope
only with his toes, bringing up in the arms OF
| his master.
Judge Donohue, will put the child in the charge
of the Society. who viii Cad him q home
I Bergh will go through all the shows, and take
| every one of these children out Of the hands OF
the brutes who own them. 1t is estimated that
there are three thousand children in the city sim
ilarly employed, in the cheap theatres and in beg
ging on the streets, who are slaves in every sense
of the word. Mr.. Bergh proposes to emancipate
| them.
HOW THE RICH MEN LIVE.
Because man happens to be rich it does not
! follow that ne lives in gorgeous style. Indeed
| the 'bloated aristocrats" of New York, or the
most of them, live as quietly as other people, and
of more recent date. Vanderbilt whose wealth
runs long way into the millions, lives on Fourth
street, most Questionable neighborhood in New
York, in a very plain house. Sam Tilden lives
on Goth, near Fourth Avenue, Peter Cooper, on
the corner of 22d and Lexington Avenue. Cy-
rus w. Field, on Gramercy Park, and Hamilton
Fish, on 18th and Second Avenue. Daniel
Drsws abode is on the corner Of 18th and Broad
way. All these locations have been abandoned
by the fashionable, years ago, but the old fellows
love their old homes, and stay in them. Peter
Goelet, one of the richest men in New York, lives
on the corner of 18th and Broadway, in a old
house with ground enough about it to pasture a
COW, and he keeps his COW On it. The ground is
worth probably $500, 900, but Goelet is fond of
milk, and he wants it fresh and good. Count
ing the interest on the ground, the cid gentle
mans milk costs him about $40 per quart, but
he doesn't care for that. He wants good, sweet
milk in his coffee and be gets it.
A. 7. Stewart, has wonderful mansion on
9th Avenue, but rather think he built it more
for an advertisement for his business than any
thing else.
| The shoddy aristocrats-tb the suddenly rich-all
live on 9Th Avenue, and the streets that run into
it above 25th. They are obliged to get into this
location to show that they are rich-those whose
wealth is known and acknowledged can do as
i
millionaire, for | should want the privilege. Of
living where saw fit without having snobs 10
put me out OF conceit with myself.
WONDERFUL WORK OF ART.
A memento of interest is the portrait of Wash
| ing, woven OF silk by the jacquard loom, in
Lyons, twenty years ago. Not dozen copies of
this curiosity exist, and the marvellous skill Of
| their workmanship, together with their rarity
anti htwa Ina in vNp,fyo ho1 Dc nbn
owners of the jacquard loom wove pictures in the
same manner of the crowned heads of Europe
| Napoleon l., Josephine, Victoria, the Pope, and
| Charles x, among the rest, which were always
reserved as presents for Sovereigns, one copy be-
| ing made for each member OF the royal family,
after which the frames were destroyed SO that no
more could be produced. The United States Con-
sui at Lyons seeing these portraits, suggested to
| the manufacturers that there were millions OF
sovereigns in our country, and it would be well
| to present them with picture of their Washing
ton. The firm, Ponson, Philips & Viberty,
agreed, if the consul would send an authentic por-
| trait of Washington, aud an engraving after
Stuart's Washington was selected as a model
The labor of making one of those silk pictures is
something incredible. 1t took 2 yrs. to construct
the LOOM 3 engineers worked at the design, and
28 900 sheets of corkboard were used in the weay-
| ing. The chain is of white silk, the filling of
| black and white, each stitch guided by passing
! through perforated bit Of card, which as il was
used rose to the top of the loom aud was cat off.
The best OF the finest silk Is used for these woven
pictures An expert selected from a hundred
pounds of tbs choicest silk only ten pounds
fit for the purpose, the rest going to make super
etive dress silks OF the portraits made the first
was for Mr.. Goodrich whose idea it was to have
| this impershable souvenir Of Washington, three
aa1 TIA H. ri, If
Boston, New York and Philadelphia. One now
hangs in the Boston Aheueum, the New York
| COPY is in the Governors room at the City Hall
A few others found their way by gift or exchange
| to private hands. COasul Goodrich entreated
that copies bought be multiplied and sent here,
| urging that fortune might be made by tie sale
| of them, but the Frenchmeu shrugged their
| shoulders, obstinate on point of pride which
was with them to keep these weavngs unique
Mr.. Goodrich was lately offered S., 600 for his
picture by millionaire OF this city, who is col
lector OF curious things, but this offer was no
| temptation. A copy of this silk engraving is in
| the possession Of Mr.. 0. S Baldwin of Brooklyn.
The picture has every appearance of steel en-
craving in line and stipple is peculiarly soft and
rich in shading and admirable study of Stu
arts portrait. or the thousands who have seen
one of the five first copies in the Governor room
not one in ten Thousand has had the slightest
idea that il is one of the marvels OF the nineteenth
century inventions No one detects the fabric
except by closest scrutiny bat it is silk and well
nigh imperishable.
THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE PREsI-
DENCY.
Gov. Sam Tilden, few months ago was con-
fdent of being the next Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. He had it all fixed His pro-
gramme was TO help TO beat Allen in Ohio, which
would settle him to help elect Pershing 10 Penn
sylvania, which he could afford to do Pershng
having no Presidential aspirations, and then to
make his name the rallying cry of the Democracy
of New York, which was to carry the State by
| $4,000 pretty programme, was it not? Bat
somehow it didn't work Allen was barely beat
en- in Ohio, Pershing was numerically beaten in
Pennsylvania, and the cry of "Tiden and Re-
form" was beaten 20, 600 in the city of New York,
and escaped defeat in the State by only II, 600 !
Where does that leave the calculating Tilden p
Allen is as strong ever he was, and if there is
a man on earth who has earned the undyiug
hatred Of Western Democrats that man is Tden
Pennsylvania Democracy owes him nothing, for
with bis help they were beaten ont of their boots,
and no man from New York need enter the ring
who has Tammany stuck to him, and who came
so near sinking his party in the State. Exit Til
den. If he ever had chance it is gone Small
men should never undertake large combinations
The Democracy must look elsewhere for candi-