Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-11-19

and dangerous Leonard compelled him
to walk the tight rope hiindtn!lrd. u as
cpud and dect nd "a rope fastened a an an~l,.
of forty-five degrees and a score Of trals
which the oldest rquilibrisls decline to uu
deriake, and all without any nettin@ un-
derneath to save him in the event of falling. !
Bergh stationed II few officers in the au-
dience. AMI when Leonard and the boy ap- |
peared, 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. Leon
ard has hahituallv beaten, starved and
abused him. When practicing, if the
child failed in the slightest 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 be is through He trembles So
with fear during his performance that the
chances of failure ar largely increased.
but he does it because he knows that if he
tails he takes the chance of being killed bt
The fall, and that if he ESCAPES that, his
brute of IL master will half kill him with
beating. Think of putting a boy seven
years DID, OH IA small rope stretched from
tioor tu ceiling. distance Oi sixty feet. 1T
an angis of forty five degrees, AMI COMPEL
Ing him to crawl up the terrible incline
And then when at the top, sixty feet from
the stage, 30 slide down the steep drscrn
with irishtfu velocity, grasping the ROPE
nnl, with his tues bringing up i'll the arns
nt his master.
Judge Donohue. will put the child in thr
charge Of the Society. who will iind him
home.
Bcrsh will 90 through all the shows.
and take every one o! these children "uL "i
the hands of the bIutes who own them. |,
is estimated that there are three thousand
cnildren in the city similarly employed. ia
,te cheap theatres and in begging on til.
streets, who are slaves III every sense nl
the word. Mr.. Bcrgh proposes to eulanci-
pate them.
HOW TIE RICH MEN LIVE.
Because a man haprens 10 be rich 1t does
MT follow that he lives in gorgeous style
Indeed the ''bl0ated arislucraLs" Ot New
York, or the most of them, live as quietly
al other people, and great deal more S"
tlan those whose wealth is of more recent
date Vanderbilt, whose wealth runs uph
!o,g way into the millions, lives oH Fourth
street, must questionable neighborhoOd
in New York, i'll very plain house. Sam
riuen lives on 10Th, near Fourth Avenue,
Peter Cooper, or the corner OF 22d and
Lexington Avenue. Cyrus w. Field, ou
G:anercy Park. and Hamilton Fish, on
Eth anj Second Avenue. Daniel Drew's
,Dode is Oh the corner Of 17th and Broad
way. All these locations have been aban
coped by the fashionable, years ago, bu
the old fellows love their old homes, aud
stay in them. Peter Gnelct, one OF the
richest men in New York. lives on the
corner of 18th and Broadway. in an old
house with ground enough about it To pas
;ure COW, and he keeps his cow on it
The ground is worth probably $500 0OO.
but Goelet is fond of milk, and he wants it
fresh and good. Counting the interest on
the grouLd, the old gentleman's milk cos's
him about 80 per quart, but he doesn't
care for that. He wants good. sweet milk
in his coffee and be gets it.
4. T. Stewart has wonderful mansion
IN 9Th Avenue. but [ rather think he built
it more for an advertisement for his busi
ness than anything else.
The shoddy aristpcrats the suddenly
rich-all live on 5th Avenue, and the
streets that run into it above 25th. They
Are Obliged to get into this location t"
show that they are rich--thOse whost
wealth is known and acknowledged can do
as they please. | should prefer To be an
incrnt millionaire, for should want the.
privilege Of living where saw tit with0u
having snobs t. put ne out of conceit with
,nls,it.