Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-19
BERGH's GOOD WORK.

Henry Der8n'S new OocIeGy, LOT The
Prevention of Cruelty to Children
is doing as good work as his old
one for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. He has turned his atten-
tion to the thousand and one shows
in the city. At the Tivoli Gardens,
in 9Th Street, is boy acrobat, ad-
vertised under the name of 'EPrince
Leo" who nightly performs the
most difficulty feats on the tight
rope. He is little, wee child, not
over six years of age, delicate and
pretty as possible. A man named
Leonard, brute of a fellow, owns
him, and has taught him not only
the common feats of tight-rope per-
formers, but many more startling
and dangerous. Leonard compelled
him 10 walk the tight-rope blind
folded, to ascend and descend a rope
fastened at an angle of forty-fve
degrees, and a 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 a drunken rag-picker in Phi
ladelphia, 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
slightest particular, the brute would
kick and bruise him, without mercy.
He performs none of the feats will
lingly ; in fact, there is terror il his
face from the moment he is forced
upon the rope till he is through. He
trembles so with fear during his per-
formance 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 killed by
the fall, and that if he escapes that,
his brute Of master will half-kill
him with beating. Think of putting
a boy seven years old, on small
rope stretched from floor to ceiling,
a distance of sixty feet, at an angle
of forty-fve degrees, and compelling
him to crawl up the terrible incline !!
And then when at the top, sixty
feet from the stage, to slide down
the steep descent 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
will find him home.
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 estimat-
ed that there are three thousand
children in the city similarly employ
ed, 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 he lives in
gorgeous style. Indeed the "bloat-
ed aristocrats" of New York, or the
most of them, live as quietly as other
people, and a great deal more so
than those whose wealth is of more
recent date. Vanderbilt, whose
wealth runs up long way into the
millions, lives on Fourth street,
most questionable neighborhood in
New York, in very plain house.
Sam Tilden lives on goth, near
Fourth Avenue, Peter Cooper, on
the corner of 22d and Lexington
Avenue. Cyrus W. Field, on Ora
mercy Park, and Hamilton Fish, on
18th and Second Avenue. Daniel
Drew's abode is on the corner of l7th
and Broadway. All these locations
have been abandoned by the fash
ionable, years ago, but the old fell
lows 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 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. Counting the interest on
the ground, the old gentleman's mi k
costs him about $40 per quart, but
he doesn't care for that. He wants
good, sweet milk in his coffee and
he gets it.
A. T. Stewart, has a wonderful
mansion on 9th avenue, but / rather
think he built it more for an adver-
tiement for his business than any.
thing else.
The shoddy aristocrats-the sud
denly rich--all live on 5th avenue,
and the streets that run into it
above 25th. They are obliged to get
into this locality to show that they
are rich-those whose wealth is
known can do as they please. 1
should prefer to be ancient million
aire, for should want the privilege
of living where 1 saw fit without
having snobs to put me out of con-
ceit with myself.
MOODY AND sANKEY
are not. the sensation they were
when they began. You can get into |
the rink now, without the slightest
trouble, and unoccupied seats begin
to show. Still the evangelists
keep up their efforts with as much |
vigor as ever, and the religious ele-
ment of Brooklyn seems to be in no
wise discouraged. While their sue
cess is not what we Anticipated,
there can be no question but that
they have accomplished much