The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-11-24

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
find him a 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 i 10 the city similarly employ
ed. in the cheap theatres and in beg
cling on the streets, who sre slaves
in every sense Of the word. Mr..
Bergh proposes to emancipate them.
HOW THE RICH MEN LIVE.
Because a mar happens to be rich
it does not follow that be lives in
! gorgeous style. Indeed the "bloated
sristocrat" Of New York, or the most
of them, live as quietly as other peo-
pie, and a great deal more so than
those whose wealth is of moie recent
date. Vanderbilt, whose wealth runs
up a long way into the millions,
lives on Fourth street, a most un-
fashionable n~eighborhood 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 Sec
ond Avenue. Daniel Drew's 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
homes, and stay in them. Peter
Goelet, one Of the richest men in
New York, lives on the corner Of 10th
and Broadway, in an aid house with
ground enough about it to pasture a
COW, and be keeps his COW on it.
The ground is worth probaly $780,
600, but Goelet is fond of milk, and
he wants it fresh and good. Counting
in the interest on the ground, the cid
g~entleman's milk costs him about
$40 per quart, but be doesn't care
for that. He wants good, sweet
milk in bis coffee and he gets it.
a. I. Stewart, has a wonderful
mansion on 5th Avenue, but | rather
thing be built il more for an adver-
tisement for his business than any,
thing else.
The shoddy aristocrats-the sud
denly 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 they
please. L should prefer to be an an
Gent millionaire, for | should want
the privilege of living where IL
saw ct without having snobs to put
me out Of conceit 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 snow. Still the Evangelists keep
up their efforts with as much vigor
as ever, and the religious eleaent of
| Brooklyn seems to be In nc wise dis l
couraged. While their ucces is not {
what we anticipated, there a be no :
question that they have accomplished
great good. They have succeeded in !
awakening the protesting Christians :
to a more keen sense of their duty;r
they have brought back baeksliders, I
and have alarmed Thousands of sim
.ners. The requests for prayers come {
from every State in the Union. l
Moody's method is peculiar. He I
selects q subject for each meeting,
and compels the attention of the {
audience to that n subject, and I
nothing else. For instance the other
morning the subject was Lowell
Frequently o good brother, in the
course of his remarks, would get at
some other phase of Christian expert
ence, bu the moment he did so Moody
would bring him back. He had TO
talk Of Love" or nothing. They
now hold FIVE meetings a day.
WONDERFUL WORK OF ART.
A memento of interest is the por-
trait of Washington, woven of silk
by the jacquard loom, in Lyons,
twenty years ago. Not a dozen cop
les OF this curiosity exist, and the
marvellous skill Of their workman
ship, together with their rarity, put q
high value on those in private hands.
The owners of the jacquard loom
wove pictures in the same manner Of
the crowned heads Of Europe. Ma
poleon /, 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 royal
family, after which the frames were
destroyed 50 that no more could be
produced. The United States con-
sui ct 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 a picture of their
Washington. The firm, Ponson,
Philippe & Viberty, agreed, if the
consul would give them
an authentic portrait of
Washington, and az engraving after
Stuart's Washington was selected as
a model. The labor Of making one
of these silk pictures is something in
credible. 1t took two years to con-
struet the loom, three engineers work
ed at the design, and $4,000 sheets of
cardboard were used in weaving.
The chain is of white silk, the filling
of black and white, each stitch, guild
ed by passing through a perforated
bit of card, which as it was used,
rose to the top of the loom and was
cut of. The best of the finest silk is
used for these woven pictures. An
expert selected from hundred pounds
OF the choicest raw silk only ten
pounds fit for the purpose, the rest
going TO make ~superlatiye dress silksl
Of the portraits made, the first was
for Mr.. Goodrich, whose idea it was
to have this imperishable souvenir of
Washington; three others were pre-
sented through him TO the cities of
Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
One nov hangs in the Boston Athene-
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