The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-11-19
NEW YORK, November Il, 1875.
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BEECHER
NEW YORK, November H. 1875.
BzKGH's GOOD WORK.
Henry Bergh's. new Society, for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is
doing as good a work as his old one for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals.
He has turned his attention to the tbous-
and and one shows in the city. At the
TivoIi Gardens, in Sth Street, i a boy
acrobat, advertised Under the name OF
prince Leo, who nightly performs the
most difficult feats on the tigbt-rope-
He is a little, wee child. not over SIX
years of age. delicate and pretty as pos
sible. A man named Leonard, brute
Of a fellow, owns him, and has taught
him not only the common feats Of tight
rope performers, but many more start
ling and dangerous. Leonard compelled
him to walk the tight-rope blindfolded,
to ascend and descend a rope fastened
at an angle Of forty-five 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 a few officers III the
audience, and when Leonard and the
boy appeared, they sprang upon the
stage and seized them both. At the ex-
animation the next morning, it was
shown that the child was the son of a
drunken rag picker in PHILADELPHIA 1; 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 per
forms none of the feats willingly; in fact,
there is terror in his face from the mo-
ment 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 killed by
a fall, and that if he escapes that, his
brute of a master will half kill hin with
beating. Think of putting boy seven
years old, on a small rope stretched
from floor to ceiling, distance of sixty
feet, at an angle of forty-five degrees,
and compelling him to crawl up the ter
ribIe 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 DonoIue 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
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them. 1t is estimated that there are
three thousand children in the city sim
ilarly employed, in the cheap theatres
and in begging on the streets, who are
slaves in every sense of the word. Mr..
Bergh proposes 70 emancipate them.
HOW THE RICH AIEN LIVE.
Because a man happens to be rich it
does not follow that he lives in gorgeous
style. Indeed, the "bloated 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 mil
lions, lives en- Fourth Street, a most
fashionable neighborhood in New York,
in very plain house. Sam Tilden lives
on 2Oth. near Fourth Avenue, Peter
Cooper. on the corner OF 22d and Lex
ington Avenue. Cyrus w. Field, on
Gramercy Park. and Hamilton Fish, on
18th and Second Avenue. Daniel Drew's
abode is on the corner of l1th 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 ard Broad
way, in an old house with ground enough
about it to pasture a COW, and lie keeps
his COW on it. The ground is worth
probably $500, 600, but Goelet is fond of
milk. and he wants it fresh and good.
Counting the interest on The ground, the
old gentleman's milk costs him about
SO 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 man
sion on 5th Avenue, but | rather think
he built it more for an advertisement for
his business than anything else.
The shod Y aristocrats-the suddenly
rich-all live on 5th Avenue. AID the
streets that rua 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. | should prefer 10 be
ain ancient millionaire, for should want
the privilege OF living where | saw fit
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 show. Still
the EvangeliSts keep up their efforts
with as much vigor as ever, and the re-
ligious element of Brooklyn seems to be
in no wise discouraged. While their
success is not what we anticipated, there
can be no question that they have ac-
complished great good. They have sue
"eeded in awakening the processing
Christians to a more keen sense of their
duty. they have brought back backsli-
ders, and have alarmed thousands of sin
ners. The requests for prayers come from
every State in the Union. Moody's
method is peculiar. He selects a subject
for each meeting, and compels the at
tention of the audience so that one sub
iect, and nothing else. For instance the
other morning. the subject was Love"
Frequently a Dod brother. in the course
of his remarks. would get at some other
phase of Christian experience, but the
moment he did so Moody would bring
him back. He had to talk of Love" or
nothing. They now hold five meetings
each day.
WONDERFUL WORK OF ART
A memento of interest is the portrait
of Washington, woven of silk by the
jacquard loom. in Lyons, twenty years
ago. Not a dozen copies of this curiosi-
ty exist. and the marvellous skill of their
workmanship. tog gAther with their rarity,
put 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 l., Josephine, Victoria, the Pope,
and Charles X. among the rest, which
were always preserved as presents for
one copy being made for
each member of n royal family, after
which the frames were destroyed so that
no more could be produced. The United
States Consul at Lyons seeing these por-
traits, 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
The firm, Ponsoh, Phil
ippe & Viberty, agreed, if the consul
would send an authentic portrait of
and an engraving after
Stuart's Washington was selected as a
model The labor of making one of
these silk pictures is something incredi-
BILE. 1t took two years 10 construct the
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