The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-26
THE MORGUE.


to the Blackwel's Island boat, you pass a
brick building with broad windows, flush
to the sidewalk. Looking in you see naked
walls and a long stone table, which slants
so as to allow water to drip. On this ia
BILE Is generally to be seen from two to six
dead bodies, covered with canvas, except
their countenances, which are generally
suggestive of miserable life, terminated by
sudden death. They are the unknown dead,
picked up in the Streets or on the docks,
or found floating on the rivers that sur
round the city. and they are held for recog
milton until putrefaction requires intermeDt.
AS soon as corpse is brought to the
morgue, II is numbered and described in
book kept tor that purpose Its clothing is
then removed, numbered, and hung up op-
poste the corpse, the latter being placed
on the stone table and covered with can
vas. To keep the bodies as long as posi-
BILE from decay, they are frequently sub
jected to jet of cold water, but during
hot weather they cannot be kept much
longer than two days. The morgue is open
after o'clock, and is generally thronged
by anxious friends. In a large city there
is great number of "missing." Many
persons go to the morgue in search of those
who in reality have absconded. Oilers
are often sadly shocked by recognizing
some loved one in this place of promscu-
Gus mortality. The recent hot weather has
rendered the mergue very offensive. and
hence it cannot be commended as pl zee
of general interest. Only stern necessity
can lead one to such charnel house.
THE BENEFITS.
During the past fortnight the retirement
Of hao oil
discussed with view of learning if it could
be explained by any special disappointment.
There is, however, not the slightest pro-
liability of this character The tact is that
of the two children of the once famous edi-
tor, the son bears a strong resemblance to
his mother. while the daughter is very
much like her father do not refer so
much to the features as to the character.
IL 10 evident that the das'iing, sporting.
driving, yachting proprietor of the Herald
shows little likeness To his father, who nv
err droue horse, and never was Ga a yacht;
and had no care for those active sports in
which his son delights.
THE SENIOR BENNETT.
He was very peculiar man and was lit
tie understood outside of his own editorial
rooms. Notwithstanding the boldness of
his columns, he was very timid and was
constitutonally shy of the public. He
never attended any festal occasion and
never made speech, even in reE ly to
toast = tor he avoided all such occasions.
As an editor, he KEEP himself locked up in
his little office and allowed no sdmittance.
On one occasion a journeyman printer in
search of q job found The door unlocked.
Ga opening il, the startled editor gave him
a furious glance, and exclaimed a. he slam.
med the door IN his face, IL allow no man
to see me" The fellow told me this with
much surprise. for both Greeley and Ray
mond were always accessible. Bennett, in
his early days. when under the spur of ne
cessity, undertook to lecture, but made
miserable failure. Iu after life he was in
vited by a lyceum, and replied through his
columns it would cost him So 600 worth of
time, which was the best way of refusal
All our other leading editors of that day
were glad to lecture for $50 night, but in
Benefits case it was impossible. He
rarely appeared in the street, coming and
going in his carriage, and as he never went
to church, his only place of public resort
was the theatre. | remember meeting him
at Palmas opera house, many years ago,
when his peculiar counienance was "A much
greater attraction thAn the plsy. In later
years he abandoned this habit, and became
q very close recluse.
THE RESEMBLANCE.
Nothing but stern necessity ever made
Bennett an editor, and in this capacity he
was the most isolate of the American press.
This was a natural tendency which his
daughter has inherited Were she forced
by circumstances to battle with the world,
as her farther did, there can be no doubt
of her success, but being left to pursue her
own incinalions, she INDUCES her natural
love of retirement. AS the father shrank
from society so the daughter, with timid-
ity corresponding with her sex, desires to
bury herself from the world and therefore
enters convent. Young Bennett, how
ever, inherits from his mother love of So
cety. gay and dsshing manner and gen.
eral 6onh0mnie, which are entirely The re-
verse of the founder Of the Herald; and
thus in these two children is afforded one
of those striking contrasts occasionally
noticed by
THE HERMIT IN New YORK.