The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-05-03
Our New YORK Letter.
The Observation-Disclosures.

NEW ioHk, April 20, 1917.
There arc one hundred thousand
men in New York who live without
labor. They are nuisanccs in the
worst sense of the term, for every
mouthful that goesdown their threats
is paid for by soms one else. They
make no pretence of work, but, filthy
and impu1ent, stand on the streets
and beg for charity, when they lack
an opportunity to steal safely. You
see them everywhere. on the streets;
the offices and stores are infested
with them, each with his story of a
''family to support, and no work
sor," and curse fyou refuse them.
And there are as many women as
men, and more children than either,
engaged in the same calling. W0m-
en- sit by the hour on curb-stones,
with sleeping child, its rags Sc
displayed as to excite sympathy;
the child druggcd with laudanum to
keep it quiet, and sores artistically
painted on its little arms and legs
to attract attention. These chill
drcn are in most cases not their
own, but are leased to them by the
day, by women who make a bust.
ness of collecting them and renting
them out. Then comes tho vast
army who have small articles like
pencils, pins and matches for sale,
which is only another form of beg
ging, for the articles are such az
nobody wants, and the offer to sell
is always an appeal to charity.
They are worse than the frogs of
Egypt. Thousands of the very
scum of European cities are landed
yearly, to swell the volume of men
dicants, and they all stick in the
great cities. They won't work,
they won't 60 away. 1t is a pity
that some law cannot be passed to
confins these people and make them
work for their bread.
AS might have been expected,
every man mentioned in Twced's
confession as having had money of
the ring, denies it vehemently, and
the "boss" does not yet produce the
proof necessary to convict them.
The old fox is holding back his ev-
idence till he is sure that his con-
fession will bring about his release.
lie has it in his hands to unearth
the villainy of which he was the
centre, but he will not do it till he
has his liberty. Men who in the
flush times of the ring received ten,
twonty, or fifty thousand dollars,
are turning pale when they know
that Tweed saved his cheque-books,
as well as memoranda OF all his
transactions, and that he can state
with accuracy where every dollar
of the "swag" won't. Respectable
men, who took his wages supposing
it would be forever a secret, are
thronging to his room-begging for
Immunity, but to all Of them the
boss" has one answer: 81 am in
prison, poor-you are out, rich.
Get me out, with something to live
upon" 1t is said by those who
ought to know, that this talk of pov
erty and being a broken man is all
buncombe. They say he has at
least three millions safely hivcd,
and that he proposes when he does
get out to rally around him his old
friends, and make an effort to get
control of the city and State again.
There il no doubt that there is truth
in this. There is waiIing in the city
among the placc-mcn. The Custom
House cleaning is going on rapidly,
and the bar-rooms arc full of rod
noscd nsn dining Hayes Southern
policy. The trouble is that every
man has just received bis walking
paper, and il adrift on the cold char.
ity Of an upfeeling world, instead of
having nice salary to draw month
ly. 1t is estimated that there are
five thousand of this class Of bum
mers, and as fast.as they can be
reached they are being showed out.
for places in the Custom
House are thick rs leaves in Valom-
brosa, but they all receive the same
answer. "no vacancies. and none
likely to occur" And they 90 away
Borrowing, and consider Hayes
Southern policy a failure. But
while these fellows mourn the peo.
pic rejoice. PrErRo.