The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-11-18
VOL. XLV.- NO. 70.
AWFUL GARDENERS PIETY.
THE FiMOrS IA-PRIzE ETGHTER STILL
CLIINS TO BE 4 CIfRISTTIN
He Dcric. the V"mor that Ue 10 About 20
Open - s.ic"n The Trnaic Fight with Jim
Morris Hts Wife's Opinion of her Uus-
b.,d'. Best Fri ,nds Orviiie's 4 spirations.

Orvlllc GhruNr Oinc1WlSN knOWn aS AW-
fti Gardner, wns found yesterday afternoon by
n reporter for THE Sun In his comfortaby-fur-
ni4hcd apartments on the second story of
I.s,kot street. Newark. 4 report had been
rrhi-hrd TINT he had forsakcn the cause OF
temperance. ana wns nhoui to open saloon on
Mulberry street in TINT city,
Il wish you would contradict the report"
sail We. "l feel too sure II th" acceptance Of
the ron4rerrtlon Of my life oJrsus ever to 20
il'k ir Tint business. |, is hgd lusin'~s and
ieal4 to mnn's dc,tru ton body and soul
I'll pu you bow that report must huva started.
! hlve jusl recovered from a long sickncss. |
wa, pa'sicd ON INV lcf side. ! could not talk
plainly 1nl my ntollc WIS partly taken AWAY
NOW | have recovered. though | cunt talk M
fi-' a- used TO. and can't got round so lively
have somo good friends who hrlpcd me dur
INK my sickness. tut now they have lost their
money anl must hcip myself About the only
good friend have now among the religious
people Is Brother Sammy llnlStead You know
him. llo is a loader Of Il praying band in New
York"
1t sccmR IA though Orvllo has moro good
friends among the rumsellcrs than among the
Chrstans." interrupted Mrs. Gardner. who
wn- listening to her husbands story.
Well" continued Mr.. Gardner. nobody in
Newark ia willing to help mo. What | want ia
position on the police force. / couldn't do
patrol duty. know. but there are positions at
the depot. along the canal in summer. and IN
other places that could l as well as any man
living. I've gone to all the principal men in
town. but | can't get appointed. ! am always
told that the places are all filled. There was
q time whom mo and Tom Hycr and Bill
Poole could turn out and have things just
about as we wanted them. but them days is
past suppose don I get appointed because
d9nt get OUT ana WORK around the polls Just
hayn't got any money. You see me here COM
foraby enough fixed. but IL you haven't got
money YOU haven't got anything. haven't got
any money to buy my breakfast with tomorrow
mornix. We'll. that's the w,av I'm placed. S.
told him II / didn't eet nlon'' better. and see a
way opcn 10 get bread for wife. would go
back 10 my old business o. rum.sclling. |
my way OF showing how hnd was on II han
p"ned that nv hro,her.in law has Just opened
Put uttngeth"r. guess. and the rumor WAS sinitcd
Why. don't you know that any saloon would
mmp. at the chance TO get Awful Gardner be-
Nj Gardeners brown hair is iuat touched
win crny. nnl his long whskrrs are nearly
white Is face is Intelligent. and shows little
ui the charactvrIstlc- of u hrui-Dr. Tie wns
neaill iressed He divides hi life Of 81 years
into three periods. IT, waS Is years growing
Christ
what aspect Of Christianity" he was asked
Vol l'll'tcll you. said he; my father had
fifteen rhi ldrcni ana was about ihe sixth. We
father died | came with my mother, and the
rc,t Of us from Ncwbureh 10 newark There
began 10 walk up and down Market street. |
was only eighteen years Old, but didn't allow
hnylniy 10 insult me. man or boy On. day
jim Dennison.ho was captain in the militia
sly- I" me: Gardner, you re- showing your
self ftno nu H. II you don't iake yourself on this
street ~ whal, YOU lfod him It was good
mn minute h"d whnieL !. i'm. This WIS IN"
hfsi man had ever lirkr. had rk"d y good
many boys around III" town. and had licked
MY school tea'ier. but now first began to feel
ny strength. Wc.., luie VIM" after that
was 10 a saloon Oh Market street when in came
Jim Morris. a biz lounging butcher aui
cousin oi Jim DnuniSon. says Doe: Gardner.
aS S rr, %o md n To c sf sn55aly % S5m eyer & GY"
mind t. give you Su'h Il llrh ug that YOU wont
want TO iight ngain N q ycar said; ppn!t
that he kicked me. says; don't allow any.
body, man or boy. to do that 10 me without
SO at il we went. We begun the fight up
stair in the second story. W" III there Tor
arsi into the room behind the bar; | began TO
anl that was lust about as good n he was
and It give ne courage. There was hig crowd
nnlou- 10 out into the street. We went out
and begun again on the Sidewalk. Tho mud
Ts asI 1' nnd an" umi HiIr Work w. nj the Way Way
across the street Sometimes would 20 down
int, the mud and sometimes h. would. At
last wi,.n We had got away over 10 the other
sidewalk | cross -hultocknd and threw him
lhre" times. one after IL" other. The last time
Tered. Then let hin. up. few days after
ward he died. | tried To run away. hut was
arrested and would hav. been sent Ia prison If
son. had not come forward and -w0re that Nor
r. had h.gun the fight One time after that
wa arr '-lr for ilShtins AMI Nunr Andrews,
the old squire. said g. M: Gardner. II YOU j
promise 70 leave Newark III l,t you ~,
promised and 80 gOt n Then | went 10 New
lulk, thinking u change my companions ana