Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-11
Two Washington WrecIzs.
An Ex-Delegate Who Keeps a Low City 'sDive,'' and An Ex- Senator Who is a Gambling Tramp.

''Dive,' and An Ex- Senator Who is q
 Gambling Tramp.
 III. J. R., in Philadelphia Tin,es.I
 One name among the list of Territorial Del
 egates I will not mention. He was in the
 House for four years, and from the time he
 entered it until the expiration of his second term he was greatly respected. He was an
 exceptionally able man, Q thinker, logician and brilliant speaker. He was college-bred
 had spent years i'll foreign travel, was a law
 yer and had been in many responsible official
 positions. He had been in the Legislature of one of the Western States, had been Re- ceiver of Public Moneys and Surveyor -Gener- al While in Congress he lectured before church and scientific societies here and no man ln Congress was more generally respect ed. Would the reader like to know where this man Is now He Is still in Washington and about as low in the human scale as it is possible for man to be. He first became the victim of gambler, who was himself at one time distinguished member of Con- gress from great Western State. Together they carried on what they called private club rooms, and there they fieeced their victims as they could catch them. They were frequent ly raided by the police, but they managed to get off but they sunk lower and lower each year, until finally they got to the lowest game of ''policy." The ex-Congressman from a Western State died few years ago. The Delegate IS now keeping one of the lowest dives in the city. His place is ostensibly a cigar store but thin partition separates 1t from bagnio of the lowest character. The man faunts his shame in the broad glare of day and may be seen at almost any time sit- ting in front of his disgraceful abode in his shirt-sleeves, brazenly facing people who knew him in his better days.
 Here is another case that almost makes one lose faith ln human nature. In 1914 there graduated from Harvard University young man of wonderful promise. He was twenty ,oIl T | l | and promising before him. He was believe, for time a teacher in Harvard and subse- quently he founded very successful school in Massachusetts. Some time afterwards he went South as principal of a State normal school The war coming on he driven from the State and came North. At the close of the war he went back to the Southern State as Collector of Internal Revenue. When the State was reconstructed he was elected to the United States Senate and served with dis tinction for six years. He was chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor and mem Der of the Appropriations and other im- portant committees. He was very strong and pleasing speaker and stood high among his colleagues. After his term expired he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and was at times Acting Secretary. It was here that he fell. He was courted and fattered and used. Wine, cards and women did their part to accomplish his fall. There were some very crooked transactions while he was in office, and some way or other the Assistant Secretary lost his office and landed in jail. He was speedily got out, however, but he became wretchedly poor and got to borrowing 90 cent pieces of his old friends. It was pitiful sight to see him about and know what he had been. Finally somebody had him appointed to S1, 200 clerkship Che wrote beautiful hand and it was thought that he might pick up and recover; but he didn't He had got passion for gambling, and whenever he could obtain any money he sought the tiger and of course lost it, and soon he lost his little clerkship. I understand he now borrows Q dollar or two wherever he can and goes into the lowest places and plays until it is gone. If he has no money, which is nearly always the case he will sit where the game is going on and keep the score for the low wretches that infest the dives he wis it's He once had charming family of boys and girls, but the Lord only knows where they are now. If there is anything stranger or more revolting than this in fiction I have never come across it.