The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-02-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER

OUR NEW YORK LETTER
OPEN HANDS FOR VANISHED IRELAND.-
WHAT ST. PATRICK's FOLLOWERS MEAN
TO Do.-swATHES CUT BY THE sCYTHE
OF TINE.
One hundred thousand dollars in one
donation for sweet charity is present,
that princes are lot in the habit Of
making. This is the gift of James |
Gordon Bennett, of the New York |
Herald, to the furnishing peasantry of |
Ireland, to say nothing of the surren-
der for weeks of columns upon columns |
of the most valuable space in his two |
papers to advertise in the most effect |
i've manner every effort i'm tie cause.
1t is not the first time Mr.. Bennett has
put his hand -unostentatiously in his
pocket in a way to eclipse the deeds of
men widely famed as philanthropists.
When the panic broke out in 1873, he
promptly met the situation, headed a
subscription list with $50, 900 and start
ed his reporters out all over the city to
report on destitution generally, and
particularly with the desired effect of
stirring up the benevolent to practical
methods of relief. He is thought of by
many people as careless man of the
world, given to yachting, polo and
fashionable festivitles of all kinds, to
perhaps an undue degree, but the man
who found the man to find Livingstone,
who organized the Arctic expedition,
who explored Cuba by proxy during
the bitterest times of the raging rebel
lion there has as much brains as mod
esty. Perhaps he could not have
founded the Herald, but it Is q ques-
ton whether even his father could have
conducted it better along the peculiar
course it has followed since its founda.
ton. -. .-...- ..... ............r
| Charles C. Waite, founder of the
Brevoort House, a hotel much patron
ized by visiting Euglishmeii, who also
held a large interest in the.magnificent
Windsor Hotel, is dead. He was, al
though by no means a politicians a prom
inent member of the Union League
Club and of sevcra! very stony" and
scientific societies, and will be
missed. Another celebrity of retir.
ing disposition has passed away at the
ripe age of so years, namely, the genial
William Cooper, brother to good old
DR.. Peter Cooper, an ! scarcely second
, to him in tie performance of good
deeds. He was a very wealthy man
and connected with many of our mos
influential financial instution s, beside.
developing a taste for gentlemanly
sports which he kept up to the last
He was gooi judge Of a fine horse
aud Commodore OF the Atlantic Ysci
. Club for another thing, where was
introduced to him three years ago, and
got warmly trounced at billiards by
the ye'eran. He was born in a farm
house which stool within few feet o.
the Office am writing this letter in.
An agitation Is going on among the
4 Irish Societies which will probably re.
suit in the omission this year of the IA
nous St. Patrick's Day parade ant
sending the money which 1t woult
have cost to the suffering poor of Ire
land. 1t is thought better not t
drown the shamrock" in the custom :
airy way, with whiskey, while ir Il
now drowned in It's native land will
tears. With all their fault, the Ii b
!, are warm-heartc AMI charity is ;
passion with them. If the para'l,
were omittci hencef,rward aud for
ever, and the .. ange celebration oi
July 18th rs we'll, people general.
, would be better pl'a-ed. We shal
miss but not regret the wondrCus hat
of the proces,ionis
, i read the other day In the American
Exporter letter from Australia, re
porting the remarkable success attend
: ing the Waltham watches at the Sgd
, ney Exposition, recalling the sensation
among foreigners about them ut on
= Centennial. Their popularity her
seems to be daily on the increase w.tl
niue out of ten intelligent people.
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