National Republican., 1883-10-15
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
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Small Talk About Men ana Measures


Small Talk About Men ana Measures.
81 sec, said the railroad man, that Will
lam II. Vanderbilt said TO an interviewer last
Saturday that William X. wasn't in any
trouble that he knew of, and that ho had
neither asked for either money or advice
l guess this is so, too for neither of the two
boys have ever shown any weak spots that
know Of and both have made lots of money
on their own account. Cornelius, You know,
got $5,0O0,0OO from his grandfather the old
commodore because he was named after him.
William X. didn't get near so much, but he
has been sharp enough to make living with
what he got, and save II fcw millions
beside. He's keen one, is William X. !
know of one trick of his that surprised them
all, and his father, William H., as much as
anybody. The old man had been bearing
Western Uniou-this was before Gould got
control of it-and had sold the stock way
down till pretty nearly everybody had got
frozen out, or so afraid of 1t they didn't caro-
to bother with it very MUCH. Finally one
morning, thinking no had got 1t low enough,
no telegraphed his broker to buy 25000
shares, if ho could do it without
causing too sharp rise. The broker
telegraphed back Immediately, asking if
he should buy the twenty-five thousand in
addition to what William X. bought yester-
day? How much did William X. buy
yesterdayg inquired William H.? Thirty
thousand shares was tho reply. William X,
had simply kept watch of things and got in
u day ahead of tho old man. That was all.
No, don't think he noeds to ask for either
money or advice"
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| A gentleman, who is moved by the afIlic-
tions of tho herdic and street car horses, sug-
gcsts that the ladies get up great fair for the
| benefit of the Humane society. He thinks
that fair would result in the amelioration
| of the condition of the over worked and
under paid equine servants of the cheap
transportation companies of the district.
An asylum for spperannuated plugs would be
u good thing for philanthropic souls with
| nothing else to think about. This desire to
relieve distressed car horses is very commend
| able, inasmuch as there is no more human
| suffering TO demand attention.
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| Speaking of human suffering recalls scenes
that can be witnessed any day in the
warm season. in the tenement house
district of New York. Descriptions
that have been given of these scenes
can never approach the reality" said the
Bohemian. II have walked along avenue A
and some of tho contiguous streets in the
tenement district many timo, when | have
been obliged to pick my way very care
fully to avoid stepping on the sleep
ing forms that literally paved tho thorouh-
fares. | had heard that the population
of this quarter slept i'll the streets, but l never
believed it until 1 saw for myself One after
noon l started up avenue A Just as the sun
was going down, and as darkness began to
settle upon the city thousands of men, women,
and children poured out of the forbidding,
squalid tenements and settled themselves for
sumber. They lay stretched out on the side
| walks and in tho streets until the ground
| was black with human forms. They brought
| pillows, bundles of old rags, and covering of
! every description from their wretched
quarters, and threw themselves down
upon the first unoccupied spot they
could find, everybody mixing in indscrm-
mate heaps and groups. No horses or wagons
venture through those streets after sundown
in tho summer time Thousands upon thou
doomed by cruel fate to a living death in
! the tenement houses sleep out in open air
in this way every clear night. In the winter
4 and when it rains they swarm into the
I'wretched buildings they call home there to
breath the poisoned atmosphere and sleep
like cattle crowded together in stock cars. The
offspring of the poor who inhabit the tenc-
mont district grow up vicious in mind and
stunted in body, bound in the course of
nature to transmit their mental and physical
infrmities to their progeny, and thus fur
nish a perpetual supply of vagrants and
criminals for all time. The money that is
spent in maintaining an army of missionaries
in pagan lands might, / have often
thought, be applied at home, in improving
tho condition of the poor in some Of our larger
cities to visible advantage Possibly, how
ever, / have not the broad ideas of Christian
philanthropy that move the people who have
control of church charities and missionary
funds. If had, perhaps my ideas would
undergo change"
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A San Francisco newspaper man writes con-
cerning the Chinese in that city:
"Signs have been posted about tho streets
by the Chinese six Companies offering a
reward of $40 for the arrest and conviction of
any white person committing an assault upon
Chinese According to Chinese reports cases
of battery and maltreatment by hoodlums' are
increasing, and the Six Companies are de-
termined to put an end to them. 1t is need-
less to say that the reputable portion of the
people deploro the stone throwing and other
maltreatment of the Chinese, but the
police, who as rulo are Irishmen,
never see the flagrant cases of abuse OF