Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-30
THg FRArps OF NEW YoRK.
A correspondent in the great city
writes as follows:

correspondent in the great city
writes as follows:
In this great Babel are thousands Who
live daily from hand to mouth, who
rise In the morning without knowing
where their breakfast is coming from,
aud who never think of dinner till
hunger dresses them at high noon. and
who trust to chance for the shelter that
covers them at night. OF this class Of
people We have nearly forty thousand.
and this vast army has to be fei and
sheltered every day. There are thous-
anos more who are sustained by our
regularly organized charlties-yorth
poor, WHO would sooner perish than beg.
Unfortunately, this is the class that suf-
fers most In our midst, for the brawi-
ing, impudent beggar can gener ally get
enough 20 carry him through the day.
A story was told last week of q
wealthy woman who had Gissarsed
nearly hundred thousand dollars in
private charity, and on a careful review
OF her good work she arrived at the
conclusion that she had been s.lndled
out of about $4,000 Of it, i hardly
think that a more profitable H.. el could
De written than one entitled tie "Ro-
nance IF BegGary." The subterfuees
resorted To TO ensure success axe both
wonderful and ingenious, aEi demon
strate very high order of talent III that
particular direction. Not long since,
an eminent clergyman, whose name is
known In every portion of the Union.
found lady waiting for him in his
studio on his return from pastoral
visit. She was fair TO look upon. and
was clad in the deepest moaruing. She
told him she was elergym ,u's daugh-
ter, whose death only a short time be-
lore. IN England. had caased quite a
profound sensation in religious circles.
She asked the clergyman if had ever
heard OF her father, which he had, of
course; IN fact, his own father, VITO
was an eminent minister. knew him
well. She told him that ON the death
OF her father she had accepted
situation as governess in the fami-
ly of an American gentleman, whom she
accompanied to The United States, but
on her arrival in New York she discoy-
cred that her new patron was an un-
principled villain who had no family,
and that she found herself friendiess,
Destitute and alone in this great city.
and she needed immediate assistance,
or, IN her desperation, she was not
quite csrtain what she might be in
auced TO do. What could he do? What
would you have done? Here was
pretty young woman, hardly 20, with
tears rolling down her cheeks like ram.
Why, he did just what every man with
. heart In his bosom would do he went
down IN his pocket and gave her twenty
collars. Would . see the daughter Of
clergyman perish in the streets, or
mayhap be picked up floating along the
docks, with coroner and twelve jury
men sitting ON her? No, sir. he was not
that kind of a minister; and, not con-
tent with giving her little pin money
for her immediate necessities, he took
her to first class boarding house, and
telling her to dry her eyes, he assured
the landlady that she was entirely q
proper person, and that he would be
personally responsible for any little
bills that the young lady might incur.
A couple of weeks rolled on and he
received another call. She had Just re-
ceived letter from London, saying
that her brother would send her draft
for 200 pounds by the next steamer,
and az she wanted to make few little
preparations for the voyage home would
he add to his previous obligations by
anticipating her London draft to the
extent Of $500? Why, of course no
would, and he did, giving her a check
on the Bank of New York for the
amount. At the end of two weeks the
lady appeared again in great distress.
The letter had miscarried, or had not
arrived {; would he go down TO the post
office and inquire The kind hearted
man soothed her and comforted her as
we'll rs he could, though it was no easy
matter,for her grief WAS uncomfortable.
Postmaster James, who is one Of the
kindest and most amiable of men, was
sensibly touched by her grief, and
promised to leave no stone unturned to
hunt up the missing draft. The
delay made necessary another
thrilling loan, and, to mako long story
short, she beguiled our reverend friend
out ct $685. altogether, and one fine
morning she turned up missing. It was
then discovered that she had fieeced an
other clergyman out of 300 more to
bury her brother, who had died on the
passage to New York, and whose body
had been brought on the steamer. From
another she had got hundred to save
her mother, who was dying of starva-
ten, and who, being the wife of a cler-
gyman, could not beg. Several others
were mulcted in sums from five ts fiftv
dollars, and this charming siren got off
with her plumber and has not been seen
since. The most ordinary caution would
have saved all these parties from being
swindled, but they did not see it to ex-
srcise it. No person died on the steamer
on which she said her brother came
over. She had no mother, nor any other
visible relative in fact, q simple in.
quiry would have revealed this trans
parent swindle. Yet they failed to dis
cover il till the bird had flown.
In front of quite respectable house
in one of our most fashionable streets
might be seen a large gilded sign,
Home for Destitute Girls" Could any
Christian, aye, or pagan man for matter
OF that, refuse to go quarter on such a
sign as that, Home for Destitute
Girls!" As / looked at the sign I
thought to myself, "What nice woman
she must be-" / wish that she might
come to the door ais was going past, 10
that l might surreptitiously slip half
dollar in her hand in aid of the desti-
tute girls; but she did not, and passed
on. One day last fall this good Samar-
itan was arrested; her harder was filled
with butter, eggs, hams, lard, coffee, red
behring's, artificial flowers, picked
pork, schvitzer kase, bologna sausage,
Hour, preserves, several gas stoves, forty
TWO pairs OF corsets, nearly eight hun.
dred yards Of calico and muslin, and
one hundred aud twenty ready made
dresses. and the only thing there was
not in the house was destitute girls.
On Friday, q one-armed veteran was
arrested near Fulton Ferry, who had re-
lieved me of sundrylnicksls, bat when
they got him to the police Office he was
found to have two most excellent arms,
and the proceeds OF his days industry
had been four dollars and sixty cents,
and 1t was not good day for one EARNED
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