The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-02-23

is cnly occasionally that she uses ther
and often the poor old woman, poor no
withstanding her millions, may be seen g
ing out on foot alone, for the servant wi
attends her follows at distance so th
you might we'll imagine her stranger. A
| said, the woman is not uncharitable, b,
the atmosphere that surrounds her max.
her charity hard and impractical. Whe
her husband, A. 7. Stewart, died, he lett
fortune estimated at $50,OOo,0GO. He tot
in his day, had had distant visions of char
ty, but the mans heart was hard as stone
The men he chose for his confdants an
companions were as hard as granite and a
cold as ice. Not one of them, and the
were all rich, had ever been identified wit
any noble work or any public charity, bu
A. L. Stewart himself started home fo
friendless girls. In this golgotha such
refuge for the poor and friendless, unabl
to help themselves, would have been al
estimable blessing. He started magnifi
cent building on Fourth avenue capable O
sheltering 1000 women, but after the build
ing was about half finished he seemed tt
repent of his generosity and the work wa.
abandoned. For years and years it looked
like an unsightly ruin. & At last death came
knocking at the door and A. I. Stewart
| was called to his account, and he left the
performance of his self-imposed task to he
completed by hissexecutor, Judge sHilton
Judge Hilton finished the home for friend
less girls, and Mrs. A. T. Stewart opened
1t with tremendous flourish of trumpets.
Fashionable New York turned out to the
opening and it was splendid.
The interior of the hotel was magnificent:
all that could be desired. Every convent
ence that any poor, friendless girl could
expect was there, and she could get it all
for $50 week. If she was too poor to pay
that, by going up a few stories there were
very nice rooms to be had for $50, and un-
der the roof were excellent accommoda-
tions for poor wretches who could only
afford to pay $12. But then there were
certain rules that had to be observed by
the poor, friendless girls, that made life
there seem like Paradise. No, friendless
girl could keep a cat, a dog, Or canary. She
was not allowed to have her trunk in her
room Or to receive any visitor-a mother or
her sister-anywhere except in the public
parlor, and under the eye of the superin
tendent. The poor, friendless girl was ex-
to1 In r,nyyt t,nu hoe -
she did not she was bundled into the street.
In short, Mrs. A. Z. Stewart and Judge
Hilton made the place SO attractive and
pleasant that in less than year it was i'm
possible to find a poor, friendless girl who
cared about sharing its hospitality. So
they shut up shop and now it is run as a
regular hotel, the great advantage of the
present management to a traveller being
that you are not obliged to carry certif-
cate of good character in your pocket, if
you have your S3 80.
Sunday last Brother Talmage went for
Herber Newton with a sharp stick, and he
gave that heterodox churchman to under
stand that he won't have any nonsense
about the Bible. It was a good old
fashioned Calvinistic sermon. He said he
did not want Bible without hell, and this
sentiment was loudly applauded, as though
the greater part of the congregation never
expected to go there. Meanwhile, all is
not peace in Mr.. Newtcn's own congrega-
ion, and a few uneasy spirits are trying to
There are all sorts of opinions as to what
le ought to do, but like the late Ferdinand
Ever he is quite as likely to follow his own
opinions as those of anybody else.
We are having a sort of moral earthquake
lere, and nothing since the conversion of !
|ohn Allen, the wickedest man in New |
York, has stirred our religious circles like /
he reported conversion of the celebrated |
Billy McGiory. Idon't wish to be profane,
nd you will bear due witness that in all the |
ears have been writing for you, that have |
tudiously avoided using hard words, but if |
yer there was a hell on earth that place
vas Billy McGlory's. More men and women
vent down to ruin and death in his Laza-
etto than any other place in New York. |
The. Aliens is bad enough; Harry Hill's is
7orse; Owney Gohegan's viIer than either,
ut the whole Of them put together were
ot as bad as Billy McGlory's, and more
oung girls were led to ruin there in week
han in all the other places in the year.
llowed to exist in the heart of large city,
mystery: but live it did, and fourished
Or years till one day last week, when Billy
fcGlory was arrested and put in the Tombs.
IAN this conversion be genuine? / don't
elieye it; I can't help thinking of the good,
Id distitch:
then the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk
would be:
Mt when the Devil got we'll the Devil monk !
was he.
Billy's wife gave Gibbs, the temperance
ause, and Gibbs promised to get Billy
ut of prison. And because Billy's wife
ave $40, Gibbs roars out in meeting, "God
less Billy McGlory." This unhung vii ]
an, whose life has been passed in making ,
rostitutes and thieves, is canonized by a
It of crazy fanatics because he gaye 80
1T of the thousands he made selling rum. {
take no stock in such conversions. I've ,
en plenty of them in New York, converted
:ize fighters, keepers of dance houses,
burglars and all sort of frauds. Y
ne by one have seen them drop by the ,
ay side when they had got through work !.
g the pious racket, and they were as ready
pick a pocket or crack safe as ever t
here is but one exception that I can now t
and that is Jerry McAuley. Yes, ,
except Jerry, God bless him, he has done
,od work. {
The musical season, which has been the {
ost remarkable that New York has seen,
hile it has gratifed our vanity, has left {
tile but bitter memories and empty pock- (
8. The cost to the people of New York r
IS been enormous, and the rivalry has :
en ruinous to the managers. They were Z
rtunate in getting fight up between the e
rectors of the Academy of Music and the i
ckers of the New Opera House. Just
ink of Patti walking off with a clear a
00, GOO every twenty nights. For fifty per- L
which could be crowded into :
uple of months, she received quarter :,
lllion of dollars-at the rate of million g
d half year. Then think of Gerster and Il
the rest of the song -birds-the bassos,
d tenors, the chorus, the orchestra, and
of that vast army of stage workers and I
sistants, with the ballet, etc., etc, and r
3 wonder is that they were able to give =
,ond performance. The Academy of =