New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-23
GLIMPSES OF CITY LIFE.
REPORTED AMONG THE MiSSiN"'
THE RECORD OF THU LOST


.~,, ruors.xp CASES YEARLy-rHosE WHO ARE
rouNp AND THE FEW THAT NEVER Hsi'n.'
al want TO find my husband saiu "'''o
a., 4, owed woman 10 Captain Webb al fouce he"'I""
,.r one night recently. lie has oeen mSs,nS i' WV
-, He never went away like this before
- lao Get dr,nkf" asked the Captain IN sterectypeo
form. st, ,rrovcr
roes away ON drunk. know he must be crazy ~ ""''
left me in this way. think he mns' nave l"' %,
stroke last summer and the effect Is just pegnh"s "
drunk madam. depend upon it, and Captain webb
shcok his head. -, g.,
son, no II can't be- for when he is drank Tor
one sy he is so sick three days that however leaves
home. must have n general alarm scn' '" ,,..,.
When her request had been complied Win 'he "'''.
.,nan went away. satisfied that her absent husband
would be found in short order
Now that fellows probably went OIL on ochucr "',
was taken In aud given thirty days IN wheh W coo y"
on the Island" SAID the Captain to tho reporter
seauencc is the polise Knowing this when 'heS Ee '
alarm nay no attention 10 it. They thnk; some iu'n
:. an a drunk. I shan't worry; and so nobody
over GETS found by the police when he is really MISSING
Three or four general alarms are read 10 inc P"VV'
men every time they turn out They get 10 uSeu u "o
ing them that the goes In one ear ana ooos '' "
the other" ard the captain rcsumed HIS "Po WV" WIS
gustcd look .,. o,
600 eonlc are annually recorded as missing rom thei'
ho,ss FOR a rerioi OF a week more or this numbel
fully 900 turn up home all right Two weeks 'or
person is reported missing printed oahA y 7"' "
.he CAPTAIN OF precinct in which ne lives Inc c"so
r rare I'm which the blank is not returned to head
quarters Endorsed by the captain, saie ana Soun''
with marginal note giving the reason Oh 'c "o'coo
These reasons are manifold usually it Is Been OH Oh
drunk" ,,...a,
Bat drunkenness is not always the cause l" '"' s'
boiy OF missing people there are maidcns OF 'enul az
,r,dos creams old men, women and children when
yonnc women sixteen or ncighborhS years " way
variness are absent without leave from home inc
tves feel their better natures appealed to and they
quickly find them out. Probably they arc loulu '"NS
the first step downward on the boards OF variety
stage II a young woman faaeies she possesses nno
.nrosenre or voice sue to lie seized with de-
sre for the stage aud the gainor that attehus H.
haps az ocnes the case, the missing srs nave iou'
,ower epth STILL but EXP orences OF the police ue-
tecyes have shown them that In the case OF the stage
s,rlck maiden as in that OF her fallen sister, Tue NOME
che has once left the same home 10 her AFTER
war, When found by the detectives and restored to
their grieved parents. they generally remain only uh
a, opuortunty is furnished for fresh cscapade Inc
aa ot the police Is again sought, but when taken nome
the second time IL she again escapes, the parents are al
yised that she is rt claable and beyond the province
of the police On the few occasions wheh prospective
brides are repored as conspicuous by their absence at
around for missing male friend OF the bride; So wheh
wife eparts aud leaves her husband to take care OF her
babies soncother wife is pretty sure to call on the ponce
10 aid in her search for a runaway husband
sergeant" said big. stout black woman at Head
quarters night last week. want you 10 ma MY oe
How long he been gone T. asked Sergeant Rob
Sir months he has left me-. said the forlorn negress
whose wool has yet been whened py the ir,ss OF
nifty winters lie is in Philadelphia Boston batnore
or Cleveand,-I don't know which. Won't You ma MN
for me T. departed consoled with Tie thought th"'
r., hetrnthed would lie found.
one class OF absenees from honl" are the natq g
youths Of from eight to nteen years VINO 20 ny '
The whoopng praires TO devote their tacnts 10 ,n9 A
biaratiug ia OF scaping Indians Close sudy VI
dune noSes n or the horignes has
prevented by the capture OF these youthful
mia were short funds and came home voluntarily TO
secure a meal Usually these hunters are not piItic-
lar hut will take square, Ooagona, RECTANGULAR rhOI-
hoda or any other kind of meal sometimes young men
whose are entered on these l"ico Ie.oitS ne
enlisted III the army whence they 90 not Sct odch 10
their friends easily and Others 90 10 SEA Inc history
Of some sadder aud often Is not lcarnei Tor years.
several wears aga a merchant OF Great seek, Long
Island disappeared suddenly After mary years ne was
discovercl-the inmate OF an insane asylum III 'aoi
MA sudden and uncomfortable impulses arising from
disordered y stems seize upon ieh, oItoh cdun
Ing them To secrete thenseiN es from their friends
LAWYER of this city going along broadway elt so
strong impulse To leave the sur ana iuhut Oh .ho cry
that wandered over To jersey 'lt} ana sot on tI'n
Three DAYS aiterwafd, when ne hWOkc 10 Tue lulI pos
OF his senses Il" wnS III n"ol "a il 'T
Meantime ms family we're nearly ulsi"oleu ~ 'ho'I oIo
cant hrownstone mansion III roohSh over ms absentee
nterNurk the cause OF many Oh tiuso cCcthtllC
aud temporary disappearance. ,..,-
ef,en leads laying bare somo iamly history some
skeleton In the closet that has been hhioh Tor Years
Ius,nitv haitna drunkenness, NicouHheas ahd hcfru
,rx idocy All are brought thus into tue glare al pu-
ueiy grandson Of LAWS t,aa Disappeared rom lhlH
.ltv moi long ago When ho found Ia an out al the
v,y Lawn of Ncw-Jcrsry not long attrrMar, ms sur
prsed friends Tor the lihl tlnc learned 81 We ""l
Weakness Iauk clerks, trusted employees, hpnhho'F'lh
and pefHnus who handle the funds oi uhnih disappear
tlrr ulrht Rrnly In traced 10 ilihlh uf In'n'
Following the pubAho accounts al their disappearance
comes tho scucA story OF broken trnpt "nd hq'nd''od
fundp. . ~, -, . , -. ...,.
of Tho other QUO tcntlthc proportion of tlono VINO
never tutn up aud whose nnes arc mover cNo'hod on M
olipU II tluitclt- the late can c l'ld ~
lie oup iat of unhnOwn dead whu found floating M
The In the nanged aud liable beings WI"
nr. run over by railroad trains IN the suburb" 81 INC
great CITY and he dead Who die ~ the streets aDh al"r
n bref soourn IN the Mprguc hnd u hniylhg ground ~
tie potfri's Field where the Unknown anu unhonprcl
dead rr buried In tiers around hcu some o them nave
wandered immense distances TO die one instance
On Is that of q wine merchant OF TINS cry, whose
nn,pc was checked on Amer hr had been missing Tor
fVe wears his beached bones were found IN canon III
the inouDtaiuH OF New-Mcxco. There ~ an OLD woman
An this who year inserts an advertisement
asking ion Information OF her lie left his nome up
town forty wears ago to store IN Beavcr-st where
he was employed a. clerk The poor old mother refuses
10 give u hope supports herself 10y scrubOinS ana
tries TO be cheerful In the belief that hcr son Will some
day return. such instances arc innuineiahle The de-
scrptung preserved by the police OF these nSshg mon
are extremely imperfect Theirs Is little DOUBT mat some
Of the dismal photographs kept In the MorSue. ~ thcy
cond sneak could nnd the OF their dead Original
among the unchecked names on the list at Police Head
quarters
BEGGARS on THEIR "BEITS"