Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-22
THE POOR OLD FELLOW

The EAGLE Yesterday morning had some
thing to say about destitute iuen, poor Eel
lows with no homes, ont Of work, hungry,
ragged and cold. When we drive them
from our doors we ease our consclences by
calling them .-trumrs.' But they are not
all tramps, if they are compelled to play thai
role. Our readers have not forgotten the
case of that poor despairins fellow VINO, a
few DAYS ago. being out of money, ava!
from his country, with no friends and starry
in, threw himself in front of the wheels Of
a moving train over BY the Fl. Scott depot
Only that morning he had told different
ones of his pangs and destitution, but h"
WAS "onlv ii tramp and in his despair h"
deliberately laid himself down across the
rail. closed his eyes, mayhap offered Il briei
prayer and in ii moment the cold wheels of
iron we're grinding hi quiyering tender
flesh rs his soul went out III
awful agony. Thi. was right in sight of
comfortable homes whrre enough iood l.
daily wasted t. have sustained that crying
soul ia that hour Of need, of dire Distress
despair aud death. Upon whose hands re-
mains the stain OF that poor old fellows life
blood. we can't say, but there are number
about this city who, from sheer hunger ana
cold. are daily tempted 70 seek relic! from
the knawings Of hunger and The pain IN
aict,.l bv the cold of this terrible winter, by
giving over the battle as did the poor fellow
over at the depot. "Only tramps. ii w
do Won know There came 10 one genie
rnan's door ia this city, ovtr the creakins
snow and FIRST, ~ the blacknesS Of bi-aknese
as setting in, night befor. last. AN old man,
J! form bent with yrar-, his white hair
e.. roaming about hi, soft cNcs and kindly
ace. who rp doubt had been the stay "i
some home sometime, somewhere, wher" |
lav,. r,igned and pratilin, tnEgueS blessed |
AID tins poor old man said, If he had only |
had something To eat lie Thought |
he could 60 through the awful right. lie /
had hardly taken his scat beside the IRE
when Ii Young man. "a youth, who had
hardly got away from hi- boyhood OF for
gotten b., mothers face. came alsn to the |
same door and with great pleading. h"neS' |
u,.kiug eyes. asked for something 10 eat |
Tramp" If 50, So are all the world. Bur
v hat We started ,lI, to say ws,- something i"
ia the spirit Of yesterdays article, fhe-e
men and such a. they are only cramps
brca,sc of enforced circumstances. To per
mit such mri t" -tiryc and ire"zr, i nhu- |
man. To arrest them a> vagrani- and stow
them auay in the vile cold hole called the
city callabuo-e l. Il brutal outrage. Let tn"
sur.;. sion OF yesterday be followed out
There Is the council chamber, # nowhere
els, great large warm room with a pile Of
cnal and good stove where for the
few weeks to come such a. We describe
might be permitted to gather at
night TIE co.t to the city would Le bat
triae, simply an extra policeman to stay
there M might TO see that every thing was
conducted in decency and order. Now,
whilr the EAGLE has pulled hard for tn"
success of last nights effort in behalf OF
women and children, it desires, 1t is bound.
10 extend is helping wings to the poor un-
lucky fellows who have been caught by this
terrible winter out Of moucy and when no
work is 10 be found. Snail we have pub
lie meeting, or viii the city council by a
simple resolution conclude the whole mat
ter