The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-05-29


is briefly told. The attempt to get a
railroad on Broadway Is not new; vari-
Gus parties have been trying for years to
do what Jacob Sharp did. 1t required
some nerve TO take a million of dollars
and divide II among parcel of rascals,
every one of whom was a fit candidate
for the penitcntiary. From present in
dications Billy Moloney, the leading
clerk of the Board of Alderman, was
the man selected to divide the plumber.
He appears to have occupied the same
position to the present Council that
Billy Watson did to the Tweed ring, and
there is but little doubt that in the
general division of the spoil, Billy bagged
at least S2O0,0O0. Certain it is that he
caught the first key note of danger, and
he put the boundry line of the British
possessions between himself and the
prosecuting attorney of the city of New
York. 1t looks as if official rottenness
had honeycombed every department of
our city government, and we know not
where it will end. For months Sheriff
Dawson has been fugitive from justice,
and there is little doubt that if he
could be reached by any known legal
process. he would end his days in States
Prison.
Last week the late Sheriff of our sister
city, Brooklyn, was arrested for grand
larceny while wandering about the
streets a demented tramp. While he
was Sheriff two years ago he suddenly
disappeared, and the next thing that was
heard of him he was wandering about
Europe. There were rumors of irregu-
larities in his office, but his friends
covered them up and they said he had
merely gone abroad for his health. His
Office was turned over to his deputy,
and after many months he appeared
again Brooklyn, but TO all intents and
purposes physical wreck-dissipaton
had done its work-and he disappeared
again on learning that he was about to
be indicted. For several months past e
was concealed in Connecticut, but to tie
astonishment of everybody he arriv,
i'll Brooklyn early last week; his mind
shattered, homeless, friendless, ruined.
Yet, for three years he held the office of
Sheriff of Kings County, and living at
the rate $4,000 year he could have
retired worth a clear 100000. Rum
ruined him, and there ends my story,
for he is now in the Inebriate Asylum,
but it is doubtful if he ever leaves it
alive.
Some months ago when BARLEY Camp
bell leased the Fourteenth street theatre,
those who have attentively read my
letters will recollect that prognosticated
ately verified. 1t reads like romance
A few years ago he was cheap reporter
on newspaper in Pittsburg. He had
a mania for play writing but nobody
wanted his plays. He drifted from place
to place getting starvation wages, and
finally reached New Orleans; there
things went from bad to worse, and at
one time he hardly knew where to get
his breakfast. Then matters took a
turn, and in two years from the time
that lie was on the verge of starvation
he was one of the most successful
dramatic authors in the United States,
with an income of $10,0 or $780, 900 q
year. The poor Bohemian launched OFT
into the incipient millionaire, and large
as his income was it was a mere
bagatclle to the millions he was going
to make. Actors and managers bid for
his PLAYS, and a drama that he could
dash off in week brought thousands
cash down; and royalties representing
thousands more. Here is successful
man if ever there was one. Men looked
on with envy, and women courted the
acquaintance of the great author, who
had only to write them piece and the
road to fortune was clear. That is al
changed now; the lights are ont, the
theatre is empty, and the applause ot
the multitude has died away, and the
dranatist's mind is hopeless ruin. Ii
the mad ward at Bellevue Hospital {
drivelng idiot is all that remains of this
| onoa s,ooasef,,l aptIor n n,bOsa 4 ran,o a,
thousands have wept and laughed, and
from the proceeds of which hundreds
have coined fortunes. If you live in thu
country don't envy any man in city
no matter what his station or his ap
parent success, for behind the mos
brilliant and alluring lives is the hanC
of Fate, and when that strikes, envy /
you will.
It would be instructive to the woman
who is constantly bemoaning her fate
her hard lot and opportunity, to com,
to New York and see what woman i
doing. As you pass along the stree
you are irrestibly attracted to the shoI
windows by the beautiful things will
which they are filled. In those wonder
full creations the hand of woman is seel
everywhere; she is slowly but surel
working her way into every department
+ of labor and art, and earning honest in
= dependence thereby. BY patient worl
r she is living down the prejudice of ages
She stands at the printers case besid
2 her stalwart brother, OT she writes tn
: leader which shakes the foundations O
. the government. In thevarious depart
4 ments of art she enters the list wit
f, Fate, and snatches the golden prize
| from the hand Of Destiny. The progres
5 of woman in the fine arts for the pas
f few years has been marvellous. W
: have dozens of young women in thi
a city who have struggled for their al
+ education, who have never been able I