The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-24
ro POUR GOLD AT THEIR FEET.
He Deserted His Family Thirty Six
Years Ago but Returns Now hich.

He DcSGIJSO lib oL4Ny ILL JS OLA
Years Ago but Returns Now ttich.
From the Ne,o York World.
James NJ New, who disappeared from
Greenpoint over thirty-six years ago. leav-
ing wife and five young children in desti-
tnfe circumstances, returned to his former
home Saturday. He is now wealthy cat
lie raiser in Montana Territory, and is
anxious that his wealth should pave the
wav to a reconciliation with his family.
II IS42 James II. New and his newly
,,,arfied wifi. came from one of the agricul-
tural counties of England and settled in the
xiiIgge # reeupoint. They were possessed
of enough rea " money to enable the hus
hand to provide comfortably for their
imsehold, and be had a national fondness
Tor horses and made money by trading in
them. New saw that profit was to be
'toi,,cd by n stage line from Greenpoint,
fbrougn Bedford Village to Fulton
Ferry. then the chief means of communi-
cot,ou between Brooklyn and New York.
TIE enterprise was successful from the
tart but earlyin 1852 the town was shocked
Nv the disappearance Of New, whose bust
,,ees affairs were found to be so tangled that
il was at first surnlised that those troubles
had affected his mind. Gossip, however,
,o1n began to couple his name with that of
q Young married woman who deserted sew
oral small children about the same time.
This story, however, was set at rest by the
,eanpearance some months afterward of
the missing woman, who resumed her place
in her family
Mrs. New was confronted with the bitter
necessity of providing for five children, and
row there are no more highly respected
citizens in Greenpoint and Hunters Point
than James NJ, Albert L., and Levi New,
her three sons. By thrift and industry
they have become prosperous merchants.
are married and the heads of families and
their prosperity brought the faithful
mother the rest and comfort size 80 richly
deserved.
After so many years of absence and
silence the father had become little more
than a rather unpleasant memory, when
about month ago letters came to each of
the sons from one who signed himself their
father. The writer declared that he knew
not whether they were yet alive, but ad-
dressed them at their old home in the hope
they might still be there Filial affection
overcame any bitter recollections, and re-
sronses were sent. To these more ex-
tended reply has been received in which the
now aged man pleads what he can In extern
nation of his course.
It seems that when business affairs got
beyond News control his pride revolted at
facing his creditors. The gold fever was
then at its hight, and in his mental depres-
sion he shipped for California, hoping to
restore his fortunes speedily, and either re-
turn to his family or have them rejoin him
elsewhere Then began his own bitter
struggles. Every effort and enterprise re-
suited in abject failure. Conceiving that
money alone could atone for his desertion he
postponed communicating with his family
from time to time, still hoping for the
better fortune which did not come. AS the
years went by it became all the harder to
write and confess his prolonged inability to
perform his part as husband and father.
After all his mining ventures had come to
naught, the adaptability of the Montana
valleys and plains for stock raising opened
I'D a new field of enterprise for which his
E glish training had peculiarly fitted him.
There again unfavorable winters postponed
the fruition of his hopes for years, and it
was only recently that his good fortune
passed the mark which he had set as prob
ably sufficient to atone for his many years
of cruel neglect.
The coolest welcome New received was,
however, that of the woman he forsook so
heartlessly, and who has performed the
task he imposed on her SO nobly that his
money will not obliterate the recollecUions
of her bitter struggles with poverty. Still
as there is no Philip Lee in the case time
NAV reconcile the long suffering woman to
this nineteenth century Enoch Arden, and
fan into life the smouldering embers of
love