The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-11
BEGGING OF RICH MEN.
A LITTLE GIRL Asks RUSSELL
SAGE FOR A Jew EYE.

She Tells a Pathetic Story How Her
Rrother Put Her Eye Out, and Mr..
Saoa and Friends Sent Money for a
Glass One.
From, the Men York sun.
Thare isn't man n Wall street of any
distinction whose daily mail does not con-
tain appeals for money. For that matter
,oost rich men in New York, particularly
+nosa whose names are familiar in other
cities and towns, receive many letters from
,,aonIe asking help other on the ground of
general poverty orfor some specific pur-
nose But Wall street men are the partic-
Mar stars that shin, so attractively to the
burdened ones Mr.. Jay Gould, Cyrus
w Field, Russell Sage, the Hon. Stephen
Van Cullen White, Henry Clews, Commo-
dore Arthur Edggton Bateman, Mr. J.
Pierpont Morgan, DIR. H. Victor Newcomb
and others in the gieat Wall street coterie
whose names frequently appear in the news
papers in this and other cities, receive the
most letters. Their is apparently halo of
gold about them that is singularly attrac-
tive to the poor as veil as to some with pet
schemes that few hundreds would float to
untold stores of Treasure.
A letter sent the other day to Russell
Sage is about the most curious that has
been received either by him or any rich
man hereabouts in many a day. 1t was
sent from Schoolcr,ft, Mich, and signed by
May Hoyt. There IS pathos about it that
touched all who read it. 1t commences
with Dear Mr.. Sage" and says:
"Mama was reading in the Chicago Tn
bune yesterday about you, and that you had
lots of money, and | thought | would tell
YOU what happened to me once. On July
4, 1886, just before dark, | was playing with
my brother; he is two younger years.
Years the way it happened that
Walter had a little hoe rake, and the
rake tines stuck up, and as | was
bending over and was just going to strike
he raised up and hit me in the eye, and
make me blind in that eye and mama took
me in and la d me on to the bed, and she
kept bathing it with cold water all the time
until the doctor came, and the doctor told
her to kept cold cloths on it all the time for
days and DAYS. 1t is nearly two years now,
and last summer | was sick and we had
to pay the doctor $25, and / was sick
nearly all summer. Then when l COMMENCED
getting better, my eyes comenced
trobleing me, and every time | would
look up at the lite it would hurt
my eyes, and we went to The doctor and he
said my poor eye would have to be taken
out or | would be blind in both eyes. Then
mama took me up to the Battle Creek SAM
tarium, and Dr. Kellogg took me into
dark room and lit a lite Then he took
something in hi1 hand and shined it into
my eyes he trok mama into another room
and did not know what he said the next
day mama told me that they were going to
have me take some medicine and | went
into room and layed down on a table, and
they gave me something that made me feel
very funny and they took ont my eye and
did not know it until it was all done with,
and had to lay in bed with bandig and had
to lay there for or days and it makes
me look very bad without anything over it.
so | have to keep it covered up all the time.
| want a glass eye awful well, and we
haven't got the money | thought when
mama read the piece about your having SO
much money that maybe that you would
send me some of it to get me glass eye
with. Dr. that is DR.. Kellogg wrote to
mama that theeye would be S15. | have a
picture of me and my brother a picture of
me before had my hurt may be | will
send it to you have lived here ever since
was born and everybody knows me, l am
9yoars old | shall go the post office every
day to see if l can get any letter from you"
Mr.. Sage receives many letters asking for
money. To open them has become part of
his daily duties. They all find snug rest
ing place in his capaclous waste basket, if
for no other reason than the one mentioned
by Mr.. JAY Gould when he remarked the
other day that Mr. Sages money doesn't
run as swiftly or as easily as the falls at
Niagara. The letter, however, in the
cramped, childish hand, and expressing so
ingeniously the womanly desire to look well,
attracted his notice Enclosed in the letter
was the photograph of pretty child, with
two tender-loOking eyes.
Mr.. Sage, however, has received many
pleading letters, and while he was disposed
to be generous, he still thought he ought to
know if little May Hoyt's story was true.
His private secretary, Mr.. John Ernest Nc
Cam, wrote to E. Beardsley, Baptist min
User at SchOolcraft Mr.. Beardsley replied
that little Nays story relative to the loss of
her eye was strictly true. Mr.. Beardsley
ended by giving New York references as to
his own standing. Mr. Sage then took out
his big wallet, dropped $40 into Mr.. Nc
Cams hand, Mr.. Mccain added IS, Col.
Hahn, of the Elevated roads, So, and d
writer for New York newspaper swelled
the amount to $50 1t was promptly for
warded by Mr.. Mccain, with request for
picture of the child without her new eye,
and last week Mr.. Mccain received this
letter from the little girl:
Mr.. Jonny Mccain: My FRIEND re-
celved your very kind letter and | was
glad to here from you. But will tell you
hate to have my picture taken with my
eye out awful bad. | can't bear to look at
myself in that way, l always keep 1t COW
cred up hut mama says / may have it taken
II want to, and | guess | will, because if
can get glass eye | can yet have another
picture taken when get my glass eye and
send it to you, SO you can see how | look
with both eyes in. To-day is Wednesday
and have been and had my picture taken
| guess you will think it looks awful bad
but you see l didn't like to have you think
had told rong story about my eye being
taken out. This is the first time that | ever
asked any one to give me any money but
need it so bad and the DR. who took my eye
out says my glass eye ought to be put in
now. | thank you and Mr.. Sage very
much. Well, hope you will write to me
when you get this letter"
Mr. Mccain sent back this assurance:
THE first picture is the very prettiest
little girl | ever saw. But you are pretty
yet and you always will be, | know"
A second letter from the child said that
She had received the money and wanted to
thank Mr.. McCann land all them mem
who put her liz the way of getting "a new
glass eye"
A NIGHT WITH DICKENS.