The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-06-30
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
BROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER

The brutality of the prize-ring is favor
ite theme for the virtuous writers of the
moral press, and the barbarism of bull
fighting finds no words sufficiently strong
for it's condemnation in the English langu-
age. | have watched the priZe-ring for
forty years and have only known of two
cases where men have been killed in these
desperate encounters. One was Tom Me
Coy, who was killed at Hastings-on-the
Hudson in 1914 by Chris. Lilly, and the
other occurred few months ago when an
unfortunate printer was killed by single
blow by "Swipes the Newsboy."
Within FIVE years ever twenty deaths
haye occurred on the different race courses
of the United States in the dangerous past
time OF steeplechasing. Talk about Gladi-
ator dying to make a Roman holiday!
Those young riders, most of them mere
boys, all mangled and bleeding. are borne
from the course in the presence of thous-
ands and laid ON the straw at the back of
the stables to die, and the next race is
called and the mad whrl of excitement
sweeps on, as though the inhuman sacri-
, fee was of a brute and not man made in
the image of God. This week adds three
TO the death-roll, and it is only few weeks
! ago since recorded a similar sacrifice at
, Jerome Park. At last the public seems
fully alive to the heartless butchery and
danger of the sport, and we hope that the
g present season will put an end to it in the
. United States. In paper hunt at Wash
! ngton fashionable snob, who was amen
Der of one the foreign legations, put his
0 shoulder out of Joint and nearly broke hi'
e neck. He, no wever, was riding for fun
. . he was not trying to make living like th'
unfortunate jockies WHO were killed. Still
it only shows the danger of the cruel sport
even when practiced by fashionable fools.
Brooklyn still remains fine field TO
missionary labor No need to go to tn
Feejees or the Congo. Last week Ger
# man woman named Knoll and a brute b.
e the name of Collyer were arrested for
t, crime which fortunately has no parallel il
l. this country. Mrs. Knoll is a widow witt
, three children, girls, aged five, seven an
D eleven. Collyer boarded with her, and sh
'e gave him the eleven-year old girl for hi
,e wife in consideration of his getting til
Te other two children into the Sheterin
Sc Arms By means of an air-shaft that ra
u through the house the neighbors becam
, aware of the inhuman bargain, and tn
he mother and her paramour were arrested
al The children were taken care of by tn
N Society for the Prevention of Cruelty t
to Children, and let us hope that the inhuma
ry monsters who were parties to this iniqu
Of Gus bargain will receive their just desert:
d Five thousand Excise cases pigeon-hole
u in the Office of the District Attorne,
u. What for? you ask. Veil, you see, thereb
hangs tale. Every man in New Yor
n who keeps . whiskey-mill is a potent factC
rs in our city politics. Lay this down as a
be axiom. That one first-class saloon is wort
IS, politically, the influence of dozen ehurcl
"a es. When the election takes place they
nd their work, and when it is oyer they clai
y. their reward. Fatty Walsh, with the Tecol
nd of a gambler and saloon-keepeT, gets
IN be an Alderman, and finally becomes Il
he keeper Of our principal prison, and be he
'e- the place against all comers and against q