The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-05-26
BrOadbrim'S New york Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

All the week, In the hotels, on the cor
ners of the streets, at the different church
meetings, on the marts of commerce-there
where the money-changers congregate, and
in the filded palaces where the stock
gamblers play battledore and shnttlecock
with hundreds of millions, but ore topic
seemed to engross them all,-the death OF
poor Nat Hatch. No one spoke unkindly
Of him; no one rejoiced at the terrible
downfall of this Wall steet magnate.
Even the red-mouthed ruffians who are
ever ready to rejoice at a rich mans mis-
fortune, for once In their lives were silent
He was good fellow, say those who knew
him best, a thoroughly good fellow; which
means that he was kind and generous, and
a fair sample of the average Wall street
broker or man about town. Ihave watched
Wall street for many years; haye seen all
sorts of financiers and spectators go to
pieces among its rocks and treacherous
quicksands; 1 have seen dozens of bank
presidents, cashiers, paying tellers, con-
fidentiral clerks and others of like ilk, go
down to ruin year after year. Some be-
coming fugitives from justice, hunted like
wild wolves or mad dogs; Others eking out
their weary lives behind prison bars, and
still others seeking surcease from shame
and infamy with the pistol or poison; and
in the majority Of cases, when have
sifted the cause thoroughly, woman was
mixed up at the bottom of the tragedy.
New York swarms with adventuresses
and female swindlers, and unfortunately
here they find abundant material to work
on. Somehow they all gravitats towards
Wall street. There is a fascination about
Its gambling that is particularly alluring to
woman, nor does 1t seem to make much
difference about their degree or estate.
The demure New England schoolmarm,
among the green hills of New Hampshire
or Vermont. is quite as likely to take a
little flyer in Missouri Pacific or Delaware
and Lakawanna as her solid sisters who
are the Laiss Aspasias and Phrynnes of
this wicked city; with their honest and dis
honest gains they find their way to Wall
street. They all want TO discover the in
side secrets of the stock market, and they
are willing to pay price for it. They
nnd themselves among set of men OF
loose principles, lax morals and easy con-
sciences; to such co-partnership there can
be but one end-shame and death.
Mr.. Hatch's father is pious, Christian
gentleman. When the late Anson G.. Phelps
was alive, he and Mr.. Hatch might be
found FIVE night out of the seven at Jerry
Nc Cguly's mission, or at some of the
prayer meeting OF meetings for the saliva.
ton of the poor benighted heather, or the
savages beyond the mountains of the moon.
While Mr.. Hatch was laboring for the
heather his son grew up among the golden
youth of New York, with plenty of money
and boon companions, and long before he
had attained his majority Nat Hatch had
sounded all depths and shoals of dissipa
tion. His father was too busy with hi:
mission work for the heather TO look aftel
the morals of his son. Eventually Ma
Hatch married, but his crop of wild oat,
had not all been garnered, and after hi
marriage he was still rated as one of tn,
gayest of the jolly boys who was ready fo
almost anything. Strange tits. but no les
strange than true, that these sharp Wal
street men, many Of them old bldse rOues
are the easiest dupes to the designing wc
men that swarm about the street.
A weak attempt was made to cover up tn
, relationship betweed the dead broker anC
, Mrs. Schofeld. What business had
married man in the apartments of marrie'
woman at two o'clock in the morning, an,
why was her husband driven out of tn
honse to sit on neighborlng stoop Ill
: daylight till Mr.. Hatch found it conven
n lent to .eaVeP Hatch, instead of bein
home with his wife and family, had beel
in this woman's company all the afternool
and evening, and in maudlin condition
fearing detection, he leaped out of tn
window and was killed. The social shoe
+ is rude one, for few men were bette
know on the street than he.
The wretched creature who figures in thi
tragedy has romantic and unsayor
history. 1t is useless to morallzs on thes
! affairs, they have been going on since tn
dawn Of time, and will continue very mucl
in the same way till the crack of doom. Il
y this new sensation the gigantic swindlere
and desperate suicides of last week wer
: quite forgotten. Bad as the woman is tn
. conduct Of the husband fills one with loath
4 ing and disgust. A man with a spark o
Il manhood left, instead Of allowing himslf b
be driven out Of BID. own home to walk tn