The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-02-18
BrOadbrim'S New york Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

Special to the CARBON Advocate.
The case Of General Cutting to which /
alluded few weeks ago came up on appeal
this week before the Union Club. General
Cutting is one Of its oldest members; he re-
presents the most exclusive circle Of what
in New York we term-Society. The
Union Club was the central point of his ex-
istence; for over twenty years he ate and
drank there, and lounged and smoked, and
learned the current club news, and shared
tho small gossip Of his fellow members.
The Union Club is very close corpora
tion. Founded early In the war, It was,
as Its name indicates, a club for the support
of the Union, and while men of various re-
ligious and different political beliefs are
found among its members, 1t is eminently
Christian and distinctivsly Republican.
Its membership is confined to one thousand,
and as few die and none resign, there is
only a remote chance in the distant future
for the six or seven hundred who are
knocking at the back door waiting for a
chance to get In. All of the members have
friends among the applicants, and as the
only chance Of getting them in is by death,
or knocking somebody out, General Cutting
offered an admirable opportunity. He had
sequestersd six hundred and ten thousand
dollars of his fathers estate, and a large
amount Of the money taken belonged to
the orphans of his dead brother. Jndge
Noah Davis, an old and impartial jurist,
pronounces it one of the very worst cases
that he ever heard of, and he cams to the
conclusion that any man who would be
guilty of such dastardly dishonesty was an
unfit person to associate with gentlemen.
General Cutting contends that the club has
no right to investigate his private business,
and In as much as sttlement was made,
satisfactory to the parties concerned
whether he took six dollars or six hundred
thousand, 1t is none of the clubs business.
| Expulsion from this famous aristocratiC
association, means civil and political
damnation-a man kicked out of its sacred
portals could never againg hold his head
up in New York. General Cutting knows
this. Once his name is stricken from the
roll, its doors are barred against him, and
from that time forth every Union Club
man regards him as heather and publ.
can. No wonder that he makes fight
and breads the tremendous penalty. One
member of the governing committee being
spoken to some time ago said, Phoo, phoo
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small matters. Another speaks Of ii as
misappropriation. What is stealing but 9
misappropriation? This week youns
man was sent to the penitentiary for the
money for an Insurance Company, ant
failed to turn it in. The court and th,
jury called 1t stealing and punished hin
accordingly. No member Of the Unior
Club would affiliate with him; yet vol
would have to multiply 275 by 5000 to fine
out the difference between him and Gener
al Cutting.
The governing committee wished to Civ,
him the opportunity to quietly resign anC
hide his shame; he did not see fit to aYai
himself of their lenient consideration, s,
the only way left to get rid of him was Il
kick him out. The Union Club is right;
man who incorporates between a hal
and three-ouarters Of million OF dollars
belonging to the widow and orphans of hi
dead brother, is not fit companion TO
gentlemen; the companionship that h
| md nial tafx
locked up behind stone walls and iron bars
That General Cutting is not suffering tn
penalty of his offence to-day he may thanl
the powerful friends and lenient relation
who compounded one of the graves
offences known to the law.
That admirable gentleman and genuine
} philanthropist Elbridge Gerry, the presiden
Of the Society for the prevention of cruelt,
to children, and also commodore. OF tn,
J New York Yacht Club, has been lookin,
after the physical welfare of Little Jose
} Hoffman, the wonderful musical prodigy
whose marvellous performances on th
piano have completely captured New York
Nobody doubts Mr.. Gerry's good intention
! or will DENY him the need of praise for tn
splendid work OF his association but Of tn
three or four hundred thousand children
on the Island of Manhattan, Josef Hoffman
! is about the last one to need any sympathy
! He lives at the finest hotel, and is quarter
ed in its most magnificent room; he ha
servants to wait upon his every wish; tn
most skillful medical ability constant
watches over his health; his father rarel
loses sight Of him, and the strongest bon,
Of affection exists between the two TIL
boy does nothing but what he likes to do
his hardest work is not equal to game o
shinny, or leap frog, or base ball. On
hard run about the base ball field Involve
more work IN an hour than Josef Hoffman
does In week; but passing that, on
streets swarm with Arabs. male an,
female, not as old as Josef Hoffman, VIII
sell papers and peddle matches and blacl
boots, who fight and swear and gambl
right under the window of the Mayor
office, whore he was examining the bo
pianist.
! 1t might be we'll for Brother Gerry an
His Honor the Mayor, 70 turn their attens
tion TO this army of waits, by man ard Go
forsaken, Of which eleven year old Ami
Devlin was a sample as she stood Il
Justice Walsh's court last week; sh
could neither write or read; she did no
know her letters; she had never heard tn
name Of God, except when It was uttere
profanely; fearful cash in the front O
her forehead told more eloquently thai
words the story Of drunken father
brstAlity, yet neither Mr.. Gerry nor Hi
: Honor the Mayor, were In court to loo
) after the physical welfare of Annie Devlin
. but an agent Of the Society for the Pre-
: yentlon Of Cruelty to Children was o.
hand 10 rescue her, and yet thousands O
= these unksmpt Arabs tramp these freezln