Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05


CANDID VIEWS AND POLITICAL KFFrcr-MAYoR
GRANTS SHARP sTIcK-A HoMELEss HEBREws
SAD STORY - THOUSANDS RETURNING FROM
EURoPK-EvA MANN TO STAR.
special correspondence Of The Evening Star.
New YORK, September 8, 1891.
TITS RADISCOURAGING FEATURE
Il OF our political life that men who have the
frankness and the intelligence to speak their real
mind on public topics are almost kept out Of
the race FOR honors, because their utterances
are thrown up against them in any campaign
we are likely to have a striking example OF this
In tho candidacy of Andrew d. White for gov
ernor OF New York. No reasonable man would
doubt in private life the entire appropriateness
OF Mr.. White to fill the governors chair. He
would maintain the dignity and the interests of
the empire state as few could do. He is mil
ionaire. a man Of profound learning, Of most
unspotted personal character and wide expe-
rience in politics, diplomacy and society. Yet,
naturally, such man has had his notions on
current topics and has expressed them freely
and forcibly.
CANDID VIEWS
Mr.. White has always cherished political
ambition, to be sure, and hence has been more
cautious in his utterances than he might other
wise have been. At the same time he could
scarcely help viewing life from the standpoint
OF the scholar and the critic, and has written
some very candid sentences about certain
social abuses which your hack politician treats
very gingerly indeed. One may notice. there
Tore on all sides an undertone OF anxiety lest
President Whites candidacy might not lead to
hat
some OF the democratic papers are crying
hush to their colleagues and slyly egging on
the republican party to nominate man whom
tney regard as so vulnerable. A few days ago
MS nomination seemed to be agreed upon, but
perhaps these demonstrations may induce the
party managers to select some neutral nobody
or more conventional and machine representa-
tive.
THE MAYORS SHARP STICK.
This week has been devoted to fixing the
blame for the terrible disaster in Park place.
Interest In the tragedy itself had somewhat
abated, when Mayor Grant in the role Of Hal
roun AL Raschid, went poking about in the
ruins with his cane and himself unearthed two
more corpses that everybody had overlooked.
Then ne sat down, as his irascible predecessor,
Mayor Hewitt, might have done, and wrote O
singing letter to the board Of health wanting
to know why they had been so remiss. This
brought on another spasm Of research, but
fortunately the worst was already known and
no more victims appeared.
WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS.
1t then remained to find out who was respon-
sibe, and this has been pretty clearly shown.
though the owners of the building have done
their best to defend themselves against the
heavy burden of blame, both moral and pecu-
inquest proves that the building fell from its
own inherent weakness. To read the testimony
one Is astonished that human beings would
take such chances as those did who remained in
the doomed structure, month after month and
year after year, when certainly in their own
opinion 1t was SO unsafe. But in most cases
they were prisoners Of poverty" They had
to work at what they could find to do and where
job offered. That any one who had q choice
in the matter should have stayed in such tot
terlng structure Is amazing, but there are pris-
Oners of stupidity as we'll as OF poverty-men
who disregard all signs and marry and are given
In marriage, while prudent Noah and his family
are entering into the ark and it is already be-
ginning to rain.
HOMELESS AND HELPLESS.
Apitiful nineteenth century version Of the
tale OF the Wandering Jew goes on here fire.
quently since the Russian hostility to the He
brews drives so many Of them to seek shelter
on this side Of the ocean. A typical case is
that of Lazarus Katzur, who was brought in by
the Etruria on Monday. He is adeformed ped
dler. old, crippled and penniiess. The story of
what he suffered in the land he fled from seems
more like dark and lurid tale of medieval in
humanity thal q chronicle of the nineteenth
century.
Three times was his peddler's pack stolen
from him and he was beaten into unconscious
ness. The beating was renewed when he re-
ported himself empty-handed to his employers.
The third time he did not go back to them, but
under cover of darkness stole to his poor
home, packed up his few belongings and fed.
He was captured, however. and both he and
the friend who sheltered him were strung up
by the arms to q tree and dubbed almost to
death.
katzur was then taken back to his own town,
Slabotky. hung to tree head downward and
terribly beaten on his naked body with stout
whips, his Christian neighbors relieving each
other in the agreeable task. He was then
sentenced by the authorities to be banished to
Siberia, which one would fancy would be
pleasant retreat from the civlites Of his ma i've
town. His guard, thinking him too helpless to
move, were not very vigilant and that night he
managed to escape, and, with incredible, effort
and suffering, made his way to Liverpool. He
and the rest OF his countrymen think that in
reaching America they have come to the
promised land. where the government will pro-
vide them with homeC.
WheL they are turned back by the immigra-
ton authorities as paupers likely to become a
are driven back to Russia to their DEATH While
they are detained at the barge office thew are
faithfully cared for by the United Hebrew Chart
ties which society finds its resources pretty
well taxed by the needs Of their numerous un-
fortunate countrymen.
THE LATEST HIsTRIoNIC GENIUS.
There may be some doubt in most PEOPLES
minds as to who is the most famous woman in
America, but the woman who calls herself Mrs.
Robert Ray Hamilton has no hesitation in an
swering the question and boldly announces her.
self as that conspicuous individual After
claiming to be Mrs. Hamilton and the most
famous woman in the land it requires very little
additional nerve to claim to be an actress and
to bill the small New Jersey towns with lurid
though somewhat Pathological announcements
that she will appear in her beautiful, realistic
and pretty romantic drama. entitled All a Mis-
take"
The drama gives her version Of her disgrace
full story, but seems to omit a number of i'm
portant incidents which might have been made
highly realistic, though neither beautiful nor
pretty. 1t is sincerely to be hoped that she will
find her expectations of gaining money and
fresh notoriety from this venture to be indeed
'All q Mistake"
THE TRAGEDY OF THE TRUNKS.
People are pouring back to New York in
steadily swelling stream, and prolonged howl
Is going up from q multitude of afflicted wo-
men who can not get their trunks Pelion is
piled on Ossa at all the ferries. Alps on Alps
arise ut 42d street. Groaning porters hurl the
cracking trunks upon express wagons with
loud thuds which would be sickening TO their