Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-12
Sold to sorrow, SIN. and shame;

i'm on tuc otIttt.
ION the street. on the street.
Still walk with weary feet;
Lonely, mid the city's din,
Limp in grief, and woe, and sin;
Far from peace and far from home
No one caring where l roam;
No kind hand stretched forth to save,
No bright hope beyond the grave; %
Feeble, faint, with weary feet,
Still wander on the street.
ION the street. OF. the street.
Whittier tend Ioy wandering feet?
Love, and hope, and joy are dead
Not place to laymy head
Every door against me sealed.
Hospital and Potter's field,
These stand open. Wider yet
Swings perdition's yawning gate.
Thither tend my wandering feet,
On the street, on the street.
ION the street, on the street,
Late walk with weary feet.
Oh! that this sad life might end;
Oh! that might find One Friend
One who would not from me turn,
Nor my prayer of sorrow spurn.
Oh! that that friend could sec
He would pitying look on me.
Such as have kissed His feet
On the street, on the street.
ION the street, on the street!
Might here Saviour meetl
From the blessed far off years
Comes the story of her tears
Whose sad heart, with sorrow broke,
Heard the words of love He spoke;
Heard Him bid her anguish cease;
Heard Him whisper, ''Go in peace!'
Oh! that might kiss His feet
On the street, on the streetl'
She vas not more than 30 years old and evil
IDENTIFY had been a woman OF refinement and
pIrlfT -1n har fri dc H., ol.-
came from is not known.
A black c~vered wagon yesterday afternoon
drew up in front of the restaurant and went
away again with burden. A brief tarry at
the n5rgue will he followed by a short Journey
on the steamer Fidelity to- the Potter,s field
and namcleSs gravc.-New York World
STARVATION KILLED HER.
A more pathetic story than that disclosed by
the death from starvation of Mrs. Sarah Ro-
senberg has rarely come to light.
Nine years ago Sarah Greenberg married
Max Rosenberg an industrious cobbler and
two chill tren-Louis now yearsold and Ratsy,
5-were born to them, Three years after their
marriage the family settled az Taunton Mass,
where outfit of household furniture was Sc
cured ON the instalment plan
Seven weeks ago Max, yielding to the i'm
portunities of his wife, brought his family to
Newark, where her only brother lives. He
could not obtain work there, however and at
the end of three discouraging weeks he started
for Massachusetts, again, taking barely enough
money II pay his car fare.
he hoped to be more successful in getting
work and send her money before the little sum
he had left her was exhausted. He failed and
the poor woman suffered. She would not beg,
and deprived herself of food that her children
might not starve. Finally she wrote this let
ter to her husband, who had reached Water
bury, Conn:
NEWARK Jan. "a 1891
MY DEAR HUSBAND write to tell YOU how
| am in : very poor condition. / have nothing
to eat, and have had no fire for three DAYS.
Our children had nothing to eat till O'Clock in
the after noon. L don't mind for myself only
for the children. Then went to my brother
but he Is In very poor condition too. He took
his watch and pawned it for S. for us. 1 can't
expect more from him, because he is a very
poor man He has gotta wife and children too.
My dear husband, 1 know very well If YOU had
any money you would send ito me. From your
dear wife. SARAH ROSENBERG
She was unable to pay the postage ON her
letter and it was several days before her hus-
band received it He had just secured work
and mailed in reply a two-dollar bill, all he had
1t reat he'd her too late. She was already
dying. Neighbors heard of her condition. II
was believed that she would also very soon add
another little one to her poor family. Efforts
were made to get her into the Newark City
hospital and into the German hospital, but at
each IL was S2l0 there was room,
To add to her misery, the furniture which
had been brought from Massachusetts, was
carried of by mortgage sharks, claiming to act
on Massachusetts execution issued to the firm
that sold the furniture.
NeighbDrs who had given the children food
saw that death WAS fast approaching the IN
fortunate woman in the bare apartments at u
Broome street, and some one telegraphed her
husband. He begged and borrowed enough
money to come back to Newark
He reac he'd home Tuesday evening in time to
witness his wifc's dying struggles. She did not
recognize him, and died at midnight in a ter
rible CONFUSION. Hunger and privation had
killed her.
The brother who had been EMPLOYED in
Meyer Mercy's hat factory, stayed away from
the shop Monday to attend his dying sister
Yesterday morning a fellow workman told him
he had been discharged for ahsentlng himself
Both he and Rosenberg are penniless and the
city will have to bury the woman who starved
to death.
The chi dren-God help them! Newark is a
rich city and it has a duty. Newark Special to
Evening World.
The female population in the factories
of this city is roughly estimated at IL,
900, and greed has so debased capital
that in the sweating shops the earnings
of women do not average higher than
20 cents day. Trousers are made at Il
and 20 cents a pair; cotton shirts pay &c
cents dozen, flannel shirts 81 and vests
s. dozen.
In The Chicago Herald the same hor.
rible story is told of that city, and doubt.
less it is true of all large centers.