Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-27

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Sold to sorrow, sin, and shame;
Wet with rain and chilled by storm,
Ruined, wrotched, lone, forlorn;
Weak and wan. with weary feet,
Still wander on the street.
~On 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 roam;
No kind hand stretched forth TO save,
No bright hope beyond the grave;
Feeble, faint, with weary feet,
Still wander on the Street.
"On the street, on the street,
Whittier tend my wandering fect2
| Love. and hope, and joy are dead
Not place to lay my 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.
"On the street, on the street,
Late ! walk with weary feet.
Oh! that this sad life might end;
Obi that might find One Friend
Nor my prayer Of sorrow spurn.
Obi that that friend could See
He would plying look on me.
Such as have kissed His feet
On the street, on the street.
~On the street. on the street,
Might here a Saviour meetl
From the blessed far of 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 peacel'
Oil that might kiss His feet
On the street, ON the streetf
Che was not more than 30 years old and evi-
dently had been a woman OF refinement and
culture. Who her friends are and where she
came from Is not known.
A black covered wagon yesterday afternoon
drew up In front of the restaurant and went
away again with burden. A brief tarry at
the morgue will be followed by a short journey
on the steamer Fidelity TO the Potter's field
and a naIneless graye.-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 children-Louis, now7 years old, and Betty
5-were born to them. Three years after their
marriage the family settled at Taunton, Mass.
where an outfit Of household furniture was
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 10 pay his car fare.
He hoped 10 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 n 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 afternoon. | 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 II for So for us. l can't
expect more from him, because he Is very
poor man. He has got wife and children too.
My dear husband, know very well il you had
any money you would send ii to me- From your
dear wife. SARAH ROSENBERG"
She was unable TO pay the postage on her
letter and 1t was several days before her hus-
band received Il. lie had just secured work
and mailed In reply two-dollar bill, all he had.
II reached her too late. She was already
dying. Neighbors heard of her condition. 1t
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 ut
each institution IL was said there was no room.
To add to her misery, the furniture, which
had been brought from Massachusetts, was
4 Il.
on Massachusetts, execution issued 10 the firm
that sold the furniture.
Neighbors who had given the children food
saw that death was fust approaching tho un-
woman in the bare apartments at gSe
Broome street, and some one telegraphed her
husband. He begged and borrowed enough
money to come back to Newark.
lie reached home Tuesday evening in time to
witness his wife's dying struggles. She did not
recognize him, and died Mt midnight in a ter
rible conyulsion. Hunger ana privatlon had
killed her.
Tho brother, who had been employed in |
Meyer Morcy'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 absentlng himself |
Both he and Rosenberg are penniess and the |
sity will have To bury the woman who starved |
10 death
The children God help theml Newark is a |
rich city and 1t has aduty.- Newark Spsoial 10 |
Evening World.
The female population in the factories !
Of this city is roughly estimated at 49,
300, 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 12
and 20 cents pair; cotton shirts pay 20
cents dozen, flannel shirts 81 and vests
k9 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.
Ahnnt thirtY NearA ann thnrn r,,l,.. |