, 1891-03-06
Highest of all in Leavenng Powell. s. Govt Report, Aug. II, 1889
BssaRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Sold 20 sorrow, sin, and shame;
Wet with rain and chilled by storm,
Ruined. wretched. lone, ~forlUrn:
Weak and wan, with weary feet,
still wander on the street.
o the street, on the street.
Stiu 1 walk with weary feet:
Lonely, mid the city's din,
Limp in grief, and woe, and sin;
Par from peace and far from home,
No one caring where I 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 feet2
Love, and hope, and Joy are dead
Not a place 10 lay my head;
Every door against me sealed.
Hospital and Potter's field,
These stand open. Mid yet
Swings perditiOn's yawning gate.
Thither tend my wandering feet.
On the street, on the street.
ION the street, on the street,
Late 1 walk with weary feet.
OH that this sad life might end;
OH that 1 might find One Friend
one who would not from me turn,
Nor my prayer OF sorrow spurn.
Oh! that / that friend could see
He would plying look on me.
Such as / have kissed His feet
On the street, on the street.
o the street, on the street.
Might l here a Saviour meeti
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 peaceT'
OH that 1 might kiss His feet
On the street, on the street,
ETa $50 ,aN .,.-. 49, a - -
IDENTIFY 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 a 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 nameless grave.-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
hildren-louis now years old, and Betty.
6-were born TO them. Three years after their
marriage the family settled at Taunton, Mass.
where an 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
tOulu not oDIAlh WOTk luefe, however, ana at
the end Of three discouraging weeks he started
for Massachusetts again. tiLking barely enough
money to 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:
NEW AuK Inn Of 1901
MY DEAR HUsBASD-I write to tell you how
| am in a very poor condition. Ihave nothing
to eat, and have had no fire for three days.
Our children had nothing TO eat till 1 O'Clock in
the afternoon. 1 don't mind for myself, only
for the children. Then | went to my brother,
but he Il in a very poor condition too. He took
his watch and pawned 1t for IS for US. 1 can't
expect more from him, because he Is n very
poor man He has got a wife and children too.
My dear husband. | know very well II you had
any money you would send it tome. 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 Il. He had just secured work
and mailed in reply a two-dollar bill, all he had.
II reached her too late. She was already
dying. Neighbors heard of her condition. It
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 institution II was said there was no room.
To add TO her misery, the furniture, which
had been brought from Massachusetts, was
carried of by mortgage sharks, claiming to act
on a Massachusetts execution issued to the firm
that sold the furniture.
N~eighbors who hal given the children food
saw that death was fast approaching. the IN
fortunate woman in the bare apartments at 232
Broome street, and some one telegrnphed her
husband. He begged and borrowed enough
money TO come back to Newark.
He reached home Tuesday evening in time to
witness his wife's dying struggles. She did not
recognize him, and died at midnight in a ter
rible c%onvulslon. 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 u fellow workman told him
he had been discharged for absentlng himself.
Both he and Rosenberg are penniless and the
city will have to bury the woman who starved
to death
The children-God help themi Newark is a
rich city and It has aduty.-Newark Special to
Evening World.
The female population in the factories
of this city is roughly estimated at 49,
900, and greed has 80 debased capital
that in the sweating shops the earnings
of women do not average higher than
20 cents a day. Trousers are made at 10
and 25 cents a pair; cotton shirts pay 20
cents a dozen, flannel shirts 81 and vests
So a 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.
About thirty years ago there were
eleven millionaires in this city and TWEEN