The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Simple Story Of a Good Young
New Yorker.

i There are a Few Like Him-What Be-
comes of the Pianos PAT the Acad-
my-spaniards in New York-City
Deseneracy.
CCopyright)
New York, April 22.-This is to be Sc
ropa story about a good and noble young
man, and you can act accordingly
Perhaps you have seen in the New York
papers some sighting references to the
Chadwick Civic Club, little organiza-
lion OF down towners which has been
getting up petitions in favor Of the build
Ing OF municipal rapid transit system,
and its president and moving spirit, Mr.
Slower. 1 had enjoyed the witticisms at
MI Stover's expense some days when
one day [ saw him coming out of the
rooms OF the rapid transit commission
ana IKE fash remembered when and
where | had seen his face before.
mad been investigating a particularly
uIea0IuI caseof something or other down
oh Cherry street; down where, winter
ana summer, Slumdum rears it's awful
front, where crime jostles misfortune and
honest poverty hobnobs because it must
Win wee and nameless iniquity down
"nere the shrill voices of singers in low
concert halls float out to the street to
nlhgle with the ribaldry of drunken cor
nef Ioafers, and where in the worst sur
do9halng conceivable are growing up pure
anu sweet young women, as if to show
no" hopeful is human nature after all
"nen first met Slower
u was IN particularly dirty tenement
whose tenant was volubly explaining to
me some case of landlord tyranny With
me was man born of the slums and the
nlosl remarkable character ever meta
S4uhg farmer with the face of an angel,
VINO worked hard all day at his trade and
q, nIght when he was not studying out at
SCopef Institute practically devoted his
NE 10 the boys of the street The appear
I!ue on the scene of Mr.. Slower drew to
I'm all eyes, and abel of tongues saluted
ulA as he drew his note book. What
strange contrasts have said it before
10 we see in city life
slower was of medium hight or less.
SS.ouIly built, very carefully and nicely
uIessed, with a fine, frank countenance
uIiu golden mustache yelling amouth
WuoSe smile was singularly sweet. A man
OF ample wealth and good ability he was.
f Illu presume is, an inmate of the ''col-
iise settlement" on Forsythe street, and,
+I,Lug IN the very heart of the slums, was
living ms good natured best to do good,
~ chummy with the people and keep his
elET peeled for abuses.
me young Trainer was dark as an Arab,
yea as one of Raphaels angels, and,
10y 10y TO exaggerate his merits, somewhat
lily His speech was an unintelligible
t1Iooerlsh of broken German, English and
altllnSarian. But he was the founder of
e. boys club, - which was actually saving
ION stou the devil a good number of Cherry
SIeeI boys, and every cent he could spare
r I'M TO buy for it books, pictures and
gymnasium tools.
MI III basement room was a kindergarten
r Winere sweet-faced ''lady from up town"
rIsuIly taught what she could to the in
lucent wee babies of the neigh borhood.
IN IN the hall the ianitor. brutal tyrant,
wa, was dead drunk as usual Next door a
l"Uludn moaned her dead baby. Just be-
r ~" was family to be evicted on the NOR
W Wv. In the room, a queer council of war,
~ an freshman, a German, an Italian
sis ol ana woman and, of course, two Rus
''ql Jews besides those ! have named
erhaps Slower is, as the newspapers