The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-03
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The AntagOliStiC IndiVidualitieS Of
Labor Day.
Still Another Cathedral-Joseph Cham
berlain and His CominE-o. P. Hunt
ington and Princess.
(Copyright, 1893 }

Copyright 1899
New York Sept. 2.-One Of the most
difficult problems involved in the tremen-
dous scale on which Labor day is to be
celebrated in New York concerns Emma
Goldman. What is to be done about this
cratic young lady& Are the thousands
of men who win unite in the celebrations
of this coming Monday to be subjected TO
the disorderly influences of her oratory2
Joseph Barondess says he cannot do any
thing with the high priestess of anarchy.
All the other labor leaders express equal
helplessness. Superintendent Byrnes is
always careful to avoid even the appear
ance Of the police oppression, and an or
der for her arrest may only be the means
of playing into this unmanageable girls
hands.
Police Inspector Conlins wish that
Miss Emma would marry and settle
down" will never, it is said by New York
labor men, be realized as long as Alex
ander Berkmann. now serving a 20
year sentence for attempting to kill Hen
ry Clay Frick, remains in a Pittsburg
Jail. Miss Goldman is understood to cor
respond with the young anarchist as reg
ularly as Pennsylvania prison discipline
will permit. She appears to be "a years
old and is good looking in a strident sort
of way, despite the hideOus spectacles
masking her light gray eyes, which are
large and intelligent looking She is
neither very tell, nor very short, except
when in her walk she stoops over after a
fashion habitual to her. The firm chin,
good sized mouth and square cheeks of
the girl, together with her wavy light
brown hair, form an attractive ensemble.
She looks eccentric and unusually inter-
esting especially when she strides
through the tenement districts with a
book in one hand and her hat in the other.
For the anarchical priestess usually has
her hat where the average man has the
head of his cane. Oddly enough there is
no suggestion of masculinity about her
even when she lashes capital in verbal
fury.
No account of her past that is current
in New York fits any other account. She
could not, as stated have come here from
Berlin five years ago. Five years ago she
was the pupil-many say the promised
wife-of Herr Most Alexander Berk-
zGann, was then late in his teens and had
not yet become the cause of disagreement
between the Herr and Miss Goldman So
friendly did the latter two become that
the girl was frequently called Mrs. Most
AS late as June of last year, indeed, when
Emma Goldman was addressing a mass
LuttJllIG III OlllOu udEGs N6N 1OLh,
from a truck, she was styled Mrs Most
The horses attached to the truck on that
occasion became FESTIVE and ran away
precipitating her to the ground. Pm
not Mrs. Most" was the first thing she
said when she got upon her feet
In 1891 Miss Goldman WIS living in New
Haven. Berkmann was there too, some
say IN the same house. How she supports
herself has always been more or less of a
mystery. She wears good clothes as a
rule, although not expensive ones, and
her board bills are always paid 1t is
stated that she was the leader of one of
the New Haven anarchical groups that
figured in Connecticut police reports not
long ago. Shortly before BerlImann shot
Prick he went TO New Haven with the
Goldman girl, and on the day of the at
tempted assassination she was in New
York
The statement that before the girl came
to this country from Germany, and that
for a long time after reaching the United
States she could not read or write is alb
surd. Emma Goldman is unusually well
educated She makes speeches IN Ger
man that are faultless dramatically and
show wide acquaintance with litera-
ture. French is not unfamiliar to her
and that she has read much and deeply is
shown by her illusions. For instance,
she announced TO the workingmen that
GutOIlGS VI CNO1ublDu are DIdSDuCIuOQS.
How does Herbert Spencer know" she
exclaimed in one of her tenement house
speeches lately, that we have not
reached that period in evolution, even ad-
hitting evolution as a factor in human
progress, when the workingman shall
come into his own?n She has lately
been giving series of talks to working
men upon the writings of Karl Marx.
Lascelles, Fourier, Robert Owen and
other social revolutionists. sit is a great
pity" she said lately, THAT worl1ingmen
have so few educational advantages. II
obliges Us to appeal to their stomachs in
stead of their brains" Now If the Gold
man had no opportunities In early life
where did she get her knowledge of art.
literature, history and languages? How
did she acquire the pure and cultivated
German accent that gives her oratory
such force?
Inc Goldman has numerous disciples of
her own sex. One or two of them usual
" accompany her in her walks through
New York's slums. Their names are I'M
known, for the queen of anarchy system
atlcally maintains an air of mystery
about her movements, her companions
and her past. She is never at the same
address long. Her habit is to disappear
when the labor situation is placid and to
reappear on occasions when the working
man is in the midst of agitation.
NlGte Miss Goldman obtains the mon
ey with which she relieves so much OF the
restitution among New Yorks unem-
poycd is another of the many enigmas
connected with her. No man has ven
tured to say a word about the young
woman that could not be repeated to her
most thin skinned brother-assumin
that the Goldman has brother at all.
She herself denies the story that her
father and stepmother have lately gone
back to Berlin, and refuses to state
whether she is an orphan or not.
The Lena" who goes about with Miss
Goldman demanding blood or bread so re-
peatedly and so vehemently is not her
sister. Anyhow Miss Goldman says she
Is not Miss Goldman also denies that
She ever lives under assumed names.
My remedy is blood-rivers and oceans |
and seas of blood -
linus the sanguinary young lady, whose |
personality Is Just now the one source of |
Labor day dread TO the police and the |
pubic, sums up her policy, and propa- |
ganda
THE PACIFYING AGITATOR
7oseph Barondess is the one laborite |
connected with New York S restless sons |
OF toll in whom the elements OF peace |
seem to find expression. Unlike Emma |
Oolaman, ne prefers to point out the /
paclnc remedies fol workingmens Ills |
ana If any knowledge of American insti- /
LIllons has been spread among our foreign |