Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

help II, and Of course we do the Capitol
building and grounds. the department build
amSs and all the rest, while the guides and
cabmen do US and all the rest.
After the First Week.
Thus II was that after becoming some
what easy as to the city and its ways and
means, decided to look tor the little things
Of interest; to come down from OF my
perch and realize that at best We are all Of
~ quite commonplace. Accordingly / rush.
cd from my hotel to catch a car to the Gen.
trail market, to find the blamed thing a
hundred yards away and going like the Chi
cago limited 1 was annoyed and as stood
on the curb listening to the tireless ma
ehine-shcp rattle OF the cable as it chased
1tself along under the pavement, Il m dscL-
lar. roseate ana odor.ferous chap addressed
me with: Say. Senator. Will you help me
10 ten cents: / haven't had any"
/ interrupted him with the assertion that
II he wanted something to eat l would ac-
company him to a restaurant and buy him
q meal. at which he foored me with: Il
wasn't askin' for someth1n 10 cat; want Z
drink! 1 haven't had a nip yet this morn
I'M
I donated ten cents for the mans frank
ness and failing. at which the Pickup
Man" lifted hts long hook of iron and
Elancins at me contemptuously, said: "IN
bet that old bum makes more every day
than do. Hes worked u dozen guys like
you within the past hour. and I'm glad of
IT. thanked the caDle catcher Tor MS
sympathy ahd added. lie told me frankly
that he wanted drink. He didn't try to
fool me with any hungry dodge"
Drink CALCULATED the pickup. why, III
bet he's got a barrel of red liquor in his
house. That man! Why. he owns the house
he lives in and 1 Wouldn't wonder + he had
money in the bank"
just then another car came along. and
found q seat behind chap VINO was read
ing The Evening Star, thus getting a chance
1T the headlines 1 saw that ten thous-
and men out OF work and money In Chicago
are being fed by that city: that the govern
or Of Michigan has issued a proclamation
calling On citizens to help the upper penin-
sIla miners; that the distress among the
poor OF New York Is unparalleled; that
grand concert for the benerit of the poor OF
Washington is to be given. and SO on, and
unconsciously remarked: "A mans an idiot
who gives aims On the street or 20 the
house-to-house besgGr."
There Are Frauds.
That's whatr' answered the man in front
OF me. as he dropped his paper to con-
tiaue; I've Just come from the Associated
Charities, and 1 tell you they are doing a
sod work. For instance. my wife and my
self, during the past week. have been CIV
ing food and cast-of clothing 10 a poor wo-
nan who told a most plausible tale Of de-
sertion. inability to get work, large family
81 children and the rest of It. We would not
have believed her had IL not been she ex-
p.ained where she lived-in an alley only
square CT TWO from my home-giving num-
Der and all details That settled it. Such
nearoy want couldn't be bogus and 50 we
gave her some food and few bits of cloth
ing and tod her TO come again. Did she
do il? Most volumlnously, She's been to
our house every day for d week, and got
Something each time. Yesterday / reported
TIE case to the Associated Charities and
today they report 10 NE that no such wo-
man lives where our protege described. and
further. that the woman who duped US
makes a regular calling of the beggar bust
ness, has no children. and that her hus-
band gets s1.25 a day working on the rail-
road"