Evening journal., 1893-08-02
FoR aLaal-Ns ID foR cAARITY.

Now WHY sccor6hand Dealers Appeal TO
both ghcse fiuuian Motives.
The ob.ervant pedestrian along any popu-
ious cast or west side street knows what it
is to see piled up in apparent confusion
the household effects Of some distressed
tenant. dispossessed for nonpayment of
rent-furniture. bedding, kitchen utensils,
cheap pictures, crockery, n clock, and
brdcage Where a landlord secures sum
mary possession through the act of a mar
shul Of dwelling apartments the personal
prop rty of the tenant is put upon the side
walk as the most convenient, accessible and
public place Uusually the tenant has
somewhere else to 90 Seldom do his effects
remain long in the street, for there are al
why's especially in the poorer parts Of the
town, helping hands 20 give him or her
friendly lift or "a new stnrl.
Then a truckman comes TO take away
the articles left upon the sidewalk, and
the neighbors hear Of the matter no
more. This benevolent strain of human
nature I'm New York has, however inspired
the cupidity Of some secondhand dealers,
who now make a regular business Of dump
ing their unstable stock in public place,
pretending that the articles thus displayed
belong TO some needy dispossessed tenant.
The sympathetic wife or daughter Of the
secondhand dealer stands In the vicinity of
the articles, and when the chartably dis
posed stranger makes his appearance this
is about what he hears:
poor SOUL A widow with seven chill
drcn her husband dead in the hospital aft
or being out of work for three months
where would she get the money 10 pay the
| landlord and save her furniture from the
street? Well do / remember her paying
| go for that bedstead there when she moved
into the top floor beyond-a bedstead which
she would be glad enough to take $40 for
now 60 buy her children something to eat.
And those chairs there. which cost 81 each,
she'd be only too willing to sell for a quar-
| terapiece; and that fine old fashioned clock
| lying thcre-it's a splendid timekeeper,
and any dealer would pay s. for it gladly
and the poor woman is willing to take s.
for il if She could only find "A kind hearted
purchaser to buy il, while she is out looking
for help from those who were glad enough
to borrow money from her husband when
lac was workingW
Such tale OF commingled human sor-
row and business opportunity told, for the
first time, TO sympathetic stranger is not
\ usually without it's effect. MY good
| woman" says the male passerby here II
n couple of dollars for the widow-my good
wishes go with her" The female passerby
too, is touched by the recital, and the
chance Of often getting bargain loosens
the clutch which she has on the money
which she holds in her hand She buys
such Of the articles as her means afford OF
which seem cheapest and next seeks the
good Offices Of some neighboring truck
man or eXpressman to transport the arti
cles TO her home. Then the secondhand
dealer replaces the articles sold by othe
articles OF similar kind from his shop
and his wife waits the arrival Of another
| favorably disposed purchaser.
This dodge has been worked quite gener
ally and quite effectively Of late in variou
parts Of town, and il is always TO be no
ticed that a second hand furniture store i
at no great distance from the point wher
the articles are left, and a well travelel
thoroughflre, not n side street, is selecte'
for the purpose, although it is well know
that evictions for nonpayment Of rent ar
very rare ON the big thoroughfares, wher
the rents are higher, and are almost eAclu
sively limited to the smaller side streets G
neighborhoods. New York Sun.