Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-19
.MAN STARTS ANEW.
The Ex-Millionaire Glad to Be
 Free Once More.
HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE TONES.

HlS 6Afhhl6NUh IN Ihb IUmbo. He Fraternized With Burglars and Deep
 Dyed Criminals During Ills Stay In Jail
 Trying to Rebuild His Shattered Fortune and Regain His Business Reputation.
 NEW YORK. July 19.-Erastus wiman is back in the maelstrom of New York business life. He is buried to the eyes in schemes and plans and enterprises tend- ing to enhance the welfare and conven. fence of citizens. This business instinct is dominant in the mind of Erastus WI man, and he can no more keep from scheming and planning and organizing and developing than Q duck can keep out of the water.
 The very next day after his release from the Tombs, when Justice Barrett granted tho plea for n stay on the ground of req sonable doubt as to his guilt in the suit brought by K. c. Dun & Co, he leaped back into the midst of his business enter prises with the same zest that a schoolboy enters upon a long vacation. After he had received tho congratulations of his family and immediate friends he went to his office and resumed the thread of busi- ness which had been lost by his incarcera- tion.
 Struggling to Regain His Fortune.
 Then he went on a visit to the country, but his longing for his office brought him back to the city within O few days And now he Is the same busy, keen, alert man of affairs he was before his misfortunes overlook him, and If signs and indications amount to anything hc will surmount all tho i'll fortune which has overtaksn him and rise, Phmnixlike, from the ashes of the six months tido of disaster to a career moro brilliant than any in his remarkable experience.
 He was the same Erastus wiman of old when seen by 0 reporter. apparently not e whit phased by his recent Imprisonment
 Fl am enjoying greatly tho sense of freedom" was the first remark. II have learned by q months Imprisonment tho good things of this life, which freedom implies. particularly enjoy the sail up and down the bay. It seems to mo that the beauty of the bay never was so appar- ent as 1t is now, while Staten Island ap- pears like a veritable paradise. Tho love illness of its foliage, the greenness and smoothness of its well trimmed lawns and brightness of its verdure never appealed to my senses as they have since l was lib erated from prison. So far as enjoying freedom Is concerned, my present experi- ence Is a complete revelation to me. l never realized, perhaps, how sweet life and liberty really are. One must Do de- | prived of his liberty, I think, for a time before he can fully appreciate what 1t really is to live. It Is good to live! Criminals ns Comrades Who were my companions while in | jail and how did they impress me! Well, | several men accused of murder, others | charged with robbery and burglary and a few sneak thieves were among those whom met while in the Tombs.
 Ut is most curious how I grow accus toned to these men. and after n little | while began to regard them as compan ions, although, of course, thero Is nc | doubt that somo of them werc the great est felons and criminals, and yet the ons | spark of human nnturs that makes tho wholo world kin was glowing in each o thom. Somo of them were very blacl undoubtedly. and yet as l grew aecus toned to them I forgot the crimes o which thoy were guilty and remembered only the man, the human nature whicf | was implanted in each of their poor per | verse bodies.
 II soon began to entertain kindly feel | ings toward them. Their criminal sid, was dormant Only the brightest side O their natures before they had become con | taminated was revealed. Sometimes haG to check myself when I began almost t' | sympathize with a burglar who rccountct | in the act of robbing n house. An invol untary feeling, certainly not wish, some how would insist upon springing up tha he had cscapcd-or, rather, n feeling tha the enormisy of the crime he was abou to commit had swept across his conscious ness and checked him before he entere' the house. Tho sensation was indoflnn blc, hard to grasp; 1t was not at all a zen sation of countenancing his evil deed Such Is human sympathy. 1 suppose is merely tho natural sympathy wit tho under dog.
 Community of Interests
 That did not revolt from my felloy
 prisoners who were accused of such hor
 rible crimes seems very strange to m
 now ns I look hack on my experience fl
 the Tombs. prcsme 1t wns due to ou
 life there in prison, where wc all had tn
 same daily routine to undergo, tho sam
 jnys-if you can call them joys, when dc
 prived of libcrty-the same discipline [ which WIG wpro subjccted-in ,short
 community of interests. After all, I suI - pose that this community of interests
 the strongest tie that binds people t< gether."