Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-07-19
WIMAN STARTS ANEW.
The Ex-Millionaire Glad to Be
Free Once More.
HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE ToMBs.


Dyed Criminals During His Stay In Jail.
Trying to Rebuild His Shattered Fortune
and Regain His Business Reputation.
New YORK, July l9.-Erastus Wim0n
Is back in the maelstrom OF New York
business life. lie Is buried to the eyes in
schemes ana plans and enterprises tend
ing to enhance the welfare and conven.
ience Of citizens. This business instinct
is dominant in the mind of Erastus Wi
man, and he can no moro keep from
scheming and planning and organizing
and developing than duck can keep out
Of the water
The very next day after his release from
the Tomhs when Justice Barrett granted
the plea for a stay ON the ground of rea-
sonable doubt as to his guilt in the suit
brought by r. G. Dun x Co, he leaped
back into the midst of his business enter
prises with the same zest that "A schoolbOy
enters upon long vacation. After he
had received the congratulations of his
family and immediate friends he went to
his Office and resumed the thread e bust
ness which had been lost by his incarcera-
tion.
Struggling 60 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 few days. And
now nc is the same busy, keen alert man
of affairs he was before his misfortunes
overlook him, and il signs and indications
amount to anything he will surmount all
| the i'll fortune which has overtaken him
and rise, Ph1nixlike, from the ashes Of
the six months tide Of disaster to a career
more brilliant than any in his remarkable
experience.
He was the same Erastus Wiman Of old
when seen by a reporter, apparently not o
whit phased by his recent Imprisonment.
II am enjoying greatly the sense Of
freedom. " was the first remark. Il have
learned by months imprisonment the
good things Of this life, which freedom
implies. particularly enjoy the sail up
and down the bay. 1t seems to me that
the beauty Of the bay never was so appar-
ent as it is now, while Staten Island ap-
pears like vertable paradise. The love
illness Of its foliage, the greenness and
smoothness Of its well trimmed lawns and
brightness Of its vordure never appealed
to my senses as they have since was lib
Grated from prison. So far as enjoying
freedom is concerned, my present expert
| ence Is q complete revelation TO me.
never realized, perhaps, how sweet life
and liberty really are One must be de-
prived Of his liberty, 1 think, for a time
before he can fully appreciate what II
really is 60 live. 1t is good to live
Criminals as Comrades.
who were my companions while In
jail and how did they impress meY Well,
several men accused Of murder, Others
charged with robbery and burglary and a
few sneak thieves were among those whom
l met while in the Tombs
1t is most curious how I grew accus
toned to these men, and after a little
while began 10 regard them as compan
ions, although Of course, there Is nc
doubt that some Of them were the great
est felons and criminals, and yet the one
spark Of human nature that makes tn,
1 whole world kin was glowing in each o.
them. Some of them were very blacl
undoubtedly, and yet as 1 grew aocus
toned TO them / forgot the crimes o
which they were guilty and remembered
only the man, the human nature which
was implanted in each of their poor per
verse bodies.
Il soon began TO entertain kindly feel
ings toward them Their criminal sidi
was dormant Only the brightest side o.
their natures before they had become con
] NAIllNdAtu WIS ItNtdltQ. COIitNllntn 1 ihi
to check myself when / began almost t,
sympathize with a burglar who recounte,
TO me just how he happened to be caugh
in the act Of robbing a house An inyol
untary feeling, certainly not wish, some
how would insist upon springing up tina
he had escaped-or, rather, a feeling tina
the enormity of the crime he was abou
60 commit had swept across his conscious
ness and checked him before he entered
the house. The sensation was indeflna
BILE hard to grasp; IL was not at all a sen
sation Of countenancing his evil deed
Such is human sympathy. / suppose i
is merely the natural sympathy will
the under dog
Community of Interests.
: "That did not revolt from my fellow
prisoners who were accused OF such hor
rible crimes seems very strange to nj
now as look back ON my experience II
: the Tombs. presme 1t was due TO on
life there in prison, where we all had tn
, same daily routine TO undergo, the sam
, ioys-if You can call them joys when dc
J prived of liberty-the same discipline Z
which we were subiected-in short,
community of interests. After ALL l sup
pose that this community Of interests 1
the strongest tie that binds people to
gether.
Charged with burning Town.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, July 19-Seven ne
groes have been arrested and placed il