Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-19
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is Africa In the past six OF seven
years have known OF man Il nu' y..,i
In the lower end OF SeW I'D
city, and some of them hityS""bb H.
In London could not outdo IN WY
matter of brutality. Just BLOCK away
from old Trinity IN New YORK rs oHJ "
the worst ueighborhoods IN tiiut ~
and the Trinity corporation ~ ". ~ ~.
lord in the case OF some OF the INVENT
in these tcnements There Is no church
in this neighborbuod save one. Roman
Catholic. that II open to tine ,epe-
mcnt dwellers There are nice uVors
on Trinity Church to look at pul thcy
are closed and the same Is rue oa
other down town churcheS' ~ 80
down town Phllistlne goes to ms own
church, which is the saloon Boou
many millions OF dollars are tpeht
every year In resouing the heAtheh vl
Africa, who do not at an Wane w
be rescued. The hcathen ol New Iork
is quite another thing. fgrna ai'',,i lie
is not worth the saving. Personai'y
| don't think he is, But l am NOT a
missionary. II ! were l would WORK
in lower New York and let Africa
alone.
Edward j. Atkinson. the eminent
statistician, has gotten hiThseli lntn
half a bushel of trouble. and u would
seem dcservedly. The trouble about
statisticians always is that thuy prove
too much. No man wants 10 khuM
mere than he thinks he knows now, |
Mr. Atkinson tho other day gave
dinner In several courses TO a mum
Der of gentlemen. fifteen in all, pc
! lleVe, and the whole cost OF winch
| was one dollar and Il hali. NOW some
eminent political economists are hgur-
| ing 1t out that at this rate a man
| ought to be able to support a family
nicely on about 50 week. There ls
"A good deal of bitter humbug about
this. Economist Atkinson buys ms
meat for his exhibition dinners in bulk
and Mt first price. lie uses an OH
stove which he has at hand, He pays
no especial rent, and, moreover, he
has everything at his command ana AT
| short prices II is Il good bit different
when one commences TO put his theories
into practice. There Is rent, ana rent
h never small In New York. There Is
fuel, for not every one has an OIL stove,
and "a good many OF those who have
don't like them. There Is the material
out of which you cook your dinner,
and the ordinary buyer Will not get
l much of II for 81 so There are Incl
dentals petty enough at first glance.
such as soap and soda, which go TO
make up healthy life. And these
cost money Mr.. Atkinson may think
he is doing well In showing how cheap
, ~ man can live under pressure but
the labor leaders are after him hot
foot They hold that once employers
are sure man can live on 50 week
: they will not pay him more than 50 a
E week. and there is something in the
argument. The man In New York who
! lives on less than SIS a week merely
. | exists. But there Is no sunlight in his
life The verest sparrow in the public
parks Is more fortunate and more
9 happy. II is because OF this that MIR.
c Atkinson's deductions, well meant
e though they are, are not well taken.
Z A New Yorker may be able to live on
h So per week, but he won't II he can
2. help 1t.
= Now and then one sees George W.
/. Gable In New York. The able writer
& who gave us such delightful stories
a OF Southern, and more especially of
t Creole life in New Orleans in the old
days likes New York better now than
70 he once did, and he ought to, for New
r. York or it's publishers have been very
d, kind to him. Mr. Cables first expert
lr encc in the hurry burly of the great
- city were somewhat different. To b,
In sure he was famous even in thos,
s. days. but he did not know much OF
" New York AS she is. | was told tn,
I'd story the other day, hut do not voucl
rs for Its truth, It was when Gable frs
IS, came to New York and he fell into tn,
., hands OF some wicked newspaper men
New York was n much worse town OIL
of the outside then than now. The Gre
he and hundred other dives amonl
lis them owney Geoghegans and Others
n were wide open and flourlshng. TIL
~ newspaper men took Mr. Gable into tn
e. very wost places. and what is more
they informed him that the best Deo
he pie freQuented these places. They In
troduced him to select crowd q
81 crooks and assured him that they wer
tn received in the best society. To sa
that the novelist was shocked, put tn
N.a LIT Ia Il
ed later Mr.. Gable IL one Of the frs
its money getters in the Literary field toda
and he has earned his success.
1t seems almost certain that me
may not transmit great qualities, n
though they seem To be able to han
ne down to posterity their weak an
vicious qualities. The son of the la
Dan Manning Is an example of thi
and. in an indirect way, so is Samu
j. Tilden, Jr., nephew of the grei
en- Democratic politician. who was near
nd enough related to his namesnke
l have possessed some of his genius, b,
e's who does not Colonel Tilden is a +
spectacle man, who has held n nur
Der OF position and has done them
wrong, but he utterly lacks the gent,
ry. OF his uncle; Young Manning pract
ik- cally succeeded to his fathers mantl
she He was made may or OF Albany,
lin which city his father had been Il
reg dominant factor. He succeeded to 4
an ownership of what was, In n measui
dy, the official organ OF the New Yo
state Democracy, the Albany Argl
'ou He even tried his wings against tho
cor OF that master OF political tncti,
David d. Hill, Yet in these piping 30
do teal times one hears nothing Of Ma
ming. His wings We're weak, just
me those Of Samuel j. Tilden, Jr., a
George b. Mcclellan seem to be.
In that great home OF mlsslona
vas and other work, the Methodist 30
1 Concern of New York. saw the oil
ere day man who il n character OF
terest In the day following the N
llcc he was known as Chaplain" Mecca
at and not little was written of hi
,rl- on the lecture platform he We'd
,ur- some time with Henry Ward Beecl
icnl in point Of popularity, with his /
ture on Life In Libby Prison." tou,
ing a vein OF the sort that the peo
ty's went wild over II was not hears
but Chaplain McCabe was in Libby PrIs
1" himself and knew what he was Ia
ing about. For years now, Chapl
McCabe has been at the head of
greatest missionary department In
re- world. perhaps distributing In
Iuse neighborhood OF 81. 0Q0, 000 year In
He way and another as the expense
r count % the department DR.. Nee
han is stu a stout, sturdy man. who d
eN- an immense amount OF work
are whom years seem to have toucl