Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-26


once sang that mans inhumanity 20
man makes countless thousands
mourn and his cOuplet is eminently
Quotable as applied at this time to New
Workers. Does any one starve 10 death
in Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago, or
in Southern and Western cities? II
they do, or heretofore have starved
therein, I have not heard OF the in
stance. Yet very recently in this city
cases have occurred Of poor men and
women-nOt only strangers. but resi-
staggering into station houses
or found roaming the streets and weak
for want Of food. after vigorous at
tempts to get it, One desperate man.
few days ago. deliberately broke plate
glass window OF a shop in broad day
light. with crowds around him. and
then waited 70 be arrested, saying 10
the gathered thrOng; NO one of you
will help me. / am homeless, and weak
for want OF food and now for my mis-
demeanOr the public authorities must
for a time house me. feed me, and give
me work" Practically that action was
his best inspiration TO aid his deEtitu-
ton. We have one public society 20
care for destitute horses, another for
stray cats and dogs, in this city, and
each OF them is Jealous in hunting OBJ
jectS Of their especial charity. New
York has nOminally civic bureau OF
charity; and there is a Charity Organ
ization SOciety-uSing ironically, or
sarcastically il may be. the term organ
izatiOn. since apparently il has none.
MISMANAGED CHARITY.
But the public authoritative bureau
of charity, like every other civic bureau
under our reform Mayor is managed
by Commissioners who have no sympa-
thies with common people, and who be
long 10 what would be called in LOndOn
the aristOcratic or first class of sOclety;
and the private charity is fe,tered with
red tape and handicapped by Ostenta-
ton.
CHARLETAN GOTHAM.
This is the era Of Greater New York
by consolidation of suburbs; but II the
existing small New York is now so I'M
charitable and inhuman. what may 10
not become when il is known as Great
err" Let other cities whom our news
papers variOusly taunt. at least COM
placently pose in the accurate belief
that they do not sacrifice the poor and
honestly needy in their exclusive atten-
ton TO the vicious and criminal classes
through watchfulness and interest.
Among its milhonaires New York has
yet neither a George Peabody, John
WanDamaker. nor a Mark Hopkins. nor
a Potter Palmer 10 set on foot a sub
stantial charity that shall stop Starya-
ton. Another stage of iuhumanity
here is the heartleSSnesS of landlords.
whether OF the Trinity Church rich cor
DOratiOn or Of tenement house specu-
latOrs. in their dealings with unfOrtun-
ate tenants unable TO pay rent when &C
tually due By harsh statutes and pro-
cedures under them a civil justice and a
harGhearted constable can in a few days
turn the tenant out summarily without
regard to weather or sickness. II Bob
by Burns found in Scottish cruelties
material inspiration for his cOuplet.
fancy IL was small in comparison with
what he could find I'm what New York
ers are proud TO call the Metropolis of
the Nation" A Metropolis in which
the rich are yearly getting richer and
more truCulent; the poor poorer and
more neglected Hitherto. the British
wing o. the Salvation Army has taken
under that wing mainly the vicious;
but the American seeded corps Will I'M
dertake TO succOr and relieve the hon
est and deserving poor; and will save
bodies frs- and souls afterwards.
A ROMANCE OF AN IRISH TREE.
An illustration Of Macbeth's line
about Birnam's wood coming to Dunsi-
name has just been made at the corner
Of Broadway and Nineteenth street. Op-
DOsite to a carpet emporium presided
over by the Sloane who married a Van
derbilt heiress. and Immediately be-
cam a carpet knight Of society. There.
the mansion in which old Elbridge Ger
~ third was born. is being supplanted
bv a skvscraper. Connected with the
demolition of the old house comes an
insctance of surprising rise in worldly
circumstances. Just half a century ago
the head OF the millionaire GOelet FAM
ily bought the mansion in question.
then q notable erection on farm land.
with rural surroundings. An Irish en-
igre. recently arrived. became gardener
10 the GOelet family and shortly after
taking service. suggested 10 his master
TO send to Ireland and import a young
whitethOru tree This was done and
the Young gardener. named Crimmins.
planted il in front of the house. where
for many years past. quite venerable il
has attracted the attention Of all Broad
way pedestrians. who wondered al the
sight of a semi-rural house with such
tree in the grounds az the heart Of the
city. One Of the young ladies Of the
Goelet family married Elbridge Gerry
the second and Crimmins was a locker
on at the wedding Family sentiment
retained the house and grounds. in de-
fiance of improvements all around: and
the estimate rent on the value OF the
property in late years has been as high
as So. coo annually And not until Mrs.
Goelet-Gerry recently died was the
proDertv sold Meanwhile. the garden
or had married. brought ND a family.
carefully educating them: the oldest OF
whom beCam a civil engineer and con-
tractor. and amasSed wealth-which
his old father shared. and now the mil
Honaire head-JOhn d. Crimmins. o.
our cable railroad system. and a stand
inc candidate for Mayor The old gar
dener never lost sight Of his tres from
the 'ould country. Many a cOmrade
of John d. has heard him say. for he is
a Democrat 10 the core. with no false
pride-as they passed IL by-"that tree
my father planted when he was a Goe-
let gardener.
Old CrimminS had beard the song
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