The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-19

New York, Aeg. f9.-The Rev winthrop
| Gates les very i'll in Roosevelt Hospital
There Is chance that he may recover. II
he does, he will return to a life that ne
tried IT, enI. For this Presby terian min
lister attempted suicide. He sought to XII
himself with a drug-with cocaine-tiiat
had. in sense. already ruined him.
Once he had the cocaine habit, but be has
been perfectly cuied of it. Joyfuiiy he ex-
pected to rebabilitate himself, to relieve
his kin Of the burden of his support. Well
educated, foang and aniiable, Mr.. Gates
had secured an engagement as teacher
Some anonymous enemy wrote To the prin-
cipal Of the school where he was To teach
and told oi the old cocaine habit. The en-
gagcrnent with Ga tes W as broken. Bitterly
disappointed, hopeless. Re rushed to death
by the drug that once before had niaste red
him
Mr.. Gates Ia twenty-eight years cid, an
athletic man His father, Charles Gates.
now dead, was for thnty i've years prtr'
c:pal If the old Twelfth Street School, In
this city. Winthrop Gates lives with his
mother and sister, Miss Agnes, at No.
38 Pennington street, Newark. Every one
who knows him seems TO love him. to pity
him.
As youth. fond o sports, hewas pitcher
of the Roseville Athletic Club. He was
graduated from the New York University.
His mother wished him TO enter the minis
try. Although he was not sure ne vas
fitted for the ministry, he gratified her
wish. and was graduated from the TniOu
Theological Seminary in this city He he
came pastor of the Ellington, Pa, Pres
byterian Church about four years ago.
He studied hard, for he was an earnest
man. Hard work, burning Of the midnight
oil, made him sIeepless. He had recourse
to cocaine. IL conquered him.
One o: Mr. Gates brothers is doc
tor, and he and other physicians agree1
that il would be best to send the preacher
to the Essex County Asylum for the In
sane. There hP was treated for the 90
caipe habit, and thence he was discharged
last Nay, perfectly cured. He had not
taken Il grain of cocaine from the day Of
his discharge, until h tried to end his
lite with it yesterday. Although Mr.. Gates
has never severed his connection with the
Preshytery he felt he could never again
I'll pulIdt His inclination, his ability
lifted him to te a teacher, and for Weeks
he has tined 10 obtain position as an in
structor CT boys. Not long ago he Went to
T.. l.. Kfllog Il Co., No. 81 East Nineteenth
street, this city, an agency for teachers.
He learned that there was a vacancy
in the BattiE High School at Elizabeth
This vacancy was to be filled by coInpeti
tive exaI:.ination Mr.. Gates entered the
examination, fun OF hope and enthusiasm.
His requirements enailed him TO pass first
of forty hit competitors only a few
days ago he was Informed by Keilog & Co.
that the position IL; the Battin High School
was assured to him. lie was simply over
ioyed. His mother and sister said that
he was toyish in h Is delight that once more
he would he able to support himself.
Such was his frame of mind when, re-
Gently, he received a letter from Kellog
& Co. Come TO New York" il said, we
have bad new from Elizabeth"
Mr.. Gates hurried to this city TO KeIlOg
& Co. They told him there that some one
had written an anon ymoUs let ter to the
principal of the Battin High School, tell
ing min; that he man who had won place
in the nigh school was a cocaine fiend-
"MercifUl heaven" exclaimed Gates,
striking his forehead, II have been cured
OF my weakness l am a man again -
Eeilcg Co. apologetically, explained
that, under all the circumstances, the
refused 10 accept him as teacher
Mr.. Gates returned to his home stunned
His mntber and sister did their utm,st to
'lispel his dependency. They todd him
other opportunities " ould offer They told
him to forgive hIs anon ymous enemy. But
Miss Alice Gates, little woman, said with
FLASHING eyes:
II l knew who wrote that letter, 1
woulG throttle HIN. He has killed my
brother, when all seemed bright again
before him"
winthrop seemed resigned. He went
away without saving whittier he was
bound. On the afternoon OF he next day
Park Policeman Bril- found him On bench
in Central Park at Fifty-ninth street and
Eighth avenue. He was unconscious His
left hand was hidden in the inside pocket
0f his coat and clenched a phiaI, in which
remained few drops OF a solution OF
cocaine. He was hurried TO Roosevelt
Hospital, and there he lies between life
and death.