The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-27
MORE HERALD CHARITY"
,4 BEATS THE KLoNDIRE ron
EASY PIOKINGS.

cuI.ted 20 Rob n sick Soldier or His Bed.
rric, this season THE Sun In a spirit Of
.L.,Ilturss to Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, tho
.,o,rictor Of the Herald, has directed attention
~ M, ,wIndlos that were being pcrpetrated
rnder A cloak Of charity labelled Herald Free
Il. Fund" TIKI Sun has shown conclusively
an ZACH occasion that the Herald Free leo Fund
20, nothing more thai a clever scheme to catch
~ priyRte use the dollars that the charitable
.sonIe of tho city were willing to contribute
,ovsrI saving tho lives Of helpless infants or
,skins more comfortable tho last hours Of suf-
feripg and dying women. It has always peon
Inc belplcss infants and the suffering and dying
vomen and the parched Threats OF the fever
,triclcn that the Herald has trotted out when
,be JE,rcid FREQ Ice Fund thieves wanted moro
olunder. THE SUN has shown on each occasion
tha, the stealing has been on . par with that Of
che thief who would snatch q crust Of bread
from the month OF a starving woman or would
NH IN, poor.box in a church. The o did not
,urnosc that Mr.. Bennett was concerned In tho
division OF tho plumber, though he did keep q
cov that gave fourteen quarts Of milk a day on
his yacht, and otherwise expended money as
only A man with a string on q bank or a charity
fund would do. 1t was thought merely that
anne wicked employees were doing the stealing,
and that Mr.. Bennett would be thankful for the
Inflammation that THE SUN had, and would
promptly hunt down and discharge the rascais.
But so far as THE SUN has been able to learn no
rascals have been discharged. The Herald staf
Of employees is the Same as before Mr.. Bennett
was informed OF the thefts. The Herald has
made no reply to the accusations, and 1t has not
offered any explanation of how it is that the
money. contributed by the charitable, melts
faster than the ice which it alleges 1t gives
away on a July afternoon.
The opportunity having been afforded for
such explanation and none being forthcoming,
THE SrS reluctantly prints another chapter on
Herald Charity with a big C" This chapter
does not concern the ice fund. though Il Sun
has bushels more OF about that
celebrated swindlc II the Herald would like to
have 1t printed. This chapter will show that all
Herald charity" is operated on the same plan.
1t will show that the Herald would as soon
steal a bed from Il dying soldier az 1t would q
lump OF ice from the burning brow of q lowered
infant.
The New York public, particularly the charita-
bic public. will recall that in January last there
was a so-called military tournament held at the
Madison Square Garden under the auspices of
the Netc York Herald The idea was not q
Herald idea, like that OF the Free Ice Fund
swindle. 1t was the idea OF Mrs. Howard Car
lVu NbC VtiS vi Nohs SeAASA Va tho
Governors statf. The Herald saw an opportu-
nifty in it and seized the opportunity; that is all.
Mrs. Carroll is President Of the Board OF Mana.
gers OF the Ladies' Association Of the Hahne-
mann Hospital. 4 homeopathic institution in
Park avenue, at the corner OF Sixty-seventh
street. She was much interested in the hospi.
tai. Gen. Carroll was on Gov. Morton's staf.
He was much interested in securing q reap
pointment on the staff Of Gov. Black. and both
the General and Mrs. Carroll were interested
in the National Guard. Mrs. Carroll conceived
the idea OF a military tournament, as stated be-
fore. She saw advantage to the hospital in es-
t1blishing in the institution free beds where
National Guardsmen who had been injured in
the service. or who were sick and In neod. could
be made comfortable. Gen. Carroll saw in it tho
fact that publicity would not hurt him at the
time. The Herald saw in 1t free advertisement,
free graft, and. above all, free cash. So when
Mrs. Carroll made known her idea the Herald,
always alive to such an opportunity. seized upon
II and doomed 1t. This was in December OF last
year. A I first the Herald gave to Mrs. Carroll
the credit that was her due, but it gave to her
less and less OF 1t as the time came for holding
the affair. When it came to the affair itself IL
boldly announced Tho Grand Military and
Athletic Tournament Under the Auspices Of the
Nep York Herald" During and Immediately
after the tournament the Herald printed such
editorial paragraphs as these:
Founded by the Herald for a specific chart
table purpose"
These are good days for tho sick. The sue
cess OF the herdLds great tournament for tho
endowment of hospital beds for tho National
Guard is overwhelming"
when the Herald championed this most
p~raiseworthy cause it saw something ahead
which would become historic. but later develop
ments have passed all expectations"
Once the Herald editorial writer in the exu-
barance OF spirit almost gave the snap away. He
wrote:
W share with the people at large the knowl-
edge OF a good thing when we see II. We have
found this military tournament an exceedingly
good thing, looked at from whatever point of
view you choose"
The particular point OF view that made this
exceedingly good thing look 30 good to the
herald. as Will be seen presently, was tho fnan-
cal point, which Is the point in the Free Ice
Fund" 18Th Sun readers already know,
As a metropolitan newspaper the Herald
sought to bring into its scheme widely known
men. Just as it has presented annually, before
the people knew Of the stealing, the names of
the richest men in New York in the list of Ice
fund supporters. SO hero it gathered well.known
men as decoys for 1t. LOOK at this general
committee OF the tournament:
Mayor William 1. Strong. Col. Daniel Appleton,
on.lfmAhi George J. Gould.
eeh ho"ardcarron' Vice Rx Mayor Thos. p. Gtroy,
'hairmAhi Col. ,. V. Greene.
ChAuncey NJ. Depew, Edward Iauterbaeh.
esn- Nelson A. Miles, Col. McCloskry Butt,
o'e.A' EK-hayor Hugh J. Grant,
cornelius N BliAs. Capt. David Wilson,
Gen. Thomas II. Ruger, stanford White.
o's.Ai John D. CnmminS
Sen samuel Thomas, George Rhret,
COMPTROLLER Ashbel p. Col. George Moore Smith.
Fitch. Hsym ann o.lr,cb.
VOL henry O. oorbin. Capt. Louis Wendell
o'o.Ai +. X sturgts.
een"E d" A. hcAlpin. Col William Seward, Jfl
Soi 'ohn Jacob Aston. George c. Clausen.
seufJ y. pimock. Col. George Bliss Agnsw,
~ Ahsoh u. hcCook. James II. Breslin,
Nathan straua. Col. Harry Chauneex. r. ,
soa y, C. AOLewee. Robert Dunlap.
Annu ROOT. Col. Albert A. Pope.
10 this may be added the name, daniel J
smith. Sporting Department, New York Her
va for Mr.. Smith figures in this article later
.nough his maine would not be printed at al
we're 1t not for the fact that hs was the Herald.