The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-06
sHEA SAID TO OWN A TENEMENT
A BANK ACCOUNT.

$50 Down ana o. q Day Onered for the Priv,
Iege OF Begging In sixth Avenue-An italian
Begrnr with ST. and Prosperity
or Some Persistent BeEEarn In This City.
Court Officers Grosjoan and Hayes Of the JET.
ferson Market Police Court are detailed to ar.
rest professional beggars. In tho year during
which they have been assigned to this work and
which ended on Wednesday last, they have ar.
rested 400 beggars, panhandlers. and impostors.
"Too ready an ear is bent to their appeals"
said Grosjean. Take, for instance. the case Of
Daniel Shea. who is known as the King of Beg.
CARS. He was arrested by mo last Wednesday
and sent to tho Workhouse by Magistrate
Flammer. He is said to own q tenement house
and to have a fairsized bank account Owing
to tho difficulty Of catching him in the act of
soliciting aims he has been dubbed the King.
That man has been q professional beggar for
tho last thirty years, and has been arrested only
four times. He served in the late war. and has
been q beggar ever since.
ct must be q paying business. John Morris,
q new hand at 1t, for he is only "a years old, has
his left leg missing below the knee. He solicits
aims on Sixth avenue. between Fourteenth and
Sixteenth streets. When I arrested him he Of
ferod to give me 500 Town II I would let him of.
and to pay me 90 a day for tho privilege of beg.
ging on Sixth avenue. He told me that ho
averaged $40 a day. Not a bad business.
n Luuh ALL oSBOUu y Ou0 VI INC Cl0VoreBb
Of them all. He works all the swell hotels ON
Broadway and Fifth avenue and tells the guests
a tale of woe about having Just lost his wife.
and won't tho kind gentleman Just give me a
dollar or two to bury herr / have known him
to make $15 in one night working that game.
He is said to own q comfortable little homo in
New Jersey. Tho last time I arrested him no
had Just asked q man for So. and when I accused
".You're mistaken. I didn't ask him for So:
I asked him for two doughnuts.'
and Sixth avenues on erutehes.' The last time I
arrested him no had S1l4 in his pockets and a
i Rsat 70 oP sis s snHTlH rs o anss 3, h Il. h eiay S Ssneo. dHaR s Is
said to own q dopble;decked tenement house on
Baxter Ia;S s,s street; while no lives very comfortably
",Another man. arrested innumerable times,
Il John ohn DG 2y1 who carries three signs Hndei
When he tires Of that he substitutes the sisn.
he gesticplates in an appealing manner 90 ciev.
erly that he meets With great success. At night.
doubles his hand up under his sleeve and, twist
Ing his leg as though crippled. hobbies, along
poor cripple eHft He also ono makes sesn much hia %o1e9 9elp a
,o VA very cry R1od trick to win sympathy is inn.
the besear walks along until IG he seoa avn a, asS
barrel. into which he throws them. When he
sees zee some one coming he fishes them out, and
money, That is one of the best lodges to work
upon the sympathies of the charitable. Oh I
tell you 1t is q very lucrative buslness; but 1t is
robbing the deserving ones. People have no
idea what q large sum is given out daily to the
undeservfng In this manner"
ADDISON u. Jerome, special agent of tho Char
ity Organization Society. also told of some in
t~eresting cases brought to his notice. There is
one man; he says. with a false leg, which no
ssn rSs Al. Alright, putting on his leg, he wears a
ways in an orchestra seat. He has been seen ab
Delmonico's. Another beggar lives on the east
side and has a whole floor nicely furnished. His
family were ignorant of the fact that he was a
oeggar until he was arrested. He Is now
serving his third term on the island.
There is q woman who works O very
successful trick. She goes from door TO door
asking the servants to contribute money to en-
able her to insert an advertisement in the news
rs a cook. Sho was arrested at Thirty
fourth street and Madison avenue after having
stopped In all the houses in Madison avenue
between there and Twenty-third street. When
Mathew Rowland. who ia lame and fakes blind.
ness nS wearing blue glasses. was arrested $5. 80.
were 1e s9und upon him. He worked tho stores
Professional begging, Mr.. Jerome says. is de-
crensing yearly. possibly owing to tho police sur
or the decrease may be owing to tho
number of licensed or legitimate beg.
CARS, against whom 1t is so hard to obtain evil
dencS or begging. They are the ones who sell
pencils. grind organs, and play the fiddle.