The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-22
PROSPEROUS NEW YORK BEG
 CARS.
Tricks of the Trade by Which Large
 Incomes Are Gathered.


 Incomes Are Gathered. Court Officers Crosjean and Hayes of the Jefferson Market police court are detailed to arrest professional beggars. In the year during which they have been assigned to this work and which ended on Wednesday last, they have arrested 46O beggars, pan handlers, 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 beggars. He was arrested by me last Wednesday and sent to the work-house by Magis- trate Hammer. He is said to own tenement-house and to have 8 fair sized bank account. Owing to the diff | ficulty of catching him in the act of soliciting aims he has been dubbed the king. That man has been a profess sional beggar for the last 30 years, and | has been arrested only four times. He served in the late war, and has been a | beggar ever since.
 Tt must be a paying business. John l Morris, new hand at it, for he is only "A years old, has his left leg missing l below the knee He soiicits aims on Sixth avenue, between Fourteenth and | Sixteenth streets. When I arrested him he offered to give me $20 down if I would let him off, and to pay me $2 a day for the privilege of begging on i Sixth avenue. He told me that he averaged BIO day. Not bad busi- ness.
 "A man named 0sgood is one of the cleverest of them all. He works all the | swell hotels on Broadway and Fifth avenue and tells the guests tale of woe about having just lost his wife, and won't the kind gentleman just give me a dollar or two to bury her?' 1 have known him to make $15 in one night working that game. He is said to own comfortable little home in New Jersey. The last time I arrested him he had asked man for $2, and when I accused him of it he said:- "'You're mistaken. I didn't ask him for $2; I asked him for two dough- nuts
 'Then there is an Italian, who works Fifth and Sixth avenue on crutches. | The last time I arrested him he had $114 in his pockets and bank book showing that he had $7,000 deposited to his credit in one of the city banks. He is said to own a double-decked | tenement-house on Baxter street, while he lives very comfortably with | his family near by.
 Another man, arrested innumerable l times, is John Douain, who carries | t4Iz- d. !, ,t, sign, Please help the blind he will l stand for an hour or two on corner. | When he tires of that he substitutes the sign. Am deaf and dumb and enters stores, where he gesticulates in l an appealing manner so cleverly that he meets with great success. At night, when the deception cannot be so we'll noted, he doubles his hand up under 1 his sleeve and twisting his leg as l though crippled, hobbies along Broad
 way, bearing the sign. Please help poor cripple He also makes much | money.
 "A very good trick to win sympathy is imported from Paris. Obtaining some
 sandwiches, the beggar walks along until he sees an ash barrel, into which l
 one coming, he fishes them out, and gives him money. That is one of the 1 give him money. That is one of the
 best lodges to work upon the l sympathies of the charitable. Oh,
 tell you it is very lucrative business; | but it is robbing the deserving ones
 People have no idea what large sum
 is given out daily to the undeserving
 in this manner"
 Addison G. Jerome, special agent of
 the Charity organization society, also
 told of some interesting cases brought l to his notice. There is one man, he
 says, with a false leg, which he dis
 cards in the day time and begs on
 Sixth avenue. At night, putting on ! his leg, he wears a dress suit and
 attends the theater, sitting always in
 an orchestra seat. He has been seen at
 Delmonicos. Another beggar lives on
 the east side and has whole floor
 nicely furnished. His family were ignorant of the fact that he was a
 beggar until he was arrested. He is