The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-22
vIsCoUNT AN ORGAN GRINDER.
When He Sits In the Lords He Ex
poets to DO Great Things.

When He Sits In the Lords He Ex-
poets to Do Great Things.
New York Press.
London has an organ grinder who, on the
side, is a viscount. Before he took up this
means of getting an honest living he was
playing female parts on the stage. but his
voice gave way and he had to retire into
some other business. He got piano organ
and started out on the streets. Even while
in this work he could not forget that by
right and virtue of his title he was still in
position to benefit his fellow men In walks
as humble as his own.
So. on Christmas the Viscount Hinton,
William Turnour Thomas POulett, eldest son
of Earl Poulett, Of Hinton st. George, Som
grinders and the poor generally. He expects
on the death of the present Earl to inherit
Hinton st. George, domain OF Do0O acres,
which is worth 812000 year. Through fam
ily differences he was thrown upon his own
resources and bethought himself of the
stage The late doWager Duchess OF C1eYe-
land bought him a splendid stage wardrobe,
and he took to singing comic duets, he taxi
ing the female parts, and Alfred Stimson.
now dead, the male. When his voice failed
he had to give up the music halls, and then
he tried the theaters. Still. owing to his
physical defects, he could not make go
of this, and an old friend advised him to
walk the streets with an organ.
In his appeal. which is printed in the
London papers, he says:
I'm learning a phase OF life among the
London pOpulace which believe few men,
bers of the nobility have had chance to
know.
'sWhen I take my seat in the House of
Lords I think I shall come equipped with a
better understanding of it's duties toward
the public than had I squandered a patri-
mony or idly wasted an inheritance
IT am q. Conservative in politics, but
party Affiliations have no bearing on the
real duties of an English lawmaker toward
the great masses of London'S poor 7 have
earned my living for many years on the
streets. and have had many opportunities
to study men of all classes.
'eThe workingmen of England are more
interested in a public policy that will pro-
vide them with means of livelihood than
they are in the conquest of the Sudan or
the extension of English colonies in the
s'The hundreds of men and women who
are walking the streets of London without
a place to put their heads, the helpless in
valids in the poorly sustained London hos
pitfalls must look with longing eyes at the
thousands of pounds they see subscribed for
a college at Khartum, worthy as that OBJ
ject may be.
las one Of the thousand or more organ
grinders in London. l should say that the
proper housing of the poor was more i'm
portant Just now than the multiplication
of war ships or the adoption Of new races
IF some of the noble earls of England
could stand for a few hours In Leicester
square with an organ and see the so-calied
swells pass me by or hear them complain
that a penny is too much for one Of my
penny to some poor man even worse OF
than T. I think they would approach the
duties Of the coming season with better
understanding of the nations need
IT have seen the East-end poor collect
farthings among themselves to buy a
pamphlet or help me drag my organ along
the street while West-enders seem to think
that all poor man needs is good advice"