The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-20

/ pool or Southampton he goes to Ira
falgar square, and those streets and
avenues ramifying from it which are
! most frequented by Americans, Before
the newly arrived Yankee has had time
to conquer that first sense of loneliness
which London always inspires in her
/ guests, or has outgrown his first con-
tempt for the unassuming English six
| pense, he has been "approached' by
! his fellow countryman and artistically
| relieved of a part of his capital.
There is nothing new or original in
| the fellows plea--it is the same old
| ''pitiful story" with fresh setting.
He has just that morning come down
from Leeds, or Bradford, or some Of
the other middle counties manufac-
turing towns, he tells his victims, and
is trying to work his way back to New
York and his wife and little ones. He
/ had been lured across the ocean, he
goes on, by the promise of position as
foreman in q new factory, in course Of
construction in the town he had just
left, and he had come with the idea of
making a home later for his wife and
little ones, only to find upon his arrival
there he was, destitute and alone, a
stranger in strange land, not knowing
what to do or whittier to turn, ignorant
even of the way of asking aid-this
last, he admits modestly, Is his piece de
resistance-and now all he asks In the
world is money enough to get out of
that miserable, poverty-stricken coun-
try and back to where he can find hon
est employment.
The story-trite and threadbare as it
isis almost bound to prove effective.
In the first chapter it appeals to the
victims own sense Of loneliness, and in
its climax to his patriotism. 1t costs
him generally anywhere from a six
pence to half-sovereign.
Not long ago this beggar so far for
got his cunning as to approach the
same American tWice-and the first
time he had received five shllings. So
chagrined and mortified was he at his
stupidity that he finally admitted that
he didn't care profanely small adjec-
tive, whether he ever saw his wife or
little ones again. But anyway" he
explained alphabetically, you're the
first one I've braced twice since I come
ilCit, anu L VIC tOuCIlebi air dll-llTeu lou U
you fellArs, too. l s'pose now I might
just as well square myself and own up
that amt gettin' gray waitin' to save
up enough money to so home in the
steerage TIL run over again
some day, when this graft plays out
but it won't be in the steera ge-maybe
it'll be in the captains state-room.
How did I happen to come here? The
same way all the rest o. you fellars did
to get hold of some of this British
gold boys. I amt selling railroad
bonds or floatin' any zinc mines, but
I'm dom pretty fair in my own line.
There's drawbacks here of course
there's drawbacks wherever a man
tries to make an honest living-but
we've got to take em.
MY busy time, of course, is when /
the people are coming over in June and |
the early summer. I've made as high I
as six pounds in week. I like to get
them hot from the steamships, il I can. I
It's funny how open-handed they are
at first with their English change, be-
fore they get to know how fast it can
eat into their money. It's happened
three or four times that the same men
who have turned me down in New
York have given me as high as ten
here. New York Evening
Post.