The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-16

mother goes about the city begging for food
and she manages 70 get enough TO feed the entire
isnnly Two Of, the children, pick cinders on
They get suficehRt TITO to R pe8T t6eir fxrrenss soinS ali
the charitable sociedes for anything he can
and free clothing, so It does not COST them
snything to live In the afternoon the oldes,
t Ioy n soI1s p sRsH se a. bo ths p sT L sS, in,a ne bo6 AEn
New York contains many such beggars and they
thrive on New iork's charity organizations
s %""t too %l pToa nfeS eS B people fssrv wer 9iSeI pSo 'hs ~
New York could he found and attended to
PROVISION by 5n Sb IIeSS'i II World SR Ss ih m IeSeti TOms
to report on al applications for aid Newspa-
city In a light that no others see il in and they
are, good, judges Of human nature and could
S %Sa :nno1s t he Y eSr York 9 BsbfiSr from the faAir
The wife Of a Brooklyn baker was sitting
In her shop a few, days ago when an old woman
VINO had been begging from her for many
years put in an appearance. The bakers
vito had been In the habit Of giving the beggar
money every day. so when she saw the 6eggsr
enter she went to tho cash drawer and took
out a nickel. As she was handing over tho
money the beggar refused to take 1t and said:
NO, maam, / didn't come for that to-day,
I'm going away. / called to bid you good-by,
as ny son and l have bought a farm up In Con-
The Park row bessar who says he does not
want money but just something to eat and who
asks tho stranger to buy him a meal In one OF
the oeaneries along the row Is Otter, compelled
20 eat eight or ten times during a night before
he strikes an out-of-town stranger who doesn't
know any botter than 10 give him cash,
trlan and offers TO sell three elevated railroad
tickets Tor 10 cents Just hecausc h. needs 10
cents to set homo to Brooklyna lie gets me
tickets, 40 he works the same game a few min
uteS later and gets 10 cents more. lie Is one
beggar IL another downtown character. He
drops into a store OF office and asks for a postage
stamp. saying he wants to send a letter to hLs
mother and has not got two cents TO pay for
a stamp, When he gets ten two-Cent stamps
he sells them for a dime and gets two drinks.
Of every prominent man In Saa Francisco is a
park row. lie bess from business men on
may be drinking In a Park row saloon and he
always says he needs a pair OF shoes. so thar
be can make 2 nresentable appearance at re
For several years a well-dressed middle-aEed
woman has been in the habit Of visiting the
downtown business Offices, where she begs for
her o%arfare to. go uptown, She generally
learns the run Of the once she visits and man
10 be out when she calls, She tells the partner
who IL In that she Ia a friend Of the family OF the
partner who Is out and I'm this way when she
asks for five cents she usually gets half a dollar
or n dollar. Her stamping ground Is along
Wall street and Pine street.
The Woman From Harlem IA the name given
10 q eggar who for some, time solicited aims
az the foot OF the elevated railroad station at
snlGe w ase 10 tell f fofts t tEai sfs Was ' on her w mef
home TO Harlem. ard that an ignorant car con-
ductor lei. her on the car at Eighteenth street
the HRhe" ear w siIHs .shs left 1I II she Only had a Nickel
sas So Taiir os fO'f This IL 20 Woman S2 n"t aSeer 9S he herself sell
{; a man MAJ who lived in the ne!shborlOod and
for IL the third time he invited her up TO the
elevated station platform on. the pretence that
he WAITED S to C, change iRs ,, a BANK HL6 mote, o 158 m 1heTs
WeSt on The train ii and the tIcket chopper tipped
train s& reached harlem. When She heard these
orders given she cursed and swore at the, man
who had put up The Job; and and at the railroad
at the Eighteenth street corner
Among the beggars who live In the vicinity
about on crutches during the dav, but is able
to walk without. their aid at night He has
fun with some OF his. cronies telling them that
and things OF that sort, This man IS known
IA pipesy lie, had Q companion who pre-;
right when he, was not out on a begging tour
The bogus blind man was. known as Blink.
He disappeared from the neishborhood a week
that Pipesy murdered Blink. but Pipeay's friends
say that Blink was sent TO Blaokweu's Island
d" Here i a case that happened a, few days
ago 4 besear viz a shaggy heard, VINO was
tlplE, told he barber that his uncle had jusi
money. lie wanted a bath and a shave and q
haircut and a shampoo. The barber worked
SSSr him p.t tSF 1 the h SaTba %nf 4 { Ia N Rad change bbsTR '9 oi
a twenty hill, and In the same breath re-
marked that he would treat and get change, oyer
Kim "f have sSSoq a pitcher to carry the beer. The
barber brought out a gorgeous-looking pitcher
covered .eG boy wI.d i i' al ,Fe r mG,t%ee IT, The TSs erSof
took the pito her and crossed to the saloon,
There he placed the pitcher on the bar and
got both he told the bartender {. put Is cents
worth Of beer in the pitcher, While the bar;
tender was filing the pitcher the beSgGr passed
Then he disappeared and was not
seen again sin the neighhorhood. Ten min
10 t,e see what had happened to his pitcher The
bartender refused TO give il up, explaining
that the man who brought i had net Paid for
The pitcher had not been paid for either, he
said.
@nss You friend, replied the Italian, You
shs9mpoon, everything. but got no mon
Then they compared notes, and while they
were talking about it one Of the old Bowery
know De teller what did yez? Why, dats
handler and 'bb%orrowinn; pitchers TO treat on
stage money II his graft. Dat roll he showed
to de barber was Confederate money. fowse
Is easy
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