The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-13
new YORKBEGGAR5
They Have become to be a Big Nni-
sance in That City.
SCHEME 7OWORK CHARITABLE.
stories of the Ups and Downs of
1ife-The Old Woman With the
Faded shawl and the Gin Breath.

NEW YORK, June 12.-That old
problem, how to separate the worthy
from the unworthy. has caused much
agitation in the minds Of numerous
anonymous charitable persons in New
York during the past week.
About "a fortnight ago the agent Of a
squalid tenement house on the East
side dragged thin. staryed-looking
lad of nineteen to the police court and
accused the boy of violating the Inn
keepers act. in that he had not settled
for his room rent for couple OF weeks
The boy Ind n ffne eountenance aud
the manner OF gentleman. He was
sadly emaeEated. He was an art stu
dent from one of the southern states
His pitlful allowance from home had
suddenly ceased, for some reason or
other. It had only sufliced, at best to
enable him to pay his tuition fees. and
TO live in a garrett, the rent of which
was seventy-tive cents a week What
few dimes he could scrape together by
doing odd jobs when he could get them
to do, he devoted to the purchase of
canyases and materials for his work.
He had fallen two weeks In arrears in
his garrett rent, and the tenement
agent hauled him into an East Side po-
lice court and manifested determined
disposition to railroad the. young chap
to BlaclSwell's Island.
The Tide Turned.
The magistrate was sufficiently hu
name to postpone the case to permit of
an investigation. Some of the police
court reporters went to the lads garrett.
It was a sorry little hole, with a three
legged washstaud, rtcketY chair, u
pair OF boxes answering for bed, and
q homemade easel. Suspended from
the ceiling was half loaf of bread.
The young man was compelled to hang
his bread that way 10 keep the rats
from getting at 1t. Some of the draw
ings scattered around the room struck
the police court reporters as being SIN
gularly good. They dug up the art
critics OF their papers, and had the ex-
perts look the work over. The art crit
les pronounced the young mans work
not only good, but excellent; they were
unanimous in declaring that the lad
possessed positive genius. The police
court reporters wrote the tragic little
story up In sympathetic vein, and the
next day the young art student was
turned loose and taken in hand by a
rich citizen. who Keeps an eye out for
worthy cases of this sort. The ex-
penses Of the boys art education and
keep will be provided for by this man
for some years to come, and the lad
viii not have to hang his crusts from
an attic ceiling. either. A large num-
Der of kind -hearted persons sent money
to the young man. HIS was a genu-
lneIy deserving case.
It Looked All Right,
Another case that seemed pretty sor-
rowful, came up last week. A young
married man. under twenty-five, wrote
to the superintendent Of Bellevue hos
pitnI, Offering to Sell quantity of his
blood to any anaemIc patient who
might be in need of the same, for SIS or
$50. The young mans letter was
couched in straightforward, simple
terms. 1t was the letter of man OF
education. He said that he found him
self and his young wife in a desperate
plight, because he couldn't ind any
work to do; that he had been promised
a Job a couple OF weeks hence, but that
he lmperatiyely needed some money to
tide himself and his wife over untIt he
got his Job. He was a robust man. in
prime health. he said. and he was will
Ing to sacrifice as much OF his blood as
he could stand the loss Of in order to
get money for his absolute needs.
This letter seemed such an unusual,
square, pitlfuI document that the SUI
perintendent Of the hospital couldn't
refrain from turning II over to the
Newspaper men. The newspaper men
went up to the address given by the
writer Of the letter and looked the
young man and his plant over. The
young mans hard luck story seemed to
have a proper basis. BE had a frank,
open eounteEaHce. He had served be.
fore the mast and in the British and
United States armies. he said, and had