Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-11
Philadelphia North American, yesterday,

Philadelphia North American, yesterday.
Civil suit was begun before Mapts.
trate South yesterday by George Moors
q carpenter and painter, against Ssmuel
L. Smaltz. a wealthy property owner
of 1909 Walnut street The amount
claimed is $40. 25. While Moore VA
telling his story to the magistrate hs
tainted from starvation. He IL now M
the Philadelphia Hospital, and tbs
do;to say it viii be me time befora
he will be strong enough TO get ont
lie had not tasted mouthful OF food
for three days. week Ireyious II
that ne had lived on two cents' worth
Of stale bread day. Moore is A
years old, and was fne- looking man
before he was reduced almost to 4
ske.eton by privation. lie does not
drink, and is industrious when he can
get work. All his family is dead excent
an aunt, who lives in st. Louis, and
brother, In the Fourth United Sta,es
Cavalry, now at Porto Rico.
came from Delaware to Philadel.
phia 10 Years ago." be said at the hos.
pital, land worked steadily until last
August, when / fell from a soaffoldirg
at Wilmington, broke my right arm
and injured my back. / went to Prince.
ton then. where my sister lived. and
was laid up for five months. Then [
came back to the city. 1t has neser
gone we'll with me sincs. | am ms
strong as ever, but somehow i couldn't
get a steady job
Two weeks ago Monday | adver.
tised for work IN my line, and Mr.
Smaltz sent ME postal card Offering
me cbancA. When | went to b
office. $40 North Twelfth street, he
made contract with me to do some
carpenter work and painting on bjs
three houses, l237, 1899 and 1858 North
Fifteenth street. 1t was agreed that [
Vas to receive $40. 25 for the Job.
A that time | had Just 81. IS, and |
raid $3.50 of it for a little furnished
room. That left me 10 cents to live on
while was doing the work for Smaltz.
ny buying two cents worth of sta'e
bread every morning and soaking it 10
water kept my hunger from getting
too fierce, and managed to live unit /
had completed the work.
Then | asked for my money, but
Mrs Si6altz refused to nay me. She
said | had not done the work right.
II then worked another day with.
out pay and without food, tor my
money was gone, but that would not
satisfy her. .TYa
II could feel myself getting weak,
and begged her for few pennies, but
she would not pay me cent. That
was last Friday. DIR. Williamson, 1909
Arch street, helped me one night, but
for Sunday and Monday l had nothing.
went to the magistrate yesterday
to ask him to help me get my money,
and while l was telling him about
Smaltz | must have tainted. | didn't
know anything until 1 found myself
out here with nurse giving me hot
milk. "
Magistrate South said he noticed
nothing particularly weak about Mocre
until he tainted. Then, when they
unfastened his shirt, they saw his
emaoiated condition and sent for re.
ntoratives. 1t Is most pitiful case,
he added, land have had another
complaint against Smaltz. sent
around to Mrs Smaltz, and she do.
clnred sho would not pay until she as
oertained If the work done was salts.
factory to tho tenants. L. sent around
10 them and they all told mo it was
very we'll done. y
AZ the Smaltz homo last night 1t vas
SAID that Mr.. Smaltz WAS too i'll to see
any one, and Mrs. Smaltz was not ut
nome, young woman, who said she
was q daughter, asserted the reason
that Moore was not paid was because
he dld not do HE work right. Tha
family, she declared, knew nothing OF
his starving condition.