The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-06
New York Letter.

School for Beggars-
NEW YORK, March 5.-That there is
place in this city where able-bodied
men are furnished with crutches and then
sent into the streets to solicit aims was
brought out when James McGreeYey,
nineteen years old, was arraigned before
Magistrate Pool in the Yorkville court
McGreevey said that the school for beg
gars was located in a saloon in Park row.
near Baxter street, and that he had
spent two days there. with pair of
crutcheS by his side and a bandage on
his left hand, he sat on the sidewalk in
East Fourteenth street last Saturday
He had collected nearly 81 from pas
sersby, when two policemen arrested him.
after chase. He admitted that he was
not lame and that his hand was not in
jured, and said that the crutches had
been given him by one Of the band of
beggars which makes it's headquarters
in the Park row saloon.
Pastor Says Society Is Barbaric-
Members of Dr. Minot Savage's church,
the Messiah, were wondering before last
Sundays sermon was ended whether ne
had attended the Prince Henry gala on
era performance, for he took occasion
to say bitter things about what he had
witnessed in the Metropolitan opera house
fashionable women attend DIR. Savage 8
church, and no great Imagination was
required to fancy a shudder passing
through certain parts Of the congrega-
ton, as the pastor likened q boxholder
to Fiji islander. He said an Indian or
Fiji islander can be forgiven his ank-
lets and bracelets, his noserings and ear
rings, because, presumably, he has not
been developed to anything higher than
these; but the type Of society whose dis
tinguishing feature is that kind of thing
certainly is not human m the true sense
in which the word ought to be used
Tiffany's Amerfcan-Art Exhibit
Tiffany & Co. has gathered a little
group of bronzes by American scuIptors,
which is now on free exhibition on the
second floor of their establishment, where
the collection will remain for fortnight
or more. Some of the pieces, such as
Remington's "Broncho Buster" and the
Diana" of the Madison Square Garden
tower, are old and familiar friends, yet
good to see again, while a number of the
sculptures are shown to the public for
the first time here.
Among the works in the collection are
Augustus ST. Gauden's splendid figure.
The Puritan, reproduced in dark green
bronze, and his well known bas-reIfef
portrait or Stevenson; Frederick Raming-
The Cheyenne" the figure of an Indian
of that tribe in full war panoply. with
head feathers. bow, spear, war knife
and round shield hung at his back.
He is seated on a plunging horse. and
the whole group is full of the most vigor-
Gus action.
Squirrel Relief Fund
There was a balancing and final audit
of the Special Fund for the Relief Of
Deserving and INDECENT squirrels in tile
Arsenal in Central Park on Saturday,
fer with the disappearance Of the last
snow from the ground the objects for
which the relief had been organized
ceased to exist.
On the earlier occasions, while the
snow lay thick on the ground, there had
been long line of hungry squirrels
waiting in the bread line, young children
as well as the more robust fathers and
mothers of families, bobbing patiently
round the appointed trees for their por-
ton Of peanuts from the hands Of the
keepers.
On Saturday the committee reported
that there was no longer any need of
relief, that all well-conducted and
thrifty squirrels were able to find food