The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-13
NEW yoRk,s pEHsLIcra.
one-fourth Are College Bred Men
Of Superior Education.

citation the inmates are classified ur-
der following heads: University, Col
legiate, Academic, High School and
Common School In the year just
closed the total number of men aided
was 3,22S. OF these II were placed in
the first category, 154 in the second,
II iii the third and AT in the ourth,
making an aggregate of 500 who ha1
received better than a common school
education.
Strange revelations are made by
the men. Among them have been
found former ministers and professors,
men of all classes and conditions and
belonging to families of the highest
distinction Recently a speaker at
one of the meetings was man hold
| ing a high place in a large manufac-
turing corporation. Twenty-one years
ago, according to the records of the
association, he was drinking in every
saloon of the Bowery. Another OF
those who addressed the men on the
same night had come there years ago
a poverty stricken but shrewd and
clever German. He was regenerated,
became sober man, and since served
as acting Consul General of the United
tries.
Not long ago graduate of an Ohio
university came to New York with
small means, intending to take post
| graduate course in a local university.
The enticement of the city caught
him, his money vanished and he final
ly turned to the branch for help. With
five certificates of graduation In va
rious courses from different institu-
tions, he took position that paid him
SO a week
Men with diplomas from theolog-
tcal seminaries, graduates of Harvard,
Pennsylvania, Rochester and SYRIA
cuse universities, all blow in here,
and about month ago a Yale man,
without shirt to his back, asked for
aid We make no distinction regard
ing color, creed, social condition or
nationality.
Our statistics for the year 1905
show that the men who appealed to III
came from all the large cities and
towns throughout North America and
from twenty-nine foreign countries.
Eighty-five per cent. were between the
ages of eighteen and thirty-five, put
the majority of the college bred men
were less than thirty. Seventy-tive
] per cent we're single men and thirty
eight per cent. were total abstainers
Twenty-six per cent of them had
been educated in universities, colleges,
academies or hign schools. In citi-
zenship seventy-six per cent. were
American and twenty-four per cent
foreign. There were represented 1873
different professional and trades. Oi
the 1928 men two per cent, had oc-
cupied professional positions, seven
teen per cent. clerical, thirty per cent.
were skilled.
"Curiously enough, seventy per cent.
had been in New York fewer than
thirty days, which is striking COM
mentary on the rapidity with which
men fall into the maelstrom of met
ropolitan nfe.
I'm the large majority of cases, OF
course, it is drink, but in many IN
stances the men are victims of circum-
stances In Industrial lines conditions
are constantly changing and the
greatest change has been brought
about by the increase in the number
Of large combinations These eventu-
ally mean overproduction and the clos.
ing down of Industrial establishments
A young man comes in from the coun-
try with fifteen dollars and he thinka
he has a lot of money. Unable to
find work, it slowly or quickly, AS
the case may be, dwindles, and to
economic, he drifts to the Bowery,
where living is cheaper. In many
cases, If he is not robbed of the little
he has, he Is caught by the tinsel
FL. no Ts Of the streets, and unless
1t is too late we finally get him.
Eliminating the question Of dissi-
patton, l think the chief reason why
so many college men reach these
straits is that the colleges are turning
out more men than there is demand
for. OF course, men with special apt.-
tudes and training are always want
ed, but those who are not proficient
in any particular line can not catch
hold. The numbers of these are in
creasing yearly. Many of them are
not capable of undertaking Ordinary
business affairs, and there is nothing
else for them to do. What they may
be best fitted for they are out OF con-
tact with, and at ordinary labor they
are unhandy.
. Some Of those who come here are
, not drinking men, but those who have
found themselves without resources.
They come here and get a position,
for, say, IS a week, as many of them