Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-16
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RipDIes on the Current of Life in tn,
.'a Metropolis.

Rtp9Ies ON the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.
James T. McQuade a New York million
aire, is convinced by his own experience
that money alone does not make life worth
the living. There are other things more
conducive to happiness and contentment.
McQuade has money in abundance, but
his home is wrecked, his family scattered.
His case is a type of many revealed in
divorce courts, and his story related I'm
court conveys a useful lesson. IF / had
been a poor man." he said. IT would have
been happily married but being rich
have to bear all the ills the rich are heir
to. When l married, seventeen years ago,
my wife was the daughter Of boarding
house keeper in Philadelphia She didn't
have a cent. And 1t turned out to be like
putting a beggar on horseback. Pros
perity turned her head. Gradually it got
so no longer had any say in the house.
We slowly drifted apart. became wealth
Ter and as did we increased the size and
cost of our household. It was nothing
for us to spend $4,000 year.
Now am dissatisfied. I constantly am
craving for more money My marriage was
failure and / am constantly and increas-
ingIy busy. And I know hundreds of
others who are in the same way. A
wealthy man never can live happily"
During fifteen months, beginning with
July, 1904 New York CITY maintained a
mendoancy squad, which was a detail Of
policemen in plain clothes 10 work in con-
junction with the charity organization in
the arrest of street beggars. During the
time 1883 arrests were made and consid-
cradle more or less useful information was
gathered concerning the business of beg
gary. The arrests were made in practi-
cally every instance before the days work
was over; the average collections, there
fore, cannot be taken as the full day aver
age profits OF beggary The average
| amount In possession at time of arrest was
s2l4, the sum of 1900 having been taken
from the entire 1858 mendicants.
! Discrimination was made I'm the arrests;
only those known TO be professional beg
| gars were taken. The experience OF the
| squad 1t is said, demonstrated that the
great majority Of beggars in the street
were habitual mendicants. plying their
trade because they found Il more lucrative
| TO beg than to work II It is correctly as
| sumed that the average OF s214 found on
| the beggars represented only the average
| OF that one days collections, up to the time
/ OF arrest II must be conceded that mendi-
cancy is fairly profitable as a steady job.
In the more than 1900 arrests there were
! doubtless many who had been at work
| only a few hours. and IL can fairly be as
sumed that the working hours OF the ar
| rest days did not average over two-thirds
OF full time. II that Is so, beggary profits.
| reckoneo on fun day basis, would
amount to about an average Of 1921 daily.
! 1t seems to be certain now that China
town, that squalid patch Of lower New York
embraced by Mott. Doyers and Pell streets,
win soon be thing OF the past. 1t was
always a shine" as a sight, and only the
rubes who patronize the zap wagons ever
gave II serious attention. The native New
Workers know II for what it is worth and
that Is not much. The chinks Of this quar-
ter are a lot OF cheap grafters, who trade
on the interest which ali whites have In
things they know nothing about. China
town is a pest hole. The shirt ironers from
all parts of the city go down 10 play their
favorite games and TO smoke the dope
They fall TO hghting among themselves
over the gambling privileges, and then q
4 lot OF people think that something In the
way Of a political feud is going on. There
Is nothing OF the sort. When they beglr
shooting It is all over a small matter OF
graft.
Nicholas McDermott OF New York Cip
was very poor and In bad health. Blu
there was a wife and two babies TO thini
Of. SO Nicholas McDermott, facing life