The Washington herald., 1908-08-26
PICTURE DRIVES
HIM TO SUICIDE
LegleSS Man Sees His Life
Tragedy on Canvas.
CHARACTER ON FIFTH AVENUE
Fond Young Wife Finds Clifford
savage Dead from Gas After He
and Grown DesDonacat ever His
TII-stHrred Lot in Life.

New York. Aug 25.-It was not his az
fiction that preyed on clifford SavaEs-s
mind. Terribly manned in railroad ac-
c.cent two years ago and deprived Of
both legs. the boy-he was scarcely more
than that-mauaEed better than many
men who are whole
He was one OF the everyday sights OF
Fifth avenue. between Tweury-third and
Forty-second streets He covered all OF
that mile of busy thoroUghfare. helpless
as he was. with the Eansoms az the cross
ings 20 be doGged. the crowds on the
sidewalks. the shoppers. the building OBJ
structious. and all the rest.
Every one who walked daily on the ave
nue has. seen him. sitting in trim toy
go-cart and peddInE papers. OF else rae
ing along the avenue drawn by a team Of
two dogs He sold papers 10 a good many
-ich men. and sometimes he received a
good deal more than a poor mans price
for his papers.
Efforts to Be Cheerful
But whether he took in more or less.
the boy was always just as contented. 10
all appearances. He had even a happy
T
sionaIly cheerful look Of persons who
make living by appealing 10 sympathies.
but at any rate men liked him. and would
walk blocks 10 get their papers from the
young fellow in the dog wagon
Besides he looked like a mere boy. No
one would be surprised 70 hear that
he was twenry-Jhree years old and over
a year married.
1t was not his wife either that weighed
on SavaEe's good spirits. They lived com
fortably IN a tiny fiat at 153 East Twenty
first street. or the ground floor He made
from s. 10 s. a day she says. and she
well. when he drove up 10 the front door
in the evening and whistled, she ran out
and helped him in. and sat him down 10
supper, and embarrassed the dogs and fed
them. and acted in every way quite like
the peculiar style Of ideal wife that such
a fellow needed.
Fond of His Wife.
She was fond OF him, and there was
some romance IN their marriage. lust
after his recovery from months in the
hospital. OF which she will not now tell.
And there is little doubt that he was as
fond Of her. as he could hardly do less
than be.
But there was much that was not hap
piness in the dog-wagon boys mind. One
thing that he had and clung TO was a col
lection Of posters. an odd fad for a news
boy. He had stacks Of them. a whole
room full. q room given exclusively TO
storing them. in his tiny fat They were
an old fad of his earlier days. and he
clung 70 them still His wife busted them
carefully.
They were just one sign that the boy
came Of pretty good people His wife
says that she knows that much. even
though she has never seen any Of them.
And. the girl adds. they live in Hartford
where he came from
The boy knew al kinds OF things, the
girl says. and could talk about electricity,
and ssAboats and all sorts Of fine things.
though that wasn't what they talked
mostly Of when il was just the two Of
them together. She liked more 70 talk
about the dogs. she did. and ask had they
done any smart tricks to-day-and he'd
always have a good story to tell her
about them And about the Avenue. and
how the swell people looked there, and all
such things.