The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-23
1ElCHEn WAS
COMMON TRAMP
hsvsy 0rasme rurbay, Teacher, In
cbviAts and Temperance Lecturer,
lattles 10 Save Fellow Men.

< 0UyI1oo ana Iompefhnoc Le0euea,
Dattles 10 Save Fellow Men.
III NEW YORK. April 22--Lifting
4 1gunken man out OF the quite, aisa ~
4 xo(hiuR his battered head with Ice
V)nfor vas the Samaritan work In
+ Uh1ch Or. Harvey Graeme Furpay
wnn onraeed whom q reporter came
+ nncn the Industrial Christian worker
\ Fl u cornor Of Sullivan and Bleeck-
inota The former Presbyterian min
Hknf. tramp. teacher, inebriate and
I. foDnosapce lecturer stopped pathihs
~ {noS OF the man long enough To
+ 6rann1ns closely the battered features
616 than calling to q man In the
n ovd thar proesed around he told him
\ ~ call an ambulance. Lifting the VIC
tn q intoxication a. IL he were
ohlld. the man who has been read
y mittod 70 the fold Of the church ne
- ten years ago carried him 10 a
/. 6oorvay. When the ambulance ar
Rived the surgeon saw that the man
fad Y bad wound on the back OF his
had and was otherwise battered. DIR.
rugbny uaid the drunken man was
formerly q Wnll-st. broker.
when the ambulance had disappear
"A With ks burden. DR.. Furbay turned
ana quietly said: Il know all about
that Seake. not only from observation,
hut hfpm ACTUAL experience. never
know Why I drank, but I presume II
PVao 4he old story Of one glass. then
oncth6k Domestic sorrow will drive
= 08G hlmoss 10 anything, and II Is
NAs0yo hear thst can stand by the
Wfook q de ship when the spokes OF
'4ho&Mhssi have been broken.
4 Brighter psy " Dawnins.
nat that y thS story OF yesterday,
mxEIs6tardags em looking forward
~ AZ )odaT WITH hope. an9 with
30 3uqe6 hold on lire. Drink ana
90 ] Gould have stopped; felt
Is eoH o. he wtld. and wandered,
7 - vtR. north and south.
Y9SVnf bad the growing for drink
1oG&& school for awhile and did not
~ \ drop for months, then one
~ 6ii&fsecing in Chicago I felt the
ot1 az the areat and useless army OF
IAY OMUXWV1Vy "a WaA(h AAhc III ttD AcN&>~
the book blood, men who were nur-
turoa carefully and zealously. fitted
for some honorable profession, and
he ranks Of which are filed with the
worst examples Of human beings.
With the paihapdlers l learned how
they looked at life and why they con-
adhered the world oSed them Nv
&nE.
still drinking. I ventured into New
York, where | was well known, and i
MAS arrested here after I had sold all
my clothing for more drink. l was
cent to the island handcuffed TO a
Negro.
Waited the MeAuley Mission.
A few days after my release l visit
"a the McAuley mission In Water-st..
and was taken care Of by the late Mr..
U0d1ey- ! expressed contrition for my
\ Uo1t life that night In the presence OF
hree of my former classmates and
tier I applied for admission as a con-
Wrt TO DR.. Stephenson, Of the Fifth
NJ. Presbyterian church. A year ago
applied foi admissio INTO the Presby-
terry of the church. and now after ten
yeArs OF missepnt life and one years
probation I have been taken once
4tO1E tAlO l0G 0lA&ot6El at IOiQ4
THE great body Of lerelicts may be
divided into two classes One Is the de-
fectives. who have constitutional de-
fects. either organic or traumatic and
are sub1eots for treatment by the
ailenist and physician rather than the
psychologist: we do not attempt to do
the undeveloped class which yields to
- thu ~ Cnfyff
~ shown by McAuley, Wooley and
Thousands Of other men.
As am going to stay right In this
WORT OF tho Industrial Christian Al
Nance. l may as well tell you OF the
okter class. Man Il either an asset
Or . liability. This proposition which
tpm dealing with and win continue to
deal WITH In cur new building at Bond
md Bleecksr-sts. involves the funda-
mental principles OF society.
many KINDS OF unempIoysd.
sQf course, there IL the bona fide
upfmplOyed man, but also I'm the class
q ne unemployed IL the criminal, the
be6gnr, the professional faker and the
mendicant. And when you come TO
deal with this problem you have TO
eoDar4te these classes or in5ure the
vefy men xou wish to help. I get
a1ouG with the criminal pretty wen,
tbs dsfslict fairly well. The profess
sioud nasdioant is the most hopeless
factor on the face Of the earth; his
tears are form OF hysteria and the
majority aare neurasthenics to q de-
gree.
Here we try to build up mans
body - well as his soul. II he IL
hungry we feed him, we get him
something TO do 30 he does not de-
veiop . spirit of mendicancy. but he
feeas everything he has he has earned.
20 We have q workshop here where
Tor fbuR hours Q day we give a man
food end lodgings. Last year we pro-
vded $4,000 lodgings In return for
work and $4,000 meals for men who
did work. Over at the municipal
lodging house they provided $4,000
lodgings without recompense of work.
Il am proud of that. and there Is
no reason why we could not provide
100000 lodgings II we had room
onouuh Anv man who can earn a liv.