Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-10
Had Once Been Prominent in Official Life, Now De-
 pends on Charity
WAS ONCE PRINCE
 AMONG FINANCIERS
Recently Arrested for Pur- Joining Coat-Jugged
 for Drinking

NEW YORK, May 9.-Many per sons doubtless were surprised when they read the statement of census enumerator week or so ago that he had found among the outcasts of the Bowery man who had once been prom inent in the diplomatic service of the United States, also two former members of congress and number of men who in their day, before drink and adVer, sity had overtaken them, had occupied high and honorable positions Tn the pulpit. at the bar, and in the medical and other professions. Surprising the statement may be, but not at all inn probable. as evidenced by the case of Edward NJ. Field, the story of whose life has again been brought into print this week.
 After living for years the life of a common vagabond and tramp, subsist- inc for time on the bounty of those he knew in prosperity and later cared for by the Salvation army, Edward Morse Field, the favorite son of Cy- rus w. Field, the "Father of the At lantic Cable,' is in Bellevue hospital destitute and suffering with nephritis. If he lives to leave the hospital he will probably return to the Bowery to resume the life he has led for the past fifteen years. He has no visible means of support and his friends long ago abandoned his case as hopeless.
 Less than twenty years ago Field was one of the princes if not one of the kings. of Wall street He was rich, honored. beloved-beloved most of all by his beautiful wife, the sister of ms mariner, Daniel Lindley, and by ms father, who John Bright said, was = the Columbus who moored the old world beside the new" with his Atlantic ca, ble. When disgrace came to Edward M. Field it broke his wife's heart anu it killed his father.
 Field has not only the distinction or heinz the son of Cyrus w. Field. He IS the nephew of the three famous fleids Stephen J., justice of the supreme court of the United States; David Dnd- lev. authority on international law, leading abolitionist and member of con gress, and Henry Martyr, the noted author and divine.
 In 1891 Edward NJ. Field was charged with wrecking the brokerage hrm or Filed. Lindley, Wiechers Co.,, when ne failed for $3,000,000 He disappeared, was found and was committed as n- sane to an asylum in Buffalo in 1892, It was always disputed that he was m, sane, and it is certain that he ehJoyeo full liberty within the institution. lie was released as sane in 1894, and was then liable to trial on several lndlct- meuts for forgery and grand larceny, but he was not tried and in lS9S the indictments were dismissed on the ground that there was no possibility of convicting him.
 He continued to go down hill, was arrested at various times for druhN' enness and once for stealing a coat in Broadway office building. He was picked up on the Bowery in 1904 and sent to the psychopathic ward of Bell , eyue. At that time he was living in a lodging house in the neighborhood ot He'll s Kitchen.
 About two years ago Field drltted one night into the Hadley Rescue mis sion in the Bowery. In the mssiol that evening was Bradley Lee Gilbert a well known architect who now occu pies as offices the suite of Cyrus w Field, in the building at the foot oi Broadway, from whose windows Edward M. Field used to signal his yacht ofl th' battery when he was ready to have | carry him up the Hudson to his home Gilbert was an early friend of Field il college days. When he found Field Il the mission he persuaded him to go t' the "mourners bench' The mlssioi people took an interest in him an' found him employment in the SalVa ton Army lodging house in Chatham Square. There he continued to mak his headquarters until overtaken by tn illness which again necessitated his re moval to Bellevue.