The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
RAMSCAR CAURIEDORF TO JAIL
HOU SEkEEPER WANTED WAGES
AND WOI LDN'T rAkE TAIN.

Proprietor Has Been for Many Iears oeg.
ging On the Name % One Home 90
Another F01ndrd ny Hlmsen when
N Trsuble He PisSs the COaeertina.
The Margaret Jane Non-sAetarian
Home Tor Aged Indigsnt People and
Inourablss from All tho States . Refuge
% Properly Nourish the Body and Pre-
pare thu Soul for Eternity" q nainna Its
manager and maker William r. Rams-
car. professional home founder and
dsvotea Il the concertlns. is hirnssa a
dependant on charity. He 70 looked
up in the Ludlow street Jail because he
couldn't pay a $50 judgment ordered by
Judge Hoyer in tho Sixth District Munic.
ipal Court
Mrs. Mary Russell. whom kamscAr
engaged 20 10 his housskesper in the
Margaret Jane Home at Si3 East Eighty
ninth street, sued for $50 back wages.
The Legal Aid Society appeared for hsr
and MAKimus A. Lesser wac RamscaT
attorney. On February q the court
decided that the defendant muat pay the
money. giving him until March 20 do u.
When be failed 10 comply City Marshal
Mulvihill led HIM away 20 tho Jail.
The cherries dreary llargarst Jane
Home. a memorial 10 wife with whom
he has not lived for MANY years. was
founded last May by RamscaT The
inmates. ssven altogether. are all over
eS years OF age for Stat was enc 81 the
requirements Tor admission there. besides
the IS Zee and ts.55 a month board OF
oourse Rarnscar couldn make a 90 81 Il
on 50 small an income, 90 he solicited the
aid of Q good many chiritaoly inclined
persons. who didn care % talk abnut
Il last night There isn' very much
left in the homo except a few beds and
stray carpets and small stove that
does the beat it can The inmates thrown
on their own resources are IN sorry
plight; az
old now ana 10 abort and fratl. His long
white beard and ecclesiastto barring
you may have seen. He was born IN
Lancashire England and came 20 thls
country about nifty yeara ago. since
then he has busted himaelf IN the held
Of the kind 81 charity that begins AZ home.
with occasional crusadea against the
LIQUOR tranac Despite many seteacLs.
such 40 one or two convictions in the
courts the old man has stuck % th4 ioh.
never discouraged or downhearted when
be had come new project in mind.
InO9e VINO nlNe lntrTe-Ntf1 Nlef1oEiNrs
IN the man sly that the charity authori-
siet IN this town have bounded him.
that sney haven't given him half q chance
70 make good because they are suspicious
OF anything he q oes on account 81 his
earlier tricks Here are n few 81 the
RAnnscar institutions OF the past:
The Reform Relief Assoc lat ion ~ Feed
the Hungry and Reform Rotten fns'itntions
The Peabody Home fer Aged Women
1879
The School in which 70 Train 0irls in he
of Cooking iS-'
The OLD Gentlemen nssc'trian Here
for AeSd Men. 1875
The Free Outing n Coaches for the Poor
In Homes and Hospitals. Is5e
The Free Vocal and InsfrumsAtA! Enrer-
,ainrnentF n Charitable institutional. 1877
There are others IA the hst too Rams
caT acquired the habit Of founding new
homes every little while When hs
wearied Of the commonplace he would
take hts concerrina clear his throat ana
give entertainments he never got over
his passion for music
In Issp the od man was convicted % ar
Assault upon one Of the inmates Of an Old
men home he was operating on Wash
lnRton Heightt He " salI 10 have been
arrested a good many times for Assault
and mendiCancy Zach Of his hom~r vas
broken " ~ ne chsr,'Ite Grsan,za.
IN the run for years
When things were breaking right for
he old man Re used 20 uresS after the
ashton % tne c.srSv making ~ OfoInd
IMPRESSION everywhere b vent Ne
oosed as a phi,a th-oT's and oresented
MS caru