Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-01
KEEP AWAY
FROM new YORK
Metropolis Is Not a Paradise
For the Ambitious
Young Man
GREAT STRUGGLE OF THE POOR
Bayard Cutting Active in Socio
logical Work, Discusses
Problem.

Win Dfan, Drawn and nerve, New
York City, to which SO many of the
millions of youths of this land look
longingly as the fairy godmother
who shall one day send them a for.
tune-is no place for you.
That is practically the advice of
Bayard Cutting, son of Robert Fulton
Cutting, the noted financier. philan-
thropist. and prominent in American
politics
Seated in the home of his cousin.
Bronson NJ. Cutting on Buena Vista
Iona, the New Yorker, who has been
the associate of the very rich and
the very poor, talked interestingly
yesterday Of the metropolis and the
great struggle that is going on there
daily, hourly by the thousands and
tens of thousands of those in the bat
tie for the necessities of life.
A member of one of the most noted
New York families, Mr.. Cutting. like
his father, has become prominent in
n.
OF the Association fo- the Improve
ment of the Condition of the Poor; he
has done active work to help the poor
OF his city; he is no dreamer: he is
keenly alive to the urgent needs of
those less favored with this worlds
goods.
Only little past thirty years Of
age; tall and we'll built with strik-
ing and attractive face, Bayard Cut
ting impresses you the moment you
meet him as man who takes life
more seriously than the average per
son you have read about in New York
high society.
There are a great many poor,
wretchedly poor people in New York,
Dut are they not longing for the free
and roomy Westo Have they been
told about it?'' was asked.
Il do not think that mary of them
are anxious to leave the gay metropo.
lis, even though they have to sleep
in the streets on hot nights to get
h'x4thing TooiG. They have become
attached to the life OF the great.
throbbing city, he replied.
To a Westerner, who feels like a
jail-bird when he goes to big city,
this assertion may seem strange
enough. What does it mean? Why,
simply this: With all the gasping
poverty, the poor in New York are
dazzled by the bright lights, the
whirl and gayety, which belongs to a
metropolis Of four million souls. To
them the wild ringing of the fire gong
the roar of the factories, the noise of
the elevated cars, the rattle of count
less wagons on the streets. the whir
OF motor cars and the rush and tear.
the hustle and rustic, the veritable
tug OF war of pedestrians In the
streets, = part of their daily life
and they do not wish to be divorced
from 1t any more than the Santa
Fean would give up his vision OF a
great big sun in the morning, or
snow-capped Mount Baldy to smile on
him as he returns from his work.
You have four million in New
York today, will you have the ten
million Ignacius Donnelly predicted,
was asked.
Mr.. Cutting paused a minute and
then replied: 1T is problem how
New York will take in many more
millions and be able to provide SUI.
ficiently rapid transportation to car.
ry them all to and fro. New York.
IN . way. is hampered by rivers
which have to be crossed and which
have heretofore made five cent car
fare for the working man impossible.
transportation is q serious matter
when millions Of people have to be
considered and the distances that
are necessitated by the spreading
out of SO many homes"
Asked if the work for the better
ment of the poor meets with the ap.
proval of the poor themselves. the
young sociological worker nodded as-
sent: When the poor realize that
those who wish to help them have
something they really need: when
they see that the workers are .profes-
sionar in the sense that have been
trained to study the needs IL the poor
and strive to tighten their burdens
they seldom look askance ct this aolic-
ifude. Even the matter Of food that
VIII sustain a family has been studied
and there are women who lecture a
scores Of families each day instruct
Ing them in the diet problem, which.
once understood by the poor man
will enable him to provide the receaai.
ties OF life AZ economically % pos.
sible."
Why is 1t that factory IRIS II
New York are frightfully anderpe 4. Z.
said the interviewer, sGrantina fbat
this condition exists ~ rerlfsa. lssit
may be explained to 4 certain exfxiSf
BY the fact that many girls are prScfl,
cally supported BY their familiSs m /
work out to get extra money 81 dre
well. Such girls can, oe cu1u
work at less than 1 .living waa9s SEI
this may prove sxro2t hard1Kii
the girl who has no Auch q NJ s|
view, but i forced IA tn q SIs1 g e
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