The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1874, Page 5

CARDINAL VIRTUES, Portrayal of Poverty Scenes and the Claims of the Needy. PICTURESQUE CHARITY. ————_—— Sketch of a Woman’s Industrial Society. THE SOUP KITCHENS. Yesterday Mr. Delmonico furnished to the nu- merous applicants at the twelve soup houses a splendid mutton broth, which was pronounced to be the best made yet by a number of experienced gourmets who accompanied the chef, M. Ranhoffer, in bis peregrinations through the different dis- tricts where soup houses bave been established, There wasa great rush, a8 usual, at the Sixth Precinct, and 360 gallons were distributed; but there is reason to believe that on Sundays many of the honest and modest poor are ashamed to be Seen in the streets, where their wretched gar- | ments contrast so unfavorably with the good and comfortable clothing of the more lucky people. One of the most distressing cases that have come under the observation of the HERALD re- porter in visiting the soup kitchens is that of a very respectable widow lady, Mrs, Elizabeth Ar- mour, who lives in room 3 of the second floor of No. 57 Columbia street, in the Thirteenth ward. ‘This lady bas suffered exceeding privation and misery, and her story is indeed @ pitiful one. Two years since her husband, who was a very infuen- tal employé of the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, was last seen on @ Staten Island ‘lerryboat, and then he disappeared. | Whether ne committed sucicide or Whether be was foully Ceait with is not known, but from the moment he was seen on the ferryboat mothing has been heard of him, Mrs. Armour was leit with a@ large and growing lamily, two young girls, one of whom is getting very ‘small wages in | @ factory, while the other has a very dangerous | attack of consumption. The smaller children had been going to schoo! until last week, when their | clothes became so bad that Mrs, Armour had re- luctantly to keep them home. Her month’s rent, | for tnree rooms, has not been paid x February, and ali day on Friday the family had ‘nothing to eat. The apartments Of this unfortunate lady, who has had also the misiortane to sprain ber wrist, rendering her unfit for any labor, are scrupulously clean and tidy. The charitable ladies of New York will find no more deserving or pitiul case than that of Mrs, Armour, and she needs relief immediately. On Friday and Saturday this poor family, who never had to ask assistance until they iost their pro- tector, were furnished with plenty of good, hot soup, which saved them for the time being, They called at the soup kitchen No. 224 Delancey street, and thus their case became known from iniorma- tion given by one of Captain Hedden’s special oflicers. PICTURES OF POVERTY. Phe Depths of Despair—Destitation and Death—The Economy of Neeessity— Bare Walls and Naked Sodies—A Mother’s Devotion—Generous Hearted Women=—The Charity Box at Earile’s Hotel. Turning away from the sad details in the pic- tures of poverty, some relief is found in looking upon the work done by the kindhearted volunteer visitors of St. John’s Guild throughout the city; and it will be found that even where these gen- erous souls come promptly to the assistance of the Atarving the scenes are often almost terrible. AN AUSTRALIAN SAILOR SICK AND DESTITUTE. Edward Wrexel was porn in Australia and came to this country as a sailor. At Charleston, 8, C., he was attacked by fever and was leit there in the hos- pital. When he had partially recovered the rector ofachurch there gave him a letter to a distin- guished clergyman of this city, and, obtaining | Dassage on a bark, hither he came. He endeay- ored to present his tetter to the gentleman ad- dressed, but was told by the seXton of the church where he applied that he could not be given an aadience, asthe reverend gentleman was in the country (7). Fortwo days and nights the poor fellow, suffering as he was from chills and fever, walked about the streets. He applied at the station houses and was refused lodging; he went to the Office of the Howard Relief, and was tola to apply at St. John’s Guild. He came in the afternoon, and presented a most pitiful spectacle, trembling as he was from a heavy chill, and ctad in tatters that streamed from him in ribbons. He wag given money to buy food and sent to the physician of the Guild (Dr, Thurman), who prescribed for him and put lim up a package Of medicines, From the clothing bureau he was furnished with warm wrappings and new undergarments, and, as he wisued to get to Boston, where he knew several shipowners, he was given a note to the Superin- tendent of the Narragansett Steamship Company, who kindly gave him passage. 4 THE SICK, CRIPPLED AND DRSTITUTE. Irs. Reisig, One Of the lady volunteers, reports jt at No. 301 Seventh avenue, in tne rear house, she found a Mrs, Miner, whosé Husband is sick, and who has seven childrén, the youngest two ‘days old, Nowe of them are big enough to earn any- thing, qua they have no food nor juel, save cinders picked from the garbage barrel. One has to ap- | Pl the building by crossing on a board heif uried in filth, : At No, jw Eighth avenue, in the rear, Mrs. Reisig found @ poor woman, named MdcDunald, Whose husband, a carpenter, is disabled. The woman has to provide for thg family, but tor many days could obtain no work. A little girl, three years old, is their only child, and this poor creature bad no covering save a thin Dightgown. They had no food and kept a poor | fire by means of a scanty supply of cinders. The Jandiord in the meantime 1s incessantly demand- ing the payment of rent due, fir. Yhomas Denny reports the case of Widow Cain, of No. 25 Leonard street, who has three chil- | dren, one of tnem a boy who lost one of his legs | along time ago. They were destitute of every- thing necessary for tne support of lie, There was neither bed nor bedciotning; au old table, a chair and a stove were the only articles of iurniture. | This is in room 27, and there are few rooms in the house that do not present a similar appearance. Mr. Denny sums up another case his usual briet way:—“‘in No. 196 Mott street, rear house, | Grst Noor, Hannah Kahler was found suffering from | @ complication of diseases, but with a good appe- | tite and nothing to eat, Gave her $1 and gro | ‘erios.—DENNY.”” | WHE ECONOMY OF POVERTY. | Mrs. Eustace lives at No. 409 East Twelfth street; 1s employed in washing dishes at a restaurant in Prince street, near Broadway, and is paid $12 per | month, From this she has to pay $6 50 per Month. | ‘Thus she has lett for the support of herself and four children, fora month, $5 50. In order to live sbe had to send the children for three months to | Randall’s Island. The wuchoricies were about to send them West, but she could not bear the sepa- ration aad she brought them home. To keep them warm she made them lie in bed day and Bight, as she could nos afford to buy coal and had no time to pick up cinders, Her month's wages are due on Wednesday next, but a day or two ago sue asked for @ dollar, when she was grumly toid by the restaurauteur, “i pay When the moutu’s up—that’s the way I do business.”? A SHINING EXAMPLE, Mr. W. C. Peckham, of No. 19 East Seventeenth | street, on Friday issued an invitation to ourteen of her lady friends to come together and make clothing for the poor. They caked upon several merchants and asked them (o supply tne materials jor their work, and in twenty-four hours from tbe time when the society was organized many of these garmeuts were the only covering ‘Ol poor little wails of the Eighth ward. Mrs, Peck- ham was furnished with a carriage free of cost tor her round of visits to the merchants by Mr, Bra: icy, corner of Eighteenth street and Fourth ave- nue, and the material for the first clothing manu- Jactured was contributed by Conklin & Co., of Broadway and Ninth street. A GOOD IDEA. | A few days ago the Messrs. Earl Brothers, or | Farl’s Hotel, placed upon their desk a box for the | receipt of donations for the St. John's Guild Re- Mief Fund, and since that time $20 has been de- posited therein in small sums. THE ALSACIENNE-LORRAINE BALL. fo THE Eprron or TRE HERALD:— 1 take pleasure in informing you that the total amount of the receipts for the ball had on the 17th nit. was $1,417; expense 44 83; fit for Our emigrants, iota rar you, eee PH SIRAUSS, President. THE CASE OF MRS. AUCK. We have received from Mrs, R. A. Brennan the sum of $81 75, which has been collected from the employés of the Olympic Theatre for the relief of Mrs, Hock, whose case Was Teported in tho HERALD | do justice to the scenes presented at “the dinner’ | given daily at this estavlisument to the destitute. | | Bgtigets ests? da ) all inquiries the applicant is sent to the bathroom WEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1874.—TRIPLE PICTURESQUE CHARITY. ae Charity hag many aspecte—among others its “picturesque” side. To the student of human na- ture there are many phases of practical philan- thropy, as exhibited in the charitable institutions of New York, which are very suggestive, peculiar and striking; whieh contain in them all no element of the picturesque, Ajew of these are pointed out tn this article, THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. One of the most picturesque ana almost poetical phases of charity and of poverty which can be seen in the metropolis is to be witnessed in the rear hati of the Astor House from about three o'clock ull half-past four every afternoon. About this time the (ood that has not been consumed at the restaurant attached to the hotel is given away to the poor—either to their rep- resentatives, such a8 the Sisters of Charity, or to the poor pé:sonally. The Sisters come in a wagon, and tue best part of the food is given to them, to be applied to their many and excellent charities. When the Sisters have been served and the wagon has driven away, then comes what Longieliow could indeed call the children’s hour.” ‘Then troop im with their baskets poor children from ali parte of the city—some coming even from Harlem, and one from Brooklyn, though the major- ity are, of course, from the poorer wards in the vicinity. These children are of respectable parents, no merely professional vagrants or bummers being attended to; and the spectacle presented by little hungry, expectant, patient humanity, waiting for the food which, although unsold and forgotten by the rich, forms the all in ail of many a poor Jamily, 18 deed an aspect of picturesque charity which would gladden a philanthropist. Other hotels have fallen into the habit of giving their surplus provisions to the worthy poor, A great dea) of good is done in this way. It is a fact worth mentioning in this connection that very sel- dom indeed is a negro chiid to be met with among these ‘charity children.” And, im fact, the col- ored people oi New York, like the Jews, seem to manage their own charitics admirably among themselves, | Another picturesque aspect of charity is pre- sented at the Carme) chapel, No, 134 Bowery—con- nected with the lodging house No. 185 Spring stréet—three times a day, between the hours of | seven and nine in the morning, at noon and from five to seven at night. At these three periods meals are given at the nominal price of five cents to as many as have either the money or its rep- resentative ticket, and the crowd sometimes amounts to hundreds, filling the sidewalks, “It is NOT A FIRE—ONLY A FREE LUNCH,"? said a policeman to the writer, about one o’clock, ashe watched the poor souls rushing for their soup. But the term was a misnomer, as tle “lunch” is not, strictly speaking, tree, though, of couse, the charge is merely nominal, and as tue uickets are geverally given away by the charitable, who buy them in quantities, the “lunch” is free to those partaking ol it. It 18 impossible for the English language fully to Breakiast is not so weil patronized. class has been scattered ail about the city all night and 18 not able to concentrate. Supper, too, is not so greatly in demand; for by that time these poor people are dispersed avout the town begging or seeking refuge for the night; but at dinner they all put in an appearance, “Besides,” said a poor patron of this daily dinner to the loafer, “‘we don’t care much for the cotlee; tt 18 the soup We want. It is vegetable oy bo; and good an The unled tuck ;” and the eptaker sinicked his lips to emphasize Me Norge the gro aL ger Oh the biildihg is occupied as a ctiapel—where there are fire and seate—attra tion ehofigh to keep the place tull from mornin; to night with men who have nowhere else on this wide earth to rest, Between the hours of twelve @nd one @ prayer meeting is hela, at which some real, and, itis feared, much bogus piety is exhib- ited. Then the ngraps 2 is thrown open, and down in line march the poor hungry men to their dinner—the great event oftheir miserable day. Rough tables, large bowis, chairs and benches | here and there, @ succession of rough, wretched | men entering, taking off their hats, sitting | down, eating their soup without a word (eat- ing a second bow! Of soup if they happen to have a five cents extra with them), and then arising to make room for ovher wretcnes; such are the main features of the scene. In the rooms up stairs there are alibrary and labor bureau, and to their privileges a certain number of the poor patrons of this charity restaurant are admitted. But, unfortunately, it so happens that those who have the most need o1 these privi- leges are just the class who cannot partake of them, for the more dilapidated and wretched of the poor are not allowed to go up stairs at all. ‘rhe line must be drawn somewhere, and tne manager Oi the place draws it by @ man’s clothes, ‘The poor man, With a coat and a pair of shoes, is allowed to ascend to the library; bat the still poorer one, with a still Shabbier coat and @ stili more ragged pair 01 shoes, is not thus permitted | to ascend—unlortunate, certainly, for the still | poorer man. | ‘The lodging house connected with Carmel chapel | has been controlled by @ rough and reauy in- dividual named Churchill, who has had a plentiiul experience With Ife, and who occasionally makes it lively for anybody who resists bis will. He has been known to trounce a refractory lodger into | submission, and some of bis encounters with his | lodgers have been as icturesque’ as the poetry of motion can make them. To ‘gt the truth, this Churchill is generally in the fight. LAVATER AT A DISCOUNT. To the physiognomist the Free Labor Bureau on Clinton place ts the most discouragingly picturesque place in the metropolis; for if any student of faces will only go there in the middie of the day and watch the countenances he sees there he will see 80 many hnpdreds of types that he will be utterly unabie to classily any, and will soon be reduced to | the verge of physiognomical despair. One of our 10za) novelists visits this bureau two or three tumes @ Week to study faces, and anybody who believes jn Layater will find tne place, especially | the female department, as good usa college for him. Charles Dickens himself, grotesque as his tastes were, néver Conceived the full idea of the variety of expression of Which the human face is capabie iu the Free Labér Bureau. THE SPORTS OF PAUPERS. In several of our charitable institutions some provision has been made, not only for the feeding und jodging of the poor, but even for their physi- cal improvement and recreation. In the News- boys’ Home, in Park place, there isa large gym- nasium, and in Brooklyn, in & similar institution, which is patronized by men as well as boys, there 48 a gymnasium which is supplied with duinb bells, clubs, the trapeze, horizontal bars, &c. This room is popular, and it isto be numbered among the Picturesque features of our charities, for it pre- sents the material of suggestive thought to see pen- hiless, homeless wre‘ches, to whom this place is @ last asylum, for a while forgetting their pov- erty and rags and misery, giving their muscles full piay and developing their biceps—just as though they had a right to equal muscular health and strength with their social betters, THE POOR AT PEACE. But there is one place for the poor in the city of New York which is picturesque in the best sense of that term—picturesque in @ peaceful and a com- paratively pure sense, We reier to the establish- Ment known favorably, almost fondly, to all the e ipere riate title fh '"tbo x 06 i8 located pé No, 510 Pearl street, tar Centre, and gue Oi tne best establishments of its kind Thi world, if tne Words of those who have expetienced its mercies are to be srasteds Opeping the swing door, wiping his wearled feet “tpon the mat, the poor man, if only he be a_ respectable man, enters a small, comiortably furnisned room, with books and pictures, and is received Kindly by a clerk, who inquires closely but decently into the particulars of his case. Having answered aud washed, ‘Then he is given a clean nightgown and put into a clean bed, and at this stage o1 the game the poor, battered man, who has thus far been at war with fortune, thanks God in his heart, at least, and, relleved o( the dirty streets or of the dirtier station house for one night at least, sleeps soundly. Inihe morning the Pauper ig treated alinost like a gentleman. He is offeréd 8 razor, & blacking brush and the morning papers, with their advertisements for “help wanted.” He 1s fairly fed, he can wash and be clean, He can pay ten cents a day jor all tnis Wf he has it, ana i he has it not, no matter. Mr. Bates, the clerk, will treat him as wel. as ever. This is picturesque indeed, and it would do our readers’ hearts good if they could only see the satisfaction with which broken | efforts of the society :—Phonographers, 20; book- | HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM | HEBREWS. Annual Purim Reception of the Lady Managers—A Description of Some Ven- erable People. Yesterday was a day of rejoicing among the old folks at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, No. 822 Lexington avenue, on account of being the annual Purim reception of the lady managers, and | which is considered by all interested as a red- letter day in its annual chronicles. This benevo- lent institutton was founded in 1870, when the late Mrs, Henry Leo, on behalf of the Board of Di- rectresses, obtained @ small house at No. 215 West Seventeenth street, which was fcund subsequently too small for the purpose of the charity, and on the 11th of May the tormal opening of a new tnsti- tution took place at the corner of Sixty-third street and Lexington avenue, and here it was that the reception alluded to above took place. Mrs. Isaac Jacovs and Mrs, P. J. Joachimsen re- | ceived the visitors in the reception room and | gracefully explained the working of the institu. tion. By their side stood Mrs, Morgenthau, who obtained the signatures of wealthy Hebrews, dur- ing the reception, tor upwards of $1,000 for “The | Silver Book of Life," which, in plain terms, is & subscription book for the institution, dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Henry Leo, alluded to above, The wile of Judge P. J. Joachimsen has of late ob- tained a very large sum for the society. Few gen- tlemen could resist her appeals or those of Mrs. | Jacobs, who ay, witched the money into tie “Book of Life’’ In the name of charity. Mrs, Jacobs conducted a HERALD reporter through the institution, which i8 adinirably conducted by Mr. Hart. the Superintendent. ‘The in- mates represent the following nationalities :— Germany, 14; Poland, 7; United States, 4; Eng- jand, 4;' Holland, 2; France, 1. Femtules, 263 males, 6. Among the notabilities are the sisters Jacobs, who taught school to three generations of Hebrews at Spring. Frances is, on the author- ity of several iadies acknowledged good jadges, acentenarian. She was found, in a rocking chatr, reading the HERALD and surrounded by several of the directresses, to whom she told “it was a glorious day for the reception,’ and smiled, as if she meant to see a dozen more Purim receptions, Her sister Frances is a mere juvenile of eighty- five summers, and does finer needlework than a great many “high-toned” giris can do. One | Visitor, a handsome lady, pleased young Frances | so much that she insisted upon making her o present of a pincushion, Another prodigy was ap old lady, who sat up in | her bed, aged ninety, with a large bonnet, shak- ing hands with ail who came along. She said she never felt bappicr, and looked, ior ail the world, having failen into second childnood, like a romp- ing girl Of nine, instead of ninety, it May be remarked that the Psalmist’s three score and ten years are passed by in this institu- tion upheeded, Another curiosity was a squat ttle woman, neatiy dressed, who had filled her hair with pieces of flowers and ribbons, giving her @ somewhat Ophelia-hke appearance. Jealousy Was supposed to be the motive. One old lady, who 3s declarea by one of her triends to be a “little off color” (alias slightly demented), but perfectly peaceable and good natured, caught Mrs. Jacobs, the Directress, round the waist, and exciaimed, “Ich Hede dich?” One veteran, a German of eighty: | five, had been drinking @ good many Purim toasts | at dinner, and haa got what the French cail “a little point.” The old fellow, as he lay on nis_ bed, talked of his boyish days and how he loved the black eyes of the lady directress, &c.; out sleep came to his ald, and the young rascal soon slept off his slight debauch. The reception is to be continued to-day. The board consists of the following ladies:—Mrs. P. J. | Joachimsen, President; Leo Bamberger, Vice Pres- Henkes beam prepa uree Bite isaacs, Jacobs, ¢. Schlesinger, J. L. Phillips, 8. Wolf, i. Lappnlan, foe, Lous To describe the endless train of visitors who { filled the place, comprising tue wealth and beauty | of our Hebrew citizens, is not necessary. .. PRACTICAL PHILANTHRO?Y. The free training schools of the Women’s Educa- tional and Industrial Society were first opened at the residence of one of its officers in April, 1873, | for the purpose of training industrious and worthy | girls and women in the various branches of female labor. Some half dozen sewing machines were loaned by one of the large companies, and a com- | petent teacher was placed in charge of the sewing school. Classes in phonography, writing and book- keeping were organized and taught by ladies of the society, and an opportunity was afforded for | musical practice to several young ladies who were fitting for governesses. Although very little public mention was made of the opening of the schools the applications for admission soon became so Bumerous as to necessitate their removal to @ larger building, and they were located at’ 625 Broadway, in the art galleries, which, with machines, were placed at the disposal of the society by the Wheeler & Wilson Company. The daily average attendance has been 50, and the whole number taught about 1,800. Tne following number have been instructed or placed by the Keepers, 77; lace workers, 29; writers and copy- ists, 63; governesses, 56; saleswomen, 83; fore- | women, 39; finishers, 43; hand sewers on fine | work, 73; housekeepers and managing servants, 36. “There 1s now on the pooks an order for 200 in- telligent Ba respectable girls to work at straw | sewing, a short distance on the New Haven Rail- road, where their daily earnings from the begin- ning of their work will be irom $1 50 to $2 50. Proof-reading will be now added to the other educa- tional branches. Daily contact with those social classes trom which the army of sewing women is recruited has produced the conviction that there lies the material trom which can be trained up a generation of household servants, whose excel- lence shall be equally adyan' ous ig pose: keepers and honorable to themsélves, an - gin the training of these servants the gociety has removed to a suitable building at No. 47 East ‘enth street, near Stewart's, six doors west of roadway. One ol the greatest evils of our social system 1s the uncomfortable home, which results etually from the inexperience of nousekeepers and the incompetence of servants. There will be meet- | ing their Itveries are also amply provided. To tne right of the principal stand is a separate stand for the oficers, the President, Vice President and timers, and aera 4 opposite is @ box ior starter of the horses. e track i8 oval, the soil sanly and weil enclosed. The races have taken ag ete EN 9 immemorial, In 1837 pr eden ok lyde Park Corner, London, pre- 4 RICHLY MOUNTED WHIP, to be run for annually, upon the princt —e-——__—_—— govaps the Whip in Engiana. pn he ae : he donor it Was named “The Tattersall Whip. It Reminiscences of the Oldest Jockey Club in the wae won by bean Wade Hampton with tis im- i 7 ported colt, Monarch, by Priam, , United States—History of a and has since remained in the amity of int aoe: Famous Courte. tleman unchallenged. Apart of the history of RACE WEEK IN CHARLESTON. -——_— Revival of Sport in the Old Pal- metto State. the course it May be stated that it has ps been singularly exempt from accidents. There have probably not been more CHARLESTON, 8. C., Feb, 25, 1874. than three - occasions where a jockey For more than 140 years horse racing in South Carolina has been a popular pastime, and, doubt- less, but for the interference of war the reputa- Tore muantions eee aaa ere goonies " | there. Men have gone ou 10 front the tion of its stock, the purity of its produce and the | Fecal nuilet and have been brought hack cold and correctness of its turf transactions would have ghasuly. ‘The grand stand, too, has looked down on continued to command a place in the annals of the | . GREAT rie ten taalieante cick rallied | | Here were ussembile ie turf second to that of no other community on this | e ite city irom all parts of te State belore. the Continent, In the breeding and development of | first bombardment of Fort Sumter. Later many animals an agricultural community will always | Pemeoem conmaree in the a wen semporeniy . : ) encamped on the grounds. Then ecame thi take the lead. Tia is especially true whenever | geone o1 a great Stfte fair. And recently it hus been Wealth, pride and appreciation unite tu secure Or | taken possession of by colored marooners or picnic Produce that which is nest. Tue English land- | Arties, who found in its dese yment of 4 | Spacious acres ample room for the enjoym owner, whether nobleman or plain farmer, prides | thor summer pleasures, ihe place, therelore, 18 himself on the excellence of his horses and hounds. | not wiihout its story. Antertor vo the war, the They are the signs manual ot a species of | Purses rauged from $6,000 to $8,000 and $10,000. : GENTLLITY } At the present ume the amount will be only $4,000, 2 a | halt of which has been geucrougiy contributed by that has come down from Hugh Capet through the | tne citizens, poor as they are, and the other hai! Edwards; through King Joon and the Eighth | Bais piston er Northern eaicimr ah panera) enry; : ‘1 | ow stables, Who have brought hither their Henry; through Oliver Cromwell, who gave us the | Stock to reinaugurate the good ‘old sport. oldest of our pedigrees, in the shape of ‘White - ae Turk ;” through the reign of the First and Second | ” TRRe 7 Georges, wherein appeared the great ‘Godolphin | THE GREAT JERSEY BOULEVARD. Arabian,” the “Darley Arabian’ and the ‘Beverly Turk,’ the progenitor of the tamous “King Herod ;" through the later Georges, and, crossing | the English Channei, through almost every em- | peror, king and prince on the Continent. Every- | E*pended. ‘where, in fact, it is the landed proprietor who has | _ 4 meeting of property owuers of Hudson county, given tone 10 the sports of the turf, Our | NeW Jersey, was eld on Saturday evening, in modern merchant buys his fast horse only | McPherson Hall, Jersey City, to take action in ref- because it is fashionabie, With nim the object is | erence to the proposed boulevard, Dr, Laidlaw, pleasure, not propagation. He simply absorbs a | CB@lrman of the committee appointed at a previous product, and seldom adds anything to the great | Meeting fo submit a statement of the advantages animal store. Hence we say again that it js to the | 10 de derived from such an avenue, reported that agriculturists of the country that we.are mainly | 28 Apprehension existed im regard to the indebted ior the preservation of the valuable | Tecemt decision of the Supreme Court. ‘The stock that now owns a place in history. This ob- judgment affected not the whole act, but the ob- servation brings us back to South Carolina, where | J¢tonable sections in relation to assessments, A ero find frem ihe Old receeda thar | Suppiement to the act which would meet the case “THE FIRST RACES IN AMERICA | 18 now before the Legislature, ana there is no occurred at Charleston, in the year 1734. The | doubt whatever of its speedy passage. The large prize offered was a saddle and bridie valued at £20, | Property owners of the country, he stated, are al- | Was attended by serious consequences, ——_—_— Meeting of Property Holders in Jersey City—Argaments in Favor of the Im provement—Four Million Doilars To Be ‘There were four eutries; mile heats; white riders; | MOS @ unit in Javor of this great improvement. | has been thrown, and not one of these misiaps | Other in- | cidents have occurred, however, that are more | its deserted halis and | and the horses carried ten stone (140 pounds). The sport was continued from year to year until the planters began to import full blooded horses from England, and _ inter- mingle with the blood of Virginia, which, even at this early period, was largely impregnated with that of some of the best English stock. 4t is related on the old records that “soon after the celebrated imported Arabian horse Abdallaa, sixteen hands high and never ridden, arrived in this country he was visited at his sta- bies py all the admirers of horseflesb in the vicin- ity. marked, “Mr. Huger, you are an intrepid horse- man, but we do not believe that you dare mount Abdallah.” Without a remark the gentleman challenged planted his hand on the mane of the snorting animal, and, vaulting to the seat, rode him around the enclosure with an ease and dex- terity that was astonishing to every beholder, THE MOST INPORTANT RACE in South Caroijina at this period occurred in 1769, between Adolphus, by Brutus, 81x years old, bred in the State, and the imported bay horse Shadow, aged, by Babraham, iour-mile heats. Shadow won both heats easily in 8:30. It was the first match run between an imported and native horse. importation of valuable blood stock now began, jrom which is traceable many of the best animals in the country. Vhe first Josian Quincy, writing from Charleston in 1773, says:—‘'I have been to the jJamous races, at were well periormed, but Fiimnap beat Little David (who had won the last sixteen races) out and out, The last heat the jormer distanced the latter. The first four-mile heat Was performed tn 8:17. ‘were WOD and lost at this race, and Flimnap soldat public vendue the same day for £300 sterling.” Lar- ing the Revolution THE NOTORIOUS COLONEL TARLETON made repeated endeavors to get possession of this | horse, but the negro servants succeeded in cun- cealing him in almost _impassible swamps until he could be conveyed to North Carolina, Many anecdotes are related concerning the ex- oe olthe choice animals belonging to South Jarolina officers in the Revolution, but we have not the space to repeat them here, When the war ended a new and mere vigorous tmpulse was given tothe sports of the turf, and the most distin- guished meu of the State—men descended from | ° & Well bred racing stock—established extensive studs, Among the imported stock of this period was Dancing Master, Justice Marplot, Matchem. Star, Fireprand, Cinderella, Sir Peter Teazie, Hy pona, Psyche, isabella, Creeping Kate ana’ Com- | merce, all of whom possessed brilliant pedigrees and are now distinguished in their posterity. THE GOLDEN AGE OF RACING in South Carolina may be said to have commenced in 1786, It was the beginning oi & new era. Kace week was the carnival of the State. Just as the ople of New Orleans now look forward to Mar- igras, or the Liederkranz of New York anticipate their annuai ball, so did these good ancestors, oung and old, prepare to abandon themselves to he pleasures 01 the turf. ‘There were-splendia equipages, liyerjed outriders, gentlemen in buck- skin breeches and top boots—tuen the latest Lon- don attire—schools ‘took recess,” courts ad- journed, business ceased, stores closed, and pe le, high and low, from the dignitaries of the Benen and pulpit to the youngest clerk, hastened to enjoy ye eat = holiday. It was ings of housekeepers and mothers to discuss tie beSt means Of instruction, and to insure sympathy | and co-operation in the work of training. A coffee | room will be connected with the kitcnen service, | where good food will be supplied to those women | who cannot apply to the many places for general | Telief which the bounty of our citizens has thrown | open to the hungry, and dormitories estab- | lished, not intended as promiscuous refuges, but as shelters for women who nd themselves without work, money or home. | Beef tea and other suitable food for poor sick per- | sons will be given, subject to the order of a phy- | sician, A reading room will be open evenings, where healthy literature wili be abundant, and Jectuyes will be given upon hygtene, morals and | kindred subjects. The schools lave received from private sources the sum of $3,293 50. The salaries | of sewing teachers and wages Of porter have been $1,300. All the educational branches are taaght by members of the society, which nambers among its supporters some of the most charitable and | utd spirited ladies and gentlemen of the city. fhe amount expended in the various departments of the school for sewing materials, salaries, adver- tising, temporary assistance to women while learn- | ing and relief in cases of extreme necessity has | been $6,263 50, A “Brace” of Soup Houses Not Entirely for the Poor. | ‘The two soup houses opened during the past sea- | son in Jersey City were inaugurated with a great flourish of trumpets. One was under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and this is still in operation, Each time @ HERALD re- porter called he was assured that, althougn a fee of five cents was charged for a meal consisting ofa | bowl of soup or coffee and a piece of bread, yet ifa poor man had not this small sum he would not be sent away. So much for the salaried Superin- tendent’s story. Yesterday, however, two gentle- men residing near the soup house, and whose i veracit, mygt be questioned, assured the re- | porter That They have frequently been pained at | the sight of poor men kicked and cuffed out of this | soup house by the colored cook, who is known a8 “the fighting Man of the establishment,” because , the five cent jee was not forthcoming. The figain- cial statement of the Superintendent Is aWaited with a good dea) of interest, down merchants, briefiess jawyers, discharged clerks and the Uke read the few books in the litue library and go to their beds every might at nine o'clock at “The Strangers’ Rest.”’ The sight under the circumstances is suggestively pic- turesque indeed; but there is a still more pic- turesque side to it—when you see the wretched countenances and hear the hopeless sighs of the many respectable poor who are turned away nightly from the doors of this hospitable place on account of sheer inability to accommodate them. No religious exercises and no religious profes- sions are exacted at the Strangers’ Rest, It is conducted independently of creed or sect by one man’s charity. “ONLY 4 WOMAN—WITH NOWHERE TO GO.'? But perhaps, aiter all, the most poetically ‘pic- turesque charity,” in the eyes o1 our rope readers, is the establishment known as “The Free Dormitory for Women,” No. 54 Amity street, Here, at the time of the HERALD representative's visit, | were gathered together some thirty women, of all ages, from the girl of sixteen or seventeen years to the widow of nearly threescore years and ten; some coarse {ea- tured, some refined and delicate looking; all of them saddened with the shadows of poverty, but all of them, for the night at least, compara- tively peaceful in the consciousness that there of Saturday, or The other soup house under the auspices of the Payonia Club, the political organization that pitca- forked Hamilton into the position of Treasurer of ; Jersey City, to his great advantage, was closed two weeks ago. The following report of the treas- | urer on the operation oi this benevolent (’) justitution will prove most imstructive RECEIPTS. Rei 180 0 | Recetpts at I W. W, Lee, donation Total... 8u Printing...y- Gas, . wa. 5) 237 | So that out of a total appropriation of $055 34 only $528—a little more than hall—fell to the poor. A# a Work of benevolence each of the foregoing goup houses has proved, not simply a failure, but & ‘was # roof over wives and swetthearts, if driven Out from her only asylum in the wide metropolis, mockery of the sacred name Of charity. | to upwards Hep a oni also a feature of those eurly times tnat the gentlemen of the State never ran their horses for the pecuniary value of the prize to be won, but solely for the honor that a horse or their own breeding and training shou.d distinguish himself. The prize was nota purse, but a piece of plate, and not @ few of these souvenirs are still preserved in the families descended trom those who owned the race horses o! that day. THE CHIEF OF THE TURF at this time In the State was Ranger, a gray horse, owned by Colonel Washington, of Revolutionary renown, Who won all of the principal races until beaten by Comet in 1788, carrying 140 pounds, four- mile heats. Comet was bred in North Carolina, a black horse, only fourteen . hands and a half high, and a winner from Petersbury to Charleston. Sometimes he was entered by Colonel William Alston and sometimes by General Wade Hampton. the Godolphin Arabian. He was imported into Maryland about the year 1767 by re Thomas Han. ilton, of Incé Georges county. Mare Antony, the sire of Comet, was the rival and hig gr | of Janus in the southern pace of Virginia and along the northern border of North Carolina. He was the result of Partner, out of a fine imported mare, In the year 1792 the South Carolina Jockey Club the old chronicles record that “the pleasure 0: the | club was much enhanced by the noveity of a match | race between Sir John Nisbett, of Dean Hall, oi the | senger and followed the purloiner of ois pocket- ancient house of Nisbetts, near Edinburgh, and JOHN RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE, in Virginia, each gentleman riding his own horse. Mr. Randolph won after a close and exciting strug- gie.”” One of the great races of the country up to that period was run in Charleston, February, 1826, between the bay horse Bertrand, by Sir Archy, 5 years old, handicapped 112 Ibs., and the brown horse Aratus, by Director, 5 years old, 112 Jbs., three mile heats, Bertrand, the win ran twelve miles (less 168 yards) in 23 In 1845 the English custom of costuming the jockeys was adopted by the clab, to the end that each | horse might have in its rider a distinctive dress. It 18 impracticable to enter much into the details — oJ the racing calendar of the oldest jockey club in the Unitéd states, but the tacts above presented wil) sopvey some idea of the enthusiasm Wit witch the Sporting gentry of South Carolina have annually gathered in Charleston since the Revoln- tion until 1861, and of the singular care that was Resourses on the accumulation and propagation of rst rate stock during this long petiod, BREORE THE RECE} w the income of the club wan ve large, amounting (fit is scarcely necessary to add that hospitality was unbounded. Ki spectable strangers from other States were never permitted to pay for admission to any of the stands on the course, and immediately on their arrival were provided | With ticketS and @ ribbon, whicn franked them everywhere during the meeting. A great banquet and bail, at which assembled the ¢tite of the coun- try, Was always one of the featnres of the race week, For obvious reasons these will not take place on the present occasion, but there will be | Tecalled in the contrast between now and then the | meiory of many an ancient giass of wine, rosy with the age of many generattons; many a wrestle | between the gathered intellecis of the State, and many @ reminiscence of old families and faithiul servants who will meet no more on earth, THE RACK GROUND, ‘ or, more properly speaking, “Washington Course,% is within the city limits, distant {rom the Custom House and Post Office say about two and a half miles. Street cars convey one within & few hundred yards of the place. It is afull mile track, and has been put in excellent running order durin last ten days. The grand stand, erected in 1837, still retains many traces of its former architectural beauty, and is calculated to accommodate many hundred spectators. Re- tiring andgreireshment rooms, apartments for stewards and Jor weighing the jockeys and chang- On one of these occasions a bystander reé:'+ ‘The | ‘Two thousand pounds | Ranger descended from | , then | The great body of laborers now unemployed will | hail it with delight, as it will afford them @nd their families practical relief, At this | trying season 2,500 men could have been employed if the act were in operation. measure were submitted to a vote of the people it but the opponents of the boulevard are airaid to trust the people jnst now. The large property ) holders would vote for it and the labormg element | would vote for it. Men who have heid propert for years In Hudson county are clamoring jor such an improvement, witheut which real estate must remain at a standstill He wouid, theretore, su! mit g few of the arguments in fayor of the boul we F2beTving for the next meeting many ad- ditional reasons, First—The comple Due, as proposed by Ul five years, in an ine n of the new Hudson county ave> Commissioners, Would re sed mnarket Value of coun ase | tothe extent of $6,000,000. And ag the | tion of Hudson cointy is about tity per cent of the | market valuation thé assessment Valaation of the county would be m about $10,00,000—the a | present valuation—to $130,00),000. | Sccond—As the assessed’ valuation wonld be increased thirty per cent, the rate of taxation would inevitably be | reduced thirty per cent, if the same tax is to be col- lected. The rate of taxation would be still iurther re- | duced by the addition of many expensive homesteads to al estate of the coun | Third —'the Interest in the $2,000,000 of bonds permitted to be issued by the Comimissioners would be $140,000 an- nually. But the amount raised annually trom increased valuations alone, if the tax rate yemanis wichanged, in five years, would approximate Ou), ‘The county woud thus collect $610,000 ubove its payments of incerest on the bonds. Aslowiny an expense of $29,000 annually to keep the road m_repatr, there would be lett a suin | largely in | to the county | off the whol sot $50), 0U'yearly as a permanent gain which, if desired, could be wade to pa expense of the improvement in sev rs, | ~ Fourth-Hoboken and former Jersey City would ve | benefited by having $750,000 of their assessments removed | from them and fixed upon the improved properiy near | the avenue, = |. Fi7th—Nearly 5,000 building lots would be prepered for first class building sites. Building and rea! estate in- terests would be revived throuchout the county; and | population and capital woud be attracted to a degree | heretorors unknown amongst as. The money spent upon the improvement would Si | not jeave the county. a8 all materials can be hud withiy our borders. The poor man would obtain employment | and his uanhood and self respect would, be preserved | by puttiug a well earned greenback into his pocket, in- | stead of compelling him, for want of labor, to beg fr a. soup ticke |“ Serenth—Tthe Commissioners ¢ imate the total cost of | opening and constructing the avenue at $8.500,00), Their ngineer, upon oath, declares thet sum suilic | ing to the present plan of construction. ‘The county « | certainly afford to. spend more than that sum in orde to secure an increase of $60,0.0,000. The supplement will be reported in the Legisla- ture this evening. ‘The entire cost of the bi vard will reach $4,000,000, according to the | calculations, but of this amount $1,500,000 will be | assessed on the property benefited, | “G0 WES1.” Mele Uae AA INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb, 26, 1874. | To THE Eprror OF THE HERALD:— In your issue of Sunday, 22d inst., 1 observe an article in reference to the “slavery” to which @ youth was alleged to have been subjected who lefs | New York city for the wide, wide world of the | West. if the writer thinks that all our Western farmers go ragged and dirty, live on corn bread | and “sow-belly,”” work fifteen hours a day and desire ‘cheap labor’ trom the slums of the rich | Metropolis ~ ew York city—he is slightly mis- | taken, Ispent the first twenty-one years of my | life in this State on a farm, and since that several | years m New York city in journalism, andl saw | More dirty persons, abject squalor, hunger and | villany in Gotnam in one year tuan J ever did | here or elsewhere in twenty. You could spare 100,000 of your hungry, poor, laboring people to vast advantage; and Indiana atone could absorb them and give them plenty of work, food, fire, light, clothes and shelter, and still her teeming Jands would cry for “More! more!" Thousands of | boys and girls could get homes tn this State among farmers if they are honest, faituful and industrious, | No mistake on tais point, T. Q JOHNSON. TOMBS POLICE COURT. | Mr. Boyden’s Own Capture. | Helore Judge Bixby. | Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Mr. | George Boyden, of the firm of Watrous, Boyden & | Co., was getting out of o Fourth avenue car at | changed its racing ground trom the Newmarket | Beekman street, when he felt & man’s hand in his ocket aud saw his pocketbook taken : Course to the Washington Course, where it has | inside coat THE POOR OF JERSEY CITY. ever since continued to hold its meetings. In 1796 | out, Me made a grasp for the tel, but he eludea | him. Mr, Boyden, however, was not to be balked. | He leit his valise in the hands of another pas- the platform ot two different although he (the thief) dodged and doubied lor ten minutes across Print- j} ing flouse square, Mr. oyden at last | succeeded in catching him. The prisoner was then handed over to the tender mercies of Oficer | McMahon, of the Second precinct, and brought be- fore Judge Bixby at the Tombs, where he gave his name as William Devlin, and was beld in $6,000 bail to answer at General Sessions. Mr. George | R. Toplil, of No. 255 Dean street, a passenger in the car, found Mr, Boyden’s pocketbook on the | platform. It contained $200 tn money, $3,591 in | notes and receivable bills and a bond and mort- gage lor $635. Notwithstanding the evidence | being so strong against him William Devlin | ple ded Bot guilty o1 the charge. | book across cars, and, - ide AT ESSEX MARKET POLICE QOURT. A Daring Pickpocket, \ Before Justice Flammer. |. James Boylan, @ hard looking specimen of a | Seventh ward rough, was committed in $1,000 | bail, yesterday, on a charge of larceny from the person, ‘The complainant, William Stott, of No. 267 | Monroe street, states that he came gut of a liquor: | Store in Monroe street on Saturday night, and was putting his money, some $6, into his pocket, when the prisoner snatched’ it out of his hand and hit him in the jace to prevent being canght. Boylan was captured, after along chase, in Monroe street, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. | William Rowe, aged tourtecn, was accidentally shot in the leit hip yesterday by George Hauson, of atarget in the rear of Rowe. The wounded lad Was sent to Bellevue Hospital and Hanson arrested | by the police o1 the Twenty-seventh precinct, He | will be arraigned at the Tombs Police Court this | morning. “A FATAL PALL, Martin Gienon, an oiler on the steamship City of Havana, lying at pier 3 North River, was fatally injured yesterday by falling into the hold. He was removed from the vessel to the Park Hospital by the police of the Twenty-seventh precinct. His injuries are cousidered likely to prove fatal, Ir the | would be carried by an overwhelming majority, | No, 57 Monroe street, while the latter wus fring at | SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL. Dinners to the Vulgar Given by the Dignitariesm Reception of the New Chief Justice—Diplo- matic Changes—Where Is the Monu- ment of Major General Greene? WaSHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1874, “The winter of our discontent,” so ciouded ny | mourning for the dead gud go destitute of social | enjoyment, ends to-night. ‘To-morrow the matin | bella will usher in the vernal season, and, although the commencement of it must be devoted to peni- tential exercises, it is to be hoped that after Lent we are to have what the sporting men call a spring Season, | The dignitaries have performed their duty by giving (those of them not in mourning) their re- ceptions, to which every member of Congress, every departmental oficial and the so-called “represen- tatives of the press” have been invited. ‘The | “Congressional Directory” nag been taken, and | every name trom the beginning to the end checked, as an invitation has been directed and sent. The wives of Western Congressmen, ip their new cheap black silks; their husbands, in frock coats, dirty, ill-titting gloves and colored neckties; the department people, with ravenous appetites— all of these, with many others, have been deco- rously entertatued. Their claims have been extin- guished ; and now, when the penitenttal season 18 past, thuse who own or rent houses can entertain | their persoual iriends and such beyond that circle | ag they may see fit toimvite. But the mob who | regard themselves ag *4n society” have no ionger | claims, . } THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE | has made rather a favorable impression here, an@ | has been a glorious excuse for a number of enter- | tainments given in his honor, all very much ree | Semblng each other except that of Senator Buck- ingham, which was really oD strict temperance principles—not even @ glass of Roman punch, To-night Mr. Chandler has invited the sterner sex to meet Mr. Waite, and the vieux garvons wil be out in force, for the mercantile Michigauder has good feeds and the best of wines, Mrs. Waite has not accompanied her husband, as her toilet could not be got ready in @ hurry, and she well under- stands the importance of being able to meet that most rapid of all inspections given by women to strangers of their own sex. A glance takes in all, from the top head ornament down to the gaiter boot, and they can give an inventory suitable lor publication, SIR EDWARD THORNTON is personally superintending tne erection of the new British legation on Connecticut avenue, which is to be one of the largest and most commo- dious houses in the District. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. ‘The Hon. John Francis Packenbam, who enteret the British diplomatic service im 1852 as ap at- taché to the Legation at Lisbon, and who has been First Secretary of Legation here since 1870, is to goto Copenhagen. His successor will be Robert Grant Watson, who entered the diplomatic service of the Queen while serving as an officer in a Bom- bay native regiment, in 1856, He gradually | Worked his way eastward, and has seen a good | deal of service at Constantinople and Athens, {rom | which last named place he was sent to Japan, where he has for a time been Acting Chargé @adaires, William Oswald Chariton, who has been connected with the British Legation here fora | year or two, and who has meanwhile married the Nandsomest girl here, will take his bride to Eng. Jand in May. His sister, Miss Chariton, who came | here to the wedding, has just made a visit to Rach- | Mond and will soon cross tie Plains to the Pacific | coast. THE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE POOR at the house of Mrs. Admiral Dahigren on L street, was a pecuniary success, as over $1,000 worth ot tickets was sold, and there 1s to be another one | next Tuesday night, The “recitations” were gener- ally stupid, and the singing out of tune, but a co- medietta ented “Dearest Mamma” was rendered with some lile and spirit. Mrs. Dahigren’s daugh- ter, now Mrs. Von Overbeck, bas been passing the | Winter in Dresden and is to return in the spring. | THE SATURDAY ENTERTAINMENTS | of ex-Postmaster General King will be concluded | to-night, They bave been numerously and iash- | tonably attended by all classes of socie/y, from the President dowuwards, and have been quite a suc- | cess, although the guests have veen in high-necked | dresses, and have had neither dencing nor supper. , Several others have tried to give these literary en- tertainments, but they have failed; altnougn the | dramatic readings at the house of Mrs. Coolidge, ou Fridays, are very popular. | MONUMENTAL. | There are three brass horses, each surmounted | by a military hero in full regimentais, in the public | squares here; and now J. Q A. Ward, of New York, is to add another, the rider to represent | General Thomas. Not relishing this appropriation | of monumental honors by the army, Admiral Por- | ter intends te have his grand paval monument, by | Simmons, erected here instead of at Annapolis, | It will occupy the centre of “Naval Circle,” opposite | Senator Stewart’s new palatial residence, and the | lots on which Senator Sargent, Secretary Gorham | and other Pacisicos propose to build. But where is the statue of Major General Greene, which Con- | gress voted, many years ago, to have erected in | the Capitol grounds? Instead of paying the Mar- | quis de Noailles tor the repair of De Ternay’s tomb | at Newport, Congress would have done better to | have kept its word and honored the Quaker Gen- | eral. | DELEGATIONS OF BOSTONIANS, representing the aristocratic heights of Beacon Hil and the industrious quarters of the North | Bnd, have been here during the week opposing or advocating the nomination of William A, Sim- mons as Collector of the Portof Boston. Among | other “cobwebs to caten flies,” each faction gave a grand dinner—the one at the Arlington, the other at | Wormley’s. The Wormley dinner was the best, and ; the Simmons side, which paid for tt, beat. | Gastronomy plays an tmportant part in legislation, ' and some of the more experienced lobbyists give | a dinner party every night. | THE MILITARY OF THIS DISTRICT have been organized by Colonel Webster, who was ! on Gencral Grant’s staf, and who is now in the | enjoyment of a fat office, The Commander was in | the Confederate army, and many of the subordi. nate officers and privates Were also on the side of Dixie. It is not, then, very agreeable for them to be mixed with a Bataillon @ Afrique, with ofMcera | enough fora regiment, but few privaies. The same determination of our “friend and brother’ to be represented in the associations of Free~ | masonry is playing the mischief with that body here, THE STANTON MANSION, built by the War Secretary at a large expense, waa purchased a few years since by the late Uharles | Astor Bristed, who made it the Ifterary headquar- ters of the metropolis. Since his death Mrs, Bris- ted has decided to take her young son Charles to | Europe, and the house has been rented to Senator, | Joun P. Jones, of Nevada, the fortunate Welsh miner, who has now an annual income of over | $2,000,000, \ THE LIBEL StiTs | which Senator Chandler has commenced and pro- | poses to commence against those papers which have published or may copy 4 story reflecting on his sooriety are creating quite @ sensation, and tt is understood that there are rods in pickle for several other newspaper correspondents here by other parties, who fancy that they have been tl- treated, Meanwhile Speaker Blaine, wisely think | ing honey preferable to vinegar in catching wasps, | is giving Saturday dinners to the press. Ca tral | PATAL CAR CASUALTY. | Coroner Croker has under investigation the case | of Margaret McCormick, a woman of intemperate | habits, who died in Bellevue Hospital from th. | effects of injuries caused by having the flesh of one | of her legs crushed by acar of the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, near Thirtieth street, on the 16th ult. Deceased, who lived at No. 612 Sixth ave- nue, while under the influence of liquor, inatsted On crossing the raliroad track ahead of the horses, and before the driver could brake up she was knocked down and crushed as stated, Deceased Waa tifty-six years of age anda native of ireland.