Show 2 ua 0 chum reclaims son of cyrus W field 0 1 fa ED N EW boltl edward at field son of cyrus W field Is now day dork at a chatham square lodging house an associate of one of the missions said the other day of field hes all right and has been so BO ever since he be started right again a couple of years ago you can take that from me I 1 know him aliu edward morse field was the eldest son of cyrus W and succeeded him in business he had everything his way and enjoyed life and mends friends in 1891 he was charged with wrecking hla his firm of field M eld lindley Wl echers company failed for ile he disappeared was found and was committed as to an asylum in buffalo in 1892 it was always disputed that lie he was insane and it Is certain that he enjoyed full liberty within the institution lie he was released as sane in 1894 and was then liable to trial on several sev eral indictments for forgery and grand larceny but lie he was not tried and in 1898 the indictments were dismissed on the ground that there was no possibility then of convicting him lie he continued to go down hill was I 1 arrested at various times f for r drunk 1 enness and once for stealing u n coat ln in the western union building bull bui dine ldina about two years ago field drifted one night into the hadley rescue mission on the bowery a few doors from a restaurant where wherein in tn 1894 on his return from Il tiffalo in the sheriffs cus tory he had hla his last oyster stow be foie fare being incarcerated in ludlow street jail under tinder an order of arrest in civil suits pending against him in the mission that night was bradford L gilbert architect of the grand central station who now occupies as offices the suite of cyrus W field in tho the washington building at 1 broadway from whose windows V R 4 ward at field used to signal his yacht oft the battery when he was ready to have it carry him up the hudson to ilia his home mr gilbert was wan an early friend of field in college days when he found field in this mission ho he persuaded him to go to the mourners bench at his anniversary as the mission folk call the day of observance of a converts spiritual recovery field said that he be did not want to talk of its his past but would do so it if it would help anybody else to find himself he said bald that as a slave to drink he was lost to the upright and good and that all had lost hope of at him but a sister in inlaw law who would not believe him to be beyond reclamation lie he told of entering the mission and beginning again and said that he had found peace of mind and freedom from appetite |