Show ARTHUR LETTER LETT the horse show and the newsboy contrasted as the extremes of new yorks york s social structure correspondence tribune I 1 new york nov 22 it Is not easy tor for the western roan anun to get hardened into the hie indifference usage to the poverty of 0 this richest of 0 american cities it itil la here hera in great masses and has been here so long lone that it Is 13 accepted as in the order of 0 creation no more to be questioned or quarreled with by men of common sense thin than axe are othor mysteries ot of a benchot nt providence such as disease death timers tigers mid and mosquitoes the new yorker who lie Is not by nature haider hearted than tho the barbarians of tho the provinces if you ask afla him dim about it makes perfunctory admission ot of lla its says yes it Is too bad baa very terrible no doubt but every great creat city haselt and 63 new york la Is A great city she la Is merely in tile the fa fashion it la is but a forture a ture of 0 that 0 of the metropolis in which the citizen takes lakes pride tile the nory ry vastness vast nesa ot of the poverty po erty deters the ordinary iary mind from liping hob P liable to any definite suggestion that cure tor for it Is possible it 1 takes kes a given number ol of dollars to lift one family from destitution multiply that sum by all the thousands ads of 0 the lonill li i ot of the very poor and you get a total so monstrous that it out of 0 human affairs into tile the region reelon of 0 pure mathematics therefore theres jhc thc rea only tolly folly in thinking about the poverty of 0 the town its va wiser iser to leave it to rod noil anil and that solution with a irtle 0 irl arl table giving by the way impart an ji agreeable sense bense of being ploua pious at bottom As for tile the and dreamers who would attack the thin thina at the root by finding the cause caune and attempting to remove 14 it nonsense ot or that kind Is only fit for cranks and mf men m of sober judgment n 1 e at w mul give no encouragement to di dangerous dan L serous assaults aa on the foundations or of society so the new yorker vahos not fit at nil all a 91 bad tellow fellow or a stingy 0 one boea to the HOMO show in con contented e A pausing on his way sights that w awe they new to him would harrow his bin I 1 soul BOUL the new york tork newsboy is ia I 1 think the mafit heart wringing product or oc this civilization which has haa square ir miles he or 0 need at ac the base and the horhut chov at the top uie the fine flower of opulence growing out of the dunghill dunah of prevo thin the newsboy Is mhd ihra epitome of the state and spirit of tho the self respect ing poor there Is no do uliano in him nono none of the humility of 0 the beggar biB iW he la Is industry electrified nn n n albejt putli push loc jug insistent merchant not above accepting more than the market price of 0 lua ids wares barea as a dole but df do pending depending in tile main on his 1118 legitimate A child 0 of 10 1 ti spends hours on tile the street every day shrilling his papers pap cri clork ork that would tire a man espe cf chally Y a professional fess ional man in tills this w weather ether the childs eager shrewd face fac la purple witt with cold and hl hit little boa body Is atrom a blo under der his thin jacket those wit who bun buy uy his papers wear overcoats and gloves but as aa yeti yet into the middle of N november vember lie be la Is dreamed as a he it mas as tw two 0 rno months oi t the ago ills testimony mony to the comine como ac or 0 minter 1 Is to turn up lip mi ili callar autma hl list wt feet and blow on oil ills liny lie ile to la seldom ragged but olen r p lt 1 it and the patel patch tella leila or ol th IN home chere his earnings so go and ore are tremendously important when drink la is not there that horns home Is not despairing but all appallingly pallin gly contented viru to there Is 13 mourn enough to cat and the rent can be paid that is tho the tragedy ot of such euch poverty the homo home Is tenanted ten anted by inmates who havo have never known better and see worse all about aboul them they take tile tho sarno view of their lot that the clorse show does docs that it Is the will ot of god or us as inevitable and remediless as aa if god had IN milled billed it to them the rich and the luxury of 0 the rich are what Tl window Is beautiful gorgeous and as far removed from the earth tile new york poor inhabit ns no tire are heaven and the klondike wealth Is viewed as a boy bo y in the gallery views tho the be jeweled and lovely lady on the biage to be fil red fed and insufficiently clothed to patiently do without what la is no e ded when aien it Is not to be had bad to aalt mitigate agato the horrors ot of bad luck by hoping for or better to be ignorant of great disappointments point ments by entertaining no large desires to drudge cheerfully every day for or a bare subsistence 11 and 1 d to be thank ful ul that the privilege ot of drudging can lie be obtained to be made happy by every small mail turn 0 of good fortune this li 19 the state ol of the decent poor of 0 new york a mighty and pat pathetic hetle end and a remotely threatening horde the brisk little newsboy stands f tor or all this and in him are arc tho the pathos and the threat ohp th bathas esthe la the narrowness of 0 the life that la is open to him lite denial ELI of opportunity to grow to anything approaching full human stature when he la Is a few years older he ruay may rise to the seat of a butchers cart and when he la Is of ase age it without ruining vices he will have bavo made a a place tor for himself somehow c how in the butchers butcher a shop as ai a i the driver of w wagon 11 gon as a 1311 laborer aiom in tiny any of a thousand a nd poor ways and d on earnings that being ithe ille his neighbors I 1 g ebors do not small mall to lo him to but OL that condemn his children to follow in his path lie he will matry mairy and make a home patterned on that mat from alch he went in babyhood to sell papers and pet get the education ot of the streets to such as he to more than halt half the population ot of new york a small storekeeper la Is an opulent merchant tile the saloon man at the corner in ili its his dirty den a gentleman of ease case and pleasure asure and a a VOll policeman coman an official I 1 dignitary speaking acquaintance with whom lu is an honor ills sister if so go 1 fortunate as not to be pretty and giddy biddy will graduate from ti om tile factory to be the wife of 0 a man like himself hl the slaving mistress of 0 a home leoine in the tenement and a nd the mother 0 of more newsboys tho the threat in tho the newsboy Is that ho he multiplies mul lipPes and the human fruit of ho he li Is th the blossom will be that which hai ills not yet osma in ili i america but 14 not tar far ol off 01 as poverty I 1 deepens a moss conscious of misery and ready to accept in hatred the explanation pan aaion that hint those who have most are I 1 fol or the misfortune ot of those who have nothing and are sunk below iho 0 devol I 1 I 1 0 of intelligence at which the I 1 ator Intelligence of it at which 1 lol aft lc a 1 octlona lor redress seeing reasonable reason ft and a n i I 1 alc tlc abl the bui disora ot the v csc a mid 11 prudent inolia i ebb abl ur quil allf il nin anft huv i t to 0 4 alor thal i 1 1 aft on n ft I 1 ill tin r p ho on system shouted don or lenoice Ig noted the henry georges that proposed for procuring social conditions out of 0 which neither a proletariat nor multi ml illonal res could be evolved there Is no to in tho the kind of 0 mind that takes na as mandatory the observation ot of jesus jesuit that the poor we have with us abway it does not know how low to yield a little in order that much may bo be caved for its own wn enjoyment it fall the united states state a were organized industrially and socially as new york tork la a a french revolution would seem much probable than peaceful change the no newsboys stoys potentiality as 03 a figure behind the barricade Is more impressive in than hla his potential torce force as a reforming voter tho the horse horae show here Is as the horse show everywhere else in our simple republic public only bigger and more ernal emphasized in its ballant characteristics j I 1 it Is a social pai parade ade with the horse tor for a pretext the smells of 0 new york are the pame came breed as the swells ot of every place the country over lai latec go and small it Is the plutocracy in its war paint and a glittering show it surely purely Is in the mass this Is the town for or a millionaire to conic come to it if lie he wants tile worth oi 0 his money in ill the way vay of 0 respect and admiration and envy and that Is why the millionaires so naturally gravitate to new yolk from every point of 0 the american camposa com comil posa avs they and their ladies cadic 8 A millionaire no more than a pt prophet can get bet all the honor he ha craves in his own country the egg kinget kansas and the hog king of illinois are too loo intimately associated in ill th tho a home mind nith alth eggs and stock yards too well remembered its as they were ere in the days before their greatness to be revered as they would like at R i their local horse shows tile spectators at or 4 i feel eel in them the same kind of 0 aroused amused interest that the callory takes in an acquaintance hired for or the night to appear in chintz armor and a tin spear as 03 a a roman wan lor by the traveling theater com company party tile same millionaire naturalized an a a new yorker and blazing in majesty at the now new boik horse show has no unimpressive part ile he flashes on his fellow ellow man us as a finished product a splendid creation not a a result ot of sordid and belittling evolution and the native NOW new yorker reared in a complex environment abere everybody Is dependent on somebody else has reverence reve renco for wealth la in his blood ile he cant help boing abed by it what a lord Is to an ali englishman it a million alle all 0 la is to a new Yot lLer it Is worship ot of power in tho the mass I 1 so say the show to Is glit loring but in detail in tile tho caso of men ot at least it dazzle andr r individual inspection the millionaire does riot not look handsomer or more intelligent than other men who tire ore equal to the struggle of 0 life and bathe and dress in bite llio social uniform the opulent old boys are bored and come mainly because they possess aca ives and daughters and have to there Is a strength th in ili llad r faces that has not descended to their sons sona a discouraging proportion of 0 w whom furnish accurate models to tile lie ar artells t ills ft ho draw ch chappl apples ca for tho the halliar satirical t papers but the same fame sumptuous idleness that causes the male ot of the ihn species to tend toward vacuity or the u I 1 oss deterioration mental and moral ot of tile the self indulgent rounder Is the sell goll in which lovely aaman flourishes elloui theres no denying that luxury beautifies fies her for it Is her proper business to be effeminate fine athers fathers f do ra trahe alkis fine birds and the lite females of the plutocracy the young ones that Is aro are good to look upon and they know it that b a lausness lous ness diminish a g I 1 r alls catl r in the eyes of sophisticated man mail until ase age makes bilm young anil again but tile the di distinctly are not in r able tile the liodes frown eliem in ili plent 11 L ahin m thi hp epli it ot of their colu te I 1 li as as aa me ale tin ali price tickets on the things in the shop windows A dowager sitting in state GA at the home show la is a wonderful slight eight to behold her youth Is gone her beauty too and ail that Is lett left to impress the inferior inac bior world Is 13 her sense of 0 the clothes doret dont render her good looking no man aou would id have her for or herself alone alo nethe th alint of her diamonds draws notice to her wrinkles and spoiled figure her pleasure la in being in the box la is not derived from any delights conferred by occupation of the sacred place hate but from the knowledge knowl edse that other women who look up at her from roni the less opulent promenade would like to be in the box boi and slid she can keep them out pride arrogance self belt satis faction are in that time scarred old face and as ive remarked an immense sense ot of merit that lost last Is what wins ones heart to the plutocracy from new york to san francisco Francl soo from roto china to peru ono can comprehend why a man should thank gou god or felicitate himself on ill his 0 luck at it having the material prizes ot of life tumbled into his lap but why should that man maji who must know that hes no bigger or braver or cleverer than multitudes all round him that have missed big winnings at the eaic feel eel that he ha Is as superior in desert as aa IQ in good fortune and particularly why should a woman who be has done absolutely nothing in the world but marry the lucky winner or inheritor feet feel that the blaze ot of her greatness justly dinis the candle of 0 lie achievement bleve m e u t i in n w war a r a and n d p politics 0 li ti e s b in i let letters eci science e n c e a ajril m d ar art t U unless n le s s s she h e h had a d reason to fear him the horse show dowager would in utter good faith smile with pati pat upon a grant boffer offer happiness in her condescension to a darwin and prove her highly creditable interest in literature by inviting to dinner A new york r w will ill point you out hundreds of 0 famous people in the horse horae allow boxes people otiose names are forever in the newspapers and as 33 well known to the inhabitants of the union as aa Edi sons and mark twain kwains a and henry georges and president ackla leys known to millions who offhand off hand give you the name 0 C the dis coveter of chloroform or of tho the inventor of the duelfer match or of the steam engine or of the tole graph who yet have never done a single thing except ito to be rich and wear good clothes and ilive live in clover all this la Is common commonplace ace of cour course se but when you eye eya them closely the commonplaces of life are its profoundest mysteries and most stunning surprises fame allures with its sweet a nes beai all but the very v e ry who have bave found that thai it 1 Is i a not notto to be had post poat possibly sibly considering how grateful cratt lul it li 14 to tile the mind it lynt iss ti that the occasional ambit ambitious lous newsboy new aboy whilo while never venturing to have visions of reaching the pinnacle of a horse show box doos does dream of manhood ft a jump from the brooklyn bridge and a renown approaching that of steve brodie who Is greater creator than a policeman and actually reflects glory on ills his saloon artnur |