Show 1 wrote begging egging letters new york millionaire par received elved thousands of these mios bios s recently Y the private secretary of a new york millionaire recently bold sold as old paper a package of letters all of which had ken ben sent to his employer a little more than three months and every one of which was a request tor for pecuniary assistance ft a time said the secretary w A t these letters at the rate of sixty vr or seventy a day it came right after mr RI bank ank had contributed to a fund for the relief of widows and orphans of some west virginia miners minera who were killed by a gas explosion tho the gift was accompanied by a jaquest that nothing be printed about it but it got into the newspapers somehow and immediately the letters began to pour in we had always had our share of begging letter but now we were swamped swam pec the tales of trouble misfortune and suffering which were spread out for our reading would have harrowed ones soul if it he know that they were largely manufactured most of tho jeeters aers were from women or purported to be and all wanted money the demand ranged from 5 to and in dery elery case an address wag was given and a request made that the a be sent at once A vast variety of excuses were given for th the demands one of the most popular with women being that they wanted to have thel sons complete om their education hut but unless the they bed a cirtain amount of money at once and with men that they had a chance to embark on a successful career and only lacked the few hundred dollars necessary to get got a tart start of course there were hundreds of 0 stories of destitution hut but like the others we tossed them aside without reply for three months following chii contribution to a fund for the relief of ot miners families these letters continued to come then they stopped just as suddenly as they began and we are now only getting the regular supply of five or six a week there were in the lot that I 1 bold sold to a junkman the other day in the neighborhood of of these letters and in stamps had been spent in sending them to us and not one was productive of at a contribution from mr blank new york sun |