Show CRAZY PEOPLE WHO WORK A A finn fine farm en on warda island itna ij by men aen ilert bereft ft of Re leaon aon yew new york sun great fields of corn and cabbage of potatoes ami and beets stretch from the central portion of wards island toward the southern and western shores back of these are stubble fields from which grain has been removed the produce 0 of these fields is almost sufficient to feed the tb hundreds who eliud shelter on oil the island every year A company of laborers were working in a potato field on the island pulling up the weeds which had grown when a reporter of the sun san I 1 paused with superintendent IV T obrien and chief orderly john vos to gaze at the operation the men were attired in dark trousers and wore checkered shirts and appeared to bo be industrious workers suddenly however ono seemed to detect something amusing in in the presence of edthe the spectators and ho lie went into a fit of laughter which threatened to end in a convulsion for a ion long time after lie laughed lau glied silently bul but t continued to grap the tho weeds with i a firm hand and pulled them up by the dozens another of tho the laborer made a peculiar salute with his right hand and still another gazed angrily at the visitors tho tile others remained stolidly at their work conic here murphy mr vos shouted to a stout middle aged member of the group who was working some sonic distance away the man came stee steeping ing carefully over the rowa rows of cabbages eabE ages he ife touched his hat 1 I heard your name was sullivan van said vos the mans face reddened and he replied angrily and vehemently my name is murphy blyan oconnor OL onnor cavan und and he rattled oil a duzen rames rallies why have you so many Ila jamrs mrs athey they arc tire the names of my an co I 1 represent rel them RIV nil these are the men superintendent obrien eri eaid said ait as murphy went back to hn hii work who du do all tho the farro labor en on the island every one liue fins hid his delusion and yet they plant they crops cultivate them daivd the teams teatus and gather and garner arner them the man we were talking 17 to has con considerable id erable intelli cence in in some directions but has strange delu delusions Auns he lie claims to be descended deec ended from King Dvid Devid and to have about fifty names with all of which he lie khouli be addrel addressed used nothing will induce him to work on oil a holiday of every one which he lie gives me nie notice two weeks in advance do these men converse together A little replied mr vos but there is no sympathy between th them em E each ach man mail with th e selfishness 0 f a maniac mani ste has his mind only on oil himself and on what he supposes tup bup poses to be his peculiar troubles yet they arc are able to work and that docs does more toward checking and curing their roc all other causes comi com billed what portion odthe of the maniacs can be induced to work not more than or eight in a hundred cannot bo be induced to do some sonic labor if they will work enough boget to get tired they sleep at night and alien a maniac sleeps there is great hope that ho lie can be cured do those whom you set got at work in the fields ever quarrel or come to blows 11 not often but where two leavo tho the same panic mania there is great danger er of it each of two of our men relieved teli believed eved he lie was he the savior of the world and warned everybody that the other was w as a false prophet and an Itu impostor poster at length they came to blows and we were obliged to separate them they could not be worked together after that in a loft of one of tho the farm buildings the entire ceiling of which was hung with great bunches of onions several men were at work bunching the larger onions by the tile tops while the smaller were throw ninio I 1 nto great glittering heaps ou on the fl floor tb the C same amused expression which had bad been noticed in tile f field appeared on oil the faces of two of the men but tile the others others looked up u with ith mild curiosity and returned mr voss salute in a few words in a foreign tingue those men do not talk much to together mr yes said its isles a sin sills guar fact that nu no two peak the saw lang language mage there s a ger german a a P ol auder a french frenchman illan a an n ital jat iad i an ail E englishman and ono one or two other nationalities you addess each in his own language yes I 1 have been hero here I 1 11 I 1 years and though I 1 am ain a hollander ollander 11 I 1 can now converse with these people on oil any ordinary matters in seven languages in lu tho tile female department of the tile I 1 insane ho pital several women each aladina clad in a blue checked suit were working in tho the laundry one Ofie tall woman caused paused with a shirt in her hand band an and gazed sternly and fixedly at the visitors while they remained in the tho room tho tile dining binim the wards and ou thUes of loth both this and the male departments were scrupulously almost painfully clean and the tile floors and benches were white with scrubbing b ing here is where some more of our lunatics lu natica labor to good advantage ge said the orderly the men in their t J gs 17 do department and the women in theirs d do othe the eci and cleanse cleansing ng of the rooms and tho the women do all agthe authe the laundry work 1 I 1 frequently meet with strange instances of misdirected is directed gen genius it is among my wor workers ce c sir mr vos said ono one prepared an elaborate plan of a bridge from new york to berlipp iP fl not only drawing his plans carefully but figuring the weight the gross amount of each material consumed its cost and the number of days required aired to make the trip with teams he also fi figured the cost of the several hotels which he would erect in connection with the bridge on oil the route another figured very wry elaborately the cost of tunneling tho the ocean these men had been teachers tl ro are some old graves on the hill south of ef here which aich I 1 have left undisturbed for many years several of atheni larj ir t marked by ono day vue of my workmen disappeared nil nt I 1 found him with a pick tr ing tu pry up one of these stones ius what V hat arc are you doing I 1 said what is that to you he lie replied angrily though ho lie had always been respectful to me this is nay my underground road to paris I 1 could not satisfy him and th enand on oil several other occasions had to drag him forcibly away |