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Show BEGGARS MAKE MONEY IN CITIES New York. May 18 That begging in New York streets is frequently a very profitable profession was shown by testimony in the night court here early this morning. A beggar, arrested ar-rested at the Instance of the Society for the Prevention of Charily Imposture, Impos-ture, was searched by the police and $01 was found in his pockets. Th'S beggar testified in court that this was tliji result of two days work em j a Fourteenth Ftreet corner. I According to the agents of the so- clety who caused the arrest, there, are ninny beggars In New York whose Income from their activity in seeking alms average from $j to $13 a day the year round. |