. A ten years' war : an account of the battle with the slum in New York . to politics. When nest our pathswould cross each other, it would very likelybe on some errand of mercy, to which hisfeet were always swift. I recall the distressof a dear and gentle lady at whose dinnertable I once took his part. She could notbelieve that there was any good in him;what he did must be done for effect. Sometime after that she wrote asking me to lookafter an East Side family that was in greattrouble. It was during the severe cold spellof last winter, and there was need of went over at once; but alth
. A ten years' war : an account of the battle with the slum in New York . to politics. When nest our pathswould cross each other, it would very likelybe on some errand of mercy, to which hisfeet were always swift. I recall the distressof a dear and gentle lady at whose dinnertable I once took his part. She could notbelieve that there was any good in him;what he did must be done for effect. Sometime after that she wrote asking me to lookafter an East Side family that was in greattrouble. It was during the severe cold spellof last winter, and there was need of went over at once; but although I hadlost no, time, I found my friend the bossahead of me. It was a real pleasure to meto be able to report to my correspondentthat he had seen to their comfort, and toadd that it was unpolitical charity family was that of a Jewish widow witha lot of little children. He is a EomanCatholic. There were no men, consequentlyno voters, in the house, which was far out-side of his district, too; and as for effect, hewas rather shamefaced at my catching him. w H X W H W rK H ^^ H W ;! « p n gs « p: kfl H O \~ ^S >N W (ij J s^ -^ -^ hJ i. cr w c^ W ^ — u 2; a K KEFOEM BY HUMANE TOUCH 249 at it. I do not believe that a soul has everheard of the case from him to this day. My friend is a Tammany boss. Duringthat same cold spell a politician of the othercamp came into my office and gave me a hun-dred dollars to spend as I saw fit among thepoor. His district was mUes uptown, andhe was most unwilling to disclose his iden-tity, stipulating in the end that no one butI should know where the money came was not seeking notoriety. The plightof the sufEering had appealed to him, and hewanted to help where he could, that was all. Now, I have not the least desire to glorifythe boss in this. He is not glorious to is simply human. Often enough he isa coarse and brutal feUow, in his morals asin his politics. Again, he may have somevery engaging personal traits tha
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