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a violation of law he was obliged to fine them $10 apiece, and 

 as they were conveyed to the prison one of them fainted. Such 

 contrasts may be found daily. 



u Speaking of incomes, Moses Taylor is rated $400,000 a year. 

 He has no sons and his daughters are all married. Ex-Governor 

 Morgan is estimated at $500,000 a year. Russell Sage is rated 

 at a million to a million and a half, while Jay Gould's income 

 can not be less than half a dozen millions. To come down to 

 smaller men, R. L. Stewart has nearly a million a year, while 

 Robert and Ogden Goelet are each rated at $250,000. Bennett 

 is reckoned at $600,000. D. O. Mills figures at $200,000, and 

 the young Vanderbilts (Wni. K. and Cornelius) are not much 

 below him. The estate of A. T. Stewart & Co. has an income 

 of a million, which renders Cornelia Stewart the richest widow 

 in America. The Astors (John Jacob and William) are esti- 

 mated each at a million and a half, while Wm. H. Vanderbilt 

 probably has five times that sum ; and yet within five minutes' 

 walk of the place where these men live one can find multitudes 

 whose life is but a prolonged battle with famine." New York 

 Correspondent Troy Times. 



The picture here drawn of the conditions existing 

 in New York are in no respect exaggerated, and por- 

 tray in the most vivid colors the way " that the more 

 the rich may gain in wealth the more the poor may 

 gain in comfort." But it is not necessary for the 

 author of that statement to travel out of his own city 

 of Boston for abundant evidence of his bold defiance 

 of truth. Let him compare Commonwealth Avenue, 

 the whole Back Bay, with the South Cove, North 

 Square, and the whole of the North End. If that 

 will not suffice, then a careful examination of the 

 report of the superintendent of the institution for 

 the shelter of poor working girls, who declares that 

 the great increase in the number of young women who 



