A NEW YORK. ROMANCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1252, 26 February 1886, Page 3

A NEW YORK. ROMANCE.

In an obscure lodging house in the Bowery, says the cw York Times, lives an old gentleman of ancient and historical lineage, a graduate and former member ot the (Senate of the University of Cambridge, England, at one time an active clergyman of the Estfcbli-hed Church ot that country, who laliored lor years in the densely populated manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and was for many years the senior of a lan e staff of curates—in fact, what would be termed in this city voice recor of the most fashionable and one of the most populous of the parishes in London. From this position he retired with honor a quarter ot a century ago, his doctrinal views on the subject of religion having, undergone a change, based upon conscientious conviction. Ordained by one Archbishop of Canterbury, and ofiered preferment »y the successor to that see, he nevertheless resolved in his maturity to seek a living by other means more congenial, and took up literature as his profession. He is the author of some standard works, published in England and imported into this country, and to be found at most of the public libraries where reliable text books relating to the decisions ot some very important and interesting social problems are kept. This undoubted representative of a bygom. age sought—not wisely, perhaps, for he was then in the decline' of life—to live a u-eful, even though obscure, life in the United States. He is not unknown in nianyStat.es of the Union, where he has contributed to periodical literature and occasionally to the daily and weekly Press. As a diligent investigator and expert in elucidating at.d unravelling intricate and knotty problems more or less connected with social science, he has been sought and retained hy public bodies and wellknown lawyers and legislators, 1 ut he is now perishing for want of the necessaries of liie, almost without fond or clothing, and dependent upon the compa-sion and Christian sympathy of the lodging-house proprietor for a place to lay his bead. Such is one among many experiences of a Bowery lodging-house.