Word: mcauley
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...among the flowers, the thick food odors, the roar of voices and the tinkle of glass and silver at a charity luncheon at the Union League Club, Manhattan, produced a noticeable effect. The president, Banker Henry Fletcher, explained the purpose of the campaign-to raise $100,000 for the McAuley Water Street Mission. He talked about the Mission's history, activities. There was silence. Into this moment, ripe for emotional disturbance, John Markle threw his statement...
Protests, amazement, stammered eloquence. The president explained that the campaign was not altogether for money-the McAuley Mission also wanted 20,000 new friends. If Mr. Markle gave the whole amount there would be no excuse for going on. Mr. Markle shook his head. He would give $100,000-not a cent less. He told his own story, how he had been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth...
...Jeremiah McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
...additional half day each week will be devoted to visiting points of sociological interest, including Ellis Island, Blackwell's Island, the Salvation Army Home for Men, Bowery Y. M. C. A., the Jerry McAuley Mission, the New York Stock Exchange, and Sing Sing Prison...
...smoker will be held tonight at 45 Winthrop street for the numeral men of the Freshman soccer team. Captain Gay and Coach McAuley will speak...