=BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.=
=OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS.=
PERSONAL DESCRIPTION--ALWAYS TEMPERATE--IN WONDERFUL
PRESERVATION--"A GOOD FACE TO LOOK INTO"--NEITHER SCOTCH,
IRISH, NOR ENGLISH IN APPEARANCE. 21
=WHERE HE WAS BORN AND REARED.=
NO MATTER WHERE A MAN IS BORN--KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND--NORTH OF
IRELAND--AMBITIOUS BOYHOOD--"THE BEAUTIFUL LAND BEYOND THE
WESTERN WATERS"--INTENSELY DEMOCRATIC--BECOMES A MECHANIC. 21
=REMOVES TO LONDON.=
FOLLOWS HIS TRADE IN LONDON--MARRIES THERE--HIS INTERESTING
FAMILY--MISS CHARLOTTE, HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER--HER
MARRIAGE--SIGNOR ERRANI. 23
=MIGRATES TO THE UNITED STATES.=
OFFICER McWATTERS' GREAT SYMPATHY FOR CHATTEL AND
WAGES-SLAVES--HIS COUNTLESS DEEDS OF BENEVOLENCE LEAVE HIM NO
TIME TO GET RICH--ANECDOTE OF PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. 24
=SETTLES IN PHILADELPHIA, AND STUDIES LAW.=
A YEAR (1848-9) IN A LAW OFFICE--REVELS IN THE STUDY OF
BLACKSTONE, KENT, CHITTY, ETC.--A BEAUTIFUL DREAM. 25
=A HEART TOO SOFT FOR A LAWYER.=
THE BEAUTIFUL DREAM OVERSHADOWED--POOR ORPHANS AND POOR DEBTORS
TOUCH HIS HEART WITH THEIR SUFFERINGS--DISTRAINING GOODS FOR
RENT--A TOUCHING STORY--McWATTERS' BENEVOLENT DEVICE--HE QUITS
THE LAW IN DISGUST. 25
=DEPARTS FOR CALIFORNIA.=
THE "GOLD FEVER"--IN THE NEW ELDORADO--THE RECKLESS WARFARE OF
GREED AND CRIME--MEN LOST THEIR CONSCIENCES THERE--RETURN. 26
=BACK IN NEW YORK.=
ASSOCIATED WITH LAURA KEENE, AS HER AGENT--FIRST CALLED UPON TO
ENACT THE PART OF A DETECTIVE--HIS SUCCESS, AND WHAT IT LED TO. 27
=MR. McWATTERS AS AGENT AND LECTURER.=
BECOMES EXHIBITING LECTURER, ACCOMPANYING A GRAND PANORAMA--IN
THE CHIEF CITIES AND TOWNS--THE COUNTESS OF LANDSFELDT, OR
"LOLA MONTEZ." 28
=ANECDOTE OF LOLA MONTEZ AND LAURA KEENE.=
AN AMUSING STORY--LOLA BECOMES PIOUS, AND SELLS HER THEATRICAL
WARDROBE--LAURA PURCHASES A PART--A SPLENDID SILK DRESS PATTERN
PROVES TO BE FURNITURE CLOTH--ATTACKS AND RETORTS--THE GOODS
FINALLY BURNED UP. 28
=MR. McWATTERS SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS.=
HIS GREAT INTEREST IN SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS--HOW SHALL THE
GRIEVOUS BURDENS WHICH FALL UPON THE LABORING CLASSES BE MADE
LIGHTER? 29
=OUR SUBJECT AND THE PUBLIC PRESS.=
REMARKABLE RECORD--PUSILLANIMOUS HIGHWAYMEN--TWO KNIGHTS OF THE
ROAD FRIGHTENED BY A SPECTACLE-CASE. 30
=McWATTERS ENTERS THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE.=
DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF THEREIN IN MANY WAYS DURING A PERIOD OF
TWELVE YEARS--OFFICER MCWATTERS UBIQUITOUS--THE STARVING PEOPLE
OF KANSAS (1861) ELICIT HIS SYMPATHIES--A FORCIBLE PUBLIC
SPEAKER. 33
=PERSONAL INCIDENTS.=
RESCUES CHILDREN AND MEN FROM WATERY GRAVES--ALWAYS AT HIS POST
OF DUTY--RECEIVES THE WARMEST PRAISE OF HIS CHIEF OFFICER,
SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN. 34
=OFFICER McWATTERS DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR.=
HIS FORESIGHT--UNDERSTOOD THE MISERIES OF THE
SUBJECT-CLASSES--HIS APPRECIATION OF REPUBLICAN
INSTITUTIONS--PREVENTED BY UNTOWARD CIRCUMSTANCES FROM GOING TO
THE FRONT--NOT OF THE "NOBLE HOME GUARD." 36
=FIRST SEIZURE OF GUNS AT THE NORTH.=
OFFICER MCWATTERS INTERCEPTS DAHLGREN GUNS ON THEIR WAY TO THE
REBELS, MAY 11, 1861--HONORABLE MENTION BY THE NEW YORK
TRIBUNE--FERNANDO WOOD'S INFAMOUS APOLOGY TO TOOMBS--WOOD AND
MCWATTERS COMPARED--THE GRATITUDE OF REPUBLICS. 37
=OFFICER McWATTERS' SERVICES THROUGH THE PUBLIC PRESS.=
ABLE AND SPIRITED LETTERS TO THE PRESS--NOBLE WORDS ADDRESSED TO
THE WORKINGMEN OF THE NATION. 38
=KINDLY AND WISE PROVIDENCE.=
PRIVATE APPEAL FOR LEMONS FOR THE FAMISHING SOLDIERS, MAY,
1863--IT DID A BRAVE WORK--EVENTUALLY INSPECTOR CARPENTER
REVEALS THAT IT WAS ONE OF OFFICER MCWATTERS' BENEVOLENT
DEEDS--OTHER EFFECTIVE MODES OF AIDING SICK AND WOUNDED
SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. 39
="RIOT WEEK," JULY, 1863.--OFFICER McWATTERS IN THE
THICK OF THE FIGHT.=
THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC PULSE OF THE NORTH WHEN THE RIOT BROKE
OUT--THE NUMBER KILLED THAT WEEK IN NEW YORK ESTIMATED AT OVER
FOURTEEN HUNDRED!--McWATTERS AND HIS FELLOW-OFFICERS FIGHT
THEIR WAY THROUGH THE MOB INTO THE TRIBUNE OFFICE--McWATTERS
FELLED TO THE GROUND; SPRINGS TO HIS FEET, AND DEALS
DESTRUCTIVE BLOWS UPON HIS ASSAILANTS. 40
=OFFICER McWATTERS AND HIS LITERARY ASSOCIATES.=
COUNTLESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC PRESS--HIS UNPRETENTIOUS
CAREER--"PFAFF'S," A FAMOUS RESORT FOR AUTHORS AND
ARTISTS--AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE PLACE, AND THE HOST OF
McWATTERS' AUTHOR FRIENDS WHO MEET THERE; AN ILLUSTRIOUS
ARRAY--OF THE DEAD OF THIS GOODLY HOST--A MOST INTERESTING
RETROSPECTION--McWATTERS' AUTHORS' LIBRARY. 42
=OFFICER McWATTERS AS THE GOOD SAMARITAN.=
AS A PHILANTHROPIST OFFICER McWATTERS HAS MOST DISTINGUISHED
HIMSELF--HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
DEMONSTRATES TO HIM THE FOLLY OF FRAGMENTARY REFORMS; YET HE
CONTINUES HIS WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES--PATCHWORK
CHARITY--HIS VITALITY OF BENEVOLENCE--McWATTERS IN THE RANKS OF
THE HOWARDS OF THE WORLD. 45
=McWATTERS AND THE SOLDIERS.=
THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND--McWATTERS' GENEROUS
ENTHUSIASM IN BEHALF OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR
FAMILIES--HIS GREAT PASSION--THE POETRY OF HIS CURRENT LIFE. 49
=LADIES UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION.=
A GRAND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION--DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF NEW
YORK AT ITS HEAD--ITS SCOPE OF SELF-IMPOSED DUTIES OF
BENEVOLENCE--ASSISTED BY AN ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LEADING MEN
OF THE CITY; OFFICER McWATTERS THE CHIEF AND MOST ACTIVE MAN
THEREOF--SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY SECONDS OFFICER McWATTERS'
BENEVOLENT WORK--REV. DR. BELLOWS' WARM INDORSEMENT OF
McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN
CRUELLY INTERFERES WITH McWATTERS' LABORS OF LOVE--DEATH
CALLS FOR MR. JOURDAN: WHERE THEY PUT HIM, AND WHO FOLLOWED
HIS HEARSE--OFFICER McWATTERS RESIGNS, AND LEAVES THE POLICE
FORCE, IN ORDER THAT HE MAY CONTINUE HIS HUMANITARY
WORK--COPY OF HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION--APPOINTED TO A POST
IN THE CUSTOM HOUSE--COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES BY VARIOUS
JOURNALS ON THE OCCASION OF McWATTERS' RESIGNATION. 50
=THE SWINDLING BOUNTY CLAIM AGENTS.=
OFFICER McWATTERS' RELENTLESS OPPOSITION TO THE SWINDLERS--THEIR
INFAMOUS MODES OF OPERATION EXPLAINED--McWATTERS' PLAN OF
WARFARE--HE ROUTS THEIR FORCES AND WINS A GREAT
VICTORY--SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE SWINDLERS--McWATTERS
APPEALS TO CONGRESS, AND GETS A NEW ACT PASSED--CHIEF MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS WHO GAVE HIM THEIR AID--PAYMENTS UNDER THE NEW
LAW--THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR
FAMILIES--"HOW A POOR MAN FEELS!"--THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND
THE DEAD VETERANS--McWATTERS' FURTHER WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS. 55
=HONORABLE TESTIMONIALS TO OFFICER McWATTERS.=
PRESENTATION OF A GOLD WATCH BY THE LADIES' UNION RELIEF
ASSOCIATION--COMMENTS THEREON BY THE PUBLIC PRESS--OFFICER
McWATTERS' GREAT POPULARITY--A RESUMÉ OF SOME OF OFFICER
McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS, BY THE SUN, TIMES, TRIBUNE, ETC. 62
=THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL INIQUITY.=
THE RASCALITY EXPOSED IN A MASTERLY WAY--THE HORRORS OF THE
HOSPITAL PICTURED--THE WAR CARRIED ON THROUGH THE
PAPERS--OFFICER McWATTERS DIRECTS THE BATTLE--THE SCAMPS
BROUGHT TO TERMS, AND THE SICK POOR AT THE HOSPITAL NO LONGER
TREATED LIKE DOGS--THE CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION, AND ITS
CONNECTION WITH THE FIGHT--BENEFICENT RESULTS. 65
=CONCLUSION.=
OFFICER McWATTERS IN HIS CONTINUING LABORS OF LOVE--HIS FAMOUS
LETTER IN BEHALF OF THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER ORGAN
GRINDERS--ELOQUENT WORDS OF SOCIAL STATESMANSHIP THEREIN--A
GREAT MORAL DUTY--WHEN IT CAN BE PROPERLY DONE--LABOR MUST BE
PROTECTED--PARTING TRIBUTE TO OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS, THE
TRUE MAN, THE STERLING PATRIOT, AND PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST. 68
=THE ORGAN GRINDERS.=
A WORD IN THEIR BEHALF--LETTER FROM OFFICER McWATTERS (REFERRED
TO IN BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES)--A SAD STORY. 72
=TEN DOLLARS A MONTH: A STORY OF GRIEF AND JOY.=
("Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn")
McWATTERS--PATRICK O'BRIEN AND HIS SUFFERING FAMILY--LADIES'
UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION--A STORM OF GRIEF QUELLED BY THE VOICE
OF TRUE CHARITY. 74
=MACK AND THE VETERAN.=