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The SHOEMAKER
A STORY BASED ON HAL REID’S PLAY
OF THE SAME NAME.
By OLIVE HARPER.
MORRIS GOLDBERG, THE SHOEMAKER.
THE SHOEMAKER.
A Powerful Picture of Nature, Adapted
From Hal Reid’s Famous Drama
Of the Same Name.
BY
OLIVE HARPER,
Author of “The Sociable Ghost,” “Letters From an American
Countess,” “A Desperate Chance,” “The Show Girl,” “When
We Were Twenty-One,” “A Daughter of the South,”
“Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl,” Etc.
Copyright, 1907, by
J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company.
New York:
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
57 Rose Street.
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THE SHOEMAKER
PROLOGUE.
In one of the small side streets that end inthe Bowery, on the East Side, is a row of smalland dilapidated buildings, which once, in theearly days of New York, were the dwellings offashionable people, but which are now occupiedby poor but industrious people. The majorityof these houses have some small business carriedon in the basement cellars.
The people who occupy the houses above thecellar stores or workshops are mostly of thepoor but industrious Hebrews who toil earlyand late to build up a little business in thisland of freedom, a business which is really andtruly their own, to have and to hold withoutpersecution or robbery.
The house where Morris Goldberg had founda shelter and a chance to show of what stuff he[4]was made was, if possible, a little more disreputablein appearance than the others in thatrow, but to him, who had gone through the horrorsof the Kishineff massacre, robbed of hisall, save his wife and little daughter, it seemeda peaceful haven of delight.
The little destitute family had been assistedto start, in this humble location, by the nobleand practical Benevolent Society of the Hebrewsin New York, and, though a cellar whoseonly light came through grated windows or theopened cellar