could have devised or something but as it was the nature of this world depressed me so that i could not have written anything very much worth while if i had wanted to there was the for that horrible place daily from the ever flowing waters about new york there were or washed up in all stages and degrees of the and of the great city its its victims � its what i came here often it stood at the foot of east twenty sixth street near hospital and invariably i found the same old brown in charge a creature so thick and so and so mentally generally that it was au i could do to extract a of recognition out of him yet if handed a cigar occasionally or a bag of tobacco he would trouble to get out of his chair and let you look over book or containing the roughly down police descriptions all done in an amazing of the height a book about myself color of clothes if any complexion of hair and eyes these were still probable length of time in water contents of pockets or money if any etc i hich same were to be noted in connection with any mystery or disappearance of a person and there was always some one turning up missing and i noticed with considerable that rarely if ever was there any money or reported as found by the police that would be too much to expect being further persuaded or tips of one kind and another this would lead the way to a shelf of drawers reaching from the floor to the chest height of a man or higher and running about two sides of the room and opening those containing the latest supposing you were interested to look would allow you to gaze upon the last of that strange which once as a human being here on earth the faces the decay the clothing i stared in sad horror and promised myself that i would never again look but duty to the paper compelled me so to do again and again and then there was itself that gray black collection of brick and stone with connecting bridges of iron which faced in winter time at least the gray icy waters of the east river i have never been able to forget it so and bleak was it all the of in their brown cotton suits to be seen wandering here and there or hovering over the large number of half well charity about in gray green their faces sunken and pinched their hair poorly and the and yet often coarse and vulgar and always young doctors and nurses and paid attendants generally one need but remember that it was the of the most corrupt period of hall s political control of new york mr being still in charge quite all of those old buildings have since been replaced and surrounded by a tall iron fence and bordered with an attractive lawn in those days it was a little different there was the hospital proper with its various wards its hospital for a book about myself the criminal or insane or both the and a world of smaller stretching along the and by walks or covered or iron bridges but the dignity and care of the later there was too the dark which any badly or managed institution that something which as a cloud over all and at that time had that air and that it more of a jail and a i combined than of a hospital and so it was i think at that time it was a world of medical and political and social a kind of human hell or poor fish who live in comfortable and protected homes and find their little theories and religious ready made for in some church or social atmosphere should be permitted to take an occasional peep into a world as this was then at this very time there was an investigation and an exposure on in connection with this institution which had revealed not only the murder of helpless bnt the usual in connection with food clothing etc furnished to the called charity officials and and brutes of nurses and attendants of course the number of and or complaining or troublesome or beaten or thrown out and even killed and the number and quality of operations conducted by or indifferent was known and shown to be large one need only return to the of that date to come upon the truth of this but the place was so huge and crowded that it was like a city in itself for one thing it was a ground for all the gathered by the x and the charity to say nothing of being a realm of soft for political of all kinds on such days as relatives and friends of charity or those detained by the police were permitted to call the i room fairly with people who were pushed and here and there like cattle and always like slaves i myself visiting as a stranger subsequently was often so treated a book about myself what s his talk a little louder can t matter with your tongue f over there over there out that door there so we came procured our little cards and passed in or out and the wretched creatures who were cured or written down enough to walk and so before a serious illness had been properly treated and because they were not able to pay were out into the world of the well and the strong with whom they were supposed to once more and make their way i used to see them coming and going and have talked to scores men and women who had never had a dollar above their needs and who once illness overtook them had been swept into this only to be turned out again at the end of a 