New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-12


this tusnes or trade Il rsnsd hpcople ars mt to be al
lowed TO dirk anything but wster there b. many an
honesi man out Of business Tines hsri enough low
whstl they be then 2
Just thea Ton Nolan the mason-f used TO be Drunken
Tom Nolsn-was telling what they would be, Al the tenn
peranoe meeting
II was prOpious tine fcr Maggie She lei her father
in he hung hack Little and red get into dark corner
near the door That she would allow OF SssAns
mps might drag him away from the very threhOd Of sal
vsisR She led him along he was sober now and looked
sad perhaps Shsmed
james, you here Oh
1t was his wife He knew her voice. that of other
days He stared at her ooud be her neat and clean,
and well dressed and speaking fondly to hm-tO him
for she had refused to see him ever since she took the
pledge Now. she came forward took him by the hand.
ragged and dirty as be was-she knew what would clean
hiE-ied him to seat and sat down By his side Maggie
sat on the other For minute the speaker could not go
There a choking in his throat strong as he
Was and there were many tears in the eyes that looked
upon that father mother, and daughter, that night.
Jim Reagan said the speaker am glad to see you
here. You an old acquaintance of mine"
jim Reagan looked at him with sstonshnent Could
tina; well dressed aborng clean shaved and clean
shifted. be Tom NOlani
d" don't wonder that you look inqurngly O. me as
much to say, is that you Yes, ii is me, Tom No
Ian, TIE mason who lay around the dirty rum
boles with YOU begging lying. stealing to get drink Do
you think, that low / would pick up old cigar ssumps
ard quids of tobacco to fill my pipe Do you think
would wear hat a. have done, that my poor beggared
boy picked of the street Look ct that Docs that
look Ike the old battered thing used to wear do these
clothes look Ike the dirty rags wore when you and slept
in Gale Jone coal box Do look like the drunken Tom
Nolan that kept family OF starving beggars with two other
& ~ bxf uaiv fact
earret room without fireplace without glass in its one
window with the roof so low that could only stand up
straight in one corner and that room in the vest
Loo alty on earth in a hOuse-ah whole row OF houses
tonanted by just such miserable umbeggared human DO
ings-budngs owned by human monser-houses Tor the
poor which are enough scken the vst OF beasts such
as no good man would let for tenemens even when ne
could get tenants a degraded wasienemenis that any
Christian grand jury would ndct and any court which de-
sred to protect the lives of the people would compel the
owners TO pull down as the with exception OF all
city nusances
How did live there How did my wife and children
ever live there in that little miserable with 9th
err inst such wretches ourselves How do hundreds OF
sueh men women and children were, stu 1--we there
was in that same room-the place my children used 10
call Lone-this evening The entrance is in Cow Bay ii
you would Ike to it, saturae your handkerchief win
camplor so that you endure the horrd stencil ana
enter Grope your way through the long dark narrow
massage turn TO your right up the dark and dangerous
stairway be careful where you place your foot around the
lower step or the Of the broad stairs for II more
than shoe mouth deep Of steamng filth BE careful 100 OF
You may meet some one-perhaps a man, perhaps wo-
man-as nature divides the as the rum seller com
hines them both beasts who in their drunken frenzy may
thrust you for the very hatred Of your better clothes or
the fear that you have to them from
l. Il To-
Stair Jp up winding up five stories high now you are
under the black smoky roof turn the eske care and
not upset that seetbng pot Of butchers osl soup thai
cooking upon little furnace at the head OF the airs-open
that door-go in if you get in. Look here IL negro
and his wife sitting upon the floor where else could they
Sit for there is no chair eating their supper of OF the bot
tom of pail broken brown earthen jug holds water
rebaps not all water Another negro and his wife occupy
another corner third sits in the window monopolzing all
tie air nstr In another corner, what do we see
"A negro man. and stout hearty rather good looking
young white woman
Not in bed together"
No not in bed together there is no bed in the room
No chairno able-no nothing-but rags and dirt, and
yemin and degraded rum degraded, human beings-men
and women with just such souls animate the highest aud
proudest in the land
who is this man p
Dat am Ring nosed Bill
" II that his wife p
We'll. don't know that He calls her his woman
And she lives with him as his wfeyou all live here to-
geiher in this rooml
Well we is got no where else to live Poor folks can
lib as rich ones do-hab to pay renprey hard to do that
alone"
How much rent for this room =
@Seveny-fve cents a week, ebry time in advance
who Is this man p
They call me snaky Jo spOse may be my name is
Jo Snaky Don know rightly
What do you do for a living
Wei mighty hard to tell dat dat am fact massa Picks
rp A lob now and then Mighty hard times though-gW'
poor man LII massa-"
Ia that man and woman drunk
We'll spose am little tossicated.
"A little intoxicated They are dead drunk lying per
ctly unconcious, in each others vom upon me pare
soor The atmosphere Of this room is enough to breed
contsgion and scken the whole neghborhood aud wou
but that the whole neghborhoOd is equally bad Let Us
hasten down TO the open sir Of the COURT but Little
be.er-all poIution-a that breathe IT, polluted Yet IN
tina, cate of hell once lived Look at me, James You
know me then Look at me now you don't know me. lou
knew me beast-you may know me man-you niay
know yoursefone Sign this paper-there Is power oil
magic in and YOU shall 20 home with me, and see "hefe
live now and viii clothe you and helpto sustain you 10
vour sober life lust as Thomas Elng did me- and with
heaven blessing we viii make man OF you
Too late too late not enough of the old frame left to
rebuild
It's never too late Look the piles of old brick and
tiles and boards and oce and rafers and doors ana glass
of the pulled down houses Are they wasted am ma
son YOU a carpenter, if we cannot put them oaek ana
bud No the same old fashioned edce we can make good
snug comfortable house Come sign the contract ana ie
Us st right about the job
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