Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-09-15

hard az NOrE on coat. ana lht women W the
Eindow making a shirt g Sure. sir. they are
two boarders We took 10 10 help pay the rent.
Are they married, Mrs. Brannigam 3 No
SIR, they are single Now il understand
you rightly, you seven all cat. cook, wash and
work in these two rooms, except your husband
who works ou, Of doors {? Yes, Sir "And
do you have but the one bed, where you and
the old man sleep? Where do the others
sleep ? Sure, the tailor sleeps on bis board,
and the woman and the children on the floor
on some old rags What's the matter Mr..
Editor? You feel sick. Well pu;your head
ont Of the window and get some air. What's
the matter now Oh the sun has produced
its usual effects on the mass Of sWl we saw
deposited ut the front door, and the sir on'side
the door is worse thsn that within. Well now
wha, shall do? Neither Of these patients
need medicine all tfev want is breath ol the
Almightys fresh air. TyPhus is lowering O.
yer both Of these sick frames, The strong, huge
Ir,hman, an1 The dying child he holds in his
arms, Grooming it to sleep. But must leave
somo powders to satisfy lhem-which l do,
snd We are again in the street.
Follow me again. THIS is Mulberry street
here's the number g. You ask if this street is
ever swept. That cannot say All | know
about it is that it is neser cleaR Up this alley,
down which a never ceasing tide of swill aud
sush ruus along the gutter that occupies one
half the passage way, what do you see? A
large brick back building similar 10 the one in
front, which we have come through to our
right occupying half the yard, an old rickety
wooden barrack, three stories high. Our way
lies up to the garrct of his last. Why these
stairs are worse than those of Orange st. Yes
and here are the same bare. e.footed girls, with
the same swill buckets but these stairs being
much sleeper there is more spill. on the jour
ncy. Here we are, at the second story
Here's panel knocked out OF the door
Look in. Don't describe what you see ; nei
ther the dirt The confusion nor the druhkeu
terant lying at full length. Up again. Let's
step in this room for a few moments. | have
a couyalcscent pat Cnt here, for rarity. This
looks clean ; eyrything is neat, and little color
ed prints hang on the white-washed walls
well Mrs X. how do you do )? Pretty
well, thank you, Doctor Give the Doctor and
his friend chairs
"Why you appear to have visitors " "Oh!
sure, lis only some friends from the old coun-
try, just arrived We're just boarding and
lodging the poor STRAY things for few days,
till they can go West, There's only seven Of
them, not counting the baby" "And how
many in your own family?" "Meself and the
nine children-two of them married, thank
God" "Do they live with you?,' "Sure n
they do; but the husbands of the two girls are
only home at night and my old man on Satar-
day nights" And how many rooms have
you?" -Four, air" Are they all as large
as this?" )lexl2) "No, Sir; the others only
Just hold bed each" 80, you all twenty
: two sleep, cook and eat in these iour rooms a
present." eyes, Sir; but the old country folk
will all be gone next week" Good day
: Mrs h" Good day, and God bless you, Doc
Il tor"
II Up again to the garret damp and foul-an
other room, the size OF that below, but moth
Ing ike it as to cleanliness, the roofbeing shin
Is gled and covered with moss and mould is al
, ways sieaming and wet. The windows are o
pen, but the air is too foul almost to breathe
: Across one end of the room is a tailor's board
u with four men and four women hard at wor
+ sewing and pressing damp cloth. On tab!
Is is their dinner-a bakers pie and some hare
% boiled eggs. But yOu say you've seen enough
s Well, after writing prescription, we are a
Il gam in the street. A wagon stands at the doc
+! -'Hcre's your rice peaches, two cents
d quart; here they gol" There, look at the wo
II men with their babies in cir arms, crowdln.
: round the wagon, and buying those hard wind
g falls, as digestible rs brickbats and India rub
a Der; each baby has one to bite, ofcourSe'
ie Now, Mr.. Editor, have not shown you tn
e. worst ,laces. have merely given you an av
en- craze. of the home of simple, honest; hard hS
,g tied poverty. have left the places wher
in crime and drunkenness make their homes en-
at tirely unvisited-I have not been into the reek
e. inc cellars and rat holes. Before l return t
oil nv home, | shall see much worse than thes
an that we have visited together. You ask m
'e- how I can stand it? do not know. knO'
= that am suffering, and have been for .tw
es months past, from the effects of exposing my
n self to the foetid miasm of these places, but
!! have no time to be sick, while can do som
nS good here. If / fall, it cannot be in noblt
cause.
- But now we come to the great question
ny How is all this to be remedied? The time HI