The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-12-29
Going % BED.

Directly utter we write this item, We are
going home 10 bed. Now that is yesy
pleasant thoaght. We wonder haw many
think it this nigh. WIS arc unable to DO II.
Not less than one thousand peer SOUS, men
wofaen, chiJreu in tie Cts this night who
have no hQme, no bed. G. where you VIII
you will see them budding uni in dark door
ways OF creeping roand the eerGeg--taere
is always somebody just going round the
corner, and always somebody Just gone
round. Cold 90 il is this December night.
there are mere souls--that issl such poor
N serable objects have any souls, which
some folks nno pretend to have themselves
apparently doubt. or else they waald try To
save them--tAere are more sous ~ the
street this right than there are perfectly
happy oacs inside Of ali the marble palaces
that line Tie sides .! Broadway or Faith
avenue.
All the cary hsuss ~ evening they wan
der un and sowa, locking into warm rooms
and down areas of catng-houses, snn!i-
ing the slavery steam 4.ld tA4nA.as-Yes,
theg ihsak,
.Wisatg'
More thaa oae haif saink, "Oh, how |
wish had i qaarlef--or only shilling
or if it was bat s:xaeaee! wish mad
three cents
.Was, iosl Woald TIA, &c, a lodg.
sagl"
Yes; aach IS sash often get: but that is
not what he wants OF three cents " It'll
three cents he would 20 - Gale Jones gro
Gerry anl Get lriaA-''a lrinA 81 rot gut.
Rightly named
Three ceais far drink. never mind going
70 bed, since he has no home to 60 to, yet
he Is on the road lo.ae, aad il l. down nil
ali the way.
a54utt ton o'cloei,, you withstand around
Tie corner. You Mil hear haw the licensed
l;4a9r dealer" aLriscs his customers 10
lslae and = TO bed.
@come wake ny, you drunken son o. 6
and clear eG.--go home ami 60 Il
bed ii yon have ut any; you cannot sleep
here-lam going 10 saat u, an gong 10
bed"
Does the poor detected ioafer think Of de-
irg the same, Perhaps. Il de docs he
thinks .,where!' Ii there IS 10 chaac IN :
coal hls, or empty casa, le gacs At last q
the Police Station. aud bsgs The boon o.
spending the remainder q the night upon i
bench OF hafd DIZZY s9e, on the aoor.
II i not drunken men alone who arr
going 10 bed tonight ID coal boxes anC
Warehouses;, but innocent sober womeE
and children. who csaao. say, reader, 9
yoa and car, am going home aud TO bed
FOR Their org hei4e Is The street., or sem,
hole w den. where there i no bed.
List night, q ten oelosk, woman viii
Little child sAireriag IN her arms, came
into the House of Industry .; tie Fiyt
Points. and begged to be allowed 10 spend
the night where her ea;ld would not freeze
for sad she. ara Sd tired that can vaik
no longer and il sit down cut door shall
fail asleep-
"Hsve you no home 70 60 tar
"No, alas, ara tarEed into tina street,
not f2r any fsuit of mine, n City where
all are Strangers: not single friend who
can ask 10 gve ne bed"
The cause Of course is"
"Yes. Rum. That has destroyed every
-hplae--hasbaHd -ali--all but lite,
and what's that, without anywhere to lay
NY head, IN sl@a . night as tA:s!''
Tae poor woman gas gwen shelter, a
heLca aud fire: il was all that could be
gwen her all. more than great many will
have this night, while you and |, readar,
are enj wing the comforts 81 81 home. Waiie
We are g3ng 10 bed, d comfortable bad, Ill
gs3d home, some poor woman or little
child, il just going round the corner.
looking ior place 10 % to bed in SONIC
coa4 o9x.-N H. I'~isaga.