Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-09-29

r their homeward way 10 night. We will 90 ane
see where they live.
So we followed down Anthony; passed some
very old ratharbor houses, filled with human be
ipgs almost as thick as those quadrupeds tha, bur
row IN rotten wharf; they go across Elm
now they stand moment the edge of Centre
for one OF the little boys has taken hold of lis mo
theirs dress to pull her back-for she cannot look
up with her load-with a sudden cry of stop, ole
woman! Don't you see the car is comnga Why
you are as blind a brick That is black jim
adriving, and he had just as soon drive over the
likes of you as eat. Hang you for fool, han,
you got no sense, old stupid There now, run like
; thunder, blast ye, for here another of the
darned cars-run, tell you
She did run with her great load till she almost
, dropt with her overwhelming weight Why should
she thus labor-thus expend so much strength to
SO little purpose? She knew other way to live.
Nobody gave her remunerative labor for her strong
hands nobody took those two stout boys and set
them to till the earth, taught them how TO Gre
ate bread, and yet they eat, and so they prow
about the pulled down houses snatching every
thing they can carry away-a sort of permitted
how TO do bigger deeds and those old timbers
they split up into kindling wood, and pedde thro
the streets
Poor uncared for fellow creatures; working and
stealing TO escape starvation-hving, for what 3
| running to escape being over by an unfeeling
driver who cares just much for them as for their
dogs
On they went down Anthony ST. and we follow
ed, determined to the home of this portion of
the city poor. 1t was but one block further-on-
| ly one little space beyond this great wide open
railroad street. whose thoughless thousands daily
go up and down from homes of wealth to wealth
producing ships and stores little thinking of the
amount of human misery within stones throw
OF the rails on which they glide swiftly along
One block further and the street opens into a
little half acre sort of triangular space, sometimes
dignifed with the name of park but why, those
who know can only tell, for it has no fence, no
grass, and but dozen miserable trees: It's lum-
bered up with carts and piles of stone and strings
of drying clothes, and scores of unwashed spec-
mems of young humanity, whose home is in the
dirt, whether IN the street or parent domicil.
| Here we stop. At the right, across the base of
the park runs Little Water ST. only one short
block past the Five Points house of industry or
home of the missionary, to Gross ST, across which
stands substantial brick edifice the site of the
old brewery. At the left, as though it were
continuation OF Little Water st, lies that notori-
Gus Five Points collection of dens OF misery, Cow
Bay. 1t is a cul-desac, perhaps thirty feet wide
at the mouth, narrowing, with crooked uneven
lines, back TO point about an hundred feet from
the entrance Into this court tracked the
kindling wood splitte-s, and threaded our way
among the throng of carts and piles of steaming
garbage, elbosvng way along the narrow side
walk, and up short flight of broken, almost i'm
passable steps, reached the first floor hall of
one of the houses just in time TO see that great
load OF wood and its bearer toiling up a narrow,
dark broken stairway, which we essayed to climb
but just then, from the on the left at the
foot OF the stairs, there came such a piercing,
undertaking, womans shrek, that started
back grasped our stout cane. determined to brave
the worst Tor the rescue, made step, pushed
open the door. creaking with horrid grating up
on its rusty hinges, and stood in the presence of
an Eve, before the fall in point of clothing, but
ohS 'id' M Poiit Vi siIi AS We the
open door, she sprung towards it--her husband
caught her by the hair and drew her back with no
gentle hand word. Let me go, let me 90 he
wants 10 murder me let me go help, help, help
We did help but it help to the poor man,
for she turned upon him with the fury of tiger,
scratching and tearing his face and clothes, and
then settled with grasp upon his throat which
produced the death rattle OF choking suifocaton
strong SIX handkerchief served the hand
Gun place. aiid 10 oind hands and feet together;
alter Which she lay quietly upon little straw
and rags III one corner the only articles OF furni
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