Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-02
DAILY EVENING STAR.

DAlUI NV ENIING SId n.
LIFE Ar THE NEW YORK sTAr ION
."' .A S'o' HOUSE. a sss,i
The following items are from the proof
sheets of the report Of the New York
Chief Of Police, which is now in press !:
SELF-DENAL-AN ORIGINAL.4In the
Fourth Ward Staton-House there is a
man by the name of-fer the sake of de.
licacy, let us call him Rushton. He
has been steady lodger there for the last
two years. He is Of some service to the
doorinan, and therefore he is allowed to
remain. He is sort of fscribbler-penny-
a-liner-as he'ssys himself he does .
little writing around banks, and news.
papers, and what money he earns he gives
to support his mother and sister, who
lives in Brooklyn. He is always sober,
and gets home Ito the station housel in
general, At ia o'clock every evening.
he gets up early in the morning, shaves
himself, brushes his boots, and after hay.
ing carefully fixed himself, he leaves at
~ TO 10 o'clock. He occupies the same
cell that was allotted to him upon his first
appearance there. His room has all the
little necessaries Of life, and is very neat
and clean. He never lies down to sleep
but sits upright on q board, having some
difficulty in breathing. In appearance
he is quite genteel looking man, thirty.
five years Of age, about five feet seven.
and always looks neat, respectable, and
clean, and is native ofNew York. His
long residence in that cell has giten him
sort ofsquatter right to it, and he walks
in regularly at his usual hour, down
stairs, and is locked up. In The winter
time he is of great service to the door.
keeper in experimenting the other
boarders while they are taking in coal.
On leaving the station house he is sure,
summer and winter, to have an extra
coat over one arm, while under the other
he always carries bundle Of paper, tied
with red tape, in the form of bre&. Pre-.
vious to leaving the premises, he general
ly letters few moments on the steps of
the prison, taking regular quiz at the
appearance of the world above him. He
is strictly honest. After the prisoners
have left, he has all the place to himself.
and has frequently found, in the cells,
money, but which he has restored to Can't.
Dichett. This is bis own story, be it
truth or not, we cannot tell. Nothing,
however, in all his ingoings and outso.
lngs has yet turned up to contradict it.
1NDEPENDENCE.-In the same station
ssme time ago, there were three women.
regular old stagers, who had freuuented
the station-house, nig ght after nisht, for a
long time, and who had also nearly as.
sumed a squatter right to their cell, and
no doubt in time would have done it, but
for q general order that had been issued
from headquarters. The Chief of Police
required that all persons applying for
lodgings should give an account of them.
selves. The first night this was put in
operation in this ward it met with no
slight opposition. They indignantly re-
fused to tell two things, their ages and
their names; they said they were wash.
srwomen, but nothing more would thew
tell. Finding that they could not get
over the difficulty, they became highly
indignant at being so treated in a free
country, and left. One of these women
had once been in very respectable circum. |
stances. Her husband kept the Sixth |
Ward Hotel some twenty years ago.
An ECCENTRIC OLD GENrLEMAN.-One
night, q few months ago, an old man. |
about ninety-six years of age, applied for
lodging at the First Ward station-house.
He appeared to be stout, hale and hearty, |
but had no money, and was perfectly So
Der. On telling his tale they had pity
IN him, and gave him bis supper before
sending him to bed. He emigrated to
his country in 1901, from Ireland, and |
was tailor by trade. He lett early the |
next morning about five O'Clock. In the
course of the day q very respectfully
dressed lady, who resides in Fifth avenue, |
,alled to see if he was there. She stated |
hat he was under no necessity to apply
It a station.house for lodgings the old
nan had often played these pranks be-
ore, and they could not stop him. The |
'ame old man tt Ok lodgings another night
It the lodging-housein Trinity Place, and
eft early in the morning, leaving behind
lim ten or twelve dollars, which he never
,ame back to claim, being afraid they
would send him up to the Island as a va
rant.
In the Trinity lodging house, within
he last two years, as many as half
lozen women have been confined there.
Children prison-born 1T must be q hard
natter to keep them from visiting, occa.
ionally, their birthplace, the spot where
hey were born. s.,-:
AFoLLowER OF NAPOLEON LIE GRANpE.
)ne evening lately a venerable old man,
whose hair was now white with the frosts
# eighty winters, applied at the Second
Ward station house for shelter. In ap-
Notwithstanding misfortune,
ge, and the horrors and prvatisns of
many bloody engagement on the field
f battle, he was apparently able to earn
n independent livelihood. He was q
born in Dunkirk, and had
'een at one time wealthy merchant in
Bordeaux and Marseilles, He knew Ma
'oleon lie Grande, and had fought with
i'm in many a battle; he liked Napo-I
eon-Napoleon was man that but to
now was to love. This old soldier was
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