Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-22

feFed large brsised. hollow eJod. spare chestsd
hoy, Who had been struck By the sun and pros
trs,cd. Beyond The room the way was DARK,
but &c went 10, stopping. however. AZ the very
frat step, for in a dark. unEentiaied close; We
caught sight Of A woman resting Ga q setiee.
No living cat could be ssung By bis or Its ex
treuity In that fearful dupgeon-but IL vas her
room, her home, she IL lodger. Passing on We
came 20 two small rooms. each with is compile
ueuts Of beds, each terrible place for human
beings 70 stay in-for live they cannot. IL shonh
be said only that they do rot die there.
We must rscorda
MOST ExTRAoRDISARY FACT
in this most extraordinary condition OF things in
New York city. We forget the exact number
OF The building but il is directly opposite the Iss'
place mentioned in Oak street. The front room
on the ground door = pork, grocery and crea.
tufe comfort store At the left "a we entered
We and snuifed pig in various fOrms-P.g'
feet, however. predOminated. and, tor wonder,
they were clean At the right was a bar-behin
was a middle aged woman and several bottles.
Ia the bottles were maDJ colored poisons, and in
the woman a strong desire 10 make money out
of her customers, and 10 De impudent 10 visitors
Sitting ia the back room were two dilapidated
specimen OF frailty. rather two very irail
our entrance. and disappointed at our summary
retreat. Passing them. We went down q long,
dark, unhealthy alley, tripping over stones or
stumbling over children AZ every step. until we
reached a second passage. where dirty woman
was washing dirtier clothing. by whom We like.
wise went stopping At . small door of a little
room or rather shed at the right. Two women
comely, neat. not vet middle aged. with babies in
their arms and children. pretty faced. curly
headed girls and boys NJ their knees, looked up
in astonishment at the unexpected visit We
took no chair-there was none in the room; We
rested on no table--theTe MAS none on which 10
lay even our hat; we sat az the foot of no bed
stead-there was none there Listen The
single solitary article OF furniture in that room
and in the large closet opening from il. was a
stool, on which sat poor, tired, hungry dirty
little girl, with the pFcttiesE blue ewes we ever
saw, whose well made head was golden with
luxuriant curls, but into whose little mouth no
food bad gone that day, whose weary mother
had but just returned from a half-day's scrub
bng, aud who as yet had no time to turn from
the younger baby that she might comfort or
console her broken hearted empty stomached
child The women we're intelligent. Their
dead husbands had been soldiers in our army,
with whom they bad been permitted to travel.
Their husbands killed, they returned here and
receive each S. a month from the Local Com.
mtttee. They pay - 80 per month for the
wre,ched holes they occupy. aud clean the
privies in addition. They have no friends, 10
money. no work, save the accidental incident OF
q days scrubbing. no bed, clothes. chair, table,
crockery-nothing but themselves and tour
beautiful children-children Of whom any mother
iE this city might well be proud, who we're sen,
for a few days TO the mission school, but being
too poorly clad were taken away When by
- = II
eldest, takes care OF the hungry babies till night.
when, if fortunate, they share a crust and then
tumble upon .be floor and sleep for dessert. Oh
if they were only Sandwich Islanders, or scally-
wSg Cinnamon, how quick We would give them
fine linen, testaments. teachers and pocket hand
kerchieis-hOw the Jellabys and missionaries
would strive 10 make each woman q proselyts
each child a saint-but unfortunately for them,
they live in Oak street. New York, and thus far,
somehow they have failed to get in the range OF
the Humanitarian telescope an invention which
brings near the foreign heather, and while over
looking those near BY
But we have exceeded our limits aud have not
ye, mentioned the
PRIME DISGRACE CITY.
Nos sc and 81 Cherry street. owned by Mr
Wood These buildings are IL feet by $50 feet
large they five stories high; they have each
J 10 rooms. with bed rooms 9 feet by feet large
with ceiling feet high. entries 81 fee, wide
and stsrways 212 feet wide In one of these
No %, there were
NINETY FAMILIES,
consisting of 24O adults and $50 children, max
ing the grand total of
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
people in one house. In the other, No 80 there
were ffty FIVE families, 300 adults and $50 child
rem, or $50 in all Did time aud space permit
We would cheeriuly describe the condition o.
these places. but giving the elements of 900 PEG
pie, their furniture and bedding. their utensil:
and cooking, their vermin and excretions, theiI
typhus fever and measles. their scsrlatina anC
diarrh9l. their eruptions and marasmus. and tn,
reader should be competent TO judge of th,
result