New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-02
Horrible and CHASTITY Exhibit ei
Human Abodes. .,s
pesfileuce Breeding all Around Us.
sanitary Reform q VIeal
Necessity.

net Gtating, aud that nlonS 'ne SHORES W '"o "e"o
ranean making ghfal havoc even to the extent oi
v,i1e-spread panic. There is telling at what day
tie awful soouige may make its appearance among US.
and hot few Of Us re ze the position in which IT would
fpd LIS.
Gentlemen intere sed in the health and morals Of tho
ey have long kuown and proclaimed tho seed beds of
ssesse which nfrst the city, bnt their warnings pass
UNDECIDED The evil seeps TO be widespread ana 50
generic in its character rs to he continually passed
over What everybody concern Is Bohod' tnsiness
OR Legislature has facd TO pass the Health bt anl
really there is no competent authority either TO reveal
TOUR AMONG TIE rESEMENTs. .s
Several -pntlen,en connected with the public press
accompanied tho weliSnown City missionary, MI.
Samuel b. Halliday through few Of the tenement
buses nh blied by the poor AZ be wei says single
visit of half hour will be Ceciys than co uiDiS
Q; expsnaiien ihe exhibit regaitei IN saniiafy
icht httnl and in social aspect IL mnuf iui
escagh Even now the pout,Bg Odors seem Ia cling
arouHd onc mhbcd In the foul recesscs where hun~ds
aad thousands Of human beings are doomed tn pass
tseir lives. Few persons Sh" see New hofA IN. ns
strangers rsnay see IT, from Broadway, would imagine
t1at within thIusand wards from its gorgeous eGaip
ares its crowd Of rosy beauties with their splendid
atoinments and IFS lcf'y palaces exist squahd anu
Uetehed hovcIs crowded with humeniiy and pregnant
vita baleiul pesence 1t is diffeu,t 10 bEd language
with which to portray the stocking indecent and
norderous places IN which large proportion OF onr
population is doomed to live. Everything must fall
short OF the TRUTH and yet anything VII sound Ise the
exasgeratons If a feriile pen. We would urge upon
persons Interested in this subject (and, indeed vito
AN "IMPRovID y DWELLING.
Right in tue center city in The nit die Of connt-
les millions Of wealth, hundreds OF buildings u tho
fowIug description: Tie fIst We visited is Labelled
Improved Tent Building, and 'rue 10 its title u
Is Improvement upon many IL IL ON Park'St. and
is six stories high. Each story contains two rooms Of
about ten by fourteen feet, with small dark window
Is, bedroom off of ebout half that sze. narrow.
Oars. staircase winds from top TO bottom In snch Is
f,my Of several persons Ali the cooking Is done IN
tie same apartment. Nenil ition is npos sibe from
tho construction Of tie hous. Bnt The saddest a'nre
OF al is at the basement. The ony place which all
fwrrs to the nauie Closets for The women
ana children. battles all desci and would disgrace
the worst camp or PRISON p, .e o Se rcs
two huge buildings pOisOns all the air that ever IA ses
b, tue windows they Of necessity, inhse tnrse
pesife GUS odors continually For this privilege these
tenants nav fom five 10 SIX dollars q month. Mostly
Italians iBey cleaner and more orderly than most
of their ueishbors- or course there is moe or lees
yer,un vcs and violence, always graNiaiiDg 10 sucn
vile abJdes.
TIE ApoDrs OF THE POOREST.
A second n oup uf frame buildings deputatiou
visited cont an ed several ltsh fames of stall lower
grade 10 reach their da eing is necessary ~ pass
Iudr an old stable aud wade over inid eh through
a little open euuIt when climb some ickcty bair.
Oue OF ticsc tehans of sipgis room takes lodg ~
~hieh she spreads round on Tue ioor pronistaous J,
1he ay erage of tiesc Is 81 uobto, anu ~
thin my be found sicky. pie, rhenmy, sore eyed
ehdrcn withercd oil erones and ssionaIy brutal
10 K ny man We noticed that nearly ali htd at
tm,t at ci snhess ia-ile. but tie Overwhelming and
surrounding It'll outside made hsr Efforts seem Useless
an iuhig giucant- ,
city absolute 10 d. airage Many o: them ore with
cot cOLN enicnces for dciecaioi, or What Is worse
have Dasy eerspool and accumulation Of fth wLose
odOr perneates every There ale no sewers to
carry of debI aud tie st, ees turned into pfrma
every sort OF 4 cIl anu pDttld mat
t Separa any Esen al nat must he
in tie days Is sOmctlrg too apieilubhld 100 h'
ribe 10 contemplate. asked one Of there Old women
live purer aud cheaper p :" Sure" was her ahsscr
4" We wants 10 live with our neigboofs." a" Yes, re.
pie o and die with item"
REVOLVING SPECTACLE.
Following the isntcIa OF the guide through dark.
demp aud mellitic SIDE alleys and passages,
successfully led up rickey stpTs to more OF
thee cherries dwellings. where the ioys o tie san
penetrate. where at MONDAY The ian'rst sresss
o. light eater not, and where no breath Of pure air can
JossiLy leach. We fund other por "rctches huddied
Significantly enough. oot1 wHrehOnse rtdnds at the
enrasee oi OF the alleys. In one of these close
roBs where the atmosphere was positively stifirg,
an wheye a., tights tn, ned dim, fvu"d halt naked,
por idiot boy. Geoited. and, With YacsIt face md
CLASSY eyes playing with few chips. Child Of same
ABSENT, loving bardworking mother ~ho s'es IN bus
features OF longloved fnee he slts summer
and Wnte. gaspng bis few s1ort bresths. but is eyi
n,y Iii, iast There seems 10 he some strange
tflstion between pveity snd GiIt. Eseh u ue 10.
would be physically impossible 80 long n the. iive III
tese streets and structures Bet the great hiber OF
them oniy be cOBtented To i've thus or ut
tie rest, TO be staggered and dhestcned az the i'm.
neIsty Of tie tax n improving t'eir condition.
CnglgY-sT. BARRACKS.
dwellings, which wili inevitably breed disease, abd
which might be Tcmcdied. One CLING Is very much
Ike anotbeT OF t'e hundreds We saw. No DOUBT We
some bal specimens, but We are assuied tlere are
AaHdrsds fhr all oser The CRY. IL ought to be nnie
generally known and appreciated however. thst within
stones thIog Of the J.,e OF TIE JyarHai Of Ciera
tioH s bsding eurtainng over 80 families or over
l20 persons, occupying rooms not larger than an or
binary closet whele there is neither provision ior hg
air Cr water; hope IN ease OF hIe, end wLere The
sun never peers a solitary ruy. The most astounding
EDd sckenng iestue Of IL H. however that tie base
noDt is orc vast EUxious fink. The open closets ere
unfit or ANYTHING human mncb less for honest women
tender children. 1t ~ absolutely tie most shano'e
Dad teiribe fever breeding ,pot we ever taw or
dreamed Of Tie people inhabiiing IT, moreover. ne
evienuy Of class of iaboring people VINO aesne 70
live ho,orab'y and ceanly ard yirtuous.y The only
Ieg visitors who enters thrir apartments IL
such they may be called 10 the collector oi the re0t.
with perhaps, stray huDanilarian doctsr, or hh
undertaken.
THE PIsTILEScR CHARTS.
Many persons viii I've avt 20 read thesc lines with
shpg OF satfaton IN tie reflection that these sftta.
eles are oGy exceptions and thht Of tie very worst
character IL ID to iLfur them that nearly
tenement bouses aeay half of living in houses whore
there is no adequate piOs, for igdt nr health ana
morals. The following figures taken officially three
years since (ana II has not improved in the iupse) e
enable the reader 90 appreciate the magnitude of this
evil In twenty of the twenty-five wards there nre
80 552 dwellings. accommodating us 900 families Only
1880 occupied euiiIe LDusf, and lei Occu-
pied by two fsnliiier aiiG by three families the
naming 96S dwellings roul four 10 ninoty -four fai
lies cach.
In the First Ward ei3 families Five In IS houses. or
20 sVuis .ocach
In tue Tenth Ward i2j arc dwelling in 70 houses or
Cb0nt ~ epus 10 each. i
In the Eleyenih Ward the average OF tenemen,s Is
families 10 house; ll3 Of those rear houses con-
t,!D 65s fmilies "A contain Az families. over 20
psorsG.s 10 each.
In tie Foortecnih Ward SIS houses contain Ari