The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-02
MOVING DAY.


A Damp Episode in Metropolitan Annals.
Yesterday the janitor Of the year 1867 opened the
door for the fifth ume and April stepped out into
tho rain, May, with wet feet and dripping raiment,
wakedn The inaugural ceremonies Of the new prcstess
took place precisely midnight night before last; and
yesterday morning New York. like London in one OF the
odd tales Of Mr.. Dickens woke up with great yawn,
and was at notified by her landlord tna1 moving
day was on the carpet and atgre the ram she mass
get mp pack up her duds and tramp the DAY passed
along the street, shutting of the gas from the
lamps, absolutely dripping with damp; scuds
Of cloud and fog hung the metropolis and IN general
the weather exceedingly for moving ana
exceedingly propious for remaining indoors ana smok
ing ones pipe The just Of that sort 70 make
one Notwithstanding momentarily TO be about 70
sacken, and never doing All over the city y dppea
down ceaselessly and relenessly making puddies ana
pools a. every available point and running on N me
cutters in muddy currents from Broadway, on either
side. north and south, toward the docks
radonal moy,nr Sav soms aw rms disguised with
the advance in RENTS had endeavored to better themselves
by shifting from one block TO another or from first
floor 70 CELLAR but, in general, business men had mi-
tated the example Of Hamlet voted rather TO bear
the Ills they had than y 70 others that they knew not
rather than move Above Bieecker also, in the middle
part OF the CITY, there was little transmgraton and only
sporadically carmen might have been observed drawn
up in front Of preen.ious palaces Of marble and OF
brown stonethough on the east and west, and In the
lower part OF the metropolis mostly inhabited by tenant
people. there were indications every hand Of May
migration. On East Broadway and streets ad-
jacent the walks were almost impossible, and
not unIlreqqenny from eight 70 %. dozen
Furniture and duds OF all sorts barred the way for pedes
trans; and meantime down dripped the rain, ftfuly
than East Broadway at ten A. NJ, yesterday cannot
well be imagined The rain fell continuously TO
drip cd INCREASINGLY and with an obvious Indifference
the interests and convenience Of the movers The little
Indians in front Of the cigar stores reeked with rain
Drops millinery dummies, dressed In the latest Partisan
style suddenly hauled indoors the water ran in
little Msssspps from the weary disconscate horses,
and drzzlcd dirty pools from uncleany furniture upon
The rain had played a sort Of practical joke, for
whereas early In the morning the sun made fent as II
about shine later the clouds shut in his disk and the
storm down in ceasaess cataracs In the eastern
half Of the city the average Of movers was about four
per square, while in Williamsburg the general average
still greater and nobody pretended TO stay in 1867
whore he had s,aid in 1866. From New York 10 Hobo
ken there was ZION, Ns nsw ~ %
w. d. very ltle-rents in eligible locations in Brooklyn
having risen to almost as high figure as in New York
In one case, In Williamsburg, as many az fourteen NOV
ings occurred in single square, and In another tene
ment house inhabited by twenty families had been
rented from over their heads, and the poor people
having up to yesterday secured no abodes, were
At twelve NJ turned out INTO the drzze, without even
roof for the night In another part OF the city an old
manufactury was bought by grasping landlord and
rudely partltioned to accommodate about twenty
families every Of whom is expected to pay $500
rent, tnuS IeimDurslnR worthy WHoie
cost Of that shaky old building in single year. In the
precincts Of the cityn Oak and Rose streets
there was less Of moving though Broadway and
Bowery there considerably than happened
last year.
In Baxter street and the lower part Of Mulberry-the
paradise of lodging cellars beggars and organ grinders
not to mention the mummies that peddle cigars along
City Hall square, and retreat TO their in these
streets at eight p M-there was very little mlgra-
ton, some Twin, in this vicinity being too
squalid in their poverty either to move or to
remain where they were; and in the up
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A, Is, c. and adjacent sreels-there nothing
but moving every hand People in these localities
seemed 10 take moving with the of facility
that Fnsa manifested for drinking Al nine O'Clock in
the morning. along the streets, damp muddy and dis
agreeable, drawn up long rows OF CARTS and on
them were barricades OF stands stoves bureaus bed
steads other paraphernala of housekeeping tall
erected In the streets Of Paris at the time Of the
revolution vermin which had not bcen disturbed for
whole year were startled their airs yesterday and
made desperate efforts TO escape from the din bed bugs
croton bugs that had slept in their dens like lions
without disturbance from human hands since Nay i,
1860, suddenly awakened and crept out TO ask
what was the matter; filth, damp. mildew and pest-
breeding that had gathered In hooks and cranuics
and crevces out or way OF the sunlight stirred
for the first for year yesterday and sent forth in
breath as fetd as that BY Arabs to
ghoul having just gorged herself upon carbon and
all tins with the dripping Of RAIN the natural heaviness
Of the atmosphere and the oahs OF carnen, answered
make up sort OF bcdiam more rotten and lunatc
than that which corrupted from Bethlehem.
This the scene during the forenoon, in which the
rain drpped down. a. u moved oy sPec eva Deneso
though in the afternoon took the place Of
tho old, and carts laden with utensils OF all sorts and
dimensions moved and fro aud hither and thither,
like the ceaselessy moving shps in certain old ballad
about four p H. after cart stopped in front Of
house after house. and unloaded Of its burden
wares. Walks were again encumbered; doors were
thrown open and houses which at twelve NJ. had been
from four to six p. NJ, weary wet and disseminated
tenants to adjust themselves for the night
coiled themselves up individually in the smallest
space possible main efforts TO sleep after the days
jadng Not less than seven thousand families shifted
their quarters yesterday, and probably onenh as many
ing hhsr and thither 70 . new abiding place In the
desert though for the most part the public may con-
graduate themselves that moving day over and settle
down quietly and soberly tor the summer