The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-20

ward neutrality-suspicious. IOfty.HVe
families On one side there five families on floor,
on the other four Although but recently built the
closets already fully, unit 70 go into and are
choked up With ashes. room and bedroom the
second floor costs SIS 80 There fire escapes and
should conagation take place, in the rush OF several
hundred people through The hallway would be strange
The descent the water closets Is accompanied with
about much danger IN frosty weather II Is to make
the risk having the linen stolen Is such that many dry
their clothes IN tho house In preference TO hanging them
Above are given few illustrations Of tho condition Of
few OF the two hundred and ffty tenement houses
In this ward The occupants OF every house visited
appeared 70 be honest hard working and industrious
The apartments of models OF cleanliness and
industry while the same floor next door, the stencil
enough 10 breed plague One Of the great causes
OF nth In this ward Is the removal Of the ash boxes
from the front q these houses 1t being violation Of
II any Of them keep ash box in their house, and 1t
night the lazy throw their Stops out Of the win
not is The WINDOW om which they descsudsd Thus
there Is less risk Of detection in throwing nom the
windows and still less trouble than II II were taken
down stairs But those living In the rear apartments
MI their slop pals with garbage and ashes which they
throw In the sink and the consequence is that 10 few
weeks the water closets become unapproachable ana
tho yards reekiug beds OF filth.
THE FOURTH WARD. ar aN
What great difference there Is between the occupants
OF the tenement houses OF the First and Fourth wars
In the First found hard stcd open hearted whole
sonled honest workngmen and women, struggling with
Of every knd-unlicensed and unbfidied pfcsitution
and thieving II would DO difficult to End tenement
house In the four hundred and six which has not
either prostitute family OF professional thieves
Nos 81 and a3 James street. The two houses adjon
each other; five stories In height built wall 10 wall TO
the house in the II s twenty five feet deep.
Twelve families occupy each house, paying
rage OF 81 for room bedroom that has no venta-
ton; stairway dark that has grope and feel
his way up; privilege TO dry clothes the roof
water in the house, no water closets no place for coal
81 ~rnIv
for they Closets but drains Of choked up
flth-and the hydrant under the pavement that
pavement few yards ana then down deep descending
steps under the pavement ut the risk OF breaking the
neck The steps werc so cogged with ice that we
could not venture below: but standing the
above, when the Thermometer stood at Zero the
stencil was perceptble To neither OF those houses
s.does the landlord think We want IT. We are only wo.
OF the town; would be great loss he thinks.
II we were burned up"
compared with No. ~ Roosevelt street. This il called
Bllkers Hall. It is an old diapidated building Per.
haps thirty forty years ago il Of the finest
mansions in the ward. Now 1t Ia changed The en-
trance through wide court At the end OF which
the sink and from It's open locality 10 resorted 70 by
up condition could not approach within twenty feet
OF the further door without wadng through bed Of
in the court OF Bilkers' Hail TO manure a farm OF
sixty The doorway Is twice Its original width,
the bricks have fallen out Or been torn out BY mis-,
the attic windows, which void Of glass sash,
we asked Of officer Ely. Of the Sanitary Corps.
II seemed impossible 10 live in such dismal holes
Up in tho open attic We found a compart
OF the attic saw smoke issuing from dark hole.
Looking in found an old crone OF fifty, ragged,
dirty youth o. sixteen and middle age, s; woman as
around stove that bad pipe attached TO III bat there
was no fireplace or hole to put the pipe in There
was window but not pane Of glass in it-not even
sash: and old shawl hung keep both light
cold out The door of s hinges andlay propped
up against the wall like an independent corner oafer
rough board for cupboard contained some broken |
crockery; but even here there faint display NJ
tase-sn o'd nswspspsf frncfu'ly cut :. the edges
furniture. II had neither chair bedstead Outside
through two gaping. empty windows the wind whsted
nuddled around the stove. For this miserable
hole IN the attic the occupant paid 81
by juvenile thieves who have free sccess 70 r. and
who here and throw themselves down on tho cold,
dirty floor when they cannot raise tan twenty cents
pay Tor shelter in beggars lodging house. Al the
opposite end OF the attic hcre Of boz where
. young rascal had bunked for time He commit
70 Bilkers Hall He had NO sime 10 lin tho Hooring-
the usual way OF sscapeand drop below: and rather
than be csuxo he jumped out Of the window and broke
his leg go s.4@.
On the second door and bedroom lets for So II
has six beds II, and how many dodgers II impossible
ing time occupied The mistress Of the house.
wrctched old bag who lay abed said oil her isdes
ana % U
eight years. without jacket, shoes or stockings; the
other four years older with pair Of shoes that no
nf.ecn, one Of the ladies, who had the stupid
stare OF an IDIOT The old bag spoke hon.
asked Why she didus get shoes for her boy, she said Il
can't AFFORD It, n them wants comfort lot em steal;
they Be big enough 20 know senss The room sdjoin-
panel thief II he not thief himseif be harbored
thieves and lArrenics committed IN his house by
the entered the occupant walking up and
down the room smoking short clay pipe. He spoke
ns. on entering, ana spoke 81 the time. you see"
rssp think psf
Sssu Sp The Lass Two nons n she dd ma more steal
tn coat than did the young un theerc You mol
cot her fsor % get on. wi and thea they blamed my
ovid CONAN, and she waur done, an II cost mon
sac FOR mcuthpisce att Tcnbsi but mean " get
certorar ON ave Jury trial. ana Y shey let me swear
In this house scarcely day passes that the police are
mot heard The ventilation Of the house Is good half OF
the wall gone, the windows nearly oil ont and there
Is scsrcely whole pane Of glass 10 ths place while the
anger through Water s obtained a. the nearest gro
cory: n there was hydrsst there The canal Of hlth
only GET 70 their apartments on Tafts
Nos a and % Cherry street are little better. In
room the aug was oo nss nee me occupant pay
place for the stovepipe 70 70 niobroksn paues OF
glass stuffed Up with old clothes she was dressmaker,
but character OF the house had she sad that
decent people would not come 10 give her work. On the
same foor there were six beds In single ROOM for
which Sl2 Q month paid. The cholera was
pretty bad In this house and In the basement,
which has been nailed up BY order OF the Board
Of Health. The Board Of Health apparently thought
~ they could shove the cholera out they could NJ
least lock In In an adjoining attic, whore they
could ~ straight with the head touching the cs
ing they pay - 10 month IN another room eight feet
by six, on the same eoos, there was woman and two
poyS zee low - csns yssrs sne yo1rs
woman In the house Vas ledger The giass In ths win
dow IVES broken, and the stovspips was too shor BY
the rom had dsagrcssble gaseous smell There was
neither table, chair bed piece Of crockery In the
room. There vs. nothing but the four empty walls,
loose bundle Of straw 10 corner Of The room, seove
and pot half Aied with refuse that the edeee boy had
picked out a ash bAsrels Neither a. TIE shrse bed
lasted any food IN twsnty-four hourA when she little
fellow received loose change 70 relsve HE immediate
wants n wse the happless sght thas 70
Che oldest little fellow throw up his cap tho ceiling