The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-07

without license for he Knows the minions OF the law
cou,d be qu,cky snsr him sna no mercy shown him.
temperance ara greatly dimIpishing In consequence
Much OF the improvement In the also aus TO the
In his administration Of the police affairs OF the ward TO
honest conviction OF duty unites the inteigencs and
na so sss % 40 What he thinks &
wrstchednessf For the Sixth ward, "a al know, II
made up Of tenement houses and nearly al
OF the worst Imaginable description abouudns 10 this
ward Every stage and degree OF poverty exists here
and It has been 30 often described as to have be-
come long since than thrics-told tale onlcer
Cadde long associated with the police Of the ward and
who knows every crauny and crook Of devious WAYS
was the guide IN the Investigation Yesterday and voun'
ereo MS services 70 thread the ntrcaces OF this pre-
cincl ana showed up all the curious phases OF ts
strangely mnltifarious lfs Down deeply descending
through dark halls reeking with nh and noisome smells
up rckety narways TO lofty atics whose only redeem
.ns tSs that they are nearer tho outer ar
lower down, our walk took US Families OF all sizes
and ages Of children are huddsd in small, miserable
ana unhealthy rooms or all places the lodging houses
present the worst features In all the streets about the
Five Points there 20 be found q Dozen twenty and
thirty sleeping in rooms but little twelve feet
square, In no window and tho only avenue tho
air the door, which is closed night very many have
ior moor tho cold and damp earth II Is not unusual
LOT Six adults to sleep In bed and for discrimination
IN sexes, moralists might raise the question;
6rt the letters OF these LODGINGS do not. Pete
duvrs Of dancing places in the wardof which by the
way, there hers-is at present occupied
iouRing mousse negro, or hercutean phvsque, ana
features prorortionatsy repsve Is the Boniface and
his coadju'or Is white woman. still quite young and In
whose face there yet fingers the traces OF former beauty
wnom ne claims as his wife, In and about the old
Baptist church IN Mulberry street the Of poverty
and restitution The greatest punishment that could be
inflicted on the owners of those buiIdings-some Of
whom live in the best OF houses up the best
OF clothes drive the Of urnous the best Of
pews in the best Of churches-would be to make them
live in them In this street. living in all degrees OF
NTH and wretchedness and enjoying all the freedom OF
analgamation. are Cinnamon, whites, negroes and that
o.gan grinders me grinnng, chsttefing monkeys
snow moro life and sensby than all the rest FOR such
looks are not to be found outside an insane asylum We
leave these and other with the remark that here
not the place for charity These Aus can stables OF
generalization need Hercules 10 clean them.
What a relief 1t is and 80 found 1t. 10 turn from
the wretched abode to which have alluded for their
description is impossible and take look into the Five
Points House OF Industry II Is nearly half past
the daily dinner hour About the entrance gathered
q crowd Of most woebegone looking mon. aud large
room leading from the side is filed with wretchedly
clad women They all soon seated in the capacious
dining room altogether two hundred and thirty persons
Hore frugal but substantial and satisfactory meal 10
furnished them II Is touching sghtone that should
evoke beyond all possible oralions OF any Marc
Antony over the body of dead Cesar Up stairs In the
school room are nearly four hundred children going
through the closing exercises OF the days school This
too IS touching sight, and as beautiful as 1t
is touching. These children all get their three
meals day, and over half are LODGED and
taken care Of in the building Hcre Is charity well dis
pensed Across the way Ia the ladies' FIVE Points
Mission School, where some six hundred children are
daily taught 10 school and fed In the upper part OF
the building living twenty-three families free OF
rent whose husbands have been thrown out Of employ
ment During short visit the rents OF ten poor
families living IN the vicinity paid These old
institutions and their charities well known, and
almost should apologize for abiding 10 them, and would
not, only 10 show that in this ward with all It's poverty
and misery and crime the bright angel OF charity shows
itself and is extending It's helping hand TO the deserving
needy
The old Quaker ward the Seventh Is fast degenerat
Ing from what II was In its pamy DAYS and these date
back to very modern period. Stretching its arm into
y 10 the Fourth ward and up East Broadway aud from
Pike street 10 Cathsrne lager beer saloons and sailors
boarding houses and cheap stores ruled by hoso
OF the jewish persuason RAPIDLY filing the old
places occupied by old KncEerbockor families
However, with the incoming OF ali this new and hetero-
ganeous element and erection o. tenement houses there
IS no very great OF destitution In tho ward.
Large numbers live here who at present
Of employment but there sharp lookout by special
ward relief committee that none shall b visited
with the extremes OF dcsttniion. Tho station house 10
nightly filled With dodgers about ffty--who are largely
made up Of ~ha, ere called ''revolvers"
Fhose who havo the dsposit on TO be charitable and
wish TO besow their charity those worthy to receive
H. will stear clear Of tho Eighth ward II Is the present
hot bed OF vice and crime the city. There certainly
poverty within Its boundaries but very little that de.
serves commseration relief The station house is
al present at temporary quarters at l23 Mercer street.
waiting the completion Of their building, OF
Prince and Wooster streets. They accommodate
dodgers.