The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-07
TIE POOR OF NEW YORK.

Rcumlng tho broken thread or yesterdays narrative
regarding Ihe poor or the city, and though abundant
poor people always the Indigenous growth OF great
towns, narrative has moro to do with thai class
whom the present unusual depression In business and
lack OF employment have made special and deserving
objects o. charity and not with chronic and irrepress
ble paupers we precincts Of the Fifth ward
Hero the up town influx Of trade, which rapidly Is
converting all the city below Canal street into vast
commercial mart and uninterrupted area OF mammoth
stores and colossal warehouses, has RACED 70 the
ground those pests OF tensment houses and
merry sbounded, and driven most OF their oe-
cupanu 10 burrow elsewhere II 10 mot long since
that directly opposite where the station house nov
stands q tenement house occupied BY forty fami-
lies miserable human hive a. the lvelest msgin
tion can conceive The station house, formerly .
dwelling aud now poor tumbIe down AFFAIR, hemmed
10 by stores is about the only remaining rellc 10 the
street o. those times: but hidden away - IL among the
nsdq-s q the s Suans: as
nsht md without shelter or the means 10 pay Tor ono
md out The green light, that nocturnal BADGE OF
way 10 lodgings they are and 70 the saturday
pgnI inmates giving assurance OF acomforiable morning
be accommodated nightly Ind their way hsrs, although
twice aud sometimes three tlmes this number
are are, eom a turned away The men occupy
Tho women one room. The systsm Of ventilation not
up 20 tho requirements Of modern science whle the dis
beyond tho Christian dspsnsation. capain Petty says
that more respectable persons discharged clerks and
young women having employment or friends arc sp-
plying or lodgings than ne has over known before. The
sunday breakfast Alluded 70 10 furnished ~ the Howard
nson, Roosevelt street, cards Of admission 10 which
are distributed each Sunday morning 70 the Iodgen Of
tns previous night The cards are not allowed 10 be
Eiyen 70 women showing urainins Of tho quality Of
mercy on Vie part Of the directors OF this mig
SION Tor which 10 the absence OF any given
reason difficult 10 find . satisfactory
one Tners very little dsstitution IN this ward that
either the hands the for the
condition OF the poor the ssione OF Charities
the congregations Of St Johns church or Father Starts
church or the special ward committee appointed 70 look
After the poor, not speedily relieved.
The sixth ward 10 prominently the poor peoples ward
Of city. Happily Its criminal record, which rave
the name OF the "Bloody srth,n shows q marked dln
mutton from what used 70 be- Its damp and dsnk dens
deep hidden In the ground give secure shelter 10 the
worst Of fslona Burglars, pickpockets sness thieves
And The vie and vicious Of every grade
Turk By day In s lanes and obscuys
alleys and pcnt up asucs and 81 p,sht' I'M
lions, seeking whom they may dsvour ssiy forth
on their missions Of crime A more favorable chsnss
has been wrought, however by the Excise lsv where
there used 70 be over ave hundred places where liquor
Was sold ther are nov but one hundred and pnstv
licensed Liquor dealers n tbs ward. and ore dGss ss