The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-10-01
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BROOKLYN, N. r., Sept. 9th, 1868.
l have had the honor of IN introduc-
ton to that interesting celebrity, "ths
wiekedcst man in New York." . most
villainous looking scamp, and Of eso.p-
ing I similar honor Of an introduction
to his wife, buxom woman in black
dress bespattered With green ribbons,
which ran helter skelter over it, in that
charming forked lightning fashion, in
which many less distinguished women
do SO much delight. 1 have even pass
ed through the residence Of the lion of
the hour, and feel that my achievements
as sight seer are complete. 1t is .
miserable den, an old three :storied
brick, with ceilings which almost touch
ones head, and floors aud stairs worn
through with the trsmpliog Of the thou.
sands Of feet who have passed that way
to a hopeless hereafter. Behind the
little bar-room; the old dancing hall
has been supplied with few benches
and chairs, = table, some tracts and I
vessel Of ice water. Here q number Of
pecplo were assembling tor worship,
respectable people Who had been drawn
froma distance by curiosity or a de-
sire to do good, while tho men Of that
region crowded in the outer room and
around the doorway, or louoged At 9TH
er doors looking on, aud tho women
lolled out Of windows or sat on door
steps and gaped. The meetings are
matters Of curiosity to them, and some
good may come Of them ; but the mis-
sion.ry that is wanted in New York is
the locomotive a way 70 get ont Of the
city in the evening and back to work
in tho morning. It is impossible for |.
mao to work in the city and sleep out
Of it. It is : journey Of an hour from
City Hall to car drawn by steam, and
a laboring man can neither afford the
time nor expense Of travelling back and
forth to work. So they are piled into
down town houses like maggots in a
cheese. I visited one Of the best mod.
ell tenement houses, yesterday, and
found sixty-si1 families on a lot 5Ox10O
feet, giving space Of Earth,s sur
face Of little over 9x8 feet square
for each family. Not more ttban
they are entitled to for graves. As
1 have said, this is one Of the
best tenement houses, for it has no
tenements more than two feet
below the surface. One part faces on
a narrow street into which all the ashes
aud garbage are throws, and the drain.
age into two wells, the contents of
which must be carried through the
main hall, thrown into night carts and
oartcd miles across the city, tobe dump
ed into river. The wharf at one side
Of the city, built for dump, has long
since fallen into decay, 50 the night
carts, from that side tho city, must
pass clear across to the other, to reach
dumping wharf. In that city "7He
World" boasts that the Democratic ma.
jority is larger than the entire Repab.
lican vote! Democracy, which in the
South denied to the laboriug man the
right to his own bones, in the North
denies him pure air, sunshine and
enough Of the earth's surface while liv-
ing to bury him when dead. Democ.
racy contracts to pay to three Demo-
Gratis, Brown, Devoe and Knap, $685.
500 4 year for ten years for cleaning
the streets. One year after said Dem
ocrats sell their contract for 5000, 900.
They have saved enoug b to secure
them airy chambers, luxurious parlo.,
we'll kept grass plats, fast horses and
elegant carriages while the poor man
wades to his little dark room through
heaps Of fostering filth, sleeps in fetid
atmosphere and sees his children pine
aud die for want Of pure air and sun
shine! The reeking accord which
American Democracy has made. for it.
self, ID the City Of Nov York, would
surely be its death warrant, if Il were
not that so many thousands Of it, vic.
Tins are unable to read. No eastern
potentate ever concocted ! more; effec.
tive scheme Of robbing the poor for the
benefit Of the rich, than that devised
and constantly executed BY tho Demo
cratic government Of The City Of Ne '
York. Were il Tot for til. Metropoli:
tan Police and Board Of Health, organ.
ized aud sustained BY the Republican
government Of tho State, the city must
before this time, have bsen abandoned
to thieves, desperadoes, and prostitutes
As it is, these two Boards have long
been engaged in a greatly unequal con-
test but are gradually and surely driv.
ing the enemy to the last ditch. The
famous Five Points, whose sights and
sounds Of horror have been stamped on
my memory for fifteen years, is now
comp aratively clean and decent. Then,
1 had an escort Of . citizen and police
officer, specially employed for that pur'
pose, ere it was thought safe for me to
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