The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-09-24
New YORK Correspondent Providence nress.
The Hidden Sights Of Now York.

We turned into Five Points, and wen
into some of the lodging houses.
/ Think OF thirteen persons cr0Uched Il
one small room, without a window, or All,
hole out the door Male and female, blaci
land white, little chIidren-all bundled III
in heap together On the dirty straw
The air was like pest house. One glanc,
was enough-one taste of that air vii
last life time 1t was a cheap lodging
place. Cheap indeed it was-and nasty
Pounding at one door foradmission brought
outa comely-looking black woman. Grouse
up your husband, | must see him." sale
the detective. The husband came; h,
was a white man "They had lived to
gether as man as man and wife over tive
years" Sharpen said to me afterward
land they get along frst-rate"
Here was place where children lived
Two or three rooms, in battered olo
shanty that shook with every step over it,
floors The children were homeless ones
fatherless and motherless, turned out tc
live or die as might be, in the streets OF
careless, needless New York, Here they
come to sleep, paying the old bag who
kept the loom six cents night. By day
1they tramped the city, getting living iii
any way they could best. They were cud
died around the rooms under scantv, dirty
blankets, and kept warm by wretched
stove glowing feebly in one corner. Most
of them were boys, none over twelve years
wedged in with them though, were some
hungry looking girls, in whose faces the
hard lines of want and sickness and priva-
ton were growing already. 1t made me
heart-sick to look at them-lonely strays !!
Poor, motherless tlfings May He in in
Unite love and mercy forget thee not
Down in cellar was gang ofrag-pick
Hers. They were getting ready for work
and with hook and basket would soon be
out, over the city, working their business
Piles Of rags, bones, otfal, broken iron
filed the place, save where few articles
of furniture stood They were Italians,
and not disposed to be sociable. One had
his bed luxuriously arranged on a pile OF
old carpet rags, which were damp and
noisome with he mud Of the streets. These
rag -piclzers manage to make money in
them dirty way they save too, and one Of
these years they will go home to their
country and enjoy it. The women work
as hard as the men, live as roughly, have
no sHdluc Vi uCCcuCy dDOuI StAudi uIdIGcIo,
are as strong limbed. asked the age q of
the woman whs seemed rather more dis
posed to talk than the others She was
thirty one. l should have said fifty. She
had not one trace of youth left-a hard
weather beaten face aobody bent and I'M
hinged, SLOW, plodding step and wrin-
kles coming. Sh9 had been i'll New York
seven years-aii the time a rag-picker.
Had she got rich enough to 60 back?
Rich enough and she smiled-'I have
two children in Italy that my money is
educating They don't know their poor
mother poor dears, but | shall work hard
for them, and sometime l will 60 back
and see them" This woman carried
bag and fished in CUTTERS and refuse bar
rels, from 4 O'clock in the morning till
past sunrise, came home and sorted rags
and otfal all day in close damp cellar
and yet, there was tender, romantic sen
timent in her life which made her look
not to herself but to her little ones. May
she have her wish, and 90 back to
them