The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-15
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Prom Our oisn Correspondent

WnHA HecOues OF all the 'Nets.D
several times in the course OF the year occasions
occur when the veteran relics OF various wars as
semDe together FOR the sake OF pouring good old
recouectons oa and good old Bourbon IN. Song
orat0ry and recitatlons cause the hours to disap-
pear with wonderful celerity, and an innumerable
quantity OF crutches are shouldered for the purpose
OF showing how fields were won. Any quantity OF
these 'Vets" discovered in New York but 1t has
not been hitherto known that society OF them ex-
lists at Biackwels Island. Nevertheless, in the
Poorhouse OF that Elysum no less than one hundred
aud fifty persons living, who were regularly en-
listed during The late war, and many of whom have
undergone amputation OF the arm or leg This is
not a pleasant fact. II the reward OF virtue Is
poverty and the recompense OF patriotism is the
P0orhouse, the prOverbial ngrattude OF nations is
abundantly proved. colony Of crpples, who be-
came so by serving their country, and whose claims
that country recognizes by leaving them to starye
in the PoOrhouse, is hardly an improving sight.
The Panel Game.
In houses OF ill-fame this interesting trick will
continue 10 be played long as It's victims retain
, enough respect for their own regulations to avoid
the exposure that would necessarily ensue upon a
public prosecution. A night or two ago the hubbub
created on Wooster street by a stylishly- dressed
man, who had been visiting OF the houses there
and whose watch and money had vanished through
the panel which the headboard of the bed concealed
led to the hope that at last the keeper OF the house
would be brought to Justice. The police soon rum
mayed through it from garret to basement but dis
covered the chief objects OF interest in
the parlor in the persons of eighteen or twenty peo
pie, most OF whom were well dressed, and some OF
them eXpensvely. This extremely decorous party
who had preserved as much order among themselves
as though they had been attending private prayer
meeting marshalled into the hall two by
TWO, like gang of noble captves at some
siege OF COnstantnople. Boys of sixteen were
looped to demoralized nymphs Old enough to be
their mothers and satyrs Of sixty were hook-and-
with iu,n min nd
marched OF to the staton-house where they were
kept all night. The pleas which many OF them put
in were without interest, evidencing they did
the perpleXng variety OF purposes for which one
and the house be visited by parties OF diff
ferent sex and age. One lady had gone there to
after some washing; second because she under
stood that hairdye sold there; third to have
dress tried or. fourth to get situation as semp-
stress In fact some called it by name and some
by another, but have no doubt all went there with
the same intention, whatever that intention may
have been. In the morning the complainant ne
glecting to put in appearance, everybody dis
charged and the panel-house remains as hourishing
as ever
Since am on this topic, let me say one word about
Green street,
down which Pere HyaCinthe drove not long ago, and
with the decorum of whose inhabitants he expressed
himself pleased. 1t is mean-lOOkng thoroughfare,
down which no lover of virtue familiar with its char
acter would delight to drive. But, unfortunately
Gotham is not the Utopia Of virtuous characters
to the vicious mind the glimpses that await the pry
ing eye behind haf-closed shutters and the Stats of
Venetian blinds are quite well worth being sought
after. In those numerous houses all ages of the
feminine washed over with the same wave
OF cyprianism; and young girls upon whose cheeks
ought yet to rest the dew-bloom of innocent child
hood are valetudinarians IN shame, and compress
the whole vile scope and aim OF their calling into
wink OF the eye or a fngcr-beckonlpg. They have
indeed been sharply kissed by the falcons beak,
and the falcon that kissed them is vOluptuousness.
It seems this letter is to be mostly about wicked
ness AT any rate, the transition from panel-houses
and Green street to
InfanticIde
is an easy and natural one and perfectly justified by
the facts that lie before us. Mrs. Wright is the name
of a dressmaker who formerly used to live at No.
l62 East Twenty-eighth street. Mantua-making was
her only visible means of support and 1t added to
her visibility in no ordinary degree, for Mrs. Wright
was plump and comfortable-ookng dame to look
at-so prepOssessingly matronly in aspect that any
one would have believed her had she asserted her
claims to respecability in the language OF the i'm
mortal Mrs Crupp, and exclaimed "Mr. Copperfull
I'm q mother myself" AT any rate, last May Mrs.
Wripht disappeared, and the house was rented in
apartments to number OF families. The warm
weather advancing, the great furnace on the base
ment door was not brought into requiston, and
until the other day, when large fire was needed for
the first time the singuarty OF its shape had given
rise to no remark beyond that of general criticism
and wonder at the whimsiCaty that had given birth
TO it, In shape it is large range, with funnel
fashioned tue adjusted TO it, and 1t stands out IN the
middle OF the room, while the ordinary aperture in
the chimney is covered over with sheet of iron Upon
examination, the design with which the furnace was
constructed seemed to lie to ensure intense heat.
IJpop endeayoring to light fire, however, 1t was
discovered that the hue had become defective, and
tinsmth was brought in to make matters right. Now
prepare for the denoue'hent. The tnsmth, IN pro-
ceeding to work, discovered number OF chaotic
black objects in the chimney and, upon nearer eX-
animation, found to his horror that they were the
skulls and bones OF burnt infants The remains OF
three bodies found-quite sufficient, IN connec-
tion with the peculiar construction OF the furnace
to tell a tale whose horror is level with that OF
antdue crimes in Godsmitten cities. or course this
discovery has a-uttering the dark and murmurous
wings OF whole flock of traditions that have long
been broodiug about the unhalowed spot-stories OF
women, some poorly and some richly dressed COM
ing and going in haste, for other purposes than tC
have dresses tried on OF young babies shrill cries
instantly smothered; OF deaths where there were
no funerals and murders OF which these little bones
are the only trace.
Asan onset to this, let me remark that the
Home for FOundlings
is receiving fresh accessions every four hours anC
that little ones who would else have been dead o.
worse than dead by this time are experiencing thu
bliss OF being brought up by hand. The blessednes
OF the motto "NO questions asked was surely neve
better appreciated than it is by those poor mother
whose babies have no father, and who leave then
amid the silence of repressed sObs under the nurtur
of good Sister Irene whose bosom is as capacOus a
Abraham's and much less stony-hearted. Once
week the parlOIs OF the Home are filled with ladie
whose names never head shOwy Jsoripton lists, bu
who do a great deal of good quietly, and who NEE