The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-15
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trim phautlY DuIltu
eatalepsy cof1n I'm which he was ,So nuhlic
alive 10 the great delight and enc excite
Onlv one little incident occurred 10 eso - .,at tho
rnent created by the exhibition, ana tl,,s ,,,S
n,,,,.o~ tnvariably came up alive. "Burylng anVe
was 40 safe an amusement that IL soon See'seu - W
attract In vain he announced niIhseh Ia nV"OSon,
yvuhamsburp Jersey City, ana "nere ho1, "uen
neople saw there was no danger III ~, my ,,..,
~, or II he had tainted once, OF come up NIUE
' % had IN he dragged out, he might nave galneu
20, P o,n,irers But he invariably came up to time,
,oakinq his appearance at the Vop ol the "oouen
chimney that conducted from the surface ol ., une
syyound TO the lid Of the CONN., WIN PuhI1uay yT
,hot oroned well for his sense Of Duration ne anu
o., o,etonsv coan have long since vanished from
49,, ooino of New York amusements Another
eataleptc competitor is now IN the nelu, however
1,nis gentleman is Mr.. I'm. Pfeiher, OF Copehnageh,
and his invention is called "Nltalmeter'" prl-
ratov exbibition is TO be given tomorrow mght at
Room No. "a, Cooper Union, and an ante-prvate eX-
h,Htion has already been given, at which Mr.. Pfeer
os hurled with great success. Though engaged in
snch a mortuary business, Mr.. Pfeiter is a live news
naner man. As he himself says, he mas been re-
atedlv buried alive and with the happiest esults
and he anticipates that ere long no corpse VIII be
without its corresponding vtalmeter.
Mayor A. Oakley Hall is funny mana very funny
MON So tickled was he with the idea of the yacht
Dauntess crossing the ocean in less Ian tnlrteen
days that he ordered salute OF one hundred guns
On he fred in the park There they were blazing
away all the afternoon, SVuunhiB Odio vi JUST
ness men. and setting every one wondering what
woe the matter An international affair." truly, and
,vou worthy the waste Of all that powder. The Sun
newsnaner too which lately threatened young Mr..
Bennett because believed him to be the iustgator
of stabs piyen the Sun in the columns OIL the E0ehg
Tseora,n has come out glaringly descriptive OF MS
trumphs. and halls the achevementsof the Daunt-
less as worthy TO be compared with the submarine
cahle or the Union Pacific Railroad. The Telegram,
hvthe-by is very much scandalized by the attaches
of the Herald. These interesting young gentlemen
vow that they are engaged 10 WORK Ior
the latter paper only, and that they are
compelled to work for both or to lose their situa-
lions The Telegram is the Heratds pet child, and
whatever prepared for the latter paper by its re-
norters and is crowded from its columns, makes its
way sooner or later into the columns OF the former.
Special correspondence, and reports OF special ma
ture for which separate contracts were made, are
often written for the Herald and crowded out. In
stead OF finding their way into the Waste-basket they
find their way into the ECeiliIW Telegram, and the
indignant reporter is annoyed to discover that he is
working for two papers and receiving a salary from
only one. In short the telegram is sort OF waste
pipe leading OFF from the Herald establishment.
Whatever runs Off from the big paper trickles into
the little one and sometimes the water in the waste
pipe is very dirty indeed.
The House Of Detention for witnesses is one Of the
humbuggiest isms of the city. 1t is, as its name
implies place of abode for witnesses, whose pres
ence at the required time 1t is necessary to make
certain Those thus detained treated little better
than prisoners. Sometimes they are kept for weeks,
sometimes to months, compelled 10 associate with
the garbage of the city-people who If they are not
criminals themselves, have dwelt among criminals,
and whose language and manners belong to the
etiquette Of the hulks. To decent men and women
and it occasionally happens that decent people are
compelled to this companionship-such an ordeal Is
but little better than the experience of the chain
gangs abroad, in which, as at the frightful balm at
Brest, a criminal of culture and refinement con-
demned to the traUdu1 forces for life, is coupled with
some ruffian Hercules who tortures him with
the despotism OF obscene tyrant
Only, in the case Of the luckless man
or women retained a witness in our House Of
Detention, there is no crimnality to justify such as
sociation. gentleman has just been liberated from
that mi-prison who declares that-while there III
was treated like felon for doing his duty that thu
meals are positively not fit to eat, and that there
not even enough Of what is provided Then, on th
other hand, the keeper Of the House Of Detention
might aver with good deal of truth, that most o
the characters boarded and lodged there are yer,
trough" indeed. The women, in too many cases
are mo better than they should be-" and the mer
are infinitely worse. The sexes, it s true, are sepa
rated from each other; but the promiscuous manner
In which the young and old of the same sex are
forced to herd together without other of pass
ing the time than gossip and the work which Satar
lnds for idle hands, produces of the very wors
results Hence the House of Detention, as at pre-
sent managed is not a success.
'fWash me in the 6 teep-dOwn gufs of liquid flame =
exclaimed 'Othelo" after he had rumpled "Desde
mona" with the pillow; and the most expedition.
way of doing this would have been to put him in
tenement-house and Immediately set fire to it. Oh
those tenement-houses However low down MAY
get in the world grant that may be kept out OF q
New York tenement-house. l don't ask to die in 9
brOWn-St0np front. surrounded nv 20
Fifth avenue or Murray Hill, but 1 do ask that my
last breath may not be drawn in the Barracks" OF
the "Colony," or ''Babble Row." or "Cockroacf
Hal"-all tenement-houses of the first water These
localities are bad enough, but there ts worse To-
calty still, and that is on the east side OF Sixth
avenue between Twenty ninth and Thrtieth streets
What is it? you will ask. 1t is an immense tenement
house, l answer, six stories high, and furnishing
"homes Tor nearly two hundred people In fact II
is a human honeycOmbed hell, where ''poyerty hun.
ger and Dirt starvation, nakedness and misery
are the deVllsh little bees singing one another
with perpetual torment The cellars are
Crypts OF rubbish, where rats hold court and eyer1
variety OF NTH Is generated. The ground floor is a
liquor saloon, where instaments of spontanaous
combustion are laid in with every tumbler NJ han.
zine that is swallowed. The dark and narrow stair
ways rather spirals leading up what looks ,i,,a
murky wooden wall. The stairs are so rotten tho
they wear away piecemeal as the foot ascends 7,
every two rooms family is crowded, and for mos
OF these two rooms fourteen dollars a month ar
paid. The upper rooms are not provided with wate,
and the sinks in the lower rooms dtruse the smel
OF death when death comes loathsomely Reacbin
the top floor, the exit to the roof is by rcrat
ladder whose slender rungs would scarcely hear
hundred pounds weight tenement-house LII
this is nothing but Underwood, and its inhahitant
are unrecognized martyrs at the stake 1t burn
and shrinks up some fine night, and two hundre
human souls are numbered with the dead and dyin,
while culpable building inspectors, like moder
Neros, feast ana fool their time away before Il
names.