New-York tribune., 1870-05-09
TILE HOMELESS POOR.

"Tbe Homeless Poor of Ncw-YOrk City"
was the subject OF a lecture by = A. RaporG, NJ De- last
evening before large audience az the Cooper Institute
Dr. Raborg said In no place that know OF does the
Prestess Charity shower down more blessings ah III
this queen city of the Western Hemisphere. But we
evC To saw that there are deep levels of suffering and
want down to which her helping hand does not reach
There are des under our very swarm
ing with human beings our brothers and sisters, VINO
need aid and sympathy There are statiohnousis
whose Imposing front il but the mask that conceais
hdeousness pnched face Of poverty crime sickness
the conregated masses of misery that nHhy seek IS
paltry shelter Here Isl field orhe political economist
Here is work important for the missionary tha
heconversion of the hcahen in foreign lands Under ms
head of the TIomelcss Poor, we group all those wnowhn
they rise the morning do not know where thcr head
will rest at night. And first, we have the Class @ OF
warrant children IL is estimated that there are 4OD OF
this class in ths city Ii is difficult for any one 70 con
ceive of the terrible condition of these children who.
close personal observation Before they are II years of
age they are habtnal thieves perhaps dInhhards' u
dersand that there are IN ms % cty hrnns IN n nnn
shape who are willing to sell these children penny
worth Of rum. What kind of citizens do you eAl@eI 10
make of children having such an cdncat0hi m1un t1,
moi be a true political economy to take these children
from the streets and educate them to trade DO tS
labor of the industrious Another class are lhoSe VINO
inhabit lodging houses II Is estimated that thtfe are
10000 human beings who live in underground rooms In
these places men, women ana chllueh sccP
natey together without any resard for dectncy' Imre
are chemical laboratories for manufacture of disease
II was Of these dcns that reapsing fever was rst
FIRST by necessary lcgislation second by the building
lodgnghouses by capitalists in different part' OF te
city transient dodgers. can prove ny lcoh
testble authority that, the odgcrs paying at the same
rate rs they do now capitalist making such venture
would get u handsome return for his Investment At
No Elizabcth-st there is house called the Nv ohS
Ludging House." which can accommodate $40 dodgers
and at present occupied by $50 dodgers Everything
clean and neat and yet they only pay 81 week each or
the amount they would have TO pay at one OF those
noisomc dens. o that We had these houses In every
ward OF the city Still another class of homeless poor
are the statiOn-house dodgers, of whom there were
1859 during the past year The lecturer here gave
graphic description of the Fifteenth and Eighth Precinct
station House odgcrs and stated that the lodging sys
TEN had grown TO be Il monsrous ey which lsGisatSe
action must end serious consequences would happe
He thought that the for thi, evil would he the cstb
fishing Of four five lodging houses. BY this means the
class known bummers would soon be known ana sent
TO the Island for yagTancy. He invoked the oiiiccIs
uder the new charter take steps about the mat
ter aud draw for all line between poverty and
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