New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-22
TIE INTERROGATION TO pEGIN on MONDAY.
GOTHAAlCOURT ET4CUATED.
THREE HUNDRED PERSONS THRUST INTO THE
STREET ~ THE HEALTH OFFICERS-CURIOUS
SCENE IN CHERRY-ST.

THREE HUNDRED PERSONS THRUST INTO THE
STREET ~ THE HEALTH OFFICERS-CURIOUS
SCENE IN CHERRY-ST.
Seventy families, despite scarlet fever and
smallpox, try 20 exist in the pile OF Chcrry tenemens
which compose "sngle Acy;' 40 families pay
exorbitant rent and dare the foulest impurities in
Double Alley" What qualification II must De 70 the
p!ous and tendor-hcartcd maiden lady Of advanced
years who owns these two enement-houses have
much perseverance in the and such unparal
lccd philosophy in the other and TO have witnessed
yesterday the expulsion Of CT OF those families because
OF the foul and dangerous condition Of her houses
Never was there such exodus before took psce yes
terday and Thursday night from GothmnCourt. Not
fcwer than 800 persons evacuated their by order
OF the Board Of Health most Of them with wangs and
hcartburnngs. Many of them succeeded in obtaining
rooms I'm the nccborhood and transported their furni
ture, bit by bit, ON their own heads and shoulders
These all got out in good time But many retained their
rooms after the hour named by the Board ana there
they were with half their furniture in the half
piled ND in the aeyways, whom, soon after y o'clock
Capt YOule and q squad Of 90 men rom the sanitary
Corps marched into the court to dpossess me igsrd
At the same time Capt Aaire ana tne reserve OF mo
Fourth Precinct took mp positions al Tue entrances Oh
the Court The scene for While was ludcious ana IN
dcscrbabe Two or three officers were detailed to clear
each room Of its inmates and the Court soon filed
with tbe oldest of motley crowds. Some Of the women
laughed some cried. broke out in abusive Ian
,ace; Gil ell altered In high tone OF voice az Capt
Youle and begged 20 he allowed 70 remove the
remainder OF their things. This, however was
refused in all cases Tho doors locked and the late
occlpants OF the rooms will Lave 20 get permit from
tbe BOARD of Health TO enter them What with the
roisy dirty crowd the sticky faced children, the mud
and ill., the piles rubbish and old furniture, heaps OF
straw from old bedding the stencil from the and
the ugly crowd Of lookerson the anything but
a pleasing one Had it not been for the frmness com
~. anl
Capt Youle there would have been some trouble in car
rying out the order OF the Board
Some Of the evidently going into better
quarters-that g. uptown. The departure of the lucky
ones who could afford the costly luxury OF not living IN
Chcry-st watched by the enyous. though 5tless-
looking who, rattered dirty and unbempt olled
from every window, doing what Mr.. Weller APPLY de-
fined as 1.-THE never mind and lookingon part Inc
hordos of haR clad, crmy chidrcn swarmIng in the
crowd below took much more active interest In the
scene One mater-famias study Of human ma
ue as she stood boiling with wrath against things
in general and her drunken lord and master in parou-
lar and while viewing with dismay the wrecked pile OF
what had many generations ago been furniture, heayed
signs Of the direst female agony. II there were only
stream OF compassion flowing through Cheuyst II
would certainly have overlooked It's banks ON her behalf
And was there ever such accumulation OF everything
that is musty, tawdry makesh and worthless as the
household furniture kit and penaes OF an old lnhaoaht
Of DoubeAey The unfurnished tan ton inc srouhu nOor
tooJ which the soul Dogenes loved as habitation
would be far preferable 10 whole third or fourth floor
I'm tenement house repete with such Injuries Down
stood the family fourposter, on which all
the little McGrals and OFlannagans first the light;
itself seeing the light this occasion Tor the first time
after many weary years OF burial IN dark oahsome.
wndowless Fourth floor back" II looked almost
ashamed OF its shabblnecs, patched, pieced, and
mended IL was In every part Aud, scat
tered around IT, in heap OF apparently inextrcabo
confusion lay all the other worldly goods 10 II In
the publication OF its owners poverty. bedding-well,
three legs, chairs without backs chairs with
cut bottomt tables covered with grease stains
ures II II was not certainty that tloy saucepan
burns the eononest ol gQudy eOlored sacred pictures