The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-22
1OUT IN THE COLD WORLD
Clearing Out a Cherry Street
49,. R0Okery.


terauonD ana ImpQUvomenU 70 %
Made in Gotham Court r,
tho loneliest condition. Of human Mfe In this
world and especially In great CITY like thi'. u TO
be without Q home-te be "turnsd ont OF house and
home" and LETT 70 'die in the ditch" % the pro-
verbal I1sh Ian dlords serve shsr tenanta SO. I'M
oughI many Of the poor tenants who
yesterday had to vaoabe an immense ave-story
tenement In Cherry street. 70 feet wide BY 24o feet
deep, whose principal entrance for light and air II
narrow court ov alley, ton feet wide ana known -
West Gotham court This immense structure was
built twenty years ago ana was nrst rented out in
May. 1851. 1t Ia 30 built IS to represent six tene-
ments thrown into one, and each door is mode 70
accommodate four families. When the house was
full there would be eiEhry.two families IN is. con-
tanning an average Of four persons each, or con-
sttuency Of a2s persons, mon, women and children.
Cherry street commences at franklin square and
runs parallel with the Rast River for couple OF
miles or moro. Within short distance OF the
square-or ct nos 81 TO - Cherry stroet-oscur
these
COURTS AND ROoKBR IHs
For be Il known that there are three q those tene
Dents ana three courts. the middle court accom-
nodates half the tenants In the double structure
oil Of those IN building opposite not quite 30 large.
Tho two tenements accommodate III families 20
tnot HDOut Bovcny-bWo I8mllo3 nave always OCCu.
pied the middle or West Gotham court which divides
No. 81 Cherry from Nos % and 80. Between Nos.
- and - tnere n another court known as Mulins'
court which leads 10 . largo tenement built BY
former Alderman Of the Fourth ward, now deceased.
This property b now owned BY NrA NcGrath,
who resides n Rsnwick street. Tho building
y occupied BY twenty-seven hnfles and Is ad-
nirasy cared for BY . Mrs. .Congdon, who has
resided In the seurt for twentythres years. II
serupulousiy neat and clean yssssrday, and MIS-
Csngaon and others assured the reporter that dodgers
were not allowed - b kept by ANY Of the families;
that the cellars arc swept twics week. which their
appearance seemed to Justify, anl the court every
day. The wascr closets, unlike these In the other
building arc ABOVE ground in the further end OF the
court and empty into sewer which runs under the
Fourth precinct police station inas Roosevelt street.
These closets were - dry and clean ~ In pr-
vste dwelling could be. The property not Of equal
widtn At beth ends, and the southerly building on
Gotham court almost jus up against It at the Pearl
street end and shuts out very lTa
MUCH OF rHE LIGHT AND VENTILATION
winch II might otherwise have. This Gotham cours
house. TOO, v story higher, and its chimneys and
coping not being In very good order, occasionally
tumble down, endangerlng the lives Of the Mullins
court folks. Cel d- w
On the north side of the double building, entered
by Gotham court Is another eou,tway known a.
Single alley, because 1t Is about MALI the width OF
Gotham and accommodates less than half the people.
6ingiy alley was comparatively dry and clean yes
terday until the tenants began TO turn out and
empty beds and Stoves ashes, &C., into IL 1t
mandod little higher rent than The Gotham court
nde, the average beng about IS month there 70
s. rs IN the etner. A few IN Single alley and
q few on the south siae building OF Gotham
court rented for 81 month. Formerly the water
YVES In the rooms, bat during tho war and Tor
short time previously some malicious tenants Gus
hn fgttnn
ried OF and sold the same and ever since the water
has been placed In hydrants IN the court Mr.
where one OF those buildings now stands. twenty
eight years ago. and who has lived in the ne,ghb0r.
With the entire locality aud with every enc in IL
has been the agent OF those houses over since tnoy
coal Yard the tenants. many or WHOM have lived
several years under nm and have the highest re-
spect or hun, have named tho double tenement In
-- "swHsNBY's HorpI-n s
Well, Sweeney's Hotel has not been troubled with
smallpox, cholera or anv other disease f,r MANY
Years; and, Notwithstanding the report that the
Board o. Health turning the tenants 70 rid
or 1t known yesterday among any OF them. Tho
measure was caded fer on sanitary grounds, but
notice to move, but they hold 6n dsv after day.
until yesterday noon, when q platoon OF about
nfty policemen marched to the two courts-Gotham
and Single alley-and. wniie portion Kept guard
outside and prevented ingrcss or o -ress, save Of
Sown, IN and ont through Tie hose Heo ana Sp coma snc
PEELED the tenants to take mp their beds AMI walk.
Tnen there was = scene OF confusion su IN as Is
Dickens or The pencil Of Brown or CrukshanE
or Mast TO do full justice. Scores OF hie BABIES
eacn making IL own amentatOn on q different
court, while the "mammies'' ran up and down the
riekety stars for and with pieces or furniture
many efthsm quaint and thlapidated TICKS aud
mattresses were empied out BY taOse who mad
neighoorheod VINO had need Of beds for their horses
took the straw away IN barrows or bundles. Cats
emu 9 d0gs ana chickens ran around wildly looking
tho motley crowd who were seeking promised
land aud home elsewhere. Babies fell over dogs,
and motheJA with tubs and pots and chairs and
stools iell over babies ana tAen . kowl and wall
and whine and an oath 4-'
MINGLED r00xrnEa N0sr DIsCoRDANrLY W
On the ar: one Old dame. who drowned her grief
awful shame as 1t was, to cum an dhrivo out poor
people In this way out Az house an home. Vhat
are we cumniln 70 at all ar AL soc asked. when tie
Another Old dame, who had not washed her race
evidently for good many days. responded
"Arrah, thin, Airs. Soolivan, whapro you talkin'
and we're NOT obliged to stay In the Fourth ward
nor IN Gotham court aither." II "Mrs. Soolivan 81
face and neck and hands had had much water
poured into her stomach 1t would have
greatly improved her personal appear
ancs, for sae was good looking DINO
teen years " age handsome, but prazen, who strut
ted around bareootee and wearing loose, old wo-
mad's garments, apd tried to get her mother 10
hold her tongue. CAM what The divils the latter
with your" she said, don't you know that he l;nc
reporter only wants to hear wat You say to our II
oil down aud print II In the papers tomorrow MORN
This was TOO much for mrs. Sullivan, aud she told
the dssghter TO
ard mind her own business, 90 Mrs. Sullivan
no har a1 n1atv OF "a,