The sun., 1872-09-09

| was damp aud wet These poor people paid $40
month. The smell was intoerabe, and the
fifth beyond description.
CHINESE DrTrIEs.
| No. r. Baxter street is Chinese club house.
| There the reporter saw twenty-five or thirty
| Chinese standing around a table and gambling
| with Chinese cUppers, 5ul Of which are worth u
| dollar They received the reporter cordially,
| and the old Chinese woman that stood at the
| table bowed TO him politely. In the back room
was n picture of some Chinese deittea, fat man
| with three no,staches hanging down and no
| feet to his legs, woman with sauint In her eye,
| and another man with four or nvc moustachcs.
THIS rlcture was hung with red cloth, and black
Chinese characters written red paper, with
| some incense which was burning, and from
| which fearful odor emanated, completed
| Chinese altar. On the table lay the club book,
| IN which the names Of all the members wen,
| registered in the most wonderful dots and
| The landlord Indignantly repudiated the no
| ton that the picture represented the Chimes
Jesus. "TheN could not be compared he said,
| contcmptuousy. "why, these gods lived three
or four thousand years before Jesus was ever
& heart 2tn In ,,, The course OF the CONVEX, alton
| was paying SO n month would cost him in China
| but so year. In answer To- tho question
these, he said, Yes, only that the houses In
| China are more decent and cleany. The streets
| are more cleanly." As for the women, he thought
| the American women were nearly as pretty as
! the Chinese, onii that the latter we're more de-
81 the strGeis, 'id n!t 20 TO balls and dances
/ like Americans lie SAID.
A stups sTEERAGE ASHORE.
oflCer Csddell now took the reporter H. Dono-
wan lane, an allcywny. dark narrow, and hlthy'
even hltlier thoh baxter street Heto was
another Chiue.e tenement. Below, on tho
around floor, wcrc whites ard blacks, and In the
.grrct. ~ - small room, into which not breath
| = pure air could penetrate. lay four Cinnamon
smoking opium. Onc quietly passed the pipe to
the other; oonc ot them spoke word. They
were lying IN bamboo mattresses. There wcrc
| eight 6cr,h- in the room which looked for all
| the world kc he Storage of dirty old emil
grant vessel Three slept IN every hctth. So that
| fNn room made tu hold twenty four
| AMI not Il breath OF air.
| And how could they live. how could they pass
| the tyrrid nlehts which we have had this SUM
| NOR. qucred the reporter.
! The INTELLIGENT ofiycr shook his head and said
| he could not tell, though he had ciroumuaNi-
| gated he globe.
There wss q little back room with bed In 1t
| out Ia see the reporter. lie wore glasses. lie
| showed the reporter another little room leading
un from the small hnck room. A roomI Il
| looked TX" u box Tor carrying chickens. -Four
| boards the walls. two boards across the he'd. no
window no rhdr, no table. absolutely nothing.
| bed Ia. and would prohahiy have been too small
Cor some lsr.e dos. lnt there are many dog-
| ia Baxter street and In O'Donoyant lane.
PERIL ~ GAHKET.
Another place In Donoyans lane was just "a
bad; Ihs TfP"r'ST ,,, wen, up dqik, crssk'nS
| ;he roof. There In garrett about four feet
hii:h YOU had 70 crawl on your hanas ~ aud feet
| to move nbout-lay several Women. They were
| naked. man lay near them. He was also
nude Tor tn, % tstls rhirt ls wore wSs full ~ q bE
black with dirt lie lay on the side Of the gar
| ret which was open. HE less rested on one Of
| the women, Lnd his head was reclining On
| the very edge of the floor. where the
wall was cut through. 50 that the slightest
! push tr"m the woman on whose body his legs
| rc-tc would have sent him head foremost
down t' the p4Nemcnt NIFTY {, ct. woman las
| ON acolch. She. at loast. had chemise On, but
| il W..> bla 'kcncl with dirt. Nothing but dirt
| ana hlth T. hc seen. Bare laths, rotten fo r.
| on which rats crawlrd 60 the very heads II the
4 lff r Bf q ~ =
| ie't; no; piece II furniture; not shred Of
| clothing even! one q the women awoko. Sh"
| va. crazy, and pdlied out ner gray hair. singing,
| nll the time rihald songs. She pusuoi the wo-
| man ncNt 70 nor This WAS the woman on
| head was Slightly pushed forward. and theIe T.
| va. actually hanging down over the wall The
| officer awakened hm. and warned him of the
| dani"r ite EaNe grow g"t up. ana l"d he
| head IN the ufhcr siGc Of the room. the same
time ihr'.-tins his feet out into the air.
| = door let into another part of this diusy CAV
| rot. There four or a,e persons slept three of
| them women. one. who was half naked, I'M
liured the "hirer not to arrest her,snd the good
| nutui'd policeman had diGiculty Ia quisting h,r
| All these women slept IN the door. There VIE
! 40 wind ~. auG th, ar Was ro,sonous. The roof
| 'yas brutru m suiue places, 50 that in rntu-
| storm the drops would fail on the heads of the
| sleCVcrs.
In another house in uunoN ans lane the re-
| pouCr tuGud itcc rcspc table inhabitants, who
| had nccn ia Uyt;cs rlrcumstanccs. They were
INTEL gent. and coined ashamed Of their pres
| INT situation. Their four children. all living on
| Ilf hdit moor WITHOUT ANY -lltetH hfkl IllluN-,
| were pale End wan. ON, II them was sick and
| ihc parents said would soon die. II was dear
iitt" Thing hut af,m months old, with big black
| eyes and Glossy little curls Its little arms were
| around the neck ~ a little brother The mother,
| VIII" had hecn school teacher once, kissed II
| ssionatcly and pressed IL to her heart
| "She looks 50 much like her little sister who
| died few weeks ago, during that very hot
| spell" she said. kissing II again.
This room had windows hut they were barred.
| There was an immense heap Of manure from the
/ smell. ~QlG the couple. M.uld kin them.
| 1hi- rotten manure has been lying there for
weeks, and the heap is growing bigger every
cuIpur~. DOGS, ANu Ruuntsm.
ON his wny To- MulL.ergy street the reporter saw
| curious scenes. The secondhand clothing
| t.p,, the june shops: tie shueuaker's shops
Ia tho Easements and Ia noisome cellars, were
III up yet although 1t was IL L. VI. On the side
| walk~, on th. stuuis, aud across the doors lay
| women and children sleeping. The chldr, n
with scarce shred to cover their little bodies.
| one slept with a dog; they had rolled down
together TO have some sleep In many places
| dren, dogs, and rubLlsh-they were all in heap.
| 1t was a spectacle never to be forgotten. And
| not one, but dozens the sidewalks, the doors,
| and stoUps, were fairly strewn with them. In
| front Of one house the reporter counted eight.
| one little girl was round and robust, had red
| bless you, my sweet little darling" raid the
| mother as she held IL up 10 the reporter.
| The reporter next went to IS Mulberry street
| There was a dark, narrow alleyway, between two
high walls. 1t was about two feet wide. and fun
| Were standing here and there. The reporter went
| through the aileywGy, which is forty feet long
| and entered the house In the rear CHEAP lodg-
| ing house On the stoop sat three or four
! men, painted. To the left of the hail was
| room whose door Was partially under water. In
one corner lay dirty woman, whose face was
| black with rubbish and SCOT that she looked like
| negress The torn rags which covered her were
| also black. Beside her lay fine, tall boy, about
| ID years OF age stark naked.
| POSSIBLE PRESIDENT.
81 havnt a shred TO cover him." she said.
| "Nell, he may be President yet" said the OIL
Ger, always preserving good-natured equan-
| Unity.
| "Nes," she sald, fondllng the boy, "God bless
| him, Ana thea turning to the onccr, - Thank
| you, thank you"
| There were three other women In the room.
| but there was 40 bed. There we're the lcgs 0l
| bedste7d, but that wds all. The women had all
| been lying on tho wet floor. In the back room
| lay young man on a bed, which had broken
| down In the middle, 80 that his legs and head
| were up and his tody way down on the floor
on the other side Of this room was a little heap
Of straw on which young girl slept. She had
| long flowing hair of a beautiful blonde This
| and little straw were her only covering. There
| was little hole In place of the window, and
| through this hole, said one of the women,
| neighbOrs were throwing their slops into the
| bedroom Called bedroom from the broken bed
| stead. The latter is generally occupied by hye
| or six persons OF both sexes. Twelve persons
sleep In the front room. ON the other side Of
| the hall ts another room, in which four little