, 1872-10-20

swearing man to select English for him suited
to tie emergency. Had his pet Chicago Uni
r!y hss in oxa2 operasn n S ss re9d F4osa6y Rr9esby
to TO- hur1 IS some e1 Of the sonorous hard-aound-
;or original Hellenic at these
s;a5a,,1ar .I5 saRd-ppcrs. But ''the Sands !" grew
and fIourisl1ed in spite of Uncle Jones, and Of
Ogden's man with musEet, who actually es-
tab1jg1,ed for while his beat on st. Clair street
until the unwholesome neighborhood became
Wy oThc The, Sands" We shall not enter upon their
description. We never followed Dante nor Nil
ton into hell. We believe that the most painful
Office of the Journalist is the common police re-
baldry Of the pen are set to deck human misery.
When Molly Mcguire is fined 50 to be worked
out in dirty calico dress in Bridewel, ne are
sorry that God did not make poor Mary happy
wife and mother, blessed in unsullied wonan-
hood. But were We disposed to line the picture.
the fostering vice and misery of *'the Sands u
would be no slight task in portraitrre.
It was a detached neighborhood of sin, q
moral lazaar-spot set outside the feeble police
Of q young city. There was no one to molest
lice never patrolled there Refugees from Sher-
iHa' processes were safe. TWAS a neigbborhood
sure to attract the stray sailor, the country
greenhorn ''Reeing life, the innocent gull from
the Interior the low and the vile, and the idly
curious, taking the shortest route to become
both.
The police reports frequently got a contribu-
tion Of items from s'the Sands, not unfrequently
q horror. Dead bodies we're found floating in
the lake, or stark III the streets, and the mur-
derers were traced to "tho sands."' Missing
men were last followed to this haunt, and never
these precincts to wall the loss Of
his silver watch and thin wallet. Johnny
Green once came upon o citizen in
North Side street in q November night, clad in
rf mt,
horrible bagnio. Tic devil uses cheap bait for
gudgeons.
Finally, the Sands" BECAME too much for
community, and Long John, he Of the third
story Of Uncle Jones' South Water street bnild-
ing, had come to be Mayor in 1856. Meanwhile,
tho absolute peril Of the property occupied, had
frightened the property-owners into strenuous
measures, and the end of the processes Of law
had been reached. On one bright October day
came the Nemesis Of "the Sands" d strong
ings Of civil officers, proceeded to tear down
the shanties Of tho squatters, and level for
ever the haunts of the infamous denizens.
AL day the work vent on. The
the police only scowled and swore between their
teeth. The women, however, claiming fran
chise Of their sex not the invention Of modern
friends Of Woman's Rights. opened the walls Of
their wrath. So there was swearing and howl
irs and q cascadins Of tempestuous epithets,
and tie cries Of poor frightened little children
and the roar Of the devouring element, and the
Mayor striding to and fro, the towering deity of
that days battle.
All this time the sun poured down upon tho
yellow sand, and the blue waters danced along
the shore and all the forces of nature went on,
as they always go On, disregarding alike human
misery and human happiness and when the
Fun went down s'the Sands" were gone
forever, and there only remained an echo
Of the inquiry that seemed to haunt the night
air: " Where shall ace go?" Where and how
shall human vice aud misery dwell among the
homes Of men, is the conundrum Of the ages
separate and apart, to Tester the more rapidly
into stages that alarm society; or finding coTerts
ye1min The former was tried on s!the Sands !"
and failed. The latter fills the police records Of
to-day, and every day. What shall Ne do with
the vice among us? we turn from the old, pain
full picture Of ''the Sands" to Uncle Billy Jones'
latest lighthouse, lifting its tall campanile above
the trees Of Douglas Grove, and to the sanctu-
aries OF our growing city, and if the Universi-
ties and Churches of the land cannot answer the
question, We cannot, and that is the end Of the
matter.
The shore accretions to-day for the first few
blocks north Of tho river are indented deeply by
the canals Of the great Dock Company, lined
with heavy wharfng and manufacturing busi-
ness. The great Lake Shore Drive will present.
and at that point the beautiful residence section
Of the North Side is to begin. The North Side
alone of all the divisions of the city has q
Lake shore, and q few years will locate tho
homes Of elegance and wealth all over and
around and far beyond, the once forlorn patch
that held the sQuaid misery and vice Of q tho
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