The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-15
side. There were no beds there; persons tumbling

and en- those with but two cents were ns-;er
dnrp-ed away. There were htters OF stray foul
R Ras h light and Ss ts snsa
saw sssn the we Clear saS as s AND
stars. Oh, what a relief - was In rom th s den
Fl NTH ino se r9@ s.os ssss S SSsy
sas rose Iy ss Of g SsEs but AdS Is
gS ssemss -, which CHI. me Board Of Health
aiey; even II 1t were to come In contact with
riotous men and women wrangiing under the gas
arm they reeled down the Street. some o Of the - "
FIENDs OF rHE UPPER REGION
US tse and had
too drunk to fully understand, had rolled to the
mouth OF the den, and had to be moved aside in
upon our feet than negro woman with shrek
came rushing from cabin across the way, and
Look there Look there Is He Is my husband
and ne Is going on with that other woman. Don't
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shrieks and oaths. The woman, as she addressed
us, pointed TO pair going up the street, shouting
made . dash fer them, snd the entire street
cleared the air, dingy lights appeared in the
kitchens OF the cabins, an occasional nash shot
up from the cellars, and everything was
UPROAR, OBsCENITY AND STRIFE.
the police OF thoroughfare beyond rushed down
upon the scene. The crowd Of whites and blacks
was irghtfully scratching and biting the white
woman, he attempted to drag her to the station
writings, were terrible. At every stage Of the
way great rents were made in her garments and
hawks bearing OF pieces Of restoring nesh the
crowd, roaring and swearing behind, caught up
the shreds as they fell and made of with them to
IN ANOTHER CELLAR.
After this incident we passed down into another
which faint light was dimly burning. Behold the
a black man bending over smouldering fire.
hungrily sucking the claw OF lobster; rckety
bedstead, and an aged woman lying with but lit
upon her breast pinched expression resting
upon the little black baby face, as If hunger had
afflicted it since its birthMa sad painful, toucnins
and to draw nearer to the fire and the man.
There was no drunkenness. no obscenity here.
clurching fingers Poverty had driven the pair into
this dreary den, where the infant child In an
hour hour Of painful agony, bad found ITS plrrn. or
q place, under such circumstances in a land OF
wealth and charity, in city Of prosperity and
care you sickSn the sergeant asked OF this wo-
man.
Eyes, very" she answered him.
"Can't you find better home than thisH"
mo; we are too poor. We have had q better
place; but grew sick, my man was feeble and we
fulls Of NTH up stairs and then would have white
washed Ihe walls Only that night my aead whrled
there, is III too, and my baby, o my baby / lear
that 1t Will die; 1t has such spasms, such awful,
awful gripings, and am 80 weakp
Such was the story that she told. Poor woman
II we are not mistaken the sergeant has had her
generous Mrs. Long will have done for her all that
medical skill and human charity can possibly do.
MRS. INQUIRE, AN IRISH WOMAN.
We visited n more cellars under the pavement
the house Mrs Mcclure an Gr IRISH
emotion to be dead She has lived in the house
which she occupies at present for twelve years;
s Classes sna ons Ss sse ss
most ungodly scenes. THIS woman is not worth
her her hundreds. but her thousands, and md
iogue Of crime: How Innocent sne claimed
sion "a poor wildly woman that had never done
harm to no SOUL what had no money to buy her
she had any dodgers she had hustled them out for
the moment, because we saw none.
Leaving her, we traversed narrow alley, down
which stream of filth waA constantly running,
aens through saae s ss t. wade Sud
1t Is q building standing back, midway between
the streets, and for many years has had frightiul
nature 1t is to this dark, fearful den that many
pairs steal in from the street and indulge in their
hideous orgies. 1t Is said to be deserted 1t is SAID
to be proof against any attempt at entrance. The
former not the fact by any means, and the latter
sued. Several men and women passed us as we
were going down the alley leading to Eagles
Nest Nc os saa a sse 'GS s 1Vs ss
long a time that our presence had
been discovered, and an alarm had gone ahead Of
us from house 10 house. Rejecting upon what g
saw in Alaska Lane we think one OF the local
wlil purge It," Upon the corner Of spanord street
wench came running out, and, grasping another
who was standing upon tue curb, crled
"For heavens sake, come in and help me. Mary
Is in the clubhouse, and she Is crazy"
CRAZY MARY.
In moment we were across the way and stand
ing before rookery totally dark, out OF which came
the most disgusting odors.
tered that awful backness. In my haste to reach
the place where Crazy Mary was lying reeled and
gained the clubhouse at last, and IN mass Of NTH
and vOmit OF the fenlest, flthiest nature Mary
ae
around u.s. Huge bodies Knocked us against the
WALL and damp arms and shoulders pressed against
our faces The sergeant, bending down. shook the
woman, who sprung TO her feet with Shrek and,
catching her hair by both hands, her eyes burned
little time to look at this for voice shouted
"You had better be careful, d-n you, Tor In here
A stout hand held me by the arm, and was con.
scious that there was stairway behind me, and
that this stairway was crowded with human forms.
was standing alone by myself Tor the two officers
were striving to manage the crazy woman. did
not know what TO do, but made no attempt to use
the frearm l had with me- l caught the hand
which bound my left arm by the wrist and brought
e my strength na so force oav the
grasp; but Crazy Mary, breaking away
from the policemen, rushed 10 where ! was
standing. and, striking against my arm and the
arm OF the one holding me under the grasp and
made me free. Otherwise / do not know what l
should have done: Quite near to the Clubhouse
there was a huge box, very much broken, and in
1t there were four drunken men.
PICTURE OF FRIGHrFUL DEPRAvITY.
Had not crazy Mary made so much noise we
might have seen some fearful scenes in this
abode; for among the houses Of lowest prostitu-
ton this ranks foremost The harlots entering
do not take the trouble to 20 In by the
door, but, half drunken, climb headlong through
the window Sergeant Duf1y tells me that
he has caught parties in certain acts, who,
when brought under the light, proved to be young
Street we came to another house OF similar charac-
ter owned by a Mr.. Mulligan, man of influence