The New York herald., 1873-11-16

after another 20 keep the children together ana
We can't sleep at home. you see, because we have
no homes. Two or three OF us married men 1uO
together what we squeeze out during the gay ss 20
In at night They have the same fare there as we
have here, only perhaps not so much nre nave
boards ana empty stomachs. Where IL is going 70
end, heaven only knows, but something must De
done and done soon, for the NUMBERS are increas-
strong, rather well Glad young man, about
25 years old entering the room at that moment, ne
was asked why he went there to sleep.
IL have no other place." he answered. III nave
been all over this town looking for work and Cant
fnd any: am a paperbox maker by trade and
good worker, but there's nothing to do. LIN VIII.
Ing to take JOB at anything and for anything. but
can't get one. There's what my last employers
Of Fl h
character for honesty, sobriety and industry. AS
they were handed back to him again he remarked,
"Now, with these my hand can't get employment,
although have offered to work Tor my bOard-N
week-or anything they like to give me. No use,
no use. This is the third time have slept here,
o'clock.n
'sNow,n said man, jumping up from the middle
OF the party stretched on the boards, "what chance
nave to Iced my five children, my mother and my
ws asas that young He's Twenty
quick and strong and can't get work to do at
FOUR DOLLARS A WEEK?
mat am TO do lie down and starve, and see my
cniidren 90 the same thing Great Godl-and In
Every one in the room was now attentive and
quiet demeanored man Of about nifty rose and
said:-
II suppose You have interest in this subject
or you would not be here Now, II you will take
the trouble to look into that next room you will
find twenty Germans there who have not been in
this country year, any one OF them, and many OF
them not three months That's one OF the
% d Wits the ss
summer, but the greatest Of all is the villany OF
those scoundres In Wall street. have no objec-
ton to people coming here from other countries.
am In 1avor OF populating the Provinces, but
think some measures might be taken to prevent
bless you. some OF these Germans sleeping on the
boards IN there have as huch as 800 on their per-
sons or course, others have none at all, but It
does seem hard that poor men, born on the SOIL are
turned from the door into the cold for want OF
room, while these fellows are lying here that they
and SO was my family for generations.
and never thought should see my country
Insult our nag, ana, ike poor, starved ours, we
cannot even turn our heads back to snarl at them.
! have daughter at the Normal school, and do
You know what I'm going to do befoe take her
aways Steal Now. there 1t is''
What he said was strictly true The room ad.
joining contained almost all Germans Many OF
them looked like recent arrivals, and not one could
speak English. In the Twenty-ninth precinct
there were forty-twO men, and the same story was
told even down to the Germans
The captain OF the squad" IN this room was a
managed to ind sufficient beverage somewhere TO
make AXE his tongue wag uneyenly.
"We are all hard-working men," ne said. "ex-
cepr them Dutch IN the next room.n He seemed
TO be "d0wn ono the Dutch.
~ don't know nothin about them, an don't
want to. We're most Of US married, men, I'm
plasterer, but aint had nothin' TO do for two
months. had little in the bank, and that stood
get nothin' to do except an odd job now and then
for day or two, the clothes and furniture had
70 &C. ana a. to last o nee caa al am IN the day y ss odd
job can get for trine, and 1t manages to buy
bread. But, now, isn't that
) A QUEER EMPLOYMENT
In New York for man who served his time to his
trader That man and me-ne's stone cutter.
ren, and his wife can't go out because she's got
nothing on her but an old wrapper and the WIN
cutter:-'T was born IN this street. on this very
block, and the first time l ever put my foot in
station house was TO go there to ask for bed you
know what kind OF one 1t Is. A man will stand .
good deal uati he sees his children starving; and
there are thousands OF men in New York, the
greatest city in the world, looking u that opera
one OF the Germans in this batch could speak
English. He said hehad been in the country two
years was employed in the country, but, getting
discharged, he came to New York to look for some-
thing 70 do The others he said Nv were real all newly
Others less. Captain Mclwan In the Twentieth pre-
cinct, had fOrty.nine men. The rooms and most OF
the cells were crammed, and he had turned away
as many more. Here, too there were Germans
and,negroes, and the same story about the dim
men were OF very nnIch better class than he ever
saw before applying for lodging, and 1t was ex-
told there was no more room. There were sixty
three men in the Fourteenth precinct, and
all they could mold In the Elghtn Nintn, SlXtn,
Fourth, Tenth Eleventh and Thirteenth. An the
captains sergeants testified to the seeming re-
spectablty and standing Of the men, and ex-
pressed themselves strongly on the necessity OF
further accommodation for the people. AS figures
are supposed to tell the truth IN Q more fOrcble
and direct manner than anything else, the follow
Ing statistics given. They carry an aspect OF
the state OF affairs that nothing but them could
show, and yet they present to the mind but an in
adequate picture OF what really exists. Six hun
dred and forty-fOur men and boys and 240 women
and girls slept in the dodgers rooms' In the city
last Thursday night. On the corresponding night
in 1872 the total number accommodated was 430,
and the greater part OF these were ''revolvers.n
Friday night last the humber increased and last
night 1t was still larger.
during the year ending April s. 1871. there were
141,7Ss persons provided with lodgings; In 1872,
47427 and up to the Attn OF April, 1873, 1853, ss4.
This shows that under comparatively healthy
state OF affairs the number has gone on increasing
steadily, and it may be easily conjectnred what Il
will be at the end or this year. Remedies are being
suggested on all SIDES to help the people, but some
thing should be done at once, and the easiest thing
and the one to lend the greatest ard at the mo-
ment. would be the establishment OF supplemental
lodgings close to the station houses and under
the control OF the police.