The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-10


to moor the store was piled with good things The
reporter knows whereof he writes, Tor he tasted
the sausage: For ten cents ham and bread
Bohemian with an immense hat remarked, "rhis
is better than the doctor shop.n The profits
the samoer sA Of saies immense. Captain
Walsh stepped over In citizens clothes and pho.
oxen were being dismembered and converted int,
sausages- The wonderful economy Of space, the
division OF labor the curious machines, the vast
markabe features can here be but briefly
glanced at The economy Of the concern
itself The Captain said Lindner had begun
in very small way, but his place was now famous
and was resorted 20 from all over the ward and
indeed other parts or the city. 1t would be we II
dozens OF others like 1t could be established. Ii
does more TO fight the distillery than the pray
ing W omen Of ONO August Hulmbatchek repre-
sentative Bohemian, was then visited. lie Keeps
modest lager beer saloon In Filth street, between
avenues A and d. Behind 1t Is large hail. where
EIGHT nourlshing Bohemian societies meet, peSioes
a Turner club aud two schools for teaching the
Czech language (by the way, this startling WORD IS
pronounced Cheshl, and children's CLASS lot the
same perpetuaton OF their national tongue me
tenants up stairs were most conortaDy LOGGED
The rooms were few. but neatly ana even ele-
CAVITY furnished. There was evidently value for
every cent spent by the tenants and the taste In
pictures fine embroidery, &C.. was very notcea-
ble About seven-eghtns OF the Bohemahs are
cigar makers. They earn from $40 TO $50
saved enough in times past to keep them well for
some time me women do good deal OF needle
work. spotless cleanliness was the universal rule.
Moving down avenue A, or "DutCh BROADWAY" as
II is more generally known in that locality to see
the German people, Mr.. simon Kingelmann.
his rooms modest in dimensions were beautiful in
their cleanliness and the good hOusewiiery APP
parent He said the hard times mad been lelt, OF
course; but rom prudent precautions, taken long
ago, relief ASSOCIATIONS, and, IN some instances,
help from neighNors. anything like destitution
gayly piloted the visitors to the upper regions,
where Mr.. Adam Katzenmeyer, pie baker.
received the little party and exhibited his IN
terror" as clean and pleasant as any. Certainly
not rich man, he had what many have not, con-
tent and comfort The reporters conductor as
sured him that weeks travel from door to door
would disclose moth ng here more alarming. 1t
was certainly an agreeable d,sappoint lent to find
30 much solid hap mess and sterling worth. The
Germans are certainly good Citizens
DARKER DWELLINGS.
Detective Gallagher now, like an amiaoie Afrite,
took up the thread of the story, and conducted the
HERALD reporter TO a sort OF moral Russian bath.
No 1888 East Eleventh street is COgan's alley
foul, f9tid, nosome passage, dark, shiny and pu-
crescent, leads between lofty, gloomy renements,
to human hive that is ghastly in
Of more dismal Scenes, nor has anything more
shocking been drawn by the mastery pencil of
DOre. TWO hundred and fifty families are herded
in these rear buildings. Among them are great
many Italians. who have migrated from Crosby
street. chiefly ragpickers by profession Here. in
room in a steamship, were found Thomas Nc MahOn,
his wife and Jour children. He has lost the use OF
with acute rheumatism, and supports, with a
brave heart, a sober brain and devout trust In
Providence all those six persons on what he
fearful. The children were In rags, and TOO few
even of them to keep out the cold. spark of fire
do%s, 1T to economist it and Keep out the
bitter cold, were fast closed. The stencil was
fearful The poor man SAID the ventilation was
0oodi He pointed out with some pride, as show.
Ing he was better of than most Of his neighbors,
o window "glvlng on" the staircase, mere trap,
rd. Ainht aan nhAJ a a
rent for this apartment. Mr.. Gallagher said
Cogan's alley was one OF the "hardes" holes In
CRIME were endemic. Dan Berkeley's bucket.
SHOP No. 4o6 East Eleventh street. was then
girls, wan and haggard before maturity, stagger-
ing men were gathering like the sails on tue At
lantic near New YORK narbor. Whiskey at ten
tract these diones, the head and front OF their
offending the source OF . Their dire degra-
tered, broken.down man, recognized with
painful emotion as one who fought in
he had been. and had attained the rank OF lieu
tenant. He has done nothing Tor months once
splendid penman. steady. good man, the DC.
j. Palpably near: At No. 40 where sne,;
an axe, four ladies' were discovered
drinking tea with wnlskey in ~. Mrs. Turpey,
owes over two months rent; 1T is SIS q month.
None OF them have done anything Tor weeks They
ledge together IKE sardlnes or pigs They board
cooking at the common fire, and every night,
wnen they can raise their ten cents. they lay
In q store OF that which ineDriates and cannot
They were ''pretty well on" at the comparatively
early hour they were seen. The diminutive sty is
hardly large enough for the four to lie down in 1t.
Possibly they toss up Tor who lies on top and who
this lthy DEN could hardly i BE- imagined
These women were according to their own
onldi arto
widow, was found mauditn drunk, with friend,
equally "under the influence" in different way
shakings- The widow has three children, two OF
them boys at the soldiers Home, and the chief
xbo ne, are to be to rail- a.
try to get them to live with her. The husband
died In the ambulance going to Bellevue Hospital
She lives on her pension and what her friends and
the. lodge to which her husband belonged give
her Her little CIR. ragged, dIthy, starved, looked
was heartrending TO see that poor, neglected child
What is to become OF herr The awful hole which
hardly describable Down in a cellar, with broken
steps, oozy slime and unmentonable filth, dark
and noisome-itis enough to haunt ones dreams
for an age. The rent is IS MONTH The landlords
name Is unknown to these tenants How human
beings can ever have been suffered to descend
Spadaon Is questions that ap shOua be-
studied BY the benevolent The tabled
wretches actually are. 1t Is horrible. Time was
flying fast, and bidding adieu to Oficer Gallagher
with warm thanks Tor his intelligent dscrimina-
ton and kindly assistance, the reporter hurried to
The Eighteenth Ward.
This extends from Fourteenth to Twenty-sixth
street, east OF Second avenue. At the Eighteenth
precinct station house, In Twenty-second
street. between First and Second avenues
Captain lyman was found, and at once
entered into the spirit OF the inquiry most
ZealOusly. Both Captains Walsh and lyman
ment in the matter made by the HERALD, and
spoke of the very general praise they had every
where heard OF 1t. Captain lyman said 1t would
take week to begin to see 1.-THE OF the awful
misery In that precinct There were over eighty
dodgers last night, all cases OF pure destitu-
zion. One, quite a pretty GIRL Jenny Nor
ris, aged eighteen. said she had come up
from Orange comfy Twelve weeks ago and
from going to the Girls Lodging House In Eighth
street, as she had been told the people there gave
the girls nothing to eat unless they paid for it, and
would only lodge them Tor two or three nights and
then turned them out to starve or do worse.
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