The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-09

deceivin'. They send out some poor old unf0rtu-
nate woman. with q handkerchief over her
head, looking as innocent as newborn
babe, and she comes and asks permission to go out
to fetch pint OF milk. Wen, she comes back with
pint OF something else, frothy aud deusive IL
isn't milk; it's usually beer" poor seamstress
was pointed out as frequent visitant. She was
twenty eight years old, and might look 1t II well
fed She looked nhy. The sergeant said she never
mad the faintest trace or liquor about her, And
she did not look as II she was given that way.
crushed, hopeless misery was on her features. An
angelic little girl peered at the reporter as ne was
taxing his notes. the Child OF one Of the "round-
ers" Can nothing be done to rescue such sweet
race from the vagabond fate overshadowng herr
TIE SEVENTEENTH PRECINCT STATION HOUSE,
at the corner Of First avenue and Fifth street. &C
cording to Sergeant Cass, at the desk, had its
usual complement OF nearly fifty professional
lodgers." 1t is poor district, right among the
poorest OF our Germans, and has some notOriety
Tor being the piece de resistance OF the
recent Communistic riot at Tompkins square,
me Sergeant says the mechanics ard clerks
thrown out OF employ by the prevailing hard times
VIII starve sooner than apply for the shelter OF the
station house. They will rather walk the streets
all night, fainting with hunger. few are occa-
sionaiiy brought in, with ptinl humanity, by the
patrolmen. when almost too far gone to proudly
protest There happened to be none Of these very
sad cases last night. At
THE SEVENTH PRECINCT STATION house,
NO. 47 Madison street, near East Broadway,
there were none but the usual class. The accom-
modations seemed as good, or as bad, as usual.
sergeant Oates said that somehow very recently
there had been an average falling of to twenty
every night from the normal number OF about fifty.
couldn't fOri hutb il wa
OF brighter times. He thought there ought to be
provision made for the wretched poor, fallen from
higher estates 80 as to separate them from the
regular 'rOunder." More mechanics and clerks
had applied this winter than ever before In the
seven years he had been on the police force.
The majority, howeve of the "respectables" were
''young men from the country" who had been
centripetaliy drawn to the great city In
expectation Of finding w.rk, and had failed.
Their quarters seemed we'll ventilated,
and, not to he too complimentary, considerably the
least disgusting OF any Of those visited. DOOrman
Williams, humane man, insisted on taking the
''chier' who 'raks notes" through the cells, and
incidentally discovered some dsconsoate Swedish
Sailors arrested for smuggling gin, IN bottles, all
over their clothes. They came in the bark Caro-
lima; but as to where from, or whom consigned to,
or what pier she was lying at, they were profound
kn0w.nOthings
THE THIRTEENTH PRECINCT
station house, at the corner Of Delaney and At.
torney streets, has no accommodation whatever
for lodgers sometimes" Sergeant Rockman
said, 'if very respectable or feeble persons ap-
pied IN exceptionally Indictment weather they
were accommodated with nights LODGING IN the
cells, If 'drnnks' or criminals. who have pre-.
scriptve prior right to such convenience, did not
appear in Sufficient numbers to occupy all the
TENTH pREcINCp STATION HOUSE.
No. 81 Eldridge street, there were seventy-two
well known guests and seven new ones: OF these
quite distinguished individual. Mr. Thomas
Fitzgerald, aged sixty-fve, a coach driver
Ss o%n accounts 1ssn t%sSe Years
cOachman to Ex-Governor Morgan, for eight years
to good old Daniel Drew for eleven years lat eight
dollars a month, as he was careful to particular
ize, to stephen Whitney, OF Bowling Green, who
has been dead DO. for J fourteen years; for
plling up pedigree of jehucular or vehlcular SER
vice that would have made him at least $50 years
DID, and the reporter moved, seconded and car
red an adjournment in order. The aged driver
was sober, although so romantic.
THE NINTH PRECINCT STATION HOUSE.
most horribly insufficient accommodation Of any,
There were very few lodgers-seven male and
three iemae-a sure sign That in the ireemasonry
OF pauperdOm 1t was recorded as an Ineligible
spot The stink-it Is good AnglO-SaxOn--was
so strong that no milder word can express it.
for the wretched. The dens were dismally con-
tracted. A Mr.. James Butler, millwright, com
70 1e an story 90 a
.old timer" by the Ofilcer in attendance.
THE FOURTEENTH PRECINCT STATION HOUSE,
Mulberry street, near Spring, had little to present
OF an abnormal character. Sergeant Polhemus,
who claims to be an old Knickerbocker of the f.
economy which should very aavantageously be
presented on the broader platform Of Cooper In
stltute. He held that every man IN work should
it, and that. If done, these plnches
he had practlsed what he had preached. He had
been poor boy, and wasn't q millionaire yet, but
he had somehow always managed to get q little
when he twisted things in an untoward fashion.
He thought all in tellgent men would do the same
II they thought OF IL, and that this late season OF
panics and general smashup everywhere would
stimulate Intelligence In this direction. The re-
porter agreed with him.
There was one unfortunate here, however, who
said ne mad been IN business in Bolivia,
Chill and other South American countries.
Morris, aged lfty.three. He was familiar
with the geologic aspect OF veins Of gold, and
remarked that beautiful as were the lidaas and
other creepers OF South America with which he
with the creepers of the station houses OF North
America. He had reason. Sergeant PolIemds
offered him the hospitality OF o cell, which was
gratefully accepted. Az the
EIGHTH PRECINCT STATION HOUSE,
at the corner Of Prince and wooster streets, the
hOwls, yells, basphemy and screecheS Of the
ngnsIhs az pare who live. move and have their
indecorous being III this QUARTER Latin Of our
great city, were ncessant and irrepressible. Ser
geant brown had lorce OF officers out In citizens
clothes, who pervaded their haunts ana
brought down whole coveys Of them. 1t was
perfect battue. But after all, this is DEPRESSION
from the special object OF the present
inquiry. The dodgers were, as usual of the
regular "bummcrn variety, with one exception, a
venerable, wh1te-haired Old Swiss gentleman, aged
sixty hve, named Jean Martln, who said he
did business as coal agent. He had
been out OF funds for a week, but
all right in a very few days. 'My STORY is very
simple, sir" he said. lie occupied cell 15 1t was
better than the lodging room perhaps; but still a
perfect Pandemonium among those awful lost
women.