Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-20
ponGence.
esstS xEW EssI;sx LETTER.
TIE OLD HI iLDINCs- rAWNEEoHEES--AN
INCIDENT-HG BUILDINGS -- TEMPER
ANCE-TEINiil- LAD!E--rhiLOR
ARTILLERY.
NEW YORK. HMfCh l.. -
Ti!EULD BUILDINGS.

time past of the city are fearful. These
houses are hives, swarming with people,
and possessing absolutely no conycnicnces.
Imagine the condition "f a house twenty
feet wide. sixty feet ,j,y,,, and six stories
hinh. in The cculr: uf . block. with open
fncs only in rlr front and rear, in winch
are ,,arkc& ;,n :a:-r families ii Tie upper
five -,orir-. and imagine the condition OF
the proil, Yho i've in them! in one such
hous, twenty eases OF typhoid fever oc-
CURED in three months. Phi!anthropists
have in this wide field for effort. The
CRYING necessity Of Ne" York is for houses
that can 5e rented cheapiy, and that fur
n;sh light. air and water. ana in which
cleanliness is a possibility.
And writing al poverty and tenement
houses, what springs 50 naturally TO the
point of ones pen as
PAWNBROKERs,
who are Il queer -el and drive q queer brsi-
ness. The Favnbro!,cr is man who tends
money on short time Oh collateral security.
Are YOU a widow and is your boy sick?
You take a shaw t. Moses, and he adj
yances YOU ahou: u..c-lyulth It's value At Il
tremendous rate of interest, - per cent per
annum. This supply Ion". your best dress,
your extra pair OF shoes, your wedding ring,
your Bible, and finally your bed. lie takes
;hcm all, for they are "a! sIlah!c. louget
n ticket for each article, and il you come
within year a.l redeem them, al right
not. at the rI.,, g, year lhgy are sold.
Inside one ul :hr-" shops you will see
satin dYcs, haugin" ,icArtcd beside a cali
co skirt, shoes. Bible, revnlvcrs, musical
instruments, tools. clocks, kettles. skates,
every species Of portable property uuder
Heaven. side hy side. Bu( ia the "i- sG'"
in the 6ack loom, you would. if you could
get peep therein, see o,..-r h;nds of pro
pertv. You would So" diamonds, costly
iewclry and silver plate. Fc.. tde poorarc
not Shylocl;'s only customers. Madame,
on Fifth Avenue, has spent more for dress
than her pressed husband can afford, and
she does no; ask him for money. The OBJ
scGuiuus drcss-nakor shows her that her
diamonds can .be easily removed from their
settings. and bogus stones, That an expert
could hardly tell ir,m the genuine, put in
at trihiug cost. Thcu Moses or Simon
will bc glad Ia advance hcr what money
she needs un the genuine stones. This she
does. PAWN. ruiuous interest, and trying
to save ru"ucy enough oui of her allowance
to rc,,o,,n .nnm. tui 'lirn ruincd men
ind THESE shops convenient place to get
temporary aid On i,"ciS with which they
do noi wish TO part For This class Of Gus
toners there j. private side entrance.
Speaking OF removing genuine diamonds
and supplying their place with paste, re-
minds me Of "A htl'r incident that excited
the risib.es Of The s.>hionablcs only two
weeks ago. \ lady cn Fifth Ayeag-
got into ,rDuhr StIe had purchased thou
sand dollar dresses. ard thousand dollar
fnr,. aud thousands dollar things general
". till her bill footed up to Il sum total
that was frightful. Her husband had lost
heavily in stocks. She dared not ask him
for the money, and what was she to do.
She had diamonds 10 the value of $1,000,
She took these rings and bracelets and
things, and hied her 10 a jewelers. who re.
set them with imitation stones tia, looked
Just as well as The genuine, and on the