The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-03
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during the day, where bootblacks ant
newsboys play or sun themselves, and BY
night the bedroom Of oil the numerous va
grants and outcasta Of the neighborhood
who prefer the benches In the park tolhl
iron cot and sitting atmosphere Of the
oVercrowded station houses, which night
ly accommodate about 600 dodgers, and du.
ring last winter about 1900. There Is a
broad cement walk In front OF the CITY
Hall, running across tho park from CIty
Hall place 10 Broadway, on which pro-
cessions pass In review before the Mayor
The park bad as II Is now, has been won,
derlully improved oflate years, and 10 q
paradise compared 10 the barren waste Il
was lew years ago when It was wholly
delivered over 10 the tramps by night and
the boys BY day, who used 10 play ball
there, and perchance knock of the hats Of
dignided legislators, Continuing our
walk We came 10
THE TONES,
. gloomy old building Of solid square
blocks Of granite, built IN the Egyptian
style OF architecture. The entrance d BY
massive stone steps, and the building 10
front Is supported by enormous Corinth-
ian columns OF granite. The name Is elm.
gularly appropriate, as It too often proves
the tomb Of those who 60 there. 1t Is
very unhealthy, being In q depressed
neighborhood at the loot Of two hills, and
having sunk several feet since IL was
built. In 1870. The lower cells are often
oVeitowed, and the no day pen, as 1t Is
called, where people are confined for
petty offences, is siCkening 10 any well.
regulated mind or stomach-morally and
physically sickening. The Tombs Is the
city prison, not the penitentisry or the
county Jail, as some think. There Is q
police court here, in which two Justices,
at salary Of SO, 900 per annum, sit alter.
nate weeks. Here all the prisoners, con-
fined In the station houses In the district
over night, are brought In the morning
for trial or examination. A Justice can
only sentence for ninety days, and only
hear petty cases. In criminal cases he
can only give warrants and take'evidence
by which 10 hold the prisoner for higher
tribunals. This court room Is good
place 10 study the character and get a
good knowledge OF the criminal classes Of
New York, which here find their worst
and most faithful representstives-of the
shysters who practice in the courts and
OF the loafers who frequent them, having
nothing TO do and morbid longing 10
gaze on the worst side Of human nature.
In the court yard, which divides the
Tombs into two parts, Is where all the
hangings take place, and abutting on this,
on the second floor, is
MURDRRERs' ROW,
where murderers are confined. There are
thirteen there now, but 1t would be
neither useful nor instructive TO give you
their names or the history of their crimes.
There are days when friends are allowed
to visit the prison, but only with pass
signed by the warden.
THE EscAPE OF sHARKRY
in woman's clothes has made them skit.
tish of lady visitors, all of whom the
keepers examine thoroughly before they
are allowed to go In. We have been thus
particular in describing the Tombs be.
cause 1t is type OF the other police
courts, OF which there are four, and rep
resents the station house on large scale.
The prison has a kitchen on the European
plan, laundry and barber shop. The
offices Of the warden and captain Of the
precinct are on the ground floor.
Just above the Tombs Is the enormous
downtown depot Of the
HUDSON RIVER AND NEW YORK CENTRAL
RAILROAD,
Vanderbilts line, tunneled all through
from end TO end, for teams and cars
drawn by six horses, which take the
merchandise 10 the up town depot. II
covers the whole block. An immense
business Is done here, and the whole
square is
BLOCKED WITH TEAMS
day and night. Passing down Franklin
street we came 10 Broadway, and going
into Worth went to the corner OF Chest
nut street, and paid
CHAPLIN s CO. A VISIT.
We were shown over the whole Of his
immense store, running from North tc
West Broadway distance Of 400 feet
and running back 100 feet. II COM
prised
FORTY ORDINARY sToREs,
and they would be big anywhere out o.
New York. Claflin's business amounts ID
$G0O00,000 A YEAR,
BE sells on large credit, 80, 90 and 90
days. The store is six stories high ant
has two cellars, where the stock is kept.
1t is OF brown stone. There are several de
partments on each floor, each kept undel
separate management, as IT ii were an
other store. The counting houses, visit
iting rooms, transfer departments, ant
offices Of the firm are In building OF
Thomas street, but connected with Thu
main building by bridges. There are Gle
vators in constant operation, and
1000 CLERKS
and other employees run TO and fro all tn
time, as II their lie depended on thei
activity. ,E
THE WASTE PArER
Of this establishment ioots up annual!
$4,000. ...
CHURCH STREET
is lined with dry goods palaces and moth
ing else, from new Church TO Canal. l
used to be i1Il Of low drinking saloons
panel houses, "boozing kens," lences ant
"bawdy" and tenement houses, but th
advent OF trade drove them away, as
has done elsewhere and will continu
TO do. ,.. ,r..
THE TRADE MART as A MISSIONARY,
1t is q cleansing, purifying, moral en-
CINE Of / 900 doctor power and 500 cler
gyman power. Ministers Of the gospe
tried in vain to reform
TUE FIVE POINTS,
but trade stepped IN, built herself som
big houses, brought traffic along with hel
and together they drove out vice in III
shape Of bummers, prostitutes, thieves an,
, cock fighters, and 10 day there is no NOR
FRgnpntAhlA hnainaal 0nR riar than tho Fiy,