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

gyman to the Older woman. who answered, rea-
ayes, sir. Ihave; but not my daughter. we are
| living or lodging with an old Irish lady, at No. 40
Mulberry street, near Bayard, in the basement.
| we pay iorty cents night between US for the
lodgings MY girl was out to service and took
her away because her mistress was cruel to her
1 ana beat her with q poker.n
well, Will see that your daughter shall get a
place where she Will not be beaten with poker"
saiu the clergyman. "Have you on hand anything
eyes, sir. We owe the old lady with whom we
lodge Tor SIX nights lodging. and would have
! been put last night but she hadn't the heart
10 DO because IL was sunday night, and she iet
cos 80 oa, we would come and INV
daughter wouldn't nave had ANYTHING to cav tn1s
last week 1t had not been for the od wonia n
| VINO mas been very kind 10 US, ana VINO uusleu 10
| Tor our lodging. NV daughter-Der name Is Ai ,
0'NelliEhad bowl of tea given TO her To-Day W
Eyes, mother. and some bread and butter too"
added the girl, with quiet gravity tnat was SILL
''Yes,n repeated the mother. 81 forgot the bread
and butter got a bowl OF tea too ana IL maoe
! .sWei. here is some bread and oatmeal and tea
! and sugar and rice TO take 10 your lodgings,
and suppose you friend VIII let you COOK and
| prepare them for your use r'
soh, yes, sir; thank you," said the girl, with
! swimming eyes and dignihed bow, and both de-
! parted and closed the door after tnem
.sThere is nothing bad in that girls face" re-
marked the clergyman. as the door was closed be-
hind the mother and daughter-both walls whom
the waves OF the great ocean OF city life have
thrown TO the surface Tor day, perhaps, to finally
enguN than.
The Fourth Ward.
With Of1cer Patrick O'Suivan. OF the Fourth
Precinct HERALD reporter made q tour through
the tenements OF the Fourth ward. The gentle
men who make business OF charity. when called
upon, all declared that the poor OF their special
stances, but the Investigations OF the HERALD man
proved the statements to be false in the extreme.
DESERTED AND STARVING
In No. Batavia street, In the back room on the
nrst noor, there Is to be witnessed scene OF pow
erty and privaton seldom equalled in romance.
mo in ftnn I'D h. hr1
nah Hanoran, with her aged mother and
three little children, the latter nearly
Der last Mrs. Halloran had her husband to provide
Tor her and the children but IN the middle OF the
dealer, with good business. lett his home for st.
Louis, and has nof since been seen or heard from.
The OLD grandAotaer, whom the reporter saw,
had to go to bed without lOod and wake up in the
morning not knowing where to get crust to eat.
The family have no beds. bedding, clothing or lue.
and nightly shlver themselves to sleep. OF the
three children the Oldest Is seven and the youngest
THE BREAD WINNER GONE.
The case OF Mrs. Mcnamara OF No. 81 james
whose husband has been out OF employment tor
five months, mas just buried child fifteen years OF
age, on whom she and the rest of the family reed
TO great extent for support. Mrs. Mcnamara has
two other children. the youngest yet unable to
walk.
THE COMPREHENSIVE OF MISERY.
In an attic room. II by IL, at No. Is Oak street,
! live a double family OF eight persons. Mrs. and
Mr.. LAWYER the latter an intelligent aud respecta-
bic mechanic live in the room with their three chill
| dren and although they have had to send their
little ones TO bed many night without
morsel OF food they have wealth enough TO share
their shelter with another poor woman named
Samson and her two children. MIR. Lawlor was
two months ago, when that gentleman became a
bankrupt, which event lett Mr.. Lawlor without
work. He can get nothing to do, and mis- pros
His lodger Mrs Samson, has cancer in the breast;
she can neither WORK nor obtain proper treatment
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and when they come home they. In company with
the other little ones, set out to beg bit TO eat for
themselves and their parents Some days the little
ones return home with empty baskets, and then
the household go to bed without any supper. There
are no bedclothes In the house and the children
SICK AND ALoNR
In the same attic with the Lawlors and Sam
sons, is Mrs. Mary Hurry. who has been a widow
for thirteen years. She has one child, fourteen
the rheumatism so bad that she cannot without
great pain move hand or loot. Her room has no
no bed mo no yc5pa The
night blasts make the room very refrigerator.
WITH HER CHILDREN AMONG PROSTITUTES
The case OF Mrs. Margaret Nolan. which Ia con-
sidered under this capSion, IS which calls for
the attention OF afnuent and we'll TODD mothers.
This Mrs. Nolan, who is widow and has three
children varying from five to ten has been driven
by dire necessity TO take up lodgings IN Water
house, is the resort Of some Of the worst class Of
prostitutes. Mrs. Nolan Is IN the back room,
Seas and nnate and r%o '9 sSe
little ones were In bed when the reporter entered,
the negative and informed that they could not 20
on the street to get the air as their clothes lad
been solo ior old rags and the proceeds used TO buy
this back room is overpowering The attention OF
the police and mission societies is hereby called to
the presence, In this notoriously bad house, OF
two little girls, both OF whom are orphans.
ANOTHER FOURTH WARD FArHEa-
On the 9Th OF January Mrs. Eliza James died,
leaving her mother MRS. Murphy, a husband and
three children, the youngest one month old. On
the 7th OF January Mr.. James left the house, with
all the furniture he could carry, leaving his chill
dren charge to MS aged mother-in-aw, who has
an, 1ssasy son he to take oes care Of Esdes
e to MRS pay James, SE NE MRS sx
was drugged during the war and sent of. When
he came TO consciousness he was an imoecile, and
has not since recovered his reason or been able
work. This family live on the third floor back of
No. 377 Water street.
ANOTHER GOOD GRANDMOTHER.
On the third floor front OF the filth house in
"double alley" Cherry street lives Mrs. Monaghan
a widow, who has four children. The children and
their grandmother are In great distress
The Sixth Ward.
The Sixth ward was visited by HERALD
reporter yesterday under the guidance OF 0fficer
Cadell, whom Captain Kennedy kindly detailed.
This officer guided the reporter through the
sChnese Poken and other equally unsavory
localities n "Ine horse saryes while the grass
Baxter street, resides John 0'Rorke, his wife and
nine children. ORorke is shoemaker by trade,
pay for the rent. While he makes lanoy shoes his
little children are without clothes and shoes and
sometimes bread. The rain comes In upon MIN
and he has no fire.
"SCNSHfNE.o
In the same house in "Donovan's lane, Is a an
named Joseph Wumderer, who can get no work,
and whose wife and children actually starving.
In place OF beds, bedcothes ana furniture he has
handful OF pawn tickets. His little stove, on the
apron OF which the word ''Sunshiner stands In
bold relief, has had no fire ID 1t for several days
not since the snow storm came
POOR, But PROUD.
' Opposite the house just spoken Of in the '1ane"
there stands another rckety rookery In which lives
Mrs. AObott widow woman with five children.
She says she got no coal from the society this
ter, as she had In former and less severe seasons.
: she is an INDUSTRIOUS woman, and says she would
rather get work than pecuniary aid; for with that
! sue could MAINTAIN her indepe ndence, OF which
she ID very Jealous.
HAS NOTHING.
Mrs. Helen Dempsey, OF No. 50 Mulberry street,
L hean a fifteen