The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-01-07

ERS - FEMININE DEVOT1ON-THE SHOP
GIRL QUESTION - TWEED = BEECTIER -
BUSINESS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 80, 1875.
THE CAUSES OF CRIME.
The Committee investigating the causes
of crime i'll this city are unearthing some
terrible facts. Among others is the testi-
mony of one of the first physicians of the
city, DIR. Elisha Harris. who declared that
the increase of criminals in this city in the
past few years was greater in proportion
than the increase of population fl ON births
aud immigration together.
DIR. Willard Parker, an authority of equal
standing, said that liquor was the chief
cause of the vice. crime. idiocy and Insanity
in the country. All who have looked into
the cause and cure of crime agree that the
| vicious classes must be made to work harder
1t is a notorious and patent fact that with
all the increase of wages and regulation of
hours in the last ten years. the condition
of the lower classes does not seem to be the
better tor the change. The complaint is
made by all employers that there is very
little, almost no fair return made for the
wages paid, no matter how liberal these
may be. The average of work done in n
day with all the labor saving helps of the
time, is hardly half what it used to be in
the old times. Now, that there is such an
outcry for work, employers bethink them
selves whether they cannot obtain their
| own right of days work for a days pay.
/ ant Lost fcin Of fi,.,f
employers had any rights beyond that of
paving the most wages for the very least
that stupid and idle help chose to do. Now
that the cry for bread comes so urgent
there is chance to find whether the poor
are willing to work for their money rather
| than starve. Those of experience among
the lower classes of New York, are not
wanting who do not hesitate to say that
| these had rather starve than work hard.
Certainly they will all beg. loaf, or cheat
| in Il mild way. sooner than stir themse Ives
to do brisk days work.
THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR.
Curious incidents come up among the
labors for the poor. One woman was
found with her five children in the sixth
| story of IL wretched tenement house, where
she made a miserable living by washing
Her children were without shoes in bitter
/ weather. and kind merchant sent sup
ply all round. The oldest girl objected tt
them because they were laced with shoe
strings, and button boots were the style
The same family lost their father, misera
BILE wretch, who drank himseifto death, anC
were obliged to ask for charity to bury him
The teachers of the mission school wht
helped them before, agreed to bear the ex
penses, whereupon the old woman Wen
out and ordered Il hearse, with piumes, t.
| attend the funeral of the departed sot.
member of the city authorities told of :
} poor fellow who had seen better days, wh'
came to him tor help rs he was without
position, or money. The official handles
him five dollar bill. which he could spar
none too well himself. but he was rathe
sorry for it, when he found the first use th
fellow made of it was TO go to the marke
! and order pair of ducks for dinner, takin;
most of the money which might have kep
the family in food for a week.
This may be considered apropos of til
study of crime. TOR such thriftlessness is
crime not of the least dimensions. It ongh
to count heavily against the laboring mel
OF this and other cities, that with the higl
wages of the last ten years. very few o
them have saved money. The idea at tin
tine was 10 make money! not to save it
and to make it in many ways beside work
. ing tor it.
ONE WEEK.
A murder week seems the regula
allowance, not counting homieides of les
degree. The last sad and shocking tragedy
is that of yotFng Hebrew girl who la
not been long Ia this country and who wa.
brntally killed by her betrayer last SuiiCla,
night. The parties both have the repnta
tion of being exceptionally religious, allt
: careful in observing all the rites of thei
Church, and bhe girl Was IntFeh beloved bJ
the family of tile murderer. While a SER
want in the family she nursed him through
long Illness, and he seems to have really
loved her iii return. But his wife was com
ing over from the old country and ther,
was trouble ahead. and no way preselteC
itself our of tile difficulty, but murder. So
he took the girl to walk with him i'll tht
lonely outskirts of East New York. AnG
stabbed her, kneeling at his feet for mercy
He betrayed himself by his anxiety L
show how impossible it was that he shoult
have killed a girl to whom he was SO purely
attached.
And speaking of murders, there are Al
this time four men under sentence TO bt
) hanged. and over thirty in the various pri
, sons are waiting trial for the same offense
The bloody vtlliHil Dolafl. who killed
Noe will probably escape the hanging hi
SO richly deserves. The politicians arr
moving heaven and earth to clear him
and as they have succeeded in obtaining
: two respites he will doubtless slide out III
, together. There are IN the same prison
three negroes convicted of killing jew
| petltlley Oh no stronger evidence tfEln shat
. against Dolan, but no one thinks OF moving
respite for them. And while am OF
this subject,
THE SYMPATHY