The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10
THE DEAD MEMS LEVEE.
rr,, - place where the Dead or New YOr
xsNId Their Perpetual state Receptions

uNv~ ~ ~ Where the D000 OF new 4OGA 1
1WnId m n Perpetual state Receptions. |
Twenty-sixth street, on the last block |
next the East river, has gloomy and sug-
gestive surroundings. Where broad
gateway pierces the long high stone wall
npon the north side one gets view
Of the enormous Bellevue hospital build
ing, charmingly surrounded in the ge,,
NAL summer time by green grass and
trees. but itself gigantic monument OF
main and death. Ali the year round
hundreds Of poor wretches groan ana
writhe in those long wards; not 9 day
masses that the death rattle is not heard
from the throat Of some sufferer; not
NIGHT that men do not bear away from
its gloomy doorway, on the ground moor,
r. . little house near the college building,
LONG. shapeless forms carelessly draped,
extended upon biers. On opposite sides
Of the street, near the, gateway, stand TWO
medical colleges.
Inst back Of this college building
stands smaller one. It is the morgue.
| Behind it and at its side are outlying de-
tendencies and contingent reminders N
the shape Of strangely connected rooms
) and various sheds. Here the men BRING
those CHASTITY shapes after nightfall from
the hospital. Entering one OF these
sheds we find thirty or forty cheap collins
Of nine wood, stained or painted dull
brick red. Several, Of which we raise tne
, lids. are empty. Others have inmates
= Tn one we discover the face OF woman
, horribly emaciated, and Of blush white
akim-milk color. The nose stands on
thin and prominent; the teeth are seer
= through the partly separated ups; Tn
evelids have not been closed SO hgntl.
hit that one sees glinting line OF tn
). dull pupils beneath. Perhaps she Is no
= more than twenty years old-she may
however, be forty, misery mas SO age!
$ her. In another Of the red boxes there
!. an old man with a fine head, promlnen
e brow, square jaws, and splendid beare
" His hair is almost white, and SO piacl
i are his features that he seems but sieel
n inc. and dreaming some serious dreal
: that causes him to set his face sternly. =
r third coffin. small one, contains I'll
: corpse of a child, meager little thin
70 with sore eyelids and thin blue hand
7 bound together on its breast by strip
le muslin.
d The last we opened displays the revol
W ing clay of bloated, rum-sodden' al
Id eased vagabond, loathsome filthy ere r:
I'd ture. a mere animal, SO dirty that dl
ne seems deeply ingrained in his evil Tao
Is it possible that the death OF mi
tie like this should have been regretted
,g any one? Could any one have loved
Of cared for him? Who can tell how long
ey faithful heart may have chung even
id him; striven in vain for his redempno
nv went over his miserable fates But spec
ne lations are idle and not pleasant up
vn such topic.
cir Tn another room we find more Sc.
!, ish coffin, it's lid screwed down, and
ey attendant informs us that it contains
ur- BODY of man recognized in the morg
lily by his relatives and awaiting removal
lid their order. The bodies that we ma
an seen are those Of persons who have DC
m patients in the hospital, excepting
$ l tramp who died over on the lsia
sed where he was serving out in the wo
as house ten days sentence Tor haplt
ley drunkenness and vagrancy.