The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10
THE DEAD MEMS LEvEE.
M, = place Where the Dead Of New HOl
Hold Th-fr Perpetual State Reception

Hold Th-ir Perpetual State Receptions.
Twenty sixth street, on the last block |
next the East river, has gloomy and sug-
oestiye surroundings. Where broad
Gateway pierces the long high stone wall
,1pon the north side one gets view
Of the enormous Bellevue hospital build
ing, charmingly surrounded IN the &c,
NAL summer time by green grass and
trees. but itself gigantic monument OF
main and death. All the year round
hundreds of poor wretches groan and
writhe in those long wards; not 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 floor,
to 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.
lust back of this college building
Islands a smaller one 1t is the morgue
Behind it and at its side are outlying de-
tendencies and contingent reminders IN
the shape of strangely connected rooms
and various sheds. Here the men prlns
those CHASTITY shapes after nighttall from
the hospital. Entering one OF THESE
sheds we find thirty or forty cheap comns
of nine wood, stained or painted dull
brick red. Several, Of which we raise the
] | lids, are empty. Others nave Initiates s,
In one we discover the face OF woman
, horribly emaciated, and OF blush "hlte
skim-milk color. The nose stanos gu
thin and prominent; the teeth are seer
, through the partly separated bps; TN
: evelids have not been closed SO hghll.
. but that one sees glinting line OF th
: dull pupils beneath. Perhaps she is no
r. more than twenty years old-she may
however. be forty, misery has so age
g her. In another of the red boxes there
, an old man with fine head, promlnen
e brow, square jaws, and splendid bearo
:, H;s hair is almost white, and SO placl
! are his features that he seems but sieel
N inc and dreaming some serious dreal
that causes him to set his face sternly. :
+ third coffin. small one, contains til
: cornse of a child, meager little thln
- Nth sore evelids and thin blue hand
| bound together on its breast by strip
le muslin.
d The last we opened displays tne leSo.
w ing CLAW of bloated, rum-sodden, Oh
Id eased vagabond, loathsome hltny ere
ID ture. a mere animal, SO dirty that gu
ne seems deeply ingrained in his evil lac
Is # possible that the death OF m;
tie like this should have been regretted
lg any one? Could any one have loved
Of cared for him? Who can tell how long
ey faithful heart may have chung even
I'd him; striven in vain for his redempno
ny wept over his miserable fate! But spec
ne lations are idle and not pleasant up
vn such topic. -,
cir In another room we find a more st!
a ish coffin, its lid screwed down, ana
ey attendant informs us that it contains
1r- BODY of a man recognized in the mors
lly by his relatives and awaiting removal
I'D their order. The bodies that we ma
an seen are those of persons who have DE
m patients in the hospital, excepting
5 / tramp, who died over on the lsia
sed where he was serving out in the wol
as house ten days sentence Tor haDl'
lev drunkenness and vagrancy