The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-09
THE PITT STREET GHOST,

THE MAN AND DOG or 'No 10f'--rRRATINotA
CROWD TO THE wArER--A sUPERsrITIouB
BUTCHER.
Owing to the posse comitu,s into which the inhsb1-
tans Of Pit street formed themselves last night CAD
tain Cherry, OF tho Eleventh precinct, did have
very aruous task in laying tho ghost the nosortou3
"No loi" For ten days past pale faced man
with black dog has been In the habtsx
tho local chroniclors state, Of walking through
tue Railways OF No. ioi and Knocking upon skssscv-t
crsl doors. This information beng published abroad,
through the ready medium OF hundred tongues !
naturally attracted great deal of attention tina
particular mansion, which is modest, dun colored
AFFAIR i've s.ories high tnat stands gioom'ly bace
from the sidewalk Night before last about Two thou
sand people camo into Pin street, shortly acr eight
O'Clock, TO see ths ghost. Naturally such vast and
sudden assemblage interiered with tho busi-
and peavo of tho ncighUorhood Cap
tain Cherry, of tho eleventh precinct was
appealed to. Ho responded with all tho avalaBle mon
at his command, but when they came upon Nstrouud
they found only women aud children combat The
Pit ehost OF ''No lo4' had arawn tn@m there.
and they going to soc that ghost or reuAin alb
night Nke
A happy thought struck. tho Captain. A seAtiNn ee
hose attached to coaveu,en, hyarant Spd In =
little while Stwo-inch stream wac s1rvnE
All over tho street Last night thers whs
necessity Tor this heroic trsstmonl IT'D In
habitants OF tho blocks surrounding the hou0ked
house auoonsc,ousy constituted themselves Al oln.
mi,teo on water, ana did moro to scatter tho SrsNd
than the police could have DONE As carly hail past
o'clock there at least three thousan p>p-
pie trying TO got Wow of No 104 Pitt street. WhGn
they did see It they saw an ordinary nvc story, bea
painted tenement house that stands about one nu&-
drcd feet from the curb. The 5000 would have bsoa
5000 even 10000 in little while 1aA
not the posse eomitdtus manning tho wind@1
sprung to their work Although 'Ud PrObabutW0S
had said nothing about II there came suddenly rQq
upon PM street. From evory window shot eat ~
sls Tho crowd scattered and laughed Is il RAD
Good nature was. In TACT tho prevailing temper Of to-
man on the block, hut they had little 70 save kooT
ing out of the way OF tho water that mystorously
V, rms NAN VINO SAW IT yiRsr
The HgRALD reporter had the honor OF being intro@
ipaly. Eve or six doors below No loi ,here s ~
asssrs0ss . SHOP ga eyer 'Has shop nyss Mn
wnon tue reporter Called MIR. Hammer soandt
asleep his business requiring his active parc,pasont
a. about one o'clock IN .no morning: MT. mammerf
aud talked With the reporter. He saw tho ghoss
llrsL he g quite positive tna. he saw II Accord
ing to Mr. Hammer .the ghost has two forms lit Wac
man tho nrst Instance aud then II was dog. q
"Yon must no. think tina, this AFFAIR only Of the last
ten days, sad Mr.. Hammer, 81" has been 0t the last
year. used 10 live In that house, but you couldn'tc
give the price or tho entire block and the valuo or
tho German Catholic Church opposite--tho lady Of
Sorrows-to induce me to live there again. +"
"But Tell US what the ghost looked like. /" asked the
reporter.
swell, when first saw him. {" answered the butcher.
who perfect Eiant In form. che was decent look.
lug sort oil fellow and thought 1t was rcal 1.-Two
soon found that II wasn't Whom saw the ghost
again IL was hkc 2 dog, big black dog runnsogl
up anu down tue halls so my wife and pulled out
aud hcrc TO iive' This nun very earnest ~
all he said According to the carefully sfted s,ato-
OF the people III The hborhood and sho stories
wero listened 70 while tho reporter dodgnS the
sheets OF water that spread out from every window,
tho butcher was the prime mover IN the scnsattOn
shoulders are certainly broad enough tn boar the burr
den There aro ANY quantity OF sectors Ia anu about
Pitt street who claim tnat II the butcher saw man 10
live man, and II he saw dog with M man thao
do. was properly constructed dog. But the butcher
| Is Arm IN his supernatural belief.
EFrEcT
The consequence OF this scare Is chiefly observable
among tho women and childrcn--the hysterlcal por-
| ton OF community. Every stoop within hvo
blocks OF the haunted house pc0pled last night by
mothers, many Of whom had nursing babes as their
breasts There was a grand idea Of ava
the ghos.?" seemed TO DO the conventional
remark that took the place OF 'this 10
nnc evening"" Babies were scared 10 slocp BY tho
| whispered fact OF tho ghosts existence. The only
babies that not iulled In this those
| who caught by the Intermittent dronchna
showers that csmo squirting from tho windows. Such
babcs objected 70 baptism by immersion rs strenr-
ously as II they had boon members OF che Pans
Presbyterian Council at Edinburgh Toward eleven
o'clock the crowd was at It's height, but there
disorder Every had como the ghost or
mo 104' do something remarkable, and whom ~
ghost failed 10 come TO tmo tho dlsapponee spec&-
tors turned sadly AWAY. Whom the reporter lch tho
street there still tour Two thousand 1sop>o
lodging about and thorc only individual VINO
had not como TO time That Individual wu5 thb ghost