Connecticut western news., 1878-11-20

stands the largest city of the United States, mightiest' for virtue and for sin. s.We twill want no carriage for to- night" said my police attendants. "A, carriage would be a hindrance where we are going" So, at eight o'clock we, started on foot and walked through the lanes of poverty and crime. Everything was revoltingto eye and ear and nostril Aunwashed, uncombed the population, unventilated the rooms! Three mid nights overlapping the darkness, of each other midnight inI the, natural world, midnight of crime, midnight of ,pauper- ism Streets oozing with filth, inhabi- tants vermin covered They had gone nine:tenths of the way toward theirinal doom. They started in unhappy homes either in city or country. Vhey entered iniquity far, uptown! in the shatnbies of death within ten minutes! walk of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and came gradually on down to. the Fourth ward. When they move out of here they will go to Bellevue Hospital. When they move from Bellevue Hospital, they will move to Blackwelfs Island. When theymove from Blackwell's Island, they will move to the Potter's Field, And when. they move from the Potter's Field, they will move into hell ,,,,.;.,,v. ,s .,..,..i s.. ..s.
 Let the policeman go ahead and flash his lantern upon the scene. Fourteen people asleep in this one room, or trying to get asleep, some on a'few hahdfufs of straw, but more on, the bare floor with neither blanket nor pillow. You say this is exceptional. ! Itiis not! Thus sleep night by night, with no better comfort, 170, GOO families who live in tenement houses of greater or less squalor. No reformation of our cities until,this terrible tenement house system is broken up. The ityiauthorities must buy farms where these people can by force of law, be placed and made to work. By strong arm and police lanterns, united with Christian benefcence, these hor- lr TOTS must be exposed and then ,uprooted. These mendicants must be made the means of city wealth ihstead of city pu- trefaction.o No purifcation or fefornna- ton for the City until something like the privacy and 'seclusion' of the home circle ,begiyen to every family As long as they herd together like beasts. they will be beasts! y,. 9Ifn .os .n..i ? ,a :s How much pauperism we saw by the flash of the police lantern How much more we did not seels How much more no eye but Gods will takein !! Think of it; f4O, GOO Ioagets' every year in the
 station houses !! Andwhat pathos in the thought that, whole families, turned out of doors because they scanpot pay their rent, must tumble in here, for shelter the respectable and the reprobate, they who have struggled for decency and good name flung helpless in the loath-
 some pool, innocent childhood and vi ciouus old age, 'God's poor and Satan's desneradoesh f"S"'d I"h'?'' tE'' '" N'
 J At my basement door we have an
 average of 100 calls day seeking aims.
 In my reception room every day | have applications for help that all old style silken purse gathered byea ring in the middle and with Nanderbilt's, wealth ln one side and William B. Astor's wealth. in the other could not satisfy, l, refer to these, men's wealth while living. We have more money now than they have since they have their shroud on; but even the shroud and the grave we find in are to be contested for. A curse upon the midnight jackals of St." Marks churchyard. t Out of" 8 population of LOGO, ,0Oo people of New York 300; 900 people are helped by charity, private or municipal: Hear it, 'mayoralties and aldermanic boards I would to God that might throw, a bombshel of arousd, into every City Hall, meeting houseand cathedral on this continent, i ,r5',n-al ,'
 The factoriesba at Fall River and Low ell have sometimes stopped for, lack of demand or lack of workmen, but the great million-roomed factory of sin goes on by day and night, year after year, without slackening Q band or arresting a spindle. Its great wheel is turned by a flood not like that of the Merrimac or the Connecticut, but by a crimson flood poured forth from the groggeries and the drinking saloons and the wine eel lars of the: land. and the faster these floods roll the faster the wheel turns and the band of. the wheel is woven out of broken heartstrings, and at every turn thereof there pours out at the mouth of the iron, mill crushed fortunes, desolated homes, squalor and mendi- cancy and crime, domestic and muppi- mruppi cipal, and national woe. And the creak77 ing and the rumbling of, the wheels are the shrieks and groans of men and women lost for two. worlds ;, and the cry IS,
 !" Bring on more regulations, more homes, more fortunes, more cities for the grist of this stupendous mill ", !,.,,., @ But you say ''"These mills of death will after while cease from lack of material" !" No !! See by the police lantern into the future |! In this cluster of cities are 15,O0O barefooted, home less children on the streets. They are the reserve corps of those that are to co come ne up and take, the ranks of those who drop into the, Morgue, the Potter''s Field and the East River, The battalion of juvenile vagrancy marches on, ,', |
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