The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-01-10

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4 n yoa wtni 10 zee tbe inside Oi = sta
lion, you'd ought TO have been bore last
uigtt II lsnt oflen, ms'am, there i
pight that wonld be taitable tof you. !
don, think there's beeB bali dozen this
winter ihsl "a wsut you round II you
was my daughter or my sister begging
Z yopr pardon, ma'Am, as The best way
can pot Il 10 sou to express my meaning
sud The feeling thsl inSu bss Aboot such
things
Ladies drop In Of sn srrand now and
lhen--you Ain't The first. Curious err
rsnd., too One, she wanted 10 circulste
= total abstinence pledge; and another
she offered to pay The salary Of chap
Lain. She brought a specimen with Der,
Most remember Of him 10 what little
chap be was. Then | remember three
coming In y squad 10 teach the women
bow 10 darn stockings. And oue-but
she was young brought apackage OF
tracts, on pink paper Then we've bad
EN- bring sandwiches, and hymn books,
aud liiaes, aud other singular things.
Most of 'em that drop 10 have that way
about 'em Is though the officers we're u
locking these lolks up here for their own
personal qualification. Can't seem TO get
Il into their heads! always like to be
polite to ladies, too, myself. Then, an.
other thing. They're bent on il, these
ereeturs aint past making over. Want
to give 'em Old clothes aud get 'em work
set 'em up ia little shops, and that.
Shops! There isn'l man here once a
month that would set under a roof, II
you'd give him salary for It.
Why, once we used to give 'em soup.
That WAS last winter. II didn't work.
We don't do il now. Bat the city hsd a
soup day here one while, and fish firm
down on Atlantic Wharf said we might
have their heads SO we told the men ii
they'd 20 down and get the heads, IL
would make their soup 80 much the rich.
er. Don't you seer Now we couldn't
get man-jsck Of 'em TO slk. Not one.
The, d rather 80 without than take the
trouble. They're all SO. All OF a piece.
Aud the women--well the women
Upon my word wish you bad been
here last night. l've been lieutenant IN
this station Tor twelve years, and don't
think ever felt as did last night. LIS
puckery kiud of work tbis--like taking
alum on Your tongue. After year or
SO man feels himself wizzling aud
toughening up in his feelings. Can't at.
ford TO have feelings down here, morn
you can afford to stand round burning
house in cotton clothes. II only scorches
you and don't make any odds to the
house.
Ever see our books? No2 Well, just
you look here, IL you please. just count
tlose pages viii your From there to
there. We took in all those In Decem-
Der. In the month of December, 1876,
we had in this station two thousand two
hundred and ffty-two men and women.
or course, there's the usual share Of ar
rests. There's Mahoney, aud Jones, and
Sullivan, and Pete Cartwright and Julia
Henderson, right under my finger, all
arrests. All drunk. But most of 'em
are vagrancies 10 the winter time. You
see 1t was pretty cold here last December
especially nights. And then we're care
ful about our officers. Don't allow kick
ing, and no more swearing at 'em than
circumstances require. These creeturs
get such things round among themselves.
They have fancy for this station, may
be. | don't know how that Is. We mean
to be humane on this corps. That's our
theory. Some of our officers have very
gentIemsnly way. Not that we think IL
makes much difference. tell you,
madam (you may better understand 1t OF
the outseO, don't know what your IN
tentions are, OF course--but ladies come
with so many charitable aud curious de-
signs which il seems pity 10 disappoint
bul tell you the folks that get into these
places are a hopeless lot. They're folks
without q chance. Most Of Us have a
chance, | reckon, in this world, some
time or nuther; even item poor devils.
Bat by the time they get here their
chance il as dead as John Browns body
don't say there's never au exception,
Now, there wac that creeture last night
Maybe IL somebody'd taken her IA hand
several years ago-lf lady with the way
you seem to have-l hope you'll excuse
me, ma'am, but there is difference In 9
lad,'s way, such as think you'd have tc
be a man aud do pretty tough mans
work, ike mine, for instance, 10 under
stand 80 clearly as you mighD. wished
last night, will confess that lhere'd been
lady here. II did occur TO me TO sc
home Tor my wife. But never bring
my wife into the station house,
Here's the entry-lhe last one, ! mean
Secl
d. Doherty, Ellen. February 22d
1877. TagrqHcy. When J get lime In
going to count up how oiteu that wo
mans name has been on these books
J But 8, would take a good deal Of time
las some years.
remember very well the drs, lime shl
q came. D0B'G know how happen 10,
There's such lol Of young girls. Ant
pretty onss, TOO. This one was NOR
4 than commonly good looking -su lfisl
. girl. She bad DARK style, and va
/, pA.er than most Of EN-. lbink il mus
have been i've years ago. Il was 10
: fret time she'd ever been arrested, sb