The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-07
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The Heather in Now York.

New York, 6.-The Times says: At
the coraer of Mott and Park streets
stands the Church Of the Trsnsfgarstlon,
sort of Roman Catholic shrine, amid the
filth and fostering humanity of an ex-
ceedinsly nondeseIipt neigh borhood. 1t
is in the very heart of the Chinese quar-
ter. Across the street from it is block
Of six or eight old buildings, which, It Is
estimated, contained week ago pOpu-
lation Of from 800 to 500 Cinnamon, with
q restlul sensation of having escaped the
wrath of Kearney and San Francisco
hoodlums. The next block from Park
street. to the corner end Of hoit, sheltered
| 500 more, and had its hotel and general
| travellers agency, where not les than
fifty or sixty swarlhy Asiatics were
| usually quartered. The who'e Mongo-
liam population of these two blocks on
Mott street has been calculated at some
what. more than 1000, living all by
themselves, having their OVID institutions
and forming g sort of city withil city.
They were fully ss orderly as, aud paid
higher rents than the population they
superseded, ard Mott str CT landlords
were not at all averse to listen to their
overtures But, in the meantime, they
had completely isolated the Church of
the TRANSPORTATION from its-Tcongrega-
ton. There were many complaints from
those who attended its services that they
had to cut their way through an army of |
"Baythtns" on Sunday to obtain access !
to the confessional, ard something had 10 |
be dona TO rescue the old church |
from being converted into a gro |
Gerry, with posters printed In a
strange language dis6guring the |
stone pillars. In the emergency, action
was taken with decision, and the moon
eyed denizens of Mott street woke up a
few days ago%o fad that their domieiles
had passed into new hands, and they
must vacste on Na lst, or at the expira
ton of their monthly holdings. The
had leased the whole series
of tenements from Pell street TO Park,
and refused 10 let to Cinnamon on any
terms. Other landlords In the vicinity
took the cue, although they liked their
tenants, and for the last week a whole
sale eviction has been going on. For the
most part the expelled tenants have sue
ceeded In finding apartments in the
One tumbled down old
-oOkery IN Park street, that formerly |
paid the landlord only $50 per month,
with a miscellaL eous tenantry is now
renting for $50 per month to a colony of
Chinese In several other instances rents
nave teen doubled by shrewd landlords
1y taking advantage of the demand thus
treated; but the general result has been
)nly to scatter the colony over wider
lrea without extinguishing it. In front
# one old rookeTy, yesterday afternoon,
| reporter counted two heavy days |
oadsd with Undesirable household
FOODS, and three carriages waiting to
emove the inmates. A crowd each
to his own fancy, numbering
rom $50 to 200, was gathered at the door
md the jsrgon and gesticulation were
At length ezch carriage
ook up its freight Of one o. two families
md was driven away. They were deter
mined to move in style, said bystsnder,
or they are only going few squares
md mig ht just as well have walked.
The Herald: The Celestials in Mott ;
treet may console themselves with the
hought that other people have suffered
n the same way, and that were their
habits hundred times worse than they
re they will find plenty of landlords in
,etter neighborhoods ready to receive
hem, SO long as they pay rent promptly. :