The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-03

R,sPeFtps tee'tAs summer.


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The h,dxin4 rooubs vt The police sta:
ton cloos %, the 0rst Ut june, aug wan
not be reOponed until the 0nse of OCto'
Der. The lllelrUp0iilan arsuy Ut tral1lijs
will inaaxunAao 6lso summer rtBOrt Stsl-
ron On the former date NY going Into
the county, where they will enrOunt.r
the ld-tl,ile difficulty 10 climbing over
spiked fences into lnIuilry yards, aud
viii acquire new Facility In escaping
from country watch daxs. The nlxs'
with the tomato c1n h = lDersA,n Of
umiuue interest In New York, there w.
lnx much mystery ~ 10 who he IL and
how he lives. A Press reporter on Ss,t-
urslay night went to See where be
sleeps. The Seventh precinct police
station, ut which the scrlbe called, IL in
Madison street, quite m. NectaOie
ll,OrUughfare On the essst side, which
shelters only IN average ~ Orlnlent Ut
trainls, Of nMln'tDnClls variety. About
II O'cluck nh officer tnDk his lantern
ind led the way through hall to = lit
tic open COURT A low brick building,
the lower l,art flied with cells and used
~ prison, was before ~. Assembling
u aht OF narrow stains. the officer ull-
l0cked heavy uOOr, w..ich swung back
with y cracking sound. ArUund the
rUOnl lay
TIVE TY Oh Thirty MEN
stretched out on boards and snoring in
heavy sleep. These boards are about
seven feet long, three feet wide, and
two inches thick. They are OF solid Oak,
and inclined 20 that the head Of thu bed
IL about tour inches abOye the floor.
The air in the rOOln was sitting aud
fetid. The two men who entered it
held their breath, ~ the atmosphere
was Understandable. The sleepers were
ragged and dirty, and stupetied with
liquor. Those who were not stupelied
by liquor were stupeiied by the tad air.
1t looked rs ifthey would Ill be asphyx-
lated before morning. Cant they
they have any ventilation here ?" asked
the reporter. "They may, but they
WON'T" replied the officer. 1--WE used
to try to get them to wash their hands
and faces, but it would take u line of
bayOnets 10 enforce that. A real tramp
hates water and air. We had the top
s,asiles nailed down 80 that they might
get pure air, and they would break Oft
tile nails and ci.~e them III, again."
The lodging room for women Is next
door 10 that ri the men. lie bells are
of boards, and are exactly like those in
the mems apartment. Around the mar
row room on these hard boards, and in
y poisonous atmosphere, v ere ,yjnA
NEARLY FORTY WOMEN,
many Of them with gray heads. They
lay with no covering, not even q blan-
ket, and wore the rays that had cover
ed them for months, and which they
had never taken of: A very few Of
them were young, some of them not
more than twenty. One woman with
haggard features and dishevelled gray
hair at upright, with her hands resting
upon the board she had been lying on,
and stared around the room with u
crx1td expression.
THE women" said the officer, '.some;
times have terrible fights at night, and
morning with bloody faces and black
newer known to fight. This is because
stupeiies them and makes them peace
full, having apparently an effect not UNI
like that produced by opium. The w0-
men scrub i'm Offices for half dollar .
day and spend it for
GIN OR WHISKY.
Liquor brightens their faculties, and
nladdens them. They often secretly
carry bottles oft into the 10 ;ging room,
and then follows general Orgy among
these hays which makes the place like u
pandem0nium."
Captain Webb, Of the precinct, being
asked how long people might survive
in the air Of the lodging rooms, replied
that most Of the dodgers slept in them
every night Of their lives, and had
known no other shelter for years. He
spoke Of one we'll known tramp in the
Tenth precinct who had not III ssed
spending night in the station house
there for ten years, except once, when
he had been sent up to the Island for
ten days. Most Of the tramps were at
tached to their life. They refused all
work offered to them. At 5 in the
morning they were turned out Of their
k,dgfng room, and. after doing . little
cleaning and aWeeninv around the st.,.