Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22
new YORK AT NIGHT.
A Midaisht Stroll Through One OF
the Representative Streets
Of the Metropolis.
The Gay and Dizzy Mhlrl Of Fast
Life and the Darker
Huss of
Debauchsry and Crime Places
Whsrs Vice Holds High Car
niyal and Virtue
5ows Her Head and Mssps- Bow
cry Concert Gardens and
Sixth Avenue Dives.
A Couple Of Swsils 9at for a Lark
Making a Night
of II.

aninteresting but the night time, particu-
Isrly on any Of the great thoroughfares,
affords material for the newspaper man,
the mCralist, the philsnthropist, and the
philosopher We will enter Sixth avenue
81 -Four teenth street, for there the mid
night carnival begins. 1t is Just Il O'Clock
rs we turn into the avenue, and we shall
End the tide Of New York's night life run
ming high, for this street isone of the great
srteries into which pulsates the heated,
savage blood of civilization,
II ia brilliant Spectacle.
~ avenue OF light; and for hundreds who
Fsndes thro' its glare tonight, this light
possesses deadly fascinstion-we all know
about the candle aud the moth. We
shall pass hundreds OF people who are
drinking down the wine Of life hot as the
breath OF hell and we shall meet scores
Who have drunk il to the bitter lees; but
tie horrible fascination OF the place, the
css light and the moving throng bring
them back night after night TO miugle in
the scenes of their
Degradation and Ruin,
and in fancy they live over again the times
when they were flush Of money, when
friends and mothers and sweethearts still,
smiled, when clear brains and strong con
stitutisns had not yet given way TO tremb
ling hands and hslting feet and schin
heads and hearts Content are these il some
kind hearted sight seer or newspaper re-
porter tips them half dollar to purchase
the rum for which their worn out constitu-
hons sre craving.
Think YOU that the
Intoxicated. BeIiikzened Young wO-
He met Just now, and who recognized me
in the gas light, was always the poor, be.
soiled, profane wretch to whom gave that
dollar" You ask me why gave it to her.
Why should I not? Is not her degradation
the key to nay heart Ii my sweet little
sister should ever come to that condition
would not shoot her? So, why should l
not give to this poor woman of the town
money to buy the liquid madness which
may nerve her arm to point pistol at her
head, Or her feet to carry her TO the North
river and launch her into oblivion
used to know her up in Oneida county,
when she was bright eyed, hSppy child
OF sixteen summers. No heart was lighter,
no laugh merrier in all the academy where
sic went every day to school. \ bright
E.ue song bird was she, and the life and
Joy OF Happy Home.
Her father was wealthy farmer who had
retired from the plow and removed to the
city, where he lavished all the love Of his
strong old heart on his mOtherleSs chill
dren. three girls. She went TO New York
on visit to friends during the Summer
after she WAS graduated from the academy.
She never before had been in the metEop.
oils. she was very young, very green,
but very gay and fond of novelty aud ex'
cir,ment. BY means Of a silly street tir-
tstiOn she became acqusinted with
AYOHng Blood" OF the Upper Ten.
one OF the ladies darlings, but just sowing
his Wild os;s, you know, AMI allowed
BIN to Visit her contrary TO the advice and
wishes Of her friends. Her father was in
tormeI AMI he ordered her 10 come home;
hut she had tasted partridge and cham
pagre at the Cafe Brunswick and refused
10 return. Her friends, not willing to un
aertake the responsibility Of her caprice,
spurned her from their door, and she took
Up her abode in the luxurious rooms furn'
ished for her BY her fast lover. Her father
came 10 New York, bat she fed to Phila-
delph.a, to Cleveland, to ST. Louis aud dis
appeared. All trace was lost.
A Detective Bureau
Fas called to aid, but detective bureaus
work for the highest bidder. After nine
months search her broken hearted father
AID sisters gave her up. After two years
she returned to New York. Her wealthy
lover hsd tired OF her and cast her oil.
What did she do? Just what hundreds OF
Others have done before and since; home
less. f-;endle.s penniless, she went on the
ayeuur aul became q woman OF the town.
Her o.d father died, and her sisters up in
Oneida cUuuty mourn their bright little
song bud whose voice is huShed forever,
While the Gentleman" who ruined her
young Life tr~he, up and down Fifth ave-
rVejn
HI> Velvet Cushioned Coupe
ald eats bi, dainty luncheon at the club.
Gall her wantun, curse her if, you will, Il
wou.d ou,y be Christian charity; but tell
you thar would not break bread or drink
or ,mosr with the men who can look pitt.
IessiY upou the spectacle OF that womsn,
o. any other one, making thei- street beg
g:ng !Jr the love OF heaven, the price OF
G'ink, and Offering her womanhOod at the
shrine ot hunger. Do you wonder that
give her money for rum? IL is an Oh
story; there sre hundreds OF such cases.
Size wi. 5- found in the river some morn
ing. God pity the women OF the town.
Jet Us Naik on.
This avenue j. notorious all The world
ever. Decency and responsibility leave
The street at 1890 P. ", and l will wager
Champagne supper against new bat that
o. the hundreds of women 20 De met after
this hour between Four,eeth street and
the Intersection of Broadway, four in i've
sre
women Of the Town
H-m'nsis or keepers OF dives. Tue men
are uo better The Elevated railroad
tEsi-s Irsh with their horrible roar over
LIE b' sis OF gamblers, pick-pocksts,
fh.svs-. -IUEs, burglars, highway men,
ard every other class OF lsw-breakers, all
o. them under the watchful eyes OF the NJ.
rs AMI ''rte 'tives; for this is tbs beat reg
H'aisu pnr'ce district in the city. But this
MAKE H.' e. ference. The men g ahout
Ehat,y' -'Hcy have in hand in system.
ehc, ",.-iUrsS IKE manner. The wJnen
Ply tIrJr .,.tiar oDanly blsiantlv. aud
nsir landowners and the manner II