New-York tribune., 1884-12-14

NOT bo ol cn there for tho sake of tho frcsh ar ana
thus have a chance to sec the Bridge. boy OF ten
vears of are in answer to q question said that IL
tool two months for q steamer TO come from Ire
land. Aud this within sight of Castle Garden
These facts will serve 60 give an idea OF tho
dense ignorance in which children can grow UP III
the heart Of great city. Nearly every cnlu ON.
of over hundred questioned SAID their chiei iooo
was bread aud coffee but they hal meat III some
form once day. These. II should be icm'mperou'
wero a pickcd class OF children above the very
poor who 40 10 the industrial sehoo' OF s'es W
homo,
While Visiting this icgion aomo weeks nitcfWhro
| found great commolon IN u row otreai bnllu'hR"'
whose tonania hal been notified that they m'"'
leave II ma the hontea were 10 he torn down Many
oi the tenants had hNed IN thia place nllovn el''
even twenty ycars aud thov wolo ~ u'Hp"tn sn i i ~
having To move, A decent though difii-lo"king
cobhlor in tho basement, VINO win Two hgou
croncs occupied three small rooms pa, nv IT,
month and who had scrap oi green ~ ms p!,'"iil
hole hke "A true son of -. Patrick followed us al
over the huiidiug, bewalllng the necessity, "
changing lis quarters which he had 9couplen '"i ~,
over twenty ycaIs and soiiolilhg our ihnlcnVo ~
prevent the change. y man on tnc 'oP iiout ii s,iu u
he had lived twenty-five years lii this locatyi DIS
wife died Of consumption last Christmas am lWo
children, ages two asd Ave. had also dleu ol II
therla; the rent was formerly So, but more nv
name landlord now OWNS the place anu only chiliges
81 90. The healthfulncss OF the place may Dc
aScnbcd 10 It's nearrcss 10 the pay auu ~ Milnrl'
Adults who inherit u strong constitution iirINe'
but the children suffer IRON infectious uiseI'SV'
In another house | found a woman with Two TWO
chubby children looking clean and Intelligent anu
q baby suffering with sore eyes, 1hey had tDIee
rooms one of which was entirely dark, the rem
being SO. The husband was a 'i0ngShoreHltn anu ~
ont OF work, They had received some nruf III
charity and showed the bread made from II. 10
was yellow with saeraus and almost a. nara as
stone. This the sole food OF the iam'ly' III
the nsxt house, which was no better IghteG; an
uukpmDt II faced NOlin Z.tNr Witll dSktl. HOW
do VIC get mp answered naiyey, Ihr9u2h ,he
door There was no beo lor ihe cnIiisen f II Tli
slept on chairs. The mother sad that 1Ooa h'd
not pa ssed her lips that day end that she hau bI
led two little ones within month ana was S'lIi
III debt for the undcTtakcr5 bill
Tenants with large families OF children uhu IL
very difficult to get into houses OF the better cSS
A poor woman told me wi tears IA T s,e, anu 4
voice chOhed with s0bS that she lad bech turheG
ont OF a house because she had sis children, ana
shc found il .sary TO put two OF mem mo an
institution before she could Obtain decent Set VI
rooms.
At No 1O2 Westinghouse, directly behind Trln-
ity Church and close 10 the Re tor street Elevated
Railway station, stands tall, Tanshackle iene-
mont in the worst stages OF diiapidation. with 4
coal ward on one side aud "a stable on the other il
is filed 20 flowing vita the poorest Oi the
poor and the number OF dirty children and Stat
tcruly women moving about and the staggering
man who passed NE in the hallway indicated DIS
orderly community. The yard at the time I'll my
yist was filthy, the sink ch,kcd, the hydrant
dripping and the stcnches already suggested July
weather. \ year hui ding, four stores high fronts
on thus yard. and sbuts directly AGAINST another
building on West-st., whose dead wall, separated
by only nine inches Of space bars al light ana ar
from the small inside bedrooms of the lormerd dwell
ing. Tho steep. crooked stairway is quito dark.
and The visitor gropes his way with difficulty. The
lower rooms are dinGy and damp and those aboyenot
much better. 4 C,r Of twelve standing at the en-
france bare footed and in her prtcoat. showed the
preternaturl acucncss Of the children of the poor
aud in reply to my inquiry, sharply disputed with
her brother a5 TO whether there were four or five
members in their family, the father having died ot
consumption only three days before, and the
brother seeming ~ have forgotten This fact III his
Up stars irOWsy- headed young W0-
man was busy in a iSOrdCred room where q kcro-
scne lamp stool burning at mi l-day because, she
said they had not any matches TO light II WIN
again She showed me the gloomy and contracted
inside bcd-IOon and the small square window open
ing from il into The narrow space between the house
aud the wall Of its nrighbOr. ana remarked with
piODhetic insight: g 1t will be choking here next
summer .
On The second noor ! came upon striking family
group ~ similar set of two rooms fragile aud
weary get patient-l00k woman sat ~ sowing
machine near the window With group of live
children the youngest IN its cradle. nrsiy raying
about her Confusion and disorder prevailed. rs
might have been expected, but there was NIUE drt
wills a"d 6oois neal vjth the care Of
", sn,i, itint helips The neihei. ~ iuFlnse,it
Protestant Whnai. Wliu had lpen I've yeqis w tbs
ttrihtrti hah Supported hpr family iUt utti tleNt
hHnihs it srHiir latr "h hNlttriutnts i,ig 'anql-
81 hIoft ~ sttthit- t-ifb teiiis . bundled taiHs,
ga arDNhi VI ihp paip az lhn thinlirh shr tiil
niiit pdfu rn 90 afeftRn iWnnif -irp ttnia daii
iiel husband q hn i-ndiiief Nas aiDb aun ahsrnl;
hhe Iertnpt soiie ai'l h'nA hri ehnirh, aYl
0r. asiaaaiiY eel odt l4ls at nieahlne flt
..f "a a Ia. 4lg NJ
all the luld the family then hid. ahh ste!ndiHiA
dry iaIn tor suoh hiilo ones. lel she did nnt
sl0nal employment which was alteTMah able tn
procure ior her, IN grateful spirit. Her troubles,
however seemed 10 have oHiY Just besun' soon
with bronchitis and alling for
long time. ihen another tenant III the house
brought home child from an institution where 1t
had contracted ophthalmla and, a. always happens
in such crowded and unc!can tenementS, the con
tagl0n was quickly communicated To the Oiher
ten, seized with the disease III IT'S most pnru-
lent FORM For days ana weeks she could not bear
light of any KIND, but sat IN the dark interior bed
room rs in pri.On-cel not even being able TO eat
al the table with the others. The poor mother
cared Tor the sufferer asslduously night and day,
and siroye to supply her with clean cloth To wpo
her eyes, and TO avoid letting the other children use
them. The patient, however, grew worse, and was
threatened with blindness. and only through the
lutercession OF a lady physician irom ihc oman
Inirmary has her sight been preserved. She now
presents 4 pItiablc spectacle. Her eyes arc half
closed aud drcadfully blcodshot while she rest, her
chm on her breast and cannot lf her head 10 Icok
any in tao tacc more striking example 81
the conveyance of contagion IN tcnc-
ment-h0uSe could not be ins,anccd. A
if the poor mothers burden was not vet
heavy enough her oldest boy age thirteen, who had
begun to earn Il little money by selling newspapers,
was recently run over in the street.-The only pay
ground Of the children OF the poorly a drunken
and was lamcd probably for life.
Though the miserable wretch who caused this dis
astcr was arrested by some blundcT or chicanery
lac escaped justice, aud while processing cOntrlto1
and sympathy FOR his victims he has done nothing
to hep them in any way, and pleads poverty as au
excuse.
THE DUTY or THIS COMMUNITY.
have tried to tell this sal tory without exag-
gcIation, and to shut my eyes to tho gloom. the
tLa l21ul.all slnira the haIc