St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-03
SEVEN THOUSAND IN ONE BLOCK.
The Most Crowded Spot on Earth 20 be
F.sInd fn Nelr York

The Most Crowded Spot on Earth 20 be
Fssfnd fR NeIo York
The most crowded spot on the earth is the
block in this city bounded by Fourth street
Fifth street, Avenue A aud First avenue.
There are many equal spaces Of ground
in this city holding worse squalor
and closer crowding, but in those
cases the buildings are low, so that the layers
of humanity are few. This square is solidly
composed Of slx-stCry tenement houses,
each twenty-five foot frontage representing
four families on each floor, and these fami-
lies wondrously prolific in children. The
number Of residents IS estimated at over
seven thousand. Fix in your mind some
town with that population, and then imagine
it compressed in a single city block. The
situation is in the teeming east side. The
people are German, Irish, Poles, and born
Americans, with none of the locally despised
Italians, Chinese or Africans. They are in
dustrious rs rule and well behaved on the
average. There Is a savings bank around
the corner in First avenue, and no pawn
broker IN the immediate neigh5orhoOd No
aspect Of abieet poverty is presented to the
street, whatever may be hidden by the front
walls Of brown stone and pressed brick.
Close by is the beer saloon OF Gustav
Sehwab, who leads what there is OF nihilism
IN New York. dropped in to see bin. He
is always on exhibition behind the bar,
and the sight costs five cents for glass of
beer, or more in case you wish protracted
view. Schwab has . big head, frowsy hair
q fierce mustache, aud a loud voice. ''Well.
when are YOU going 10 raze the Vanderbilt
ma AZ aud ~ f-1r
asked. ''SOOuer as some folks dinks,'' he
replied. ''Der AMERICAN pubic r-r-rouses
slow, bnt ven dev do r-r~rpuse dey Will
| r-r-rouse high" His eyes rolled with the
utteranee of the rs, and he looked very rev.
dictionary. indeed However, all his talk
was not nOnsensical. He said, for instance,
that no man over had been or ever would be
sentenced in New York to Imprisonment for
stealing over a million dollars. ! have not
! been able TO fluid a case to refute his charge.
/ II is true that Tweed died in jail; but he had
| only been luxuriously detailed there, await
! ing punishment John c. Emo easily bought
his way to Canada after robbiug the Second
! National bank Of four millions; James ID.
Fish and Ferdinand Ward, the plunderers Of
Gen, Grant and others 10 a fabulous extent,
have not been criminslly prosecuted, and are
supposed 10 be purchasing immunity; and
so they 20 Ireei 10 gave color 10 ScnWao's ac-
/ eusation that We have laws for the poor that
arc not enforced against the rich. eve het
no peesness in dis campaign" Schwab re-
mafked-and so the managers Of the respec-
tive parties may be relieved Of anxiety as to
the nihilist vote in this city. "Acha We shall
strike some tay, but nod dis time" The
official canvass Of the last election, in which
/ there was socialistic candidate for mayor,
revealed seventy-one ballots for him, and II
is said that the recipient Of those few favors
had expended 1000 in the canvass.-Sel'
YORK. Cor. Albany Journal.