Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-01
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wv NJ l)ohRel,y III .Te xns
re will go vi, Mott stre laat tai:
brick building Labeled s6a fs,nt, IN
letters tiSe feet high, ST M EIsA y
1 It is detached, is seven stu has
seven windows on each flo0n in toHt and
thirty-two on each floor atst 5tdes. and
runs right through to et street.
1t is said to be freproof 1 and sit appears
/ to be so. Two broad flights ne stone
stairs with iron ba!usters, one On the
Mott street and one on tlis flixabeth
st4oet end, lead from floor 10 foor. AT
the. top Of each fight IS 4 lpng, dark
corridor, off which sixteen s0drs open
on one side and thirty two " aoRs on
the other. ..4 tE5s HI
{ Each Of the doors lead into d suit Of
three rooms, with windows otening on
the court yard, and each suit, kScept she
end ones, which cost 81 3, Isl rented for
80 to $40 a month, payable III advance.
There are at present, tliesi mi orns
us, between 500 and peo.
pie living in the house Most Of
them are Bohemian Jews, but There are
some Russians, Il Italians, Chinese aud
Irish also. ave have teiY few Irish J, 2
says the janitor, for We don,.t want tIle,
lowest OF thern, and the better class
wouldn't come here !" The tenants are
chiefly tailors who work at home, and
street peddlers. =. { = i
'4The Big Flat" continued the janitor,';
was originally built for eolurVd people.
and was afterwards turned into lG,le-
ings for working girls. NoWit belongS
TO the New York Steam Heating
company. What are mySduties? Well,
to collect rents, to see that the tenants:
keep their rooms clean Jews are mostly
'dirty--to have the water-tark on the,
roof, which is filled by a steam pump in
the cellar, kept always full; and to exc
.cnte general repairs. There is no gas
in any Of the rooms except milne, and Che
tenants burn Kerosene. They bring their
own cooking stoves with them. No, there
is no elevator; if man lives, Oh the top
floor, hBmust walk up and down to his
room" + >t&F%.5& -
THE Big FlsdY1ays the sergeant at
the desk in the Elizabeth street station;
1.-THE most troublesome house in the
precinct! Not SO much the tenants, you
know, who are hard working people, but
thieves and pickpockets, when they COM
NIT a robbery, make use of the passage
from Mott to Elizabeth, to escape the
officer chasing them. We get a good
many complaints Of all sorts from the
tenants, too, but they don't amount to
much. Go and see some Of the italian
tenements in Mulberry street. The
Italians are a saving people, and are
rapidly buying up all the Mulberry street
houses" .lt&e
Up long flights Of dirty stairs we toll,
until at length we reach an open: door
A woman, apparently about 50, but in
reality not more. than half that age,
stands in the entrance with fortnight
old baby in her arms. She is unkempt,
unwashed, and altogether unattractive.
Is this a sample of the bright Italian
beauties of which we. have read and
dreamed so much, with their darby
flashing eyes and raven locks, and clear,
paIeolive skins to which the red blood
rushes on occasien2 Alas! it is even so.
Itaha's maids are women at Is,
mothers a year later, grandmothers at
80, and deerepit hags in q year or
two more. Hore in New York the
descendants df the Masters of the World
live like rabbits in a :burrow. They
sleep anywhere and snyhow-on. the
floor or sitting on a box with their backs
against the wall. Yoa will find twelve
or fourteen doniciled in a room that
would fai9s accommodate two persons.
Disease is common among them, and
their dense ignorance Of the commonest
things makes the evil worse. They eat
anything they can get, whether they buy
it from the butchers ofal, or pick it out
Of the ash barrel or the gutter. They
will not spend money on fuel, and pork
is cheap, so they eat it raw, and tri-
chinosis is rife. They can live, like the
Chinese, where men of other nationali-
ties would starre, and 50 they are say
ing money and becoming householders,
and are forming; a permanent Italian
colony i'll Mulberry street and it's neigh
borhood, as they have already done in
the vicinity of Snow Hill and Holborn
Na11ou nn1cns ! ~ y So.