The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-04-06


many years. 1t was one Of the most ia
nous er infamous dives in the city. Thou
sands of young girls have been lured to
ruin and death there. 1t was raided time
and again BY the police, but 1t seemed to
make no difference for Billy had pull.
One night he gave scarlet ball to which
the principal hsrlots, gamblers and thieves
in the city were invited, and at two O'Clock
in the morning, With forty carriages and
drunken crew, he proceeded to paint the
town very bright vsrnllion. In the after
noon he called at the Brunswick and en-
gagged the largest room with supper for two
hundred. Now,ws have los of swell hotels
in New York, but we have nothing sweller
or more exclusive than the Brunswick. 1t
stands on Fifth avenue near Madison
Square, not stones throw from Delmeni-
co.'s, of which IL is in a measure rival.
When Billy, with his two hundred dryads
and naiads, descended like cyclone On the
peaceful ard respectable hostelry at two
O'Clock in the morning, no wonder the pro-
prietor thought the day of judgment had
come and that he was in the pen with the
goats. From that hour Billy was q marked
man. He was worth hundred thousand
dollars, but they railroaded him to Black
Wells Island in month. He came out of
prison after serving his terra and thought
he would try the religious racket but some
how religion did not agree with him, he
wasn't used to it and it made him sick. He
could get no rum license for Armory Hall,
and the bulk of his customers knew nothing
of lemonade or ginger pop, the only drinks
obtaina5le. While the dances were going
on two policemen stood guard at the door,
but the lemonade was so strong that il fire.
quentlY affected their legs, and drunken
men and women we're as frequent as before.
Billy's last grand entertainment was cake
walk, and the celored aristocracy of Thomp-
son and Sullivan streets we're invited to
walk for de cake and gold badge worth
fifty dollars. On that night Armory Hall
was sight and Billy was in his glory; the
reporters got after him and that was the
end, the place was shortly after raided and
closed, and this week it passed under the
auctioneer's hammer, the entire property
bringing eighty-two thousand dollars. And
so passes away one more Of New York's
infamous dives. The waters of great Nep-
tune ocean could meyer wash its sins away.
For years it has been a centre of ruin, sin
and crime. There has been a desperate
effort en- the part of the criminal classes to
duplicate the low concert halls of London
and Paris, and at times they seemed almost
on the very verge Of success, but with all
our faults land heaven knows they are
many, away down deep in the subsol is a
love of law and order and decsncy among
the masses on which we can rely in the
hour Of danger to save us from the food of
crime and sin which would otherwise over
whelm us. No; the world is great deal
better than it seems, and eveH the devil is
not half as black as he is painted.
A strike has just come to an end after
many weeks of severe privation, which has
excited here very keen interest among
those who desire the welfare of women.
One Of our largest feather manufacturers is
man by the name of Cohnfield. He en-
ploys several hundred girls, and these girls
wishing an advance of wages and other
things besides, struck, and in solid body
marched out of the factory. When they
did this all the other feather manufacturers
closed their doors upon their wOrkmen and
women, and after weeks of struggle, priva-
tion and loss they all 90 back without hav-
ing gained single point, and it will take
them all many months before they can
square the losses which this ill-advised
strike has cost them.
Six years in the penitentiary for Robert
Sigel. Such ID the sentence on General
Franx Sigers son for forgery and larceny
This cruel blow falls with crushing weight
upon his father, 10 whom the sympathy Of
the entire community goes out. The Gen
eral never has been rich man, but it has
been his consolation that at his death, il
he could leave them the priceless herit
age Of an honest name. II is sons disgrace
has nearly killed him. His father trusted
him implicitly and blindIy his son deceived
and betrayed HIM. If the deed had beer
done by trusted emploYe, he wsuld have
cheerfully paid the loss if it wrecked hi
| fortune, but that he should have been dis
graced by his own son, was more than HI
could bear; it has riyen the cid warrior
heart. He cannot be made to believe thai
he still has the unshaken love and respec
of his fellowmen, who in nowise hold hin
responsible for the shortcomings of hii
faithless son.
In his sermon last Sabbath Brother
Talmage's discourse was rather a sort o.
general Bible talk, wherein he sought t
reconcile with fact a number of Bibl,
statements which are called in question by
unbelisvers like Bob Ingersoll.
In regard to the food Brother Talmag,
advanced the idea that the flood was BY nc
means universal, that it was sort of loca
affair over and above the region wher,
Noah lived, and that the animals living in
that locality were those that were saved IL
J the ark, and that the ark itself was mode
II ship-building Of which the modern
eamship is very imperfect pattern. Ii
speaking of Jonah he does not believe tha
the whale really was a whale, but /
monstrous sea serpent who could hav,
swallowed Jonah as easy as a school cir
does stick Of taffy. The sea serpent hay
ing got Jenah down, Brother Talmag'
admits that it made him feel very uncOm
Portable, and that owing to his clos'
quarters Jonah did not feel by any means
at home; under the circumstances then
nothing could be more natural than tha
they should desire to part company. Jonal
wanted to get out and the serpent wanted
to get him out, and both being of the saA'
mind it is not at all astonishing that h'
took the first opportunity of sending hin