, 1889-01-10
DIRT AND sQUALOR.
Where sunlight and Happiness are
Seldom Seen.

where SuniiRnt ana happinehs are
Seldom Seen.
People who are blest with comfortable
home. with plenty to eat and drink, and
heavy clothes to keep them warm, have
little idea of the squaior and poverty
which reigns In Shantytown.
In company with Health Officer Bennett
REVIEW reporter visited that portion OF
the city known as Shantytown yesterday.
The settlement stands on the land
indispute between the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company and Fl. G. Cowley in
the southeast part of the city, and con.
.sists of perhaps 100 miserable shanties
which serve as the houses for as many
families.
On an average there are about FIVE
children to each family. These. with the
parents, live in one or two rooms, each
not more than ten feet square, with per-
haps one window in each.
The first shanty visited was that occu.
pied by man and his wife and
ave children, which consists of a
kitchen and bedroom. A cookstove, board
table, bench, a couple of chairs and u
few dishes and cooking utensils consti.
tuted the furnishing of the room. There
were two windows, through whose dirty
the accumulation of filth upon the floor
and table. In a small room opening from
the kitchen lay the wife on a wretched
bed She recently gave birth to her
fifth child and was quite i'll. She had
ON an old ragged green dress
and looked pale and emaciated, in the
dim light which struggled through the
one small window. The pillows under her
head were devoid Of cases, the bedding
thin, ragged and insufficient for cold
weather. The walls were rough and bare,
Qnn, kal haasS n
stranger to soap and water. Besides the
bed the sole piece OF furniture in the room
was chair. There was no ventilation
and the air was close and sitting.
If reports be true the husband and
father IL a tit subject for White Cap dis.
cipline. He Is stove mender and works
for hardware firm in this city. He makes
good wages. Little Of his money goes to
support his family however, as he spends
il as fast as he gets 1t for liquor, and ia
frequently on drunken .sprees. At which
cared for by the Ladies Benevolent So
ciety,
The next place visited presented Q pleas
ing contrast to the other sharty. Although
small, the rooms were scrupulously clean,
pictures ornamented tho walls, the bed
was neatly made, the aoor Of the bedroom
carpeted, and everything bore the stamp
OF thrift. Il don't want my children vac.
cinated at public EXPENSE" said the
woman Of the house with pleasant emile.
I'VE are poor, but not paupers, and
would not like to see our names In print
as objects Of charity"
Perhaps twenty houses in all were
visited, and In nearly every case 6irt and
squalor reigned supreme. Cleanliness
seemed virtue not possessed by the In.
habitapts. II is in this quarter of the
city that the charitable ladies society finds
the most work. There are many deserving
poor. but great many who ask for aid are
frauds.
DIR. Mclean yesterday visited Shanty-
town and vaccinated over fifty children,
He will continue to visit that district un-
til everyone is vaccinated. Many Of the
parents strenuously objected to having
their children vaccinated. AZ they did not
believe il its efficacy as preventive OF
smallpox, ETC., and declared they would
rather keep them out of the schools than
submit to the operation.