The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-13
DUFFY'S PHILOSOPHY.
= THINKS GOTHAM IS GROWING
MORE WICKED.

kew York is the Mecca of Tramps :
,sothers Who Sell Their Own
Deughters-An Age of Polite Vice.
(copyrioht 1887
NEW YORK, June l5.-There are many
,rinous gus to public-spirited man in
II army of unfortunates who are daily
Fought before the bar of police court.
Tba first of these is the tramp, who to a
srv great extent is the product of misap-
lied and foolish charity. The proportions
bich this evil has attained are something
riphtfuI. In my youth, there was no such
ard as tramp and no such person. To
~ his name is legion. There are at least
I06 900 in the United States. In the spring
bsv start out for the summer campaign
nd at the first frost make bee line for
Esw York, just as the swallows fly south
ard in the autumn. The moment they
osch the city they are in clover. The
atom houses afford them accommodations
&ben, which is rarely the case. they are ac-
ally penpiless. and the numberleSs 10 cent
pdglng houses give them comfortable shell
T. at ali other tunes. Then by folly which
4 sjmuly monumental they get 1-cent meals
ST Andrews stands at all hours These
rsnds are conducted by wealthy and we'll
Itentioned charitable people and have al
ady done more harm than can ever be esti-
batei. They are veritable paradise to
H. New York tramp. Any one of this
3deous fraternity can secure 80 cents by a
bw hours begging and then can live in
omfort for twenty flour hours, gettir e his
ed for 10 cents. three o. four meals for as
banv cents and expanding the remainder
4, n the vile distillates which are retailed in
Ia bucket shops in the lower wards
The city government aids in fostering
nese unclean human parasites. The work
5ouse on Blackwelps island gives them
can rooms and beds, good, wholesome
ire. pure air and beautiful scenery. Then
lanks to the conyicu.labor prejudice, the
bmates are not allowed to engage In any
honest industry and are therefore limited
Il doing the odds and ends of the work that
bav be done under such conditions As a
1esult the tramp is always glad to be conn.,
ftted. Over 1000 have deliberately
ked me to send them to the island. Over
600 have similarly applied to the police
Magistrates of the city. All this is bad
fough, but there is something worse be-
4ond. In various parts of the city are
Mat is known as dives" These are eel
rs, easements and garrets, cheap, dirty
I'd full of disease, where men and women
Ire allowed TO stay all night upon the i'm
led condition that they will buy the stale
eer and vitriolic whisky which their pro-
Hetors sell in defiance of the law. No one
HnoWs how many OF these monstrous places
xkist. Police Captain Mccullough, one of
HI best and most conscientious officials, re-
Orted five years ago that there were over
Do with an average patronage of thirty in
Is precinct alone. In one series OF raids he
babe upon them, he arrested 2, 200 inmates
&,d told mo 10 thara
BIT as he had captured. When I had com
Mitted a majority of those to the island.
be authorities notified me not to send any
bore as they could not be accommodated.
Both the captain and myself thus found
&ur hands tied and were unable to do any,
bling further to cure the city of the scourge
Mentioned.
Another and more ominous fact is the in
rease of immortality among what are called
be educated, refined and wealthy classes.
is difficult to tell the story in black and
hite. The desire for excitement and above
Il for novel sensations becomes disease
nd produces results that are simply incredi-
e. i have had over fifty cases before my
ar in which mothers have sold their
alghters for base purposes; forty in
hich sisters were thus put upon the mar
BIT, and at least 200 where wives were made
be subjects of bargain and sale. Ipresume
bat other police magistrates have had the
me experience.
Besides these cases in which the matter
las the direct issue there have been ten
mes as many in which the same facts an
pared incidentally, In nearly all of these
ansactions the parties involved belonged
what is termed the better class of So
ETY.. Scarcely ever does the workingman
Workngwoman appear as character in
ese awful dramas. On the contrary the
Etors are refined, educated people, and all
them removed from the temptation of
hysical want. There are here and there
teworthy exceptions One | shall never
rget, owing to its tragic character and
Tmlnatl0n. A married woman who lived
magnificent style in Albany, lost her
usband by death. He was a thorough
ping Spectator and left hardly enough
oney to give him decent funeral. She
as incapable of labor and so drifted into
Pc ranks of the lost. Instead of letting her
laughter, beautiful girl of IS, follow her
Example, she placed her in one of the finest
EDUCATIONAL institutions of the state. Here
pc girl was taught every accomplishment
la grace. After five years had elapsed
story OF her mothers career was con-
eyed to the college by two men, brothers
students, who to their shame, be it said.
ere patrons Of the unfortunate woman.
ne girl was ostracised and in fit Of
laule and sorrow ran away to New York
neIe she followed the example of her
pother. The latter followed her and had
'r arrested and brought before me.
Dlnmltted her to reformatory institution
year, during which time her mother
rned over new leaf and began an hon
lille. The girl was released and with
NOod ''---'''0 -
II there be one lesson learned by police
magistrates in great metropolis. it is that
community makes little or no change
tne line of amelioration. Education
roVes no remedy for vice or crime. and
lrStlanlty excites an influence upon the
w-preaklng elements of society that is at
70 Iurthest imperceptible. While the
arlouS forms of wrong doing vary indef-
Nely according to the commercial condi-
on OF the time, and according to what
iey DC called criminal fashion, for there
.aShlon In crimes just as much as in bon
es ana silk hats, the ratio of crimes and
imlnals, vice and the vicious to the en-.
Uttered 'pai o't'otS un-
ms is we'll illustrated in the case of
Formerly there was scourge of
ahK breakers, safe openers and bank
Thanks to Inspector Byrnes and
distinguished staff of detectives. these
tieuslefS d'indIstrie now find their occu-
9niti gone. But in their place are now de-
bt;ilg presidents and officers, embezzIing
rsat'n ana employees. The new evil is
eav7r Than the old, both as to the number
lines INES aud criminals involved, and as to
m iosS sustained by moneyed institutions
han L l..