Evening journal., 1889-08-20

public does not often traverse, because
of the danger to life and pocketbook
EVENING JOURNAL reporters have been
over the ground and what they saw is
given below.
Cn Saturday night visit was paid to
the coast that dark and crime
stained spot on. the front of the city.
Scores of eolored men aud women paraded
the side walks, jostling their better
dressed and more peaceful neighbors and
giving vent, on slight occasion,
to horrible oaths and curses At Front
and Market streets the police officers
were kept busy moving the gathering
crowds that we're always ready to fight.
1t requires all the watchfulness in an
officers nature TO control these lawless
gangs. On West Front street but few
persons were noticed in the saloons for
all the drinkers seemed to be below Mar
ket street AT Shipey street jew who
keeps a second hand ore was having an
animated discussion with colored man
Each threatened the other with great
bodily harm, but they did not come to
blows.
The saloon at Water and Market
streets was doing thriving trade and
the frothing beer flowed in a constant
stream down mems throats. A crowd on
the sidewalk awaited some one to "set
en- up. Three boys in a doorway of
Stones ship chandlery on East Water
street were moved by an officer, who
then spied two figures near the fence op-
posite. The figures were those of colored
men who had been sleeping amid the
weeds and dirt Of the coal-yard They
were ordered to move. One of them, who
gave his name as w. H. Demby, said
that he had been bitten on the leg by
mad dog sixteen years ago, and that the
leg is now swelling and giving him a
great deal of pain. He could hardly
walk
The officer was looking for man" and
he left the reporters. Front and King
streets was again visited, and this time
another element of illiteracy was seen.
Half dozen girls, none over IS years of
age, went by, flirting and giggling with
the hardened toughs. They were Of the
genus "Chippie" Two drunken white
men came up to the corner. "Well s'long
Bill, I'll meet you at the Sorrel Horse, at
at leven o'clock" "Wel, mebbe
you will; say, hand me my
pipe" "No. (hic) sir, you come up
TO- up to the Sorrel Horse and I'll give
to yer. The man with the pipe came up
to the officer at the corner and after
swearing at him asked him for chew.
The saloons on the east side of the coast
were doing big business which bears its
fruits later in the evening At present
there is little, If any trouble, and the
men drink themselves to intoxication.
The reader is now asked to make q
jump. fguratively speaking, to Fifth
and Walnut streets, leaving the coast
for later visit There is a knot OF
young men on the corner discussing mat
ters evidently not for publication. This
building is the Mccullough Building,
also called Turner's Hall. During the
season Cooney & Mulrine's dancing acad
emy manages to make a good deal OF
noise six nights in the week. Young
men and women make il their amuse-
ment hall and many of them are not
made better by it. 1t was there,
one night last fall, that q
mother went for her daughter
who had gone to ball against her
mothers wishes. The doorkeeper refused
to let the woman inside and treated hel
rather roughly She appealed to police
officer, who could do nothing without 8
warrant, and the matter was dropped.
On the second floor of the building th'
Wilmington Turngemeinde holds iti
meetings, and some of them are very
noisy meetings. On Sunday, August IL
the first floor was flooded by some liquiC
coming down from the floor above.
On the opposite corner of the street
and on Fifth street, left hand side, ar
four houses which have given the polio
a great deal of trouble An officer esti
mated that twenty-five families live il
a. l.. -.
have brawls frequently, and thus mono
tony is killed by their quarreling.
A few steps down the street excitemen
is occasionally raised by a colored woman
who periodically beats her little daughter
3 Before leaving Fifth and Walnut street
, the perfume Of watermelon reaches th
nose, and presently an eating saloon
filed with colored men, is passed. The.
are having a noiseless feast.
On last Christmas Day the police wer
called to quell riot at Sixth and Walnu
) streets They did so and several head
were broken. The vicinity of Sixth an
Walnut streets has Of late years been
blot on the city and its advancement
I On the south side of Sixth street betwee
4 Walnut and Poplar are houses occupie
5 by colored persons. In the rear Of thes
s houses are other houses reached by alleys
closed tothe police, reeking with filth
In these houses lewd men an
women congregate nightly in defiance t
police and public sentiment and carous
! and debauch themselves to the loves
! ! depths The names of the proprietors o
! these iniquitous dens cannot be foun
! out by the police, so that several raid
y have been shorn Of good results, as th
!, ringleaders cannot be captured. In a
eating saloon sat stout colored mar
said to be preacher, while up the ale
went q. stream Of dark humanity Belo'
Q here ds Anderson's court, the stoppin
place for former policy players and othe
law breakers. From this element cam
the riot last winter. The actions an
: talking of the residents on the southsid
o are disgusting to the respectable peopl
> who are unfortunate enough to liv
;. within hearing.
g Peter Babeock's saloon at the nortl
t west corner Of Sixth and Walnut streets
is fast gaining the reputation of bein
!. the fountain head from which flows ou
much of the disorder caused by the co
ored people in the vicinity.
II Babcoek's saloon is divided into tw
u parts, the bar proper on Sixth street, an
s a rear room on Walnut street The res
I; room is used to supply the wants Of co
j. ored persons. One night last week lift
P colored persons, mostly women, went ]
the side gate in half an hour, accordin
to the statement of man wh0 eounta
them On Saturday night several trie
! the gate but il had been locked while u