Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

which 80 to 100 Italians live. The place is
damp and moldv, and the odor on a summer
night is simply indescribable. At No. IL
Third avenue another 100 live huddled up
together.
Residents on the north side Of Second
avenue are entering complaints about a
court off Grant street on which their houses
abut. The court is packed solidly with
Italians, and the smell during these hot
nights is frightfuL. Persons sleeping in the
rear rooms Of the Second avenue houses
have their choice between two evils. If
they open their windows they are poisoned
BY the odors from the court, and If they
close the windows they will smother to
death.
Among the other plague spots in the city
reported BY the police are the following,
with the estimated population:
A LONG LIST.
Centennial building, Ferry street. 400.
Musgrave building, Liberty street, SOC.
The battery. Webster avenue, 500.
Splane's court, off Fifth avenue 400.
Three alleys of High street and two Of Tun-
mel street, impossible to compute.
Three houses on Spring alley, 800.
Eagles nest. Twentieth street, $50.
Three houses near Fifty-second street, 700
Chambers court off South Eighth street, $50.
House on South Twenty-sixth street, so.
One court of Tunnel street, $50.
Three rooms on High street, l30.
Two rooms on Fourth avenue, 60
Cabin at Homewood, 15Q
A store at No. 2009 Penn avenue, 20.
McKelvey's row, from 1917 to 1851 Penn ave-
nue., family in every room.
Three frame houses on Mulberry alley, be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-frst streets, 90.
Mackrelrs row, Twenty-fourth street, from
500 to 400.
Store and cellar, No 272l Penn avenue, l2o
estimated.
Small house at corner of Twenty-eirhth
street and Mulberry alley, rs.
Drover's Home, corner Twenty-eighth and
Liberty street, 800 estimated.
-Four houses on Stanton avenue, population
unknown.
House on Plum alley, between Forty-seventh
and Forty-eighth street, IS.
Wstson's Court, Washington street, 400
Three rooms on Spring alley, 80 regular
boarders, with innumerable visitors from Sat
urday to Monday.
There are but few of the places against
which the proposed tenement law will be
enforced. The Yellow Row will receive
some attention, and the practice of living in
cellars will be broken up. The Humane
Agent can proceed against persons who
keep their animals in unhealthy stables,
where human beings live and die.
AN ANONYMOUS CHAMPION.
The condemnatory remarks of Inspector
McAleese against the Italian lodging house
nuisance has aroused the ire of an snony-
nous writer who, from behind the safe
shield of the nom de plume, "An Irishman
who claims the world as his workshop and
every man as his brother" dares the In
spector to give out his letter for publica-
ton.
The writer warmly defends the Italians,
who, he says, are unable to defend them
selves, owing to their ignorance of the Eng
lish language. He says that the street con-
tractors make s. to 81 per day from each
Italians work, and should supply them
with respectable residences, and continues:
Italians build drains to drag away stagnant
water, dig your wells. dive into the bowels of
the earth and take out its precious minerals,
and make that which was yalueless before
worth millions Of dollars, and thereby induce
English capitalists to come over and spread
their wealth in this country, If they get a coal
mine worth sl00, 600 and an English firm to buy
it and make improvements it becomes worth
millions. The Italian il the handspring Of all
this wealth, and if he takes $500 or $500 home
and leaves Sl,000000 behind him, 1 don't see
what is the difference.
Officer Wagner last night made raid on
number of Italians who had assembled in
house in Splane's court, off High street
and were have high old time with the aid
of keg of beer. The party, consisting of
five men and three women, were locked up
in the Central station.
About midnight Inspector McKelvey.
Special Officer Carrigan and Officer Ridge,
of the Third district, raided a disorderly
house run by Mike Livensky, in Pine alley,
at the head of South Tenth street and suc-
ceeded in capturing nine Hungarians with
the proprietor Liveusky. They were all
locked up in the Twenty-eighth ward station.