Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-26

Poverty Gap, this family, for good
and all. Another year, and they
will be down TO the level Of II, and
Of the saloon mex. door that IN its
pivot ami centre.
Across the way in that row oil
wretched rear teuements the Alley
Gang hangs cut. All through them
it has its runaways. The saloons that
bred II ray tribute 20 70 and black
mail. The broken stair rail marks
the spot Of one Of its wanton muir
ders. Young Healey was the one
lad in the block who minded his
own business and worked hard for
mis- aged aud crippled parents For
that the gang disliked him. AT
night they waylsid him and gave
him the choice between chipping In
with them for drinks or taking a
heating. The boy defied them, ran
to his own door anu clutohed the
stair nail TO gain the hall. They
caught him there and beat him to
death under his fathers windows
When the reporters stirred up the
police next day with the report oil
the lads death, the t0ughs were
asleep. In u vacant tenement three
doors from the scene OF the murder,
yet got away Thes rays avoid
the spot. though the red daub was
long since washed from the flag;
but the neighbors do not mind.
They have forgotten. Murder is
not so unusual in Poverty Gap a. to
be remembered long.
IN JEwTowN.
Night has settled between the
towering brick walls of Ludlow
street, but the hucksteTs' torches
glow and smoke in double files
| along the curb. 1t is bargain night
in the pig market; tomorrow il the
Sabbath eve, aud for two days buck
stering will he. at an end. To the
Mosaic law one Is sacrificed, the
other to the law made by the police.
The flaming torches glare upon the
biggest crow&s to lie found any
where, jOstiiny each other in the
streets, on the Sidewalks, In the
alleys and in the Railways that belch
forth still greater crowds TO aid to
the JAM. bargaining, qUarreliBg,
choosing and picking, jswing each
other in foreign lingo; chickens by
the quarter cut, liver and entrails
for song, hats for quarter, POta-
toes two cents a half peck, are the
wares over which they are fighting.
Through the layers upou layers OF
| windows that stare into thedsrkness
Ike so many dull yellow eyes, the
everlasting whirr Of thousand
sewing MACHINES is heard. JewtOwn
by night ami by DAY is huge,
ieverish workshop. The fever is It's
life. Here is where the sweater
reaps his golden harvest, in these
tenernents that crowd each other up
ON the lot until the block in bird's-
eye view looks like a solid block in
which only air aud light are want
ing. Three hunired and thirty
thousand and over of human beings
to the square mile is the record Of
this, New York's East End. The
worst record OF that other in Ols
LondaG scarce ever reached half
that figure. Ii has TO be; the rent
could not be paid out Of the sweaters
wages il il were not so. Thirteen
dollars month for the fiat ca the
sixth floor with uodern eonvenier-
ces-a sink and pump in the bali
w.. t.iyt has never held water till
within The last few weeks. By day
they huddle together, men, women
and children, a dozen in a room
made to hold couple. Father.
mother. twelve children ami
six borders IN this s'apart-
ment" OF three ruous, In a few
hours, when mind ami body have
given Oat under the strain and Jew
town is asleep, enter Nth the health
officer on his rounds. Thirteen ir
room, dodgers, half Of them at s
cents a spot, ssl,eP on hunks. on
shelves. IN the floor, anywhere, to
be shelteTe.. from the wind that
finds its way through ogaeSs and
chinks with the only breath Of
Gods fresh Sis that ever enters.
These as, the Gro zds, these the rear
ienements the CENSUS man missed.
These are hundreds, aye, thousands.
Of that other and harnle- half ia
New York that Eve in s'homes''
vino never evea hcar: Of a rear
tenement, let alone saw one.
AMONG THE BOHEMIAN CIGAR
MAKERS.
The windows OF Bohemia in Fifth
street. in Sixth, Fifty-seventh sire,
AMI farther up in Yorkvilie, are
lighted, even when Jewtown Is
asleep. Tallow dips and kerosene
oil lamps flicker family. burn dim!y
at the bench where the slave Of the
eigarmaksEs' tenements tolls to keep
body and soul together. Refugee
he, like the Russian Jew, like the
Irish laboref, from landlord robbery
and worse across the SEA, to be forged
in chains here in the land OF the
free, from which even fight is i'm
possible.
The boss owns the house in which
he lives and puts on the rent what
he takes from his wages His mort
gage holds its victim fas; until he
dies, or, being OF no further use, is
thrown on the street with his be
Iongings. Half an hours travel
through these tenements will dis
cover to you score Of immigrants
who have never learned a woTd OF
English since the day they set foot
GU American soil, Sen, ifteen, nine
teen years age How should they?
Their trSadmill Is here and to il
they are chained for good and all
To strike for freedom means starva-
ton. Father, mother and children
toll at tie bench together from sun
rise till far into the night for the
pittance that shall buy them bread.
Here is = ''home' I'm which the
chief bread-winner has dropped out.
Consumption has him ia his grip
the tobacco, the doctor says. He
will never work again. The wife
has shoulierei the burden alone,
with n patient, uucomplsining cour-
age that " ould earn Ger her u place |
among the worlds heroes, did she |
not live in q Bohemian tenement. |
Six children and the sick man
isit W nc ltI- tHt - ~ut c1lLt Il
In the shop goes round "
Breakfast of coffee and |
dinner, = good dinner,
shesays. ofme,t, SOUP, greens, and
bread, 80 cents for them all. She /
does not say that she herself likes a
crust at the bench for her midday
meal. Is Is all she eIn afford.
But at night they sup together, /
AMI bread, all they want for
10 cents Do they no. have enough,
she says, pattins her boy on the
head. His eyes glisten hungrily at
the thought, as he nods stoutly in
support OF his mother. Aye, that
hey do. Only when the rent week
comes around rations have to be
shortened.
THE HOMELESS TRIBE.
Toward the bend in Mulberry (
Street slouchcs the trampS army.
Is the police patrols are shortened,
md the night grows space, to roost
m the ssals bser dives, in the two