The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-01-18
BROADBRIMS N. Y. LETTER.


along the Bowery = busy tide Of life at all |
hours ebbs and flows INCREASINGLY. The
is not a savorY one; close by |
is Pell street, filled with opium joints and
dens OF evil repute. Just below is Mott
street, crowded with Chinese gamblers and
Italian lszzaronl; within pistol shot is
Baxter street and tho Five Points, and
along the lower part Of the BoW9r q, thel
dives of those harpies, known as i.m
museums, where green countrymen are
lured In and heeced. Crime testers there,
and Roulishes at all times and seasons, In
the summers heat and winters cold.
While the crowd rushed on with that re-
slstless sweep, which marks tho life Of
great city, man dropped on the sidewalk
\ mass Of rags and flth. The sight is too
common In New York to arrest the atten-
tion of che passer-bY; only q drunk-hoth-
ing more, call the police, and ring for the
patrol wagon. Yet, while the crowd gazed
on the wrecked creature who wrestled with
grim death on that muddy pavement.
soul was passing away darkened with every
crime known to the human calendar.
Twenty years ago men trembled al the
name Of Denny Brady or Jim Brady, as
was the name he was best known by. the
king Of the masked burglars and river
pirates, whose very name caused more ter
ror to the villages and towns along the
Hudson and the Lower Bay than that Of
any robber Of the century. Denny Brady
was the typical rufiian and thief. In his
prime his strength was herculean and his
disposition so naturally savage that his
boldest companions in crime stood in fear
Of him. To incur his vengeance was to
court certain death, and no one knows the
number Of murders he committed. he
was always armed to the teeth, and on the
slightest provocation his murderous knife
or his deadly pistol were brought into use.
The plun1er secured bv the gang, which
consisted Of Dan Kelly, Pat Conroy, Larry
Grimm, and big Jack Daily, could not haYe
been less than a million Of dollars. From
the Kensington Bank at Philadelphia they
stole 100000, having secured admission
from the ianitor disguised a. policemen,
under pretense of protecting the bank.
One evening the family Of wealthy gen.
tlenaD, near Tarrytown, on the Hudson,
was seated at dinner when man stepped
into the roOm, his face covered with a
black cloth, and holding cooked pistol in
his baud. The host thought it was joke,
and invited the robber to pull up his chair
and take dinner. He was soon undeceiYed,
however; the entire family were taken up
stairs and locked IN q single room, and as
sured IL they made any outcry that they
would all ba murdered. The house was
then looted, over nine thousand dollars in
cash, jewels, and plate were secured, and
the robbers got safely of with their boo'y y.
The gang terrorized the towns and villages
along the Hudson River for over year,
and were finally captured at low drinking
saloon on the corner Of Canal and Wash.
ington streets, and were sent to Sing Sing
for term of twenty years. Brady got oul
short time ago and returned at once Ia
the low haunts OF vice, but he was a
marked man, SO brutal that even brutes
like himself feared him; he took to drink
and at last died in the gutter, with the colo
wet paving stones for pillow. His body
vas taken to the moreue, and from thence
to potter's aeld, and thus in the lowest deg
radiation and misery 1ds the life of on,
who lived BY preying on his fallow men
whO reveled IN ill-gottCn goii and died tht
death of an oUtcast.
Can any good come out Of NAZARETH
oh, yes. Good did come out Of Nazaretl
almost nineteen hundred years ago, and il
this modern Nazareth the wheat frequently
oYertopS the tares. IhaYe not always beer
over complimentary in my notices Of tn,
Salvation Army; many of the armY'i
methods Jared hsrshly on all my precon
ceiVed ideas Of salvation Perhaps It mav
be that am not proper judge Of th'
most effectRAl methods of salvation. Aftel
all it makes little difference how men ar,
saved, 90 they are saved. The eloquenc,
of Paul that startled the echoes of Mar
Hill might have passed IS the idle wind by
the ignorant rAbble, who would have beer
moved to frenEY by the rude appeals O
John calling sinners TO repentance at th,
passes Of the Jordan.
IE all history there is nothing more path
etic in the records Of evangellzatlon thar
the tale told Of three Salvation lassiel
whose mission was in one Of the loves
slums of New York. The neiEhborhooC
chosen for their work is almost unknown
10 the priest and the levitS. Here, year
ago, was the dance house Of John Allen
known far and near as the Wickedest mar
In New York, and thereafter on its ruin
hounVhsd Jerry McAuleY's Mission, which
eventually moved away TO the hotbeds O
sin on Sixth Avenue, where poor Jerry Nc
AuleY died. The streets swarm with rive
pirates, sneak thieYes, rum-soaked drunk
ards and battered harlots, who avoid tn,
light Of day. pass along most OF thes
streets in the daytime. and II II were no
for the dirty children playing on the side
walk, you might imagine the neighborhoo,
was depopulated; but by ten o'clock a
night all is changed. The streets swarm
with busy life, the low drinking dens Wher
vhiskey is aOld from barrels by the tin cup
full, are crowded with eager customers, an
by twelve O'Clock pandemonlum reigns
The policeman takes = stronger grip of hi
long niRht-Stick aS he pAsrols his danRerou
beat, and breathes more freely as the relie
marches up 10 tell him that his perilou
vigil ls over. Street tights, drunken braWlr
cries Of ''Nurderl POliceP' obscene song
and shouts Of drunken rOysterers max
night hldeous, and the morning light come
creeping in before the riot ceases.
It was here that three young girls hire
room and started in on their work q
sYangeliEAtlon. The dress Of the SAlvatio