The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-12

shops. drinking saloons right and left-these
things are scarcely lacking In any quarter anu
on from what was once a fashionable street
sares Snn that should ee Of the
housns ss Of ff tho Eoo The rst one has for
about half its length a row Of nearly dozen
tory stanGing ~ 6 SnS t enH
from wall five stories high. Happily this Is
plank VAL 80. though darkeninS taH ro tHaS
caverns, as one sees in passing by, II Is sui
silent and sightcss nelGhbor. The houses
gap between walls, yet It is the street for many
nneSo1le. 1t terminates in small yard partly
The next alley hns two rows OF tenements
iiaclng each other eight or ten feet apart; me
capes almost meeting across the marrow space.
| ana iesiooned with clothesines TO the toDmost
The alley, which il about q hundred feet long,
ci9Ses IN small yard.
:, The third alley is in part the worst; Where
| 1t takes sharp turn beside a big building the
width is but three or four feet The darkness
and drenriness here are very grent. One feels
used long; the sense OF confinement is nppnl-
ling; This alley has no yard. and the houses
learn that more than the usual outrage to
health AMI deccncv 10 offered in these tene-
smells. You see into a hall with a small grat-
i hlG into similar hall In the house IN the mid
which make even tho passer-by know their
horrid condition.
IN euCn alley are several MIGRANTS. Thero is
no water In tho houses. you arc told hero. as In
many, many other places All the water for
use must be carried un stairs and dirty water
Drought down again. Here. rs elsewhere, It is
not necessary to enter doorway to under
stand stand In part the awful meaning of tenement
,, 1T is well vel, to smoke in going among these
had been but In Yards, alleyways. and streets.
The criticism was deserved. The city harbors
pestholes. and people live among them. +. n.
Mortgages No True Measure OF Debts
To rnE EproR TnR suS-Sfr: 1t seems strange to
mo that all of the criticisms the census inquiston
that have seen relating to mortgages have entirely
ignored the vital fact that mortgage ia but of the
many evidences Of dobt. might aid and believe tho
records OF tho United States will bear out in the
statement that 1t is OF tho most infrequent. In
fehnsyvana large share. perhaps 30 por cent. OF
tue Zen Indebtedness is in the form OF judgments And
this is FOR the that the sale of property de-
aut under Judgment can be made nj thirty days no.
uce vhiie defautin2 mortgage must wait the slow
and Saes hso e
dam WHIT represontpg much OF the individual
schedules And such is the case with many record
ups us mechanics liens orphans court DEGREES con
tam Of athe current indo6teincss II the country,
by loans from banks Of course not entered
from tho tax assessor in their dcen oapaious pockes
on Of ed ss @ o many
soon 10 rp OGenr , TO the rsaSsT Any s claim can
nearly the same force and Sect OF an morgnEs win
real 1T if taS question The object is 70 show the
TecGa knd Of oSiEa,ion giving the least
ply TO record tho fact of MORTGAGE II there could
.S sShtss s value N such statement when Il s
dollars or ono million dollars
Why harass and incense the people for such mlslead
nOSESpALE Pa, June 3.