The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-06

| Wnen came Dy the teneT0I n toni, where m
were talking with stonewail jackson. and
jasper has come back Knows his S whistle.
WHERE rICE REIGNED.
The Bowery Mission to OCCUPY the Site o
| Owney 0eoghegon's Dive.
Since there were missionaries and divos ant
war betwlxt them. nothing has so delighted
missionaries as to establish prayer meetings
in buildings once occupied By dives. Itisa kline
OF triumphal occupation. like settling down ir
city wrested from the onemy. It Is toker
OF victory. and q prophecy OF moro victory II
come. That fs why SO many New York mis-
sions are In buildings that wero once no
| toriously vile resorts. And that Is ono reason
for the great rejoicing nowadays in the Bow.
cry Mission on the eve Of Its removal to . new
homo. II Is to be the third building occupied
BY the Bowery Mission. and each Of the three
was dive noted In It's day.
| When tho Bowery Misslon was established
eleven years ago. It took the building at 80.
where Tom Hyer's old place was Every.
body knows who Tom Hyer was-the hruiser
whose fight with Yankee sullivan is one OF the
treasured recollections OF tho prize ring. His
Bowery place was as famous as himself
| famous as the resort Of pugilists. thugs.
thieves. and black legs. His gambling
house. run In connection with the bar
room. was one Of the most widely known
| Of the day. The Mission thrived there
| until July last There were nightly prayer
meetings In the room where the barroom had
been: and the gambling rooms up stairs were
made Into clean. cheap dormitories for homo.
less men. When tho Third Avenue Railroad
took the property for power house the Mis-
sion moved across the street to Jack Searles's
old place at SO. Jack searles's dive was one Of
no mean repute when dive on the Bowery had
to amountto something beyond the ordinary
to excite comment In January the new Mis-
sion building at los Is to be completed.
On the ground where now Is building the
neat dve-story brick and iron structure there
stood last spring . dilapidated thres-story
brick house. with sloping single roof and
dormer windows To all appearances It had
been standing many years, was tired OF the
job, and meant to tumble down out OF sheer
exhaustion. As fact the Department OF
Buildings declared 1t unsafe and ordered It's
removal When the inspector madc his report
he remarked that the building looked sub
stantial enough He supposed 1t was the bur.
den Of It's sins that weighed 1t down. and made
its walls bulge But II the old building had
been responsible for all tho sins committed
within its walls. It would never have stood as
long as It did.
This building was Owney Geoghegan's "Old
House at Home" For years Its walls harbored
the lowest den Of vice which has ever existed
probably in this city. Tho place became wide
ly known. It was one OF the sights Of tho town.
After the knowing city man had shown his
country cousin the gilded barrooms. the dance
halls. the gambling bells. the lowest resorts at
tended by decently dressed persons. where
the countrymap thought the utmost limit Of
wickedness had been reached. he took him to
sSsa S s at tassshess asamsss :
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clubs often went down te LOOK at fast mfe i9
seeing the town and few men evidently
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PLACE I Tas sm,ier e the dives q later days
SauehsTy and inTecen ana eHisf IN divas y. %S
shsrs in ssiod iatensit2 owes
But the place was essentially q sporting
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snd spfpa
ses ss meetings on his platform That brought
sRs tRs as.ss aule
nous among the swelis Who pats o ga tie
ling ia those days, when fight could be ar.
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steve Blods ct san
! = fsss dive I've, assog'hsean lived according to
ss hf Il sas brassa4 s srs
whom men and women feared alike because OF
,is nnrea.sSoning bru,nlity and the general i'm:
i murder When he died. neryous anS
'hyslcai wreck. ne was worth $50 900. '1' "Au
but there Y something before that It was
broken" When Foley first took charge GIN n
he PRECINCT he was disposed to do his honest
liar. for instead Of bleeding the dives and then
protecting them. be was disposed to clean
is the way. he gets HIS own iivlneOcStcRine
eople in hts net ,apd squeezing them. Il
GEMS only natural to them that those who
. willing to be blackmsiled TO a certain ex.
emit. But the man who tries to shut I'm his
BUSINESS ts his open enemy. w MAO
The rights OF II never We're known, but at all
vents GeoIhegan determined to down Cant
'9ley: He hxed up y little conspiracy with a