The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-18
MAGGIE AND GIMME
TELL Bah KATIE's TOUCHING LIZ
HISTORY IN A TENEMENT

1 HISTORY IN A TENEMENT.
Ma9gie's Scsnty Possessions and
sweet Girl 9aby-Virtue's Humble
| Home-Unfortunate Katie ana Her
True, Imprisoned Lover, Billy
| Flaherty A Maiden's Downfall.
Night Scene on the Bowery-"B nly's''
| Girl Enters Eternity'5 Gateway.
The Sacred Crucif1x Promise-Noble
Mae9ie's influence omen's Weak
! ness and Woman's Bravery-A Thrill
ling Xmas Eve Story.
CCopyrfohtJ
NEW York, Dec. III did not see how
any body in the world could be unhappy.
The fire was glowing mass Of red, had
delightful book, my little dog was enjoying
himself by making an effort to bake, and
the thought of anybody being cold or
unhappy didn't come into my existence, A
| ring at the door bella quick, loud ring
up sprang the dog, and minute after my
| little maid came in and said: 'Please,
ma'am, it's one of your girls" MAKE some
tea, get out the cake. and show her in,
answered. please, ma'am," she STAN
mered, "she ain's just quite a girl" had
2 to laugh, and then said again, "Show her
in." She came. She was fset 2, and
very rough looking man; but l saw two
clear eyes looking at me; and the fact
that the dog was dancing all around him,
told me that it was Chimmiel He said, in
an apologetic way, ~ wouldn't a-troubled
you, ms'am, but you told my Mag last
summer that II eve she was in trouble 10
come to voc; and she's In it now; and she
begs of you to come to her; these is her
very words, miss; says she: 'Chimmie, 60
and hunt the lady we met last summer; if
anybody can help US she can; and if you
can find her, she won't say no."
BAB's SYMPATHY AROUSED.
You think did, Do you think because I
| have to face the world and force my living
| from it that have a stone in the place of a
hearth l thought a minute, insisted on
Chimmie having the tea and the cake, Or
| dered a cab, and was in my CLOAK in such
little time that now can hardly believe it
was possible As Chimmie and / started
out felt something pulling at my CLOAK. /
stopped. 1t was the dog. Chin mie picked
him up in has arms then he looked at me,
and added, as if to my thought. Before
God, miss, this yere dog knows when there
IL RTl0I anu no NhuLS W kO dLOHR duu say hs
how he's sorry" And he went. Went
down to miserable street, so
narrow that the sunshine never
gets into the middle of it, and with
great, tall tenement houses on each side.
Went into one of the dirtiest OF these,
stumbled over men sleeping In the hallway
met a drunken woman who, as Chimmie
pushed her to one side with little gentle-
ness yelled out, after a series OF compli-
mentary oaths, "You'se the one that
knows how to treat lady who has been
| overcome by liquor.n Went up and up and
up rickety stairs. until it seemed as if we
would all walk into star next.
On the top floor Chimmie knocked at a
| door 1t was opened by Maggie, and the
little dog and l went in, while Chimmie
stood outside ready to serve when he was
called for. hardly knew Maggie. She
had cried until her face was swollen, and
she seemed so nervous she could hardly
speak. She pointed, without a word 30 a
little bed-a poor little bed, but clean
one, and on 1t there lay
THE PRETrIEsT GIRL 1 EVER SAW
| in all my life. Up on Fifth avenue such q
| girl would be written up as the greatest
beauty Of the day; on the other side she
was just one of the girls. l sal
down and waited to hear the story.
l saw that the girl was Hill unto
death. The slender fingers never
closed picking at the listle white coverlet;
| the lips never ceased muttering something,
| you could scarcely tell what; and the eyes
looked all around the room. never
seeing what was in 10 The poor
little room was my first thought
| and my second was the blessed little
room for it was big enough 20 take In some.
body who was suffering. Beside the bed
there was a table, on which was Maggie's
| -
taken together at ConeY Island, lamp
which gave us the light in the room, two
blessed candles in colored glass candle
sticks and a china font filed with holy
water, which Chimmie had given to
Maggie on her last birthday. There
were two chairs. one with no back
and a little stand Off in one corner
that had upon 1t a wash basin, pitcher
filled with water, and-R great luxury ir
these parts-a clean towel. A tiny cupboard
held Maggle's clothes and her other belong.
ings. There was no carpet on the floor, but
it was clean, and even IL hadn't known
who lived there, l should have said to my
self: "This little room is the home OF q
virtuous girl"
MAGGIE AND CHIMMIE'S HELP.
A clock licked away the minutes, Maggie
moistened the lips of the sick girl, orieC
some, and, smoothing my little dog, told
me the story; "If you remember, ma'am
after that time l came up to see you, anc
you said if was ever in any trouble to lei
you know, and now. miss, / am. It's mo-
only trouble, but it's a shame; not my own
thank God, but somebody else's. And as
said to Chimmie, we've got to help because
it might have been us. I you hadn't seer
how bad the gang was for you, aud il
hadn't always gone wild you every place.
might be where she is. Chimmie said No,
but think yes She used to live on tn
next floor to us, and she was that pretty
that once man who paints pictures To-
churches paid her 81 to sit for him, so hs
might use her face for that of the BLESSED
Mother. She used to work beside me, too
and she had her steady company just
like any nice girl-his name was Bill
, Flaherty. A kind-hearted, good enough
boy, but Katie, she didn't seem to know
what was good for him. So when they
started sort of a club, Katie was verI
proud because her Billy was made one o
the officers. If you lived down here, miss
you'd see what the clubs mean, and vol
would do just az do, you'd say to your gen
/ tleman friend, 1T you go with that gang
you drop me. Stay away from them anC
have an opinion of your own, and not b
run by the ward heeler Well, Billy wen
with the gang and they took to callinI
Katie the Pride Of Peu street. She was verl
proud OF it, and she stopped aworking and