New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-31

outrage. A drunken loater was telling the com,
pany how he could reform any time. oul Woulu
he damned if he would As ! WEN. uo"t, ,ho
young honest-lookng fellow was applying AT thc
desk to be let n lie had slept there TWO hlgnls
before. and seemed much disappointed at pelns
turned away ,. hn;r.
lie said he had been employed III restaurant anu
having lost his job did not know what 70 do.
When the police surgeon OF the ulsIrlct lasO re-,
ported the condition of the dodgers room Ia ine
station on November Il, last year, ne uiu IL III
these words Il am informed they average ao9 n
scvcnty-ivc dodgers each nlSht. louIiu VIC
rooms in IL filthy condition. ny REASON oi Ncimll'
and rs they are the dormitorleS OF uhe p2tee
men | consider them dangerous 10 their ne'tn.
Yet the Sixth Precinct station IS one OF tne new
houses esteemed superior in all their appointments
( similar protest was made by another surgeon
against the dodgers room in the Madis2n-et.
Italian and the Oakst. station lhcS
arc hc wrote IA menace to the health OF tie
members of the force It cannot be Otherwise
while nrge numbers of hltly ana Oittinl's us
eascJ creatures are crowded together III
snocc entirely insufficient" In the Madlson-st
station the RACKS that raise the dodgers ncft!e
from the floor are dispensed WIN. line paiNS IIc
on the stone Rags with nothing DetWeen Pnr-
nomcnally dirty tramp was led down ~ the door Dor
MEM as / came in, and charged with BEING us
orderly in the lodecrs' room. Even there there
were GRADES of disorder ne g.
W." never done any man bad turn in my life.
10 protested. and was let 20 with caution Though
thr station is in the most dcnsey popiialed
amnny the dodgers. Three out OF four were
S,srmans one was down east Yankee ana III
listed on shaking hands tor luck lie was an
nId man and worn out. young woman win
c,rcworn face sat thawng her fr0stbttcn lcct at
Tho stove The he lrdcd lady was there, gray
aid tramD She an accomplished mar, too
She said She was from Denmark, and that hcr
fothcr was Herr Won Somebody: bUt when
snokcn 10 i'm Danish. she switched oil 10 German
n, knew no word of her pretended mother TONGUE
nor even the ID lnsh name "a Copenhagen, when
She claimed as Ter birthplace.
In the 'longsnOrcmens precinct, III leohard-st
thnrr was oddly enough. rot one man III a crowd
If twcnty-cight dodgers who would own that he
had over worked along shore. Perhaps IT wac b-
cans, ,hcv were afraid OF being offered Il JOB th2t
onitc onc-third pretended to be farmers hhly
that number were under twenty-five years. mere
wore two col0rcd men among then, the lTst
had met that night. They were down on the lldt
~ natives: twelve of the rest we're recorded AZ
irish four as German and two ~ English. mere
was one Scotchman one one frcnchnan In the
company They were all slowed together III
rcnIn IoXoO feet The supply Of pankS had
nven ont early and the lntc-com"rs lay IN the
nisIc No Improvement could be detected in the
atmosphere as compared with that IN Dak-st. or
in Nulberry-St. 4 onr-cyed English boy. nine
teen wears old sat sadly by himself in II corner
lie was a Lancashire lad. stranded mere ana pcnnl-
less after seeking vairly for work in New-lork
for three weary days ,
~ In the Fourteenth Precinct Station. at Fifth-st