The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-21

THE W.
a little stained glass. But once get Inside
and the halls are SO black that you can Just
see that there is some body coming down tue
stairs, but whether its u man or a woman
you can't tell. There Il no hot water on
these promises except what comes out " tea
kettles ana washboiiers on the stoves. In
the middle OF each hallway Is a faucet for the
common use OF the four families on that
floor.
sometimes there Is an air.shatt by these
faucets, a skinny little thing about four
Inches deep and two feet wide. through
! which the pale sickly light creeps down and
| makes the darkness stili moro apparent
In the small cluttered-un rooms children
! crJ FOR bread and men sit all discouraged he.
cause they cant ind work.
All this time the front Of the tenement.
house keeps up the pretense n prosperity.
| That the MODERN tenement
nut at 20. llat, Willett street IL he old.
fashioned tenement II is nothing hut
shellroof, walls, partitions. wintows. doors,
staircases and hydrants. That is a complete
inventory OF the whole barracks, There are
eighty families In the house
poor people to live. The ash barrels at the
short alley which leads to this house have
overnowed time ana again. Chicken feathers.
old bones, cabbage stalks and all kinds OF
garbage lie around and suggest other things
than viOlets.
The Street. leaning Department leave
Willett street I'll the last thing.
No. io'., Is rear house that Is to say. II
/ la E..lIs
sides by houses LOOK out OF any window In
the Old barracks and you have view OF some
! body elses back windows.
There isn't single pretty thing about the
place. All 1t Is Tor is to give shelter to these
eighty some say ninety three families They
pay from 81 to 8, n month for having place
TO go to O nights.
, Tho landlord gets he rent on tho 18th OF
every month or the tenants get out. II is a
perfectly simple matter.
Up on the top Moor Of the fourth house lives
the Goeh family. There are pictures on the
walls OF the Passion and the Sacred Heart.
Mrs. GooA comes 10 No. is Delaney street
toget bread.
she Is a nice motherly body, with q blue
print dress and q calico apron with brown
sprig in II. out OF her front WINDOW, whicn
LOOKS a ainst the red brick all OF the So loon
sue has little garden. There is a geraniun
and a begona and some other plaut which
she calls q Jacobs Ladder. They are not
towering, but they look green and country.
like.
THE GoETZ FAMi1Y'S LUCK.
She has three boys, and she wouldn't come
out for bread, she says, but for the hard
times.
The oldest used to drive a cart for the De-
partment OF Public Works, but he lost his
Job four months ago. The two youngest had
work at Hoes but that shut down, and now
they are looking around, picking up what odd
joos they can.
MY boys are good to me-" said Mrs. Goeu.
" II they get anything they bring me the
money right away and don't spend a cent
saturday Willie got 70 cents for helping a
man move, and he brought II right TO me-"
Your husband is living'"
"Yes, sir. But he hasn't worked In four
years.
Mr. GoetZ came out OF the bedroom. He Is
Just skin ana bones and clothes lie has
chronic dysentery and one or two other dis
eases not pleasant to name, which make him
just as much q care as a little baby.
lie Is aucruuus and poevish, and he frets
because there Is only bread to eat, and not
Il much Of that. somehow a man who is sick a
long time makes more fuss and grunts more
than woman does. MIR. Goetz must be an
awful cross to bear, especially when times
are so hard.
Mrs. Goetz was In funds last week. She Old
washing and got 30 cents for It. Among
other things, she got some 81 alc bread pretty
clear. and she ate that with some coffee for
her luncheon yesterday noon.
big, strong boy, with yellow hair aid n
peach fuIz on his cheek. came in. hung up his
hat ami went out into The hall to the hylrant
TO wash his face
did you have any luck" his mother
asked.
"sure. got Job or plumber to help
with house to-day. Maybe the work won't
b. done TIL tomorrow night"
That's good" said the mother as she
hustled around getting dinner for a hungry
man.
1t didn't take her long. All she had to DO
was to get the lresL loaf that she got In the
morning at The Worlds Bread Fund and
pour out cup OF coffee that was made for
breakfast and put on the oil-stove half an
hour before. 1t was pretty muddy coffee.
cofree and the boy had day work, any how,
and maybe two
Right across the hail Is Mrs. Elizabeth
, Each. a widow these fifteen months. She had
Tour children TO keep alive, the Oldest o girl
twelve wears Of age.
. Indeed Il The washing held up to what
, they used To BE- said she. :" could get along
ine aud rot be behoden To any body. Hut
these times they are AS hard to mud as needles
III haystacks. They say the times viii get
, better pretty soon. I wish they'd hurry III
because ! hate To have To eat bread whic :;
somebody gives To me. The dear owe v
only knows what We would do without II,
, though"
The little children hung around their
mother AS she talked.
They're ght good young ones" she sa i'd
strengthening the III lc calico dress OF tn,
'wo-Nenr-old. "Of course you know how
CHILDREN are. They cant Understand why
r theS cant get penny for a cake now aud
; thtn. TINS little one notherS me most. II
does GO pretty hard TO refuse her, hut IT.,
ntttcr 10 20 without a cake than TO have your
bed iumbed out on the sidewalk"
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