The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-05
BARRED LIKE OLD CASTLES.
THE BoLTs AND BARS AND LOCKS
OF NEW YORK DWELLINGS,.
The Average House IL Fortified from Cellar
to Eoor-The Poorer Folk Live Dinercnt-
LIZ. HnhInh Doors thnt Arc Ncrrr Lnckrd.

New Workers. equip their homes The ioscrip
to an out.ot-town journal. and was first copied
in ENGLAND BY ~, the ra ~ H T Fudge: Thence
~ i'n al o'e. Wv 49, =. .,u "nu uouu.
less ls now going the ROUNDS OF the continent
,,os rot a., to ALTAR 20 n New yortor a.. to h,
WIS no' 80 'uu.',l"' W Wv ioher as u We
very eommonpace. IN ,n's city the only
hnrg,ar.rosis,,ng devices nre tho tonomon,o
NJ, 'oe.st'us w 'enellen.e.
the '' bolts and bars that are the =" regulation
equipment of even a slx-hundred. d ollar-a-y year
dwelling in Harlem and the suburbs. Indeed,
the majority OF tho tcnem ents are k ut as wide
omen by day and by night as the Post ofnco
itseil' IN most OIL ''iein '"e iroht uoor 10 never
closed. except in very cold weather. and then
1t closed. Tor 1t Is never locked. 1t Is doubtful
whether the doors could be locked in m ost Of
first floor tenant who represents the landlord
NAV ,hina thot Ia ao na,t.toInovar o,.an
upon tnine .hn. ~ % nsA'.to-heVer even
thouRht OF as the KEY o' tenement mouse.
other hal, lives. and perhaps soma ccconnt n,
~" na. cond,t,on ~ thn 1885 49, ".
ments is as much a matter OF news to the fam
lies who keep their own houses as n doscrin.
10 ,I.,a.tn -, a.,
ton OF the iorthcations 0, the wealthy would
be to the tenement dwellers. The reporters
and tba no,ice the drum m ers tbe insuranc.
anu 'ne poileo, Wv, ., ~ % , ,ne Insurance.
canVaSsers anu 'he oohfu vi health lnspec-
tors lone know how both halves OF the town
are circumstance. When n neyspaper man
nus " iook VIZ eohopou' ""o9e "uuless ID
tenement house. he finds no guide to what he
wants except the open front door, He enters
the narrow anu sehei""y u"'k haiWhy anu
knocks at the first door 1t is usually that Of
'ne 'ah',or. no nsN' ,"' ii",,orah' lor III,
stance. lives III INA. 'ou'' - H"e nus hEeu
there long the lanitress at once snys on what
moor sne Is 70 Ge ouna s anu !, me 1anltress
IS lrish she aaus soou "ofu ior inc person
Yes /" she saws Mrs Hnlloran liyes on tho
,,,, t,,. In tho raw IN tho ri,ht bond .id,
'op l'"r III ''' ioa' W ,ie i,.'' manu- s'ue'
II the Hnllorans are newcomers the visitor
VIVA, ',I ,i,rn,,eh m a bonsa trvinr ono Sata,
must go through inc mousse Trying one nat al
ter another. seeing many peculiar interiors
and interesting exhibitions OF domestic econ
omy until he happens on the people he wants.
The doors Of the various little homes usually
swing open without the turning of a key Manga
thousauu Oh tieih al II W ioeAeu even at night.
More thousands are locked only at night and
ment dwelIers feel great deal more safe than
those who KEEP, whole houses They feel so
not merely for tho hackneyed reason that they
have nothing to lose. Tor that Is hs untrue rs it
is unk kind. They may POSSESS very little.
but they value that little AS much as
the richer folk value their better belongings
1t is far from true that there is little or no
money among the people III even the uRpre-
tentious tencments. 1t Is not merely the or.
gan grinders who know that and who would
rather grind their music under shower. OF
pennies IT. Avenue than amid the inhospita-
tile uptown avenues where the milk of hu-
man Kindness seems to them to be frozen.
The canyasssers for the ow-priced insurance
find a truer proof Of the possession
Of money by these people. fer some Of them
have told the writer that they SEQ
more money IN the tenements than in
tho small dwellings. When the tenement
wives bring out their funds TO pay
their insurance they often take from under "a
mattress or out OF a bureau II gOodly roll OF
often rs to he n matter of con-
slant surprise to u man who Is new to the
In the ,lttir dwellings the
money seemst to come with difficulty. 1t may
be that 1t Is In the banks. or 1T may be for
other reasons. but the fact ROMANS that there
Is less loose money IN the dwellings,. and more
IA the tenements, than most people think.
mere are great many thrlity lhmlllCs IN inc
tenements They are humble folk. They are
money upon living room they do not need in
that would he less congenini.
But to get back to the true reason the doors