The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-02-09
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IN CHICAGO'S SLUMS.
Five Cent Lodging Houses Where Chairs
Take the Place of Beds.

rive SenC LOGGING houses " mere eHdlTS
Take the Place of Beds.
Finding a lodging place for the night
when one has but cents-an ordinary
street car fare nickel-is no easy Job.
Lodging houses where the beds rent for
10 cents hold as grimly to tariff prices
as coal combine IN arctic weather
would do. 1t is case of. fiat money
I with those people. If they had 500 beds
and but five dodgers, the sixth could not
ret an abatement, even though his flesh
we're dropping from his bones with
fro6E No pay, no bed, is the motto,
8nd fhey stick to it.
Nowadayss dimes are being with
1 drawn <61n circulation. At least the
peo{ 10 are forced4Ainto begging
them xep0fS that to be TIE state of the
money market. Two pickles make a
dime, II is true, and SO - 10 pennies,
but the1e e6ezasafo sbe bezr movement
in small this form of cur
E for ftzG FL s$n' t, don't or
hundred peI @ chicago everynight
who cannot purchase lodging for lack
of means and who stay out SO late that
access to the. station houses is denied
|. because they are already overcrowded.
These people will then sleep anywhere.
|zAtF EbeY want. is cover from the night.
Jfk c8nbe had i'll Chicago for 5
xceIff But The lowest tramp, if for
t3j4i favored him with a dime, would
shrink with horror from lodging in
6pch piaeesE There are one or two
places of the kind i'll Chicago. and they
are hard tos61id. When found they are
the very ap6theosis of degradation, dirt
and dingiuess. Beside the cent places
4 those where admittance is dime are
n palaces cents the lodger is al
| lowed fI2l {iyffege of a chair until
nornin& imply that and nothing
The k8S7 OF such places form the
. lowest elements of society. They do
not treat their patrons as humans, nor
. yet ae beasts ofaSthe field. The cent
3 wretch becomes an object for blows and
4 ki hen H5snic excl enters the greasy
p0< ke lIS & IEn1ses for it, he is then an
atom d 6<l az 1<F.Aand he is treated ac-
Rscsnfiy I6s tlaa hotel was visited
II il probably fhe worst lodging house
IL Chicago. The prices begin at ) cents
and f11n 70 cents. 1t is located ON
Custom House place a few yards from
Van Baren Street, On one side of it is
! d stable There the horses get clean
stras4 every night for bedding. On the
other Stde Is Deserted church, which
{ has been purchased and which will be
shoft converted into another lodging
house Ainid ssuehs sssngroundings the
poor fel1ow whozahas but nickel is al
lowed tOsstay over night. He can sit on
3xHe legged chair,or he can lie down
Qi3 fd4 Hoor.s In either event lie is forced
~ e1sef wifi anoflleus man half cover
in6 hi1n, fer every night the filthy Gel
lariscrowded, Chicago Inter Ocean.
g, - Chicago ssgss.s.
''Great city said the stranger re-
Aectiyely. "Wonderful city! The build
RgssaIe magnificent, the boulevartis ara
shperbaand the hotels are unsurpassed,
buFbut why dopa..t=ssaleg name your
streets?''
'Nalae our streets" exclaimed the
Chicagoan. we do. You can't find a
street in the CITY without a. name. -
= We'll, then, - went Oh 'the stranger,
"why not derive some benefit f1om it!
Why should there be any secrecy about
it? Why not treat all streets alike? Why
put the name of one strecfon the cor
ner lamppost and Not tEs4 lme of the
next? And why not have some uniform
ity about it?' lies continued, warming
up to his subject. &'Nhy tack the name
of ore street onto building, put the
next on a lamppost, the third half way
up an electric light posrstbe fourth
clear at the top of it and hax6ho sign
at all for the iftha'' Chicag6Po