The evening world., 1894-09-27
LAST EDITION.
TWO NIGHTS
OF HORROR.
What an Evening World" Re.
porter Saw and Heard in
the Van Dyke House.
A SAFE REFUGE FOR THIEVES.
Details Of the Detention and
Robbery of James W.
Cliff
HIS LIFE MAY BE SAVED
The Night Clerk and the Two Women
Discharged for Lack Of
Evidence.
A SAFE REFUSE FOR THIEVES.
HIS LIFE MAY BE SAVED

The notoriety given to the Van Dyke
House, corner of Bayard street and the
Bowery, over the case Of James W.
Cliff, of Philadelphia, as told in "The
Evening World" yesterday, has caused a
watchful eye to be placed upon 1t by
the police.
The fact that Gift was detained
there, either with or against his WILL
for nearly three weeks and fed on
nothing but whiskey; that no physician
was called in until the last moment,
and that his relatives were not notified
as to his condition, are matters of
record.
So far as the police are concerned. 1t
is immaterial that the young night clerk
who was arrested yesterday by Inspec-
tor McLaughlin's men, on account Of
the case. was discharged In the Tombs
Police Court this morning for lack of
legal discriminating evidence. and that
the two women witnesses were also set
free.
-. Inspector Mclaughlin and his men are
fully satisfied Of the fact that the desire
of the young night clerk and some OF the
others In the place was to secure Clifts s
money. In order to do so they would ap-
parently have been willing to keep him
there for months, until the end finally
came, as 1t would have done. Cliff would
then have been carted to Potter's Field.
He would have been buried there, and his
relatives would not have been made ac-
quainted with the facts.
That the Van Dyke House Is one of
the lowest class of disreputable places
on the Bowery an Evening World, re
days there, can .vouch for. Every dis
orderly woman knows 1t. 1t is safe
asylum to which they can decoy their
AS to the Gift case, 1t is the same
apparently. as hundreds of others.
Iss TSs bs Van pgE taken Ha b ss omSnance
the instance of "The Evening World
Yesterday. Is known as "Old Suicide
Hall" Many dead bodies have been TAX
management that Gifts name was moi
added to the list of dead men.
Charles Dickens. in his best moments nom 1it'
to equal that which the reporter wit
Monday night. Thieves from Philadel
iust as eay as
ker would talk OF stocks. Stories wer
told Of robberes, with End without VIC
lence;, Of robberies in broad daylight, % o
newspaper man. used to scenes OF tn
widest kind, stood appalled,.
1t was a common matter, according t
the stories. for girls to be enticed Int
the place-young. innocent girls. daugh
ters OF honest parents-to be ruined ther,
To the attaches of the place they ,,wer
the same as the old-time, street walker!
no questions were asked. Rooms wer
assigned, and then the children-for, l
some of the cases they could be Gale
nothing more-were turned into IN
street. to add another name to the II:
of the fallen ones.
No one in the hotel even dreamed 9
the reporters IDENTITY He sat ,th At n n
Clerk Eddy Goodwin was one OF tn
number at these gatherings.
At the end of the bar Is little roun
table, made to accommodate nine
ten persons. In the daytime 1t serve
as a reading room" all the mornln
papers paper being placed up upon napers m are r. r
moved and then the table makes aSsS,,
excellent board, upon which the haoitu'
throw dice for drinks.
than 6xi2 feet. in which are. tab
and af ew chairs, That is the plat
preparatory to securing rooms.
Men and women came and went
night long. Every woman seemed
know night Clerk Eddy Goodwin vel
we'll He had a nod and smile for
Last Monday night two of the Phil
delphia crooks had talked of sever
robberies and of the people they hf
done up" They went into the my
teries OF few games and show
how the unwary could pc caught. TIT
the conversation drifted to the ms
upstairs in room 20. That man W
You ought to have seen that fellc
when he came here hrst." Eddy sa
he had any amount of money.
threw s. bills around like water: ha
got in my pocket now an order on
man in Wall street for $500. When
get II we will have q good time. Y
can bet | am not going TO get lett.
allowed, In on the deal" and the I
GGommodating Eddy said he was willii
iroViding the other man would acco
pany Eddy to Wall street the next d.
ne was to be given a new suit of cloth
All this out OF the money which c.
was supposed to have on deposit.
fac smile of the order which Ed
referred to was published In The Ev,
me World" yesterday. How the repor
optalned that orde is pobably one OF
thlngs which will worry Eddy and
otnSrs to the end Of their days.
why don't you give him a knock
out one or the gang asked.
a., On, what Is the useT' Eddy repll
~ would be hard, anyhow, on the :
We have had two dead men taken
ot this place already, and he Is boz
=" mako the third. What Is the use