New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-14
DANGER FOR EVERYBODY.
,,.xv CHANCES OF CoNTAGIoN UNDER
THE SWEATING SYSTEM
ux,z, ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE DISCOVERS THAT
cooDs WERE MADE IN HOUSE WHERE
,,r,,v WAS SCARLET FEVER AND
WE'RE AFTF.RwARD DELIVERED
HOSTS OF YOUTHFUL
WITNESSES,

HOSTS OF YOUTHFUL
WITNESSES.
rbo-e was a great gathering of East Side workers
yesterday in Part H. Superior Court "he" '
Ya,nbard Committee of the Assembly appoh'eo ~
,os,,sa+o the sweating system in this city re-
~, rs work Nobody admitted unless no
could show a subpoena. Among those suoPoe'de.
- N,tle girl named Eva Iunsky. dressed IN feu
,d looking like Little Red Riding hooa '"o
sai1 she was fifteen and a half years oiu anu NV"
a, No 100 Orchard-st Nathan Nager' he7 III
io,or was with her. The first witness called was
mr. DILLINGHAM; who testified concerning the "''N
:, FAST Side inspectors Asked IL there was any
10. that could be passed compel landlords 10
,,r,~ove the sanitary arrangements OF tenement
rnsAs he replied that If the Tenement House COM
,,,,-ee's bill was passed it would do good oeai
toward improving matters
mr. Charles s Benedict, Chief Inspector OF the
rureau Of Contagious Diseases. New-forK CHv'
,oi,g asked II there was any means TO oovia'e
.ba danger Of contagiOn told the committee that
the passage of a bill preventing the Manufacture
~ goods in the tenementhouses was the proper
,ndv IF reople knew the great danger 10
which they are exposed" he said. by the manu-
facture Of goods in the tenemeni-houses the!
,,,ould he anxious 10 pass such a bill The ques-
,ion was brought out by the story that goods had
heen made in a house where there was scarlet
fever.
ned
tract system. He said that if the Factory la" was
enforced the people would be compelled to WORK
IN the factories. Il believe" said he, that Ia"
should be passed making IT a misdemeanor lor d
landlord 10 let any part OF his premises for Illegal
purposes and the sweating system Is illegal ne
s,id that in 1894 the inspectors had brought lo5
cases into the police courts of persons violating
-ba Tenenent-House Law. OF these, lO9 had been
convicted twelve dismissed. five WITHDRAWN iour
not found after warrant issued three forfeited
hail The fines for 1894 amounted TO SSlo' lie
thought there should be more inspectors John
7 White a factory inspector. who Inspected NO.
II Rutgers Place on April .. said he found a
workshop the second floor.
Maurice Brown. who lived there, was called
Brown said he lived with his wife and chl'dreh
there. in three rooms There was WORKSHOP du-
Joining in which he employed about ten or Twelve
peope The door between the TSrkSh3P o Sh' nii
that nobody told him to send the goods away
as Broadway testified that Maurice Brown worked
for his firm. He knew. he said there was iat
he did not employ any means to find out whether
the men who work for them did their work IN
saTn MAS Sickness in Browns house he gave
orders 10 give him more work. Browns goods
bers they We're fumigated They were never sold;
he said lie could not tell whether the goods mad
been received after the notice had been sent from
'p Mi odnS Pinks Of No 80 eserst boy thr
Tba witness Was able TO write the word cat and
the figure thirteen but could not write HI; n nns
before ne went 10 Marks he said he Sod news
napers and often made % cents day. His father
Nathan Makusker said he worked for man
named Rosenberg at No 264 Dvision-st., and got
s. a week Eva Lunsky said she worked a, No.
ss Fssex-st for s. a week. Jacob SinCleman. OF
N 24 Dvison-st. testified he employed twenty
Ave men and seven or eight girls. Moriiz lAeber,
Worked in his apartments bought old clothes in
Pavard-st furnished them up and pedd!ed them
a%ain in the street lie got g for suit
An adjournment was taken until tomorrow at
II o'clock when the session VIII De he4u IN the
Aldermen's chamber in the City Hall