Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-30
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At A CITY POUND.
Where Many Odds and Ends Find
Their Way.

The New York pound is queer in
stitution situated in an odd locality.
1t consists OF Ia long. narrow yard, ex-
tending along Fifty-sixth street from
Eleventh avenue west almost to the
river. While the homeless living are
transported to the Island, the I'M
known dead 60 to the Morgue, but
every inanimate incumbrance found
upon the city highways and byways
eventually finds its way to the pound.
These include almost every conceiv-
able thing on wheels, from o fruit
vendors push-cart to enormous fur
niture vans large enough for small
family to live in comfortably.
Major Sullivan, who is in charge is
an old army man and was member
OF the secret service after the war.
Political pulls can break through
my guard line here" he said to the
reporter, land my sentries won't be
bribed. / am not responsible for the
arrest Of my prisoners, but once they
come here they remain until ran
somed by their respective owners.
Push carts and other similar
wheeled contrivances pay fine Of
81, while 81 is charged for redeeming
trucks and all the larger vehicles.
This is Of course for the first offense.
II l recognize q wagon as an old Of
fender ~ is added to the price Of
ransom for each time it has been inn
prisoned. Over there in that corner
are two trucks known as 'Brady's'
and 'Flaherty's hotels. They be-
long to mer OF those names and have
been taken from West Fortieth street
repeatedly. The owners have no
horses, and the trucks remain in the
streets week in and week out. A
gang of homeless Migrants use them
to sleep in regularly. Everyone in
the neighborhood got to know them
by the names given them by the
dodgers. The hotels were used by
their patrons as meeting places in
which to give mixed ale parties and
the like
The other portion Of the corpora
ton yard is under the control of the
Department of Public Works. Here
Henry Kinney is in charge OF hete-
rogeneous collection of the city flot-
sam and jetsam. Every incum-
brance not or wheels comes here.
In TIE Enclosure BARRIERS sign
with painted hand pointing
toward a motley collection Of
bric-a-brac catches the eye. On
top of the heap transparency an
nounced the Annual Entertainment
of the Dominican Union. A host of
professional talent has been engaged
| for the OCCASION" Another sign
read, Welcome, Gospel Meetings.
Every night except Saturday, st.
Johns Nj. E. Church. Come and
hear Mrs. Clark. Bright speakers.
Good singing. Come" Beside these
stood two demijohns eight feet tall,
which had been gathered IN from in
front of some liquor dealers she p.
Two little colored boys with the
signs Artist Tailor" and Ladies
Hairdressing Saloon" on their backs
resolved themselves into iron hitch.
ing posts upon closer scrutiny.
Under shed pile OF well-worn
furniture gave mute evidence Of some
ones misfortune. The household
goods had belonged to families who
had been dispossessed for one cause
or another. Evicted, starving, home
less and friendless, the unfortunates
had been sent to the poorhouse or
the Island, while their few domestic
treasures had been taken from the
street to the vortex OF the pound.
Auction sales are held monthly in
the yards, the proceeds OF which go
to the city treasury. Junkmen and
secondhand dealers in everything
flock to the scene to take advantage
of the opportunity, and thus there is
always room for lone more" from
the driftwood Of the great metropo-
lis.
Nawshov' Gratitude.