New-York tribune., 1899-07-30

household had found Il a tight squeeze for them
selves alone. At bound the population OF 'hls
slum came near TO doubling. There were teWer
fights now that Italy Tae Installed mere the
police reserves did not have To tumoie out OF peu
and rush around on the double quick 50 otteh'
but the filth ard immortality increased ana even
with the swamp Angels dead and gone these
alleys had dropped peg lower.
WHY they were left standing so long Is one or
the city's mysteries. the rear teneI;eht aqua,
ton waxed and waned, and yet s!ngle ana
Double alleys remained. Their death"iow came
two years ago this spring, on an order or tne
Board of Health. And yet even now the Oio
sIuTn ia not entirely demolished The dirty tene-
ment Of Single Alley has been left though IL
now faces on the open, broad YARD. win hedlty ,y,
every window gone, and everything thdt CouiT ii
be torn away out OF IT, there Is 10 De seen sun
an Italian family or two in some or the rooms
But the air can now get chance at the gloomy
shallow building for the first time IN us history
II IS understood that big warehouse WIZ
rise eventually on this site. blotting out hnally
and thoroughly all traces OF one OF the West OF
plague spots. Meantime, however the wood aIlu
stone ward does we'll. II has lald 10 leSt IOr diA
time the ghosts OF filth and crime
Gone too and it's site now playground IoE
children and a breathing place for older people
OF evenings. is what long was tne eY,en1S end
Rutgers sts poor as they were. did not sihh
into a helpless. apathetic state until the IA W.
vasion OF the Russian Jews begIhhshs III .isfoy
as a result OF the exile because or 'he -tay
laws" With their coming In masses sule"u
landlords began to put in himsy rear tensliu,,s
and because OF the demand, 10 raise reh's uiI,ii
one family had OF necessity 10 huddle IN sihsie
room and even 10 take in boarders Ihere may
have been worse blocks IN the Ghetto than those
bo1nded by Norfolk, Suffolk. Hester' JenelsOii,
Rutgers East Broadway ana Caha oul ~
there ever were the writer never knew thein'
THE MOST ovERCRowDED SPOT.
In truth. these blocks were bad enough huge
r,olodorous barracks" smelling Of fried nsh
and uncIean persons filled their centres as well
said 10 have been the most overcrowded spot i"
tSe world far surprising the i'll reputed ghet-
tos Of European cities In the nurnoer OA souio
clustered 10 the square rod. Every room al % oIis
time was a workshop well as sleeping ana
living anartment A series OF miniature tacto-
rtas Sonevcombed them all, and here were inde-
srrtha hIa dIrt and odors. The people gave no
baad 20 their condition; they were unwilling 10
charge over all was the sign OF the saoel-
dine the wig Of the matron. the schuie on
,nanv a tenement floor The light OF day never
came 10 the ghetto; literally there were many
rooms II hardly visited at all
and roUo Where these fostering tenements
were a broad field stretches itself. unshaoeu anu anu
blazng hot at MONDAY, dusty and rougn' put
s,uI On omen Mace instead OF the many score
~ tanenents Some day il will be made into
beautiful shady park, with such greensWaru
es slum dwelIers love. That VIII take a long
time however. Meanwhile city ana euucatohai
authorities have thrown open the grouhu sur
rounding II only by a slight fence 10 keep soiiie
semblance OF order. , .,,, 60 |
the west looms out on an altogether uhac<
customed sight II sees In place or llne OF
scowling tenements an open air gymnasium
q running track q basket ball field, two covered