The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-05
YALE ADRIPT ON THE BOWERY
SEEKERS FOR SOCIOLOGICAL
SHUDDERS FIND THEM.
step sOftlyr the word 10 Professor
BEiIey'S Investigators OF American
Social COndltiOns-Creeps and Beer
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The Yale Bailey Troupe Of Trained
Theologues and Miscellaneous Academies
had It's annual parade through the city's
correctional and eleemosynary institu-
tions and the East Side last night. The
parade Is counted upon as one Of the regular
periodical recreations Of the people on
Randall's, Blackwell's and Wards islands,
not 70 say the Morgle. And In days less
enforcedly tranquil than the present days
In Chinatown the occurrence Of forty or
fifty solemnly wide eyed young persons
in Doyers and Pell streets has been viewed
with more than current interest,
The bunch came in at half past nine o'clock
yesterday morning from New Haven.
They had a guarantee from Prof William
Bailey that II they cid not diverge from his
program Of inspection Of the sinful and
depraved, and from the menus Of the mater
ial fare as prepared for them, the whole
excursion would not cost moro than &C., in
GLIDING railroad fares. II human pangs
Of loneliness and desolation could be meas
ured in money 50 could not measure the
hundredth part Of what the trip cost some
Of the participants in It.
It Is an awful thing for innocent young
socioogists TO be lost In front Of a Salvation
Army hotel In Chatham Square at such a
horrid hour as O'Clock az night Few
Of those who underwent the trying ordeal
will ever forget Il. Even the hurrying to
the rescue Of a detective from that citadel
Of righteousness and civic purity the Eliza
beth street station did not altogether
dispel the atmosphere Of mystery and
horror which seemed TO envelop the little
party in that dire hour.
The days sociological note taking began
at the morgue. Just why the ten theo-
loRues and the thirty academic seniors
and juniors needed TO be assured that the
city's poor, when dead, are just as dead
as better OF dead folk could not be as
certained yesterday. There are lots Of
things which seem TO need demonstration
10 the members Of Prof. Bailey's course
called American Social Conditions, which
might be taken as matter Of fact by less
scientific and thorough folk. From the
morRue, the Young Schoolgirls took
city boat TO Blackwell's Island and looked
over the Metropolitan Hospital and the
lie point of view Of the young sociolo-
Rists was always varied. This is apt TO he
true when oue-fourth Of the earnest seekers
the ministry and three-fourths Of them
are wild young things who want 70 know
what the real world is beyond Belle Dock,
the Yale Field, Lake Whitney and the New
York and New Haven station, and hope It
is as wicked and gruesome as possible.
But there are limits TO self-sacrifice;
therefore the Baileyites brought their
own lunches with them from the Yale
Commons. They lay out on the lawn
in front Of the almshouse and devoured
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litter and crumbs afterwRrd and piling
them In neat little hillccks for the dear
sparrows TO carry away when they were
At the Wards Island insane hospital
Prof Bailey made little speech; As nearly
as il could be caught by a philistine re-
porter, he said: This institution more
nearly approaches the ideal insane asylum
with which our classroom experience has
made US familiar than any other institu-
One Young undergraduate, however who
had fallen behind on the way to tho morgue,
went vainly from cell TO cell and gallery TO
gallery without Learning why Mhichkiss
was the King Of Glory Ind at late hour
last night was disco cred on 18th street
stil wondering way Prof. Bailey thought
40 we'll Of the Manhattan Hospital.
There was also a visit TO the feeble minded
on Randal's Island. All Of the party
were accounted for. h hS'T when the
7 o'clock last night, All Prof. Bailey's
proteges registered there, and some Of
them, after looking at their rooms, said
that they intended to be real sports and
sleep in them. "
oeedings after dinner. Prof. Bailey eI-
p,ained that the nights proceedings were
really e1traneous 70 his course. Having
some forty young men Of varied interests
In town for the study Of municipal methods
y nd
having a night on his hands Il seemed to
him well TO let them see with their own
ewes what a lodging house and a Raines
law hotel and a Chinese theater and a chop
suey Joint and a beer hall were like. He
felt that even the slightest experience in
the observation Of real live poor people
having a good time, or at least a normal
time, would stimulate their classroom
imagnatio1s.
Elizabeth street police, but Capt. KeGr and
his men have been studying for a whole
fen DAYS trying TO learn how 20 be good in
Chinatown and they were very much mot
prepared" Prof. Bailey and his friends
were steered into the Chinese Theater, where
there were the usual sounds and smells,
with smoke dimmed prospect Of angular
Chinese persons in amor In suddenly irreg-
uar attitudes.
The Chinese drama, which Is thirty
three nights 10 the act and several acts
10 the play, and Of which Commissioner
McAdoo oompla med recently because the
nights last from sunset 20 sunrise, did not
suggest any improvement on the glee
clubs methods.
At a swift swinging pace, which was
almost a trot the Forty lnnocents rushed
out to the Bowery and down across Mott
street and through Worth street to the
| Bismarck Hotel, lodging house In the
! middle Of a court. II was some time before
the night clerk could be persuaded that
there was any real reason why his guests
should be disturbed on their Ave, ten and
| fifteen cent cots TO make a Yale holiday,
! but the lone policeman at last spersuaded
| him after Prof Bailey had promised TO
ask his students 70 step softly up the rckety
| stairways.
sSh-sh-sh-ssshl' hissed Prof. Bailey.
: sStep softly, fellows,' whispered the
! leading sociolORiat,
The warning was passed hoarsely back.
By the time Il reached the last ranks Of the
prooassion Il had become:
sSoftly, fellows, SOFTLY Have pity on
the boardersl Do not arouse the bugsls
sSilence, back therel' said Prof. Bailey.
After the FIVE cent boardsre had been
looked over the crowd won't for the most
part 20 the floor below. But a. each floor
on the way down more and more dropped
out. By the time the more Gteadfast Of
the party had reached the street there
Wa an Indignation meeting In progress,
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