The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-05
FIND NO SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
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yssr on aaei.l conditions IN great cities
4 vsa a disappointment fot ths youna
wse In ibelr travels ~ yesterday about tbs
Fsst sble ~ mi that tho poor alept On
lada. wars real eirthea add disin't sat raw
msat
A ao,nd N four s1u,lor studsnsa rnads q
boalse Il, bottan canvass Tor half q block on
Orchard street, armed With nots hooha,
and then gave 40 In disgust becauHe THY
found asven pianos In ninc fats, lace c'ir'
sal0a AZ tho windows aud tides on ths
etalra jnst lilo those In ths little village
bouea where tho socioloaiats came from
up m Connecticut And there weren't any
murders or ~ahandonments either wbils Tho
young men we're present.
sBIll Bailey BEEN strlnRlng w, remarked
a Junior after q woman had informed him
that shs didn't run n museum or . mem
aeeris, and then slammed the door In hts
face, sThere amt any social conditions 10
New York.
OF course Prof. Bill wasn't surprised bee
cause he has been down to New York i've or
aix timaa now with his class and has got
hardened 10 not finding sociology the way
N n In the books. But he comes each year,
hoping that things will got right some time
or other for real learned essays by members
Of the Junior class.
Some think that the professor has aged
acme since his first trip. He looked %
Yesterday II a day, but II had been q hard
trip. One of the lunatics at Wards Island,
where the class went on Thursday after
noon, noticed the change in the professor,
and seemed worried about it. He smoothed
three gray hairs on the professors left
fannie and told him not to study too hard.
The annual visit Of the Yale sociologists lie
the bright spot In this hlnatio's year. He
begins to ask about March 1 every year
yhen no IL going to be studied again, and
the nurses paoify him by telling him that
Prof. Bailey is expected almost any day.
Ever since the Yale students first scientific
trip six years ago this patient has called him
self Specimen and he spends all his time
drawing zigzag lines on a chart to h
how much money he's got, whether he can
read or write, the color of his parents and
whether he prefers works Of fiction or OF
travel. Sometimes he can neither read nor
write. according to his chart, but likes
philosophical works, and once he
~ per cent. Of his wives in September,
when there was a big demand for labor IN
the wheat fields out West, and the very
nett month he had 3l7.S3 in the savings
bank and read almost nothing but light,
trashy literature.
The very first part Of this week, only a
few days before Prof. Bailey got here,
Specimen breathed 1900 cubic feet OF air
over three times and then moved into an
other fiat where he had 100 cubic feet
with plenty Of food rich in oils and proteids
and a picture Of the Parthenon and OF che
RiyinRton street settlement house on the
east wall. He also cared more for poetry
that week than for the vital statistics OF the
Health Board, but a year ago this month
lust after Prof. Bailey had made his 1905
trip to New York, Specimen drew lines
I'D to the top OF his chart indicating that he
was a fan tan game with three defective
children taking in washing and ivipg on
a crowded fire escape, and absolutely In
different TO fine pictures and classical music.
But that was nothing to what Specimen
thought he was when the news reached the
asylum that Prof. Bailey and seventy soci-
olopists In the veal were coming up the
East River on a Charities Department tug
for their annual visit of inspection of the
island institutions. He quickly drew Jagged
lines from the top to the bottom OF his
chart and back again and showed the dia-
gram to a brother patient.
aThere," he said proudly, prof. Railey
In coming again, and / am a foreign born
orumb from an underweight loaf OF bread
being served as a free lunch with 473,5lS
gallons of malt liquors at a Sunday school
picnic, attended by the representatives of
twenty-seven denominations and 40S FER
sons without any church affiliations what
ever"
Just as soon as the sociologists landed
Specimen handed his charts for the year to
Prof. Bailey, He does that every year
and thinks that the professor uses them in
! teaching his Yale classes. Perhaps the
professor does; nobody knows.
II was when he handed over his diagrams
hat Specimen noted those three gray hairs
and gravely urged the professor not to
study too hard, And the young theologians
and soclologlsts assembled on inc iunalic
ASYLUM green threw up their grape skin
caps and yelled What the hell do we care?
Rah, rah, rah, Bill Eailey." .
1And those fellows can come and go and
WILL" bitterly remarked an inmate who
thinks that he is an unearned increment
and Is apt to be violent,
The students themselves didn't see Speci-
mems charts and they didn't lave much
fun on their first day, but yesterday the
monotony of their studies was varied by
the excitement of an u~ndertakers' race in
East Twenty-sixth street. The sociologists
had just left the Bellevue Hospital lawn,
where they had eaten the sociological
basket lunch which had been put up for
them at the Mills Hotel, They were looking
through the grating at the outdoor poor
and taking corious notes, when a body
was identified in the Morgue half a block
below. Two embalmers' touts rushed out
Of the dead house and w~igwagged "identif-
nationr to their rival home Offices way over