Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-06-19
OUR Mr.. STECK IN BROOKLYN.
NE HAS BEEN 10 THE BoWERY AND
cHiHAr0 r0WN--T THESE A REVELATION.

oAooA'ybS ouho to,--heQW00 COurler:
Jas. M. Moss and reached New York
Sunday, June 8, and have been enter
taining ourselves in various ways there
and here in Brooklyn since. We were
both surprised. and pleased to meet DR..
q. NJ. Walker, OF Westminster, half
hour after reaching New York. The
fact that Mr.. Moss has been attending to
business affairs in New Ycsk while am
working in Brooklyn, has divided our
ways completely except after 6 o. 'clock in
the esening. On our way here we stopped
over for an hour or two in Washington.
Mr.. Roosevelt was looking for us, of
course, and accorded us splendid re-
ception, which would doubtless, had we
arrived on any day other than the Sab
bath, have partaken more of the nature
of grand ovation. Mayor McClellen, of
New York, received us in equally good
form on our arrival at the ''front door to
every where"
OF all the sights have seen SO far, 1
think the view over New York after
dark from Brooklyn Bridge is the grand
est. With Brooklyn spreading out on
one side and New York on the other, and
thousands of boats, tugs, steamers and
launches winding in and out on the river
between the two cities, the whole bril-
liantly lighted, the effect is indeed won
derful. Twice I have taken the trouble
to cross the bridge on the promenade
after dark just for the view it affords.
Two things have struck me as being
the opposite from what 1 expected to
find. First, that the ''colored brother''
in New York and Brooklyn Tor perhaps
should say Greater New York; ;s but
slightly in evidence except in those Sec
tions where cheap dives appear to be the
centre of attraction.
ON THE BowERY
there are plenty of them, and in that sec.
tion they seem to be in the hight of their
glory. / walked through the Bowery
Monday night in company with two
friends from Philadelphia, one from
Brooklyn and one from Washington.
The trip was revelation to me. Those
few words from the old song, once so
popular in all vaudeville attractions,
"They do strange things and they say
strange things-on the Bowery," are Pc
ouliarly appropriate and by no means un-
true to-day. both saw strange things
and heard strange things-on the Bowry.
Some OF the dives and dens of infamy
there would do credit to hell itself. The
maudlin, drunken, siokening toughs that
dart from bar-room TO street, from street
to dive, and reel, stagger and curse and
shout here, there and everywhere, are
we'll calculated to turn any human being,
not already totally depraved, from the
very horror OF it to something higher
and better. With my friends stepped
inside of two of the Bowery bar-rooms,
where we each paid for a 'glass'' of beer
and left them standing untouched on the
counter. THAT, too, may seem strange,
but still it is fact) These Bowery
"glasses" are but slightly short of water
buckets, and at the standard price of s
cents each there is not much wonder at
the results worked on The demoniacal
wretches who scarcely know any home
but the Bowery bars. Yet the Bowery
can scarcely be said to be the worst place
in New York. A short
g.. TRIP TO CHINATOWN
was my second chapter in the way of re-
velation of infamy. In Chinatown the
street is scarcely wide enough for two
vehicles to pass, and the walks on either
side do not exceed three feet in width.
The filth and stencil of the place are
enough to sicken and kill anybody but a
Chinaman. No wonder one door leads
into bar and the next into an opium
joint from one end Of Chinatown to the
other. 1 looked into couple of these
opium dens and the sight was revolving.
There were mon and women standing,
sitting and reclining, most of them chit
ting the pipe" and apparently enjoying
semi-consciousness. 1t is said that there
are many white women held in the un-
derground dens in Chinatown who have
not seen the light of day for years. Hun
dreds of Chinese men, women and chill
dren throng the streets continually, and
to walk through is like entering o verita-
Bile bedlam. Fights, drunken brawls,
sports of all kinds 80 on in the streets,
and beyond the necessary precaution
taken by each one for self.protection, no
one seems to notice any of these peculiari-
ties Of Chinatown, within whose borders
the motto would seem to be, every man
for himself and the devil take the hinder
most"--and ! doubt not that, aside from
a few visitors, his Satanic Majesty will
finally get the whole push.