Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-02-09


inspection IL 1t passes muster, an
electric grill is placed upon your
table and the slavery odor Of tho hron-
ing flesh will place an edge upon your
appetite,
A decade ago many of the luXuries
which now go with modern hotel life
were not even dreamed of. what will
the next decade bring forth One
/ thing is certain II viii not bring
forth natural increase in the hotel
population. More homes will have to
be broken up to supply recruits, Life
in a modern hotel is not conducive
to the rearing Of children. The hotel
management does not want them,
Neither do the men and women who
/ live in hotels.
Maybe II Is a far cry from tho
sumptous luxury of New York's hotels
to the poverty and squalor Of New
/ Yorks east side But, really, the dis
lance is not great Five minutes in
a motor car will take one from scenes
that would have made Babylonian
multimillionaire feel like the COM
monest piller to wretched dwellings
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have not sufficient food
! II has been reported to the Charit-
able organizations that there are 25i-
0O0 starving babies on the east side.
1t may be that not all of them are
actually dying from lack Of sufficient
food, but they are dying from lack
of the kind and quantity OF food sui
6cient to sustain life Other tens Of
thousands who escape actual starva-
ton are dwarfcd in mind and body
through lack of sufficient nourish-
ment What are you going to do
about it, you men and women who
live in luxury so gross that even
your artificial appetitcs for 1t are sur
feitcd?
It is thrifty man indeed who,
after dining at the Plaza or the Wal
dorf- Astoria, doesn't tip the waiter to
dollar on the cast side there are
families of five or six who do not
average having more than a dollar
for each weeks supply OF food. In
many Of these families there is sick
ness, How would YOU like to try to
buy food for your family for a week
with one hundred cents and out OF
it try to save the price Of something
to tempt the palate of Il dying loved
one2
Surprising an entire family on
dollar a week, Of course, is an eN-
IRENE case: but investigation has dis
closed that there are scores of just
such exceptional cases. There are
scores of other cases in which the
breadwinners Of families have been
thrown out of work and the families
have absolutely no incomes, being de-
pendent upon the frugal bounty OF
their neiEhbors or upon public aims.
And throughout the tenement dis
trict there stalks the Great White
Plague. 1t is mild phrasing TO de-
scribe as alarming the increasing
number of consumption's victims.
There was found in one tenement VS.
tied by an Investigator a mother al
most in the last stages of the dread
disease Playing listlessly about the
room were four children whose vast
ed forms told all too plainly the story
their doom A hfth child was an
infant in arms, drawing sustenance
and certain death from the mothers
breasts
1t isn't pleasant picture. is it2
The man who would venture to paint
it in the gathering places Of wealth
and fashion would be socially ostra-
cized The raging controversy as to
whether women should be allowed TO
smoke in public is far more popular
subject
But New York cannot escape the
east side problem. 1t is pressing for
solution. Poverty so abiect that IL
breeds disease in bodies also breeds
disease in minds. ana gives them q
criminal bent. In protest against
such conditions grows socialism as a
mild and anarchy as a ylrulent con-
sequence
Nor is the problem New York's
alone. The congested districts of tho
Metropolis cannot well become more
cQHgested. Already they are over
flowing. carrying disease and crlmi-
nal tendencies to other communities.
Earnest men and women. who have
wealth but no other thing is common
with the luxury loving members Of
the smart set, are striving TO find the
remedy. They know It lies in the
country. but the country ~ far away
and difficult. If the factories could
only be prevailed upon to move, the
toiers would follow them, but so far
the dollar has blocked this program.
II has not yet been disclosed how the
factories may be as probably opcrat-
ed on Long Island or in New Jersey
as they can be on Manhattan. Until