The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

prayer Dy CnarleS of the
West Richmond Friends church.
hotels. around the theatres, around
the restaurants, around the cabarets.
around the fan-tan dives and around
the opium joints; stale beer Joints:
both that hibernate and cor
gregate in the c~essnools of iniuuity
and quagmires of filth and damna-
lion.
1T is 10 o'clock. Nell. 1t is IN
o'clock. Wouldn't you like to 90 to
the Harrison street police station?"
Its 10 O'Clock. Yes" We went
back and I said to my friend. Ted
Larkin, the desk sergeant. CHe used
to give me passes to the ball gamel.
Ted, the Misses and l would like to
go below
He called a plainclothesman and
said: Jack. stay here a little while"
We went down and there were l.
or 20 men piled up on the stone floor.
nothing but newspapers for a bed,
and I said: There it is-sin. Sin"
We walked on and stopped in front
Of a cell and there stood a man nude
to the waist His body was covered
with great ~carbuncles of black and
pul pA0 olld Sl0Ch anu NGIlON. HIS udit
was matted and his eyes blodshot. and
said. Ted, is he nuts and bug
house?'
Dope Fiend
in Despair
He said. mo, he is a coke fiend
1t is dope"
Ny God. it is almost hopeless when
6nnn einI-c i+- 60 p 1a into Col
low will break away from the booze
game and win out and if he is a thief
he will become square, but there are
mighty few of them ever get awav
from the grip of dope. / said. "Will
you give him dope?"
He said, I'VE will have to or he
will die"
And the doctor came with the hy-
podermic syringe and shot il into his
arms, and he cooed like a baby tug
ging at its mothers breast. I said
There it is, now. Sin. You cant
argue against sin" :,
We went on. There was a cell
about as long as my platform but =
little wider. In it were "A girls with
the dew of youth on their brows.
Some of them didn't have clothes
enough on them to make a pad for 4
crutch. They were so beastly drunk
they could not stand, and one of them
leaped to her feet, seized what had
been the remnants of a silk waist and
bought with the price of her shame
and stood tearing it to pieces, utter
ina the worst ever head. have
heard men curse and damn, but sure
think when these girls were blasphem-
ing and sneering all the devils in the
pit of hell stopped their ears and cried,
Enough! Enough! Enough"
/ said: There it is: Sin! SIM"
You can't argue against sin. It's In
the world; o can't get away from It.
"Helloi"
Good morning, sir"
How do you do?"
What is your name? l am glad TO
meet you"
A letter to the Y. NJ. c. 4. secre-
tary of Chicago: This will introduce
James O'Toole, who is coming to
America and Chicago to win fame and
fortune. We'd be glad if you could
give him a little protection and advice
in a strange country and city" And
signed by the secretary of the Y. NJ.
C. A. IN Belfast, Ireland.
I said: Jim, my name is Bill"
He said: Have you got any good
boarding house?"
Claims Body
Of Man
I said: YES" So I gave him tbs
numbers, and l said: Jim, let me
know which one you select"
So he notified me he had selected
one on LaSalle street on the north
side. | was sending out a letter in
viting the homeless young men to
come to our annual banquet. Jim
had received my letter and had gone
with some men to battle in Lake
Michigan, and in diving from the pier
his head struck the bottom of the
lake and he broke his neck. They
dragged his body to the shore and
summoned the police, and the police
found my letter and they notified me
to go to the Cook county morgue and
claim the body. So | hurried TO the
| Western Unon, sent a cablegram to
his mother in Belfast, jumped on the
Ietreet car and hurried to the morgue.
/ put a claim in for his body. They
said: I'VE will keep the body for two
months, and if that isn't enough Just
Iot mo tuow and We will cfrofch -