Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1894, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1161 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. ith Street, The Evening Star i 8. H. KAUPFMA ® Fetter Builiine. - Few York Office, ar ts ser y carriers, on their c i to ai eeribera In 1 tecunt, tt 10 cent per m the Py mati-answhere ta the ida— postage prepaid—S0 cents per scar; pniieattan. THE SULTAN SAYS NO) - Consul Jewett Cannot Go With the Armenian Commission. TURKEY FEARS HIS [AVESTIGATION No Apparent Way of Evading This Decision. Savi eee NOT ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED Ai at Soe. pee NTINOPLE, December 25.—The tan last ever nade a final reply to ation of United Minister Consul Jew- make an ind ent inquiry into the Armenian troubl he sultan positiv declined to allow the consul to ac the commission. Terrell for per ‘The refusal of the sultan to allow Mr. Jewett to perform the mission with which he was charged by President Cleveland was not unexpected at the State Depart- ment. For the past week Minister Terrell, acting under the pre: of the Depart- ment of State, has been urging the porte to permit the investigation, but his ad the it have shown that he felt littl ce in a successful outcome. The reluctance of the Turkish govern- ment to accede to his request is accounte for by the formidable proportions to which the agitation in the United States in favor of intercession on behalf of the Armenians in Turkey has attained. At first the porte was under the impression, probably hav- ing in view the outcome of previous Investi- gations into alleged outrages by the Turks upon their Christian subj that the United ates Ww 0 favorably inclined te- ward their side that the result of such an inquiry was proposed would not he harmful. But the intensity of feeling ayed in the various mass meetings and church assemblies in the United States have con- vinced the porte that it would be placing its interests in dangerous hands, nd, when it learned that the person ch to make the inquiry was a son of an Ameri- an missionary and a native of the sre the outrages were alleged to have occurred, a prompt negative was returned to Mr. Terreli’s reque as It does not appear that there is any way of going behind this decision, for Mr. Jew- ett being refused permission to inv United ake it safely as in his capacity as officer of the States he could not under ividual. Therefcre it is probable that last action of the Turkish government ftely in the participation of the t States in the projected inquiry, which will consequently be conducted en- tirely by Europeans. AINS SUMMONE! Must Go Before the Committee. POLICE CA Nine of Them Lexow YORK, December were this morning subpoenaed ne police NEW ns capt to appear tomorrow before the Lexow com- a mittee. The subpoenas were sent in batch to Superintendent Byrnes at polic headquarters, and he summoned the w before him. The ains are Ryan, Wash- burn, Kiihela, Westerveit,Galiaher,Strauss, Murphy, Martens and Delaney. With the exception of Strauss, none of these men have, so far, figured in the witness chair before the Lexow committee. ‘The superintendent called the men before him and told them that to each one a sub- poena had been issued personally, and netified them to appear before the Lexow mmittee in their rooms tomorrow morn- —— COLOR LINE DRAW Colored Applicants Excluded From the Sons of Veterans, CINCINNATI, Ohio, December 25.—A spe- to the Enquirer from Birmingham, Ala., says: Commander-in-chief of the Sons of Vet- erans Col. William Bundy, having heard the @ lored applicants who had been refuse¢ ters as Sons of Veterans by southern commanderies, has sustained the refusal and counseled the colored ap- plicants to or ize a separate organization of their own. six OVER. One of the Fiercest Fires in the His- tory of Burlington, Vt. BURLINGTON, Vt., December 25.—A fire started last night in the lath shed con- nected with a big lumber yard owned by J. R. Booth was not put under control un- til 4 o'clock this morning, and after it had done damage estimated at $150,000. From the lath shed the flames spread to the surrqunding lumber, and about six acres were burned over. All the lumber sheds were comptetely destroyed, and a heavy wind carried the fire to the mills owned by W. . BE, Crane, which were burned. ‘Twenty cars standing on the Cen- tial Vermont tacks, loaded with lumber and merchandise, and the Central Ver- mont engine house were also burned. Almost 2,u00,uuu feet of lumber was de- stroyed, insurance 100, » fire was one of the fi ‘ory of the city, but, so fa bo lives were lost. fine ee TACOMNA’S LIGHT AND WATER. Judge Stallup Trics to Prevent Any Vurther Payments. TACOMA, Wash., December 25.—John C. Btaliup, a superior cdurt judge, has filed an equity suit against the city of Tacoma. The plaintiff alleges that C. B. Wright, the Philadelphia millionaire, and the Tacoma Light and Water Company, controlled by him, solid the city the light and water plant for $1,750,0uv last year. Stailup alleges tnat for its $1,750,000 im bonds uli the city got Was SO: btten flumes valued not to ex- is estimated at about t in t us known, ceed $4, wherefore the plainuff prays that he wnted @ decree against the city, perpetually enjoining the city from the paying of any further or additional interest upon the bonds, and that the city offictals be prohibited from levying taxes for the payment of luterest on these bonds. —— “HOME-RUN” DUPFES DEAD. He W. er of the Local 1892 MOBILE, Ala., —Edwara Duffee, the famous base ball player of th St. Louis Browns, died last night at iz} o'clock. of the Washing- -d by Manager 4 which finished the first a membei h place. He ne here from the club, where he was known as “Home Kun Daffe His hitting fell off here, and he was not retained for the fol- lowing season, He was a good Heider and base runner and was popular. es DAMAGES AWARDED. MEAVY Verdict Given Against the Western Union Compzny. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., December —In the federal court at Huntsville, Mrs. Ida Ross, widow of Robert C. Ross, who was ny WASHIN GTON, D.C. TUESDAY, shot and killed by the Skelton boys at Stevenson several! months ago, because of his alieged seduction of Annie Skelton, has awarded a verdict of $1 x) against Wester e of the company’s alleged failure to liver to Ross a message warning him that the Skelton boys were after him. Judge Boarman set aside the verdict as being exe ve. Mrs. R sent the tele- gram from Scottsboro’ to Stevenson, whith- er Ross had gone by private conveyance to take the train. The Skelton hoys overtook him at Stevenson and shot him to death. i CHRISTMAS SUICIDE ON EVE, Charies J. at HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 25.— shail, thirty years of age, whose » is in Washington, but who came upon the removal of the Crawford works to Hagerstown, committed her bicyele suicide last night by taking a deadly poison of some character. After taking the dose he went to the garden attached to his boarding house and lay down under a tree, wher ains were found this mern- ased was a young man of address, highly esteemed by those om he was associated and at one time studied medicine. Disappointment in a love affair is attributed the cause of Schall’s act. aera COMING HOME. ‘The Columbia Will Now Get Her W. L. I. Bell. The cruiser Columbia, which has been do- ing service in the Caribbean sea for many months past, and which is now at Kings- ton, Jamaica, has been ordered home. The cruiser Atlanta, which has undergone ex- tensive repairs at the Norfolk navy yard, will succeed the Columbia in the West Indies. She will probably start for the south in a week or so, and the Columbia will sail for home as soon as she arrives. The Columbia rendered good service at Bluefields in maintaining the cause of the United States in the recent complications with the British government. It is sald that her bottom is very foul with marine growth, and that she is otherwise in need of an overhauling in a dry dock. She will be repaired at the Norfolk navy yard, and when ready will probably make a visit to Annapclis, as the nearest available port to ashington, for the purpose of receiving 1tiful bel) which has been presented to her by the members of the Washington Light Infantry corps, in recognition of the pliment paid the District in the selec- of her name. This presentation has heen delayed by the sudden dispatch of the vessel to Sluefields early in the summer. sceeeaeaane RAILROAD POOLING. Strong Effert Will Be Made to Pass the Bill. Senator Butler, chairman of the Senate committee on interstate commerce, expects to call the committee together ,immediately after the holidays for the purpose of tak- ing up the pooling bill. ‘There are indications that there will be opposition in committee to the bill in the form which passed the House, and some remonstrances against it have been received from vartous parts of the country, but the friends of the meas- ure ciaim that when the voting stage is reached in committee it will have a safe majority. They think the Senate com- mittee will accept the plan virtually as it was adopted by the House. This opinion is based upon the fact that the Senate com- mittee had a subcommittee at work last session in conjunction with the House sub- committee, and that the two subcommittees reed upon a measure which was not materially different from the House bill. With the bill reported there will be a strong effort to have it taken up in the Senate, but the pooling bill was not one of the measures designated fer consideration by the democratic caucus, and if it should antagonize any of the preferred bills its Arthur Irwin's management, | chances for securing consideration might be impaired. —e- REVENUE SERVICE. Bili Providing for Retirement of Aged and Disabled Officers. Representative Mallory of Florida, who is a member of the House committee on tuterstate and foreign commerce, having in charge the bill for the improvement of the revenue service by the retirement of officers who have become disabled or in- capacitated by age, says that he has not despaired of getting the bill through. It is very probable that immediately after the holidays an attempt will be made to pass the bill under suspension of the rules. ‘The committee on commerce will, perhaps, ask that recognition be given it to press the bill to equalize the salaries in the steamboat inspection service. Mr. Mallory says that if the committee prefers to take up the steamboat inspection bill instead of the revenue marine bill that he will try to cure individual recognition on a suspen- on day in order to pass the latter bill. Hie has no doubt but a two-thirds vote, necessary to pass the bill under suspen- sion of the rules, can be secured for the measure. It is important to get the bill through Congress soon, as it must be con- sidered by the Senate’ and become a law before March 4, or pass over to the next Congress. —————_-o+—____—_. THE PRESIDENT’S DUCKS. They Were Eaten at Cabinet Dinners Today. The President and the members of his cabinet celebrated Christmas in the old- fashionel way—making it essentially @ family affair. At the White House it was a genuine children’s day, everyt¥ing being subordinated to the pleasure of the little cnes. There was a Christmas tree set in the library, the first that the Cleveland children have celled their own, and Mrs. Cleveland herself added the finishing touches to the tree, which, while not of great proportions, was very beautifully trimmed and decorated with finy parti- colored electric lamps, in place of the old- time wax candles. Gifts for the little ones were numercus, and almost all day ex- press wegons and messengers came laden to the White House. As usual, the Presi- dent remembered all of the employes in the house. Every one got a fat turkey. To his personal servants the President gave gifts of money. Mrs. Cleveland also had a pretty little preseat for each of the em- pleyes. She herself received very many Christmas the Presfient’s token being very t The only ing at the White House {3 Mrs. C ad's mother, Mrs. Perrine, and today’s dinner was strictly ited to the family. Preceding it, how- ever, there was a pretty little luncheon set out for the children of the cabinet who came to the White House to see the Christ- mas tree. ‘All the members of the cabinet ate their Christmas dinners at home in the bosom of their families, and perhaps the largest gathering was at the Carlisle bome, where the Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle entertained their children and grandchildren. Ducks killed by the President in the waters of South Carolina formed a prominent part of the menu of the cabinet dinner. i Tragedy in 2 Lamber Camp. s Y, Mich., December 25.—Timothy Kane, camp foreman for the Manistee Lumber Company, was stabbed and killed by Louis Stretcher last night. Stretcher, who is an employe of the same company, quarreled with Kane in a saloon, and when the latter assaulted him, drew a knife and killed him. Stre¢cher is in jail. Union Telegraph Company be-- SANTA CLAUS:- TWO SHOULD REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN I TAKE THE LIBERTY OF MAKING ALL MY FRIENDS ACQUAINT! BETTER. ». YOU THE SEAMY SIDE Pauline Pry Gets a Glimpse of a Life of Sacrifice. PADRONES RULE IN PURDY'S COURT A System That Makes Actual Slaves of Women and Girls. eer ee A BURDEN TOO HEAVY Soe For the past ten days I have been living in touch with the Italians in Schott’s alley and Purdy's court. Here I have found an American woman whe is a counterpart of Tolstol. I have also found that slavery has not been abol- ished in the District of Columbia. , First, you must know that Schott’s alley and Purdy’s court cre practically under the shadow of the Capitol dome—the for- mer running between B and C and Ist and 2d streets northeast; the latter between Pennsylvania avenue and B and Ist and 2d streets northwest. The latter is in the rear of the row of boarding houses, most of them familiar to every person passing at the foot of the Capitol grounds, where the 14th street cable turns off the avenue. Six weeks or so ago Judge Miller officially recognized the truth of the statement I have made—that slavery still exists in the District of Columbia. At that time, on the authority of the court, the board of chil- dren’s guardians took from their parents two children—Leuis and Theodora Rosetti, the former nine and the latter twelve years of age—evidence having been intro- duced to show that the girl had been sold by her father for $30 to Marie Papi, an Italian abandoned woman. ‘The compiaint against the Rosetti parents was made by Mrs. S. E. Lucille Saffold, a missionary, who has, at 217 Delaware avenue northeast, a school for Italian girls. A Case of Human Depravity. Since the removal of the children from their home, three times the Rosett! woman, stiletto in hand, has sought to take Mrs. Saffold’s life, and last Thursday she and the father, aided by another Italian, Louis Occinero, undertook to secure the escape of their son from the Industrial School, where he had been placed by the board of chil- dren’s guardians, Unsuccessful in this, they still boast among their people that they will regain the girl from the House of the Good Shepherd—carry her off bodily after knocking down the nun who admits the mother to see the girl. As an isolated case of human depravity, that of the Rosettis would appeal to char- ity. But I have learned that it is only one among a hundred. Indeed, for more than a week I have heard and seen so much of human misery my bones ache with pity, and gladness even at Christmas time seems profane. I have been initiated in what Carlyle terms the “divine worship of sor- row,” until I lose sight of Christmas for gazing on Calvary. ‘The sin and sadness of the Italian quar- ter are daily crucifying the soul of a woman whose self-sacrifice I dimly de- scribe, saying she is a counterpart of Tolstol. Mrs. Saffold for three yedrs has lived with these Italians. Mind, I say lived with them. She has assumed the condi- tions that surround them, put on the cor- ruption of their souls—literally died herself that these poor, ignorant, desperate, de- praved creatures might live anew. A Life of Devotior I can tell you the outward circumstances of this consecration to sorrow, but to know it in tts fullness you must touch her cold, thin hand; you must sit in the light of her dear blue eyes, lcoking direct and big with the wisdom of new-born babes from a face almost transparent, it is so white and worn. You must hear the sound of her voice, and while she speaks watch the play of sorrow about her trembling lips and quivering chin. Then you want to see her blessed little girl, eight years old, growing in the basement home white as‘a flower budding in gloom. I was with this baby—she is scarcely more —last Thursday, when her face was like Parian marble and her lips scarlet with fever. I wanted to get a doctor for her, but she said: “Please don’t. I am praying to God all the time, and He ts healing me ag He sees fit,” ‘The story of Mrs. Saffold’s religious ex- perience runs like a chapter from the lives of the early saints, and I know the skep- ticism of my kind too well to try to repro- duce it, A successful sculptoress, she aban- doned her art and the refinements of life for her belief that she is “anointed to suffer” with the outcast of earth. She sup- ports herself and her child and her charity sewing. to the ways or the apostles of old, she lives and works alone, but for the mainstay the little girl) who shares her every thought and care. They Flock to Her. ‘The strange pair sleep in a hall bed room and live in the basement room where Mrs. Saffold has her school, ‘This room Is desti- tute of everything in the shape of conven- tional furniture except a child’s rocker and one chair. For the rest, it is furnished By reason of her strict adherence | “how to wash the: with scraps of mattimg that have been pieced into a covering over part of the stone floor, and pieced to cover a dozen boxes thit’ serve as additional chairs. On the days that she has school she goes with- out dinner herself to give a lunch, of some~ times bread and butter—more often, dry bread—to all her charges. The Italians flock to Mrs Saffold’s home like sheep to @ shepherd. I have been there when they have come for her to get a doctor, when they have come for her to get the doctor's. prescriptions filled, when Mrs. Rosetti has come for ven- geance, when the children’ have been us- nbled there, and one day when a fou! year-old submissionary came in to secure help from the supreme source. “Oh. teacher,” said Angelina—they men, women and children, call Mrs. fcld’ teacher—"Oh, teacher; won't you please pray for Tony? I can’t do nothing w's her. She be pretty good till she get dr...k and then she swears, and she swears just awful.” A Rather Startling Proof. The next day I was there,when Tony— six years old this sinner is—came in peni- tent and promised never to get drunk any more. ‘The same day I saw a less hopeful case recognize Mrs, Saffold as the fount from which all blessings flow in Schott's alley and Purdy’s court. As if to intensify the shadows on her life by contrast, she was named Lily. “I want five cents,” she said. “I want it, and it’s nobody's business what I want it for. Waen 1 had money 1 gave what 1 had and asked ‘no questions, and if you're a Christian, you'll give me a nickel and hold your tongue.” “You want to buy beer,” said Mrs. Saf- fold. “If you're hungry I'll give you some- thing to eat, but I can’t give you money to get drunk wit “I don’t want anything to eat,” replied Lily. “I want what I want, and I don't want nothing else,” which was such a terse exposition of human desire, I ouldn’t help laughing, whereupon Lily turned upon me. “Ah, you think I’m funny, do you? Well, I'm as good as you are, and I'm better looking, if you are a Christian. You can't come up ‘to these,’"” and without warning Lily whipped up her petticoats, displaying a pair of bare legs like chiseled marble. I admitted her superiority, and gave her a nickel to atone for the shortcomings of which she had convicted me. “How did you come to work among these Italians?” Ll asked Mrs. Saffold. Sbe Wen Their Con@dence. “In reading the daily papers,” she an- swered, “I was impressed with the fre- quency with which Italians were brought into the Police Court and fined $5 for a violation of their licensed privilege to sell fruit on the streets. I looked into the mat- ter and found that these men have what called a ‘moving-on’ license, for which they pay $25. This insures them_the privilege of selling to but two persons at a time. Sup- pose you and another stopped a banana man on the street to buy fruit of him and before you got away I came up to buy. If he sold ft to me without moving on from where you stood, he would be lable to arrest for violation of his license. The poor ignorant fellows, half of them can't be made to understand what is the privil- ege their license gives them. In trying to help them ie. this matter, 1 often found a man with a loaf of bread and a small plece of meat in his pocket, locked up in juil awaiting trial to take place the next morning, and his family at home, waiting for the food he carried to eat. Thus I became a messenger for them, going to their homes with these necessaries of life. In that way, I saw the home life of the women and little children, and saw a work which nobody was doing. But the women were like stone before me, and the children, so many scared wild ani- mals. The Italians are suspicious of all strangers, and the women have no will but that of whatever man is their master.” So Mrs. Saffold began with the mon. For eight months she went night after night into Purdy’s court and Schott's alley and taught these Italian men to speak, some of them to read, English. She sat with them while they played cards and drank whisky. illicitly vended. She ate their bad-smelling, nauseating food and finally, at the eni of eight months had so won their confidence that she was per- mitted to communicate with their wives and children, Hard Lot of the Women. Up to this time the women and little ones still shunned her. Then she began having the women and little girls come to her home. At this time Mrs. Saffold had a small house on B street, and as a re- ward for the little, girl who made the greatest progress, in cleanliness and godli- ness each month sHe took this child to live with her a week. On certain days the women came, and she- taught them how to cut and mgke their clothes and elves and be clean. Afterward she taught them of Jesus Christ and purity and holiness. The basic princi- ple of Mrs. Saffold's missionary endeavor is that you must civilize unfortunate crea- tures before you can christianize them, and she counts it her greatest earthly glcry that, by her efforts, nine families have moved out of alleys Into streets be- cause gheir souls had come to abhor the social “conditions prevailing about them. She has two other familles wanting to go and waiting only to find a house within their means. “But while some measure of success has been granted me,” says Mrs. Saffold, “there are times when I almost despair. I cannot begin to tell you what misery is the lot of the Italian woman from the time she is born, She is deemed fit for but one use, and until she reaches a mar- rlageable age, which among these people is commonly as early as eight years, she is treated with less consideration than a beast of burden, Just as you hear our little girls rejoicing, looking forward to Christmas, you hear these litte Italian girls talk about attaining the rrying age. Last week I had a child five years old in here, just so heart-broken with dis- couragement to think how long it would be before she could escape being beaten and starved to become the property of some man, that she couldn't sew or play, and insisted that she would cut the life out of her throat the first chance sh t. Halt ‘was not told in court of the horrors of the life of Theodora Rosetti. Besides all that cannot be decently described. She was made, night and morning, to pick up coal along the railroad, or sift cinders from the Capitol fires, and drag home on her small back a load for a horse to carry. There was another man in the alley whom I be- sought the Humane Society to prosecute. He had two girls—one elevtn, the other thirteen—and lived in idleness off the earnings of these children. But all the Hu- mane Society could do was to stipulate the size of the loads the girls should carry on their backs. The burden of immorality on their pitiful young souls no law could les- sen. Bad Treatment of Girls. “The oldest brother in the family beat these poor girls shamefully. This older brother cruelty is commun ameng the Ital- jans. A boy in Schott’s alley being en- raged with his little sister for not going to the school he wanted her to attend, kicked her in jhe ribs, leaving black and blue marks; then, to prevent her crying, put hi thumbs in each corner of her mouth a tore the flesh, so that it was over two weeks healing. When I threatenec the boy with the law he cursed 1m ying he Was next man to his father in'the family and had a right to treat the girls as he wanted to. “Last week the little girl who cane in and wanted me to pray for her six-year- old sister that swears when she gets drunk, was struck on the head by her father with & soap box, and for three days could not see to sew for pain. And what do you think was her offense? She objected to having the monkey sleep with her. Her father is an organ grinder, and the mon- key at night was tied to the foot of Anve- lipa’s bed, ‘and, oh, teacher,’ she said, ‘he would come and scratch my head for bugs, and there wasn’t no bugs there. “The Italians will not, as do other for- eigners, take the oath of allegiance to the United ‘States. They give as their reason that their church forbids them, Yet among themselves they denounce the au- thority of their church, saying this is a free country, and they will do as they please. “But they do not do as they please. They do to please the next one above them who has more money. There are two liquor dealers on Pennsylvania avenue who ex- ercise supreme authority over them. These padrones rent houses to them; they supply them with the whisky which’ they illicitly vend Sundays and week days, and dictate to them in everything. Not long ago some of the women i had taught to sew deter- mined to buy a machine among them, and they dare not get one only through one of these padrones, who charged them $5 for a worn-out thing worth scarcely so many cents.” An Italian Curse. “In Schott’s alley a thrifty woman has a store, which by paying for protection and support from the padrones, she compels the people to pationize. There was a child starving to death in that alley one time,and I went to The Star begging the paper to publish the need the mother and baby were in, When the first supplies that came in response to the appeal in The Star arrived this alley storekeeper diverted all else that followed and prevented the needy woman from touching the provisions, telling her they were poison, and threatening her with the padrone. The child starved to death, and after the funeral the mother, still under threats of this storekeeper, was obliged to curse me and my child with what they count an awful curse. She took two pigeons, tore them apart alive; in one inclosed a paper on which was written my name; in the other a paper bearing Ruthie’s name; hung both birds on the wall, where, after chanting incantations to bring down vengeance upon me, they were left to rot and drop to pieces. “] don't know how many times my life has been threatened. One scissor-grinder, for no other reason than the natural hatred his race have for Americans, swore he would kill me. The poor creature was half- starved and half frozen. So I went to a woman who could well afford it, and got him two suits of warm woolen underwear. Then I went to his deor the samo night— {t was almost midnight. I shall never for- get the terrible look that was on that man's face, as he opened the door and recognized me. It was the look of a wild beast that finds its prey within reach of its teeth. But before he could catch his breath, I thrust the clothing into «is hand and told him I had seen how wretehed and unhappy he was, ard that I wanted him to know I was his friend, however he might feel toward me. He shrunk into the shadow of the door, muttering to himself, then in a moment, grasped my hand, and crying like a baby, said, ‘Oh, if you know how I have wanted to kill you.’ He ts my enduring friend now. A Visit to the Alleys. “Another, because of the same hatred of Italians for Americans, while the small- pox was imminent, vowed he would throw me down and stamp my life out, because, he said, I was vaccinating the children in the alleys to put American blood in them. I suggested to Mrs. Saffold carrying Christmas among these people, and she said, ‘Come with me, and see for yourself whether it fs possible.” We started in at Schott’s alley. Here, by the way, is a neat violation of the ordi- nance forbidding the erection of dwelling hovses in alleys. After the enactment of this regulation Schott's aiiey was rechrist- TWO CENTS, Te proof of the pudding is in fe cafing. PYesferdap’s Sfar contained 33 cofumns of adverfisements, made up of 548 separate announce: ments. These advertisers foug$t pubficife—nof merefp space, Schott’s court, and last summer a row of new houses was put up there. ‘This alley, however, is paved with stone and is in ‘excellent condition. I visited two houses here and found them simpl arren and dirty. The alley was perfectly quiet, not a child to be seen. Mrs. Rosetti has so far progressed since her encounter with the law as to have whitewashed her fence inside. But as we approached Pur- dy's court I would have been glad of an excuse to back out. The alley leading irto the court was deep with mud, and in the court water pipes were being laid, so that great banks of nasty, slimy clay were piled in front of the houses. Here chil- dren swarmed—numerous and lively as an army of ants. tly the first one espied y came running toward us tion, catching hold of our skirt uding me in a joyous welcome, from ‘which I inwardly shrank. In one door appeared a woman holding a sick aby in her arms—a baby that would be the youngest only a few days longer. A Dismal Siek Room. _ Other women poked their heads from their doors, but we were seized upon by one who could scarcely move for the chil- dren under her feet, and began telling Mrs. saffold that the docter had been there. this Mrs. Saffold replied that she was glad, and told me that she has seen one of the physicians to the poor wait in this alley while a collection was taken up to raise him a dollar before he would lift a finger to ieve a child writhing on the ground at feet in a fit. Genita led us into her house, at least a dozen children swarming in after us—girls with but one or two exceptions. If there is nothing to eat and no money but enough to buy a bunch of bananas for the day’s trade in an Italian's house in the morning, he leaves the woman and female children to starve or steal, while he takesehis sons with him, feeding them from the stock he buys, or off the proceeds of his first sale. Genita’s husband was upstairs sick with pneumonia, and to him we went. I can no more give you an idea of the appearance of this home than I gould give you a real- istic sense of a dung hill. In the bed room where the man lay sick were two beds and a cradle. When Genita, Mrs. Saffold, and myself were added, we had to turn in unison or we stuck fast. Yet Mrs. Saffold told me she had been in that room attending the festivities following a chris- tening when it held ninety-six men and women, all dancing. The man in bed did not look sick to me, though he had drawn three prescriptions from the city physician. His rent was un- paid, but Genita said they had a good “boss.” If he came and she told him she had only $2 or $1, he says: “All right; give me that. Oh, yes; he 1s good.- Sometime the boss come, and If there is not all the money he say “Get out,’ and he throw the things into the street.” a month. In Close Quarters. When we returned down stairs, among the horde of children filling the two rooms below, drawn close to the crazy stove, in which a fire was burning, wes a young woman, holding a sick baby. The baby had been hit on the head by its father, and it was moaning and’rolling its eyes and twist- ing its head with a peculiar movement. On the young mother's face—she {s only nine- teen—was a stamp of added wretchedness which Genita’s worried face had outgrown, ‘The girl was young enough to count happi- ness her due, and miserable she felt her- self, robbed of her own belonging. She was resentful, sullen, hated charity for the measure it was of the injustice done her. In the adjoining house, three-year-old Angelina had been left in charge of a fif- teen-months-old baby—her baby, she called it, as she came hugging it over the bridge formed by a narrow plank thrown across the deep ditch dug for the water pipes. Tony, the unregenerate six-year-old, had hackslided, and, though she appeared to be perfectly sober, she swore at Mrs. Saffold with ali the might of her few years. In this house, on two of the three beds filling the front room down stairs, macaroni was spread to dry. Here, in the four smail rooms comprising the whole house, lodge nineteen grown persons, three children and a monkey—six men in the front room down- stairs, eight men in the front room upstairs, the man, his wife, a female lodger and the three children and the monkey in the rear room; in the kitchen two men on a cot. Fer lodging and the privilege of the stove, these Italians pay $3 a month. Eac man makes bis own macaroni, sprea-li it, as 1 had seen it, on his bed to dry. A Youthful Missionary. In another house a beautiful little girl opened the door, admitting us into a room in which her gentle influence had created some resemblance to a home. When Mrs. Saffold first knew this child, she was a blood-thirsty small reprobate who, in a rage, would fly at the enemy, catch hold with her teeth, and not let go until she had a plece of the enemy's flesh. Last summer this child went one day to Mrs. Saftold, saying: “There are some new children come into the alley today who are bad as they can be, and I've been think- ing, teacher, you look so tired and white, I might help you by having a little school myself and teach them all to thread a needle and comb their heads before they come up to bother you.” So this seven-year-old missiondry opened her school under the steps of her alley home, and took the four strangers through a preparatory course of civilization. ‘Three or four men were standing about as we went from house to house, that dif- fered one from another only as the sights and smells of one barn yard differs from those in the next. Colored men working leying the water es, mingied with Italians, and mangy curs were chasing and yelping about us, At night when the men, busy about town durin, the day, return whisky, freely, is bought and sold, and while we have not, certainly as in’ New York, anything in Washington of the nature of police pro- tection of crime, It is remarkable how far from human kKen—all but Mrs. Saffold and the prying gaze of a woman reporter—the horrors and crimes of Purdy’s court are. A Burden Too Great. The day following my visit there I sat with the children while they sewed, sang, prayed and played in Mrs, Saffold’s home— the pinched, pitiful home that for want of support has dwindled from a small house to this single basement room. Every face was clean, bright, radiant with intelligence and hope. Individually surveyed, it is apparent that these girls have been advanced beyond their parents’ state through several cycles of evolution by the unaided efforts of one loving, faith- ful, but, oh! such a heart-broken, little woman. Nor did these children go without a €hristmas today, though there was no place to put it in their home. Mrs. Saffold has herself provided them with a dinner in her basement, and last night they hung their stockings ‘in a line along her wail not to find them empty of all toxen of Santa Claus this morning. But I could not rejoice in their happiness, reading the price of it written on the face of the solitary life that assures it. I have asked inyself, and I ask you, is it right, is it human that one pair of woman's hands and the tiny hands of a little girl, who last Thursday was taken sick with pneumonia, should have so much to do? PAULINE PRY. _ _ No Justification. ‘The President has Cenied the application for a commutation of the sentence in the case of Cha-Nopa-Huah, alias Two Sticks, an Indian, convicted in South Dakota of murder and sentenced to be hanged De- cember 28, 1894. “After a thorough exam- ination of this case,” says the President, “] car find 20 grounds to justify my in- terference with the sentence of the court.” ——___ se Personal Mention, Mr. Ruloff R. Strattan of the United States civil service commission office and his brother, George Wm. Strattan of the Columbia Athletic Club, left the city on Sunday to epend the holidays among friends and relatives in Philadelphia, Pa, For a hovel such as this Genita pays $8 | THE GAME WAS A TIE Columbia and Union Battle on Foot Ball Field. AN EVEN SCORE RESULTED Phil King’s Splendid Runs Near End of Game. LITTLE ENTHUSIASM ——__ + The Christmas foot ball game played to- day at National Park did, not prove as great an attraction as that played on Thanksgiving -day. There are several reasors that may possibly have tended to this end. It may be that the Washington public had enough of sport which in the game played between the Columbia Ath- letic Club and Georgetown College re- sulted so seriously to one player. Or it may be that Christmas is too much of a home holiday for people to be attracted to seats on hard benches, Perhaps, also, the rather threatening weather and last night's rain had a depressing effect on the attend- ance. Whatever the causes, the crowd that was gathered at noon at th> park to see the game between the Columbia Club and Union College teams was very small, num- bering scarcely a thousand. There were perhaps twenty-five ladies on the stands. ‘There was little enthusiasm, a few horns tng blown at times, but they sounded very like Christmas horns, rather than the genuine foot ball instruments, The spectators were mostly strung out along the rope line on the south side of the field. But few wore colors. The Union College players reached the park first and immediately repaired to the dressing room. Columbia soon showed up, the men complaining loudly because a ‘bus had not been sent to earry them to the grounds. The general impression among the spectators was that Union would put up a strong game; first, because the visit- ors were in excellent trim, and, second, because Columbia played ‘a number of substitutes. Shields and one or two other members of the Thanksgiving day game occupied reserved seats. Visitors Arrive. The Union College team trotted onto the gridiron a few minutes before noon, and was greeted with but faint applause. Half a minute later Columbia made its appear- arce. A few tin horns were sounded and again silence reigned. The players were not at all energetic in their practice. The Union boys are a fine-looking, ath- letic set of young men, and they created a very favorable impression as they sctentifl- cally dropped en the pigskin, The first yell of the day was heard when Union College made @ touch-down a few minutes after the game started. Then far down the field rang out— Rah, rah, rah! U-n-i-o-n. Hiki, hiki, hiki. ‘That Union had sympathizers among the spectators was evidenced as goal was kick- ed, for shouts of “You're not playing with Georgetown today” were heard behind the ropes. A feature of the play of the Union men was! the enthusiasm they put into their work, and the hearty manner in which the signals were given. ‘The crowd was an orderly one, no effort being made to get inside the ropes. The policemen stood about the grounds at in. tervals, looking extremely lonesome. Owing to the fact that the Columbia players are very much out of condition, it was decided to have the halves of but twenty-five minutes’ duration. Between halves not a spectator crossed the gridiron, A number of horn solos were rendered, but the peace of the patients in Freedmen’s Hospital was not otherwise turbed. Absence of local interest in the contest was perhaps the most noticeable feature at the grounds. One Columbia en- thustast carried a huge kazoo horn repre- senting a rooster’s head, which was made to crow triumphantly when things looked favorable for Columbia. ‘The familiar yell of Columbia was given its initial rendition of the day when the ball approached dangerously near Union's goal, a few minutes after the ae 2 the second half. A touchdown followed; Clark kicked goal, and then the first real enthusiasm of the day was displayed. The crowd warmed up when Phil King made two long runs in succession three minutes before the close of the game. “What's the matter with King?” “He's all right,” was shouted, and eral bunch- es of firecrackers were exploded. “That ball is a pretty good thing—push it along,” yelled the Columbia rooters when the oval reached the vicinity of Union's goal. The Line Up. The teams lined up as follows: Union College Position! Pollock -Left end Palmer. Left tac! -Left guard ..Center.. Blodgett Terry apen : Dickinson Swectland “Right guard Peters. Right tackle....Capt. Wells Mallery. Right end. -.Sefton Capt. Brown...Quarter back......Phil Kin; Baker. Left half back. Barnar Myers. .Right half back..8. Johnson Richards --Full_ back... Clark Substitutes for Union—Gorden, Cowe and Cass, Umpire—Dr, James R. Church. Ref- eree—'rank Butterworth. —_Linesman— Harry King. Commencing Play. Union won the toss and took the kick- off. The ball went down to the Columbia 25-yard line. A Columbia man fumbled ard the pigskin went foul. On the third down Myers pushed throvgh the line to the 10-yard line and another down gent the ball to within three yards of” Columbia's goal. A slight gain was made in the next scrimmage by the locals, but this wis at once regained by Union, and again the ball was right in front of the goal. Another rush and the ball was pushed over the line between the posts in just seven minutes. Goal was kicked easily, and in less tha ten minutes the score stood: Union, 6; Columbia, 0. Sharper Play. Columbia made a geod kick-off, and stop- ped Richards in abcut ten yards. A good deal Letter play was put up by the local men, and King tcgan to get better ac- quainted with the Columbia tactics, The ball was kept in about the middle of the field for several minutes, and several rough $ occurred. rk got the pall at the right end, but lost ground. After a stort gain for C lumbia the ball was pessed back to Clark for a kick, and sent down to Union's tw ty-five-yard line. Sefton made a good and clinched the gain thus made. Myers made a gain of twenty yards for Unicn, being well tackled by Sefton just in time te keep him from a clear fleld. Union soor. made another gain, and then another, by means of hard center rushes, in which the great strength of the college men told heavily. Richards was slightly hurt and a brief delay followed. Myers made a gain of about twelve yards for Union, and Casa followed with two more. Mycrs made an ineffectual try at the left end and Union lost the ball. On the next line-up Clark tried a kick, which went foul, and eon | a spectator’s head, bounded back. A Unik