The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1874, Page 4

gpair which misfortune when it pierces the heart of a young girl, Enrnow terrible it ts to see such & hopeless look in a young face, “You have been here be‘ore,” remarked the cler- gyman to the older woman, who answered, rea- y— m “Yes, sir, [have; but not my danghter. We are living or lodging With an old Irish lady, at No. 46 Mulberry street, near Bayard, in the basement. We pay (orty cents a night between us for the lodgings. My girl was out to service, and [ took her away because her mistress was cruel to ber and beat her with @ poker." “Well, I will see that your daughter shall get & place where she wili not beaten with a poker,” said the clergyman. “Have you on hand anytuing to eat to-day?” “Yes, sir. We owe the old lady with whom we lodge ior six nights’ lodging, and we would have been put out last night but she hadn’t the heart to do it because it was’Sunday night, and she let us So I thought we would come down to see uld get anything to eat, Myself and my duugbter wouldn’t have had anything to eat this last week uf it had not been for the old woman, who has been very kind to us, and who trusted Yor our lodging. My daughter—oer name 1s Alice O'Neill—had a bowl of tea given to her today by the oid Lac a “Yes, mother, and some bread and butter too, | added the girl, with a quiet gravity that was sim- Piicity itseli. “Yes,” repeated the mother, “I forgot the bread and butter. I gota bow! of tea, too, and it mage | me teel warm.’ | “Well, here is some bread and oatmeal and tea | and sugar, and some rice to take fo your lodgings, and I suppose your friend will let you cook and | prepare them for your use !"" “Oh, yes, sir; thank you,’ sald the girl, with ‘WANT. Sufferings of the Poor Who Do Not Beg. SCENES OF STARVATION \A Day with the City’s Pauper- ized Thousands. (TENEMENT HOUSE WRETCHEDNESS. famine Faces and Shivering Forms Among the Working Women, Ja Physician's Experiences—Sickness and Desti- | tation—Communications and Sugges- | tions from Sympathetic Citizens. parted and closed the door after them, “There 1s nothing bad in that girl's face,’ re- | marked the clergyman, as the door was closed be- | hind the mother and daughter—both waifs whom | the waves of the great ocean of city Iie have thrown to the suriace jor a day, perhaps, to finally ‘Additional revelstions of the unprecedented | engulf tham. swimming eyes and a dignified bow, and both de- | listress that has fallen upon so Many thousands ff the people of this city are given below by | The phase of suffering pov- rty depicted 1s of that character that never | to awaken a spontaneous sympathy, ely, the indigence that struggles almost unto with the preservation of self-respect. Fi- elity to truth and a stuboorn determination to rtain facta bave been the guiding principles in @ presentation of this sad story, and, startling as @ narrative must appear, it is still true that the | alt of the misery and sorrow eudured in tuis city | | upon, all declared that the The Fourth Ward. With OMcer Patrick O'’Sulltvan, of the Fourth | Precinct, a HERALD reporter made @ tour through the tenements of the Fourth ward. The gente- men who make a business of charity, wuen called poor of their special district were in moderately comfortable circum- stances, but the investigations of the HERALD man proved the statements to be false in the extreme. DESERTED AND STARVING, erty and privation seldom equalied in romance. ‘The room in question 1s occupied by Mrs. Han- nah Haforan, with her aged mother and three little children, the latter _ neari, 3 not yet tald. TENEMENT HOUSE POVERTY. The Fifth and Eighth Wards, These two wards, which comprise all that terri- feory lying west of Broadway, and running north jand south from Thomas to West Houston treets, are more densely populated than tt be expected from the numberof business aces within these boundaries. A reporter called jat the rectory of St. Jonn’s church, on Varick | yetreet, and there saw the Rey. Alvan Wiswall, who le a statement in regard to the poor of the dis- ay who have been taken care of by the charita- age, on whom sie and the rest of the family rened men le association known as St. John’s Guild, of hich the Rev. Mr. Wiswall 1s the President. | at gentleman said :—‘-The St. John’s Guild covers e entire area of the Fiith and Eighth wards, and | suppose there are about 8,000 famulies in tne dis- rict, Of this number I belleve about 1,000 fam- es @re in needy circumstances, and 600 of these | dren; and, although they have had to send their | 4, ve been visited and helped by the Guild, who ave done a great deal of good. These 1,000 fam- bave about 3,500 children, and 2,200 of these hildren were clothed and fed by the Guild of St. john. We clothed 50 children last Sunday, but ow we ere out of funds, and have not | street, is also a deplorable one. Skeletons irom want 0! 100d. Previous to Novem- ver last Mrs. Halloran had her husband to provide for her and the children; but in the middle of the month mentioned Mr, Halloran, who was a troit lealer, with a good business, leit his home for St. ‘Louis, and has nos since been seen or heard irom. The old grandMother, whom the reporter saw, stated that several days last week the children had to go to bed without ood and wake up in the morning not knowing wuere to get a crust to eat. The family have no beds, bedding, clothing or !nel, and nightly shiver themselves to sieep. Of the three children the oldest 13 Seven and the youngest three years, THE BREAD WINNER GONE. The case of Mrs. McNamara, of No. 61 James This woman, een out of employment for five montlis, as just buried a child fliteen years of Whose husband has to a great extent for support, two other children, walk. Mrs. McNamara has the youngest yet unabie to THE COMPANIONSHIP OF MISERY. In an attic room, 12 by 12, at No. 28 Oak pent | live a double family of eight persons, Mrs. ani Mr. Lawler, the latter an intellixent aud respecta- bie mechanic, live in the room, with their three chil- little ones to bed many @ night without a morsel of food, they have wealth enough to share their shelter with another poor woman named Samson, and her two children. Mr. Lawlor was working jor BH. R. Samueis, in Brooklyn, until two mouths ago, when that gentleman became a bankrupt, which event leit Mr. Lawlor without work. He can get nothing to do, and his pros pect {or starving is very good and almost certain. ‘His lodger, Mrs. Samson, has a cancer in the breast; | she can neither work nor obtain proper treatment for herseli; and her two children go to school, In No. 3 Baiavia street, in the back room on the | | first door, there is to be witnessed a scene of pov- f of the other ts an tron bridge connecting them, and intended jor an escape in case of fre. The dis- | tance is about thirty feet, and across tuis avenue | hundreds o! thieves have in their time eluded the pursuit of th ice. The barracks are about eighteen ¥ old, and look at least forty, Misery, | squalor and flith reign here supreme, ‘ABOUT THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE LIVE HERE, ‘The building is six stories high, and our families are located on each Moor. The average number in | ‘@ family 18 about eight, Visita Were paid to numerous rooms, and pov | erty was evidenced in nearly every one of them, Men out of work: women, discouraged and weak | for want of subsistence, were eviderced in almost every piace visited, Some were plunged in de- spatr, others ciung to the hope that matters would change lor the better when spring came. The Jast visit paid was down to @ basement room in the Water street house, occupied by seven people. Toe fire Was nearly out, and but little furniture was seen; all looked poverty-stricken. On @ Dar. row mantel sat an emaciated yellow cat, appar. ently trying to get warmth on the principle that heat ascends, On the table were seen the remains of a scanty repast, MARY WELSA’S STATEMENT. After hesitating for some minutes Mrs. Welsh, in the absence of her husband, couseuted to make the following statemen’ Yes, sir, I’m Mrs. Welsh since 1847, and I have five children, and that woman you see lying on toe bed is my sister, but she’s sick. Lam going to-morrow to see Mr. Kellogg, the Commissioner for the poor peop'e, on ‘Third avenue. | have not always been poor like this sir; no, thank God. I used to work in the Court House at scrub- , bing, and many’s the time J have walked to the | City Had through the suow to do my work, and lett my litte children at home; and, bad lu Which Hank Smith was President, aud Walter Rocne worked with him, Weil, 1 put all my hard earned money in the savings bank, and tne officers stole itail away, and we, poor critiers, must starve now. I went to Walter Roche just @ litle while ago and said, “Now, Waiter, [’m in great trouvle and my old man’s sick, and you know how hard I | worked jor my money, and won't oa give me $100 and WN give you up my ink book, | and Il never say anything more about the other $200," Weil, Waiter talked Kindly to me, and said tuat Hank Smith had been the head of the bank, and that be could do nothing for me, CURSING SMITH ON HER KNEES. [went down on my knees to-night before this | ttle table, aud prayed that God might curse him | tor banging, so Much poverty on poor folks, hope | may be torgiven jor cursing Smith, but I could not help it, When you have no coal in your house, and bave got an empty belly, one doesn't feel oj a very Christian disposition, | can tell you. Mi. GEORGE WASHINGTON KELLOCK. Tam airaid iv’s no good my going to see Mr. Kellock, for everybody is out of work and wants assistance. | heard to-day from a poor friend of mine, who has a sick husband and five children, that she applied to Mr. Kellock and had not got any reliel ior six weeks, So there 18 not any good in my going there. | to-day and askea him what we should do, and he THE POWER OF MOLL KELLY. “I tell a what it is, old lady, (I am over fiity-flve years old, added the'poor woman) a8 long as I can get one meal aday and smvuke my pipe, by the powers of Moll Kelly, I | Wou't ask any help. Let those get it who are worse | off than we are.’’ My husband 1s kind o: proud, | though he 18 poor, and it goes against his grain to ask for help. I have been thinking of apply- ing for assistance to St James Cathole ; church, for the priests are very good there and will do all they can for a poer tamily. It’s very hard to be without coal, isn’t it? Can you tell me, sir, if It’s true that the soldiers of the Seventh regiment are giving away money to poor peuple? But it is very hard to act like @ beggar. Tweed knows ‘me, but that’s nothing nowadays, REPORTER—Have you had sufficient to eat lately Mrs. Weilsn? Mrs. WELSH—Some times I do, but more times L lon’t, What l’in most sorry for is the little ones—it falls hard on them. If they could work they would to gel some money for us; but they're too littie and | there’s no work Jor anybody anyhow, There are peopie living up stairs lm told are poorer than we are, if that’s possible, and are starving. It’s acruel winter, sir, and the worst l’ve ever seen since | I le‘t ireland—many along day. Perhaps we snail | Puli through it, perhaps not. I keep to myself and hever leave my basement here. There are people up stairs who live in style, and seem to forget all | about people starving a lew leet off fromthem. I put my money in the Bowling Green Savina, of | I had a talk with my old man | lone «any visiting in thirty days. I te- leve, however, that we will get more joney, and get it soon, and, in fact, don't say lor myseli, however, ‘Thanking the poor woman for the information given, the reporter took his leave THE WIDE HALL, OR THE MONROE BARRACKS, and when they come home they, in company with | is the only plan to relieve the poor because it 18 | the other littie ones, Set out to beg a bit to eat for matic and organized, as we have in the two | themselves and their parents. Some days the iitle | | to floor the store was piled witn good things. The reporter knows whereof he writes, tor he tasted the sausage. ten cents ham and bread enough to satiate a giant are provided. As a brave Bohemian with an immense hat remarked, “This is better than the doctor shop.” The profits on each sale inflnttesim: the number of saies is immense. Captail neered the path tothe basement, where several oxen Were being dismembered and converted inty sausages. The wonderful economy of space, the division of labor, the curious machines, the vast mixing troughs, spacious icehouse ana other re- markavie features can here be but briefly gianced at. The economy of the concern would really merit an extended notice tor itself, The Captain said Lindner had beguo — in a very small way, but Ms place was now famous | and was resorted to from all over the ward and, indeed, other parts of the city. It would be weil if dozens of others lke it could be established. It does more to Hight the distillery than even the pray- ing women of Onio. August Hulmbatchek, a repre: sentative Bohemian, wus then visited, He keepsa modest lager beer saloon in Filth street, between avenues Aand B, Beliiad it isa large hall, where @ixht Nourishing Boheuuan societies meet, besides a Turner clad aud two schools for teaching the Czech language (by the way, this startling word is | pronounced Chesh), and iidren's class for the Same perpetuation of thelr nacional tongue. The tenants up stairs were most cowlortabiy lodged, ‘The rooms were few, but neatly and even ele- gantiy furnisned, There was evidently value for every cent spent by the tenants, and the taste In pictures, fine embroidery, &c., was very noticea- bie. About seven-eighths oi the Bohemians are cigar makers. ‘hey earn (rom $15 to $30 @ week. About 800 are now ona strike, but have | saved enough in times past to keep them well for | some ume. The women doa good deal of needle- | | work. Spotless cleaniiness was the universai rule. Moving down avenue A, or “Dutch Broadway,” as itis more generally known in that locality, to see the German people, Mr. Simon Kingelmann, ot No, 60, was visited, A cutter by trade, his rooms, modest in dimensivns, were beautiful in | their cleanliness and tue good housewuery ap- parent. He said the hard times nad been lelt, of Course; but (rom prudent precautions, taken long ago, relief associations, and, in gome instances, help from neigh»ors, anything like destitution was utterly unknown. His brignt daugoter | gayly piloted the visitors to the upper regions, where Mr. Adam Katzenmeyer, & pie baker, received the little party and exhibited his “in- terior,” a8 clean and pleasant as any. Certainly not arich man, he had woat many have not, con- tent and comfort, Tae reporter’s conductor as sured him that a week’s travel trom door to door would disclose nothing here more alarming. It was certainly un agreeable disappoint..ent tu find 80 much solid hap; iness and sterling worth, The Germans are certainly good citizens, DARKER DWELLINGS. Detective Gallagher now, like an amiable Afrite, took up the thread of the story, and conducted the HERALD reporter fo a sort of woral Russian bath, No. 333 East Eleventn street is Cogan’s alley. A foul, foetid, noisome passage, dark, slimy. and pu- tresceut, leads between loity, gloomy tenements, to a human hive that is ghastly in its wretcheaness, Victor Hugo never wrete of more dismal scenes, nor has auytuing more shocking been drawn by the masterly pencil of Doré, Two hundred and fifty tamiles are herded in these rear buildings. Among them are a great many Italians, who have migrated from Crosby street, chiefly ragpickers by profession. Here, in two miserable rooms, hardiy larger than a state- room in asteamship, Were found Thomas McMahon, his wile and jour dren. He has lost the use of his right hand, which is absolutely snrivelled up with acute rheumatism, and supports, with a brave heart, a sober brain and a devout trust in Providence ail those six persons on what he makes by selling newspapers. The squalor was fearful, The children Were in rags, and toolew even of them tu keep out the cold, A spark of fire in a tiny stove supplied some heat. fhe win- dows, to economise it and keep out the bitter cold, were fast closed, The stench was feariul. The poor man said the ventilation was good! He pointed out with some pride, ag snow- ing he was berter off than most of his neighbors, a & window “giving on’ the staircase, a mere trap, hardiy eighteen inches square; $6 month 1s toe rent for this apartment. Mr. Gallagher said Cogan’s alley was one of the “hardesv” holes in New York. Brawl: drunkenness, disease, crime were endemic, Dan Berkeley’s bucket- shop, No. 406 East Eleveuth street, was then visited. Old women with bottles, | biear-eyed girls, wan and haggard beiore maturity, stagger- Ing wen were gathering like tue sails On tue At- lantic near New York oarbor. Whiskey at ten cents a soda water bottle ful! was the honey to at- tract these drones, the head and iropt of their { | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. | lodging minimum of personal resea Time would be ved, and i. visitors and cover the entire ground every day. tains of police have no time to do th themselves, nor have they men enough to act as ote for the distribution of relief were it put in ed bY Ta on some really comprehen- sive plan, This, said the Captain, would be the solution of the whole diMculty. Tnere is money enough, were it divided judiciously. “In Poverty Hollow.” It was an easy matter to reach the Thirteenth precinct station, corner of Attorney and Delancey streets; but then, after a notification that the house of the ward had been turned into a “coal bin,” it Was not so easy to find the cases of actual want and destitution in the more overty stricken terrritory Of the precinct, which Sounded by Broome and Rivington streets on the one side and Columbia and Pitt streets on the | Other, Said Sergeant Brockland, “1 don’t know ren. ch agent could then direct his staf of but | their power; but they will all giadly co-operate _ 2 | With properly authorized officials appoin' Waish stepped over in citizens’ clothes and pio- | some general societ, 8 our Ward is worse off than others, as we have | ith us in certain sections, such as Ridge street, between Delancey and Rivington streets, @ class of bad ones at all times, and around the ‘Hook’ there are noted thieves | always Ls for anything vile, from the taking of @ pocketbook to pleading destitution; yet there must be suffering with us, a8 rumors of ‘hard | times’ have reached us more than once in the | c ourse of the past month.’ At this juncture the HERALD reporter was intro- duced to special officer Parish, and stating the | object of his mission, he said “Come with me, and T'li saow you one or two cases of wantin ‘Poverty Hollow.” Up an alley way on Sheriff street, bearing the number of 50, the writer was first directed, aud when back of the buildings he mounted three | pairs of stairs, rickety and dilapidated, and plod- ding through a iong entry way, knocked at the door. “Cone in,” said a feeble voice, and the writer, with his companion, opened the door. The room was without Carpet; in one corner stood a table with an unwashed cup and saucer and plate; there Was @ moderate sized stuve in the centre of the apartment, but it was | witnout fire. All about the apartment was neat- hess, but want and destitution held here sway, and there was bo ganen ng the fact, “Uome in,” again said the mild voice, and officer and reporter looked into a dark adjoining room, and there sick, full of want and pain, lay Mrs, Elizabeth Reynolds, a widow of seven years, who, until @ year ago, worked out her own salvation, and, laboring from morn until night with her dauguter Rosa, kept the little domicile tn good order and lived happy. Then, that is twelve months ago, the mother coming home frum work feil upon the ice, fractured her wrist and (it was a long story) trom that time she could not assist her gentle child, and bills of leg erie ag and grocers accumulated so fast that, despite their miserly economy, want, poverty and destitution stared ‘them in the face, From eight o'clock Rosa, eighteen years of age, and feeling that she and her mother deserve better tare, worked until six in the evening; 8 knew her mother wanted encouragement and strengthening food, ana endeavored to extend both, but when her Wages were cut down from $6 @ week to $450, which she now receives, the daughter, who never knew what despair was, ielt as uf God had alm st forsaken them, Thus the HERALD reporter found them—mother Sick in bed ina back room, no fire in the stove and the room cheerless and drear in consequence ; the table still containing the cup and saucer which had held the daughter’s morning meal. “Oh!” suid the mother tn her feeble voice, “11 Rosa could have what she wanted I would be satistied; but she can’t, and | baven’t any iriends.” She has friends, moreover, and thougu poverty and waat have made her a lite strange, the sunlight of the | “nousehold” exists, and the daugater is endeavor- ing to protect her sick motuer trom the cull biasts of this season and make their home comiortable with the sum o: $4 a week. ‘ll have my little girl make a fire,” said Officer Parish, as we ieft, “so that Rosa can find a warm room when she returns,” and thus Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds was leit last evening about seven o'clock, without fire, witnout ood and without much hope. “That's not all,” said the reporter’s pilot. “I'll show you, rmght here, in ‘Poverty Hollow,’ one other case.” Up over a grocer’s store, No. 248 De- lancey street, corner Oo! Sheriff, and in the front room, our next visit was made, ‘Poverty Hol- low” indeed! In one corner of the room, under scanty bedclothes, lay Mrs. O’Brien, a widow, dying with consumption, There was fire in tne room, but poverty stretched out its unweicome hanas all arouad. A chair near her bed contained & washboard, and that prompted the visitors to ask the dying woman what help she had, ‘None, sir,” she said, with a terrible cough, “my bo; ‘ards 163 visitors, ladies and gentlemen. Each of | Ones return home with empty baskets, and then 4 visits one biock—I mean Dy a block a square houses on four sides. Now, each of these visit- whether it be a man or a Woman, will make tt or her positive and particular business to make ves acquainted with every case of distress Want in his or her block. As they live on the it will be impossible for an impostor to hum- or deceive. We have no lodgings to furnish one, but we furnish food, fuel, clothing and Cecrcan, to those who are sick.” Here the erend gentleman exhibited a ticket as {ol- AORN POR ORR OOOL LO AE DOE OOO DE OOO TE OEE ST. JOHN’s GUILD RELIEF TICKET. By presenting this Ticket at the Office of the GULLD, St. John’s Onapel, Varick street, 3 the dearer will receive any ONE of the folow- ing packages:— 4 bs. CORN MEAL, 1 ib, SUGAR, | 3 ibs. HOMINY. 3g lb, COFFEE, | 2% los. OATMEAL, 3 ib. TEA. 1g tba. RICE, 2 LOAVES BREAD. Office open dany (Sundays excepted), irom ten A. M. to three P. M. No Ticket good uniess signed by | ALVAH WISWALL, Master. neenennereneee rece cere oe 20 rent p000 Ooo: “We sell thase tickets in packages of $10 worth those who may wish to dispose of them charita- | Diy. Most of the people are decidedly opposed to « Abe soup house, principally as a matter of pride. ur worst districts are in.Leonard, Worth and part of Greenwich streets. Tnat part of Green- wich street called ‘Rotten row,’ a line pt tenement houses between Spring and anal streets is terrible. Some of the people who come here are quiet well Wed people who have seen better days, many whom possess refinement despite their poverty id who have once owned weaith and held a good tion. We find now that there are more wlerks to be relieved than mechanics, and one of G. Jaffray’s clerks, who had been receiving 500 @ year, and a periect gentieman, had to yme here after he lost his situation to get relief. wife came in but he stayed outside and would | enter the door. It was a pitiful spectacle and e to make a strong man weep. Now, only think it, if we had $5,000 we conld send lef to 1,000 needy families in the Fifth Eighth wards inside of forty-eignt hours. And $5,000 would keep their families pretty well fora couple of months, until the winter up alittle. Well, I believe that on the night the great charity ball at the Academy of Music ladies wore dresses and diamonds valued at ‘than $5,000 each.” | Just as the clergyman had finished a decent | man, with sparse red whiskers and of low | came through the churchyard and knocked | at the door, which was opened to him. He | invited to a seat and ke sat down and looked und him with @ fixed look at the people in the | “This is a respectable man, and we have no more } Worthy or deserving case in the district. He will | Mel) you bisw@tory, and you can trust what-he says,” Bemarked the clergyman. | « The poor man heaved a sigh and bezan as {ol- } ows ) “My name is Michael Malone. I live at No, 90 Prince street, room No. 5, in the Eighth ward. 1 Bhave s wife and three children and we pay $8 a onth for the room. We have half of this month’s nt paid, and what is our principal trouble—to get Tent. We have food enough to do us day," with a heavy sigh, “but I don’t jow how we will get along to-morrow. I worked & sbirt house, but 1 have been out of employ- % three months. I once had @ shirt store self aud hired twenty girls, but I got burned We had to sell our bedstead and pawn of our clothes w last month’s rent, My ‘Was compelied to D her gol wedding ring something to eat.’ the poor fellow looked down at his feet, ifere Ywhich were but scantily covered with a pair of ‘Worn out shoes, and said :— | “Mr. Wiswall, have you any shoes to give away 7”? | ‘ “Jam sorry, but | have uo stoes now; I will try jand see wiat is to be done. Come to-morrow and {pring a basket and | will give you some tea, sugar, jostmeal and potatoes, + Thank you, sir,” said Mike Majone; and he left the room seeming to lee! a little beer for the gmere fact that he had been abie to conde his | @roal to some one. | “Now,” said Rev. Mr, Wiswall, ‘‘Isee that there ware some more visitors coming,” a» le iwoxed ‘through the vestry window. ’ Phere wss another faint knock at the door, anda about forty-five years of age entered, \cau- ihe timid-looking young girl of flitecn. They were rand daughter, aud it needed no proof to that, ‘The girl was tall for her age, and seemed bave suffered irom the effects of} bunger and t. Her red stuff dress was very much worn, her shoes were the shoes of @ man and not of of m. Her lips were pinched and cheeks were wan, and her right hand her left wrist tightly, while her eyes, bine and very sad, stared at the persons be- her as might the eyes of 4 person about to it The girl was delicate, and had clot! on her back to keep her mingied 1ook @more sturdy look, and of pain. hurt pride de- are no bedclothes in the house and the children are almost naked. SICK AND ALONE. In the same attic with the Lawlors and Sam- sons, is Mrs. Mary Hurly, who has been a widow | for thirteen years, She has one child, jourteen | years of age, who can get nothing todo. She has | the rheumatism so bad that she cannot without ceiling, no bed, no ciothes, no victuals: ‘he snow and rain come in through the rool, and the keen Light blasts make the room a very refrigerator. WITH HER CHILDREN AMONG PROSTITUTES ‘The case of Mrs. Margaret Nolan, which is con-. sidered under this caption, is one which calls for the attention of aMuent and well-to-do mothers, by dire necessity to take up lodgings in Water Bireet. This piace, which is ostensibly a lodging house, is the resort of some of the worst class of prostituges. Mrs, Nolan is in the back room, which is 12 by 12, and contains four beds and ten inmates. Two of _ tne little ones were in bed wheu the reporter entered, and, on inquiring i! they were ill, was answered in the negative and informed that they could not go on the street to get the air as their clothes had been sold for old rags and the proceeds used to buy bread. The rank. ietid and noisome stench of this back room is overpowering. The attention of the police and mission societvs is hereby called to the presence, in this notoriously bad house, of two litae girls, both of whom are orphans, ANOTHER FOURTH WARD FATHER, On the 6s of January Mrs. Eliza James died, leaving her mother (Mrs. Murphy), a husband and three children, the youngest oné month old. On the 7th of January Mr. James left tne house, with all the furniture he could carry, leaving his chile dren a Charge to his aed motlier-in-law, who las an imbeciie son to take care of Besides this legacy he left her a bill of 1 to pay for the funeral ex- penses of Mrs. James, Mrs. Murphy’s son was drugged during the war and sent off, he came to consciousness he Was an imbecile, and has not since recovered his reason or been able to work. This family live on the third foor back of No, 377 Water street. ANOTHER GOOD GRANDMOTHER. On the third floor front of the filth house fn | “donble alley,” Cherry street, lives Mrs. Munayhan, @ widow, who has four cluidreo. The children ai their grandmother are in great distress, The Sixth Wara, The Sixth ward was visited by @ HERALD reporter yesterday, under the guidance of Omcer Cadell, whom Captain Kennedy kindly detailed, This oMcer guided the reporter through the lavyrinthian ways of “Donovan's lane,’ “Chinese Poke’ and other equally unsavory localities, “dhe horse starves while the grass grows.” In ‘Donovan's lane,” at the rear of No. 14 Baxter street, resides Johu U’Rorke, lis wife and nine children. O'Rorke 1s a shoemaker by trade, but gets very little work to do, hardly enough to pay forthe rent, While be makes /anoy shoes his little children are without clothes and shoes and Sometimes bread. Tue rain comes in upon nim and he bas no fire, “SUNSHINE.” In the same honse in ‘‘Donovan’s lane” ts a man named Joseph Wumderer, who can get no work, and whose wife and chiidren are actually starvin In place of beds, bedclothes ana furniture he has & handiul of pawn tickets. His little stove, on the apron of which the word “sunshine” stands in bold relief, has had no fire in it for several days— ot since the snow storm came. POOR, BUT PROUD. % Opposite the house just spoken of in the ‘ane’ there stands another rickety rookery, in which lives Mrs. Avbott, a widow woman with five children, She says she got no coal irom the society this win- ter, as she had in former and less severe seasons, She is an industrious woman, and says she would rather get work than pecuniary aid; for with that / she could maintain her independence, of which she la very jealous. HAS NOTHING. Mrs, Helen Dempsey, of No. 36 Mulberry street, has been @ widow jor fliteen years, Sne has two song who are willing and capabie of working, but can get nothing to do, Her story is toid in the fol- lowing :—No bed, no clothing, n0 food, no fuel, no flour, Lo money, no (riends. CRIPPLED AND HUNGRY. On a pallet of straw, in a dark room, whose mits cannot be seen without a light, lies Mrs, Julia Galvin, a widow, who is crippled to such an | extent that she cannot move about. She has three children, who are too young to help them- selves, and since the mother has taken to bed they have been sadly negiected, and are in a stary- ing and fitthy condition. The Seventh Ward Barracks, With the exception of “Sweeney's alley” there ts provably no wore ill-reputed tenement house in this city than the “Seventh ward barracks.” In both of these immense caravansaries respectable mechanics and laborers, suffering utter destitu- tion, commingie with Lhe criminal classes who like- wise frequent these establisnments, Last evening @ H@kaLp reporter, In company with Devective Shaivey, paid a visit to the ‘-bur- racks” in question, which consist of two buildings situated at Water street, between Catharine and Market streets, and extending vack to Cherry street, This portion of hew York has often and "truly been styled the St. Giles of Gotham, so ripe is poverty and crime tn its midst. ‘The aspects of the houses in question are gioomy and prison like in the extreme, The nar- row doorway o1 the building in Water street lead- ing to @ harrow passageway, through which the reporter and his Companion entered, was block- aded by @ gang o1 young rowdies, wio, as the | visitors entered the place, were heard to state | below their breath, “That's a cop,” as they recog. | nized the detective, After walking about thirty feet through Cimmerian darkness the yard is Teached, and looking up to the sombre bulidings faint lights were seen at many windows. THE THIEVES’ BSCAPR. From the roof of one house in auestion to tne root the household go to bed without any supper. There | great pain move band or toot. Her room has no | This Mrs. Nolan, who is @ widow and has three | children varying from five to ten, has been driven | Whea | This is a large double \enement huuse in the Thirteenth police precinct, situated at No, 242 Monroe street, [tis filled with poor people, and 18 used also 4s a kind of Alsatia for thieves’ revels, , | as irom itit is possible to escape by many exits, | should the police get on their track. A great deal of poverty exists in it. Ia conversation with an old resident there last night, he said, “it’s a shame to lock up Bill Tweed, by gorry. If he was in the Seventh ward the poor peop Wouldn't be stharvin, as they are to-day; ad cess to Judge Davis.” Avout ‘torty families | live here, The piace ts in a very filthy condition, and the sanitary officers are but rarely seen there, OTHER NOTORIOUS ROOKERLES. In close proximity to the Seventh ward barracks 1s “Bergn’s Barracks,” which is an immense tene- ment buliding located in Scammell, Water and | Cherry streets. It consists of tour houses—two facing on Scammell street, one on Water street nd one on Cherry street. The place was con- structed about a dozen years ago, and its annual | rental ia estimated at $6000. About sixty families live in this rookery, the majority of wnom are very or. A great deal of improvement is possibie in she way of ventijation and cleanliness, The prop- erty is owned by Mr. Bergh, the great philanthro- pist, who enjoys in tms place the reputation of Ses dl up’? on peers who cannot pay their rent, instead of turning the family, with their furniture, the street, as other landloras do, a8 soon a8 | rent day has passed and no payment been made. CATS? ALLE’ | _This tenement house, at No. 656 Water street, | Which has been known for the last twenty years by that name, is situated between Scamme/ and Jackson streets, and is well known as a hiding — of the Hook thieves of the Lhirteenth ward. rectly @ police officer makes his appearance | with the intention of making an arrest, an inti- | mation ts given by some of the lodgers, and vases of foul water are often poured on his | head. The regular cry is, ‘Cheese it, the cop.” About forty families live in this rabbit warren. Some poor respectable people live here, but city missionaries are a/raid to enter it. A good deai of kindness among the wretched inmates 1s said to exist. The building ts a very old construction, oe Kept ina fiitny condition, It is six stories OTHER LARGE ROOKERIES IN THE SEVENTH WARD. The HERALD reporter, accompanied by the de- | tective above mentioned, visited also Mr. A. T. | Briggs’ tenement house in Cherry street, known | as “Briggs’ pitas A also David King’s double | tenement house in Madison street, between Pike aud Kutgers; also Luvejoy’s, Mouroe and Kutgers streets, and on all sides terribie crowding and poverty were witnessed. | SWEENBY’S ALLEY, IN TIE FOURTH WARD, | . This piace is a doubie tenement house, occupied | By 200 ies, at Nos. 34 and 36 Cherry street. The houses in question are estimated at $70,000, and the yearly rental is about $10,000. Tne owner lives’ abroad. The amount of poverty to be the war under the writer, whose company clerk he had been, and had attained the rank of heu- tenant, He bas done nothing lor months, Once @Spleudid penman, a steady, good man, the de- mon of the distillery has fattened on him. He is a@linost blind, a perfect wreck, and his end is palpably near. At No. 424 where Shel- fel @ year ago, bramed his wife with an axe, four ladies. Were _ discovered drinking tea (with whiskey in it). Mrs. Turpey, the hostess, was much distressed and in tears. she owes over two months’ rent; it is $5 4 month. None of them have done anything jor weeks. ‘They lodge together, like sardines or pigs. They board | themselves, each buying her own supplies and cooking at the common fire, and every night, | When they can raise their ten cents, they lay | In @ store of that which inebriates and cannot cheer, and get as drunk as they possibly can. | They were “pretty well on” at the comparatively early hour they were seen. The diminutive sty is Hc large enough for the four to le down in it. Possibly they toss up for who lies on top and who below. Anything more hideously repulsive than | this filthy den could hardly be imagined. | These women were, according to their own | | account, “girls’’out of place. At No, 432 East Thirteenth street, Hanorah Singer, a soidier’s widow, was found maudiin drunk, with a iriend, | equally “under the influence” in a different way— heed of Le Chat silence, gestures and head- shakin, ‘he widow has three children, two of | them boys at the Soldiers’ Home, and the chief business of her life appears to be to rail at those who look after these poor boys, and | try to get them to live with her. The husband died in the ambulance going to Bellevue Hospital. She lives on her pension and what her friends and the, lodge to which her husband belonged give | | her. Her little giri, ragged, fiitny, starved, looked | | fearfully at the Visitors ilke @ startled raboit. It was heartrending to see that poor, neglected child. ; + What is to become of her? Toe awiul hole which these fellow creatures have for a home 1s hardly describable. Down in a cellar, with broken | meeps oozy slime and unmentionable filth, dark | and noisowe—it is enough to haunt one’s dreams | for an age. The rent is $5 a month. The landlord's name is unknown to these tenants, How human beings can ever have been suffered to descend to these deepest depths of appalling de- gradation ig a question that should be studied by the benevolent. The fabled Yahoos of Swift were not described | as more _ bestial than these unhappy | wretches actually are. It is horrible. Time was fying fast, and bidding adieu to Officer Gailagher, with warm thanks jor bis intelligent discrimina- tion and kindly assistance, the reporter hurried to The Eighteenth Ward. f | | Witnessed here is uncaiculable. It has been This extends from Fourteenth to Twenty-sixth and & great resort of thieves, and street, east of Second avenue, At the Kighteenth has been aiways jooked upon as a precinct station house, in ‘Twenty-second great avenue of escape for thieves, on account street, between First and Second avenues, or numerous exits. There are twoentrances Captain Tynan was found, and at once ' tn Chetry street, known as the single and double alley, aad a third one in Roosevelt street. Mur- | derers and counterfeiters have lived here by the score. ‘he rear of the house is in close proximity | to the rear of the Fourth ward station house, in Oak stree. Sergeant Patrick Oats in a struggle with a burglar threw him over from the third landing en the doubie alley. Curiously enough the nan was comparatively unhurt, Very entered into the spirit of the inquiry most zealously. Both Captains Walsh and Tynan expressed their high appreciation of the move- ment in the matter made by tne HERALD, and spoke of the very general praise they had every- where heard of it. Captain Tynan said it would take a week to begin to see a tithe of the awful misery in that precinct. There were over eighty lodgers last night, all cases of pure destitu- few people, without the escort Of a policeman, vion. One, quite @ protty girl, Jenny Mor- Gare go into the piace, even at the present day, In ris, aged eighteen, sald she had come up | days gone by they entered the piace pis in irom Orange connty twelve weeks ago, and band, @nd constantly looking out for falling bricks | could get no work. She had been frightened off and the contents of slop pails, Captain Thorne, | from going to the Girls’ Lodging House in Eighth now Inspector, by @ vigorous use of the club, | street, as she had been told the people there gave obtained easy access for the police. | The Seventeenth Ward. This ward extends from Rivington to Four- teenth street, and from avenue B to the Bowery and Third avenue. It enjoys the proud pre-emi- | Bence Of being the most thickly populated spor in | the United States, and probably in the worid. in one block, between Fourth and Fifth streets,on First avenue live 6,720 persons, according to the last census. They are mostiy Bohemians, (erinans and | Sweaes. Each house contains twenty-four families, | occupying two or three rooms. They are thrityand very cleanly. Captain Walsh, of the Seventeenth precinct, to whose courtesy the HERALD reporter i3 | much tndebted for facilities in pursuing his inves- | tigations, gives them the highest character. He | says they give absolutely no troupie to the police, ‘Their rooms are not carpeted, and the floors are | scrubbed till one could eat of them. The | people are poor, but lorehanded, comiortavly clad and they live well. There is very litue misery | among them, They have saved for the rainy day, | and manage, in spite ol hard times, to get along very well and iook the future in the luce hope- fully, ‘They are very industrious. The women help to make money lor the common stock by sew- ing and other ‘suitavle employments, and evel 7 0 - food. The string 18 at its highest tension now, Cee ae en ee ernie’ fF | and there will be @ smash shortly that wili appa aoe ee NEN oeeg ne | the world, As to charity, he said, this ts “the city | | the neighborhood at eight cents a pint, Tock he knows that no one case comes up but the | | food, for the average iaimlly of man, wife and | | three or four children, never costs more than | seventy-five cents a day. It is usually procured | ready cooked, aud in summer, by this arrange: meni, they save fuel and much dorstic | OMicer Welsing ac as the HERALD reporter's guide, philosopher and triend, aud irst marched him over to A REMARKABLE INSTITUTION, the cookshop of Charles Lindner, at the northeast corner of Fifth street and First avenue, a very characteristic oucgrowth of Teutonic intelligence. Here the worthy proprietor, with Six assistants, was up to the eyes in business, seling to @ thronged but qutet and happy ems blage everfthing known to the erman kitchen, There were sausages and Hoiognas, and leberwiirst and Limburger kase, and boned ham, corn beef, pickles, sauerkraut, and more sausages, and dried meats and bacon, Sweiwer kase, and in fact every tung, From ralier | | miles every day seeking one. t ) would be done. The police knew better than any the girls nothing to eat unless they paid for it, and would only lodge them for two or three nights and then turned them out to starve or do worse. | Another, @ decent woman, has been engaged for ‘the past two months for her board and her right to prick jor @ soit plank on the station house beds, to clean and keep in order the rooms tor male and female lodg- ers. Another woman, Maria Lally, a decent, re- spectable and well dressed woman, she hi been two months out of a place, and walked many ‘These were all per- fectly sober. The “rounders” usually come in “ful.” The Captain said the whole o/ the ward, from Fourteenth to Twenty-seventh street and from First avenue east was in a state of desti- tution, 4t least two nundred families, to his personal knowledge were living on less than one Inealaday, The strikers on the gas works had been out of work since April and were in ad ate condition, They had pawned every sti clothing that money couid be raised on and every article of furniture, If this is to go on uch longer the people will die in hundreds, like sheep with the rot, or the Bengalees, in India, of famine, The severe cold is an additional aggravation to the want of wealthy and the good struggle who shall be first to relieve it, He detailed several cases where @ peragraph in the papers had brought a sort of providence for the poor people noticed, and had Set them up inthe world, but then isolated in- stances did no good to the masses, It Was a mere drop in the ocean of human woe, The churches were very good, and indeed, so were all the charities, but fritted away by their want of co-operation. The establishment of the Bureau of Charities was an excellent thing. If all benevolent organizations were to fall in with its views a vast deal more good one else exactly where to jay their hanas on every | case of destitution, aud they knew, too, who | were worthy of relief. It might Well be sug gested to Professor Joy, the secretary of this new charitable exchange, tiat @ charitable agent be appointed to each station house, where he would be furnished with every case IM the respective precinct& with the Offending, the source of their dire degra- | tweive years old, earns $2a week, and ue 18 awa} dation, Among others slunk in @ bat- | that little girl—and here a modest girl avout nine tered, broken-down man, recognized with | yeurs old entered the room—“waits on me.”? painful emotion, as one who fought in “How many children have you ?”? “7 have six, sir, and this little one, Dine montns old,” pointing vo the foot of the bed, “18 also sicl and God knows where they are all going to.’ “How mucn have you a week, Mrs. O'Brien —” “My boy earns $2, a society gives me $3, and my brother in Williamsburg gives me §3 @ month toward the payment 0! the rent,’” “How much 18 the rent #1” “Ten dollars a month.”? “And then you and your six children live on $3 50 @ week?” si “And pay the doctor's bills ??? “Weil, we hadu’t paid tue doctor yet, but hope ‘I think that 1 am dying,” sald she, “and don’t gay anything about me; but can’t my children be taken care o:?’ And thus Mrs. O’Brien, dying with consumption, and her six ehildren have lived for months on less than $4 a week. ‘The HERALD guide took him to other places in the precinct, tor instance, in Delancey, between Ridge and Pitt streets, in the rear, but here was vice showing its ugly head with poverty. “They sleep on straw here and no beds,” said he, “and when they are thrown out on the the street by trate landlords there is not much to handle.” Aud gure enough there was not much to handie, for in the alleyway there was oniy an old bedstead, an old trunk and an old bo<, with one saucepan and tin dipper, which constituted the effects of a recently dispossessed household. “Sometimes they don’t have that muca,” said the HERALD guide, and the latter turned away from that section of the Thirteenth precinct, where there is poverty and vice combined, A satimaker, prone and with an interesting family, applied to Oficer Parish a few days since jor temporary relief. ‘(He has not been able to obtain employment since last Thanksgiving,’ said the officer, “but he won't beg: he wants work. Will the charitable people of New York give it to im and save his children?” Will they? DISTRESS AMONG WORKING WOMEN. Sad as were the cases of poverty and destitution described in these columns yesterday, the half has notbeen told. Harrowing details of distress were poured into the ears of the HERALD representative | yesterday, Which no pen could adequately de scribe. And the unspoken volumes of distress which in some instances he witnessed were more full of sorrow and sadness than those that were told. One has only to spend a few hours in the office of the Working Women’s Protective Union(No, 38 Bleecker street) any day to witness scenes and | to hear tales of woe and distress that would make | the stoutest heart quail and awaken the sympa- | thies of the most unsympathetic for those who, time and money were | lately accurate details of ‘through no immediate fault of their own, are | mow suffering the pangs of bunger; and the more | poignant arrows of the remembrance of a former | and better condition of life speak more loudly | through their features than the words of their | mouths. Genteel, well educated young women. | go there day looking for employment, They eagerly clutch at even the remo‘est prospect of | earning a few dollars or finding a home for them- | selves, regardiess of pecuniary compensation, | They come wearing their best attire and putting their best side outward, but when pressed they ottentimes, though very reluctantly, tell talea of | want and poverty that seem hardly credible tn view of their respectable deportment and attire. | But one of the last things a woman will give up is } her outward respectability. When that is gone | almost all is gone. These young women, too, mani- | | fest a degree of SOCIAL AND PERSONAL PRIDE or self-respect hardly compatible with their real | circamstances, and sometimes absolutely refuse | the proffered aid of money or food, lest thetr dig- nity should be compromised and their reappear- ance in search of employment be misinterpreted | and militate against them. | For instance, last Saturday, Catharine B—, | an intelligent, courteous young woman, applied at | the office of the Union, as she had done before, | Her deep destitution was not known, but hunger and want were plainly visible in her appearance. She was privately invited by one of the ladies of the institution to accept something to eat, which she absolutely refused, thongh acknowiedgin that that wag the third day since she had tasted food, Money was pressed upon her then; but this refused also, she giving as a reason that if | was | she must accept charity at ali she would receive Every explanation that | it trom the city or State. could be made and every persuasion that could be used Were brought to bear upon her, but they were of no avail, All the aid that she would accept from the institution was @ letter to obtain for her a return passage to her home in Ireband, Her his- tory was briefly this:—Sne livea comfortably with her brother in freland; but on some, trifing disa- greement between them she gathered up the por- ‘ion Of goods that fell to her ana came to America. Her home life had not fitted her tor her altered condition here, and though she had a THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE OF HOUSEWORK and certain branches of fancy work, beside some parior accomplishments, she was not perfect f $$ $$ when she had no work, Thus she lived off and om seme t nine months, since she came to this | clly. | But tor the last threg weeks has Celt the pinches Of poverty more than ever, for she could ously helped her along ad oltSy fr tne dana rh OD a for two days it time she went through the atreets of ths it und godly and be Ing @ particle of food, ‘Nine mouths’ o; when she first entered the office of ¢) ployment, she was active A ‘er hair was a rich black color. On sat orn ing, when she was thers, her face was pets finger and her raven tre: She was no longer the vlooming countene re twenty-five or thirty, but was now mot Sat ie delicate matron of ifty. And this ehans hat been wrougnt mainly within three or four — The ladies gave her the letter she asked jor, and as she has not called on them since Saturday it is prey sumed she was given a free passage to her Emesais home. Sue lived at No. 280 Nutbefry Street, SENSITIVE YOUNG WOMEN, Yesterday, while the HERALD representative was in the ofMce of the Umion, there entered two young women, neatly but plainly dressed. Their appearance and manner and conversation indi cated that they had not always, nor, indeed, for any length of time, worked fora living. ‘They had both been uptown alter situations as domestics of some kind. One had been to Tuirty-second street and the other to Thirty-sixth street. The ladies of the Union questioned them as to thew success, but they had had none. One ol the young women—Miss L. B.—was deemed too frail tor the work that she would have been glad to get, and she was, therelore, rejected. The other you womau—Mrs. ‘l.—a widow, did not like tne rou; manner of the lady whose helper she aspired to ‘The answers given or the questions asked touched her too sensitive nature and she gladly escaped from the place. This was toe fourth or fiith situauon that this poor woman had gone alter yesterday up te noontide, and had falled to obtain. "And tor three weeks she has goue up and down this city looking for work by day, ard going to her room, at No. 36 Bleecker street, at night to weep over her til-luck or lack of success, Yesteraay, while the reporter stood in the office of the Union gleaning these tacts, this widow took the address of the place in Thirty-sixth street from which. Miss B. had just come, aud started off there again to tind a home or ery we work, Miss B. had described the place and the oo cupants a8 desirable ‘and good, and Mrs. T. asked “What wages do they.givet’”” Tue answer was more lull of meaning and expressive of deep dis- tress than any we have heard for a iong really can’t tell you. I Was looking for a perma nent home rather tian for wages. I AM TIRED OP. DAILY TRAMPING around New York looking tor employment and get» ting nothing to do; so that I did not ask abous wages.” Miss B. resides in Brooklyn. Twoor three days ago Mrs, Kate Fitzgerald of No. 70 New Chambers street, called at the Working Women’s Union in a terrible state of distress, She bas a nursing. babe who tor two days had been trying to draw nourishment trom the breast of its mother, who had had no food. She received a little temporary aid there and at St. Barnabas’ ome, and was subsequently recommended to the Five Points Mission, Where, it is presumed, her waats were supplied, inasmuch as she has not appeared at the Union since. At No, 92 Elizabeth street Mrs. Moore, with two children, sits and weeps all day when she cannot get work or food for her iittle ones. She has pawned almost every article‘ol wearing apparel. She nag no under clothes and very:little ol outward attire for herselt or her children. She cannot, tierefore, go out every day in search 01 work—and she could hot get it if she did. At No, 22 Mott street, Mra. Morgun, With three children, lives in a similar con dition, without fire, food or clothing ior herself or her little ones, Tlese cases have only to be men- tioned to call out the deep sympathy o! their sis- ‘vers in this city whom God has bountilully blessed, MRS. BERTHA GRANLICH’S CAsE. One of the brightest, interesting and most hope. fui applicants whom the HBRALD representative met yesterday at the Union was Helena Graniich, of No, 133 Orchard street, room 14, whose motner has been almost at death's door with want, anxiety and overwork, which have superimduced symptom of consumption. Heleva is only tourteen years of age, smart, intelligent aud ready to take hold of auy work that wil uelp to support her sick mosher gud pay their rent. Mrs, Graulich is a widow, and beside Helena she has a littie boy nine year: age, who goes to school whenever his clothes an shoes and the weather will permit, A been heea the neighborhood nas been kindly visiting Mrs, Granlich projessionally, tree of charge, and the dispensary has furnished medicines, Under this treatment and the watchful care of her daughter Helena, Mrs. Granlich is recovering. Helena was in a situation earping $8 a month, which she was obliged to give up to atiend to her sick mother. She tried to earn a little ut home by sewing on the machine, but her youth and inexperience, te- gether with the drait upon her time at the sick bed of her parent, compelled her to desist. What little money they could gather up in the time of health has been spent in the hour of sickness and their rent has fallen be- hind. The ladies and a few friends of the Union made up enough to pay one month’s rent, but Helena says there 18 yet another due and she feara the oit too ready remedy of greedy landiords will be applied to her mother if the rent 1s not forth- coming. Helena can take @ turn at almost any- thing, and now that her mother is getting berter, though still needing suitable nourishment, would take @ situation in the city or surrounding coun- try. A CASE OF UNMITIGATED CRUELTY AND DISTRESS. But the saddest case that came under the re- porter’s notice yesterday was that of a Hungarian ‘woman, whose name, from her unintelligibie Eng- lish, he could not makeout, She resides, however, at No, 876 Second uvenue. Her glaring eyes an pallid cheeks betokened extreme poverty, which has produced a jorm oI insanity. Her story, as near as could be gathered, isa sad one. Possessed of some means she invested in real estate. Being unfamilior with our language and our laws she committed the care and con- duct of her property to a lawyer, Whose name, from her broken and incoherent re- marks, could not be obtained, She took out nas- uralization papers in order legally to hold her property, But Le ® process oi iegal chicanery, covetousness and perjury this legal member of New York society has cheated the poor woman ous ol the product of her hard earnings. What little money she had saved or could earn peside was spent in trying to get back again that whicn had been stolen trom ner. And now, as she said yester- ay to the reporter, she is in actual want, striving to obtain that which belongs to her. “How do you live?” the reporter asked, The answer was that a Kind neighbor, a baker, gave her some ends of loaves and broken pieces, and upon these she hag lived for several weeks, Reroxtes—But don’t you even get a cup of tea nnies to-day from or coffee? ANSWER—No. I got a few rag some iriend, and to-morrow I will drink a cu of tea or coffee; but I don’t know what I shall or drink the next day. LIVING ELEVEN WEEKS WITHOUT FIRE. ReporreR—“You look very sick and have @ cough—have youa fire in your room at home?” ‘This question seemed to puzzle the poor Woman at first. The idea seemed preposterous, She has not had a fire tn her room, she said, for eleven weeks, Then holding out her right toot the answer to the first part of the query was given. No wonder that this poor woman, now in the decline of life, should look sickly and consumptive, when her shoes are but the merest pretence jor such coverings for the feet—when tirough irost and snow and slush and slop, 8he bas had to walk about the streets of New York daily looking for bread or work, and with the constant knowledge that she has been shamelessly piandered gnawing at her heart. “I have tried,’ Bhe said, “to borrow $2 to get a pair of shoes for my {eet, but no ove will lend or give to me. And’? pointing ber fluger toward her lungs, she added, “the cold of the streets and of the snow comes up here and I feel sick and faint.’? In answer to a fur- ther 1nquiry whether she had had anything hot to eat or drink to-day, she answered in the nega- tive—pothing only a few ends of loaves. A ‘was present and heard her recital, and a gentleman, also present, gave the poor old creature a little money to relieve her present necessities, Her joy seemed to be almost boundless. She looked again and again at her benelactors and thanked them in her broken English for their kindness, DESTITUTION IN BROOKLYN. But the destitution is not confined to this city. It reaches across the river, as the tollowing incl- dents, will show:—On Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, the door bell was rung at No. 80 Henry street, Brooklyn, Before the door stood a polite, genteelly dressed young man. He lived, he said, in South Fourth street, Williamsburg, where his wife and two children were starving and in daily dread of being turned on the street lor non- bet of rent. The young man was a printer, e Said, out had not had even a casual job for three months, and himseif and family were in the direst Straits. He received a little pecuniary aid and de- parted glad o: heart. A German family, named Freigang, residing at No, 4 James street, Brooklyi, are, or were a lew days ago, in destitute circugle stances. The family consists of father and mother and two children. The father and oldest daughter are sick, The mother goes out to wash or scrub, or do any otner kind of day or housework that she can get, | and the litte girl takes hold of any light work that'she can obtain, Lately the little one spent a couple of weeks with one Volherry & Uo. (%) ab Third avenue and Eighth street, Brooklyn, picking and sorting and tying flowers. Every dollar of course was needed at her home, but her lit’ > bill of $4 has been refused, and uniess it has been paid Witulp a couple of days, or will be in a short time, se heartless employers will have Counseilor Jon Ud. Parsons, of the Working Women’s Protec- tive Union after them. They have already received @ preliminary notice and may have settled with ba ac ta Less EMPLOYERS, tead of employers straining @ point, as they miguid in such a tine ag this, to pay their just debts to the poor, it 1s Sad to think that there are some here who must be sued belore they can ve t to see their duty. On the books of the Provgctive Union is one case for settlement in which che amount due is only Cighty-six cents, A small amount, but very large when we know that the poor woman to Whom it is due Nas seven chiil- dren depending upog her for support. These things ought not so to be, There is destitution enough all around us, and no man, with a human ueart in his breast, should seek to add a feather’s ‘weight thereto, A PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCE. Practical in any of these things, and when she ob- ined employment her invapacity was very soon detected and she was discharged. In this way What she earned oue week was spent the next No one has probably a better opportunity to wits ness the worst phases of destitution and suffering whan the doctor who Is called to the bedside of tha