The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1901, Page 3

THE WORLD: ‘FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 9, 1901. a ~ EXPERT SENT FROM WASHINGTON TO INSPECT CITY TENEMENTS. ———090. HOW WORKING PEOPLE OF NEW YORK ORK LIVE. EXPERT ROBERTSON’ iS) Manhattan !s Devoid of ee and Lacks Everything That Makes the Laboring Man Comfortable. ~ HINT TO If T could talk to Mr. on fashionable a im upper) tions governiag their lives. With the New York tend inevitably to fm-| reports submitted it is understood that | morality. no recommendations are offered to Con- model tenements. what fs to be expected of | Frets. th les of figures speaking for themselvei land, and the congestion tribution of wealth—since homes for working pebpl least be model tenements. t The chief value of such a report 1s to t menace to the mor! sedve economic societies, colleges and rality of rich and poor In New Vork |henevolent organizations in thelr invest!- fa that ft faa city without homes.” | gations and efforts to benefit the work- . This ts the result of the five-day ob-| !ng classes. rervations made by Thomas M. Robert-/ BS fon, expert from the United States De-| The work in New York is to occupy partment of Labor, sent here from!two months, though all the members of ‘Washington with n commission of six|the bureau will not be here all that epecial agents, instructed to prepare for | time. It is estimated that the conditions| “It wiah I could preach a sermon, Congress a report upon the conditions | of 3,0 families are to be reported upon, | sald = Mr. Robertson to an Even- of Iving among New York working|to accomplieh which 10,000 will probably | ing World representative, ‘‘on the People. be visited. There ts co way, excepting | crime of tenements. [ wish I cold The commission consists of Special! by a house-to-house canvass made in| make it a penal offense to bulld a tene- Agents Waudby, of Ohto; Buffington, | the divisions of the city allotted to each} ent-houre without a bathroom in every Tilden and Brittain, of New England,| gent, to determine who are Engllsh-| apartment. and Ihmeen and Palmer, of Washington. | speaking and also skilled. “Do you know—do the people of New Mr. Robertson is one of six experts sent} The classes of workingmen to be vis-| york know—that most of your tene-! t . = | ited Included boller-makers, bricklayers,| ments are bullt without a single bath out with the twenty agents of the de- | from top to bottom? partment to preparo these reports, to be | machinists, carpenters, teamaters, work-| “TON OP DO OOM oe tntted States tabulated by the end of 192. Hesldes|ers in binderies and ali skilled me-|are the conditions fer working.people as that of New York, reports are now in chanics. bad as they are in Manhattan! | In preparation In Philadelphia, Newark.| Mr. Robertson has made only a cur- eladelpnias hens thomny palero ma cite, Richmond, Norfolk, Cincinnat! and Chi-| sory examination of general conditions.!:hey have simply a place to go. In cago, and will be made of Milwaukee, | but Ne has seen qnough to have som aller cities and over on Staten Island Minneapol a other Western cities, | very well-defined fileas about the condi-| the, workingmen have hous yrds and rooms, and they are The men are directed by Carroll D.|tlons with which he has to deal. And| fcives. That la the civillzing value of Wright, United: States Commissioner of | he ts unreserved in his opinton that the/a homet allows a family to be by Labor, to investigate the homes of Eng-| worst phase of New York life ts that, Msh-speaking skilled workingmen with a| which houses people beneath the same apartment Qulldinge of the better clasven view of bettering the economic cofdl- | roof. are harmful? 1 do not wish to em- \ BELEVIE (SANFORD HALL, L. 1, MAUSOLEUM FOR DEAD MINDS. DOHDHGHOOQSHIGHGOHOGOOOOOGHODOGHSHIOOHHDHOHOIOSGOOSHOOIHSHS -_TIPSTERS yl Where Sphinxes Stand j Guard at the Portals MUST 0 and Patients Are §| Admitted and Dis- x charged at the Dead Supt. Taylor After Em-| of Night. ployees Who Work with Undertakers. Sanford Hall, the place where Georgia Cayvan has been! tmmured since last October, and where persistent rumor has BIG FEES PAID FOR FIRST had her dying or dead during the past forty-eight hours, Js an ideal institution INFORMATION OF DEATHS, | ot its xina. | The “kind” ts m place of absolute . secrecy—a place where an official ad-| Relatives of Patients Who Die in| dressed would deny his own existence, if Hospital “Squeezed” for # that sulted his purpose. It 1s a place salon of Objectionnhle Fact of mysteries. Sanford Hall, or, as it Ia better known to Flushing, “the marble hall," sits well “Undertakers tipsters’ in Rellevue|back from the Jamaica wad, ten must go. War has been declared by | Mpnutes’ walk from the Main street Dr. George Taylor, the Superintendent, | station. on those employees of the hospital who Hidden in m Grove. Tecelve fees for notifying undertakera} 1 15 surrounded by a dense prove, of. deaths fn the Inatitution. through which white glimpses of the The frst care was that of John Inck-lront wall are caught by the pasing eon, a clerk tn the registrar's office.| ravetter. It is approached by fine who was dismissed yestentay. Jackson | To vetied drives among the trees. fron wis accused of selling information to] cirner end of the long blah picket fence undertakers, and it Is sald that a num-Iinat gkines the front of the ten-acre plot, Der of other employees of the hospital! phe front of “marble hall” Is of purest wilt be discharged for the name cause. | white marble up to the roof of the There are many profitable cases In| broad, high veranda that runs fifty feet 7 Bellevue trom tho viewpoint of an un-| siong the whole front. @etaker, and they have paid large fees!" Thin veranda Ix a curtosity. tts » fer Information of deaths in advance) vaulted roof is of Itallan marble, pure of official notice, some of tho “tipsters” | and almost translucent. Above are two receiving 50 per cent. other floors, with a square roof, and In many canes there are circum-|there is a wing on elther side, to the stances surrounding deaths that rela-lrear, and square Ike the main bullding, tives are anxious to keep secret. and|but they are of brick, painted white. these facta are communicated to the] Thix massive building has been for undertakers by the tipsters. nearly alxty years a private asylum. Primed with this information, it ts an easy matter for them to secure larke Always Guarded. fees on the guarantee to conduct the From entrance to exit the patient Is funeral as desired. This system Dr.Jever under guard, and poor Georgia ‘Taylor ts determined to wipe out. Cayvan, who was wont to make her The matter was brought to his atten-|myrind lovers in the old Lyceum chairs tion by John H. Fitzpatrick, an under-| weep in sympathy for her mock sorrows, taker, whose shop !s opposite-the City| han been as good as dead here for ten 8 ) (0) ) ) (s) @) (®) 2) @) @) 0 {0} (e) @) @® ) () @ (@) @) @) ) @) ©) ® Morgue, Mr. Fitzpatrick charges thet| months, so far as the world 1s con- another undertaker falsely used his| cerned, James Sheridan, who died on Black-/Is the stable, with a dozen horses and| crack, closes and locks It after her, and, mell’s Island on July 27, and that thie!a variety of equipages. you ara alone, undertaker, recelved m tlp from a hosp!-| To the right Is 2 gloomy brown man-| Or, Dr. Brown, tall, spare, with a thin, | tal employce, sion, where Dr. Willet 3. Brown, Dr.| red mustache and thinner whiskers, | ne itpateick’s charges merexe conf Kline and the nurges and attendants| suave, affable, greets you in the lobby. y Mrs, Mary Monahan, of No. 11 She Hundred and Nineteenth ‘stree: ee Opposite in a modern mansion,| He listens deferentiaily, Then— sister of the deceased, who ¢ home of James A. Macdonald, “Don't you know this Is « private In- the o f proached by the other undertaker In} ‘The tatter, who ts the Ameriean repre-| saitution, strictly? Our patients are pri- ‘Si er complaints of a similar nature | *entative of the Queen Insurance Com-| vate, We never talk to the public. h n made to Dr. Taylor by un-| pany, and has offices at No, 67 Willlam|never betray the secrets of our pa- dertakers. street, Manhattan, is President of the ntat* gicentigape sane Sanford Hall Association, and-han been! “put, is death a secret? The laws ‘ President of Flushing Vage. Hie 3i8-| say no person nhall die unknown. You ter, Ellza Macdonald, who ls President) mus: report every death. You must of the village Good Citizenship Leagte,| secure a permit from the Health De- le Secretary, partment to move a dead body. This ts But Dr. Brown, lessee and manager,|a safeguard against secret murder, To i | ‘ {s the heart and soul of the white sepul-| say a0 now. !f Georgia Cayvan tu really chre of dead minds among the trees. | dead, would be but to anticipate by only Sphinx at the Door. a few hours the publication the law Enter by a broad, Inviting doorway In | Commands, the centre of the marble veranda to a s square, white-painted and white-walled DRIVER. THROWN TO TRACKS, | lobby—a door in front of you, a door LAY, HELPLESS IN PERIL. to the right, a door to the left—all closed * tight. In answer to your ring the rattle i of m bunch of keya is heard behind a Switechman Flagged the Onrushing | door. A key is inserted—turned, The Cars and Locomotive Stopped |400r opens just a wee crack, not more Within One Handred Feet of | than six Inches, and through the aper- ° tae n Wrecked Wagon | {0"@ line a thin, apprehecaive, ‘white: faced, hullow-eyed maid in white. She ee eee eer atinenane i: | locks (heSdcorsbeninaynetse Stes tune Robert Reardon, twenty years old, of|and stands—defiant, suspicious, repeil- |FINE HOUSE OF ORGANIZATION ia.° No. #@ Grove street, Jersey City, was] leat. AT EAST HAMPTON GONE. Griving across the Erie Ratlroad tracks| ‘You can't see Dr. Brown. Nobody at the Pavonia avenue grade crossing | ci Dr. Brown. He says nothing to garly to-day when his milk wagon brok ay Wealthy New York Memhera Lost You ask if it Is true that Miss Cayvan, Tverything in the Place, and BODHIOESHHOSGHHOOOHOSHHIOO MILLIONAIRES. Carnegie and Mr. Rocke- feller, [| would ask them to keep their money away from libraries and away from colleges, and to build Since there is no way, because of the value of of the people, and the dis- there is_no way to provide ie, the tenements should at ,1 would see no college endowed and not a book given to a library until the people had homes. Phasize thin point except to illustrate what I mean about the tenements. In the firet place, a family eannot a ee ettled. and then we find rebellion, but whe Haas Bri Se Oe To begin with, the present tencmente we do ft usually. takes the form of ve. |§ 4nd plaids, in all sorts of pretty patterns; were $2.00 and $2.50 75 Influenced. moet ebexternedow owns piheyasreRawile, sentiment rat poorspaysand long hours of a pair; now reduced to and not against those who exac a Ge family’ meane the Temoval be done with them.) The new onestrent for tenements not ft {obs cniied |{ Men's Summer Coats, for office and general hot weather wear, 25 of many temptations of ous sorts. {Should not be more than four stories | anybody's home. in neat dark patterns; were 50c. and 7Sc. each; now reduced to The herding of families, which exta' all over Manhattan: ie the worst feature of Itn economic life. Opportnnity foc Millionaires, “If T could talk to iit, Carmegie ana Mr. Rockefeller,” Mr. Robertson, “I would ask them a ee colleges, and to bulld model tenements. \Since there {s no way, because of the value of land, and the congestion of the people, and the distribution of Wealth—since there In no way to pro- vide homes for worki ople, the ten- ements should at least be model tene- mants. T would see no college endowed and not a book given to a library untlh RESIDENCE J:A: MAC DONALO years old name to secure the contract to bury| To the Ieft and back of Sanford Halt | SOODIDIOIOCOGOHDOTOOOGELDHCCOSOOGSOTOOSOIOVOFOOOOY @O9HI9ITIGII|VUGOIAHIHSHOOOOS The tall, handsome and affable Dr. ; Brown pmiles, extends his white hand Just a Uttle and says: “We can neither confirm nor deny the rumor, Then he slips through the inner door and disappears, It costn from $30 a week up to be hidden away in “the hall,’ and there aro fifty or sixty patients. “They are a law unto themselves up there,” sald the sergeant ut the Flush- ing sub-statloi of) Capt. Woltort's Beventy-elgath “iven the police can't inake them open thelr mouths—ret even when thero's a xutclde up there, ‘They notify the (oroner themselves and *ahut us out. ‘They recelye their patients in carriages in the middle of the mune and. wad them away In tho night, When there's a death the undertaker has to go in the night and the body Is taken uway in the night.” Tho building was valued at $26,000 and was owned by a atock company com- posed of wealthy New York people who have summer residences in this place. The loss was fully covered by insur- vance, It ts not known how the fire originated. Tt was only by hard work om the part of the volunteer firemen that the large Maidstone inn, a summer hote!, and several summer residences near by were aaved from the fire. The club was just In the height of a prosperous neuson, The house will be eee SENATOR VAUGHAN DEAD. Was \Prominent tn) Many trinh Orde (Special to The Evening World’) built. pegnreen eal yout and his wagon top-| the adored heroine of your boyish fancy Hotel and Cottages Saved Only While pinned down on the tracks | OF your older senee, is really dead, After Hard Uffort—Will Re Re- |’ -train came. speeding along. “L don't know. You must see Dr, ull A Hagman tan toward i.’ signalling It! Brown." » and the engineer pull at in “tine. the vearn® oping bout “ano | Then the little mald, white and thin| PAST HAMPTON, U. 1, Aug. 9—The ‘4 Heard qe teas pulled, man, er and Sverstrained lest by an inadvertent handsome house of the Maidstone Club, ; badly cut and ‘bruised. Attar wink of a\lash she betray a secret of in this village, with {ts entire contents SR ashe? led) by. a. BY, $n amoulasioe ‘sur-) ‘the hall,” turns, unlocks the vas was totally destroyed by fre early’ to- opens It crack, alipa through) the |day, V es Hh TON, Pa., Aug. @-State Sen- ato . Vaughan, of this clty, died of Colle at Maplewood last night. He had gone there with a Scranton fishing party. SRnae ABeD RL TR att FO) ne: order $f the nUited: Otaten, berth ° Lack of a ee Leads to Unutterable Un- ot its nolghbors—and with ee neighbors In their money | ment should have ali the outside win-| th ‘way from llbraries and, away from | dows possible, and eminently a bath. MARBLE AL ees RE The Store closes on SATURDAYS AT 1 P. M. DURING AUGUST. cleanliness and an Alarming Degree of Immorality. Another Big Drop in the Prices of tha, papte had homes. ylutely no privacy—and without privacy Summer Clothing ization. ment? Well, f have deen turning that hat we ope to do Ja to gat at the FOR MEN AND BOYS. | yer tn my mind for the iagt five days. facts extatin, York now, and e ae eae eect inse amumerinuvely’ and)! Right in the midst of the vacation season we os s 5 BI "1 Ml end - Blaht, tired trom work, pale-taced chil. | bud ing tmonumvnta and endowing In-|} cutting prices relentlessly on our summer clothi: Knowa nobody can blame her tor being | The work te very alow. nnd our part’ Es order to have plenty of room for our incoming mark room, and he in denied avery. come and Winter stocks. The man who is ahout to Sieawe dark room, and he ix denied every com. | W3lch. "enter transition time, lew on his Summer outing can now secure suitable cloth- j fort home Ilfe can give. And yet it is] !MB for the betterment of these clans for him and nis family and his kind yore eeaymind the problem thee ta caedcemiectil bountira 10] 30 yeaa" amavis hut inte 10 at trifling prices, while the man who has been on , satarved workinement linn to srhieh be eowrae gt OURRL his vacation can profit equally on the purchase of few York he cannot have a reai!-now very few compiainta we iaten to! whatever he needs in clothing to tide him over until one, this Is a rough idea of the model from these people. Families In the mos tenements that must be bullt for him fa b st before what men are pleased to cal Sere amd amet nomen, snewer || he is ready to buy his Fall Suit lem of the workingmen can at/of fact, and make no comment. Now|] Men’s Bike and Golf Trousers—-High-grade fabrics, in checks high. If they are large and bullt about *s a court there could Se apartments for Doesn't Apprectate Home. cight oF nine families on each floor. If] ‘The Manhattan workingman thore ts no court there should never belnot neem to ee that were hin, ho well as silk mixed and worsted materials; were $2.00, $3.00 and 75 more than four apartments. A family | conditions betered by those to whom of two could get along with three rooms: | pays his rent, [fe—work and all--would $3;50/aplece; {new reduced to @ family of eight ought to ‘oe six or ave a different anp. th ‘ane, th« |} Men's High-Grade Imported Flannel Coats and Trousers, in very seven rooms, at least. and every apart- morkinemien soni or up aier homes i ana stylish light and dark effects, with all the latest fixings and fin- 4. 00 f"course (here will alway he those || ishings; were $8.00 to $11.59; now reduced to pate ant a terayee they |] Boys’ Percale Waists--Pleasing patterns in light and dark rel} effects, with plaited back and front; were 35c. each; now re- IS Men’s Odd Vests, of tbe finest grades of washable fabrics, as Live Like Benats. “why. do you know, on your lower|clean, no matter how well they vente tho family | provided for. All would be excluded gaat ade Hound ewteriay ie four from the model tenemenin, of course, |§ duced to Fooms—and there were eleven of them?) who did not conform to certain rut That is indecent. There can jo bet-|to which moat of the skilled workin. terment of this class while this sort of/men-who arc all intelligent people thing 1s possible. There can pao! would gladly submit.” Men’s High-Grade Fancy Summer Underwear, worth from 50c. to $1 a garment, now on sale at a Se One of the largest manufacturers of good under- wear in New England sold us the entire ‘‘clean- up’’ of his mill (some 70 cases in all) the other at a ridiculously low price, because he did not to carry them over, and also because he needed the room they occupied. In the big purchase there are dozens of choice colors and designs, all fitted with pearl buttons, heavy sateen waist bands, double gussets on drawera, shirts plain or satin trimmed. All sizes, of so that there will be no trouble in securing a fit. | you need any more Underwear for this Summer’s ®%|Weird Mystery Thrown About Every Inmate —A Palace Where Even the Police Can- not Enter. 9ODOOTIDOOOO: @| when Dr. samme Macdonald and nis (0) brorhers Gen. iB Macdonald, sons w var ot wear, take advantage of this money-saving oppere agrees dh |[ tunity. @| heen resident Dysiclae’ at” Boot ad aiden clan at omIng- | cale Asylum. i - The present owners are the son and qahghtee of this W. Baratow, who married ugh- A Choice of WMen’s 25c. and 35c. Yeckwear Saturday, from 8.30 A. M. J till 1 P. M., for 12%. From this big collection of fresh, desirable and stylish neckwear every man, no matter what his taste may be, can make selections that are sure te please and satisfy him, and for half and less than half the regular cost. Styles are reversible four- in-hands, imperials, bat wing and butterffy ties, all of which have their admirers. In blue and white and other popular colors there’s a big variety to choose from. Tern went for many Yeats the manucine physician, He was succeeded six yearn Noted The wife of ‘'ermont. millionaire, confined here, han, herself with her bed sheet last winter, and the police | were not permitted know anything about It unt!l they got it from the Coroner's office, twenty-four hours af- ie Jeary ago, before Dr. Brown's Itlzen to nn Iu Evening \ World re ten the wife of it United ‘Staten Senator was continal tn Folks up in her State— ‘t know where she was for a long time. Then the editor of Minnesota paper with annd telegraphed s{to me to out why she was there, how long she had been there and her condition, I was a personal friend of the doctor of that time, but he would } Senator's anawer came back: Court and get a mandamus comp the doctor to inform you, at my Took that deapatch up to the d tor. He Mmbered up amd told me the Benator’s wife wax a dipsomaniac, but was improving and was nearly ready to he discharged One fent, an ex-Governor, now dead, used to walk in the atreet with an attenda He bowed polltely to lamp- posts, Don Felipe Alfonso, the son of Gon- ralez Alfonso, builder and millionaire owner of the firat raliroad in Cuba, went mad over a love affair forty yeare aro. and h a harmless inmate of “the hail singe 184. ite is now past sixty “They nover ship bodies from Flush- ing,” sald the 3 “the undertaker dri over to New York with them and ships them from there.’ “Friends coming to see patients at ‘the hall’ never stop at the hotel.” aaid a hotel-keeper ey go direct to ‘the Oxfords For Men & Women, $3.50. hall’ and nobody nig the village ever "but yn advertise ‘the hall it ts always full of patients,” newspaper man, ‘and ever know who Is there uniess it comes out at the place they were sent from, or one of the patients commits sulcide or escapes into the village, and then we don't always find out. Nistory of ‘the Hall.’ Sanford Hall w: Nathan Sanford, Of the Btate of New Yo! oo, But the Chancellor did not live to occupy It. It was empty until 184, Men and women who are much on their feet should wear low shoes during warm weather. They keep the feet cool. They give ease and comfort. And they are the fashion- able summer foot-wear. There is no better Oxford made than the Crawford. Every pair guaranteedto give satisfaction or your money back. DR. EDWARD KOCH LEAVES GERMANY And Is on His Way to America. Having been to Germany to Inves- tigate the new treatment discovered for Consumption and Asthma, he went to the Tuberculosis Congress, which met in London, England, last week, to discuss the subject of how to cure consumption. After the congress of physicians adjourned, both Dr. Edward and Dr. Robert Koch returned to Germany, where Dr, Edward remained until August 3, when he cabled that he would sail for America, and will ar- rive here about August 10, After remuining In New York about five days he will visit all of his Amer- Stores; Men's Shoes Only: $25 Broadway (2th St.) .. Manhattan PRICE 25c ALL NEWSDEALE lean offlees, which are at 48 W, 22d {ff 262 West 175th St... Manta'un st +1384 Arch at., Philadel- {1433 Fulton St... . . Brookl phia; 501'N. Eutaw at., ‘Baltimore, |B so Sf Drookbn Md.; No. & W. Court Square, Ashe- Men's & Women’s Shoes: ville, N. C.; 40 xchange at., Rochea- ter, N. Y.; 627 E st.. N. W., Washing- ton, D. C.; 277 Franklin st., mone N.Y. and many cities, 150 West 12sth St. . . Manhattan Nassau, cor. FultonSt. . Manhattan