The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1902, Page 8

SRO rae gat ord RRR ERS crt at THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1908, LUDLOW STREET JAIL TURNED INTO A DEBTORS’ PRISON ~ TO CAGE THE IGNORANT PREY OF INSTALMENT SHYLOCKS ye Nineteen Men Behind Bars Because They Can- = ; not Pay Fictitious Charges of Sharks Into ae = a Whose Grip They Have Fallen, Being Un- an Z tamiliar with the Law. | | f Yorkers know ed cact . e ; ned a a us debtors p = ens's “Little Dor fs hy dq But there is, for behind the frown Ms : ; ing walls of Ludlow Street a | RiGoRD i day a score of unfortunates, trapped | sisetsseevevnnt obtbns bie bese eb EME Ese e tose ets : i DICKENS’ S DESCRIPTION I OF DEBTORS eueoe ars ago the ers because they cannot pay a feu dollars on some chattel purchased. Once the State Legisiature ena ed alaw to stamp out th Ib ‘ Gov. Black vetoed the measure Gnd) Eo ntoow 5 ‘the debtors’ prison remains, But it! must go and The Evening World. 1 int ; the names of Justiee and Liberty, 3 will do what it can to hasten the: ; going. : ; Nineteen men are pr! Ludlow street Jail now erty is knocking at the they cannot pay the few dollars installment “merchant” ¢ These men are all foreigners. are the especial prey of the money t chasers, because their ignorance of) + 4 the laws makes then easy marks. And| ¢ the shame of it all is that the au-/ thorities are forced to be parties t the proceedings. Hundreds have passed in and the County Jail within the yeas, ¥ tims of the law. If they are unable | ¢ We to satisfy the ( ” f debtedness the three months being poor’ !s tence. These poor fellows fa the hands of their enemies common practice mg the pe residents, especially on the east side ih as clothing, fu by the installment shark, are prison- casters r It out of | 2 practically the sen- | > turnkey tot Permitted by the Law :,COST FANNING ‘ to buy arti ’ niture. necessury household goo ; and sometime es and jewelry | It is the manner in w ‘ on the insta plan, Many Bane tik Seal td on : putable ngaged in th gieaitolGneleriivern : busine it there 1 gly without i PRISONERS F DEBT IN LUDLOW STREET JAIL. x TO JAIL RATHER i. THAN BE CHEATED HIS LITTLE ALL. ane FAILED IN ONE . TO-MORROW'S SUNDAY Profound Sensat PROBLEM OF POWER OF Illustrated PROF. LOEB'S L IFE MAN NEW YORK’S TWENTIETH Miles an Hour, Re pondir to a Fire Greatest in the World Graphic ited by Dan , in How a Fam Amulet, Wa ss, Stung to Death by a ‘Snake THE CHEM TH AT FAIL ED. ‘ nderful Theory, Whereby Ferris Believes that Pre e Can Be Scientif Careful Reading. An Experiment A | in Destiny. ically Directed ital Influenc Worth a Mother MANNERS. A New School for Th Who Want to Know How to Behave. Conducted by the Sunday World Through Harriet Hubbard Ayer TO-MORROW'S SUNDAY WORLD Those SE IS ELECTRICITY LIFE? Who Claims to Have Solved THE IMMORTALITY IN THE on Caused by Prof AND DEATH His CENTURY FIRE CHIEF. ate m, Story f Jacques Loeb, of ( and by Actual Test t ‘nts, Transcending All Other > Put ynders of Science, Ww Experim THEORY. Mya and Has 1 the Pen Metho GREAT TUNNEL DISASTER How It Could Have Been Avoided. AVOIDED IN THE FUTURE. GOOD-BY TO THE FREAK! How the Dime Museum, Which Once Gladdened Our Idle Moments, Has Gone the Way of So Many of Our Childhood Joys. Monstrosities a Drug on the Market. PARIS FADS. New and Peculiar Styles of Dress in the French Capital That Will Soon Reach New York if American Women Are Willing to Follow the LATEST FREAKS OF FRENCH FASHION. Sample of con prisoners “rng 13 YDENTURE WITNESSETH, 2 ive ower JAIL FOR FOLLY OF ANOTHER MAN. WEEK'S PAYMENT. in? THOS. A. EDISON'S THEORY. QUEEREST ROGUE BEHIND PRISON BARS. He Scorns Ordinary Swindling Methods, and Goes to Jai! to Do His Crooked Work. The Most Picturesque Robber of ds He Employs. How Such Catastrophes May Be WwW in CON TRACT B Y WHICH VICTIMS ARE TRAPPED. tract that has filled Ludiow that he City of No pla get one Discussed and Women in Illustrated. The Charming How Science Has Provided A Foodless Dinner, for the Busy Twen Century Man, So that May Eat His Meals in DARTAGNAN. Modern Instance in Which One Man Eclipses Dumas’s Great Hero by Being the Principal or Second in Fifty-three Duels. FP Ce Oe eT eT. ee eS Np e House and Home Wants. Wall Hangings & Draperies APRIMA DONNA'S EIGHT CHILDREN Shown in Photographs. $< ¢-—$__—_— \Victims Tell Their Stories to The Evening orld, Which Has Taken Up Their Cause an Effort to Put a Stop to Legalizea Robbery. !|} VICTIMS OF SHARKS IN DEBTOR. S List of debtor petson’? 2 omen now in Ludlow Street | Jall, with the amounts they Ignazsio Seroco Tamasio Street Jail with “debtor ‘rank Ardosano . Edmando Ma! Constanta have this day rented and New York, the fol of which I promt SHWE TEES OTN ret ririorttireyrrrrrs ae oan, ASHMEAD: ‘BARTLETT ILL, Hrooklyn-Born Nobleman Not Exe er from Operation, ce ke nome! No place te| like the Sunday World’a| STERN BROTHERS Upholstery Dep't (Third Floor) For a limited period will make to order At Liberal Reductions from Regular Prices a a s Furniture Re-upholstered on much more favorable terms at present than in the height of the season West Twenty-third Street TO-MORROW'S SUNDAY WORLD the World, and the Wonderful Family of One of the Greatest Singers, tiet ee a Kitchenless House. Tablets and Pay No Coal Bills. 10-MORROW'S SUNDAY WORLD