The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1920, Page 11

Ward will be the subject of Mr. The Old Eighth ‘re. sei New York as Geen Through Young Eyes.” Only Two of the Notorious “Five Points” Remain as Habitations—Famous Old Tombs, Which Looked Like Egyptian Sepulchre, Scene of Many Famous Hangings, Gone. LAST OF OLD TPE OS CEE cry By Will B. Johnstone. Coprright. 1020, by The Proms Prbtivhina Co, (Tee New York Ereninae World ) tr thy palmy days when the “Dead Rabbits” battled with the "“Bow- ery Boys,” tt “Bloody Sixth Ward—the district starting at the apex of City Mall Square, where the Post Office stands, and roughly bounded by Broadway, nal, the Bowery and Park Row was called the with the Church of Transfiguration, third oldest Catholic chureh in the ety: This parish was all Irish « You note the change of race now in reading ronze table he This tuxbulent ward included many church tu ita dead in the late war celebrated spots of interest: City Only three Irish namer—Kane, Dur 7 rier one hus he others are Hall, Chinatown, Five Points, the old (it), Banattix eG elit Gants Tombs, “Politicians' Row” and Crim- Crocco, Forlini, Francasilla, La Place inal Courts. Lorenactu, Min Kuan no, “Bloodahed or murder was a Sainperl, Spadacora, Speri and Tor- nightly occurrence in my day.” said { Charles B. Nelson, old-timor, "Here is chants by t wher who * tok me through the district and 1! pl PN Political intrigue and described the of the clothing, boots and she ancient celebrities he knew, now all > eame from ‘fences’ Here’ id Ho: ry Theatre where I sor Edwin Forrest play “Metamorat “On the Post Officesite was a cire “ta, gat ia thé ular fountain then, with a granite shilling. anny coping, and the kids used to paddle tsher and Manny ham were ol favor- in It as they did in the old fountain nd C.K. Fox gave recently removed from City H tout. Christen suntomimen Park," said Nelson, “An tron fenc Tatar iv wae & Carinen theatre surrounded the rk and vendors ‘ araty Vea . . ots, on which, fastened by clothesping, tyinst post hung all the popular ballads of the day. We had no pianos, #0 we com pitted to memory the words of the Pink” We walked | Miads thus displayed. Bootbiacks (')) ‘Vi . ae Bt swarmed in the park and ate - r te ola * as ‘ aid var,'@ Johnpycake or molasses cookie, yy, (hit l# old Politicians’ low,’ © maid with scalloped edges (prive 1 Cent), Keween Hater a id Centta Streets, also Washington pie, 1 cent per out, oy LB regaete ae i tee “The house of Engine N 29 stood ‘Only three of the riginad ea ha aere kind cones tar Stand there to-d the north We walked over to the remains of the of tne acess one notorious "Five Points," where Bax- Pocupiew by satan A . ter, Park and Worth Streets make five ICDL! i th n which 1 wa corners, This former sink of iniquity MAyned. try oteaate purged to-day, Only two of the » P aaue ie Ke “Points” remain as habitadons. The Billy McLaughl n er wel excavation for the new Court House Bown powerful Tammony men lived Gad two parks cover the other points. here and ruled New York's political One is the Mulberry Bend Park, a life in a quiet house-to-house way monument to Jacob Riis, who led in Dick Knave m: ft fortune out of regenerating the neighborhood his famous saloon there on the corner (White and Ventre) “MeClusky CC of Detectives: 'Fa of Vianche Walsh, 4). Warden the Tombe, nd Comptroller Mats Srennan were all celubritie fou know the district was covered by the old its earliest days, Chat was ‘Fresh Water Hi out-of-town resort where rs spent tho summer fishing boating. Lif the Kevolution t of Clarence (then stationed midshipman), later King Wi) of England, skated on the Was filled in after 1808 minal Court wax built “On the now Court House point once stood a city pump,” explained Nelson. “This pump was the scene of Many fights when the neighbors con- of tested for first place at the handie, 0! Liquor shops cluttering the points 7 also inflamed the Iawlees natures." romp in the parks now where brave men feared to § “Chinatown has always as jong as I can remember, Nel- eon, who beat a drum in the Civil t is matting more prosperous though.” (A huge red motor truck bearing the name of Q. W. Chung Kee & Co. blocked narrow Park Street at No. 105), “The merchants are doing a tremendous business ne Cr eaty ¢ orge’), Chiet wh (father Chinamen dash arobnd with Yank the New York-Ne pep, dressed in snappy varsity clothes, freight depot; horses pulled the cara ‘or shoot poo} In Doyers Strest down Centre Street from 42d Street | the writer visited the Chinese the- “The old Tombs next door to the atre in Doyers Street in 1598 as q boy. Court House (Centre, Latayette—Oid lay the theatre is & welfare instl- Eim—Ieonard and ‘Franklin), we ‘ntion. I recall my quide that night famous. The site was decided on in berite Irwin, then third baseman on 1833, John L. Stevens's (of Hoboken) the Cincinnati Reds--being feartul of displaying money in that public place m Mott Street Joss houses contrast ook on Egyptian travel inspired its architecture, which Dickens de- soribed as ‘bastard Egyptian,’ but which was said to be the finest ex- amplo of Egyptian architecture out side of Egypt. Hence came its name, ‘the Tombs, Its granite blo (from Maine) were funereal and bidding, symbol of hopeless impris onment “The condemned were then hanged SCIENCE NOTES in offices a table for save space chair and stenographers hava been tn the prison yard (Leonard and La combined, one leg of the former fayette Street corner). The hang- curving up and being joined to pes were witnessed by the qurious from the windows of the freiht ue ae iatter. pot until a ¢ 8« wis panes raised about the prison wi nut English experimenters have ng off the view, A favo fow demonstrated the poxatbility of ‘ still get a view from the ola ther shot tower that stond gerons the s nawaprtnt And other street. Capt. Nathaniel Gordon wa papers from peat mixed with ) the firat to die here, (“The only man wood pulp for the finer grades. hanged in this country, so far as uc pile esaible record’ show,’ Rays the rec ord.—'Crime, Slave Trading.") About 8 per cent, of the to “John Stevens, wife polsoner; Rob bacco known as Turkish comes 9 ert MeDonald, who killed Virginia tre 8! t at Brandreth House; Poet a Rem reset he carhook murderer, were other igre elebrated victims; also Jack Reyn- Ite inventor has patented @ 9 olds, who declared hanging was spring wire stretcher to smooth 2 “played out,” only to perish by the fala Wien ‘from: mecktinn: noose himself. William ®harkey ex- caped from here after conviction, with the aid Of Maggie Jourdan, a Old New York as Seen Through Young Eye “Bloody Sixth” Ward, Scene of Many Gang Battles, To-Day a Quiet and Respectable Neighborhood OCTOBER s Politicians’ Row,"” Where the Rulers of the City Were Picked, -Now Deserted—Only ‘Three Houses Left—New Court House and Two Parks Will Embellish District. COTTAGES LERT w POLITICIANS’ Row* APARTMENT HUNTING ° BY NEAL R OHARA o Copprant, 1920, by The Press Publisblag Co. the New York Bvening World.) SWELL apartment to-day con- houses ought not to throw snow- sists of a combination living balls, That's fair enough. room and telephone booth. The Eskis may live tn one-room Your bedroom is an icebox—in win- apartmepts, but they're a healtiy ter. The kitchenettes come in slim, race at that. It is true they bave medium and stout sizes, and you aretic circles right under their eyes, hire your cook to fit the measure- but you should remember that night me fe in those parts Is six months at The reason the average American a stretch, And night life doesn't family goes off every Sunday is that break up thelr family life. The Jaly" home isn't large enough for the Sutt- thaw ruins more Eski homes than supplements. But ‘ll that by offeriy the de luxe all the vampires put together af In Mexieo the boys build their fireless bomes out of straw. They get thelr The waterial second-hand the year round from straw ballots they have for the Mexican Prexy, There is a constant supply of those. dumps off Janitors furnaces and and dumbwaiters, cookloss ra jandiord furnishes the extras such as two kinds of running cold water and th ges front and back doors. erybody'’s solved the housing Yep, they have all solved the hous- problem but us. ‘The Eskimos build ing problem but us. It was a good their homes out of ice blocks, When idea to make the home the substitute they get an eviction notice they've for the saloon, but they should bare only got to move a couple of blocks. ’ They have’ no there jx no o Eskimo home there excopt zero, And the Praise the ‘Golden Rule. ‘Phes figure (pat people who live In snow given us more than one for every 500 inhabitants, Homes, not sa- loons, Asx things stand now, we're o busy biriog moving-vans we've got no time to build houses, Every place fs a house that Jack built, but where oan you get the Jack? nal to buy be ause In a _Poor Little Income! WHAT DID You Do WITH THE QUARTER / ! GAVE You ¢ INcone 9.) ) DON'T You RENEMBER | | GAVE You A QUARTER LAST MONTH ? —S a A fo —— _ {Ais (COS NeMORY CAN'T) | renenser ( 'S SHoar y THAT FAR / be oh BACK { { 3 - “LOAN ME A QUARTER, RENENBeR AS FA r AS A MONTH 2 a WHEN » . WILLYOU é PAY IT BACK EXPENSE 9 of coal for Christmas? Watch for Neal O'Hara's next humorous article, ‘Coal Facts.” He saye a binful. ? A Stockingfu Maurice Ketten Oe, ( SNOKES j_TOo MANY CIGARETTES, DYING, FOR. LOV Coprrigh!, 1930, by The Press Publishing Co. (Tae New York Evenivg World) A FEW minutes after he attempted depths of despair because some loved has failed thom, 0 hima ia rae fa man called a ile # may soa aifdoull to a4 urged vine any one whone pain is so ter the driver to tal m to a hospital, rible as to want to live no longer, ye 1 have tried to kill myself, but t "toy truune looked we aquarely. a don't want to dle, My wife went wiin many o tried and sorrowing away neve days ago and I thought nth fest ph it ism very 1 could not live without her,” he said. world, and when all je amid and done A few days ugo a girl “turned On inen and women are very much allke the gas and attempted to ond her life Wien one gets very much attached to because of an unrequited love.” Life, however, loomed very sweet when ahe found she could be saved, How many such tragedion would be averted if people would only tahe themselves to tank and look at life through the large lens, ‘This in not only true of people on the verge of suicide, but others who get into tho another reste on t {s no one whale world and hopelens be retained. This is all folly, Pirat of all, the Divine Power did not just make one perwon and throw the mould aw ‘There are many more like him or hin great fallacy (or hers) 6 presumption that there ke the beloved one in the and that life Is worthless unless that affection can case interwoven witt) much orimina ance ‘Pirate’ Albert Hicks, who mur 1 the Captain and ‘crew Secoddly, time ts the greates' lor of all fils, enpecially menta! It Is the rare person who dies of » oken heart. And when he does it In because he refuses to have tor sloop, wa soner here, H 20%7% Is FCARDELL. « Was executed on Redloe's Island, ten . of prime importance—which the Federai hanging ground, the Coprright, 1920, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Yreniag World) 5 the ®igwer thing—is that one who crime coming under Government ¢ 6 PTO you think they'll let Eugene “I'm glad it wagp't bigamy, though. tries to take hin own life has loat the jurisdiction. Barnum exhibited a cast Debs out of privon to vote? If it had been I suppose they would courage to face facta, He admits hi i Saeed fey oo asked Mrs. Jarr. “That Mr. have let him out tong ago.” in 4 coward and in willing to have the murder nthe ‘Hond Dilger, who was arrested for bigamy, — “Rigamy in @ verlouw thing,” aid "he world mow et nave a Street. Mye 4 prisoner; gol out to vote last elettion, if Ire. Mr. Jarr. “And yet men are éncour- person in love with another unde Ned Hunitine, Wwiio “instigated plipabcereapte eta oe aged to commit it, Women never ave stand at the time that that person's ind u y oun ma An Jove some one else : and who comm a0 Jarr, “But bigamy isn't a crime; its to capture him, and they paver aak iP A ae every-day human an accident.” questions are filled with Instances like this f was fasn Georg . . Am e questions they are her, that the second love, when . ippose you think that’s funny If they ask questions they Further, that th Francis Train, who gloried nea ppone yeu. 1 * th have lost the first, haw hee Seratior a dacured on. entenns Jarr remarked, “When you men Hable to hear things they w like, hey ~Rigd " gle Lia ace bo Bs ithe ganar bat Me toh has sald Mra. J “Buppose | had waked far greater and better than th Sey a f aod been a ed for being married ten TEMPNING eoobK DE The | times you laugh and say, ‘Hasn't him for publishing obscene dite been punished enous! ture, which he proved to be m 1p = Mr. Jarr started to say something of quotations from the Bible, The put changed his mind Court could not convict or acquit Wilt wag-the as Train wo diucharged him aa ‘ins ' 3 but harmle. He refused to acc c nu needn't look at me like the result and had to be thrown out that!” snapped Mrs. Jarr. “You know of prison you auld thone very words, ‘He’ - La J ae ea am YOU Bald t rdx, He's pun Adams and shi shed enough,’ when I read to you out Orleans in a box won to of the paper about the man who had be uted in 0s fi WHS married fifty women and deserted marrie M4 Payne, Who Wrelé . em und was sont to the penitentiary Home, Sweet Home’ was a witn 4 agnt tothe p A fire was started in the pris tur it! And, anyway, killing some friends, and in the uusion body isn’t a» bud as breaking women’s committe sulctde--exca ping hearts — breaking fifty women's noose. ‘Tho old Tombs was enti down to make way for the pres near prison, Abe Hummel of Howe & What has ail this got to do with Hummel ebrated criminal luw- Gene Debst” avked Mr, Jarr, “He ts yers, had offices across from the 4 political prisoner and & Presidential Tombs (Centre and Leonard Streets, © P PRE ae rps Ho last figured in the Thaw ease, tie candidate; he's neither a bigamist nor moat celebrated trial ever held here. a crimina “Ith is gre d district,” said Nol Well, f can't understand it at ali, Hukhes practical hiker ena bey sald Mra. d “What waghe gent to maker. ‘who won f hilhon with Prion for if it wasn't bigamy or mur ‘Nicodemus,’ a mu he picked der off the street. And Billy MeGlor Mr, Jarre thought a moment, but who ran a noiorious dunce hall PP esha yi Moulin Rouge at Hester and ¥ ally’ had io eeinid: pe-Oenlge's. Fe member; but he did believe Debs was honest “Well, nobody takes any interest in you if you're Boneat,” eald Mra. Jer.i beth Streets. H ter thirty-five years ago and ated under the winked eye of poligga, Those were palmy days.” was & great obi oper- the questions about you before I married ever have dreamed you?” The reason of this is that one ha “You asked them afterward.” said learned to love a particular per Mr. Jarr his mannerisms, his little actions, | “Tdidn't haye to. People came to kind phrases, or even hin faults to me and told me," said Mra, Jarr. such a degree that one has learned to “That's always way," replied ieee Mr. Jarr ainiats you are 90 much excited about wouldn't have got into trouvle If people hadn't told about them afterward.” "Well, that's simple enough,” said re, Jarr. "Nobody likes to Inter ; . n Puss. -Aned what good Ouse \t.00 er BAR STUDENT: Emevac jag people before they marry? Mra says, “Life in @ succension Rangie was told by r own sister-tn of lessons which must be Qw about the man she was to marr fearmealte teh, aHBerROOR: At least her aister-in-law said al See ence sary dierent could tei) he things if Mary Smithers $ oon, aaat we were at »0) now Mra. Rangle—cared to listen fee Poatesion Teak wonia broek of the match. Mra ee Ok oe eee Rabi Rangle tuld her whe didn't Oe aa aedch ea ware in hear vem and for her to : haat! - ~~" own busines ngol wagain exo Rita Cha Wave Cound’ 4 lat This yank may be a reques 1 asked Mr, Ja get down to he OF AR ene NOR: veer’ cata Mire. Jerr, “Ane morning. Tk may be the ‘burs ahe matcied Mr Rensie she went to } yolls at us, which is a bad sian her motercin-law and said: ‘Now tell } for both him and us, Instead of me what you know about my hus- $ wondering why we are thus band!" And the sister-in-law wan as $ reprimanded, let ua nee if the ca mean as she could be. She w dn't down ia t justified. What lave tell her for the longest time.” we done to deserve it Exper “Well, let me sak again, what ence has taught tha tonce te all thts do with Bngene Debs, the @ person “cal d down” when Rooialist candidate for President?” $ does not deserve \t asked Mr. Jarr ‘othing at all that I can see, piled Mra, Jarr; “but if he wi Think it over and oblige, ALFALFA SMITH P, S—No employer really likes to call ap amployes down. re- in jail for bigamy all you men would vote for him.” ‘ look for them an@ haa become at- time of the great trial, but the his- tached to them, Now they may not find some one who will do exactly the same things manner to thi are other ways and other other prove fist as in stop bre in unrequited love and turn to the ig. world, that come that person because of tory of the world has proved it. There is nothing eo dead as @ dead love. 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