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Show INTERESTING BUT DIVERSE. Two Places In New York That Are Worth Attention. Special Correspondence. NEW York, Aurc. 35. Murderers' alley has a rather blood curdling nnme, but the title is more than borne out by tho fact. The thoroughfare, or "no thoroughfare," for the passage onda abruptly at a high board fence, runs westerly from Baxter Bax-ter bend, not far from Bayard street. It opens through a narrow arched doorway on the front of a forbidding four story brick tenement, and runs through the building to a stone paved court. The passage pas-sage is poorly paved, unlightod and recking reck-ing with the foul vapors of decaying mutter. mut-ter. In the middle a narrow door opens' on ono side In a dark embrusuro, where a man can stand nud kill unobserved whoever who-ever goes past. The court yard is shut in by rotting frame houses and noisome sheds. It is dusky at noon; at night its only illumiualion oomes from the smoky light of kerosene lumps through the windows of the surrounding tenements. The glory of tho plnce has departed. Once it was known ns the homo of "Old Moll Brown," Mary Blako aftd Mary Sullivan, Sul-livan, threo female desporadoee worthy of pedestals in the Pantheon of crime. Its frequenters wero druukards, sneak thioves and broken down criminals. It was the constant scene of robbery, felonious assault uud other and darker crimes. Time und time again tho police raided it and carried away its inmates to correctional Institutions. Institu-tions. On ono occasion, in 18SJ, the fifteen dives which wall it in were found to contain con-tain not less than 1,000 denizens. Tho hoard of lioulth finally invaded the place and deluged alley, court yard, dives and even inmates with dead oil and copperas Bolutlon. This was too much for the wretches, to whom sonp had long been unknown. un-known. After the third invasion of this sort they departed never to return. At present Murderers' alley is populated with Italian day laborers, and is sometimes the scene of murderous affrays. Of the millions who have visited Fulton market and enjoyed its wonderful display of marine wealth, how many knew that In one of the corner towers of the handsome edifice was a charming fish museum, where the student and sightseer could pass many agreeable hours? Years ago, when Fisa Commissioner Kugeno Blackford was starting start-ing in business as a market man, he began this collection. A narrow and high winding wind-ing stair leads up from the sidowaik of the north corridor to the largo tower room where these treasures aro stored. The compartment is largo, bright and well ventilated, ven-tilated, but it is crowdod with all sorts of sea monsters and plenty of books and pictures pic-tures pertaining to he sea. No fee is charged, F. |