| Show DOWN IS IN THE DIVES I 1 itale hade epou I 1 a new york hole of ofa iniquity I 1 A dive diva was raided at 61 fourth avei ave by the police last monday night which tor a year past paal has been the most moat dangerous don den in now new york it would require the pen of it a dickens to adequately describe deB cribe it I 1 imagine magill e a small dingy room tar far in the rear ol of the tha surrounding ing buildings where nightly a band ol of the most desperate criminals congregated to pass the tha hours from midnight until it daybreak in smoking drinking singing and blaspheming it derived its name the glass barrel from an illuminated beer keg made of glass which hung from an iron rod above the entrance 0 outwardly ut it appeared like an ordinary basement saloon but anwar inwardly adly it was i a baited i sepulchre chro a moral char no not house bouso ol of dead mens bo bones nes gogain to gain the interior it WEIS necessary to pass through a la a ol of dark anti and narrow passages I 1 closed n by heavy wooden doors boora which were opened and closed one after another to admit the visitor once inside the loudest shrieks shriek for assistance aaa istance would be unavailing there was waa only one time to aeo this place in all its glory and that tha alsea was about 5 or 6 in the morning at that hour hir the room was filled with men man and girls drinking beer and sinking singing ribald gs without fear of police interference one face seen there nightly lightly was that ot of a beautiful young girl called hell 11 she was the chiet attraction ot of the place for she could coald play wild airs at the piano pian BIC ques tio songs in in a loud clear voice voice and danco dance with a grace and abandon truly remarkable in appearance she is la tall and symmetrical with golden lair hair light blue bine eyes and I 1 features strikingly refined bho aho was tho q of the glass barrel in mora 0 re beautiful more despairing and more mora depraved than her above their envy by the tha superiority tupe nonty of her charms and talents and court courted edby by the men for her priority in in vice vice one of her subjects and closest friends was tho the notorious shoplifter and in in mods men clothing known to the police rs as short haired lizzie 11 this woman is la now in in state prison when she was at large the glass Barrull Barroll was her headquarters here bere she could lave have been been every night surrounded by her ber comrades many of them novices novices in in tie vice drink ing until daylight found her stapo fied in her corner short haired liz zib zia had bad a large wardrobe of mens attire and always appeared neatly dressed when masquerading sa as a ma man 13 dressed as a woman she one was a slovenly in in the extreme while her Is aquara r sot jaws and cruel mouth month ran rendered aud ered her repulsive even to comrades among other notorious crooks who frequented this den were harlem charlie one odthe of the most successful workers of df the flim flani game and a man ot of several had no specialty in crime but was waa particularly remarkable for the tha daring of 0 his hia thetta thefts thesa taw with numberless number lasa othor other and bood lers met in in the glass barrel n their couve conversation was carried on wholly in the lingo ot of crooks for or here hera they could openly brag of 0 their exploits without fear it was aa not cot a pleasant place to enter A As 8 passage after passage closed upon the visitor he became aware of 0 utter helplessness in case of trouble once inside the hardened and de da bauchon facos faces dimly seen through clouds of tobacco smoke and the revelry of 0 the inmates filled ono one with terror about 3 in the morn log ing a wil wild a can can was indulged in by the girls hell in the contre centre she con could d kick a mans man ahat hat from his bis grasp six feet from the round ground the room then became a perfect pandemonium and the visitor was glad to make his escape that such a don den could have existed in a respectable neighborhood for such a long time unmolested by tho police is indeed a mystery it was situated within abilock a block of 0 the bible house just back of the huge iron I 1 store built by AT A T stewart cor CM herald |
