Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-14 | Page 13 | In New York

I I N M wo R K J S I y I ami J. J r I Lc iIi I 1111 1 iii No New York Isn't All AIl There Splendor Splendor There Are for Instance the 1100 Who Sleep at City's Free Lodging House Each Night W YORK On YORK On a. a cold night tho tim line lino b begins to form about sundown sun sun- down But it Is Js not a a. line in any orderly sense It H Is moro a disorganized drifting of ot shambling humans V Tho The scene is a a. Jar large e- e look dreary Ing place over o by ty tho the East river rl It Is 15 called the tho Municipal 31 Lodging house e 1 1 Its ts a average ve capacity capacity capacity ca ca- ca- ca Is some somo t nOr 1100 persons per pcr I night nut But this Is Isa Isa a particularly to tough u h winter I When winds reach j the tho freezing point yomo 1400 or moro I humans may be beV V 1 ex exp ic e l to ap ap- ap- ap pJ ply Which means moans that must l shift shirt through the night to some other other oth oth- harbor harbor It if ram er an any To accommodate accommodate date dato as man many AH as po Involves tho the n necessity of quick invention Chairs are aro placed about tables and the p penniless s droop to sleep with faces burled in hands and arms flung across table tops The rest must cro crowd d together in tn ina a chaos of ot filthy bodies Hes It Is 15 not a L pretty picture It I Is Isone isone one phase of tho great city In Its lUi more hopeless nn and terrible a aspects p ets Eleven Kleven hundred humans could make tho the population of ot a country countr town Multiply this by three or four thus four thus including the populations of or the Salvation Army homes the Y M. M C. C A. A flop houses and tho the many flowery Bowery ml missions and y you OU approximate tho the size Izo of or a a. thriving little city A little city then which comes crawling from somewhere out In inthe the tho night A city elly of or ras ragged cd dwell ers A city without a a. dime In Its communal purlA A purl pure city without t a place to sleep Je p or keep warm V S S Tho women and children always ars come conic last They fight ht harder 3 against surrender surrender der pr to this sordid Inevitability Particularly Par Par- when there are an children n Yet wom women n and antI children d dc come They They They-maUe hc make o their j those new sky reaching places laces where the rents aro are f a a. year ear They make their W way t through bright ht lanes and dark areaways under the The They make their way with children shivering In their arms and crying at their heels They make mako their way In shoes that are all but falling from rom their feet feeL Hatless s. s and with ra ragged ed shawls tied about boul stinging ea ears Cars rs Tho people of or luxury land sleep I comfortably Perhaps ono complains that tho steam heat Isn't particularly lady good that night Going to a a. alighted brightly lighted lighter window tho the palace dwellers over by bv tho tIm East river may maysee maysee see seo a dark shadow hurry huny across the tho street S S Tho Tim penniless searchers bed d be-d- travel tray trav el ci 1 alone unless alono-unless unless they aro are a a. diverse er o crew Many resemble tho the people of ot Corky's Gorky's Gorky's Gor Gor- ky's Lower Depths Yet Tet thero 1 I is not even en the depressing drama of tho the Gorky pIa play There Is no sense of ot contact beI be- be j I tween them no I Implication of or an any entanglement of lives Jives They drift 6 In and they drift I J. J out And some night they drift in ta V again T They Ii h oy travel tra alone Tragically alone Like cows breaking through brush after grazing graz graz- azIn az- az In leg ing on a woody hillside 1 In a few CW there is a a. sense of ot cumulative o despair an anxious t tension tension ten ten- n- n sion which tells the story of or tho newcomer newcom the newcomer thc r-thc the first timer Most o of the th women omen are aro first timers Hundred Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- dred of ot the men are just bums bums- sh shifting without desires de de- le- le sires Ire seemingly without senses senses- They do not even cn communicate to with ono another Thero There Is rather rither a a. stolid Individualistic desire to get et there thero first t and get set a a. b bed Let t. t tho the otherS other fellow look Jook after himself And nd no so o It goes until mtH 1400 humans are aro packed like animals against the cold GILBERT nT SWAN SVAN Copyright 1030 30 N NEA Service Inc