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Show Cl.onilHilLNEXLXM. Nkw Yobk boaaU of having the raoit demcly populated area of any city In the world. Ther are taveral erctlonaln that city that will average 230,000 poop! to the aquiro mile, but thervlion email block lu particular In which 3,6.12 peojl live. Thlt block li bounded on th eou'h by Hecond treet, ou the north by Third, on th reitbyAveuueO., nod on the wectby Avenue II. In on small tenement building In this block Uv twenty-two famlllei, comprising 110 persons. The structure Is only an ordinary brick of Ave storlen. In that building a family of four pcnoni rent two room In which ar domiciled alaj seven boarders three man and four women. That le, eleven jeriom, nine of whom at full grown, live, eat, sleep, and dress In two small rooms of a five story house lu which 110 persons altogether alto-gether ar located. ThorenU paid for the tenement In this structurr a,fgirga(ein3 per month. A curious reporter who made an In veitlgatlon of thli particular houie alio Inquired about the family arrangements arrange-ments of tuelven peraoni In the two small room. For sleeping, the whole floor space liutlllied. Mtttreiies are spread at night, and In th morning they ar folded aud itowJ away on th flreoicape, None of the occupants peak a word ef llngllib. It Isaald they are all healthy and vigorous. In summer llmetb roofs of thei houses ar uied for sleeping, and so'me-times so'me-times the sidewalks and stoop of the house. There ar at present five per sons lu hospitals who rolled from housetops while asleep. The lives of two wet savel by falling on clothes line, th tore others were saved by falling on bedding piled on th ground Iloor. Theground floor of tnei tenements are occupied ai store and shop of virloui kinds. There Is a dancing academy, a barbershop with th sign "tonsorlalartlat who cut ladles bang for IS cents," a little ihop In which I'chowlng gum for the 100" Is aold. and and a bu toner thop In whlou sickly looking meat Is vended. Thli particular block enjoys thedli-Unction thedli-Unction of btttng the most thickly populatvd area ot lb ill of any place lu the whole world civilized or uncivil ii t J. It li worth n vli.lt from tho stu dent of sociology and In fact more than a visit. Thoapenraucu preaeuted by the exterior of the building U grott-s ijue, lu the tire-vacapes are piled bundle of budding, from every win dow tire extended lluea holding Hear lug apparel ot all descrlptlonx, and Imtiglug over the window kills are faces uf all natlnna and displaying all moodt.fn.m th melancholy h iochoi) drlantothn carekas and Jolly ftllow wliuno manner j roclnlmi: "Lit usiat and be rom) (or tomorrow we die." New York Is vrhapt the moet cosmopolitan cos-mopolitan city In the world, and al though It Is the actual though not the political capital of this great republic, has as broad distinctions of claia and as wide extreme of wtalth and uverty at can be found In any part of the Klobe, m |
