| Show NEW YORK TOUR wem TEI lotse HOUSES 5 T york press is loudly calling attention to the evils resulting to the poorest classes of people the city contains I 1 from the tenement house system these tenement houses are very profitable investments for their owners probably yielding a larger rate of interest for the outlay required to build them than could be derived from any other source the great majority of them are constructed in the cheapest possible manner and in the lowest quarters of the city they are erected regardless of convenience and judging from the accounts of them occasionally published in the new york papers are little better in most respects than BO so many hog pens in a populous city like new york there must always be a very large number of unskillful and necessarily poorly paid artisans arti and laborers numbers of or foreign emigrants are also ca continually bril aril arriving ving all such must have shelter hence the necessity of cheap dwellings under such circumstances is absolute to prevent privation and su suffering frering among those who are thus unfortunately situated the cry now being raised by the press is not against cheap dwellings forthe for the poor but because they are not cheaper and better because those who build them take advantage of the necessities of the poorest classes in charging such high rents for places plates absolutely unfit for human habitation the majority of these wretched places if the published accounts are true are destitute of every convenience requisite and necessary ina lna in a sanitary point of view they are ill lighted and ill drained and being so densely inhabited decency is of necessity but little thought of and as a conse consequence queno immorally im immorality morall t yd crime erime and disease are developed a and n promoted to a lamentable extent then again they are constructed so much on the eggshell principle that thab accidents of a serious amerious character through the falling of walls are arb not unusual these considerations side rations united render the need for reform absolute absolute and in advocating it the press is operating in its legitimate sphere the passage of measure measures sto to effect the reforms needed falls within the scope of the ri yit ait it could not nol control the amount charged chaigen for rent that must be re regulated uti uliter Uli ted by the ordinary laws of trade out it might pass laws compelling the owners of such buildings to haye have them constructed so as to be healthy in every ever respect also prescribing the number of inmates to an enclosure oc of any given size thus compelling at least external respect t to dodican decency these matters watters are well worthy the attention of the municipal authorities of new york city and there is little doubt that E objects of far less moment often occupy their time attention and wisdom the legislation necessary to reform the abuses complained com pained of might however interfere with the pecuniary profits of some who are in the municipal body or wb wio have influence with US its members I 1 and thus the progress of this thia much needed reform be greatly impeded but if those who are really benevolent and philanthropic win will direct their energies to the accomplishment of this object and arouse public attention thoroughly to the evils that exist they will help on the good work and benefit the poor incomparably more than by the tho bestowal of gifts those gentlemen loo too who lakeit make it their sole business to look after the welfare of souls might do a far worse thing than to help on this good cause the temporal welfare of thousands of the poor poo of new york City they may think is not of so much importance as tickling the ears of those from whom they draw their heavy salaries with their fables but one thing is certain a vast deal more present good would result from preaching aching up and procuring temporal salvation salvati salvat ioa oi in the shape of good comfortable dwelling houses for the poor than in picturing to the wealthy the beauties of a chimerical heaven an ounce of salvation today to day is worth more than two ounces tomorrow to morrow at least that is the view taken by the people of utah it is true that we an arc termed materialists materia lists but our materialism leads to present and substantial sal i salvation from want and discomfort here to those who need it to the thousands of poor people festering t and mail vall wallowing owl g in the unwholesome me tenement hous houses es of new york substantial comfortable roomy well lighted dwelling houses built built bulit on well drained jand would be a very desirable inseal ment of salvation and we hope the efm eff morts lorts of the press to arouse attention to tb the tho subject and effect the necessary reform will vill soon be aided and backed up by the earnest operation cooperation co of or every true philanthropist there and that their united efforts will speedily bring about the adoption of measures by thoa thoe thos having authority that will lead to the modification of the most glaring evils and abuses of the tenement house system ay AN electrical child which died recently in france is the latest wonder it was only ten months old at the time tune of death but so overcharged over charged with electricity electric ty was its ita system said to be that any person entering the room in which it was received constant and powerful shocks the cee cle child died without pain apparently and the medical men who wone were in attendance say that at the moment of dissolution and for several minutes after luminous ef xavia Ravia proceeded from its body the cause ig is pronounced by a leading medical journal to be unprecedented in tho world of science A CURIOUS case of miscegenation is noticed in the papers it appears that some years ago the slaves of a rich south carolina plan tor named purvis formed a conspiracy to kill hin bin ho he was warned of the plot bv a female slave named harriet miller and and he out of gratitude married her het she died a short tune tuno ago in Pensy Pens rens yania nania leaving property to the value of |
