Show CROWDED TENEMENTS NEW YORK boasts of having the most densely populated area of any city in the world there are several sections in that city that will average people to the square mile but there is one small mall block in particular parti oular in which people live this block is ia bounded on the south aoah by second street on the north by third on the east by avenue C and on the west by avenue B in one small tenement tuil building ding in this block live twenty two families comprising persons person lL the structure to in only an ordinary brick of five stories in that building a family of foar persons rent two rooms in which are domiciled also seven boarders hoar ders three men and four women that le in eleven persons nine of whom are full grown live eat sleep and drew dresa irn fa two small rooms of a five story house in which persons person altogether are located the rents rente paid for the tenement in this structure aggregate per month A curious reporter who made an investigation vesti gation of this parti particular calar house also inquired about the family arrangements of the eleven persons in the two small rooms por for sleeping the whole floor space to is utilized mattresses are spread at night and in the tha morning they are folded and stowed away on the are escape none of the occupants speak a word of english it is said mid they are all heathy healthy and vigorous in summer time the roofs of these houses are used for sleeping stud and sometimes the sidewalks and stoops of the house bouse there are at present five persons in hospitals who rolled from hou housetops while asleep the lives of two were savel saved by falling on clothes lines the three others were saved by falling failing on bedding piled on the ground floor the ground fl fi ors of these tenements are bocc occupied led as stores and shops of various kinds there is a d dancing academy a barbershop barber shop with the sign 11 tonsorial artist who cuts wies ladies 1 bangs for 16 cents 12 a little shop in which chewing gum for the is sold and and a butcher shop in which sickly looking meat is vended bended this particular block enjoys the distinction of being the most thickly populated area of the size of any place in the whole world civilized or uncivilized it to in worth a visit from the student of sociology and in fact more than a visit the appearance presented by the exterior of the building la is geotes quo que in the fire escapes are piled bundles of bedding from every window are extended lines holding wearing apparel of all descriptions and banging over the window sills are faces of all nations and displaying all the melancholy by arise to the careless and jolly fellow whose manner proclaims Letu let us seat eat and be merry fir for tomorrow we die y new york is perhaps the most cosmopolitan mo politan city in the world and although tha ugh it is the actual though not the political capital of this great republic has as broad distinctions of class and as aa wide extremes of wealth and poverty as can be found in any part of the globe |