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Show TYPICAL TENEMENT TRAGEDIES. A vers dolorous but extremely Interesting Inter-esting article undei this caption Is contributed to the Independent by the tho Ittv Pavld M bteele lie tnkca his reader to the crowded tllstilcts, where the normal habitation la the "double-decker," two houses deep, four families to a floor, live stoiles high "whcio from twenty to thlrts families enter bs one doorwa from the street, and where sixty odd rhlldren fight, scratch and svrnmble up and down a single stalrwa," lie tells how the dwellers In such warrens throng tho streets In the hot summer nights, gasp-Ing gasp-Ing for air, and fight In mobs for tho mera privilege of hiving streams of water wa-ter plased on them by the flro department depart-ment He tells of other queer places whete people live, that under the great office buildings are upartments for flf-ts flf-ts families nnd that 'In these families fami-lies chlldrtn tire sometimes born blind becaui-e their mothers for whole seirn never see das light', nnd that on the roofs of these same tall buildings there are families ot Janltois whose 6-sear-old rhlldien have never stepped upon tne crnunn Among the members of an 'outing' parts Ms. Steele took to New Jersey was a woman with thiee children, she held them tn h r In undisguised terror on the train, lest they fall off. she was dazed nnd bewildered nn the ferrs-boat, ferrs-boat, and thought her boy was lost If he g-t behlnl a tree She had "never seen tho sky where It wis lound had "never heard a live bird sing' an I had never seen freen grass glow where sou dircd tramp on II" Hhe had sel-ilom sel-ilom been out of her own stieet, hid been onls twice on tho street enrs, once on a ferrs-hoit ami never on n lall-roid lall-roid train She didn t think It strange, either, easing '"",,v. that alnt nothing, lots of er . ' -liner " He tells of a little who lived a hermit, she hai in her south one of the giy set i,k- In soclets but her people ha 1 died, nnd she hid her-self, her-self, living In a single room on her hundred llioui -ollurs Ho men tions nil old man who was hlidennway, making n scant living as a cobbler, but who was a gieit s.holnr, with a llbinry comprising mins masterpieces of tho choicest literature In four Ian-guiges Ian-guiges The vmI'k of the tticss and heat of tho world fierce , struggles come tn New York fiom nil lands 'I hey almost Invarlabls "H" Into ot three occupations- lestaurnut waiters, rb drivers or street fakirs There .111 .oinmon waller- who 'leak six an-mages an-mages A once great musician phi a ,lu. vloim on the strets for pennl-8 U.rowntohl.u.andseMHthelOoch.cU pipeis In the th-iter district A Oer-man Oer-man university PiofiMor peUulea lead- pencils an exiled Russian nobleman drives joiing bloods about town In n. cab a former srand op ra star waits on restnurunt customers after the plis A wader at the Hotel Manhittan asked to be trnrsferred from his table, ta-ble, at which the Trench I'mbassador had taken his sen, for fear tho I'm-bassidor I'm-bassidor would recognUc him tine poo- wretch, who was once n city edl-! edl-! mi and can now on a couple ot sheets if blown paier write a story thit will hi Ing him mones enough for a spree ot weeks length Is a besotted drunkard haunting the lowest dens A waiter In a little restaurant died of smillpox, a Gciinan offlclil was notified nnd cabled ca-bled Instructions for his burial! the dead waiter was distantly related to the llmperor llllini An old laborer a puddler In an iron foundrs-wns left a widower, with a daughter ot 5 He made evers sac-rillce sac-rillce for her sold hla properts which representei the accumulations of n lifetime, nnd tent her abroad to study mush she returned a gteat singer anl beauts hhe lcfuetd to uwn her fathei, and set ho sends her twenty dollars n week out ot his four dollars nnd a half per das, and she uses It, though ! never sees nor writes to him other stories of the crowded llfo and tragedies of the great eltv nrc told till one enn well believe, ns the writer pass tint the life of tho tenement dlstilcls Is utterly unknown to the nverage resident and ilttzcn. It la n vast unisslmllated horde, or lather collection of hordes whose wnss of life and inultltules ot sorrows are ab-olutels unknown |