Show gotis GOTHAM 1 X 03 iSIP SIP dumped in the flie depth of despair by the demon drink arrom our correspondent EDITOR HEBALD on christmas day which in fact was as dreary a day BO so far aa as the weather was con L ernetaa ern edaa as tho the oldest inhabitant could recollect I 1 treated myself to a home 0 dose against the blues and visited PRISON it was indeed a sight to see the hearty relish with which the poor fellows cased caged in the cells consumed their christmas dinners the capo had been hung with evergreens ever greens and christmas trees and a Christnia siv v odor pervaded the dreary corridors after a walk through the prison an a chat with some of the inmate innia tes I 1 nettled settled down to a guiet talk with deputy warden finley in id the COSY WARDENS orice orrice tie he ha lia been in the tombs for over thirty ti aho e year years and werft cra he lie of the satorv tellina tel linit sort eort and anti inclined to think much of himself what tales he lie could relate replete with the ballins of real life the tears and the sorrows which are sure to follow fullow a career in i n the downward pat path h he is a mit natured tired man of abat sixty whose face fave fairly reflects benevolence and whose soft gentle voice acts as a ro to lief on the EARS OF TIIE TITE we have lave had bad some queer charac here said he lie and about christmas I 1 time when one is kind of cheered into a reflective mood one recollects some of biem the most noted character acter I 1 remember was a fellow named sam lie ile had scores of names but he never held on to any of ehm for fr any length of time he ile was no n 0 criminal but tie lie was a slave to drink forbears for years his time was spent either in the ten day house here ur or na bla kivelle island in his lucid moments tie fie would in a measure r e realize his condition and then ha have ve myself COMMITTED finally he lie got so that hebe camo a ilar fixture in the tombs and aicale himself generally useful one thine thing however he lie would always con tri trivo vo to d do 0 an and d tb that at was to ge get t 1 drunk I run k no would fre frequently q bently pet get small chag trim frn vis visitors 1 t or and immediately on receipt thereof I 1 lie ie would be 1 found gloriously drunk everybody watched wati hed him but nob zobidy av succeeded in fi finding adi rig out tout how he lie did it finally finall one christmas day when the commissioners ners were here one of them promised him a bottle of THE fineff WHISKY if he told how lie his liquor into the building ho fie then showed filion rd us there was an old forgotten for sewer 7 which aich opened into th cheram eraM plot outside of llie I 1 lie tombs and was wa covered with I 1 or rubbish and old iron whenever lie was sent out ont ona on a trie message ange lice lie would ill fill an old tin can ami press loress it ahr then vien he lie would dive into the bowels of the earth as it were and drink until the can was empty poor sam ho lie never vot pot drunk aller tiller that bottle of if whisky which the commissioner missioner sion r gave him for or we closed up the sener sewer tam was an educated not to ay tay t a learned man he ile could speak GREEK AND LATIN LATI with the utmost alile fluency and in theology as re 1 well ell as philosophy 11 lie was equal equally ay iy at home pie he also had a wonderful head for mathematics bics tics and anti would have made inalle a civil engineer but drink was wa his ruin poor fellow one bitterly cold morning during a term when he lie was at liberty he fie was found frozen fruzen stiff in fiant of the tomba cate gale ho ile had come conie home as he lie called the prison to to die lie NEMO NEVO NEW ew dec 31 |