Show adiong VIE mysteries of the manufacture of Il ckel pokey in brooklyn Dro ollyn lagle patsey rourke makes hokey pokey in the base ent of 24 F rent street ilis name is that an irishman but his appear ance and language are pronouncedly italian ile with many shrugs showed an eagle reporter and cor ed terome into his factory the other day where be explained the method of making the compound coT pound which attracta the gamins around the abree wheeled go carts in the streets as flies buzz saroun d a loo asses hogshead nothing pleasant was suggested by the surroundings the room was low and though by courtesy called a basement its damp floor moist walls and odor of slime sug more a vault in the cata combs than any place for habitation or labor though the day was warm without the atmosphere of this dark hole was chilly and struck into the marrow patsey fell to work immediately on entering tho room taking from an old and rusted ice cream freezer the thin cakes of frozen material which is supposed to be ice cream and is for the sake of novelty and attraction named hokey pokey ile was getting it made for his cus tamers for be is a wholesale d ealer and be explained that each of the cans contained 2506 of these blabs wrapped up in nominally white paper and lor which he got devent cents a liun Jred the rey babs ailer gets one cent each for the and makes a gross profit of thirty cents on one of the slabs was taken from the japer by the reporter find it melted between hip fingers into it thin white fluid that weakly re milk illow much do you pay for the milk you use in this asked the reporter tree a cent centa a for de uarta re 1 I with shake of his cad and a suggestive shrug of his shoulders blea ble a buy it from williams williams bus been arrested sev cral times for selling skim milk said officer temme what next do you use in mak ing this hokey jokey was the next query a use a airty five a egg to airty five a quart quarta a milk two poun corn starch an fourteen peon sugar the eggs were shown and though not exactly mildewed mil dewed wore an air of age t hat would have properly graced the pyramid id s an 1 I the re p r found himself unconsciously aking for the date B C on them do as to properly attest their an ty W ten a suggestion of fla vor was made the anxious patsy produced a half pint cologne bottle from a musty closet and calling attention to the fact that about a gill elvag gone explained that he had used that much for file flavor of the last batch ap bad produced the test of swell was applied to the ex tra ct and satisfied the reporter of its intense acidity in the fireplace fire place was a box full of chopped ice and it was in one of the cans containing the compound in process of freezing on a dirty table were placed half a dozen flat pang of some kind of metal but what kind could not be seen through their coating of rust and dirt into these pats Y I 1 aine it that be poured the semi ap I 1 rozen material in a thin very thin layer and then cut into small very small F drappi ng each square in e cream colored paper when the cakes were again placed in a freezer a nd laid int lie rock salt andice for a second term of I 1 the odor of rot tenne ss hung around the room almost eta a vapor and from the front room came a smell of cooking and a sense ot 0 heat in strong contrast to that which filled the place given up to the arctic god bolley pokey into the front room went the re porter it was hot as for an old fashioned cooking stove filled a large portion of it and in the stove a bright fire was blazing away two mattresses resting on boards borne up by rude carpenters horses crowded the stove so much that be tween them hardly any chance was left for the little woman with it clingi nj baby who was busy pre paring the evening meal iho combined smell of cookie coo kig clothing rags and bedding forced the visitors to beat a hasty retreat in spite of the hosts entreaty to hakea do cigar or bave st de beer in his anxiety to square himself with the supposed ins ile followed the couple to th a door and said imea no bad hokey pokey eb in a worried sort of way in another house lower down on the same side ove of former employers was discovered busy in the same sort of work and on an upper floor of a house in garrison place where rags and de crying bones helped to air dense with their odor was so other man making plain ice cream the slight glimpse of italy for the these three cal is whetted his curiosity to see rest of the locality and across from P a ts Is he went to no 29 a broad id fashioned house w bose beaten exterior and ruined interior could not disguise the fac t that it bad once been the abode of luxury As be ascended the stepi with the officer eleven 3 oun geters with vari ous proportions of cloth es on scam red away like rats and found riding places behind the older peo I 1 between it fit pie some peeping legs others pee from around ft mothers dregs and still more findan a refu 9 1 under the ily n aae beds 1 b air brig b t eye s b f 9 out on the intruders the elder ones knew the officer for they addressed him as chem me with varying degrees of cordi aliby down into the basement went the officer and his companion and in its da tap eta unfit even for storing zeal r were nine b eds two or three mattresses high and covered with licary quilts though the room was stiflingly hot the front and back basements were divided into compartments with bow for six families bocc 13 pied those ants A cradle was in the basement and a young mother WAS rocking it hardly deigning 0 notice the in tr until she was asked to re moye the heavy cover which lay upon it she did so and a brown hairless baby was seen its face beaded with perspiration but in an apparently peaceful slumber it thed around with clothes like an indian papoose so that no part of its limbs or body could be seen tile mother looked in doubt upon those who gazing upon her little child until one of them smiled upon it when she lifted it up in her arms kissed its little b ald head and said booty in a perfectly satisfied way up the first floor a trip aris then made and there were found in the front room used in the old days as it parlor seven beds ranged about the walls and accommodating one two and three sleepers each in tile rear room were three beds nod a shoemaker worked there with his noisy hammer and silent kni re while a cou pie of boys sit at a rudely built desk and one ored over aril history vit h ee pic lures whiter the other trie d to mas ter the art of writing in italian the fine tracing odthe famed italian method was missing ile just wanted to get there T e were evidently preparing the to selves for recitations in the scuola de italia which has just been open ed by an educated italien woman at the corner of front and garrison streets to the topmost floor a trip was then made while the youngsters ranging from 3 to 6 years got out of the way with easy alacrity th e re were found in three rooms more beds the rooms were the ernaldt ern alEt in the house the yard was enclosed by a number of low shede and aa the reporter and iceman entered a young man ul urrie dIV shut and locked the door to one of them and tried to pass the officer open that door said temme noa no a alea ale a catina uner tanna said the man with a look of antens e ignorance officer temme took the key from hisil and opened the filled door the stench was horrible and came from a heap of rags lying in one corner a bag of bones which hung oil the doorpost and the remains of a dead chicken which lay decaying on the floor that was enough the deor was closed and the key ri turned the italians have peren nial wash day or rather drying day for the rags of all colors which bang about on blusters posts clotheslines and other bandy place 8 might have been wet but never washed lows administration neither rags nor bones were allowed in about these houses now it is allowed if a fee of 13 cents is paid for the permit to have all the rags possible about the place and the healthfulness of the people who crowd these hives is simply a miracle under the circumstances according to officers and others who visit them hundreds of boxes placed about on the roofs of the sheds tops of posts and window ledges were filled with a bright green plant which forced itself out at interstices of the sides of that which held it and attracted the re porters curiosity when asked what it was there was a general chortes of and when one of the boys ventured to bring A prig out of abne of the box es an old hag shrieked out an indignant pro teat at the robbery of her precious plant it is an aromatic plant brought from italy anti flavoring eatable but it cannot help the foulness of its surroundings on front street hospitality of now things 1 popular science monthly A universal law of social pro gress with which we are all familiar is that established systems in thought morals manners govern ment or any department of human activity struggle to perpetuate themselves by a fight agai all whatever is new and progressive or represents the re juire ments of an enlarging field of life has to gain its foothold in the face of the powerful opposition of the old and pre esta s hose more perfect and exact conce eions of which we call scientific ideas have prevailed only after centuries of moral strife with the inherited superstitions and imperfect general izat ions of our semi civilized forefathers the progressive and liberal government of our ad vancell nations to day have been established in spite of the bitter opposition of their predecessors and are themselves fichti 0 to 0 th a if it nail the higher forms alt w ill succeed them in literature and art old schools strive to deny existence to the new and even in little affairs of our dail y lives we are all permitting the this gi that are and have sufficed to our fathers before us to keep out the better things that might be 1 |