Show SLUMMING experience fir wilt val cono it determined to chanco uli plan with a view to out what slumming in tho toughest regions 1 liko the reporter went to headquarters and asked bernce oldest and most trusted detectives to tell him some of ills ekpo expo in taking parties about in tho region cast of tho bowery ita a good while now since ivo dono any of that business said tho detective tec tive and the very few that we take around cherry hill and its alleys its too tough for ladica and for most ono of tho last parties that I 1 took tarco young men who acro going to do missionary work they were ministers and they wanted to seo what lifo was like its least worth living I 1 took them down to double alley a 13 foot wide street about feet long and hedged in by eight story tenements it runs off cherry street and it furnishes crimo and violence to tho square inch than any other place in now york with tho possible exception of single alloy which is near by of course we attracted attention there the urchins yelled at us the loaf era scowled at us and unkempt hags stuck their heads out of windows overhead aud made unpleasant comments wo paid no attention ono cant afford to bo squeamish in double alley the young ministers however began to look rather uncomfortable and I 1 reckoned they were getting scared and wished staid at home that their kind though aa I 1 found out pretty quickly when we got pretty near to the end of the place wo heard a terrific howling and yelling in one of the housoe there acro cries of murder and help mingled with cursor and groans it waa a characteristic io cherry hill mixed ale row from all indications in a out staggered a drunken woman her forehead bleeding profusely from a gash made by some close after her came a big burly longshoreman brandishing a bottlo ho reached the woman and brought tho bottle down on her head with force stretching her to tho pavement then ho began kicking her I 1 started for him but one of the young men was before me he hit tho longshoreman just once and that was enough tho man went down like a log then there was the dovil to pay halt a dozen big ruffians poured out of the doorway and made for tho minister he knocked the first one off his feet but the second ran in and grappled with him by this time I 1 and the other two were taking a hand in it there was nothing scared about those fellows then I 1 afterward found out that they had all been football players in college they fought liko devils and the odds against wo cleaned out the gang in about halt a minute A couple of police came running in and three of the roughs were arrested the woman went to the hospital where it waa found that bho was only slightly injured aro thick in double alloy our party i was a little the worse for wear my hat was lost in the scuffle one of the min i bad bis coat torn half off another i lost his spectacles and tho temporary use of one eye while the chap that biad waded in first was wiping the blood from his face and nursing a sprained thumb when lie said good night to me ho remarked i this experience has been a lesson to me I 1 was going to china as a mission ary but it lean judge by what ive eeck tonight there is plenty of mis sion work right here in this city and I 1 think ill stay here that man hag been doing good work among tho poor of this city bince then and china lost a good missionary and a man of nerve new york world |