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The Old Eighth
New York at Stan Through Youno
Old New
" Bloody Sixth"
Only Two of the Notorious "Five Points"
Kemam as Habitations
Which Looked Like
Scene of Many Famous
By Will B. Johnstone.
Coorrtrtit. IW br Te CrrM IIMHilnj C.
iTbe Nw Ytxk t'rolf WorM )
IN th palmy days when the "Dead
lUbblta" bAttled u-Uh the "Urn
er' Hoy," It was cnllpd the
"Bloody Sixth" Ward-the district
otartlng nt the apex of City Hall
Square, where the Post Office utands,
and rouuhly boundod by Broadway,
Cannl, the Uowory and I'.irk Ito.
Thl turbulent ward Included many
celebrated apota of Intercut: Oity
Hall, Chinatown. Five Points, the old
Tomtia. Politicians' How" and Crlm
InnI Courta.
"liloodflhed or murder nas a
Mghtly occurrence In my day," eald
Cljarleg B. Nelson, old-tlmur. who
took me through the district and
pointed out the Mcnnes of strife and
polltloal Intrlfrue and described the
ancient celebrities he knew, now all
gone.
"On the Post omctiftttn wrb a cir
cular fountain then, with a granite
toping and the kids uaed to paddle
in It as they did In the old fountain
lecenUy removed from City Hall
Turk," said Nelson. "An Iron fence
surrounded the park and vendors
used to suspend tarings to the ptvk
ets, on which, fastened by clothespins,
hung all the popular ballads of the
day. We had no pianos, ao we coin
I'Wlttcd to memory the words of the
ftrtlads thus dutplayel. llootblacka
swarmed In the park and nto 'lxill
var,' a Johnnycoke or molaseex cookie,
with scalloped edpa (prloe l cent),
aleo Washington pie. t cunt per cut.
'The house of Knclne No. 29 stood
on Chambers and Centre Streets."
We walked over to th remains of tho.
notorious "Flv Points," whore Bax
ter. Park and AVortb HtreetH make five
comers. Thle former sink of iniquity
Is pursed to-day. Only two of the
"Points" remain as habitations. The
excavation for the new Court House
and two parka cover the other points.
One Is the MuSberry Bend Park, a
monument U Jacob nils, who led in
regenerating tho neighborhood.
"On the now Court House point
moe stood a city pump." explained
ffelson. "This pump was the scene of
many fights when tho neighbors con
teeted for first place nt the handle.
Liquor shops cluttorlnc tho points
also inflamed the lawleB natures."
(Children romp In the parks now
where bravo men feared to go of yore.)
"Chinatown has always been here
as Jong aa I can remember." said N1
oon, who beat u drum In the Civil
War. "It Is netting more prosperous
though." (A huge red motor trurk,
bearing the name of Q. W. Chung Kee
fc c blocked narrow Park Street at
No. 105). 'The merchants are doing
a tremenaoiis nranw.
Chlnsmen dah arofind with ne
nn .dressed In enanpy varsity Clothes,
or shoot pool In Doyers Street.
Tho writer visited the Chinese the-
atre In Doyers Street In 19S as a boy.
To-day tho theatre Is a welfare Instl-
t in on. i rcoan in-fioiuw .in..
Wf tm..nii. irwin. then third baseman on
t, fthn Cincinnati neds-belng f'nrful of
I .ti..i.uinr mnnev in that nubile place,
i On Mott Street Joss houses contrast
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SCIENCE NOTES
reive space In offices a
oh air and tablo for
stenographers hav been
combined, one leg of the former
curvlnr up and being Joined to
the latter.'
English experimenters have
demonstrated tho possibility of
making newsprint nnd other
papers from peat mixed with
wood pulp for the finer grades.
About SO per cent of the to
baoco known as Turkish comss
from Greece.
Its Inventor lias patented a
spring wire stretcher to smooth
wrinkles from neckties.
Ward will be the tubjtct of Mr.
Johnstons'e next story of "Old
Eyes."
York as Seen
Ward, Scene of
To-Day a Quiet
Famous Old Tombs,
Egyptian Sepulchre, '
Hangings, Gone.
with the Church of Transflguiatlon,
third oldest Catholic church in the
olty: Till parish was all Irish onn
You note the ohangti of race, now In
rending the "bronze tablet In the
chuich to Ha dead In the lato wur.
Only three Irish names Kane. Dur
kin. Uunohuo. The others ure Apl- a
eclin. llenvdetto. . Capelllnl. Colli. IS
Crocuo, Korllul, Finnclllii, La Place. Jt.
Irensettl, Mlnelll, Humso, Hulerno,
oainperi, paautora, peri ana Tor
roco. y -
"Here Is where the famous mor
chantH by the name of Cohen and
Levi uvea to pull their customera In
from the street." Imlionted Nelson as
wo walked up Kaxter Street. ".Moat
of the clothing, boots and shoes sold
hero name from 'fence.' Here's the
old llowery Theatre, where 1 saw
Kiln In Forrest play '.Mutuiuura! and
'Jaik Cade.' We sat In the pit
(oM'hcotru) for a shilling. Fanny
Herrtnt;, Kute Fisher and Fanny
liutso Buckingham were old favor
lies. (5. I.. Fox and i. K- Fox gave
their great Christina pantomimes
hero. Liter it was a (iermun theatre,
nwxt Jewish, now Italian.
"Between the acts wo quenched our
thirst next door here at the Atlantic
Garden set! the name still on tho
building." We walked past lit Bow
ery, unco Hleve Brodle's saloon, Steve
who jumped off of Biooklyn .Bridge.
"Tills la old 'Politicians' How.' " said
N'elhtui when we reuchd White Street,
between Baxter and I'entre Streets.
"Only three of the oiiKinal cottugi-H
stand there to-day on the north side
of the street. That one at No. 12,
occupied by the 'gunshlm- Settle
ment.' Is the house in which J is as
married, titty years ago.
"Kerraty, Feeney. McCluaky, O'Keefe,
Billy McLaughlin und -jther -known
powerful Tammany men lived
here and ruled New York's political
llfn In a quiet house-to-house way.
Dick Knabe mado a fortune out of
his famous saloon there on the corner
(White and Centre).
"McClusky ('Chesty George'). Chief
of Detective; 'Fatty' Walsh (father
of lllanohe Walsh, uctress), Warden
of the Tombs, and Comptroller Matt
T. Brennan were all ccMtrltles here
"You know the district was mostly
covered by the old Collect Pond In
Its earliest d.iyn. Chatham UquarH
was 'Fresh Water Hill,' a popular
out-of-town resort where pw York
ers upont tho summer rlshlng and
boating, lir the Kevolutlon the Duke
of Clarence (then stationed hero ai
midshipman), later King William IV.
of Kngland, skated on the pond. It
wae tilled In after U08. Before the
Criminal Court was built this place
was the New York-New Haven
freight depot; horse pullid the CHrs
down Centre .Btreet from 4?d Street,
"The old Tombs next door to the
Court Hous9 (Centre. Ifayetle Old
KlmLeonard and Franklin), wo
n.-
1S33. John L. Htevsns's (of Ilobokeni
ibook on Egyptian travel Inspired Its
architecture. which Dickens de
sorted as bnstard Egyptian,' but
11' wna KlSlil In h I MA flnMt AV
ample of Ugyiittan architecture out
side of Kgypt. Hence cume Its
name, 'the Tombs.' Its granite blocks
(from Maine) were funereal and for
bidding, symbol of hopeless impris
onment. "The condemned were then hanged
in the prison yard (Ieonard and La
fayette Htreet corner). The hang
ings were witnessed by the (rurlou
from the windows of the freight de
pot until a canvas screen was
related about the prison walla shut
ting off the view. A favored few
could still get a view from the old
shot tower that stood across the
street. Capt. Nathaniel Gordon was
the first to die here. (The only man
hanged In this country, so far as ac
cessible records show,' saya the rec
ord. 'Crime, HJave Trading.)
"John Wtevons, wife .poisoner; nob
ert McDonald, who killed Virginia
Stewart at Brandreth House: Footer,
the carhook murdorer, were other
celebrated victims; also Jack Itoyn
olds, who decCared hanging wa
"played out," only to perish by the
noose himself. William 8harke' es
caped from hero after convieUon,
with tha aid. at Uassix Jourdan, a
THE EVENING- WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
ITMn
Through Young Eyes
Many Gang Battles,
andw Respectable
"Politicians' Row," Where the Rulers of the
City Were Picked, Now Deserted Only
'Three Houses Left New Court House and
Two Parks Will Embellish District.
APARTAEMT HUNTING
o BY Meal CHara o
CM. fW. I TIk I'm! 1-ubUiHn
SWELL apartment to-day con
slsta of a combination, living
room nnd telephone booth.
Your bedroom Is an Icebox In win
ter. The kitchenettes come In slim,
m odium anil stout sites, and you
hire your oook lo lit
menu.
the measure-
The reason Ute average American
fumlly goes oiT every Sunday is that
home Isu't largo enough for the Sun
day supplements. Hut the tie luxe
dumps offset 'all that by offeriruc deaf
Janitors and dumbwaiters, Orrleea
furnaoos and cookleaa ranges. The
landlord furnishes the -extras such
r
as two kinds of running cold water
and the front and back doors.
Everybody's solved Uie houalng
problem but us. The Ktklmos build
their homes out of ice blocks. When
they get an eviction notice they've
only got to move a couple of blocks.
They have no coal to buy beoause
chore Is no cellar. In a oue-atory
Kbklino homo there la nothing below
except zero. And the Kakl landlords
prarffle the -Golden Rule. They
flgur yiat people who llvo In snow
ease Interwoven with much criminal
romance
"Ptrute" Albert Iltoks, who mur
dered the Captain ami crew of an
oystor sloop, was prisoner here. Ilu
WfiH executed on Bedloc's Island, then
tho Federal hanviug ground, the
crime comllMt under Government
Jurisdiction, ftarnum exhibited a cast
of Hicks' head In his musvuni.
"Mrs. Cunningham, churned with
the murder of Dr. Burdell In the 'Bond
Htrtet Mystery,' was a prisoner; also
Ned BunUine, who Instigated the
Astor Place riots: Mme. Hestell, 'who
made a forluno hy hiduous mal
practice nnd who committed suicide
In her cell.
"Another was fajnoua Ueorgu
Kmnria Train u hA avlnrl...! lit inrm
ceratlnn Hit deelarwi on enlunruz
the Tombs. 'I'll raise hell In ima
Egyptian sepulchre.' n- organli-jd
a 'Murderers' Club.' and made a
laughing Mock of the court that tried
nim tor puonsning onacene ter-
m,. ,..!,(-. v,o -.a ,.. v. ....
0f quotations from the Bible. The
Court could not convict or aeouit
Train so discharged him tut 'insane
but harmless.' He refused to accept
the result and had to be thrown nut
of prison.
"In 1811 John r. rolt killed Mam
Adams and shipped the body to Ni-w
Orleans in a box. The day he wos to
be executed In the Tombs h wita
married, and IVisne, who wrote
'Home, Sweet Home' was a witness.
A fire was started in the prison by
friend, and in the confusion (-oil
committed suicide-escaping tf.e
noose. The old Tombs was torn
down to make way for the present
prison. Abe Hummel of Howe &
Hummel, celebrated criminal law
ers, had otlicea across from the
Tombs (Centre and Leonard Streets).
Ha last figured In the Thaw ease, the
most ef Itfbratad trial ever held here.
"It's u great old district," said Nel
son, "and don't forget Bryan 0.
Hughes, practical Joker and box
maker, who won a blue rlKbon w-lth
'NlcodemilK,' a mull dog he picked
off the street. And Billy Mdilorv,
who ran a notorious dance hall a la
Moulin Rouge at Hester and Elisa
beth Btreeta. He was a great charac
ter thirty-five yeara ago and oper
at nl under .the winked eye of the
poll9a Tboje were palmy day."
i . ,i !. il . jpy mil ww.m. pp;r; .7?
Neighborhood
Co. at Ntw Tork BifnlDi Werlil
house ought not to throw snow
balls. That's fair enough.
Tho Eskls may live lu one-room
npartmontn, but they're a hwtltlly
raco at that. It Is true they have
arctic circle right under .their eyca,
but you should remember that night
life In those parts Is alz months at
a stretch. And night llfo doesn't
break up tholr family life. The July'
thaw ruins more 12kl homes than
all the vampires put together.
In Moxlco the boys build their
homes out of straw. They got their
material second-hand tho year round
from straw ballots they have for the
Mexican Proxy. There Is a constant
supply of those.
Yep, they have all solved the hous
ing problem but us. It was a good
idea to make the home tho substitute
for the saloon, but they should bare
given us more than one for every
fiOO Inhabitants. Homos, not sa
loons. As things stand now, wcTo
so buay hiring moving-vans we've
got no time to build houses. Every
pigoe Is a Qjduso tliat Jack built, but
where oan ybu get the Jack?
THE JABB FAMICT
Crhttil. MM, U Tk rim rMbUrtlei
"D
kO y,u think they'll let Eugene
Debs out of prison to vote?"
nsked Mrs. Jarr. "That Mr.
Dilger, who whs arrested for bigamy,
got out lo vote last eUCtlon, If I re
member correotly!"
"Dllger was balltd out," replied Mr.
Jarr. "But bigamy isn't a crime; it's
an accident."
"I suppose you think that's funnyl"
Mrs. Jarr remarked. "When you men
read In the paper -that a wretch haa
been arrested for being married ten
times you laugh and say. 'Hasn't he
been punished enough?"'
Mr. Jarr started to say something,
but changed his mind.
What was-tJie use?
"Oh, you needn't look at me like
that!" snapped Mrs. Jarr. ."You know
you said those very words, 'He's pun
ished enough,' when I read to uif out
of the paper about the man who hud
married fifty women and deserted
them and was sent to the penitentiary
tor It! And, anyway, killing some
body Isn't as bud as breaking women's
hearts breaking fifty women's
hearts!"
"What he all this got to do with
Geno Debs?" asked Mr. Jarr. "He la
a political prisoner and a Presidential
candidate; he's neither a bigamist nor
a criminal."
"Well. I can't understand it at all,"
said Mrs. Jarr. "What was'ho sent to
prison for if it wasn't bigamy or mur
der?" Mr. Jarr thought a moment, but
finally had to admit he oouldn't re
member; but he did believe Debs wos
honest
"Well, nobody takes any Interest In
you if you're bonsit," Md Mrs. Jarit
j Poor Little
What diou Do
With The quarter J
I gave bu r y
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Don't You
I GAVG You
(tcanY
THAT FAR-
LAST HOHTH ?
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DYING FOR LOVE
OvirUU. II JO, tj Tti Iltu FviUltkUi
A FEW minutes after he attempted
J- to kill himself a man oalled a
taxi ana urgeii tne timer tu
take him to a hospital.
"I have tried to kill myself, but I
don't nant to die. My wlfo went
away several days ago and I thought
I could not live without her," he said.
A few days ugo a girl "turned on,
thn gas and attempted to end her Ufa
because of an unrequited love."
Life, however, loomed very sweet
when she found she could be saved.
How many suh tragedies would be
averted If people would only take
themselves to task and look at lite
suicide
the large lens. This is not
rue of people on the verge of
but others who get into tho
Co. TLt hlw Tork istai Wf)(i.l
"I'm glad It wasn't blgamj
though.
If It had been I nipporc
they would
have let him out long ago."
"Illgamy Is a serious thing," said
Mr. Jarr. "And yet men are encour
aged to commit It. Women never sec
a dfctaohed man around but they try
to capture him, and they nsr ak
questions."
"If they ask questions they sre
llahle to hear things they won't like."
said Mrs. Jarr. "Suppose I had asked
questions about you before I married
you?"
"You asked tlim afterward," said
Mr. Jnrr.
"I didn't hae to. People came to
me und told me," said Mrs. Jarr.
"That's always the way," replied
Mr. Jarr. 'These bigamists you are
so munh excited about wouldn't have
get Into troiKile it people hadn't told
About them afterward."
"Well, that's simple enough,' said
Mrs. Jarr. "Nobody likes to Inter
fere And what good des it do warn
ing people before they marry? Mrs
Rangle was told by her own sister-in-law
about the man she was to marry
At leuat her sister-in-law said she
could tell her things If Mary Smlthers
now Mrs. ltansle cared to listen
that would break off thn tnateh. Mrs.
Rangle told tier she didn't care Ui
hear them and for her to mind her
own business."
"And she never found out later?"
asked Mr. Jarr.
"Oh, yes," said Mrs. Jarr. "Aflei
she married Mr. Bangle she went to
her Bistsr-ln-law nnd said: 'Now tall
me what you know about my hus
band!" And the sister-in-law was n
mean as she could be. She wouldn't
tell her for the longest time."
"Well, let me uak again, what has
all this to do with Engene Debs, the
Koelallst candidate for President?"
asked Mr. Jarr.
"Nothing at all that I can see," re
plied Mrs, Jarr; "but If he was In Jail
rnr hliramv alt vau men would vols
(or htm."
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16, 1920.
Income !
is short!
Loan hp
a Quarter.,
kcome
Oa. T. .N.w Tod ttinlal Yrl4.l
depths of despair because soma loved
one has failed tliwi
While It may seem difficult to ad
vlxe any one whose pain la so ter
rible an to want to llvn no longer, yet
a few truths looked at squarely may
mi e tnany a tried and sorrowing soul.
In tho first place, it Is a very blif
world, and when all Is said and done
men and women f e ver much alike
When one gets very muoh attached to
another his groat fallacy (or hers)
reUx on the presumption that theie
Is no one like the beloved one In the
whole world, Hnd that life Is worthiest
and hopelesx unless that affection can
b retained.
This is all folly. First of all, the
Divine Power did not Just make on
person and throw the mould away.
There are many more like him or her
Secondly, time Is the greatest
netler of nil Ills, especially mental
It Is the rare person who dies of s
broken heart. And when he doe
so it is because, -he refutes lo have
it mended.
Also, of prime importance which
is the ibtgger thing Is that one who
tries to take his own life hss lost the
courage to face facts. He admits he
Is a coward and is willing to have
the world know It
Of course. U la difntult to have a
person In love with another under
stand at the time that that person'
place can e filled and that they oan
love some one else In like manner.
Hut the lIveTTof every-da hiimnns
are filled with Instances like this.
Further, that the second love, when
they have lost the final, has een
far greater and better than th
ever Have dreamed.
The raaon ef this Is that one has
IfArned to love a parttnular eesn.
his mannerisms, his little aetloas, his
k'nd phrsees, or even his faults to
Mjch a degree that one has learned to
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GOING DOWN!
r-"V& 'Si VarfVJS..
DBAIl HTVDKNT: Emerson
says, "Life is a succession
of lessons which must be
Itarned to be understood."
We ar not ry different
from what we were at school.
Home one Is the teacher who
Jerks us up with a sudden yank
Just as though w wtre in
school again.
This yank may be a request to
get down to work earlier in the
morning. It may tie the "buis"
yolls at us, which Is a sad sign
for lKth him ami us. Instead of
wondering why we are thus
reprimanded, ri us ee if the call
down Is not Justified. What have
we done to deserve It? Experi
ence has taught that not once Is
h. person "called down" whea ha
does not deserve It.
Think It over and oblige,
ALFALFA MITH.
P. S. No employer really
L like to call a nmsloye down.
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look for them and has "become at
tached to that perwon beoause of
them.
Is'ow tbey may not find some one
who will do exactly thn same things
or portutp love them in exactly the
same way, or even treat them In like
manner to the first beloved, hut there
are other ways and other notions and
other loves that In many ways will
prove Jiist as happy and perhaps
more so f aven the chance.
In short, if a person would Just
stop brooding, make a derision, give
up an unrequited love and turn to thn
big world, there is no question but
that convolution and even love will
come lie mav not think so at the
H"0 is cooked
when you huy it
NEARLY fifty years Bgo. Alex Hornby discovered
the H-O proceta. Since then, millions of house
wives have profited by hia discovery. Scientific,
methods in the Hornby Kitchens save time in your homo.
This table is from U. S. Health Education Bulletin No. 2.
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time of the great trial, but the his
tory of the world has proved it
There Is nothing so dead as a. dead'
love. The thing to do Is lo bury it',
and only reninnvber It aa a past ex
!erience. The person who thinks the
world Is dark and dreary because
some one has failed him Insists on
remaining on sinking sand wbef),
Mother EnrUi stands ready and firm
to glva him something of .her olidart-'
ty and her beauty.
Nu trreuter words were ever writ
ten than "Bo atlll nut heart said ceaae,
repining; behind the clouds the sun's
still shining." It tha oM love g'cT.
but hold on to life. It has much In
store
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