Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1883 — Page 5

INTO THE CATES OF HELL A Baptist Minister of New York Goes Down, and Tells What He Saw. m - The Unutterable Horrors of the Nether Side of the Metropolis—The Opium Dens of Mott Street Outdone. New York Ilorald. Rev. Samuel Alman is the pastor of Emanuel Baptist Church, on Suffolk street, near Brand street. For thirteen years past he has been the minister of this congreation. The neighborhood is one swarming with population, and beer-shops face each other at almost every corner. Grand street is the nightly promenade of thousands of shop girls and 3'oung clerks, who live in the lodging-houses and tenements of the adjacent streets. In the midst of this community Rev. Mr. Alman has been working, but very often he found his best efforts set at naugnt by the allurements of the surrounding dens of vice. Girls from the large Sunday-school of the parish suddeuly dropped from membership, and only rumors reached the ears of the pastor that they had fallen into evil ways. Some of his most promising young men, too. lost interest in their church work and became dissipated. “I wished,” said Rev. Mr. Alman to a Herald reporter yesterday, “to see just what it was that was exerting such a damning influence upon the young people in my part of the city, and so I descended to the very gates of hell and looked the death demon in the face. I was amazed to find that vice in its most bestial form had taken absolute posses3isn of block after block, and that large interests of real estate and money were given up to pandering to the w’Orst possible forms of wickedness. I started out about 8:30 on Saturday evening last and went along Hester street, from the Bowery to Center street, and on both sides of the street; for I retraced my steps, hardly daring to believe that what I had heard and seen on my first passing through was more than a horrid dream. The street seemed given up to abandoned women. They were parading up and down on both sides of the street, at plaoes making something of a jam on the sidewalk. It was a rainy evening, and it is not unlikely that there was a comparative clearance of the thoroughfares on that account, but it did not appear that there could have been many more of the wrecks there. They were, indeed, wretched to look upon. Frowsy and dingy, they presented anything but an attractive picture. It was not so much their appearance as their actions which compelled the attention of the passer-by. Their breath carried with it the sickening odors of some recent debauch. They were persistent in their efforts to attract attention, which often took on the form of positive assaults—seizing the arm of the passer-by and clinging to him until they were shaken off with more vigor than courtesy. There were many young men passing along, and these often addressed the women by their names, generally coupled with some obscene remark. The language which the pas>er-bv was forced to hear beggars description. I will not pollute my tongue by its repetition, but the most shameless bargaining could be heard going on between these wretches and their equally shameless male companions. “This public bargaining and soliciting is carried on with an utter disregard to the feelings of decent passers-by. These streets, leading from the great work-shops and stores along Broadway to the modest houses of the working people on the east side, or the Williamsburg and Brooklyn ferries, are much used by shop girls and workwomen. These young Women are often detained at their places of business until after nightfall, and In hurrying along to their homes are compelled to run this gauntlet of sin. No wonder that many of them are ensnared in the meshes which are ever spread for fresh victims. They cannot close their eyes and ears to what oocurs on the public street, and from what 1 have already told you it is easy to picture the danger ana the risk which these people are exposed to from want of action by the strong arm of the law. These girls and young men are entitled to a clean thoroughfare by which they can reach their homes, and this by night as well as by day. The stench of dirty streets and filthy gutters is bad enough, but this moral rottenness is infinitely worse. The one may choke the lungs, the other blackens and damns the soul. This is not a mere possibility, for I saw two girls hurrying along, arm in arm, their faces hidden in cheap hoods and with waterproof cloaks, evidently belated shop girls. They were stopped in their way upon the public street by one of these male scoundrels. He made some remark, but they shrunk from him, and as he stepped forward as if to lay his hand upon them they were compelled to cross the street to avoid him, and increasing their gait to a run they fled as if for their lives. But he followed them with a coarse, brutal laugh, in which he was joined by several of the besotted female prowlers who noticed the incident. “I noticed the lights of a police station on Elizabeth street, so I turned down into that street and patrolled it as far as Bayard street from Canal. Here, if possible, the scenes were even worse. On the block in Elizabeth street where the police station was located I counted up to thirty-two of these abandoned women, ami they seemed to cluster up toward the station, for within fifty feet of it, as I stood and looked sadly at this shameful sight, I counted sixteen of the women, whose character could not be mistaken. Under the very green light over the stoop of the station I overheard a remark so shocking that even now it makes my blood run cold as I recall it. It was a most open, flagrant, disgusting carnival of vice, and the most vivid pen picture cannot do more than give a faint shadow outline of the original.” “Were there no policemen about?” ‘‘Yes; I passed several on my pilgrimage through this region. There was a policeman at the corner of Canal ami Elizabeth, another at the corner of Hesterand Mott, and a third at Mulberry street and Chatham. These are all that I can now remember meeting. I did not go Into the station-house to complain to Captain Petty. I was only going through this dreadful experience in order that when I speak on the dangers of city life I may do so with some faint conception of what dangers the youth of my congregation are exposed to. ‘‘l wished to make my investigation ns complete as I consistently could, so I entered several of the saloons which seemed to he most frequented. Men and women, old and young, crowded up to the bars and called for the strongest potions. I cannot now recall which particular saloon I went into; but they were all of the same general class, and they were equally bad. I do not know whether they are licensed or not. I almost wish for the credit of the city that they are not, for I should hardly like to see the public at large made sponsors, through the licensing power, for these resorts. There was not the least pretense of any form of decency of speech or action. No oath or obscene expression, either from man or woman, met with check. The rule seemed to be that all could drink ns much as they pleased provided it was promptly paid for. Again and again I saw the brutes in human form roused to what I thought was the murder pitch, but some more vigorous wretch shouted ‘Order!’ and t he disorder went on, but without actual violence. I looked over the people there, and I was made sad, very sad, by seeing the number of young people, especially of young men. There .seemed to be a certain number of managers, profiters by the flourishing vice, and then the bulk of the patrons were callow! youths neither financially nor physically able to

stand the strain to which they were subjecting themselves. They were not so much sinning as sinned against, for 1 cannot believe, if these resort3 were not like great open whirlpools sucking them in from the thoroughfares outside, that a tithe of these young people would have been found in these surroundings. “I turned back to Hester street and went into the dance hall kept by McGlory. Here was to be seen a gathering which ought to make every practical Christian in the city rise up and declare that the blot shall be removed. It was a large hall, murky with tobacco smoke, a floor filthy from the sloppings from the trays of the score or more i 11visaged youths who, in shirt sleeves and aprons, looked up the wants of the patrons in the drinking line. They were very busy, for the place was well filled. The vast majority of the young men in the place were under twenty years of age. Hardly any of the girls seemed to be more than seventeen years old. It was the rare exception to find an older one. I sat in the place over an hour, and noted with eye and ear enough to furnish the subject matter of a hundred sermons. The dancing was of the most obcene character. These girls, with shameless gestures, went through the figures of a quadrille, while sitting about were hundreds of young lads Some of them, it struck me, were paying their first visit to the resort. All males entering were charged fifteen cents, while the girls were admitted free. In the entrance, looking over this living panorama of wickedness, stood a policeman in full uniform. I don’t know what he was there for. The place has no license, I am informed, but this fact did not prevent the sale of beer freely; but when I asked for a strong drink the waiter gave me a searching look and then said that he could not give it to me. Again and again I was asked to dance and solicited by the girls to treat them to drinks. There were numerous suggestions of what was worse. It was shortly after 11 o’clock when I left the house, and the throng was then pouring in, making the atmosphere almost unbearable with its tobacco fumes mingled with the dampness from the street, for every window was closed that the sounds of riot should not get to the outer air. I can easily picture how a young man led into such scenes as this might be coaxed still further to lose his self-respect and his hold on God and the church in a single night.” “And what suggestions of reform came to your mind?” “I hardly know, but it certainly does appear that the police can act. There is certainly disorderly conduot, and that is punishable in some way. The police know these characters by name and face. They can step in and force this crime to hide its hidfcousness, fori think tbis very open conduct of it now is an important factor in leading young girls into bad habits. The dance is the excuse for attendance, and then come in these other and more degrading features. Ido not know what I shall do. I certainly shall call the attention of my conference to the facts and ask that the church make a fight against this shocking evil. I went out that night prepared to see wretched sights, but I had no idea of the extent to which this evil had grown. It is Shoreditch reduced, and all the while the law guardians of the city stand by and look on without raising a hand to stay the spread of the plague. I know it is spreading, u r within a year I have observed the growing influence of these resorts in undermining the morals of young people in my own parish, who, under other influences, might grow up useful, respectable men and women.” PHILOSOPHER GOULD. He Has No New Hustness Projects—His Opinion of the Press. Interview with New York Reporter. “Have, you any new enterprises on hand, Mr. Gould?” “No; none at all: lam gradually getting out of business, and concentrating all mv affairs. I have been out of Wall street for the last two years, and never expect to go back to it again. I intend to take a good long rest, and travel and study.” “Ard you going on voar yacht soon?” “I am going, but I don’t know how soon. It depends upon circumstances. My yacht will have steam up on the 20th of this month, and will make her trial trip on the 25th, but I have not 3 r et decided either when or where to go.” “How much will your yacht cost, Mr. Gould?” “I don’t know. I can’t tell until the bills are all in, probably $250,000.” “Are you a good sailor?” “No, I think not.” After a pause Mr. Gould added, with a merry twinkle of his eye and a broad smile. “The only time I ever crossed the ocean I was as sick as a dog. However, I have received as many as fifty letters in one day, from all sorts of people, about the best manner of preventing sea-sick-ness on my yacht. The remedies suggested ranged from poultices to patent rockers and swinging apparatus. One fellow recommended a narcotic to be taken when the storm begins, and continued until it ceases. I had no idea how many people wanted to go around the world.” “How do you expect to spend your time on the ocean?” “I am fond of books and fond of my children. I shall read the former and pla> r with the latter. My whole family will accompany me. The ordinary amusements at sea I shall not be able to indulge in, as I never play cards, nor drink, nor smoke.” “What do 3 r ou think of the press, as the press says so much about you?” “I think the press is pretty fair, ns a whole. The newspapers abuse me. but I don’t care anything about it. They have to say something, and I have long ago learned not to get mad. The man who gets mad hurts himself more than anybody else. He destro>\s his digestion and is unhappy. 1 never complain of what the papers say about me. I read nearly all of them. I take their attacks good naturedly, without complaining, like a man.” The First Volunteer. Lockport, N. Y., Special. Captain W. W. Bush, of this city, who, on Arpil 15, 1801, was in the telegraph oflice here at the time of Lincoln’s first call for troops, and hearing the call as it went over the wire, rushed down to his place of business and five minutes after enlisted, and twenty minutes after had nineteen men enrolled for his company, of the Twenty-eighth regiment, having fully established the right to the title of the first volunteer, was presented last night, at Sanborn, before a large assemblage, with a magnificent gold testimonial badge, a foot long, valued at over S2OO, made by Tiffany, of New York. The badge was contributed for by veterans of the late w’ar in nearly every State in the Union. The Captain was very daring, saw severe service in the war, went through many battles, survived the horrors of Libby Prison, and is president of the Twelfth Army Corps. Democratic Tariff* Doctrine. New Albttny Ledger (Dcm.). If Democratic papers want the party now to be governed by the doctrines of the fathers, they should go back and quote the utterances of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson. They will find nil those old patriots advocating a well-regulated, judicious tariff law. But whether ancient platforms, and old and honored leaders of the party advocated n judicious tariff or not, is not the issue. The question is, “Is it right?” The next question for practical statesmen is, “Is it expedient?” There are many things right in principle, but impossible in practice. Fortunately in this case right and expediency go together. A judicious tariff will best subserve the interops of the coqjjtry, and the people are ready for its adoption. A hixgi.k dose of Cough Bush relieves the most aggravated cough immediately.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1883.

KATE CHASE AND SPRAGUE. Uuv They Became Acquainted—A Hasty Marriage and Its Result. Clev-larl Special. “Did you know that it was in this town that Kate Chase and Governor Sprague first met?” asked Colonel Dick Parsons, toj’ing idly with an after-dinner .'cigar, as we sat toda) f in the cosy library' of his home on Prospect street. “Yes, sir; I introduced them myself, and they fell in love with each other right off. It was at the time of the unveiling of the Perry monument down in the park, early in the war. Governor Chase and his family always stopped at my house while in Cleveland, and Kate was visiting us then. Over there,” pointing to a leather-covered easy-chair in the corner, “is where Governor Chase used to sit, in the same chair and on the same spot, and the room overheud he used to occupy. We have always called it the Governor’s room. It was in that chair that he decided to accept the chief justiceship. He came here one night and we talked it all over, the reasons for and against his acceptance. I thought he ought to take it. We sat up late, but before he went to bed bis decision was reached, and the next day in this room he wrote out his acceptance. Garfield came here the second day after his nomination. He sat in the Governor’s chair for an hour or two talking about the nomination, and feeling pretty blue that day. Then lie opened his mail, and answered a lot of dispatches from that table. “About Kate Chase? Oh, yes. Well, the Perry ceremonies lasted over several days, ending with a ball at the Kennard House. My wife and Kate and I drove down in my carriage. We had barely entered the hall when we met Sprague. I presented him to the ladies. He and Kate went off together, and for the rest of the evening whenever we saw one of them we were pretty sure to see the other. It was a case of mutual and instant infatuation. Rhode Island had sent a deputation to share in the celebration, because Parsons, of my family, by the way, and who was Perry’s right-hand man in the fight on the lake, was a Rhode Islander. Sprague was attended by his full staff and a Governor’s guard of about a hundred, with a fine band of music. They made a gorgeous display and stunning impression. He was the only man in black clothes in the whole party, and being young and handsome and splendidly surrounded he seemed exactly suited to Kate’s brilliancy and beauty, for she was not only tbetnost brilliant girl, but the most brilliant woman, I ever met. Her vivacious manner and graceful figure, clear complexion, chestnut hair, and expressive eyes commanded everyone’s admiration. So was it a wonder they took to each other? I remember very well how, when it was getting late that night and we wanted to go home, Kate came over to us with Sprague and persuaded us to stay longer. I believe the celebration ended with the ball. I can’t remember whether Sprague called here before lie left for home, but in any event he went to Washington the next winter. Kate was living there. They met again, and within a year of their introduction were married. I believe tiiat meanwhile Sprague became interested in a widow who afterward married here and lived in the big house on Euclid avenue now owned by the Union Club. But when Sprague and Kate met again the old flame was fanned, he forgot the widow, and a wedding soon followed. They came here on their bridal trip, ami of course had ‘the Governor’s room.’ “I don’t know much of the early period of their married life, because soon ’ after the wedding I went as consul to Rio Janeiro, and didn’t hear about them. But some years before publicity was given to their relations Kate’s friends knew' that it had been a hasty and mistaken marriage. Sprague’s dissipated habits, however varied, were not all that made them unhappy. The truth w ? as they were not of congenial temparent or disposition. As far back as 1878 or 1879 Kate informed me that their relations for two years had been of the most distant character, and long before that tfcey had ceased to be attractive to each other. It was sad indeed that one so well fitted to make home a paradise should have found it a purgator}*, and w’hile all her friends deplored the misfortune it was but natural that we should have been gratified when at last the certainty appeared of her release from a mismated alliance. The mistake was discovered and the end foreshadowed long before Conkliag appeared upon the scene in any capacity.” Left the Ministry for the Stage. Pittsrurg, May 14.—An Indiana. Pa., special says: “Rev. Charles T. Steck, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of this city, made his theatrical debut here on Saturday night as Hamlet and Richelieu. The hall was crowded with the best people of the town, and those capable of judging pronounce his presence, manner and appearance wonderfully impressive, while his enunciation was good, and his gestures and stage action perfect. Mr. Steck lias received a letter from the president of the Lutheran synod stating that notice of his intention to abandon the ministry for the stage had been received, and asking for explanation in regardjto the matter.” CHANGE OF TIME. Via Chicago, St- Louis ft Pittsburg(Panhandle Railroad.) On and after Sunday, Muy 13, trains will leave Indianapolis as follows: Fast line, 4:35 a. m ; day express, 10:55 A. M.; fast express, 5:05 p. m ; Richmond accommodation, 4:10 i\ M. Rout. Emmktt, D. P. a. Via Vandalia Line. On and after Sunday, May 13, thefooon train will leave Indianapolis at 12:10 l*. u., instead of 12:35, as heretofore,. All other trains leave us usual. Rout. Emmktt, D. P. a. Via Indianapolis ft Vincennes. On and after Monday, May 14, trains will leave and arrive at Indianapolis as follows: Leave—Cairo express 7:20 a. m. Vineennes accommodation... 3:55p.m. Mooresville accommodation.. 0:00 p m. Arrive—Vincennes accommodation...lo:so a. m. Cairo express 4:55 p.m. Mooresville accommodation.. 7:30 p. m. J. J. TURMCK, .Superintendent. Oh, maiden with grim teeth, avaunt! Though fair you seem to look upou, Because you don’t use Sozodont, The sweetness of your mouth is gone; Your breath is heavy, and, from tills, Your lips no more invite a kiss. Corticklli Sewing Silk Is the best iu the world. Fi.iks, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, crows, coipmuukH, cleared our. by “Rough on i:.:.” 15c. Bthe great german Ih" I SI remedy for pain. jpd -s™. IK ” Sciatica, Lumbaoo, j|j vlllult. 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