The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . ws. The regular habitues of the neighborhood arehard up. They cannot do as they formerlydid. It is not possible now for murderers, piratesand thugs to gather, plan and live together asthey did once. They are followed up too sharp-ly. The police have learned how to blow the Per-sian powder into the vermin haunts, and to keepthem from being colonized. The miserable conditionof affairs in this former Court of Crime—a condi-tion which must sadden the hearts of faithful crooksthe wor
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . ws. The regular habitues of the neighborhood arehard up. They cannot do as they formerlydid. It is not possible now for murderers, piratesand thugs to gather, plan and live together asthey did once. They are followed up too sharp-ly. The police have learned how to blow the Per-sian powder into the vermin haunts, and to keepthem from being colonized. The miserable conditionof affairs in this former Court of Crime—a condi-tion which must sadden the hearts of faithful crooksthe world over—may be seen by watching the pennyrestaurant inside the fence of the Mariners Temple,on Henry Street near Chatham Square. Sometimesfourteen hundred people eat there in a day. A one-cent meal may consist of a bowl of coffee andchicory and a slice of stale bread, or a bowl ofpea soup and a slice of stale bread. Over twentyquarts of peas and over a hundred and twentjloaves of stale bread are used daih*. Poor human nature gives way under the pressureand the attrition of life, here, as well as in more 390. .; ?2 H NEW YOKK CITY lavoivtl part> of tlif City. A few tluys ago a siin-j)le Greek, wlio k<i)t an oyster stand on CliathatnSquare, and who had wagtni a lon<< hard ti^^lit witli})ov(rty, went mad suddenly, and rushed upon tliopassing pedestrians with liis oyster knife, with whichhe stabbed two men before he was secured. Shortlybefore that, George Appo, a victim of the slums,bought a knife and deliberately to<j)k his place atthe comer of Mott Street and stabl)ed the first manwho came along, a stranger to him. His mind, too,hat] yielded to the strain, the lack of nounshmentand the degenerate tendem-y. On the New Boweiycorner was the original hand organ factorj of After mending organs there for manyyears, he lost his reason and killed himst^lf byjumping from his window. Some time before thata man walked into a gun store, purchased a re-volv
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