Daily British Whig (1850), 14 Sep 1907, p. 12

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* remarkable statements, relating slums of Washington; in the very ow of the national capitol, are from President Roosevelt's messages congress: Es svercrowding of cities and the country districts are un- ; dangerous ptoms ur modern life." ks death rate statistics show a ter- increase in mortality, and especially ant mortality, in overcrowded tene- ahpeare Shar in, one-room tene- L average cath rate for a num- der.of cities is * * # eight times what iS in a tenement consisting of four roms or . he slum exacts a fearful total of _ pot: Mercly in New York and go, but in the alley slums of Wash- a matter of fact, shacks and settle- which, on the words of two sena- "are not fit for cow stables," have and are now virtually next to gre, under the very eaves , where the sounds of the at 'S voices in discussion almost ch the ears of their unfortunate deni- ve years ago the president directed eynolds to inguire into the condi- of the poor of Washington, and on tion has appointed, n rosecite further inquir: $s to the work of this commis and certain civic and social organi- s, conditions are being vastly bet- d, the slums are going, and the idea p make of Washington the City Beau- is rapidly nearing realization. New regulations governing the meth- oer housing Washington's poor , will be drafted by She president's homes com- mission, composed of J Reynolds, véstigated the packing houses for ; General Sternberg; for- puriein general of the army; rdman, secretary of the Red and. twelve others, 3 not only. make house-to- visits in the slam . districts, but 80 extensively into the legislative eof the matter. er shall be the recommenda- the commission, with congress | must lie the remedy. For con- the city council of Washington. there's the rub. Vith their constittents at home to of, members of congress fing it ult, to give proper attention to ington matters. even though congress should re- mactive, there are afoot forces to make of Washington all at any loval American could demand the capital city in which he is ex- to take reverential pride, uch has, indeed, been done already "much that in any city where the S were not so extensive there seem to be little left undone, | test census figures show 19,000 per- is of Washington's 300,000 dwelling Heys; and all but 1,500 of them are o liliputian task is the turning of this umanity into habitable demblishing of the vile they occupy and replac- With | néw, 'wide, clean, A ble what erroneous views 'hold in the minds of most people who 'have not Visited Washington, Most of | picturesit as a place of fairy splen- conception which is consistently out by the published pictures of 'tmental and other public build- are surprised, upon visiting the to that the most haphazard \ plan at all"has with respect to the goy- 1 i that the only one is the Congressional hat 'the others re scat- : all over the city. oy indeed like » Lz he Ha - » 1% In order to have his information ac- curate, Mr. Weller took up his resi- dence for short intervals in one of the typical alleys and in two of the resi dences to be studied. Washington's alleys are unique---very different from the courts, rear tene ments and inhabited alleys of other cities, Usually, elsewhere, an alley has at least visible bounds' and maintains some appearance of straightness, of order In Washington the alleys are mazes, very intricate ones at that. Even their entrances in places are "blind" and can- "not be found by the unimitiated. Wag ons cannot enter them--even the fruit verider with bis narrow cart rarely ven- tures there. confusion, as though set down stealthily by night in the midst of respectable sur- roundings. Sometimes, a row of wooden shacks, located in what should logically be a steeet of the site for a large build ing, constitutes an alley, and from this smaller nondescript alleys may branch by seventeen than had been enumerated | eight. years previous, but the number of people living in them had increased by almost 1,000, did this mean? Simply that slum conditions were growing worse. For with fewer alleys and more people the pophilation must be more congested, and ence an increase in the death rate, as explained by President Roosevelt in his complaint to congress. nd the most surprising part of it is that these alleys are in close proximity to the city's wealth and culture. In no! other big city is this true of the stums. | Low standards of life are maintained | in these alleys. | Morjl relations, industrial conditions, | spread of tuberculosis and other con- tagious diseases, school attendance and the training of children for future citi- zenship--these questions are all affected for the worse by the alley system. And the alley standard, in the opinion of Mr. Weller, not only affects the lives of the colored inhabitants, but the white peoplé as well. Many are the stories of degradation brought out of those vile places. For-instance, there fv the O street alley, where a single six-room house contains five families and where a four- roomed dwelling contains four separate families. In one of these rooms the tors found a man, his grown three illegitimate children and who admitted that she to him. . "Oh, that is but a mere detail" said Mr. Weller, "We found many worse ones, There was the three-room house where three families lived, "One of them, including two adults and two children, lived in a lean-to kitchen of wood, unplastered, where at night they dragged out greasy mattresses and slept on the floor, : "We found as many as.seven people sleeping in a single room. The worst of all the alleys---since razed and replaced with decent structures--was. located in the heart of one of the newer Fections of Washington. "There were twenty-five two-story houses, which contained 139 occupants, and all the water used by, them was drawn from one wooden pump. investiga- daughter, a4 woman was not married tions in Washington are about as bad as anywhere else in the cofmtry. is Bassett's alley, with a hidden entrance only three feet wide, no water connec tions at all, and containing a family to each room. "In another -alley containing 289 in- habitants there is a filthy brick dwelling; m open Bax toilet. Now, Washing- Aton had a bad typhoid fever epidemic St summer, and one of the patients lived in this self-same house. | "Egery one should kmow by this time how flies may carry typhoid fever germs. blink about zn The alleys twist this wav and that, in, through the i hidden, and also to widen them to at { | the real estate in the squ. "Now, just consider that there were | Van street, which was former! twenty-five lidless wooden box toilets | row close to the liouses and not far from the | shacks nearly as crude well, and vou will see that slum condi- the poorest village. i Now the street has been widened, and | a . sol : ixnsting Viack ® | ' « -- et or tee ¥ - LOPE Na. AY TURN ANN ' 4 whe ' Te Qld and tLheVew - acs apposuleldoden Dwell 5 Washington citizen sec a very définite ; These are under t | relation between this alley tenement | speak of and the fashionable city home 'That is one of the strongest points made maintain the slums, not alone from an esthetic point of view, but from a stand- point of health As to the remedy, It will not depend solely upon the re- | sult of President Roosevelt's homes com- mission's investigation. For years there has been work done along this line. In 1892 congress enacted a tending to check the alley evil. This act, however, was mainly "instrumental in preventing the growth of the evil; the problem of what to do with existing measure |alleys remained. The present task of the various agen- cies 'working for a more beautiful Wash- ington is the elimination of alley houses and the conversion of residential alleys into minor streets. I'he most notable results have heen secured in the widening of streets, on | the principle that sunlight and openness 1 kill crime and depravity, which narrow- | ness and filth foster, Fhe - plan is to blocks in which they are least forty feet By the 'existing laws the district, com- {present no plan to abolish them been perfected. | hat. Washington cannot afford to | Civic demonstra cted stream {af years before placed 'there. The stat : No "tenements property nas Washington t an es. 0 i be igrown rapidly, and tasked to check it | the Washington t | | | | | I | It is said th permitted wi thout that ften ne Washington heard. so valuable But he tenement evil tions, even in New York. For instanc that the dark case of a building less in height, no court smaller than | 3, important modihica has been declared |; must go. In the twenty-five congress wil erection of some ements would not he ban, but up to the: ha 1as been surprisingly In one u average of ten persons year had been drowned' for a number : a guard rail was finally pro has now in has 1 be of be twelve feet square is permitted, and for each additional foot inches art in each direction. building six the must adde mn the height of a be d to This instires some sunshine to kill the by some of ti sional men in system for he | best time | disease germs which exdinarily thrive in extend the alleys | small, dark courts. Elaborate plans, made some : Ago qualified profes- the country, for a park Washington missioners are authorized. to condemn, | exhibits in the Library of Congress carry open, extend, widen or straighten alleys. This may be lone in three ways--upon | out Little has been « They are, however, generally con- 1 fone to re simply ws - them petition of owners of more than one-half ceded to be excellent. Some dav they ; when the commissioners" shall certify necessary for the preservation of peace, good order and public morals, or when necessary for the public health, Some of the very worst alleys have {been fazed in compliance with the new law. 7 Worst of all of these was "Chinch Row," which was only three blocks from the. fashiomable Dupont Circle, and only seven blocks from the White House. Two senators who were taken to in- spect the shacks 'declared that not one was fit for a cow to live in; yet children were reared there--reared into dissolute, degenerate men and women, Another striking example of what may be.done with the present law is a nar- with sheds in on both as } alley, lined the Sanitary Housing Company has "Almost within speaking, distance of | erected on one side modern dwellings of the Senate and House of Representatives {four rooms, with bath, which rent for $8.20 a month his' is much lower the usual rent for the same class oP residence. in | Washington, and is the result of civic enterprise. Nothing coitld be more stfiking than | ung i houses on one | the confrist of modern side of the street and shacks other. . All visitors to Washington have netic: ed the unsightly blocks of Chinese stores and restaurants on Pennsylvania avenue, on the i | i | | | | | fe used. and then we that it is | Washington a real City Beautiful, ------------ shall see No one seems to have as hard a time the health officer shall certify that it is| earning money | marries for it. the as woman J Nerves in Order. Nerves Unstrung. This is a nefve racking age---not a will of Henry Graves, a pioneer Chicago man in an oilice or behind the count- | ivi hard to get on s not feel tho strain. in order, or, world," th If nerves strong, eats strung sleeplessness Most men are nerves and sleops in a mar and on general bodily strength, inability to do good work or do it long. are careless wall deca ol who the nis Un- mean weakness, worry, y of their | | healih, trust to luck and that kind of } } thing, tite. or stead of taking Ferrozone for | & few weeks, when they feel dull in the! o {| mowing, sleep poorly lose appe- Ferrozong quickly brightens up mind nroaes cle like steel and sleop. Ferrozane sands have It eveatos an appetite, digestion. Forrozone | blood, quiets the 'nerves; makes mugs | induces and is a body buikler proved sick, or even only out it. of the'| I im makes | Ferrozane and enjoy the splendid re ward it Permanent affords, in te peeull rofroshing] ached castially 40 her mother that she ' {had six father thou "wand how did you getcsuch an im If vou AT | neéxsion ds that kod her mother sortie, nse "Well," replied the child. "1 have my {father here at home, and my father | in | heaven, and thén teacher told us that the ah | forefathers came over from | ng bw knowing it, cannot any intelligent |Wvithin a few hundred feet of the Capitol: {est health giver in the world, KILLS MARRIAGE AGENCY. | of Club. y {| Not approving of Chicago's matri- | | monial agencies," Uncle Sam has issued |a fraud order against Harry Hart, Miss {Hart and Hart's Correspondence Club at 54 Wabash avenue, C alleged to be fictitious, | It is reported that the Chicago, names individual de- signed to be reached is H. Morris. The [records of the post-office department {show that advertisements by a "charm- { ing lady, fine appearance, loving disposi- { tion, worth $30,000," and of a | gentleman, income $10,000 ye: had "no to a poor working | lady," were inserted in. newspapers ani "wealthy objection feet or | Magazines by the so-called club seeking victims: Upon receipt by the club of a { letter in response to either advertisement {a handsome photograph is promptly | { mailed. If the victim is a man a letter | | accompanies the photograph of sonte | Gibson girl, stating that "this lady has expressed a desire to become better ac- quainted with you 'as soon as possible." | The victim is dtected to remit at once 185 to cover all expenses, and is promised | that, should the young woman, who is {soon to visit his locality, not win his {hearty the club has many other female {members among whom without addi- {tional expense he may find his fate. Let ters to women in search of hushands were of the same tenor, the object of { the concern being to get $5 out of each | victim { t | MONUMENT TO HORSE. { Man Will, Leave $50,000 For That | | Purpose. | A $350,000 monument for u horse is a | feature that has been incorporated in the settler, who is said to be dying A racing man and a lover of horses, Mr. Graves lias provided that the monu- ment shall be pliced in Washington | Park: Tt will be in. memory of Ike { Cook, a famous trotter which he owned | fifty years ago: lke Cook had a record {of 2.30, which in those early days was j remarkable time. Tt was the first horse that mark on a mile track in > state of IHlinois | Six Fathers. | leveland Pla n-Deuler { One of the teachers at Rosedale school tells of a little girl pupil wha got 1a wrong tip one day last spring! from al talk t} teacher had given abaug the ly founding of Ametica That day the child went home and re { { | gree by the bulldog or 'the weasel, but a physique which an Englishman might envy, began to egrn a little pocket money | jon Sam Intervenes For Victims | Courage Which Obtains Only With [ness is a fixed purpose to do the right | mn. m | highest type of men | truth, ean {life is a quality of true manliness. This {type of manliness never squirms, equivo- | € | cates or fawns. i rly," who frankly | never compromises with evil. Our genu- ine man will risk life, reputation, all, for | | Ministers, tr | behavior, by B out They are the ulcerous growths on Pa 4 { » the Washingion bady, economicaid ma- a 1 CER terial. he y i Rp v i : a In 1903 the police census takers enu- - - - >T - CZ OFF orerrii crc milli reer merated 286 of these alleys. with a popu- * i A Frevenl zy Zen erent lobe Obltcr aéea Derc Jar ge i " 2 lation of 19076. This was fewer alleys | \ . cf Les lr cb Dabdind TEST OF TRUE MANLINESS. His play improved to such an extent that | he was soon a little better than scratch. I'hen he migrated to the home of golf, N IN to St. Andrews, North Berwick, then | where he was coached to such good pur- pose that a few days ago he won for La Belle France the British golf champion- ship. The victory of Arnaud Massey, as { the Frenchman is named, was exceeding- {ly popular, for he is not only a splendid only with the | golfer, but a thorough sportsman. A Loyalty to the |tall, powerful many with strong shoul- an abiding conviction that no man | ders, Massey has a very stiff and erect fford to be false in any relation of | soldier's carriage as he strides along the {links. He is only 28 years of age, and, with the exception of Taylor, is the youngest professional who has won the hampionship. for twenty years. Highest Type. The real and unfailing test of manli- all hazards. Physical caurage alone ay be possessed in a remarkable de- obtains ral courage When in error it most | confesses to the wrong, but Lawyers, Teachers, and 1 rectitude of | others whose occupation gives but lit- | tle exercise. should use Carter's Little Liver Pills #6} torpid liver and bilious- ness. One i§ a dose. Try them. Every ore looking downward - Be- comes impressed with the idea of his own greatne but looking upward arrying the Elubs for players on the | feels his own littleness, : iarritz links. 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These are th and they represent when the merchant longest pole gets persimmons: The '"d who sleép at' these. ti a sigh and the excla ' wwhat's the use chaps who drop the figs, and often 4 account in the merchant that ; vertigses and gels that is to be had holds his own. In Vv are YOU ? hi

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