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it THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEWS. EDITORIAL NEWS. EDITORIAL VOL. G4.

NO. 234. Entered at Brooklyn. N. T.

P. O. as Second Cits Matter. NEW YORK. SUNDAY.

SEPTEMBER 13. 1903 PAGES 1 TC 24. Tfrrj. By the Brooklyn Pally Eagl. Trade Mark ItegiM-nd.

THREE CENTS. GROUND PLAN OF THE LUNG BLOCK. GOMEV'S DIVE KEEPERS MAS A HOLD ON NEW YORK BiVE JUSTICE THE HA, Hfi! HAMILTON 1 I rt if fi rr so si 'Lung Block" Pointed Out by Ernest Poole to Charity Organization Committee. Spiriting Away Witnesses One of Their Ways of Defeating the Law. 3 Wlk WHAT THE SITUATION DEMANDS.

BID BOLD DEFIANCE TO DOOLEY. A) 9 At ia 1., f- a i -ne 1 1 si a Ja 1 1 1 ti i ji isiai ujjciiisiij Despite Their Machinations, With the Aid of Unscrupulous Lawyers, the Nervy Captain Has Hit 'Em Hard. Appeal for Aid to Check Ravages of Disease on the East 1 Side. 1 ao tm-ij Art Jrrtjm. j'n jtt I 1 'I 1 Hfito '3 ft CHE-rVRY STKtej The shaded sections are courts and alrshafts.

Each letter represents one case of consumption reported to the Health Dcpartmeut since 1804. aone case In 1894. one case in 1895. one case in 1896, and bo on to one case In 1903. (As it Is not possible from the records to tell whether a given case occurred In the front or rear tenement, all have been assembled in the front building, except In 144 Cherry street, where there was not room.) of the Elm Place Entrance Celebrated by Extraordinary Sales AH Through the Store.

See Pages 6 and 7, New York City's consumption stronghold Is, according to Ernest Poole, who has written a pamphlet lor the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society, bounded by Catharine, Hamilton, Market and Cherry streets In Manhattan Borough. This he calls the "Lung Block." The Committee of the Charity Organization Society has issued an appeal for aid in the work of making health conditions better in that section of the city. In his pamphlet, which is called "A Study of Consumption In Its Stronghold," Mr. Poole, who EBSTEIN DEMANDS EXPLANATION when coal had gone up, when she sleepless nights grew freezing cold. It was a brave fight, but it is over.

I had her examined. She is hopeless. She knows now what the cough means when It shakes her thin, hoi- low chest; and her eyes, when the others are not looking, have that pitiful, hunted look which young eyes must ever have when suddenly meeting death. She had 'meant to be somebody but her father drank. "Other vice Is thick in the neighborhood.

Among Its victims, with no health, no love-, no aid behind them, the, plague makes fear VIEWS OF A COURTYARD IN THE LUNG BLOCK DECAYING VEGETABLE MATTER SENDS ITS STENCH TO TENEMENTS. I HSHIft 4 Itt vr of Specinl Sessions to see tho outcome of the cafe against Mrs. Wyman, who feels confident she will "beat" the ease. It has also been no Heed that some of the1 lawyers who appear occasionally in the Coney Island court aro assisted by individuals known as runners, and one of them recently got $5 out of an unfortunate woman named Sutherland, who was found sleeping on the beach with her children. The woman lived on Staten Island and said she had had some difficulty with her husband and left her home.

She was allowed to go the following morning, but the shark accosted her in the corridor and exacted $5 from her upon some pretext, Tho same runner made several bold attempts to interfere with young girls who wero locked up owr night, and the police say he was called Into the private office of Magistrate Voorhees an severely arraigned. Since that time the runner has made himself scarce around th.t Coney Island court, but the lawyer bobs up now and again. One of the policemen said the other day that tho lawyer referred to engineered a queer marriage at the Raymond street Jail. The parties to the marriage were arrested in a raid on a resort at the Bowery and Kensington walk, and the girl had been working for the lawyer. The slogan at.

Coney Island seems to be everything to block Donley and honest police work, but the record of tho strenuous cap-tain shows that ho has raided twenty-four alleged disorderly houses and made arrests in more than fifty alleged violations of the excise law. Only one disorderly house ease has been lost by tho police to date. Should Tammany win the eomtng flee'tlnn' Dooley is slated for the Bronx, or Tottenville, on January 2 next. SLEEPING CARS FOR RUSSIA. Fast Trains Between Moscow and Siberian Terminals to Be Equipped in Modern Stylo.

R. T. Greener, commercial agent of the United States at Vladivostoek, In a consular report, says that the Russian Ministry of Communications has signed a contract with the International Sleeping Car Company to run weekly, beginning April 14, VMi. five lines of fast trains between Moscow and the terminals of the Siberian Railroad; April 14, seven lines must be run; January 14, ir05, besides the seven fast trains, special trains do luxe, express, from Moscow to the terminals of the Chinese Eastern Railroad and return and from Moscow to VUdlvc-stock and return. The speed of the trains dc luxe between Moscow and Irkutsk must be greater than the speed of the usual "u-sr.

trains." For the express trains the International Company will be allowed to charge lor first class 2Vfe cents additional pm- mile-, tecond class, 2 cents, including the government rate. The company must conform to all custom house regulations and guarantee baggage and merchandise delivery at house address at an extra charge to be approved of by tho railway authorities. This com will last for twelve year. The through fast trains began running May 1, wilh the following rates: Klrst class tickets, Dalny Jo St. Petersburg, secoid class, $02; thirty-six pounds of baggage free; overweight charges, tor every ten pounds (Russlnn).

The time is now scheduled at fifteen days; the average is seventeen. All fast trains have the movable seat, which serves for a sleeper; for these there Is no extra charge. Each train Includes a dining car, where meals ot good quality can bo had at an average cost, of $1.30 per Any; wines, extra. There are two changes hetwecn Dalny and St. Petersburg ut MIs- sovala, eastern side of Lake Baikal, and at Moscow.

From there are two additional changes at Grodekof and at Har- bin. From laaivostoeK io i.ron.-Koi nccom- pill tfe tfW- 13 3 3i ffl ri it (ft iff stroug need more than a foul, damp basement. Bodies grow weak; aud If then the germs are breathed In they may lodge aud spread with appalling- swiftness. The husband took the plague. In two months he died.

The family, now weak and sickly, moved out, to go on charity. A stout German moved with his wife. Six months later he took the same disease. They moved away. An Irish widow came next.

She was the strongest of them all. The four children were lively as crickets. Soon they began to change; their mother began to cough. Now she Is dead and they are scattered. "The third 'home' Is but a few blocks away.

The family moved In some three years back. They were Americans a young man of 30, his wife and Ave small children. One year later he had taken the plague and died. His wife slept in the same back room. She died of the plague six months later.

Her old father and mother went there to care for the children. He slept In the same back room. He died of the plague In 1902. His son came to help support the others. He slept In the same back room.

Two months ago he died of the same disease. Of these cases- not one was reported as consumption. The room haa not once been disinfected. The same dirt, the same grime, the snme germ are undisturbed. The old grandmother is there now with the children." Mr.

Poole goes on and describes many-eases similar to those foregoing and concludes his pamphlet thus: What the Situation Demands. "The right time, the right place, the right way are all demanded. The sick will nWer report at the right time until they believe they can be healed; until they know we have the right ways and the right places to cure them. These right places must now he made. Millions must be spent because thousands of human lives will not be saved for less.

Most doctors agree that every consumptive should be taken outHlde the city to sanatoria. All doctors agree that there are thousands fn the most wretched of our tenements who cannot possibly be cured in their present foul surroundings. mut "auso It is sound common sense, because these few millions will Have to the city countless millions more. Dr. Biggs of the Health Department has estimated that tho total loss to New York City A NARROW AIRSHAFT AS SEEN alone from this plague Is at least twenty-three millions of dollars a year and that the loss to tho United States must be over three hundred and thirty millions.

Why? The plague attacks young men most of all. The average cost' to society of a man's bringing up Is fifteen hundred dollars. This loan he returns by the labor of his manhood. Multiply this by the thousands of young men who die each year of the plague in New York alone. To this loss you must add millions more for the care and expense they require from families or friends or the city.

In their lingering illness. It costs each patient several hundred dollars to die. And add still more. For, as was recent ly said, the plague, because so lingering and hence so costly, because it attacks most often the breadwinner of the family, is 'a cause of poverty out of all proportion to its importance as a cause of Wives and children are forced on charity lists. "Millions must be spent, because hundreds of thousands from every class In the city are In constant danger." In its appeal for aid, the committee says, among other things: The Charity Organization Committee's Appeal.

"In order to check the ravages of consumption In New York City, concerted action by the government, by the medical profession, relief agencies and private citizens Is necessary. A municipal sanatorium for patients In the early stages of the disease and a municipal dispensary, are required, to supplement the provision already made which 1b more especially adapted to advanced cases. Steps have already been taken toward meeting these needs, but the movements should be advanced aa rapidly aa possible and should be heartily encouraged by all organs of public opinion. The earliest possible completion Of the state hospital for Incipient, cases, at Raybrook, should also be urged. These are the most obvious undertakings lor the state and city governments.

They leave much responsibility with the individual members of BOclety. "Among the Bpeclal needs which' will have to be supplied chiefly by private Initiative the committee on the prevention of tuberculosis places emphasis at the present time on the following: "1. Private sanatoria for pallents In the earliest stages should be provided for those who can afford to pay a moderate Rmount, and they should also be endowed sufficiently to provide for absolutnly free treatment in exceptional cases. Such provision as Is how made In the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, the Loomls Sanatorium, Bedford Branch of Montetlore Home, Gabriel's Sanatorium, the Stony Wold Sanatorium, Seton Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital, should be increased either by creation of new Institutions or by adding to the facilities of those already In existence.

"2. Relief funds should be supplied for tho relief of indigent consumptives in their own homes until sanatorium or hospital accommodations are provided, and for patients who, on competent medical advice, can safely and with advantage to themselves and their neighbors, be treated at home. For such patients special diet is essential, including ample quantities of milk and eggs and such medicines as may be prescribed. It Is often essential, also, to remove the family into lighter and better ventilated rooms, and for this purpose provision for the payment of rent Is sometimes necessary. "3.

There are some instances In which Ihe payment of board In private families outside the city is advisable, and relief funds should he provided for this purpose, especially In the Interval pending the enlargement of sanatorium end hospital accommodations. "4. Special dispensaries or clinics for the treatment of patients living at home are desirable. The presence of persons suffering from various forms of tuberculosis in general dispensaries Ib objectionable In the Interests both of themselves and of other patients. Beginnings have already been made hi this direction, and the Health Department Is about to open a special dispensary, but if funds arc provided to meet the expense, several additional dispensaries would make special provision of this kind, and the outpatient treatment at the dispensary should be supplemented by the.

provision of special diet, when necessary, and by district nursing. "5. Special dispensaries or clinics for the treatment of children suffering from hip dis ease and similar afflictions is nlso needed. "6. The education of the public In the means of prevention, and In those facts concerning the cure and treatment of the disease, which are of Interest and of value to the general public, Is one of the essentials I to the stamping out of the disease.

FRC THE TOP OF A TENEMENT. Application for a writ of habeas corpus was made yesterday before Supreme Court Justice D. Cady Herrick In the case of Florence Ireland, the 17 year old girl who was recently committed to the House of the Good Shepherd by Magistrate Voorhees In the Coney Island Court, on a charge of vagrancy, and a young man who said he represented Lawyer Bennett appeared In the Coney Island Court with necessary papers railing for her release and for a copy of certain testimony. The girl is wanted as a witness in a disorderly house case that has been set down for trial in the Court of Special Sessions next Friday morning. Captain Dooley and his detectives who made the arrests in the case of the young girl and the proprietors of the alleged disorderly house, declare the girl is an Important witness in the case and naturally they are opposed to ber release.

The papers submitted to the court at Coney Island declare that the Imprisonment of Florence Ireland In the House of the Good Shepherd Is illegal, as tho girl was never tried and has not been proved guilty of committing a crime. The clement at Coney Island that has been fighting Police Captain Dooley ever since he assumed command of the Sixty-ninth Precinct considers it has won a big victory in the habeas corpus proceedings and Its members say they have now found a way to beat Captain Dooley at every stage of the game. The Ireland girl was arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees on Friday morning and when the magistrate asked her how she was getting along at the House of the Good Shepherd she told him she was satisfied to remain there. The lawyers, however, who are supposed to be looking after the interests of the proprietors of the alleged disorderly house, declare she will not be permitted to remain In the institution whether she expresses a desire to or not. Those who have watched tho work of Captain Dooley since he went to Coney Island would be pleased to have the girl remain In the Institution in order that she may appear as a witness against the proprietors 0f the resort, but they Bay If she should be released upon the writ the pollco wll see no more of her, because she will be spirited awny.

Even if she should he released and go upon the stand, It Is claimed some strnnge Influence might cause some great changes in the evidence. Tho police look upon the move to Bocure a writ na that of a drowning man clutching to a straw and they Bay that every person who Ib awaiting trial on charges of keeping disorderly houses Is frightened and fear they will be convicted when their cases snail hav -beert called. The coming week will bo a busy one for the Coney Island police captain, as a number of cases have been set down for next Friday in the Court of Special Sessions. The evidence and testimony given by Florence Ireland, when the alleged disorderly house case was first laid before Magistrate Voorhees, was rock-ribbed In the estimation -of the police. The case concerns the raid made on a resort known as the Lackawanna Hotel, on Surf avenue, near West Fifteenth street, and kept, it Is said, by an Italian named Trueson and his wife.

(iiie rum wu mane uy nounusman ClarK ana i-tain uiotnes Alan Thomas Conlln and seven prisoners were taken. The raid was made about noon, but two hours previouu the officers arrested Florence Ireland, whom they saw coming out of the place. The officers had been watching the place for some time, and they said they saw the girl going In and out at different times. They went Inside the resort and took seats in a rear room, securing strong evidence that her visits were for Immoral purposes. The girl confessed to everything In the presence of Captain Dooley, who Immediately procured warrants ana rained tnc place.

Florence Ireland went on the stand In the Coney Island court and gave evidence against the proprietors of the alleged hotel, which was corroborated by the pollco officers. Magistrate Voorhees held the case to await the action of the Court of Special Sessions. Lawyer Henry M. Cummlngs attempted to show that the girl had never been in the Lackawanna, and also that she had been told by the police that she would go to jail If she failed to tell the truth, hut Magistrate Voorhees would have none of It, and the alleged proprietors were held for further examination. Florence Ireland gave several addresses 8s being her place of residence.

She was finally paroled In the custodv nf Mm Hughes, probationary officer attached to the Coney Island court, but she smoked cigarettes and was very unruly at the mission. Tho police also learned that several ot-tempts were being made by Italians to see the Ireland girl nt tho mission. One of the Inmates of the place when It was raided, and who, of course, was arrested, too, was Been In the Coney Island court every morning when the girl's case was set down for a hearing. Mrs. Hughes coocludcd that the girl would be safe If placed In an Institution, and she was finally sent to the House of the Good Shepherd.

It Is claimed by the police that the business of spiriting away witnesses hos been practiced at Coney Island all summer, and when the resort known as Mrs. Wntson's, on Schwelekert's walk, was raided, and the case was called a young girl named Llllle Livingston who was caught in the raid and who was 'to be used by the police as a witness, suddenly disappeared and could not be found. A lawyer named Felix MeCloskey appeared for Mrs. Watson, and she and her friends e0n-fidently expected to go free. The testimony of the officers who made tho raid and got the evidence was too strong, however, and she was convicted by the Court of Special Sessions and was sentenced to three months In prison without a fine.

A few days ago Detective Sergeant Burns of the local headquarters bureau snld he witnessed an assault In Kosten's concert hall, at Jones' walk and the Bowery In which a waiter named BrookB. it was claimed, struck a small man named Aberle. The officer says the latter was badly beaten and Burns arrested Rrooks. The following morning the victim of the assault fnlled to appear and the officer declared that he, too had been hidden away. Police Captain Dooley has served subpenas upon Mrs Frank Gallagher, who lives on Surf avenue near West Twenty-fifth street, and also on soveral other persons, commanding them to appear nt the trial of Mrs, Mary Wvmnn, in the Court of Special sessions, on a charge nf keeping a dlsor Wly house.

It has been told around Coney Island that a delegation of ic-spectable women, residents near Sea Gate, among wnoin was Mrs. Gallagher, went to the Coney Island police station when Captain Knipe was In command there, and complained of the place known as Wyman's. The captain had been seen In company with the woman on several occasions, and bcv-eral of thn patrolmen now doing duty at Coney Island have said that. Wyman's was a favorite lounging place for certain members of the uniformed force and also for certain Judge. All sorts of lnflucnco will be brought to bear when the car.e comes to trial during the coming week, and some of the Coney Islanders aro goiug down to the Court Story That Cops Were in a Duel to Be Investigated by Commissioner.

Residents of Fourth avenue and Fifteenth street wero disturbed from their slumbers shortly before 11 o'clock Friday night by a woman's cries for help, which were followed by three pistol shots. While the entire neighborhood was being aroused two young mm rushed Into the Fifth avenue station and told Captain Reynolds that two policemen were lna duel at Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue. The Informants stated that a woman had yelled from a window that she wa3 being beaten and when one officer rushed upstairs to her assistance -a policeman inside tho building struck him aud chased him from the house Into Fifteenth street, where three shots wero flrod. Captain Reynolda with Detectives Hcnnessy and Berbernick and a couple of other officers Jumped in the patrol wagon and hurriedly drove to the scene. There was a crowd ot four hundred persons on tho corner.

The policemen had disappeared, and It seema escaped "Ihe Wfi'ce' ot every ono. Not a person In the crowd denied having heard the shots, but no one could Identify the officers. Patrolman Patrick Battam, of the Gates avenue station lived at 540 Fourth avenue and he Is the only bluccoat who lives on the block. Mnuy people living on Fifteenth street, where the supposed shooting took place, said they saw an ollicer in uuiform being chased by another cop and three shots were flrrd. No apparently recognized Battam as being concerned in the shooting and Deputy Commissioner Ebstein 'is trying to learn the identity of the officer who was supposed to have been shot at.

Both seemed to have been swallowed up. One neighbor said he heard Mrs. Battam yelling for help and a scuffle in the hallway, during which she is alleged to have cried out that she was beaten. When seen yesterday she had a scar over her eye. She did not Bay very pleasant things about her husband, but denied all knowledge of any shooting.

Battam also denies that he knew anything about the affray, claiming that he was not In the neighborhool at the time. A report upon the case has been sent to headquarters and Deputy Co missioner Eb-steln has asked Inspector M-rphy for an Immediate report as to the Identity of the Fifty-tilth Precinct officer who was supposed have been concerned In the shooting. Dattam is the only Gates avenue man In the neighborhood. CATHOLIC WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Classes will be opened on Monday, September 2S, for the coming year, in all subjects in which instruction is given.

Members of the educational committee will be In attendance on each evening durlug the week preceding Ihe above datj, to receive applicants, and assign them to their proper classes, as well as to give to all visitors such information as they may wish to obtain regarding the aim and scope of the work. It is requested that all friends of the association personally assist in making this tie most successful year, in all respects, since the Dy endeavoring to keep th vantages to be derived by connection with the Institution o'er before the public, and bring-I lug aa many persons under its helpful In-I riuence as hoy can. In addition to the regular subjects taught, MzrnB Is to he de- nii.v he nhtnin.r! ut the fenernl eCSee nf ihe assfielation. Brookivn 0nar Bogle, last Thursday. This yearly supplement should be obtained by every one and kept for constant reference from year to year.

JOHN F. COLLINS CLUB PICNIC. The second picnic of the season was given by the John F. Collins Club of the Tenth I Ward, Friday evening, at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island. Qulle a number of well known citizens of the Sixth and Tenth wards attended.

The officers of the association aro: Standard Bearer, John F. Collins; Thomas F. Murphy, president; Edward W. Owens, vice president; John F. Horan, first vice president; Fred J.

Murphy, second vice president; William J. Jennings, third vice president; T. J. McKlernan, secrelary; James F. Mc.N'ally, recording secretary: Charles F.

Doherty, corresponding secretory: James J. Mansell. financial secretary; Alfred A. McMonagle, treaa. urer: John J.

Butler, nssistant treasurer; Charlie H. Large, captain police; Michael P. Horan, assistant captain police; Lawrence J. Kelly, floor manager; Georee T. Moloney, and Joseph Pero, assistant floor managers; arrangement committee, Charlie MoFaddon, chairman; Hugh Curran, George Ilorcino, nnd Joseph Sommers.

CENTRAL COUNCIL MEETING The annual meeting of Centrnl Council of tho Improvement Lenguo of tho Thirtieth Ward, will bs held nt the Borough I'nrk Club House, to-morrow e-en'nn a o'clock. la connected with the University Settlement, has this to say: 'The Lung Block' has well earned its name. It Is bounded by the streets Cherry, Catharine, Hamilton, Market, it is closo to the East Kiver to open air. It should be wholesome. For a month I worked through it, with the help of those who know it best.

I went through with health and tenement inspectors, as a settlement visitor one week, as a 'fresh air man' the next. I use this one block as a center, not to prove, but to Image what has already been proved all through the civilized world, to image the three great evils wo must fight in the tenement. These evils are congestion, dissipation, infection. "That the plague spreads with congestion has long been proved bcTflnff W'sflaToft- of a doubt. It spreads even faster than the crowd pourB in.

So it is in the block we have taken. It stands in one of the most congested wards of the most crowded city in the world, and this Seventh Ward Is Bteadlly, swiftly packing closer. Between 1890 and 1900, the density of its already crowded population increased no than 65 per cent. Now it holds 478 humans to an acre. The Lung Block alone holds nearly 4.000, not to mention dogs, cats, parrots and one weazened old monkey.

Of the humans some 400 are babies. It is a block packed close with huge grimy tenements; these tenements are honeycombed with rooms; these rooms arc homes for people. To squeeze in more homes, light and air are slowly shut out. Halls, courts, air-shafts, are all left cramped and deep and sunless. It is a block of a thousand homes.

Through halls, In rooms. on stairways, in courts, in shafts and out on fire-escapes, are sprinkled the four hundred 'S'- UlUllv J- 1 -I I ltn .1 HI htietjL, ttueawy iiiuiiuiuk 11a muddy wisdom. So this muddy street overflows Into the home. It is hard for the home to keep wholesome and pure. Things and people good and bad have only partitions between them.

Plague Spreads Swiftly. "In a block so congested "the plague apreads swiftly. In the past nine years alone this block has reported 26j cases. From doctors, druggists and all others who know, I gathered that this is but halt' the true number. In a block so congested dissipation comes easy.

Foul air, darkness, wretched surroundings these work on the home by day and by night. Here a thousand homes struggle on. while hundreds yield and sink and so pollute the others. So comr squalid homes and wretched meals. So comes the humorous, shattered old chap who told me: 'I ain't never sober but when I gits out ot So come hundreds of others, men and women, young and old; drunk, bestial, vile, forever steadily sinking.

'Hard drinking triples susceptibility to This is seen most of ail In the Iri3h; hence among the Irish the death rate from the plague Is twice that of any other white nationality. The Jews, with their Btriet habits, their dietary laws and 1 a certain standard of cleanliness enforced by a rigid religion, show the lowest death rate of all, though this Is rising as they beeomi tencmcntized. At present the Lung Block has only Jews on the Market street end and omnnc them we found hardly a case of con sumption. The body of the block is packed with lrisn aim iiu oiJ.jimn.ii5 "i twelve othpr peoples. All these image best the dissipation, the Fhattered vitality which ents into savings, starves the home, then i gives the plague easy entrance and makes It a constant danger to all In the family, "In a tenement old, vile, infected, one of I the worst on the block, an Italian lived some 1 years back.

He had a wife ami three little children. They lived In one room and a closet. They lived on $4 a week. To make i 'a home wholesome here means unceasing 1 struggle. His wile gave up and took to i drink.

The man struggled on. He worked ihard to support his babies, but It was a home to come to at night. Even ithc neighbors said so. The house was ln-' fected and against its infection the home gave no protection, but only wretched food, I wretchedly cooked, for the tired man and his little children. The man took the plague.

He on jMenrfa tried, to make him stop. 'No! Me die not, yet at all! Me gotta Bi -nga i'e grub to ma This feellug is S3 old as the hills. He struggled on. One afternoon he had a hemorrhage at work and was brought borne on a shutter. The 'home' broke up.

I could find but one more Item The baby girl died last year of the 1 tubercular meningitis over on Randall's Island. "Not far off lives a German family, a I mother and five girls, the oldest. 16. the youngest 4. The father drank, took the plague, and died.

The mother took it from Of ''e S113 'nRurance, she spent 590 on his funeral. Then the starving began. Tho girl of 16 lived three months on bread i and tea alone, working each day at $4 a week In a factory, pushing a heavy treadle from In the morning until 7 at night. She had worked so since she was 12. 'She ain't never seen the said her little sis-' ter, who loved her.

She went to night school i' always. She said she 'meant to be some-'" She took the plague In the winter. A TENEMENT HOUSE SINK FROM WHICH SEVERAL FAMILIES HAVE TO GET ALL THE WATER THEY USE. modations are good but from Grodekof to; grPat exIent as pssme and Harbin they are still poor: hence travelers wn0 flr(, able t0 avn of who wnnt comfort and safety should tnkc 0ppnrlunrv of Kainln)g tho funrlumpntnl prtn-the route from Dalny rather than from of thiR pI.018Bion within the space of Vladivostoek. ,1 lime allnited to the course of ten week.

At tho presen time the through last trains make eal.npst (0 prcparfl Dalny only once a wrek-on bundnys. fnr entrance, detailed Information for Passengers 'leaving Vladivostoek onlv UIHKe CUIlIH.LH.il Wli.t linn ni.Ti Harbin by leaving here on Tuesdays and attention Is called to the large ad-Saturdays. vert.isement in the Educational Number of lul havoc. 'Not worth the 'I know a dozen but they ain't worth helping' so I was told again and again when seeking for patients whom country air might cure. Near by, on South street, stands a house of Ill-fame with a tiny attic overhead, reached by a ladder, in r.ls place, a con sumptive, a woman lay three months curs-ine life and walling for death.

Just before the end, she was brought down the ladder one night like a specter into the brothel, and so out into the ambulance. Thousands like her have been Biek of this plague In Vntu Vrtplr tlnui monv Infected their patrons' "Of the 265 cases reported on the block, 104 camo from six old tenements alone. There is one called 'The Ink It has front and rear lenements five floors high, with a foul narrow court between. Here live 110 people. Twenty-three are babies.

Here I found one man sick with the plague In the front house, two more In tho rear and one of these had a young wife nnd four children. Here the plague lives In darkness and filth filth In halls, over walls and floors, in sinks and closets. Here In nine years alone twenty-six cases have been reported. How many beside these are kept secret? And behind these nine years how many eases more? Plague Spots in Other Crowded Quarters. "This Is Infection for but nine years in one tenement.

Not here alone, but from every crowded quarter, these, stories roll up wilh terrible force. I give briefly the stories of three plague rooms. Up on West Eighteenth street Is one room In a rotten old wooden tenement. For years It has held the same dust in Its corners, the same grime on Its ceilings, the same filth on its walls. Sanitation here Is unnpeakable.

The plague entered by chance a few years back. It was no chance that made It stay. Since then in this one room there 'have been five deaths from the plague among those who, one by one, have come here to live who have heen weakened by Its foulness, then Infected by I us KermH. "Near by, on Fifteenth street, are two rooms In a basement. These are damp and close and old with disease.

The bedroom Is wholly dark. Here the plague came three years back. A man died. His family moved out. An Irish family came next, In the winter 'all strong and the dispensary doctor said.

But humnn beings to keep ine latest report c.ii.i i.i i agemcnt gives the lengin ot trie as 2,066 miles, and contains the following information regarding the traffic of 1WU Traliif. in nporatlnn AveriiKe ears to tnitn l'aKnenttera carried, nil Hn 1.12I..WI IMIS.W.M Amount nald fnr tmitKHge rattled Average amount pul.l by em-h Bnwrwr fnr hniriritirr ji.a Atn.iiini nr.lrf fnr irelcht ininKimrtall'i" MctvlinndlM li.t'fl.Kl". toiml Average per ton Total Income Total expenm tesrluilnK extra Net prom, Extra flli.I union majnur Actual ilefl-lt iiiiui In IS'i'l l. XII. The income exceeds the estimate by the total expense exceeds the estimate by the special expense exceeds the estimate by $672,762.

and the deficit exceeds the estimate by KEENE DRAMATIC SOCIETY. After a short rest the Keene Dramatic Society is again in the field and will shortly open its fourth season, playing "Crawford's Claim." Several new faces will be seen In the cast this year as will all of the old favorites. Francis Lawrence is coaching the play and judging from rehearsals a finished performance may be looked for. Applications for mombei 'hip should bo addressed to Sidney J. Morrison, 'J'J Lew I a avenue, Brooklyn..