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has been defrauded out of her rightful pension, which has 

 been recalled since her husband's death. Her shanties range in 

 price from $7 for four rooms, to $1 for one room, monthly. Mrs. 

 Hickey personally is kind and religious. Only a few days before 

 our visit she had bought some dress goods of warm, serviceable 

 cloth, and given them to a poor woman for dresses for herself and 

 children. Her front room was her living room. In it were tables, 

 sofa, chairs and boxes. The back room was her bed-room, kitchen 

 and general workshop. As an illustration of the filthy condition I 

 may only say that the sheets were so encrusted with dirt that they 

 fairly cracked in one's fingers. 



No. 4. In a one room shanty we found two old bachelors, both 

 employed by the packing house. This place cost them $3 per 

 month, notwithstanding the fact that the roof lets in the sunshine 

 and the rain. The man whom we found at home evidently had 

 seen better da^'s, and his whole manner seemed to apologize for 

 the condition in which we found him. Under the same roof at the 

 other end, in a single room, we found an old negress with a little 

 child, living in open immorality. 



No. 5. In this house we found a grandmother, her daughter 

 and sons — sons who work in the packing house. This outfit con- 

 sisted of two rooms and a lean-to, and was sadly given over to 

 dogs, dirt and devil. 



No. 6. We failed to gain admission here, but through a partly 

 open window we saw four negresses and a white man, smoking and 

 carousing. 



No. 7. An Irish woman with three or four small children — her 

 husband absent at his work in the packing house. For their three 

 rooms thev pav S6, and as their front door is six feet from the rail- 

 road track, the landlord has kindly put a small fence around this 

 and the adjoining houses in order to keep the children from the 

 wheels. The poor woman had to give almost her entire time to 

 her children, and her housework was sadly neglected. But had she 

 time for it, doubtless her ignorance of all methods of keeping the 

 house clean would have rendered her work futile. The children 

 were dirty, the house was dirty, and above all arose a fearful 

 stench. In this and neighboring yards the vaults and cisterns are 

 side by side. How people live and thrive under such conditions 

 is perhaps one of the wonders of the century. 



No. 8. A two room ex-stable. Two washerwomen and two 

 boys — the boys work in the packing house when they can get work; 

 the women, who are young, do washing and ironing, though how 

 they manage to dry their clothes and have them clean in the midst 



