Judge — February 11, 1882 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO Nos. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. LISHED re ONCE A TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Copy, #1x months, of 26 numbers 2 e Copy, fur 13 weeks a par PoLISHING Co, 13.415 Park Kow N The Dread Alternative. Mr. Wat wing, The Dr Alternative,” tells a terrible story that overdraw that must deeply touc the hearts of the common people. realist no and people with much money and little characte the inhuman monsters who grow rich from the and the proprietors of the labor of the poor, nd infamous dens where wom is dragged to the lowest depths, may fin nothin showy ant retlect that there may be after all a Hei alt where they must answer for th commission and omission ; ir sins are not made of stone can appreciat the awful moment of h come to the thousands 0! itation which poor and WEEK. Aristocrats, in the subject to cause them to pause mut those whose THE JUDGE. ures walls eryin » about, do they not hear the out, “Who enters here leaves The first step has been taken, and the God who rules the universe knows where ith Beautiful girls, who might have become happy wives and mothers, soon ‘over the mockery and degradation of the alternative chosen by them, and in their utter recklessness tind the path to the work house an easy one, Lowered, as they believe them- it hope of reformation, they continue from bad to worse until the death releases them from. their istence, 0 ‘an some one suggest an hope behind?” " selves to be, bey ternative where- % | by these poor and friendless girls may be spared from starvation on the one side and y dishonor and death on the other ? Bobtailed Cars. 1 mae nt Bostox is ahead of New York and: many h | other cities in one thing—they have no bob. tailed cars. I from the Hub « ive an honest re turn for the cash they receive ard emple ductors to take up the tilroad companies who radiate on. res, and not depend nhood | upon the public to do the work, al In Brooklyn and several other citi citizens begin to kick, and wetrust that every kick will hit a director on the shins, or a still of | more tender spot, his pocket-book, until they 100) » the nuisances and place respectable fe | cars on their roa made a plenty of money before substi- tating the “bob” or “jigger for the larger 3 the | girls in this proud and mighty metropclis, and | cars, but when they found by experimenting must syinpathize with them, | that they could get just as much money from On both sides of a girl so situated are the | passengers, and at half the cost, of course short and rapid avenues to the grave. ‘The adopted the cheapest way, without re choice between them matters little to her, she wr the comfort or convenience of their | is apt to think, in her moment of hesitation She may reall the early childhoo: ina comfortable home, she was pette ad she may, for thei ays of he nd mother, And for the sake of those who loved her, an with the faith that virtue she accepts the off in the quiet of her late, until her rm ¢ its own rew re of the shirtmaker, and ure works early an benumbed fingers and waste it; the inno lo is rattled off to the po grave. old story, and would be right. old story that ten be told. It i: that eric rte r bear up und -house, or te annot te a st phil the strong arm of 1 half of the thousan like the poor girls ¢ tion. Halting between the life that 13 one of s vation and respe otters money, finery and r thousands, and is it to be wonderes Dn demon who pri and who holds out tempting ot women to become attendants in his plac quickly dr: lives of dishonor, and when these dazed erea loud for great Lin be 3 yet unborn, who will f today, e law to be rais + over the concert s loon, zs them down te first step to to lead a life of respectability. has 2 pauper’s Some may say that this is the old, It is the old, athropists to come to the rescue, and for ed its protec: | or while in the act of doin ability, and the one which | through a crowded city ayely, may well | the same time w ny choose the latter life? ‘The | prs to young | they miss the 1. | patrons, and they will continue to do so just 1, as long as they will stand the imposition, al Mr, Worth has presented us w ir tures bearin; ha few] ; and who that » with them will re overdrawn ? ‘They tell their upon the subj ver had any exper I say that they 1, own story, albeit a very famihar one, and | 1, | comment is unnecess ul | A bob packed full of p «1 | most always ie | wheel they al- nee on re, is certainly a nui If you haven't the exact fi must work your way through the crowd to xc it from the driv body else to do so for you. to t pis you Or if you are fort you are liable to have your bur or get s« enol | kin «J and your corns trodden upon by the struggling ones who are trying to do what a » | conductor should do, and in every conceiv- , | able way you are abused afer paying for it, ‘The poor drivers are often blamed unjustly, - | for it isn’t every man who can drive 2 ho nd _be a conductor at hout occasionally running 1 | over or into somebe Somebody has that the reason the , | ladies object to the bob-tailed ears is becausi niliar arin of the conductors round their waists in getting onto them, But » | fresh as many of those monopoly auxiliaries - | undoubtedly are, the ladies who h cl ave occasion | exp orse to patroniz ars had much rather have tion than to encoun’ their prote 1 rear all sorts of people, smoking all sorts of pipes and vile cigars, platform crowded with through which they must squeeze in order to get into the vehicle, to find it in many in- stances almost empty, since everybody seem: ingly desire: to sine ww Yorkers are proverbially easy.zoin and it is here that the bob flourishes in all its ovker will stand more 1 ths glory. A New ing from those who should serve other per: pani rit: henee t We trust, however, if they are willin imposed on themselves, that they will obje owl my nunder heaven, and railroad com: ps kn tobe strangers from m “ favored, more ex- sting, or more civilized localities imposed upon up will not be bob-tail with and that the movement which is now lowed to. subside until every nl car retired and two-hors ductors are substituted A “Chili” Day for Blain« Biatxe, of Maine, is havin it. That he has in his mind's hard time of » the White House of 1884, everybody is prep: , and already the storm that threatens ed to bee disaster to him is brewing, No less a person than Chester A, Arthur, the President of the United States, has taken a hand in the fight, and if any of the vi atesmen to New York have doubts as to the ability of that dis: gentleman to put up a job on the “Phumed Knight” of Maine, let them consult a fow gentlemen in the marble palace of Mul berry street, where, no doubt, such doubts will be quickly In Chet” Arthur, as Johnny O'Brien loves to address him, the champion down-east political manipulator has moved, found a foeman worthy of his steel. It would, indeed, be a “Chili for Blaine, of Maine, should that Gorl-torsaken spot in South America be the whereon he istobe wreeked, 0: a Mulligan and a sun-stroke, Now there isa Chili and a winterstroke, When Presiden- tial candidates are so often called upon. for s Mr. Blaine has been, ther At the ambitious states. bare ground, It remains to ¢ James can sting place there was a strong probability t man will strike be seen whether the magne checkmate the despoilers of his path to the White House, and prevent his sled fr jumping the track, Jimmy! again Whoop her up n, A poor fellow by the rk in the War Dey and in less than half an hour successor was at his ¢ Like watchful npires, nearly a hundred applicants stood anxiously around, waiting for that dead man’s shoes! What a delightful place Washin certainly is, and what an elevated, hi lot of people th be! And now we suppose these hun; ones who missed the appointment wi nue to hang around, hoping, and r ¢ the fellow who has now the inii die, Beautiful ambition, isn't it? of Buntnall, a st week, Merwards hi ‘tment, died ton hangerson for place inust comicbooks.com