Judge — May 26, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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324, 326 and 328 Pearl St.. (Franklin Squ {CMLISHED ONCE A WERK. TERMS ‘TO SUBSCRIBERS. Fur at THE JUDGE PURLISHING cr MPANY EUROPEAN AGENTS Twe Isrexsatiogat News Compasy, 11 Rous GROWING FEEBLE. Mr. ‘I be—few filden is not Lito patter—and a as young as he us of us are, for that disappointment which he could bear bravely nough some years ago would fall with erush- foree on him At least’ the chance e that it would, and he is not dis- posed to run the risk. He loves the grand old Democratic party as well He w ing to-day. as eve says, always partial to it : ~ named, “onspired to w The heart that 1 | ill Was true when nearer frie | Would then have bled 1 | right it But that is all over now. Mr. ‘Tilden's | love for his party has ceased to. be anything | more than Platonic. He « stand the Id have stood it, Tt is all over, and Mr. Tilden in active political life will soon be nothi nnot strain as he once cx { more than a memory. | — i} THE BIG BRIDGE. y. for the first time in his life, | Tue Jevce walked froum-Beoklve to-New York. He enjoyed the unspeakable luxury of looking down on the ferryboats, puffing and panting their arduous way so far below him. For once in his life he felt himself not only above them, but independent of them. To be ience The other ¢ ure, independence has its inconven- —the mere pursuit of independence is nota pathway of roses, as any Irishman will tell you—nor is its attainment advantage. In the first plac who has achieved to Tne an unmixed the independence enjoy it by its Junee, independent of puffing and panting the ferry boats in tho river, had tod the puffing man to exer- and of all nd panting on the Bridge him- | has continue own tions. despising the | practical purposes. | of its own where the | all this, while | | look ver THE JUDGE. If, ‘This, in itself, for a mile and a half or so over an inclined plane of asphalt and planking on a sunny afternoon, is no slight thing : add to this the apprehension felt by any humane mind for the safety of fello creatures suspended among the mighty gird- ers and cables and the interlaced network of ties which in comparison to the rest of the structure we may call wires—poor devils, they seem to hang between heaven and earth without visible means of support, like Ms hommed’s coffin or an ordinary tramp, pa busily. One cannot help glan- cing up at them apprehensively, partly in ing away dread of a fatal accident occurring at any moment, and partly in the altogether vain hope of dodging the constant patter of white paint which falls from their eyrie ina shower around you. All these are some of the in- conveniences of independence, and so far the ferry boats have the best of it. But there is a Tur Junge found of the bridg troubling silver side to the shield. a haven near the centre where the painters ceased from and where he got a ch; Besides, the nters are nm nial, and the centre nee to rest. peren- ral At any rate, it will out- last this particularly malign batch of paint- And what a lounging place it will make of a fine summer evening, set, fai ers. , after sun- above the noise and turmoil and dirt Ils of the twocities ; up it tmosphere must be pure, and where the breeze, if there be any anywhere, is sur »be blowing. ‘To enjoy »king north and south at the beautiful panoramaof the glistening river, dotted with its iskands and alive with its ship- ping—then east and west at the two great cities which the structure we are standing upon ork with towe 1 factories aklyn, the that distan has m her nd great city. of and from Dnildings, churehe that point of view, but little different from | ross the water, [tis a curi- nd the Bridge is the place of all to engender the reflection, that all ed from a balloon or any elevation much alike, presenting as they do the same general . Perhaps, for al we wicked mortals thi about it, wicked Chiea; as viewed from Ile: em very different from ss phia or virtuous Boston. ven, does not ntly Philadel- But the Brooklyn Bridge is finished, and moralizing is lost in view of that stupendous fact. By the time this number of ‘THe Jepoe isin the hands of its more distant readers emony which throws the Bridge open to the public will have taken place, and the gre: ject which shaped it- self in Mr. Kingsley’s brain some fifteen years ago will have passed into history as an omplished fact. This is not the time to review, even cursorily, the details of the gigantic work. All THeJvpGe will attempt to-day is to congratulate Mr. Kingsley, the the ae stratum | two cities, the whole country and the world at large on the successful achievement of the greatest piece of engineering work of modern times—the Brooklyn Bridge. DEADLY OPIUM. ‘The Eastern States, never having greatly suffered from their presence, have not had a great deal of sympathy with the Pacific Coast in its determined hostility to China- men, It seems now, however, that the Yel- low Plague (as they call Chinese Emigra- tion over there) is inocculating certain quarters of New York very unpleasantly. ‘The disclosures of the Herald regarding the doings in certain opium dens in Mott street and the vicinity are calculated to strike a chill of horror through every father mother in the community. ‘That beast! Oriental vices should. exist among us, in the persons of Orientals enough, but that the: themselves, vices should be suf- fered to spread and fester in our midst till they contaminate our own population is in- excusable. We agree with the Jerald tha’ there must have been culpable negligenc somethin; tof the pol befor state of things could have be come possible, ‘This is a matter that i e than gambling, or offences against the It is a crime so heinous that even arian f would probably ad- tit isn bad as buying a1 paper on Sunc The priests deserve the thanks of the community for their earnest and Christian efforts to abate this nuisance in our midst. that we h worse on the pi est we excise. the mit the arly we: It is deplorable, however, ve to thank outsiders so often for accomplishing reforms which we maintain a costly police system to attend to, but in a case like this we are ble at the me not disposed to grum- ns employed so long as the work is effectually done. ‘The exposures made by the /erald show that the trouble is of no recent origin; but it has been suffere to go on unhceded—we fear it has even been encouraged —till there is scarcely a tenement house in the affected district which does not show the pallid checks and slouching gait that marks the victim of the fatal opium habit. And worse still, it has been shown but too clearly that the young girls who are enticed to surrender themselves to the bale: ful drug are enticed for the vilest purpo The stor h sickens and the heart heaves against the bare idea of the enormities per- petrated in those Chinese dens. Better, a thousand times better to sweep the plague from our shores at once than to suffer it thus to contaminate the virtue and strength and health of our working cl fount. THe JepGe wishes every success in his righteous mission, and hopes he may yet compel the police to do their duty and put an end to this ineffable shame, this unspeakable degredation, Wit our Brooklyn-Bridge cartoon prove a prophecy? I comicbooks.com