The Beauteous Waiter-Girls

WILLIAM CONNOLLY, of No. 330 West Twenty-ninth-street, entered a lager bier saloon at the intersection of Roosevelt and Chatham streets, on Friday evening, and fell asleep with his wallet, containing $140, in his hands, and on waking was unable to find it. Yesterday, Officers MULLEN and HORBELT apprehended ELIZA, GEORGIANA, and MARY HOFFMAN, waiters in the saloon, and they could not find it. Justice HOGAN committed the prisoners for examination.

 

Editor's note:

Connolly's $140 was an enormous sum of money at the time. It was not all that unusual, though, for people to carry large amounts of cash with them, because of the lack of modern credit cards and checking. (This image is excerpted from the map accompanying the Report of the Council of Hygiene; it did not appear in the Times article). -- PCB 7/27/2006

A Fourth Ward Disorderly House

David G. Rhodes and his wife, Ann Rhodes, kept what is called a parlor dance-house at No. 100 James-street. Three citizens and a policeman all swore it was a nuisance in the neighborhood. No witnesses were called for the defence, and all that was attempted to be proven by the cross-examination was that the house was no worse than other houses like it. Both were found guilty, sent to the Penitentiary , and fined $50 each.

Editor's note:

No. 100 James Street was located near the intersection of James Street with Cherry Street and Chambers Street. In the map accompanying the Report of the Council of Hygiene, it was shown to be a three-story building with a saloon. The two stars indicate that there was at least one case of typhus or typhoid fever among the residents of the building within the previous year. (This image is excerpted from that map; it did not appear in the Times article). -- PCB 7/27/2006