Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ome, and the police find them hard customersto handle. They are inveterate gamblers, and one oftheir chief dissipations consists in stupefying them-selves by smoking opium. The opium dens are sim-ply dirty rooms provided with wooden bunks, in whichthe smokers may lie and sleep off the effects of theterrible drug. Many of these places are patronizedby white people, and some number women of thelower class among their customers. One of the greatest curiosities in New York is theHospital for Cats. It is located at No. 170 Divi-sion street, in the midst of the tenement-house sectionof the city, and is conducted by Mrs. Rosalia Good-man, a philanthropic German lady. She devotes thegreater part of her time to the comfort and relief ofneglected and persecuted felines, and is quite an en-thusiast in her singular avocation. The house sheoccupies is a three-story wooden structure, dating backto the Dutch period of the city. She has lived therefor a number of years, and makes a comfortable living
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THE HOSPITAL FOR CATS. 591 by renting rooms, retaining two for herself and hercats. Besides many pets who for years have beenkindly cared for, the family is being constantly in-creased by the addition of unfortunate tabbies whosewants are brought to the notice of the worthy lady.Lean and hungry cats, prowling around in search offood; cats who bear scars received by having boot-jacks, bricks, and crockery-ware hurled at them byunappreciative hearers while they were performing amidnight concert; cats who come out with brokenlimbs and disordered fur from an interview withnaughty little boys; cats who are hungry and in dis-tress, or who have strayed away from their homes, arebrought here, and are kindly receiyed and cared for.So well is the idiosyncrasy of Mrs. Goodman knownin the neighborhood, that whenever one of her neigh-bors finds a cat in distress, it is taken to her, and isalways welcomed. Her room presents a most singu-lar appearance. It is literally filled with cats of allsizes a

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