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 CHRISTMAS EV±i 
 
 
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 STANLEY STREET. 
 
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 Globe Office, Jaiiiuiry 12, 18G9. 
 
 
 
 Mr. S. T. Hammond, 
 
 Dear Sir, — I am not aware that the article, 
 " Christmas Eve ox Stanley Street," reqiiiros any 
 introduction at my hands. It is a i^lain unvarnished 
 tale of what we saw and heard that evening. Tlie facts 
 speak for themselves, and show how vice can drag down 
 not only individuals but communities. That the facts 
 teaching so sad a truth should have existence, must be 
 regretted by every right-thinking man, as well as by 
 
 Yours trulv, 
 
 E. CUNNINGHAM. 
 
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 CHRISTMAS EVE 
 
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 STANLEY STREET. 
 
 It was u |)ioasant thing to pass along the streets on 
 Christmas eve. Though the frost was keen, and the wind 
 "biting cold, somehow there seemed to be warmth emana- 
 ting from within the hearts of the passengers, that affecteil 
 the very atmosphere itself, and every face was radiant 
 with affection and joyous expectancy. Here was to be 
 seen one man hurrying along with a gooso in one hand, 
 and a shoulder of mutton in the other, evidently eager to 
 reach home in order to receive the plaudits of a loving 
 spouse, for the skill and discrimination he had shown in 
 liis purveying expedition. There was another, standing 
 fairly bewildered, the very picture of indecision, among 
 the gorgeous array of the toy shops — pricing the most 
 absurd articles — now, with a tremendous effort, deciding 
 on one thing, and the next moment as fairly at sea as 
 ever — and at last — impelled by those happy faces which 
 his mind's eye saw gazing into stockings in the morning — 
 making one desperate plunge and bearing off triumph- 
 antly along the streets, what on ordinary occasions he 
 would have felt rather ashamed to be seen with. There 
 was another young man, standing before the jeweller's 
 windows, wondering with all his might as to with what 
 
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 lie lovea so well, on the morrow. In fact cverybody 
 seemed hcappy, and not only that, hut everybody seemed 
 resolved to make everybody else as happy as they were, 
 and HO all were cheerful and hapjiy. 
 
 And yet ni>t all — there -was one little girl about six: 
 years old, whom I noticed in King Street, whoso little 
 soul seemed untouched with the general warmth. She 
 was thinly clad, tlie keen cold air pierced to her very 
 soul, and she cried and sobbed. 'Now she sought shelter 
 from the biting blast in some doorway, and now she would 
 jush cut with her bundle of newspapers, as she saw a 
 l)asser-by, and beseech him to buy an evening paper. The 
 poor little cr^'ature seemed sadly out of keeping with the 
 general order of things on Christmas eve. 
 
 "AVhy don't j'ou go home on such a night as this]" T 
 <*'uquired of her as she offered me her wares; "it's too 
 <old for a little girl like you to be out in." 
 
 "I must sell my papers first, or my niotlier w^oiild 
 beat me/! she said, crying. 
 
 *' Where do you live? and have you no father to take 
 care of you, that you have to work so late?" 
 
 *' Yes, I have a father, but he is in bed, and we live in 
 Stanley Street." — "Evening paper, sir," and she attacked 
 another passenger. 
 
 At last I bought her remaining papers — there were 
 eight of them — and away she sped. I followed her, and 
 saw her open a door and disappear inside. I approached 
 the house, and I heard the sound of blows, and the hoarse 
 voice of a man crying *'"V\Tiere are the two cents 1 Speak, 
 
 you little , or I'll break every bone in your body." 
 
 With some trepidation I opened the door, and there 1 
 s$w a big, strong man, clutching the arm of a poor little 
 waif with one hand, while his other Avas elevated ready to 
 descend 
 
 upon 
 
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 Who are you, and what do you want here?" he said 
 
 in a threatenin.2; manner to me, as 1 entered. 
 
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 ready to 
 
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 I explained that I had felt interested in his girl, and 
 thought she scarcely was treated as a girl of her yean 
 .should be, 
 
 "You mind your own business," said he, and then 
 turning to the girl, he roared ** where are the other two 
 cents'!" 
 
 **0h! Father, I was hungry and bought a cake," and a 
 box on the ear sent the little girl spinning into a corner, 
 where she stumbled and fell over the body of a woman, 
 who was lying helplessly drunk on a pallet of straw, on 
 the floor. These are facts — stem, ^ard facts, and the 
 < question may be fairly put wliether tliat lazy, loafing, 
 drunken man, and that wretched won) an, shoTild thus be 
 allowed to traffic away the bodj and sorl of that poor, 
 niictij ble creature. She had to bear ^ he biting cold of a 
 Christmas eve ; they had a blazing ^.toye to sit by; shr 
 was famished with hunger, while they had abundance of 
 whiskey; and she was forced to go about with .1 He in her 
 mouth, in order that they might have material to satisfy 
 the most debased appetites. 
 
 My curiosity was so aroused by this incident, that I 
 resolved to sec a little more of Stanley Street, and Dum- 
 nier Street; so, having secured the services of a police 
 officer, I started on my expedition, and I was somewhat 
 agreeably disappointed w^ith the result. I failed to dis- 
 cover that stark, ghastly poverty that is to be found in 
 the slums of such cities as X^ondon and Edinburgh. There 
 was enough of vice, and dirt, and profanity, it is true ; 
 but there was a general diffusion of warmth and comfort, 
 wdiich is not usually to be found conjointly with those. 
 And though a Poor-law system were introduced to-morrow, 
 the great difficulty "would, in my opinion, be to find the 
 people to whom its provisions could justifiably be applied. 
 Poverty does not seem a necessity in Toronto, though 
 dissipation and thriftlessness arc realities. 
 
 The first house I visited was in Church Street, and is 
 owned bv a c<ilf»rod woman. Tt seems that this is one of 
 
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 fHe most notorious places of resort for bad characters to 
 "bo found in the city. At the time of my visit, however, 
 there was no indication of its being anything of the kind. 
 A roaring stove made the place comfortable ; two chairs, 
 which were nearly all the furniture the place contained, 
 served as resting-places for two darkies, who were both in 
 the very acme of alcoholic bliss. I had never seen a fud- 
 dled negro before, and really it was an amusing picture. 
 The hideous contortions their faces underwent; the extra- 
 ordinary attempts they made to. sing; together with the 
 intense amusement their gestures afforded each other, 
 were most ludicrous. A smart young negress came in 
 while we were there, and behaved herself most discreetly. 
 But the scene was changed when we revisited this place 
 in the morning. The house was filled with a crowd of 
 villanous-looking men and women ; some sang, some swore, 
 some quarrelled, and all smoked and drank. A violent 
 altercation 'v\'as going on between one of the young men 
 and a young woman. She seemed to have the best of it 
 so far as talking went, but a blow on the face and a kick 
 sent her out into the street. The oaths that filled th(i 
 place made one's flesh creep to listen to. The old negro 
 was so far gone that he could do nothing but ejaculate 
 one favorite oath, which he did on an average once a 
 minute. The smart girl we saw before was now more 
 like one of the Furies than a human being, and the whole 
 scene reminded one of the horrors of Pandemonium. 
 There was little about it to suggest the fact that we were 
 in a Christian land on Christmas eve. 
 
 In a house, round the corner, in Stanley Street, we 
 saw a scene somewhat different. AVhen we entered, the 
 only occupant of the house was an old woman, about 
 seventy. In her one hand she held a little picture repre- 
 senting Christ healing the sick man at the pool of Siloam, 
 and this she was studying so eagerly that she did not 
 hear us enter. With her other hand she was holding 
 something to her breast. What it was T could not, for the 
 
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 life of me, make out, till she removed it and laid it upon 
 the stove, when I discovered that it was the wooden lid 
 of a pot. She was suffering from a disease of the stomach, 
 and the only method she could command in order to con- 
 vey some heat to the part affected, was to lay upon it this 
 hard piece of wood. She had two sons, but both were 
 torn to pieces by a railway accident some time ago, and 
 her only means of support is an apple-basket, which she 
 carries about the streets. She has two orphan grand- 
 children, smart little girls, who are totally dependent 
 upon her for support, and yet, amid all licr pain and 
 poverty, she seemed to be happy and content ; and when 
 she had finished recounting her trials, and pointing to the 
 little picture, said, that "lie who was so kind to the poor 
 and distressed in olden times, had been very kind to her 
 too, and wouldn't see her beat," it showed that on 
 Christmas eve good cheer may be altogether wanting in a 
 home, and the homo bo happy, nevertheless. 
 
 How different was the character and life of this old 
 woman from what we saw in other women that night. 
 We approached a house from which Ave heard issuing a. 
 a strange medley of sounds. First of all, there was the 
 stentorian voice of a man shouting out, in no very melodi- 
 ous strains, *' !N'orah, the pride of Kildarc." To this was 
 added the wailings of a number of children, and above 
 all was the shrill voice of a woman, blaspheming in the 
 most awful manner. AVe knocked at the door, but instead 
 of giving us admission, she heaped upon us the most fear- 
 ful abuse, slammed the door in our face, and resumed her 
 blasphemy. Looking in through the window, a curious 
 scene presented itself. Sitting before the stove was the 
 father, still singing away at Norah; on the floor lay a 
 number of children ; while up and down the floor marched 
 the influential mother. Her dishevelled hair was hang-- 
 ing about her shoulders ; she was partly undressed, and as. 
 she brandished her fist in the air, and gave expression to 
 the most shocking language, she looked like an enraged. 
 
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 Pythoness. Xow slie would fall upon the children and 
 beat them unmercifully, now she would chime in with 
 her hushand occasionally at the end of a stave, now she 
 opened upon him and called him by the most abusive 
 <^pithet?!. But he was proof against all that, and con- 
 tinued to s ing of Jsorah, nor even when she knocked him 
 off the chair on the floor, did she manage to ruffle his 
 equanimity, for he picked himself up and began — !N"orah 
 ile novo. And it was only when her mood altered, and 
 slie sat down and cried as if her heart would break, did 
 lie give tlie least sign of being aware of her presence; but 
 Avhen it came to this, he rose, half fdlcd a tumbler Avith 
 whiskey, and urged her to drink it. ' '^ 
 
 On tiie opposite side of the street from this was 
 another house which we visiteil. We found assembled 
 there four women, all about fifty years of age. The house 
 was full of smoke, and had scarcely an article of furnituK; 
 in it; yet on the table stood two bottles of gin and four 
 tumblers. "We were received very graciously, and invited 
 to partake of the liquor, which we declined with thanks. 
 On making inquiry as to the occasion of such a pleasant 
 little gathering, we were informed by the lady of the 
 house herself, that that morning she had just come out of 
 gaol, and had invited her three friends to a little party in 
 celebration of her recovering her freedom. Her three 
 friends, who were all three-parts drunk, then simultane- 
 ously launched out into the most enthusiastic encomiums 
 of the virtues of the much-abused matron, and her black- 
 guard husband was denounced in no measured terms. In 
 reply to a query as to where this unfortunate individual 
 was located at present, it turned out that tlie villain was 
 locked up in the attic. On expressing a wish to have a 
 >;ight of the ruffian, a candle was lighted, and ascending a 
 Tickctty F'tair, we Ivuocked at the do(»r, and on entering 
 discovered a little, mild-looking man, lying on a bed, 
 without a mattress, or strnw, or a shred of bed-clothes. 
 The plaec \vas liorribly c«d<l. nnd Ave expressed our sur- 
 
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 prise to sec him in such uncomfortable circumstances. 
 The poor fellow shivered and covered his face Avith hia 
 hand, and burst into tears. 
 
 "Oh," he said, *'heavcn only knows wliat I have suf- 
 fered through that woman. Drink, drink, slic would sell 
 her soul for drink. To-day she came out of prison, and 
 the very first thing she did was to pawn everything 
 she could carry away. Bed-clothes, dishes, even the food 
 was carried out and sold. And tlien she has ruined my 
 lads. Two of them are in the I\mitcntiary already, and 
 the other two will soon follow. She trains them to steal 
 and lie, and even to drink. They are out now prowling 
 about the streets, and ukw be in the hands of tlie police 
 for aught I can tell." 
 
 When asked when or how she learned to drink, he 
 informed us that prior to coming to Canada, lifteen years 
 ago, she had been a respectable, sober woman, but falling 
 in with drunken neighbours, she had learned to drink, 
 and is scarcely ever sober. "We tried to comfort the little 
 man, and came away; and when v/e came through 
 the lower room, we were once more regaled with a tirade 
 on the villain up stairs. We felt heartily sorry for him. 
 
 In the course of our expedition, the fact impressed 
 itself more and more upon us, that the most of the domes- 
 tic misery existing in these localities is caused by the 
 drunkenness of women. Scarcely did we come across a 
 woman that was not more or less under the influence of 
 liquor. In one house was an old creature, stone blind, 
 sitting on a pallet of straw. Even she war drunk ; and 
 what a pitiable spectacle it was to see her ira potently 
 shaking her withered arm in the air, and declaring, if she 
 eould only see to do it, slie would break the heads of 
 (^.very one in the room. In another, we saw two women 
 lying helplessly drunk in a bed, among seven or eight 
 iihildren, while another lay on the floor in the same con- 
 dition. In another house we came upon a woman who 
 was singing merrily an old Irish ballad. Her husband 
 
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 "whiskey. On inquiring after the children, she lighted a 
 candle, and guiding us up stairs, pointed to what seemed 
 a mass of straw. As we did not exactly understand the 
 meaning of showing us such a sight, to enlighten us she 
 took a broom, and with the handle brushed aside a por- 
 tion of the straw, and there we discovered the children 
 nestling, like so many little pigs. "They keep each other 
 warm, j^ou know," being her explanation. Another 
 woman we saw sitting shivering with ague, and wasted to 
 a skeleton. Not long ago she was the most vigorous 
 woman in the locality, but drink had destroyed her, and 
 killed her husband, and now on the brink of the grave, 
 her only support is her daughter's dishonor. 
 
 In short, from what we saw and hoard, tlie, amount of 
 drunkenness among tlic women of these localities is abso- 
 lutely frightful to contemplate, and when we take into 
 account tlio training for evil which falls to the lot of their 
 children, there is little wonder that other vices developo 
 to such a sad extent, and we have not far to seek for thti 
 cause of so much immorality in our city. This is a sub- 
 ject which requires to be treated with much delicacy in 
 the columns of a newspaper, yet it is one which merits 
 more attention than it receives. In the course of our tour 
 on Christmas eve, the magnitude which this vice appears 
 to have reached in our city w^as something beyond belief. 
 Figures were given with respect to it, which we hesitate 
 to quote without further inquiry, but undoubtedly the 
 number of unfortunate women in Toronto is perhaps equal 
 to, if not beyond that of almost any other city, according 
 to the population. Over and over again we came across 
 old women, who were rather comfortably situated, yet 
 who had no apparent means of making a livelihood of any 
 kind. When questioned on this point, some refused to 
 give any reply ; others prevaricated in the most transpa- 
 rent fashion; while by others the reply was that they 
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 old women were endeavoring to soothe wailing infants, 
 which belonged, as they said, to girls who tcere out. And 
 about midnight, from all quarters, these poor wretchoa 
 were seen skulking homewards to these wretched hovels ; 
 some drunk and hilarious; others weary and cold, and 
 miserable ; and, in one instance, we saw one turned out of 
 doors with her child a few weeks old, because she had 
 failed in raising the money to pay for her board. What 
 a spectacle these two solitary ones formed, wandering 
 through these cold deserted streets on Christmas 
 morning. AVe visited one block of buildings, the notori- 
 <3us Colenso , Terrace, which was externally one mass of 
 moral corruption. In the first den we saAv the stove had 
 been overturned in the revels, the house was full of 
 smoke; and there, making strenuous eiforts to repair the 
 accident, were four Avomen, who, with their smutty faces 
 and their horrible execrations, looked amid the gloom 
 more like demons than human beings. In the next 
 apartment we found six of these creatures, who so filled 
 the small place as almost to prevent our entering. One 
 was smoking an old pipe; another was wild with liquor, 
 and frantically cried for more drink; another, with an 
 imbecile look, sat by the stove with a poor sickly child on 
 lier lap ; wiiile a fourth, in a state bordering on delirium 
 tremens, gave vent to the most fearful oaths, and heaped 
 maledictions on the head o/ the villain who had brought 
 her to this — maledictions so awful and earnest as made 
 one's flesh creep to listen to. Crawling up a broken 
 staircase, we entered another small attic, and here were 
 three more of the same class. One was about sixteen 
 years of age, bashful and shame-faced, who had signalized 
 the Christmas eve of 1868 by fleeing her service, and 
 entering upon her horrible career. Another, a girl of 
 most prepossessing appearance, with stately form and 
 large lustrous eyes, sat brooding alone. "When addressed, 
 she was sidky and refused to speak, but when we re- 
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 place, her feelings I'uirly overcame lier. "How can I 
 'help itf she cried in a fearful voice ! *'lIow can I help if? 
 I am lost; lost, lost forever; I dare not go home; I havf* 
 broken Jiiy father's heart; the man who ruined me won't 
 speak to mo ; I am lost, and I wish I were dead, like 
 Maggie Tlionipson. Maggie is well wliere she is compared 
 with what I am," and here slie subsided into a hysterical 
 state, and sat moaning and moving backwards and for- 
 wards, like a i)Oor broken-hearted creature as she wav^. 
 On inquiring as to who Maggie Thompson was, it turned 
 out that si 10 was a girl who had died in that room a wcelc 
 or two ago. Her history was the old, old story. Dui 
 one little episode of her death-bed is worth recounting. 
 When she came to realize the fact that death was near. 
 her memory travelled back to her Scottish home, and f 
 recalled to her the days when she was the joy of hei' 
 mother, and the pride of her father's he .rt; and the godly 
 teachings she enjoyed from both came so vividly to hei* 
 recollection, that the seed sown then seemed to be taking 
 root even now in that ungenial soil. 81 le sent an eagei- 
 message to a clergyman to come and visit her. but he \ 
 refused. i\gain she sent a similar, but allll more entreat- 
 ing message, and again ho refused, and that, poor soul, 
 yearning after some kind word of comfort and instruction, 
 passed into eternity, uncarod for, with tlie sounds of cur- 
 sing from a neighboring room ringing in iier ears. Such 
 was the eiid of Maggie Thompson, and sucli is the end of 
 all these unfortunates, 'ro-dav thcv ar(> Haunting in silks, 
 to-morrow they are shivering in rags. J.ower and lower 
 down is their inevitable K\\\<i. Drink t]i(\y must have to 
 deaden the stings of conscience, and when the supply of 
 that necessary is cut oii', conscience, with a fearful energy, 
 sets to work and drives them to tlie hinulic asylum, or the 
 grave. 
 
 The causes that lead to tliis state of matters in our 
 midst, are as various as they are difficult to be dealt with. 
 One poor girl who^n we saw maintained that soldiers' 
 
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unilbrms was one of tlio most disastrous ugenciL's at work 
 in the ruin of girls here ; another dated her downward 
 career from Sunday niglit walking on Yonge Street; and 
 really when one passes along that street of a Sunday 
 evening, and observes the system of making acquaintance- 
 ship carried on there, it is little to be wondered at that 
 the consequences are frequently so disastrous. And 
 parents Avould do well, and the public would do well, 
 were the one to forbid and the other in some way to pro- 
 hibit this custom. 
 
 Hitherto Ave have spoken chiefly oi the women in tho- 
 district, and the reason is that there seemed to be few 
 men connected with the esta1)lishments we visited. Hiero 
 were, however, one or two A\'orthy of notice. One of 
 them is rather a famous character in the citv, and was 
 most gloriously druidc. His eloquence was quite overpow- 
 ering. It seems that he is busy managing an election 
 canvass in one of the wards, and as he stood flomiahing 
 the bottle of brandy in the one hand, and a tumbler iut 
 the other, declaiming in good set terms on the influence 
 he can exercise in sw^aj'ing an election, it gave us rather 
 a poor notion of civic honors. By and by he got to be 
 pathetic ; cursed the day he had ever come to a country 
 where whiskey was so cheap ; made a teetotal vow with a 
 Christmas reservation, drank nearly a tumbler of the 
 brandy, and sunk back into his chair almost senseless. 
 And yet there is a kind heart mthin him too. Ho sus- 
 tains four children, who but for him Avould be utterly 
 destitute, and loves them, he said, as well as his own. 
 One other fellow we came across, Avho, though preemi- 
 nently sober and well-doing, annoyed us perhaps more 
 than anything we saw. His great failing was laziness 
 His house was in tho worst possible locality, and repair ; 
 I'fi pays four dollars a month for it; he is well aware 
 uiat a much better house in a much better locality could 
 be got for the same money, yet he cannot be bothered 
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 bothered." Ills wile, a most respectable woman, moans i 
 tx) get into a purer atmosplierc, moral and physical, but 
 Ho can't be bothered. Ho has a fine child which he is' 
 woU aware will grow up badly in such a place, but there's 
 time enough, llis house has scarcely any furniture, and 
 the bed-clothes are of a very nondescript character, yet 
 Hawing wood is desperate hard work, and he can't be 
 bothered. In fact he was the very type of a lazy Scotch- 
 T.ian, and would be much the better of a fortnight in the 
 place of the little man who was locked up in the attic. 
 
 Wo continued our peregrinations till about three in 
 the morning, and by that time tlie respectable part of the 
 population were gone to bed, w^hilst in the more famous 
 dens, Christmas revels were going on fast and furious. It 
 would be useless to describe these, they were of the usual 
 kind, and in fact we began to find our casual work getting 
 rather dangerous. On several occasions when we asked 
 admission, "Whiskey Mason," — to whose corps we were 
 belirved to T)elong — was spoken of in terms far from com- 
 plimentary, and the fear they showed for the presence of 
 that functionary, clearly illustrated the fact that a whole- 
 sale system of shebeening was at work. And it is worthy 
 of note that all the most notorious houses are fitted up as 
 bar-rooms, Avith all the necessary adjuncts. As we passed 
 homewards, the last thing we heard in Stanley Street that 
 morning were the fearful shrieks of a girl who was being 
 hauled to the stntion by a policeman. "My mother is at 
 home with a br<»ken leg," was her cry, but the policeman, 
 ordered her to shut up, as he knew she had no mother. 
 It was a pity that it was so. Had she had a mother, 
 instead of occupying a cell in a police station that Christ- 
 she miL'ht have been reclining on that 
 
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