The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Night in a Workhouse [from the Pall Mall Gazette]

Farnall, H. B. "A Night in a Workhouse [from the Pall Mall Gazette]." New York Saturday Press, February 17, 1866, 102-103, 106-109.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
journalism
Abstract

A man spends a night in something of a homeless shelter and is amazed at the poor quality of shower and bedding, but is pleasantly suprised by some of the folk inside.