THE DANGEROUS CLASSES OF AMERICA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 271, 10 April 1873, Page 7

THE DANGEROUS CLASSES OF AMERICA.

The City of Brooklyn must be an agreeable place to live iv. Its inhabitants, to the number of upwards of a quarter of a million, live in fear of the roughs by day and the incendiaries by night. The former have established a veritable reign of terror. They are organised in gangs, with duly constituted leaders and regular headquarters — the latter being the low drinking saloons which abound iv Brooklyn. Each gang has its " local habitation and a name." Thus, there is the Fighters-hill Gang, the Swamp Gang, the Fourth Ward Rangers, the Nineteenth street Gang, the Tenth avenue Gang, <fee. The last named, however, which had a notorious thief named "Dutch Herman," for its ringleader, has been lately broken up, after two of its number had been shot by the police. Burglars, prize-fighters, and desperate ruffians of every degree, compose these associations, which sometimes come into collision with each other, when murderous weapons are treely used, and bloodshed ensues. As to the incendiary fires — ten in the space of five weeks — which have taken place in Brooklyn, the police report that they are the result of " a determined effort of some persons to get up as large a conflagration in the city as that which recently took place in Boston." Stables, factories, and buildings contiguous to blocks of wooden houses are selected, and in one instance the stabling of a railroad company were set on fire and burnt to the ground, involving the destruction of 75 horses. In oach of the ten fires in November last positive proofs of the incendiarism were forthcoming ; and in some cases the Venetian window shutters and the wooden gates of the front railing were employed for kindling purposes. The only assignable motive for these diabolical attempts to burn down a whole city is that in the panic which such a calamity would occasion, and in the confusion which would arise, there would be abundant opportunities of plunder on a very large scale. Hordes of thieves proceeded from New York to Boston when the latter city was in flames, but they were watched, waited for, and driven 1a -k by the police who were assembled afc the terminus.

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