In the back part of this yard was a one-and-a-half-story frame building, without windows, looking more like an old chicken-house or pig-stye than a place for human beings to live in.

The loft over the first story was reached by ladder on the outside.

Above and below the hovel was laid off in kind of stalls or bunks furnished with straw.

There were about twenty of these.

It was a ten-cent lodging-house, filled nightly.