Show a 1 t LIVE ON THE STREETS many amusing and pathetic sights to be seen on london thoroughfares hawkers of jul 11 ply their trades special correspondence HERE Is always a ludicrous side to the industries of the lon ion don street but a pitiful side as well that makes any one with an aa atom of sympathy dive b down into his purse buy things he doesn t really need and stop to listen to the various tales of woe the class of street merchants in london may be divided into those who have grown up in the streets and are continuing to ply their trade long after there Is really any need of their doing so from a love of the familiar haunts and the desire to remain identified with them as long as possible and the poor people who live from hand to mouth and often have not a root roof to cover their heads and who depend solely upon what they earn during the long hours of exposure to all kinds of weather in a city that Is famed for having the vilest climate in tae lao world small wonder that nine out of every ten look consumptive one of the most familiar types Is the crossing sweeper it may be a liny tiny crippled boy with a broom as high as his tousled head or it may be an old dame of seventy there are hundreds of them wielding brooms in the streets to whom a rainy day means many a copper and at least one good square meal another familiar type Is the street whose business it Is to keep the streets clean with a brush and she sheet ettron iron shovel like dust pan he work v ork said one patient little fellow with a Sy S year earold old under his wing hard enough to have to black boo boba without minding the baby isn t it euston road near the euston and st pancras railway stations Is a favorite haunt of the sidewalk artist it Is of course leas less crowded than other parts of the city farther down toward the thames thame and the sidewalks are formed of large smooth blocks of stone that make admirable backgrounds tor for the gayly colored AP if M AN 3 marble arch hyde parit park crayon drawings done while you wait by these poor bohemians some use square pieces of board instead of the stone leaning these against the iron railings in order that they may be better seen from the street one can buy almost anything in the streets of this great city here Is a hawker of canes and feather dusters there one with shoe laces and brushes to sell by the door of the public house is a man with his stock of counter cloths over his arm these are ii ed in bars for mopping up the liquor which overflows from the cus tomer a glass the baked potato trade Is one of the stand bys of london street mer chants in the potato roaster with its merry charcoal fire blazing away are the luscious big potatoes piping hot with their brown jackets crisp and cackling to show the mealy white inside with an occasional black blister showing where it has come too closely in connection with the hot iron the costermonger is always one of the first to appear of a morning and 1 fill N ail V 14 am afa A d albert memorial hyde park sweeps busily one eye on the brush and the other cocked up to see if an buses or cabs are coming his way and very often he just escapes being run over in the crowded oded cr streets by the skin of me teet he says close by the curb is his altti two wheeled cart which he trundles along from corner to corner whistling mr iner rily all the while the average scurf er or ie Is a merry lad notwithstanding his back breaking occupation there Is the shoe shoeblack blak too and he Is deseri deserving ing of what little sym pathy he may get for his earnings are precarious and his life Is as hard bard a one as falls to the lot of any street laborer occasionally one spes oes a bootblack with a small brother or sister tug ging at his coattails coat tails I 1 as to mind im w lie ile me mother goes out to ti LOA the brussels sprouts for dinner are most likely to have been culled from tue stock in bis his cart chile the tur nips and cabbages heaped high in this vehicle drawn sometimes by a donkey sometimes by a man and often by one a who combines the two make a charming bit of verdure in the ot otherwise herise dingy street thus the thousands of people in the london streets ply their varl various ous trade trades from one years year a end to another the arm and daunt less les of all ages and all nations ekes out a copper oy DY copper in the tair fair way ay of trade from the antles simple sa s1 incle needs of the thou bards of brothers and sisters in t I 1 is the most city in the cae baet rs r s death was doubt doub tle lew th result of ano mans koman roman purer c |