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Show H AN KMIUSH l'ACTOKY TOWS. H ChtDEti In llilrlr-fonr Ytitri.-Ltfo of H the Kniilojri. H No. 75 Bt. HTriltn'o lloAn, on B MASCiiraiKn ItoAii, Hraii.oiid, M Emil.AMi, May 8, 1603 -llraJford (lu , Yorkshire) li my blrtliplicr, lull have H not resided there ilnce 16S9. Itlia H large msnuftctuilng town of about H V'50,000 Inhabitants, end almoat full cf H faotorlee wooleo, cotton, allk, etc, H end hence, like many other towns lu : England, It full of amokt, which etliea H from the numerous steeple Ilka oMnv Hl nei. Upon my arrival lute It was i llkecomlngtoa town I bad never W t,eu before-I felt loit. Hi many H change! had taken plaoe that I could H lio( locate II. Traveling through lome H of the principal street! I looked up at H the varlouislgni over the Morel, but B my memory failed to nrve me that I B hadteentbem before. I went to one B of the principal roads near where I Hb' laat resided, and then 1 began loaee H' wbcrelvre. Fruli to my memory H came the names of streets I uted to be H familiar with, but which I had lone : rince forgotten. It called to my mind Hj scenes and Incidents of ray childhood. H ! Here I atood near where I had te often H . a.eoolated with my elder brother, who, B at the age of twelTo, waa killed In a i factory, and through whoie death t vlrcumitancua Irani) Ired whurchy w H; temored to Mlddleaborough (York j ihlre) and I there embraced the aH I (Joapvl. , , ' Hut oh, what ebengea liar taken place during the jit thiriy-tlirto H yesrs. Everybody ! a stranger to me H f ell fresh laces. New buildings by aH the tboutandi hare been erected old ionra have been torn down aad rebuilt. There li one old land-mark which I have not forgotten, and that la the H ) old perlih churoh, erected aevrral B I centurlia ago. Llaten to the belli, H ' the merry, merry belli! How iweat H to my ear the ejutiill They bring to B ' my mind happy remembrauoeeof Uaya K 1 Rone by. M I made Inquiries concerning old. eatabllabed flrma whom I uted to be !wcll acquainted with, but could learn no particular!. l'acea I had hern familiar with were not to ba aren. MauyrelellTia and acquaintance! wero dead and gone yeara ago. One famll effffK, lar face (a oouiln) waa mlialng one H I whom I had ao tlten played wllh In i my childhood daya. I had been an ' tlclpatluga warm weloome from her, m but (o my great aurprlie I learned that H alie had been laid In the allenl tomb m oTtrfouryearr. 1 1 Wednteday, May 8, I dialled one of 1 the factories In Braaford a privilege ' that Tery few obtain. The large room B 1 entered wai full of looma; the nolle 1 and clatter of machinery waa almoat B deafening. At them larloilea It la nearly all female labor. Where there B are night ibltla men only are em ployed. They work ten houra a day. It la a Tery oommou occurrence for huiband BkV and wife to labor In the mill to procure aulllclent to auitaln therr and their BkV faiulllta. Aaeuiu aa children reach the age of eluven they are ul to work at the factory ou half time. They are , obliged to attend eiliool half a day i dally. At fourteen they have ermla- . alou to work full time. Men working Bl night work begin at quarter pait fi lu '. the evening end wink until a quarter K; ) to o neat muenlng,when the mill ato M'C for ahal -hour Urat time In twenty B' four houra. They recelre the large H ( aumof fS 00 per week for twtlrea.id a H J hair houra work at night. Many m ' thouianda of theie operatlrea have K emigrated to America, where they B I hate been bleued with large wagea, m I better health and other Inilucementa j which they would not have received i here had they remained until they had grown Rrey, I deeply lympatblte with the poor factory girl. At an early age eleven yeara aha la aeut to the mill. When ahe arrlvea at a marriageable age alie H la wed, buttlll worka ateadlly at the B factory. 1'robablyher huabauulawurk- log at the tame place. In aome lu atancea they work at the mill nearly 2 all their Uvea. One woman told me B, that after marriage ahe had worked 1 1 there alxteen yean, and alter that liao B-BJ taken In waihlng until her health BBj failed her. Many lnitancea could be BBj related which are heartrending. BBV The poverty and dlitreia throughout B Great Jlrltaln are almoat appalling to 1 an American. Uon the atreela ma) B be aeen thouaanda of ragged, dirt) BBBJ children barefooted and barebeaJiM BBj In many lnataucea. Wnmeu, loorlj B ' clad, can alao be aeun without coverlnk B ' for head and feet There la not aufli BBj cleul employment by far for thuwork. BBS Ing claiiei, and uumeroua hoila ul B , able bodied men can be ieen marolill.g 'l theatraata. How the poor make a Ilvu. BBS llhood In many inatancea la a myaterj , BBBI and one which I have yet failed to H The drinking water la not what It l ought to be In Kngland. You can H form an Idea when 1 Inform you that I BBB liavo not had a good drink ilnce I left BBB New York. I often think of the ad. BBS vantagea we have In tula rear ect lu BBB Utah. Ob, for a drink of jure, apark BBB ling waterl Oh, for a gllmpae of our BBB mountain etrratua! BBB I drilre to Uke thla opportunity of BBB leudlug my kind rigardi to my many BBB frlenda and acqHalntancee who Inquire BBB ouncernlugme, and wlllaay that! am BBB enjoying good health and feeling well. BBB i Today 1 proceed to Mlddleibrough (In Yorkihlre) to ee my brother, Wni, r. Avtaon, whom I have not ieen for twenty aeven yean: alio to have an Interview with Mr, Joieph Qjuld, my lormer employer, t whom I wailounii apprentice In 1802 and from whom I ran away lo emigrate to Utah In 1800 HoliKliT AVUOV, |
