| Show AWFUL LONDON I A Couplo of Hours In Povortyopolls 1ho Fashionable Pas tlrno of Slumlng I I negular I correspondence of the News London April 1 15 1S9S This morning I morn-ing the writer had occasion to stand for a few brief minutes outside a well known bank situated on a still better I known thoroughfare or the modern Babylon en passant He had ho I business to transact at the aforesaid i bank but It a fellow must loaf let him at least keep up appearances vlda the Knutsford rotunda at 8 pm any evening Tophatteil and satin faced Prince Alberted humanity was scurryIng scurry-Ing along on business bent Presently an object who seemed sadly out of place amidst the atmosphere of stocks and bonds hove In sight one of those poor creatures who are down nt heel I Uncollarel unalloyed and withal un kempt poverty personified He was dining sumptuously from the contents 1 cf a greasy piece of newspaper not the Cuban crisis but a penny worth of fried fish cooked In horse oil and perhaps a hapennoth of potaloes I I I Apparently he had attained his nil fur he threw the remains of his lunch Into the gutter and thoughtfully wiped his I ten days beard with the back of his grimy paw then faded out of Olght1 1 I I Anon a shorty little fox terrlor came j I along took one sniff at the fried fish 1 I onne r bones then like the Pharisee I of old I I passed by on the other side Then A i l ponderous bus pounded by and smashed onehalf of the remains of the epicurean meal The tasty object caught the eye of the street scavenger and he swooped down upon It with his ever busy pan and brush but he wan too late A wrinkled claw descended upon the tit bit and the next Instant a bloated gin sudden hag was devouring devour-ing the castaway fragments with avidIty avid-Ity Someone laughed A portly well Cd and groomed Individual murmured Poor devil and the tranc went rumbling along utterly oblivious of the tragedy Hut It Is I not on the main arteries ot this great city that one sees poverty and vice In all Its sordid hideousness Jet Inlo the slums Just a few hundred yards at the back and one can see such sights that make the dweller amidst the valleys ot the mountains shudder and wonder In dazed horror can such things be on this fair earth The same sights are to be seen to a greater or lesser degree In all large cities but possibly nowhere are wealth and poverty brought Into such vivid contrast as In the City of London Ten minutes walk from the Bank vf Eng land the Stock Exchange and the fa mou Lombard Steeet one plunges Into sodden Whltcchapel and odoriferous Spltalnelds an equal distance from the general pototlleo and one Is I In filthy St Lukes Leave any of the brilliantly lighted heaters of the West root and In a tw minutes you may tread the evil smelling alleys and court ot Clare Morket while across the river almost within stones throw from Hpurgeons Tabernacle are hidden away the tumble down rookeries adjacent ad-jacent to the Borough and jet a stranger may spend weeks In London and never run across poverlopoUa How great Is I tho poverty therein hidden hid-den ownYI away I have before mo come ortli e 9 figitfift I subject that appeared In I the Dally I News some lime back Here are a few cases take at random A man i dls covered In a bare garret In Spltalfleldi I absolutely nllked and dying of stllna lion he had pawned the lat rag ho had for A few farthing Another cat In the same Parish A family occupy Ing a single room wheeeln was an un covered body or n dad child that lied Illln upon the table for 15 dll1 In Il room U fet square and oeulld hy five person another body Itt 11 later date was found that of a child who had died of scarlet fever there It had rested uncortlntd for five dajs vvhllit tha family wfre working at their trade I In order to bury It the trade In question ques-tion being that of tailoring for a wMII clothing IIrmnle for the ultimate purchasers of that particular clothing Six other capes ot a similar nature are quoted The parish authorities aU-thorities or course would bury the dead but poverty Is I proud anti prefers to sv Its loved ones from n paupers grave The nil pervading thought as one I treads these awful allejs and Juit eels I n glimpse of the Inner life I of jl povottv I opolls I Is how Is It that 1 I people try to earn An honest livelihood 1 In the Inc nt much adverse circumstances Ith no I I hope And nothing to live for That the slums are the haunts of vice nnd crime goes without saying but that there are thouand ot honest workets I to he round In their midst Is I also true slid how do thy earn their sustenance suste-nance Contemplate the fact nil yo who deem a dollar a day a Dagos wage How would you like to mako match boxes at two pence farthing Wh cenl pr gross anti find your own paste and strlngnt that that Is I I tho average price paid and a be winner frequently cnnnot make more I than hllit a crown CO ent a week I working twelVc to fourteen houniti day Around the Bethnnl green district dis-trict although the sweating system ho been made n mldemellnor by act I ot Parliament a friend of mine oil one of tile London papers Informs lOe that one can IIt room after room I occupied by families who live theiv I making shirts button holes for cloth Ing boys coats sawing the tops ef Fho until I I the thread cut tn the hone and one could Vince II dime In the Incision etc never going more than a hundred yards from their foetid room from one week end to another lalnl In season and ont nt eaon for a miserable equivalent to a dollar IInd a halt a week eneh Can one wonder won-der that over 100000 Women and girls elect to walk the streets of London nlnhtly choosing n life of sin and Waterloo Bridge as Its end to one of drudgerv and despair All honor to those however coarse Illiterate and unkempt they may be who struggle along and try to earn on honest fly Ing In the face ot such nn appalling handicap Oeo u Being one of nnglnnds lending journalists and melodramatic PlRwrlghts In writing on tho sub ject some jears ago and things have not materially changed since then tlgo1IUg some of the attendants 10 the Union Street Borough Mission House nays The worK which theo girls linve In Etc In return for II smelt wrists Is I genrlllly at a dangerous ohmmeter lllny or them lIternllv natch their food from the Jana or death On girl In the Homo was whit and Ill and wenk and her story may he t In ken an n sample She worked ut bronzing The law recognizes recog-nizes the dangerous nature ot the wnrk Pay that the girls doln It shall he Illlowed a pint of milk per silly the milk In some wy counteracting tho effect or the poison the Frlrls In 11 ale It will hardly ba blIvd that r oma ot the best firms re fuse to com 11 ir with the regulation and It the girls cnmplaln thy are nt once discharged dis-charged Now the wages paid ore I even shillings per week IICS To keep at their noik It I necessary that the workers inks medicine dally and drink nt least a pint It milk They must either pay for these luxuries out of their scanty earnings or jro without nnd eventually find their nay to the hospital Take another trade the fur pulling The women and glrla employed at thin ato In Puma hOIS locked In the room with their work n < have to cat their food there It yolk had er Potu it room crowded with girls pulling the fluff from cat rllhbllo rate Anti goo < 1ne known nhat other Ilnlmola you would Appreciate the sltuallon better The fluff the Ion and tile Blnall hallo smother everylhlng and are necessarily swallowed with pernicious per-nicious effect Yet ILia the clinical or some nt the mn In the trade to tore their employen to eat under such clr cumstanctBthat K I to nunlou their food thickly coated nlth the hairs from which nothing can preserve It Ando tit on for pages Housing of the poor Is I receiving more mention and since my list visit tu London seven year ago lots ot the old > shacks have disappeared nnd Ut tenement houses containing aD many a is tight hundred families In n block have sprung up erected by various companies Still the rush for accommodation accom-modation IN I nn the increase anti rents are fearfully high In price ferrets under n leaky root fetching the price equivalent to 75 cents per vieek payable pay-able each morn In or out go bag and baggage Only this last week during Iho trial or 11 Whlleehllp1 murder came It transpired that tWo Women a nil four non llvrtl In one if them orUlllor arrelBlncldent Iy not one of them was related one to the othr Dr I rllll stated In a mogolno article reeenUy that In Ioglond alone tllro tire over 142000 deaths per annum am the direct rault ot rernwdlng Htotltle rgrlllng the worst district show thAt the Average breathing epllc pr Capita Was nine and n half mituart feet A dealt holy to allowed In tho grave some sixteen feet Comments tire superfluous To endeavor to spread Iho Gospel to Ue poOr souls would bo to In metIng with met-Ing vituperation and howlIng howl-Ing animosity and yet they have a Foul to save how to save It Is the que Uon Itundredn of nobl c men tin wo men have tried to folve the problem > for Years Let us cat drink especially drInk and Ile merry for 101l10rlw We uIll prohltbl he kicked ont to Join tile army CO 000 strong who skulk In doorways door-ways und railway arches every night In scion for nhelter Is their motto Drink and elmvvn the present ermo to lie the sole desire of these poor wrrteh with Houilcss head unfed side and locipod 1 mail vlndowd ragg < c1ns On every corner Is I II Public house Its doors InceanUy wlngln to stud fro foul oaths quarrelling and bnl ling tire In evidence both within and without As on object leeeon to the youth who thinks It manly to hang nround saloons and shift Petitioners a Isil to n turn pub would be In valuable the lowest dive we have In Salt Lake city la I a palace In comparison In company With two companions the writer made 11 L round of half n dozen of these sinks or Iniquity and depravity a couple uf months ago and tho rxpnrlunce will never be forgotten Xo spontaneous gaiety oh no sullen look curse dlii stench nnd fumes children Playing around on the sawdust strewn floor hlllrn In nrma were well represented i thy were there by the seem running the risk that they all have to undergo viz being Crlpplfd for life liy being dropped on the pavement bv their drunken mothers Infants absorbing alcohol Into their < nr little dlrtj enianclated syetems front their mothers moth-ers breast Nay xe saw one bleared eyed mother forcing neat gin down a childs throat whilst It kicked snnt tered and gasped a eheirwnt protest Against such treatment Outside another an-other pub were tw > young womenglrls In fact stripped stark linked to tlm waist and fighting not scratching nnl slopping but spnrrliiE like men and punctuating each blow wllh I a string of obscene nnd revolting langusge whilst boisterous crowd of lllnld nn and women yelled go It Sal Thnti a bloody firm nno Liza And this Is I enlightened Christian England Two or three times a week private detectives conduct parties through these slums at night In the same toah Ion as excursions Are conducted through Chinatown In Itloro slid how some of the delicately nurtured Indies In the party do drink In every detail ot Jack the Kippers crimes as they are recited by the guide In the Identical spots and room Fought Of course In Poverty now as elsewhere else-where there are different degrees ot society Leaving the nltoeraUe burglar burg-lar anti the deft pickpocket out be the question the unique sharp and ever ready witted oetr Is I the aristocrat of the Plums for Is I he not a merchant 1en If he doc leave him barrow out In the Murt anti flicks the wheels to bd with him Po that the harrllw may not anlh In tile night that In I not nil he take to lied with him either for be on tile stock In trade that In = Orlabl I Y occultists of vegetables or foodstuffs food-stuffs anti In a good mny oa brings In his faithful make jackass to share the shelter or his lnllo room with his wife and nil tM numerous family To see the coter In nil his glory go any Saturday night down hpcl l street 1l1nlfton on the Mile I nnd rondo CORlfr barrows and stalls I Hate the curb the proprietor ot thepe miniature open air Rhop are motly hatless And dirty mn l and women who yell In stentorian tones utterly unintelligible un-intelligible to the unsophlstlcafd American tin virtues and qualities of their respective wares Hath stall Is I 1 lighted liy n couple or more of flaring nnpiha lamps thAt throw n lurid glare I over the ernfl One eannnt dcrille everything that li I for Mle and bought I rafter much flngerlnK and haggling 1 hy horrid hloalod factit women Ilnt Imolurolv nld lIrty fared matte balled chlhlu Things tht we thv unity In Utah Arc dlolloytd tm Pal I Iach merchant rceniq tn Indulge In on exclusive line of builne9m such As rows hoof xhecp floods liver and f I lights and other eplcurrim dainties 2 The easier irlrU enlerlm thrust under one nose hnlfrvnny It rent lAsix ot i vegetables consisting of my half An I1nloll a potato and two errllt with ere yer are me dimpled darling honly a ni nny Think of belm compiled to buy nnpi Sunny dinner 4 under such IrcunrtAncpsI ft nd It I you want It wrtpped In palter bring our own malerlal Along A are on I I many of the small rhops off the Mile I I End Itrad deal almost exclusively In 4 farthing 04 cent vvmths of tea t sugar fl etc and If Any one wants xtiup credit he ran only get It provldlm lie has bsen a I customer and lot I i ehnrlrod exactly IOD pr cent nUI the next day I A visit to a thieves kitchen n peiny irnfr sing sons en root End theater where they like their druma hot and strong unit strmge to my cheer virtue to the who The hospitals and I vnrlous hllanthronle Institutions makes the mt callous mmenulrllO solwr I and thoughtful Imaclne llttln children young boys and girls and 11 even mature men and women Who have novtr slept between even dirty Pliftetv And to whom Il tree hculnl I trlllt a green n1 l nr one In find red send i I one dolly Pightm shot We PA elthout comment In uuh vmild Ile l u n glimpse of heaven WhAt wonder that I nnorchy and InlldIlly Is I rampant In porljoJlIo Since r hwe been I 01 hro I have ollpn wundeired what 11 could < lie dons to oil Itr th < rendition 1 ot thee Poor wroh hen fill hom we tire brought Into drily contact nnd ran rom onlY tn the prime conrlulnn Mat men who have nod the Bubpet a lifes studvnrrv dAt years aco vix Amongst the young and rising Kenera lion mut the rtorms he made tho I ramoo or the Adults are pqPt redemption I redemp-tion Surely we In new Anti flourish h Ing countries can learn something from I ueh a terrible object lesson TV mo E CAnrr TEn I I I I Tho noer of Sprhosc I I Which nrlstfrom Impurities In the blond i nnd a depleted condition of this vital fluid may be entirely averted by Hoods cures all spring rumors boils eruptions erup-tions and sores and by enriching nod vitalizing the blood It overcomes that I tired feeling and gives vitality and Igor 1I00DE PILLS cure nausea pick I headache biliousness and all liver Ills lrleo 2S cents 3 |
