| Show AN ENGLISH FACTORY TOWN no 76 75 ST STEPHENS ROAD OFF manchester ROAD BRADFORD MiN fingland GLAND may bradford in yorkshire is ia my birthplace but I 1 have not resided th there ere since 1869 1859 it Is ie a large manufacturing town tow a of about aboud inhabitants and almost full of factories woolen ri cotton silk bilk etc and hence like many other towns in england is full of smoke which arises from the numerous steeple like chimneys upon my arrival here it was like coming to a town I 1 had never seen been before I 1 felt lost so many oranges had bad taken place that I 1 could not locate it il traveling through some gome of too principal streets I 1 looked up at ibbe various sign the stores but may foy memory failed to serve me that I 1 bad seen them before I 1 went to one of df the principal roads near where I 1 last ast resided reside dt and then I 1 began to see where I 1 was wae fresh to my memory came the names of streets I 1 used to be familiar with but which I 1 had long jong since forgotten it called to my mind and incidents of my chil abood bere beere I 1 stood near where I 1 had bad so often associated with my elder brother who at alt the age of twelve was killed in a lac factory factor tory yi and through whose death instances transpired whereby we removed to Middles borough yorkshire jol bire and I 1 there embraced the gospel but oh what changes have taken place during the past thirty three years everybody is a stranger to me all fresh faces new buildings by the thousands have been erected old ones have been torn down and rebuilt there la is one old landmark land mark which I 1 have not forgotten and that is the old parish church erected several centuries ago listen to the bells bell the merry merry belle how sweet to my ear the 9 und they bring to my mind happy remembrances of days gone rone by I 1 made inquiries concerning old established firms whom I 1 used to be well acquainted with but could learn no particulars faces I 1 had bad been familiar with were not to be seen many Ms uy relatives and aquai acquaintances u were dead and gone years ago one familiar face a cousin was missing one whom I 1 had so often played with in my childhood days I 1 had been anticipating a warm welcome from her but bat to my great surprise I 1 learned that he had been laid in the silent tomb over four beart wednesday may 81 81 1 visited one of the factories in Brat bradford iford a privilege that very few obtain the large room I 1 entered was full of looms the noise and clatter of machinery was almost deafening at these factories it to is nearly all female labor where there are re night Is men only are employed they work ten hours a day it is a very common occurrence for husband and wife to labor in the mill to procure sufficient to sustain thew then and their families famil lf As sorn soon as children reach the age of eleven they are put to work at the factory on half time they are obliged to attend school half a day daily at fourteen they have j ermis sion ion to work full time men working night work begin at quarter past 6 5 in the evening and work until a quarter to 40 6 next morning when the mill stops for abal hour first time in twenty tour four hours they receive the large sum bum of per week for twelve and a halt half hours work at night many thousands of these operatives have emigrated to amerina america where they have been blessed with large wages better health and other inducements which they would not have received here had they remained until they had grown grey I 1 deeply sympathize with the poor factory girl at an early age eleven years she is sent bent to the mill when she arrives at a marriageable age she is ia wed bu budill torill works steadily at the factory probably her husband bu abanil is work log at the same place in some instances they work at the mill nearly all their lives one told me that after marriage she had worked there sixteen years and after that had bad taken in washing until her health failed her many instances could be related which are heartrending the poverty and distress throughout great britain are almost appalling to at aai american upon the streets may be seen thousands of ragged dirty child children ren barefooted and bareheaded in many instance women poorly clad can also be seen without covering for head and rest feet there is not sufficient employment by far for the working classes and numerous hosts host of able bodied men can caa be seen marching the streets how the poor make alive a livelihood in many instances is a mystery and one which I 1 have yet failed to solve the drinking water is not what it ought to be in england you ORD can form an idea when I 1 inform you that I 1 have not had a good drink since I 1 left new york I 1 often think of the advantages fl we have in this respect in utah ob ab for a drink of pure sparkling walterl ob for a glimpse of our mountain streamer st reame amal I 1 desire to take this opportunity of sending my kind regards to my many friends and acquaintance s who in inquire I 1 ire concerning me rod and will say lay that 1 am M enjoying good health and feeling well today I 1 proceed to middlesbrough Middles brough in yorkshire to ise see my brother wm F aveson whom I 1 have not seen for twenty seven semen yean also iso to hadean have an interview with mr joseph guld my former employer to whom I 1 was bound apprentice in 1862 and from whom I 1 ran away to emigrate to utah in 1866 ROBERT AVESON |
