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Show entire allied building trades. There baa been little building work lor months, but the present cold wave has caused whatever construction operations op-erations were under way to cease altogether. al-together. The charitable Institutions are completely swamped, and streets nnd parks are Oiled with Bcantliy clad, starving, men, women and children. Unable to secure money to pay their rent, whole ramlllcB by the &eore are thrown dally upon the streets by merciless landlords. The homeless throng the streets during the day and huddle In doorways door-ways and parks during the nights, lho temperature has been below freezing each night, but the city stations sta-tions are too small to accommodate the sufferers, and the spectacle of these creatures, ragged and starving, with the mute appeal or hounded animals an-imals In their eyes, beggars description. descrip-tion. The police are having great difficulty diffi-culty In suppressing the riots started by street agitators who are preaching a doctrine of self-preservation by loot and pillage, rather than death by cold and starvation. The crowds gather about the places of amusement nnd, until driven away by tho police, call I'pon the well-dressed, opulent theater the-ater goers to witness their suffering. EQUALS AN EARTHQUAKE. A dispatch lrom London says tho streets of that city are filled with unemployed. un-employed. The official figures give the total of those receiving aid troni the various public charities throughout through-out England as 826,325. This does not Include the thousands who have rot applied for official assistance. The ranks of the unemployed have teen swelled since Thursday by the |