The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-30
PREPARING FOB THE CHOLERA IN LONDON.

1t is hardly too much to say that almost every
trade banished from the haunts OF men on account
of the villanous smells and the dangerous atmo-
sphere Which II engenders represented In Pleasant
Grove There are bone boilers, fat-melters, "cheml
cal WORKS." firewOrk makers luciier match fac
tories, ana several most extensive and nourishng
Dust yards, where-at this delightful season 80 ex-
cellent for rpening corn-scores OF women and
young girls find employment in fling the refuse OF
dust bins, standing knee high in what they slft In
the midst OF all this long row Of cottages, each
tenanted by at least one family and little children,
by dozens and scores find delight IN the eklng KEN
nels These the very little ones; those Of some
what larger growth turn their attention TO matters
less trivial. For instance a knot of half o dozen
were calmly enjoying, at the wide-0pen gates oil u
sort OF yard the ediIying and instructive spectacle
Of q giant stripped to his waist, smashing up Win
o sledge hammer the ensire red skeletons OF horses
THAI mad Just been dra~sfY ,uSehYs Belle
islanders are not so benighted that they have not
heard OF the game of cricket dia a lack OF
the recognized appliances needed for thai noble
TO do something like what other boys do. A green
sward was OF course, out OF the question; but
tolerably level bit between two dust heaps. For
wlcEets they had pile OF Old hats ana broken
crocKery; ior pat the stump leg OF an Old bedstead,
nance, but earnest fact. With the Thermometer at
eighty In the shade there was the merry young
band OF Crcketers their faces and the rest OF their
visible flesh the very color or the dust they spored
among; ana the sun blazing down on their uncov-
cred heads, they were bowling up the Kittens
head giving 1t fair spaoks with the bedsead leg for
ones and twos. and looking out with barDarous
relish for catches" Evidently they were
boys employed In some of the surrounding
factories, and this was the way In winch
they sought recreation in their dinner hour.
l say evidently they were factory lads,
because their fantastic aspect bespoke them such.
There were BOYS whose rags were OF universal
yellow tint, as though they were intimately ac-
quainted with the manufacture or su pnur or some
such material; boys whose rags were as black as
sweeps, and other boys who were splashed with
many colors that made them twinkle In the sun
like demon harlequlns they wrestled IN the ashes
for possession or the 'Dall" Belle Isle is 10y no
means small place. Beyond the deectaDe
Pleasant Grove Is another thor0ugbfare called
Brandon road. Brandon road has cottages
on either side OF the way, and gives harDor-
age TO several hundred cottagers, little and big.
The road Is nemmed in, Pleasant Grove is, By
stencil factories, and the effect on an individual
used to ordinarily wholesome air is SIMPLY inde-
scripabe. The odOr makes the nostrils tingle; you
can taste 1t on the tongue As though you had slipped
O weak solution OF some nauseatng acid; 1t makes
the eyes water. And yet, as before stated swarms
OF little children and grown men and women ABIDE
winter and summer in this awful place; there they
COOK and eaC their fool; ana these suiry nights,
when even in open places scarcely breath OF air
strs, they ret re 70 bed amid II all.