The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-19
4 LONDON roe.
The Horrible and Unhealthy Condition of
the Atmosphere ii Which the
1.ondoners Live.
tI,nudon Latter to The N. Y World

ihAbha5tt AN'S3S
III ones lettnra become irregular just now
YOU must attribute It mol to CHI istbas testivi-
lies, but to the log ! mo " espe'f'h'a
that when log gpta into me heh1 "i"p
Ideas eense Ia run and then II Ia hest To leave
off writing4-un the principle ~ Wei esinh
llshed iii connection with Mr, ifnvarea rai
rot. Aud certainly any one may no Se'iseo
for a,lrrnmbinE ~ tine power q inc ttEa W.
have RECENTLY hal IL London. Ter they have
scarcely ever lifted morning, noon ~ night
and r,pt,plp lin va gone about thfit hpiiaaa Hli
day with bibds drawn AMI gas 1T, wonheflnE
when daylight would ever ba Visible again.
There ARD at,,na mon and women wha are IN
nnpeihla to the external Influences If the Mt.
snoaphete. others. who are not So fortunate
ranrot tir III against the depression which the
etatnal tai kness and Fog oi London are sure
10 produce
Each wear II appaatH IL me tho owl grows
rsotse mud ii IT u,ra ~, increasing the great
sity will he rendered almost uhtnhahitahla
during the winter months. The experiment
nae never been tried here before nt putting
1000 600 ~ people down III one spot IN n hi
mid climate aud setting them all to work
burning soft coal the smoke aud SCOT of which
anatantiy Gomez tunhling haok upon their
own heais. Some one haa aaid that In order
A, get very good itlra If what London Ia
like AT this spaann of the year you have only
60 poke yotIr head uu n foul chimney aud keep
nc there few minutes. There ta not 80 very
much exaggeration In that. II You go out fat
n walk Won come back with hantla aud face
bHndn az black IA IT they had been worn
month In coal mine aud with your lunga
full III n RnphuInua- II avuied en,akn
Inside the houae everything ia htlf srniled.
plptuta frampa get haok and heavy layer
of dust and Hout deposits iaalf on all the
hooke, brass chandelier turns dark and
rprrodes Ia week silver hegina 10 look
like dirty hlnnSP 10 look clean and feel
comfortable are aimply impossible. A "holled
Rhirt' Ii IA black "a chimney Rweeper's rag
after leaa than two hours' wear.
For daya together 1t haa haen IA much aa
one could do IT, lind nnea way about tho
streets and on thiiatmaa eve The oldest Lon
sioner could not perform that feat. There ia
much more horrible iarRnaaa than that If
midnight and II Ia that of mid day In Lon
don during fog. Literally II IL . dalknaaa
Shat may he FELT anti ainelt, toe. and n very
naaty smeit II IL.
ALI the newspapers have hnen writing load
Ing articles on the suhieet THE week. hut
cannot gee that II has dnna the least bit Of
good. The fNg seems ~ have ~ rranont lnr
The press. "What Is 10 become of tls2 ask
the edltntH. The only thing ~ le. II ono enn
manage N, ia ~ iisa NJ and shake tho dust
or, rather, the greasy soat III thia mon
atfouslp ovnrHrown and mephltic city Of the
Hules Of one'a feet.
So many people cannot 1.-Two together In ono
place with health and Nmfnrt. Some uf ua
must GO good many gro" nnnl. against
their will, brought vi with sharp turn hv
Bronchitis or sntnr form Of lung danaaa Tho
rest of England. and half ~ Europe. - atrawu
with the Victims of Iondon. VT there are
people 90 infatuated AZ ~ call n u healthy
city, and they pretend that tho mortality re.
turns prove II, although II Is wolf known that
thpuHandE who receive thrtr death wounha III
London 40 abroad to die, lhe oaaea In n
great battle are not to he recknncd only Nv
the dead who are picked ~ on the field.