Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17
COMPARATIVE VICE.
London and New York Dives-InsuIts
10 Women.
Nv York Letter in Houston Post.


Nv York Letter in Houston Post.
Rev. w. S. Rainsford, rector of ST..
Georges's Church, this city, has been
making a tour of the "dives" of New
York, to see how they compare with the
great cities of the Old World. When
asked yesterday to give his impression
of lower New York, he said:
81 was pleasingly disappointed. The
scenes | witnessed last night were not
such as are of nightly occurrence in
Bethel Green, London, or in the crowd
ed quarters OF Paris, where vice and
crime multiply so rapidly. In London,
the music halls are always crowded, but
here in New York there were compare
lively few persons drinking
"How do you account for our better
moral standings the correspondent
asked.
every easily" Mr.. Rainsford replied.
"Simply because there are not as many
idle zen in New York as in London.
Impurity increases in proportion to the
amount of idleness around. There l.
one thing which | did not see in New
York which is unfortunately too com
mon in London, and that is brutality
There does not exist in the lower quar-.
tiers here that brutal spirit so common
across the water. There Is no disorder
in these places. Everything goes along
very quietly. But in Paris and London
brawls are of hourly occurrence in these
lie us of vice"
you have seen the low places Of Lon
don and PARISH"
al have Travelled great DEAL" the
rector replied, comprehensively, and
hen continuing, said: "The women OF
New York who live in these places are
not as attractive as those of London.
The generality of them are coarse fea-
tured, loud voiced and disgustingly vul
gar" Speaking about the protection
afforded by the police to the patrons Ut
The dives, Mr.. Rainsford said that their
lives were better protected here than
across the water. "But then" he con-
tnued, "all this talk about being as
saIited in these places is nonsense, Ii
is not in the interest of the proprietors
10 leave their customers at the mercy Of
the rufflans who are always found there
| have drawn from all my observations
this fact, that vice cannot increase in
New York or become of such low
grade rs in London, from the very geo.
STdpllICdl pOsltiOu vi tuc Cliy. luc CllS
is a long, narrow strip of land, with rail-
ways and avenues sweeping through it,
cutting it up into small sections, and
preventing the herding of criminals
Here everything extends along. In
London vice comes to the center"
Mr.. Rainsford then discoursed Oh
other subjects of the same nature, and
pointed out the difference between New
York and London. In London a girl
very seldom goes out alone, and as a
consequence is not often insulted, but
here the insulting Of ladies was very
common, much more so than in any
city in Europe. In regard to the educa.
ton of children, Mr.. Rainsford thought
that parents did not begin early enough
to instruct them in the ways Of virtue
Children were watched so closely and
had such few games suited to them that
desires which they would not otherwise
obtain have arisen in them. Bows
should be taught more hardy games,
and emulate the spirit of the English
youth in this respect. Mr.. RaIusford
said he would not lecture on his inyes
tipations.