The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-29
NASTY WHITECHAPEL.
SOMETHING ABOUT IT'S PURLIEUs
AND IT'S DENIzENS.
squalor, wretchedness and Misery
One of the Worst Slums of Lon
don Samples of It's Crop OF Babies
The Thieves Quarter"

A London correspondent OF the New
York Times writes that paper that the
Whitechapel slums, which have come
prominently to the worlds attention
through the recent string OF murders, are
not so black rs they are painted. There
are plenty of old buildings, mysterious
courts. dark passages, and the other archi-
tectural paraphornalia OF the horriiying
tale writer's but this is because London
was not bnilt yesterday, and the poor dis
tricts are the last to be publicly improved.
There are no low grogshops, however, be-
cause the public houses are all large, pre-
tentous, aud handsomely fitted aud stu
ated on the principal thoroughiares. The
streets and courts are clean because they
are kept so by the authorities. The only
unwashcd and unwashablc article in the
district is the humun article, and this,
comprising many thousands OF prostitutes,
and as many thousands of thieves and
many thousands Of children, who must,
through the disagrccable necessity OF eat
ing, become one or the other, crowds into
the small lodging-rooms, five or ak in
each, and populatcs the iourpcnny lodging
houses in n great, dirty swcrm of thou
sands.
That greatest Of modern evangelisis The
sanitary engineer, has been doing won
ders in London In the last five years Rad
cline Highway has been torn down and
cleaned out. The Seven Dials has become
dsmally decent, and new streets clbowing
their way ruthlessly through solid blocks
Of once hidcous dons have brought light
and air to check the former moral
putrcsconce, and, by force OF example
which affects streets ~ well NJ men, COM
PEELED the old thoroughiarcs with which
they have joined company Ia become ~
respectable ~ the new There Is plenty
OF work vet Ia do, however, aud plenty
OF work " being done at present Conse-
scquenily tho connoisscur In slums, while
he cannot choose m formerly between any
number OF localities, can still find n plenty
Of interesting places 90 inspect Among
these Glare Market, better known as the
Thieves Quarter" IL probably the most
pleasantly unpleasant OF the present list.
Clare market runs east from Drury lane,
lust back ui the old thoatcr. Further mp
the lane YOU will find shetland street. aud
the streets adjoining which are hllcd with
conyicis Of more or less note. They are
narrow streets OF high buildings, the air Of
which g. looked upon ~ somewhat iniuri-
ons b. the solitary policeman, aud much
more 10 10 the unsophsiicaiod traveller
with watch. Glare market proper, how
over. il populated by u mixed class, the
women being mostly vegetable Shippers,
pcashcllcrs aud the like. In Convent
Gardon market, which is quarter Of
mile away To the west Dick 1urpin's hos.
tclry Is on the east boundary, clusc 10 Lin
coins Inn Fields Jack Shcppnfd's lodg-
inrs in Wyrh street, on the south side,
near the Strand. have just been torn down.
Tradition makes Glare market the home Of
thicycry. aud highwaymcn are is allarcd
saints Glare market consequently docs
not waste 10 time In bordering 90 any
great extent the abstract value oi virtue.
The concrete necessity oi drink, and, when
they remember IL, o. hood, ahsorhs the en-
,irr mental cnvrgy OF iH hcailien inhRhi.
tants. IL hes In the very heart Of london
and may some dly he discovered by those
benevolent supporters Of foreign missions
Who anr aUsnliur millions 0i money an.
nually a. iorcp down the thsuIis 1T Africa
nni Asin's hcnthcu certain religious food
which they arr. Though natural causes,
entirely unable ~ digest
Glare market " Saturday night simply
blnE's with light. Tho narrow strrci is
full of tWo.Vhrclcd bafroNs, each hayiuga
flat toy about six feet long and thrcc ioot
wide. Each n sufmnunicd hy tlring
nnphlha lamp ioilluminaic itsWhrcs These
consist al about every human Necessity
which vln We cold iu penny lots. ImN ui
caulinoWcu. Cshhag's. iurnirs. carrots,
prcus. WatDrcpfscp, chops, aau-1gys, iurHh
fish. ryd herring, kipporcd horring. dried
goldfish. vomcns dfcsos, mems clothing
secondhand shoes, lamps, ctcckUry, AMI
a. many moro commodities iill the main
and side streets Their place D. dcnscly
crowded with people anl lbcomUtinu b
well nirh impossible The ole d "a babel
~ cries rutiwly uninlcllimblc 30 tho
ioWin car. Ivory man AMI woman d
shouting 90 shricking 20 attract custom.
Every oosirrmunglrs hoy, No matter what
his nrt, wells louder and shnllUr than bic
father 10 Is biz only object loo NE o.
emulate q iog horn OF steam whistle. AMI
horodiy through several generations hls
given bin voice us di.prupudionatc o.
his siFc ns that of n Young prairie dog II
h q hI.hly picturesque .rcrr. elaborated,
scented with inrl fi1h. the luXuro1.
staple Il ihc London alums ~ most pir.
turcquo c0mponvnt,, however, arn o.,
Women.
They arp q an ages. al slaticrnly lni al
hlynrd. Every woman has q black u,,
~ a baby. or hoih About one iu five ID
drunk. AMI thc rysi are willing tobc Tho,
ON Wvlr f'uWls over their heads and aI
The rhaNls and hl the drp,s-s acc al
ihc lMp diusy brown color the tint 4.
which, lll other Cheap Ollura illr u ihHi
feeble OLD age Through the SLIGHTLY
orturl d1uu 90 llo hrl Aury. Ifhio.
"pubf- 1I en- fUu ihpm crowd
ing The b.u io ry'ruln 1hu
ct pint ui Hlc Cor "a penny. tl
most horrible aul bm'alaus I0uil iha
iu nuy county claims % hnsilH LIushi
with hlps and malt ilpw aul uipfJ Sol
lui ono living down dead drunk dlfL
flHrr.r m1-s pushed arlluI ilo wall o
The sidewalk. lrs H'f.pHprrilug AMI n
moro abandoned than the rats that vii
cwcp from che aDWrf by and by o. gaze d
her will Their sharp. clear ewes. and pee
hap brush l.r H.ih hyIr clean Dec.
whiskcu luudor s maternal hci.
sitting down irsusl.r. with her du.i VI
open and a dirty baby as.r,p loo hef lar
lirrc comes q drunken mother. re- Ull,uv
honcd woman, Staggering along thmB.
the thick thruna with her afm clo..
clasping ihe meek ul 70 little giu. vh1
cpmIrlicd io singrof with I.G Ihcmuih,
j. shrckIng some ullIi SONG H'uyr on
din. II j. only lDo.clYgk however. Goo
lot icw ri thn women HIy drunk as y,
old King Al,ohoIs weekly carnival
only beginning, and these are thy rlr.