Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-15

D
/ In the United Kingdom there are
/ l92. eco public houses, and every
wear there are 100000 arrests for
/ drunkenness.
! He draws horrible picture of the
I liz. led hy the nuliituir- at L"ti"'
/ prostitutes. Thnus ,uds of girls, it
SAYS, sink every year into Tins h"rri
| ole pit. The salvation Army has
! established refugees ali over the city,
aud from these points of vantage
Gen. Bnoth has collected The facts
| aud figures which serve as ihe only
! light thrown upon London proStitu-
,inu, its extent aud its cau-,s. The
stories of Il runber nf fallen wonel
are given la detail, shown. ho"
/ they fell and The Irresistible intl"
euces which have held them 10 evI
| lives.
These girls suffer so much thai
the shprtness of their miserable III
is the only redeening teatun'
| Whei her we look at the wretched
ness of the life itself; their perpet-
| nal iutnyicatinu; the cruc' treatuien'
TO which they are subjected 10y theli
ask masters and niistresSes or bul-
lies; the hopelessness, suffering and
despair induced by their circuni-
stances and surroundings; the deptts
If misery. degradation and p"v"rt!
To which they eventually descrld;
nr their treatme in sickness, theii
fripudle>sness aud lnneiimvss it.
,ieuth, II must be admitted that n
more dismal Tot seldom falls Ia the
fate of u human being. This life ii-
,luces insanity, rheumatism, con-
sumption and ali forms of syphilis
Rheu r,atisnI aid guut are cuininun
est of these evils. Some were quite
crippled by Doth-young though
they were. Consumption SONS lis
bed fpr the Development of any COLI
-,iiutionsl and hereditary germs of
the disease. We have found girls in
Piccadilly at midnight who are con
inualiy Frustrated 10y henInrrhage,
yet who have nu other way of life
olen, 80 struggle on i'll this awful
maiiner bet whiles.
Reader, " no for more han Il year
past have been hnrrilied al desrrilr
lions of Whitechapel as the re>ort
of Abandoned women, viii he sur
: pri-ed 10 learn that there is still /,
lower depth in London; II step fur
ther down toward perdiiiun. 1t il
in Woolwich district aud Is called
d the dust Hole"
There is scarcely low er class o
girls 10 he found than The girls a
Woolwich "Dust HUie." says Gen
i Boo b. Tie women living anl fol
lowing their dreadful business il
this neigilborhood are so DEGRADED
that even abandoned men will IT,
( fuse 10 accompany them nome
! Soldiers are forbidden To enter ll,'
place ur to 90 down tile street, III
pain of - days imprisonment
picktts are stationed at elther end Il
prevcn. this. The streets are nuct
C eanrr han many Of th= ROOMS VI
have seen.
One public house there is shut III
three or four times in day, some
times, for fear of losing the licen,'
throu.h h the terrible brawis whicl
> lake pace within. A policeman
, never goes down this street alone II
ni.lt--one having died not lon:
ago from injuries received there.
Tie girls siuk to the "Dust Hole
after coming down several grades
came there with beautiful clothes
aud this poor girl, when last set,
by the officers, was Il pauper IN til,
w,xk house intirnury IN Il wretchet
!. condition.
:, The lowest class OF all are the girl
;, who stand at the pier.head-thes'
sell themselves literally for n bar,
:, crust of bread. and sleep IN th'
streets.
:, Filth end verniin abound to al
e extent 10 which no one wliu has no
.. see' II can have any idea.
The "Dnst Hole" is only one, alas
,, of many similar districts in Ihi
:. highly civilized land. The aurlIo
=. rrcOils from the estimate that ther'
> are $4,000 SUI women in the city %
London, but admits that lliei
:, number is 50 vast that an estimate
4. or even an approximation OF IL, Ii
;. impossible. He says: "rhe stale %
d, hopelessiiess aud despair ~ whIcf
=. these girl live continually makes
:. them reckless Of consequences, all,
, large numbers commit suicide win
n are never heard of. a West En-,
policeman assured lis that HE mum
=. Der of prostitute suicides Wa
,r terribly IN advance 0f anytliin.
guessed al by The public"
+, NOTE: General Booths plan f.,
:. dealing with ID ,rkest England
n will apper in IA subsequent issue o
=. lhc JOURNAL