Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-21

yuage, will 10 interesting to American
'eadersi
II have visited many fairs, feasts. races,
orests, lanes aud wigwams In different |
parts Of England and Scotland, aud have |
,atou aud chatted with the tent and van |
lwellcrs, VITA the same sorrlwful results |
confronting me. In many cases where |
parents attend fairs, feasts and races with |
,ocoannt stalls aud other initiatory gam
bling amusemopts, the children nre sent
pariy In the morning 10 pick up living In
vi sorts Of questionable ways, and up 10
II or 10 o'clock at night fome OF the chill.
iren Of both sexes. t. her with their
mothers, arc often kept hard at work
banging and shouting with co.
and balls In hand, while Ia many
Instances their fathers are drinking In the
public houses, aud M reward for their
hard days tolling and trndging, Sunday
and weekday. the poor children are sent
tupperlcss and unwashed to their bed.
This Is usually on SON old rigs under n
street stall, In hail. raiL snow, fr0sts aud
fogs, and In fine weather with tho CLEAN.
ing moon aud twinkling stars pccplng
through the torn apcrturcs Of their street
curtains and gutter beds.
II have recn these men, women and chill.
dren drunk, all Of heap like 40 many
dogs. while there were others, engaged In
the yngabund'a calling. ashamed Of their
position, who hung down their heads aud
hand. and went with the tide aud pellmcll
crowd down 10 ruin. In many Instances ]
come upon parents with large families
who hnvetakcn the wrong turning through
heir dislike " work, or tho hardness %
own llir, aud arr now tramplng the cnrn'
y lanes. towns and villages with carts,
1 M aud donkey barrowa, hawking, beg.
hr, lying. ami am afraid often stealing.
some time ago | visited with a friend
| Ching Town. and found scores Of iAml.
lir,f plp.les and other yagabund travel
en- wing In a state that would shock the
musqlihy aui degraded heather. Moro
than thirty clilidrrn N school are clua.
tered round NJ, not ono ot whom could
tell hptter. In two small four rDomcd
ootiHE, into which the gipslc, aud tray.
clers hn crcpt for Few months IN tho
winter icrc dwclt, or pigped, seventeen
| families " mon, women Hud CHILDREN.
| Others We squntling about In ilthy wig.
wnin-' along the s.ulh, nth, rags and
straw.
Among 10 . folk, on the outskirts Of
/ London, In W. wlgwam have seen poor
woman dyiu. ln another man who had
taken ~ gip-lng WIS gafplus Tor breath;
~ another To woman wlH Ht deaths
door, aud ni No;hCr abode II death, into
which had tu'.rop on all foura,' there
sat al the enhance, ur1u "a brick la the
mud, poor lost present day pipsy girl Of
seven years NJ az. but uO heavier than n
child % one year. IT, legs were no thicker
than drumsticLT. II could neither stand,
Aing speak cry uor,car.
".it CROW pie fest near Rugby saw
In i've vans titgrs children, two Of whom
could only read aud write llttlc. During
the deep snow ~ tho winter OF ISIS met
with In the old Waiting street., bat mile
or two from our home hors, ninc men,
women aud children Cr0uchcd together,
whose only sleeping apartment was under
an Old donkey cart. Tho man hal worked
honornbly and well In my utighborhood
for two ycar.. The wori. gave out, aud be
iorook his trade 10 follow hedge bottom
creeping.
at Davcntry found a travelling show.
man and bis vito nnd their seven children.
Their only home and stock aud trade con.
sisted OF few sticks, old rugs. luiyrs.
hmptonshire fUr l found ten vans and
drcn, only Que or two OF whom had ever
been inside either sunday or day schools
In three old tumblodown carts. ted to.
gethor by canvas, string. straps aud pieces
" rusty hoop iron, there were nineteen
children and seven men and women.
"Moses Holland, one Of my oldest ripsy
friends, knows about 80 families In The
midland counties, aud thinks there will be
an average Of ave children TO each tent or
ysi. lu some tentn he has seen ~ many
a. ten, aud Ia other tents twelve, children
In his own tent his wife was ~ and "a dead
child lay by her side, which Holland laid
out himself on u few rags aud some litter.
"At Broinsgrvye fair | counted over
MY van aud covered cart homes, connected
with which there were nearly 100 children.
But six could read aud write. ln one van
eight feet long, five broad and 1--WE high,
there slept eleven men, women and chill.
dtru, WHOSE night dresses were saturated
wet clothes. Same tine ago visited a
Hover show Rt West llhddun aud found
In two vans aud tumblrioWn wagon
eighio"n children and seven men aud
women. Only two could read and write.
ION recent sunday IN a Northampton.
shire Iauc, near Buckley wharf, during q
pouring rgin came upon eleven present
day gipsics, six men aud women aud I've
children, whose home was "a small rirkety
donkey cart, tied together with piccr. u
cord, and small sheet full Of holes, under
which they crypt at night
ION the preceding Saturday night these
glpsles were under this one rotten sheet
for the night by the roadside near Wee.
don, A policeman told them to move on, >
~ on the following Sunday people would
be going TO church, and they would be ne
eyeaore to all these good peoplr. Driving
tue gipsi about tho country with p0,
~ u0sI . "A
not improve thsir condition. IL can only
be done by means OF the sanitary officers
influence directly upon their h0mes, and
by tie AchuOlmhsters Influence upon their
heads aud hearts. And II ! live long
enough this shall become universal rem
edy for all manner OF gipsy aud other
travelling .yagabondlsm Ia England aud
Scotland"
These arc the beings whom Mr.. Smith
has given the pane OF "Gipsy and Van
Dwellers," and Il ~ the 1000 to 5000
"Gipsy aud Van Childruun Of these wrutch.
ed, wandering varnbonds, whom he u en-.
dcayorlngto rescue from their present con-
dition Of utter bestiAlity through tho
hoped for passage Of his Movable Dwell.
ings Blll.' Tit provisions Of this bill, II
carried out, would cause the registration
Of all gipay aud other travelling vans; bfiuH
each one under constant surveillance aud
sanitary Inspection the same as with the
lodging houses o. the great English cities;
prevent the present horrible oycrorowding
u tents aud vans, and, above all, bring
every one Of these outcast children com
pul80rly Into the public schools, but Who'll
ly free OF expense 20 their patonts, by a
system Of free pass books for use wherever
tue Ripsy family may be Temporarily tar
rylng. EDGAR Ia WAKEhAs.
Paultry at the Fairs,
Nowhere 10 tho rapidly increasing In
tarcst ia poultry moro clearly indicated
a Al Al. D.