Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13

monster, and a second thought was neces-
sary to realize that within each form there
existed complete individuality more OF
less intense.
AS often as I passed cross street I fol-
lowed with my eyes the overlooking throng
that seemed struggling toward the main
thoroughfare. Whitechapel is wide
street and on the broad spaces between the
sidewalk and carriage driveway various
market people had set up their booths.
The variety merchant was making his dis
play of wares attractive. Within the en-
closure of large screens various games of
skill were in progress, and there were many
indications that Saturday evening was the
festival hour of the week.
Tee-to-tums and Salvation Army.
The Tee-to-tum clubs were open and as
far as could see from the carriage were en-
tertaining quite as many people as their
limited space permitted. The Salvation
Army shelters afford their usual warm hos
pitality, the churches and mission rooms
were lighted, and still the street professions
and circles seemed to know neither diminu-
tion nor rest
The women of this locality show the lines
of care, hardship and degradation more
plainly and more uniformly than do the
drinking habit, and alas, many evidences of
ill-usage. Some faces seemed fairly bat
tered from their encounters with the storms
of life. But whatever they were. they were
not down-trodden, at least, in their own es-
timation. 1 did not see a woman that
looked in any way crushed or discouraged.
Most countenances expressed a sturdy de-
termination to meet the experiences of life
bravelY and to get from them as full q
measure of happiness as possible.
My objective point was the picture e1hi-
bition at the Peoples Palace, and rode
through the broad, busy, well-lighted street
with as strong sense of safety and as little
thought of Jack the Ripper as if I had been
driving out Fifth avenue in Pittsburg.
A Peep Into the Peoples Palace.
A previous morning visit to this beautiful
edifce that so cordially welcomes call sorts
and conditions of men" to assemble beneath
its vast root, had acquainted me with some
thing of its purposes and possibilities. I
had visited its large library; had seen scores
OF men availing themselves of access to the
numberless trades journals and the valuable
books which it contains. I had seen the
natatorium in which the luxury of SWIM
ming baths can be enjoyed; had seen its
various technical schools, in which there
are at present more than 5000 pupils learn
ing various trades. And 1 had enjoyed O
dinner in its refreshment room.
Tonight was, for the first time, to see
Queens Hall, one of the most beautiful
audience rooms in London. l was to see
the winter garden, of which descriptions
had given me but vague idea, and 1
was to see the people for whom this great
benefcence had arisen. A great journalist
says:
a,u Dol
where people of all classes and conditions
can congregate, and gives them opportuni-
ties to associate themselves together, and
learning the hardly-remembered truth that
they are members one of another" The
chat with q stranger who belongs to another
class, or who follows another trade, or who
holds other opinions. may be far below the
best intercourse possible TO men, but 1t is
through such<chats that men reach the COM
mon humanity which lies underneath all
differences, and they may give the first i'm
pulse toward taking an interest in subjects
which have hitherto been too big for their
small homes or narrow circles. In the
Oueen's Hall, in the rotunda, in the dining
saloons, in the smoking lounges, and in the
rooms put aside for social intercourse and
meetings OF friendly and other societies, men
unite to promote the causes they cara for
and as they work or take pleasure together,
learn the trust which "sets loose the Divine
in man.
Goschen's Conception OF the Object.
East London had previously no center Of
learning where its multitudes could be
trained. Apart from the churches and
other places of religious training men and
women who desired higher mental culture
could gain little help, and now. in tn g
words Of the Right Hon. G. j. Goschen,
the founders OF the Peoples Palace say to
the people: .ees. =;
Our object Is to introduce you to wider