Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-11
WHITEchAPEL ROAD.
Saturday Night In LonJion's Great East End
 ThorOughfare.

1 bc about mile and a quarter in length. | sauntcrod along it last night taking in 1 its sights. tried to likCa it to tho Bow cry, New York, on Saturday night. hut failed utterly I niS<,d tho gr,at rumble l and rOlr uf the cl,"tt,A trains and the ! hrathlCsSs hurr, ir:y along uf tho people. | The LunuOnCrs ur' a much easier people from high to low than wo ar,, They sCCm to havr marr rrYVIrd for themselves and less r'Glrd fur the value of time.
 It was in some of the small bystrNctS and courts which run off from this rnad wherr the terrible murders wcrc commit tCd some y,vlrS ago, This was Jack the RipTrr's stamping ground. l cXplorCd two or thr,T uf the courts last night and found them ugly, squnlid and horrible. \ queer fCN'liDE CarnC over inc in oIIc of them. | thought uf it aS a place in which some aw full human mNnstrrNity might indCtd hc hrT-s,nmrthing Sliny, uC;0puSlikc and dcSt trryinE shivvrd and half CApcCtCd to s>r such thing Cr,vpiua< toward me The night wilS gloomy with fog. and had bcS,n thinking of the mIrdrrs,
 l CarC not what any Our SSlyS or writes, thcrc iS nu lart uf New York so awful lunk ing at nighttime aS tho hack alley courts and bystpVtS nf this part of London. The sQualor k hardly d,r>crirahlC. It k a misty, weird. damp, mT1MCinE 1iualur. You feel that around and about you things arr foul and rnttru-that uu; all the clCauiny in the world could nally rrmovc the inherent filth. Last night thought of tho grow some, dim hrllS uf Dante
 But out in the main rnd-Whitechapcl rOad-thingS wcrr tliffrrVnt. Low London was enjoying itself, spending its Sntur days wag,'S. Thrrr wCrr all sorts of ways and devices for tho turing and capturing of the nimhlr penny, lIcrr was the thump- ing maChin,-''thrr thumpS a penny whrrc young London could develop it's hit
 ting powers This machine w;LS patrrn- izcd mainly by urchins from 10 to l5 years old, Tho man who owned it went into the public house facing him Ia g,t rrfrvSh
 mCnt, l pp$umT. He left a small boy in charyr. As Sonn nS his hack was turned the fun began The other boys tried tO thump the machine without paying. But tho diminutivr sentry was loyal and plucky. He hit one of them in the jaw, another in the nose and another in the eye He must have prlrtic,d long and , faithfully upon the machine himself. Just as the Scrimnla&g,' WIS assuming big pro portiun~ the r,'fn~l.vd man cu,lr hack, r,~ , stor,d order and ayl\r the sentry twoprnrr Thrrr wv7>' small show tents, whrrr you , l could S,N, the most wonderful things that , | wrrv ever allowed tO exist for penny . You felt, on listening Ia the ShuwmCn in , front of them, that many &yr,Ht orators I wCr, lost tO tho nation SOnC Of them o were r1lly most eloquent and interesting, and if they dropped their hS in one place they picked them up in another, thus giN
 ing the qurrn'S English all that was com
 ing to it. I talked to one of them durinI;
 a lull in business, and he told me that hr
 had hCrn in the United states and liked il, , but that the English people wvrr easier to
 gull Another of them, q surprisingly in
 tclligrnt African, was telling the crowd
 how much trr he would eat providing he ; could syrt Is pence. The strong man and T the fat woman wrr' also in evidence. t A man and his wife wrrr selling kip = pcr'd hrrrings at a stall just on the corner l. of Milo End Gate stopped for awhile {, r. watch them. Two for penny waS tho n price that the hCrrinCS wrr' going It n ' 'Errin'S two a l"nny, ti" man \ would call out. Then his wife would cal s out in turn, and then they would both
 call out tNAothcr. lBu~inr~> w:l~ slack f"l
 n moment ar >n till annthvr man and hi,
 wife came along They bought four of th, t "kiplTr~' and wvrr going off with then t when suddenly the man turned lHICk aut 70 asked whrrv the hrrrin@y> had h,,'n caught IS whrrr they wrr' CunNl and if they wcr 4 rCally as ENnd ;lS he had b,N'u told. Tn, o man who was selling the hrrriu!y> Era>rh s- sssurI him that they wVr' of the tin,'~ 10 quality; that they had h~,n caught il l. Norway and rupN in Yarmouth 'OW It do you know" n~k,Nl the other "f,, F.
 l Was a fisherman, NI> the nPly Why
 can tell rrriu > milrniT. A this Juur
 turn some "nr interrupted amt >u4,-o>t,,
 to him that hr fa>trn a prliSr,N' on th t. tails of all his hrrring>.
 must say that l have a Erut d,"il u It respect for the assurance and talent of tn
 London fakir. He chaffs the crowd. an, h the crowds chaT him, and both chatf to ,s gethcr Hc shows up at his best ill thu
 selling of medicine One of them las ,. night was selling medicine at fourprncc m bottle that would cure anything and every
 thing. His face was very rtd, and his nos \, showed signs of ginhouSc cultivation. H. was very convincing. If it Was the las s fourpencr you 'ad in the world, he said
 you ought Ia give it for this bottle "You'd give your last fourpncr for d 'o h rum. " some one in the crowd r'turtcd ol If 'ad to gut the fourprncr hy lawnin:
 all your clothes, I'd ave to do withou D. it, rcplird tho fakir
 ", In the entrance ways of some of the pub Ar lie houses thrrv arr, fr,'Sc0rS on the wall
 representing scenes from English history O. One of them attracted me particularly D. In it a man was being attacktl by womrl k armed with hatchctS and hammers. The
 had evidently pulled him from "ff tn fe death cart, and tho guards Were trying t n reScuc him Beneath the frrSco was thi e inscription:
 ,e Burton lynchrd by the women Q g. Whitechapel for the murder and robbery O
 his foster mother, l42S.
 l. To show you that the London fakir h. have the keCnest sort of knowledge of hu al man nature will tell you of a game tha IS one of them had in progrtSs- On a line h ,d | had several bottles hanging hy the nCCl
 from strings and at the back of them
 canvas sheet.
 For three shots >enny he allowed tn
 boys to fire hard wordcn balls at thcSc bot }, ties from a distance of about ten feet
 Whenever one was broken he would rG
 place 1t by another. This game was th
 most popular one of all It appealed to th
 boys love for driving balls through win
 dows and other forbidden places. l thinl :, this game would go well with the youtl n of America.
 At the butchers shops the women wer
 bargaining for pieces of meat for their Sun \ day dinner. 1 noticed that the meat wa very much tearer than it Is in America. Tn
 women had to pay SeVenpcncc and eight
 pence a pound, If or l6 cents, for mca 3. they would have to pay but $ or 10 cents in pound for at home They say that tn
 quality of the meat in England iS better
 but that Is ghost story as far as the poo - people are concerned for tho EngliS
 butchers import meat from America an
 sell it at the higher English rates, Tn meat sold in this part of town is prett
 nearly all American.
 BART KENNEDY
 THE WAGES OF SIN.