Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
:: LONDON.~
Couple of Hours in Povertyopos1he Fashionable Pas
time of Stunning.

Irregular Correspondence of the
"News"l
London, April Is. 1s9s.-This morn
ing the writer had occasion to stand
for few brief minutes outside well
known bank situated on a still better
known thoroughfare of the modern
Babylon-en PEASANT. He had no
business to transact at the aforesaid
bank. but II fellow must loaf let him
at least keep UP appearances-vide the
Knutsford rotunda at s pm. any
evening. Tophatted and satin faced
Prince Alberted humanity was scurry-
Ing along on business bent Presently
an object who seemed sadly out of
place amidst the atmosphere of stocks
and bonds hove in slght--one OF those
poor creatures who are down at heel,
uncollared. unshaved and wlthal UNI
kempt-poverty personified. He was
dining sumptuously from the contents
OF a greasy piece OF newspaper not the
Cuban crisis, but a penny worth of
fried fish Cooked in horse OLD, and
perhaps a ha'penn'oth of potatoes.
Apparently he had attained his fiji. for
he threw the remains of his lunch into
the gutter and thoughtfully wiped his
ten days beard with the back OF his
grimy paw. then faded out OF sight.
Anon n shorty little fox TERROR came
along, took one sniff at the fried fish
bones. then like the Pharisee of old
passed by on the other side. Then
ponderous bus pounded by and
.1,.aI l,alf .f a II Inns al hl
epicurean meal. The tasty object
caught the eye of the street scavenger
and he swooped down upon 1t with his
ever busy pan and brush; but he was
too late. A wrinkled claw descended
upon the tit bit. and the next instant
a bloated, gin sodden bag was devour-
ing the castaway fragments with avid
ity. Someone laughed. A portly well
fed and groomed individual murmured
Poor devil" and the traffic went
rumbling along utterly Obvious OF the
tragedy.
But 1t is not on the main arteries of
this great city that one sees poverty
and vice in all Its sordid hideousness.
Get into the Sums just few hundred
yards at the back and one can see
such sights that make the dweller
amidst the valleys of the mountains
shudder and wonder in dazed horror
can such things be on this fair earth?'
lie are " NE sttI 70 a
greater or lesser degree in all large
cities, but possibly nowhere are wealth
and poverty brought into such vivid
contrast as in the City of London. Ten
minutes walk from the Bank of Eng
land, the Stock Exchange and the ia
nous Lombard Street, one plunges into
sodden Whitechapel ana odoriferous
Spltalnelds; an equal distance from
the general postofiice and one Is in
filthy St. Luke's. Leave any of the
brilliantly lighted theaters of the West
End. and in a few minutes you may
tread the evil smelling alleys and
courts OF Glare Market; while across
the river almost within stones throw
from Surgeons Tabernacle are hidden
away the tumble down rookeries ad-
jacent to the Borough, and yet
stranger may spend weeks in London
and never run across povertyopolis.
How great is the poverty therein hid
den away!
have before me come articles onjthe
subject that appeared in the Daily
News some time back. Here are n few
Ceases" taken at random: A man dis
covered in a bare garnet in Spitalflelds
absolutely naked and dying OF starva-
ton; he had pawned the last rag he