The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-26
ICE CREAM SOLD IN THE STREET.
London Revelations Regarding How
1t Is Made and why 1t Kills You.

| London revelations Regarding How
1t Is Made and why 1t Kills You.
From the London Telegraph
/ The recent sacrifice of so many young
/ lives to the harmful contents of the ice
! cream dealers barrow and the fact that
| Parliament, not to mention the local au-
thorities, is taking cognizance of the dan
gers of the trade, have directed public at
tention strongly to the necessity for some
control over the vendors, as well as to the
! inconsistency of the present state of the
law, which allows these foreigners to sell
their wares in every street, yet compels
the poor Old peddler, with his bOOtlaces or
buttons, to take out a hawkers license
IL IS not reassuring, moreover. to learn,
on the authority of a gentleman possessed
OF exceptional knowledge as TO the poorer
classes Of Italian immigrants, that the
numbers arriving this summer are excep-
tionally great, while their extreme pow
erty and ignorance are also remarkable.
The reason is not far to seek. Italy is
under a general wave of DEPRESSION and
the profits 70 be made out of a summer
In London are far beyond anything 10 be
earned on native soil II is no uncommon
thing for men, after a tramp to the
French coast to reach the metropolis in
April with few half-pence In their pock-
or forty sovereigns as their golden. har-
vest of the street childs scanty pocket
money.
There are two distinct Italian colonies in
our midst That is Soho is chiefly COM
posed of walters, cooks. and hotel sculery-
men, who are quite a different type from
the organ grinders and ice-cream vendors.
The area 10 which these latter resort is
a very small one, and for unmtigated
squalor is not to be surpassed in London.
It's main "thoroughfares" are Eyre street
Hill and Sumner street, with three or four
Wretched courts running out of these In
all the improvements which have been
made round Roseberry avenue and in
Clerkenwell this little patch remains an
island of~fniserable tenements-a crowded
rookery of dirt and offense to eyes and
nose. Historically the locality has al
ways borne an unsavory repute and
readers of Dickens will remember his de-
scription of Little Saffron hill in "OIiver
Twist as "a dirtier or more wretched
place he had never seen. The street was
very dirty and muddy and the air was i'm
pregnated with filthy odors. Covered WAYS
and yards, which here and there diverged
from the main street disclosed little knots
OF houses where drunken men and women
were positively wallowlng In filth" Eyre
street NIL has one tragic, association with
English art, for 10 a low house in II
George Morland was conveyed, having
been seized by a publican for a debt of
80, and aftfr eight days in the deIirium
of brain fever. died in 1904 "overwhelnned
with misfortune, debt, and neglect. everv
eVil being aggravated by the bitterness Of
selI-reproach. The pilgrim who has
come up Leather lane with its roadway
filled with costermongers' barrows. piled
with the cheapest varieties of everyday
commodities, from frozen salmon 10
Swiss embroidery, from scrap iron 10
growing geraniums, crosses ClerlxenUreu
ROAD ana sees narrow street upon very
steep incline. Immediately London seems
left behind, but sunny Italy is not gained
even though every one of the dirt, lit,Ja
shops bears an Italian name, and the bar-
per, the tailor, and the grocer call atten-
uon to their wares in the musical South
ern tongue.
There is nothing picturesque" in ,ho
squalid untidiness; heaps of decavinp vse-o-
table leaves lie in the cutters. and domee-
nc reIuse htters the pavement. The rage
OF the children playing on the doorstsn,
bespeak an origin in the nearest sIa,,
shop and have no national characteristics
or fabric or color to commend Them. az
gaudy hues of the aniline-dyed hanaI,or-
chiefs which the women wind about tbair
heads are merely tawdry and showv In
the WINDOWS or the. provision shops are
various sorts of macaronl though ,,ar,,
many of the community make this for
themselves and beans, polenta, and So
molina have prominent place. But The
observant may also find huge and MOI
very appetizing, dried sausages. olives
sardines, and jars of dark docking nick.
les, bearing Italian brands Bottles Of
vanilla, cinnamon, strawberry. and
raspberry fiavorings, and other vel
more mysterious walls of coloriug matter
are indications of one of the most con,
siderable products of the locality. sail
too, which plays its part in the freezinT
process, Is also a conspicuous item. In
other shops may be seen hundreds OF the
thick, small glasses in which the "farrh-
ing taster." or the double-sized ha'D'ortb
will he dealt out to their juvenile con-
sumers
As to the conditions of life here. il may
be doubted whether London possesses
anywhere else so crowded a population
upon SO small a space. In several of The
houses male dodgers only are received.
but in others there Is sometimes more Than
a whole family huddled into single
room. These apartments as a rule are
very small. with ventilation and santa
ton OF the most primitive description
Garlic mlngles freely with the indescrib
able reek of other and nameless odors