Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

drink at least pint of milk. They
must either pay for these luxurles out
of their scanty earnings or go without.
and eventually find their way to the
hospital.
Take another trade-the fur pulling.
The women and girls employed at this
are In some shops, locked in the room
with their work. and have to cat their
food there. II you had ever seen
room crowded with girls pulling the
nun from cats, rabbits, rats. and
goodness knows what other animals.
you would appreciate the situation
better. The fun. the down, and the
small hairs smother everything. and
are necessarily swallowed with per-
nicious effect. Yet II Is the custom OF
some Of the men in the trade to force
their employees to eat under such cir
cumstances-that Is, to swallow their
food thickly coated with the hairs from
which nothing can preserve it," And
so on for pages.
Housing Of the poor IL receiving more
attention. and since my last visit TO
London seven years ago lots of the
old shaeks have disappeared and big
tenement houses, containing as many
as eight hundred families in n block.
have sprung up. erected by various
companies. still the rush for accom-
mediation is on the increase and rents
are fearfully high in price. Carrots
uHuNT u ltakN TpUl ItlHnltk tnt IIlNe
equivalent to 40 cents per week-phy-
able each morning. or out go bag and
baggage. Only this last week during
the trial of a Whitechapel murder
case It transplred that two women
and four men lived in ono
Of these particular garrets-incidental-
ly not one OF them, was related one to
the other
DIR. Drysdnle stated in magazine
article recently that in England alone
there are over l42. 900 deaths per annum
MS the direct result of overcrowding.
Statistics regarding the worst districts
show that the average breathing spac,
per capita was nine and half square
feet. A dead body Is allowed In tine
grave some sixteen feet. Comments
are superfluous.
To endeavor to spread the Gospel to
these poor souls would be to be met
with whitening vitupcration and howl
ing nnimoslty. and yet they have a
soul to save; how TO save II is the ques-
ton. Hundreds of noble men and Voc
men have tried to solve the problem for
years. Let us eat, drink especially
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we
will probably be kicked out to Join the
army. 10000 strong who skulk in door
ways and railway arches every night
In London for shelter" il their motto.
Drink and drown the present, seems to
be the sole desire Of these poor wretch
es with "Housless heads, unfed sides
and looped and window'd rnggedness."
on every corner Is n public house. Its
doors incessantly swinging to and fro'
foul oaths, quarrelling and brawllng are
in evidence both within and without,
AS an object lesson to the youth who
thinks It manly to hang around saloons
and shift schooners'' visit 70 slum
pub would be in valuable; the lowest
dive we have in Salt Lake city Is
palace in comparison, In company
with two companions, the writer made
a round of half q dozen of these sinks
of lniquity and depravity a couple of
months ago and the experience wiz
never be forgotten. NO Spontaneous
galety, oh no. sulcn looks. curses, dire
stencil and fumes. children playing
around ON the snwdust strewn floor,
children in arms were well Represented
they were there by the score running
the risk that they all have to undergo.
viz, being crippled for life by being
dropped on the pavement by their
alcohol into their 7oor little dirty
emanciated syetems from their moth
er's breast. Nay We saw one bleared
eyed mother forcing neat gin down
child's throat whilst 1t Kicked smut
tered and gasped vehement protest
against such treatment. outside an
other pub were two young women,girls
in fact, stripped stark naked to the
waist and fighting, not scratching and
slapping, but sparring Ike mon and
punctuating each blow with string
OF obscene and revolving language
men and women yelled go II SAL"
That's a bloody fine one Liza" And
this is enlightened Christian England,
Two or three times week private
detectives conduct parties through
these slums at night In the same fash