Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-14
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N>'lS A'bHNH 1oVSs " al " 'Nuii 'AAN'i'y
~ ,oNDON, Sept. Especial Core
spcndence of The Bee)-London
~ is the center Of American inva-
HHSHI sion. Hundreds of thousands of
- American dollars are pouring
into II, and our capitalists hope to take
millions out. 1t is the latest morsel In
the worlds commercial larder. and thou
sands OF speculative mice from every part
Of the earth are hungering for 1t. There
are today $1,000 American residents In Lon
don, not including the floating population
OF tens OF thousands more. The city has
more Scotcbmen than Edinburgh, more
Irishmen than Dublin, more Jews than
Palestine and more Roman Catholics than
Rome. 1t has tens of thousands OF Ital-
ians, Germans and French and people from
India, Africa and the islands Of the seas.
| despair Of being able to give a con-
ception of the size Of London. ! have been
here for weeks and it grows bigger every
day. The statistics show that 1t has more
people than New York and Chicago COM
bind. 1t is bigger than any two capitals
OF continental Europe. It has a greater pop
ulation than New England and 1t exceeds
in the number of its inhabitants many ter
ritories governed by kings, By the latest
figures 1t has more than $500, 900 people or
about one-seventh of all the people OF
Great Britain and Ireland and one-fourth
Of all those who live in cities.
! have gone to the top of the monument,
to the top OF st. Pauls and out to Hamp-
stead Heath to try and get a view of the
city, but at no place have | been able to
see IL all. II extends on and on, a vast
wilderness OF houses overhung by a dense
smoke which shTouds the whole In an au-
tumn haze and at times makes you think
you are looking through spectacles OF
smoked glass. The smoke Is so thick that
It clogs the chimneys and In some parts
Of the city the chimney sweeps clean them
three times a year. The city extends out
for a radius OF fifteen miles from Charing
Cross; It embraces an area OF about zoe
square miles. equal to $500 quarter Sec
ton farms, and In II there are 800 900 In
habited houses and 1000 miles Of streets
and roads.
Think OF that and figure out what a chore
il would be to explore the city on foot. II
you should walk day and night, not stop
ping a minute, you could not tramp through
all OF Loudon's streets in a year. i
the streets were placed end to end, b'
ginning here, they would reach across
Europe, making a paved walk walled Will
houses over France, Germany and Russia
across the Ural mountains and the high
lands Of Thibet and clear through Chln'
to the Pacific ocean. All the way you would
find the streets well paved, and some OF then
the smoothost, hardest and best street
OF the world. You would find many gran'
buildings and tens OF thousands OF dirt
little two and three-story blocks. packe'
with London's poor, the most wretehed an
most drunken poor upon earth
You would find plenty of places to ca
and drink along the way. London has aoou
5000 saloons. something like 1000 cone
houses and II has thousands OF restaurant
and places for tea and cake. II ma
500 hotels, from enormous buildings whic
cover acres and sleep thousands down l
little inns which have rooms for a score
London is a city OF mlllionaires and pau
pers. OF thousands who are very rich. G
hundreds OF thousands who spend none
as freely as any people on earth, ana or
million or so who are wretchedly poo
The town has 100, 900 paupers and | cannc
tell you how many mlllionaires. 1t has
king who has a civil list OF SS'OOO'OOO
year and dukes and earls who own towr
and vast estates and lords and Other golde
drones galore. In the West End about Hyc
Park you drive through street after stree
Of magnificent palaces, and In the ca
and along the docks you may ride for mi''
and miles through sections where who
tamil es live in one room and where sem
starvation reigns.
Let me give you two pictures OF LOT
don which ! have seen during my stay. or
is the church parade at Hyde Park, whiS
takes place every noon on Sundays from
idea Of the possible market for the best