Evening star., 1902-09-13
IN 1902
Market It Furnishes for
American Goods.
THE BIGGEST ON EARTH
HAS MORE PEOPLE THAN ALL
NEW ENGLAND.
Church Parade in Hyde Park and
the Slums of the
Strand.
Copyright, 1902, by Frank c. carpenter,)

'Noisrisht, lSo2, by Frank G. Carpenter,)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON, England.
London is the center of the American in
Vasion. Hundreds Of thousands Of Ameri-
can dollars are pouring into It, and our
capitalists hope to take millions out 1t is
the latest morsel in the worlds CONNER
cial larder, and thousands of speculative
mice from every part of the earth are hun
gering for it. There are today thirty thou
sand American residents in London, not in
Guiding the floating population of tens of
thousands more. The city has more Scotch
men than Edinburgh more Irishmen than
Duplln, more Jews than Palestine and more
roman Catholics than Rome. 1t has tens
or thousands of Italians, Germans and
french and people from India, Africa and
the Islands of the seas.
The Biggest City on Earth.
I despair of being able to give a concen
tion of the size of London I have been
here for weeks and it grows bigger every
DAY. The statistics show that it has more
people than New York and Chicago COM
bined. 1t is bigger than any two capitals
OF continental Europe, it has a greater non
ulatlon than New England and It exceeds
IN the number of its inhabitants many ter
rltories governed by kings By the latest
hgures 1t has more than six and one-haTf
million people, or about one-seyenth of all
the people of Great Britain and Ireland and
one,fourth of all those who live in cities
L nave gone to the top of the monument
10 the top Of st. PauPs and out to Ham.
stead Heath to try and get q view of the
city, but at no place have | been able To
see II all. 1t extends on and on, a vast
wilderness of houses oVerhung bv dense
smoke which shrouds the whole in an
autumn haze and at times makes Won think
you are looking through spectacles of
sll9hed 81 S,h glass; The smoke is so thick that
II clogs the chimneys and in some parts of
the city the chimney sweeps clean them
three times year, The city extends ont
for radius of fifteen miles from Charing
cross; 1t embraces an area of about seven
hundred square miles, equal to two thou
sand eight hundred quarter section farms
ana IN 1t there are nine hundred thousand
inhabited houses and seven Thousand roIIaS
of streets and roads
mink of that and figure out what a chore
II would be to explore the city on foot. If
you should walk day and night not ston-
ping minute, you could not tramp
through all of London's streets in a wear.
IL the streets were placed end to end, be-
ginning here, they would reach across Eu-
rope, making paved walk walled with
houses, over France, Germany and Russia,
across the Ural mountains and the high
lands OF Thibet and clear through China
TO the Pacific ocean. All the way you
would find the streets well paved and some
of them the smoothest, hardest and best
stieetS VI tHe world You would find many
grand buildings and tens of thousands of
dirty little two and three-sto~y blocks
packed with London's poor, tn most
wretched and most drunken poor upon
earth.
You would find plenty of places to eat
and drink along the way. London has
about 5000 saloons, something like 1000
coffee houses, and 1t has thousands of res
taurants and places for tea and cake 1t
has 500 hotels, from enormous buildings
which and Slean dc
down to little inns which have rooms for
score.
A City of the Rich and Poor.
London is city of miIIonaires and pau
pers, Of thousands who are very rich of
hundreds of thousands who spend money
as freely as any people on earth, and of
million or so who are wretchedly poor
The town has 100000 paupers and 1 can
not tell you how many millfonaires. 1t has
a king who has a civil list Of So, 900, 600 a
year and dukes and earls who own towns
and vast estates and lords and other golden
drones galore. In the West End about
Hyde Park you drive through street after
street of magnificent palaces, and In the
east and along the docks you may ride for
miles and miles through sections where
whole families live in one room and where
semi-starvaton relgns.
The Church Parade of the Rich.
Let me give you two pictures of London
which 1 have seen during my stay. One Is
the church parade at Hyde Park which
takes place every noon on Sundays from 1
until o'clock. This will give you some
idea of the possible market for the best of