Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13

| reach across Europe, making a paved
walk walled with houses over France,
| Germany and Russia, across the Ural
and clear through China to the Pacinc
ocean All the way you would find the
streets we'll paved, and some of them
| the smoothest. hardest and best streets
In the world You would find many
grand buildings and tens of thousands
of dirty little two and three-story
blocks packed with London's poor, the
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 It has thousands Of
restaurants and places for tea and cake
II has 500 hotels from enormous build
ings which cover acres and sleep thou
sands down to little inns which have
rooms for a score,
A CITY OF RICH AND POOR.
London is city of milllonaires and
paupers, of thousands who are very
rich, OF hundreds Of thousands who
spend money as freely as any people
on earth, and Of million OF so who are
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paupers and | cannot tell you how
many millionaires. IL has a king who
| has a civll list OF So 900, 900 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 af-
| ter street Of magnificent palaces. and
| in the east and along the docks you
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| sections where whole families live In
one room and where semi-starvation
reigns.
THE CHURCH PARADE OF THE
| RICH
Let me give you two pictures of Lon
don which ! have seen during my stay.
| one Is the church parade at Hyde Park,
which takes place every noon on sun
days from / until 2 O'clock. This Will
give you some idea OF the possible mar
ket for the best Of American goods.
! Hyde Park is a great expanse of green
trees, soft yelyety turf, beautiful lakes
and walks and drives. On last Sunday
there were 10000 people walking up
and down the chief thoroughfares, and
| these people represented the cream of
| London sweldom have never seen SO
| many persons so wen dressed. Every
man and every boy wore a TAN SILK hat.
! All We're gloved and the men wore
| frock coats and trousers tightly creased.
As whole the American men are the
best dressed Of their Kind in the world,
but the Hyde Park crowd on Sundays
/ is better dressed than they, as II repre-
sents only the best tallors of the king
dom.
And then the women My heart
| jumps as | think Of them. There were
| at least 10000 dainty girls and lordly
danes, clad In Paris gowns and bon
nets, and last but not least IN American
shoes. They We're good looking and as
rule tall and stately They merely
walked back and forth, some with men
and some without, staring and laughing
and chatting.
In the crowd l saw faces or every ma
tionality under the sun, although the
! majority were English. At the same
time there were carriages, coaches and
four-n-hands driving along the roads
outside the walks; there were scores of
automobiles whistling by, and alto
gether the scene made me think that
Poverty was dead. II was the parade
of the rich.
THE SLUM PARADE OF THE
STRAND.
Now let me give you a picture Of the
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