Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1903-11-19
IN LONDON sLJMs
%o7 ONE SUMNER.
Jack London. the Novelist Spends Har.
rowing Days IN Darkest England"


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During the summer of 1902 Jack
London deliberately turned himself
into London East Ender and under
| the guise OF sailor, without money
save as he earned il. set himself to
studying the life led by the millions
Of human beings crowded into the
working end of LONDON to learn for
himself whether the terrible stcries
| ne had heard OF the ahject poverty OF
most of these people we've true, and ii
so, what was the cause it and
where should the blanc be RACED.
The result Of this experiment is
ound in The Pc )pio cf the Abyss"
book that is truly tor bile to re /.
presents an swfnI picture OF condi-
tions OF want, oyeiw1ik, sin ard dis
ease that are static in London. and
he suffered by hundreds Of thous-
lnds. even millions OF people condi-
Ions INFO which they are born. Tor
which they are in no sense response.
Bile, and out of which they cannot es.
cape. Mr.. London saw all the evils
he narrates In a period Of good
lines II is appalling TO think what
scenes there must be- in the East End
when England is suffering from hard
ines. As it Is, one does not wonder
At Huxley's saying, when he was a
medical officer in the East End.
where the alternative presented to
me, | would deliberately prefer the
lie OF the savage TO that of those PEG.
pie in Christian London"
The East End is world where,
tatistically computed. enc out of ey.
cry three born is buried by public
'harity. where 80 per cent of the
'hildren die before the age of 3.
where 100000 families under the
lest OF circumstances live on s525 a
week, and where the slightest push
sends the worker topping from his
ordinary half.fed condition of security
MO the abyss where hunger stalks
and there is no work. II is an almost
lnheardof thing for the third genera
don of East Finders % attain indus.
trial competency of eLg sort, even to
attain normal adult age. Most of the
workers suffer from chronic innutri-
ion from birth They are unit for
good work from the start. They work
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