The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-23
There Are thousands Who
Are In Dire Poverty.
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No easy task. london Is arranged IKE
ali other cities and. in fact. like every
portion OF our civilization, 80 that u can.
not DO easlly seen. Very few people really
(tec London, but then very few really SEQ
\ knything, which accounts for the TACT
that they all keep on living Just US LONG
ne they possibly can TO see anything
requires All mngination, and no one c :..l
tivates this faculty, else life would not
be worth the living. a d
n But London Is really q wonderful CITY,
Nothing short OF an elaborate guide-pook
cnn give the fnintest idea OF the me
'placep It has to show. The traveller getei
only confused impresslonable picture
Of this the most marvellous city me ;~oriu
Mas ever seen. The West End IS It's show
ground, and contains all that Is really
worth while 10 bother with. "a ftcr stay
Ing In London Until yOu8nre weary, you
tten have onlySa confused sense OF an
elaborate system OF beautiful parks. Kept
In the most perfect way. line drives
around and through them, all filled with
luxurious carriages drawn BY proud
horses and driven by liyerlcd coachmnnt
sittng beside It'll other useless ackey.
whose solo business lis to advertise the
wealth and, rank Of their owner inside
tho carriages are decayed and decaying
men. useless and generally ,up ''r
ated old women, and poodle dogs.
+ Along London's greatest drives are
scattered miles and miles OF the most
+ substantial and elaborate buildlngs--pal-
aces. government Offices, hotels. BANKS
churches. theatres--ln short. everything
which highly cultured and evolved So
eSsty seems TO think 1t needs or wants.
And within It's squares and public places
are thrown Unfortunately an endless
number OF great monuments and statues.
comm nornting all sorts OF scenes OF
glory and Of blood executing the Bocr
war, Of which even the boastfnl Briton
will not Drag. Our American cities are
all very small and cheap and shoddy and
ragged compared with London. Here and
there we put up tall building or erect
monument, and We take all our foreign
* visitors and potentates to show them wha
we have done. But in London, these
costly. vain and extrayagant piessare al
most as thick as the sands on the sea-
shore or the stars In the heaven above.
America isyoung and ignorant and proud;
she forgets that England has been plum
dering the whole world for centuries and
that every workman on earth for long
generations has In some way been send
ing his small tribute TO adorn the British
capital America must needs ship wheat
and corncd beef md picked ham for sew
eral generations before she can build a
b city like London.
But this Is only one sidefof the picture.5
y Tho King lives ats Blu ckingham Palace.
theTPrince of.,!Wales So "a TT. NJ arlboroughi
House, tho foreign am bnssadors ather3
at@S st. James Palace, the Duke OF Bod
ford and the Duke of Westminster live
IN Monaco. The rich and the powerful
own all the great residences along the
drives. and Iron or stone fences, high and
strong keep the vulgar mob away. There
arc some 100000 people living In Lon
don, some 100000 in Great Britain, and
not more than 100000 cen be said TO have
OF Inc RI RI ~ a axp
TO pay the bills. VI
or course, not many are Interested in
tho way that these other millions llvc.i
not much more interested than In the
poor cab-horse who never complaint, nor
strikes. Neither is It rea lly worth while
to tell how they live: In fact, the story
cannot be told Here again one must
have imngna ton. To say that the diyi-r
dends from Standard OIL amounts to $780,
OoO. 900 per year means nothing except n
long row OF figures, mostly clphers; to
tell how the poor man lives means MOTH
Ing without ina gination 10 place yourself
In his stead and then you become ll-
matte. $50 where's the use?"
But still II one really cares to know,
the East End OF London Is very near.
It covers less ground tina n the West End
but still there are more people here-that
Is, III you really call these men and women
people" who have nothing else3to do but
the aristocrattc parts OF the West End
come ten or twelve live on an acre Of
ground, but In tho East End 800 or AGO
live on an acre, This shows what the
roor really do economize. whatever the
F rich may say. t3At,%
But although only the poor live In tho
East End. 1t must not be forgotten that
this Is a very important part of London.
Here are great docks, on which are load
: ed and unloaded more foreign commerce
than ever reached any other city In the
world,g FIorc are moored large part Of
that great feet OF merchant ships that
have made England the mistress OF the
seas and poured the gold and jewels and
treasures Of all the world into the ever
eager yawnIng lap OF Great Britain.
Moored at these docks can be seen at any
time great ships from Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa. japan. China.
india. Germany, France, Italy. Russia,
South America Canada and even the
United States. And England welcomes
these great ships and their. cargocs which
other enlightened nations seek to drive
away, But however IA dubious the wealth
that these ships bring to England, no part
Of 1t belongs to the poor laborers who
throng the docks for n chance to work.
Any morning a long line Of these fope-
less men stand waiting outside the gates
Of the great companies in the eager hope
OF days labor, and every morning most
o. this line are sent away to5return again
next day, and SO on forever. These are
''casual' laborers. the great reservoir
from which the employer draws his conn
peting workmen to turn against organized
labor. It is these poor. helpless wretches
that judges love so we'll when they dis
course so eloquenty about the right to
work, just before they send "a working
man to ''jall''9 e. ,,9
In this section Of tho town there are
few monuments unless want and rags
can be SO called; there are few great
buildings, scarcely any parks and In fact
little attempt at parade and show. Here
are endless rows of monotonous2 brick
houses. with their two or three or four
small rooms-houses without lawns or
yards, but packed close together to save
space on the precious earth A stranger
rsnnot well see int4de these houses Here,
again, the faculty Of Imagination must
be;scalled IN II ono really wants 0iknow.
Summing In our day has been reduced