Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-10
A SAD PHASE Of
GLASGOW LIFE.
Lady Mary's' Dark Picture of
The Seamy Side of the City of
Municipal Reform,
THERE MANY WAIT FOR A "DRAp"
Scotch Home of Socialism Has More
Female TOpers, Size Considered,
Than Any Other City.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Glasgow, Oct. There Is no city in
the world that has so many drunken
women in proportion to its size as Glas-
gow AS a breeding place for female
topers neither London Paris nor New
York can compare with the Scotch
town which prides itself on the pro-
grcss 1t has made in almost every kind
OF municipal reform.
1t is no eXaggeraton to say that an
American walking in the evening
through Glasgow's poorest quarter
through Salt Market street, Bridge Gate
or High street-soon begins To ask him
sclt 10 there can be any sober women In
that part OF the city, Here, in the
course OF an hour, one may see nearly
a thousand women pass In various
stages Of iutO%iCatiou, nearly al, Of
tham loo&ing either tor a saloon or a
paWn-shop, which by the way are
usually close together.
ALL DRUNKARDs TOGETHER.
when once a woman begins 10 drink
here, she is done for" is a quotation in
TINS scotch city and one believes i
true after an evening i'm the slums, Old
gray-hcadCl women with weak, dlssi-
pated faces and torn rags tor scanty
covering reel through the streets beg
ging coppers, with which to buy more
drink Noung men, themselves the
worse for liquor eNclaim "Giye The
bare-foOtcd Old gyannies a pcnuy--we
hope well never come TO thatn The
middle aged lopyrs are the coarsest OF
all their hair matted In taWny snarls,
dresses ha!f fastened and their speech
too foul for repetition, Some OF the
worst characters appear in striped
black and white flannel pettlcoats. and
these women are called the "Pculcuat.
crs."
one "Pet,lcoatcr" was on an unusu-
ally high spree on the Saturday night
the writer went through the Bridget
Ems Bridge Gate street ia called. Mad
with drink this fghtlng woman rushed
home 20 her attic put out her children
and with Ratchet smashed the funl-
ture and even tore TO pieces the chill
dren's clothes, The oldest boy. II. went
for the police but In the meantime the
Infatuated mother had nailed up the
door and ao0ed them 10 enter Thus in
one nights intoXication the "Pcttlcoat-
er" had broken up her home, destroyed
the household treasures and cast her
children into the streets,
CHILDREN THAT ARE TOPERs.
The young women for the most rart
wear coarse shaWls and with great
dizziness they wind them first about
their babies, ana then around them
selves. Every young woman seems to
bo a mother, hut they pay scant atten-
ton TO the little ones about the only
protection a baby gets being the sup
port from the shawl | have seen girls
Of II and 10 go intoxicated that they
could not walk straight. Even the lit
tie girls OF six and seven congrepnte
outside the saloons waiting for peep
n, or hoping that mother" win let
them have a 'drap.' The little waits
are oarefootcd and han naked. The
dr0op In the corner OF the mouths OF
many Of these little people indicates
plainly the depression caused by Cruz
city ana neglect together with ill-hcalth
and hunger. Little Stun angels horn
with an appetite for drink, they have
hard time ahead OF them N they grow
90 womanhood.
WHY THEY DRINK.
The cause OF the degradation Is the
wretched home-lIfe. laziness and intern.
pearance Thirty thousand families In
Glasgow live IN one-roomed fats, Some
times, indeed, six or seven families live