The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-06

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Rev. Geo. II. Wiley Gives Graph
ic Account Of His 5
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DIRTY TRAMPs PLENTIFUL l. { \ i + j.
,lRTY TRAMPs PLENTIFUL
MI. Wiley Found Them Every
where in London Many
Useful Hints.

Rev. George H. Wiley has returned
after two months stay In Bnsland.
visiting London. Liverpool. Manchester
ind other cities, studying the methods
prevailing there, among mission work.
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Mr.. Wiley is much pleased with the
great quantity Of valuable information
he gathered, which will prove Of inesti-
nablo value to him III the conduct Of his
Nineteenth Street Mission, In this city.
He spent two weeks in London and
while there visited every section OF that
great metropolis and spent great por-
ton Of his time in the slums, where
he got his most valuable data. Speak
Ing Of the conditions existing there, Mr..
Wiley said: /.
'"rhe city is crowded with loafcrs or
TYPICAL tramps, but they are Of q diff
fercnt type from those we meet with
here. They do not dodge the police and
keep under cover In the day time, but
stand around on the corners Of tho most
prominent streets. i Il
LEI visited many OF the missions, and
IN the city Of Manchester, 7 went through
one that took me an entire day to IN
spect. There they had as many IS two
thousand at services and seven H and
eight hundred for breakfast.
81 was impressed most forctbly with
the little drunkenness I saw in London
md strange to say$5I think there are
more bars or public houses, as they.
are called there, than In any city in
the United States, but during my two
weeks stay there, saw but three
drunken men,. s5 Isl isl /, ia
Vice Has Flown. Il
Mr.. Wiley continued: rs. ,5g
I...Nhen i went abroad was Of the opin-
Ion that the vice and wi kednes s IN the
largo towns OF ngland was far greater
than I found 1t. Il went III search Of
those places, of which Dickens mem
lions in his "Pickwick Papers" and Our
Mutual Friend" hut I was pleased to
find that those days have gone and no no
such thing now exists, whether or not
1t did at the time the famous author
wrote Of those sections in the great
city" II
MIR. Wiley said further:
II accomplished a great deal for the.
short time 4 was there, but as the mis-
stons were. so large only had time 70
visit one a day. studied most care
fully the conditions existing there and
trust that 1t will prove OF great benefit = lt
to me in carrying on my work here e. .5t:
e she akinE Of other Incidents OF his trip,
Mr. Wiley told Of his having been e N n
Il liverpool when King Edward ana queen
fA,cxa ndra visited that pla ce. 5.ss
II have never. seen such homa &c IN my
life s the people there paid to their,
King. The street along which the pro-
cesson passed was about seven miles.
long and there were no less than Tilf
million people lined this street and FOUGHT DC
FOR e view of the King.
"You can say for me that enjoyed
my trim and have come back much i'm
proved. and Of all the places ! y. visited
/ can say positively that none Of them en-,
we're good enoug gil for me, when 'l'ts ! i mad
America, Virginia and Richmond to go,
to-, .i
Of The Cunard Line, having arrived IN
New York just one week from the !. day day
he left Liverpool.