The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14
ny CHARLES BATTRLL LOOMS.

lsh sunshine and the peacetul oroerhness
Of English country life.
wanted a change. 1 wanted to be treated
a., bo-rid sensation. l wanted to see one
- tho ,addest. most vice haunted. sodden.
,oul residential, dark. dismal. dreadful
human hives in Christendom; q place which.
tsmol, already. had been made more
famous by the exploits Of one Jack the
Ripuer. a place where laughter Is unknown
and where no CLEAN Of sunlight ever enc
,rates. In a word | wanted to see White
chanel the East End.
And 80 | left the hedge bounded, poppy
bedecked fields and sheep besprinkled
meadows Of the English countryside and
went up 10 London.
Nv guides were two English writer's
whose names. &c. DC.
One was Of the sad faced type, the other
was rubicund and jolly.
A. the last moment we decided not to
incite the fury Of the mol by wearing silk
RATS and frock coats. Instead We wore
olcthing of i~nnocuous and Questionable
cut. and taking our lives in our hands we
set. forth from the neighborhood OF the
Hotel Cecil. in the Strand in a bus.
As the afternoon was to be a long one
one Of my friends suggested that we should
not conine ourselves to any one n~eighbor-
hood. but take a walk through London
streets wherever his fancy-and he il a
man Of delicate f~ancy-might lead him to
90. We consented, and after riding for
half m hour or so we dismounted and found
ourselves in a quarter where the respecta-
bic poor live.
noticed that the respectable poor looked
much like thousands Of New Workers whom
have seen; in fact l could hardly believe
that was not in New York. But the streets
,were much cleaner than similar quarters
would be in New York, and there was COM
lparatively little Odor Of an unpleasant
mature.
We walked through narrow alleys and
Encountered David Warfield after David
Marfeld-lon bearded, sallow faced Amer
Joan citizens with the ambition and the
determination to become rich. 1 asked
any friends il these were really Londoners
and they assured me that they were-of the
lineage Of David, an earlier David than
Warield.
Little children played in the cutters and
were happy. The summer sun, the genial
London sun, illuminated the narrNr streets
bod housewife said tn housewife in the
pheasant New York or Yiddish tongue that
II vas a long time between rains.
I felt that it would be a good thing il
lbe people who live in hat vile White
chapel could come TO this place to live; all
keemsd 40 quiet and respectable.
One Of my companions asked me IL l
would like to see hoy they made London
Citizens out Of JewisENc child rem, and upon
my SAYING l would he took us TO a school
near by in which we heard the cheerful
Ehum Of many youthful voices.
A pleasant faced, rosy checked gentle,
the principal Of the school, who looked as il
he spent his days in the open felds, greeted
Is cordially and on our asking to see tn,
revest arrivals he took us into one of the
primary departments.
Here we're assembl ed some fifty Hebrew
boys from I to 10 years old Nearly every
.Cnc had keen. alert. bright eyes and some
we're cherubic enough to have sat as models
for angels.
All boys who we're not born in England
will come forward" said the principal.
Fight or ten little chaps rose and cam
forward quite fearleesly. Il looked to me
IS II there we're no terrorism in that school
Ibid wish they might have such institutions
for the poor little East End children.
Where we're you bom7' ssked the princi
pal Of one boy.
In Russia"
How long ave you beer in EnEland?'
One year"
How old are your"
Ten"
Can you read AM write?~
Yes, sir"
Several Of them had been porn in Africa
and yet to my American eyes they showe'
no evidence Of negro blood. And hen
realized that Africa is a large place, and
turned out that these were the sons O
English Jews who had settled in Sout
Africa but who had left IL on o O
the Boer war.
Most Of these children were almost a
happy looking as the average Christia
child and yet the advantages Of Christianit
are denied them az they are Orthodox Jews.
In another room we met a little HebreV
IL years Of age who wrote q most legibl
hand and expressed himself Tin compost
tlOns on How l Spent My Vacation
good. clear English with hero and there
foreign idiom. He looked like a poet i
embryo, this Hebrew lad, with dream
Eyes and seriously happy faCe, and he ha
spent his vacation by taking walks throug
Westminster ~Abbey-whers he must hav
come across the statue Of a brilliant Israslit
named Disraeli-and by visits to the Ma
tonal Gallery, and he showed an intsreste
acquaintance with the works Of dead an
gone British authors. And he had been OF
of Russia only eleven months.
Thought 10 was a rather better fate tina
neing butchered to make a Russian hol
day.
winked at sundry Hebrew lads and the
Nlnked back quite AZ il the joy Of life wei
IN them. OH thought l, II they could Onl
Introduce something like this to the poo
submerged millions Of the East End "
also visited the Church OF St. Columns
IN which Is a mortuary for the use
,nose who, living in cramped quarter
nave no place in which 10 lay their dea
until the time Of interment. And they tol
me That the poor could hardly ever be II
ouced to give up their loved ONES.
nut was beginning to get tired Of tn
respectable Summing. One can get wOrs
'hsn this in New York. i resolved to sul
Esst the Fast End a. o as l could do !
Atho1gh my guides seemed to be snioyin
WPnsplVpg in ahouinN M the hOtapa Z