The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-28
THE LONDON RUSH
Where Londoners 90 At the
Busy Hours Of the
Day.

ing are between o'clock and 10
o'clock. This is the time when more
than 40 per cent of the pedestrian
traffic inwards to the city takes place.
Between 6 a. m. and a. m. little
procession of 1852 enter by railway
and $3.50 by tramway, a total of 49,
sos for the hour. Between z a. m.
and a. m. there streams in another
crowd of 1886 by rail, and 1866 by
tramway, and 4,707 by bus-94,4es for
the hour. Between s a. m. and 9 a. m.
121,126 follow by rail, 23,364 by train,
and 19,477 by bus-163,967 for the
hour; while between 9 a. m. and 10
a. M. 127,343 troop in by rail, 1922
by tram, and 17,441 by bus. the hour
total being 10000.
This is London coming to work.
Just think of it-719,933 people rush
ing in by rail, 145,540 by tramway,
and 151,007 by bus between one mid
night and the next!
Similarly wonderful is the spectacle
of London going home after its days
work. The busiest going home time
is between 5 p. m. and 8 p. m.-542.>
224 leaving the city in four hours by
rail, and tram, and bus; 1,029,94S de-
parting in the "a hours between 1
o'clock in the morning and IL mid
night. Between 6 p. IN. and p. m.
174,95S Londoners go home; the
mightiest crowd in hurry which ever
made the most Of sixty minutes in this
world.
Taking the area included in Great
er London, 2,120,708 people leave their
homes every day to earn their living.
The congestion of London's streets
and the defective travelling facilities
cost wage-carners in waste time
through delays sum of about $780,
900 daily. while the loss to the owners
Of vehicles from the same causes is.
$275,0O0 day-a total loss to persons
and vehicles in each year of $949, 1877
600.
A. great procession of 116,902 sweeps
across London Bridge alone every
day. In the morning, between 10 and
II o'clock, 2,429 vehicles of all classes
cross Blackfrairs Bridge. From II
o'clock in the morning to noon, 1859
vehicles clatter past the Mansion
House. At the same time, 2,27S vehi-
cles are passing through Ludgate
Circus. Taking omnibuses alone, 1872
cross London Bridge every hour, while
the 642 pass the Mansion House, COG
rattle past Hyde Park corner, 215
leave Victoria street station, and 20S
leave Liverpool street station during
a similar period of minutes. More
than "a third of the vehicles running
through the Strand are omnibuses. A
crowd of 10000 people use Fleet street
during space of IL hours.
1t might be supposed that st. Pan
cras, Kings Cross, or Waterloo would
be the busiest stations in London, but
such is not the case. The busiest sta
ton is Moorgate, for 521 trains steam
into it every hour, and one in six is
over crowded.
Smoke involves London in a loss
of more than $5,705 an hour during
working day of IL hours.
London has about 100000 houses,
yet between midnight and the next
few hours in a day in March last, L.
500 men and 312 women were found
homeless or sleeping in
the streets, or on staircases, or under
arches. During the same few hours,
21,254 single men, 1858 single women,
357 couples, and 81 children under 10
years of age, were found in the COM
mon lodging houses.
The average head of a London
household of five persons has to pay
81 per year for the prevention Of
crime and the arresting and convic-
ton of criminals. That is to say, in
hard cash Londoners pay to this end
about $10,000,000 annually.
1t will be seen from the figures
herein quoted that London's busiest
hours are from 8 a. m. to 9 a. M, and
from 6 p. m. to p. m. so far as travel
ing to and fro is concerned. But eve
ry hour of the "a has it's proportion
of life and movement in the great big
center of struggling humanity. Prob
ably the hour between 1 and 2 p. m.
witnesses as much of the strenuous
rush of the metropolis as any during
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