The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-03
| LONDON SLUMS
WILL BE THE
SUBJECT
Of Address of Rev. Chas. F.
Kean at Y. NJ. G. A. This
Afternoon.

At the Y. NJ. c. A. this afternoon
and at the First Baptist church to-
night. Rev. Chas. F. Kean will speak
on Life Ia the SlUms of London, "
and will tell how crime breeds. The
address this afternoon is for men
only, but at the First Baptist church
1t is for the public in general
Rev Charles Frederick Kean is a
missionary in the East End of Lon
don, in the slums of the largest city
IN the world, a man whose father was
missionary whose grandfather and
whose great-grandfather spent their
lives preaching to and teaching the
criminals, the outcasts and the IowIy
IN the wastes of the great CITY.
Mr. Kean was born to his work and
all his life has been spent in trying
to lead to the better way criminals
of every kind, age and sex.
In speaking to Journal representa-
tive Mr.. Kean said that crime in
this country could not be compared
with crime in London It had been
his observation, he stated, in visiting
pen1tenttarfes and prisons throughout
this country, that the percentage of
real criminals is as yet small. There
were, Tever, he found, a great
number Of the criminals made so by
chance, circumstances and by environ
ment- And he stated that unless
strong representatives. are used to
keep the children of this country from
becoming criminals. in a few genera
lions the United States will equal the
Mother Country in that particular.
In his lecture, Rev. Mr.. Kean deals
with that part of the great CITY made
memorable by Dickens. He describes
graphically, the location in which
Jack the Ripper" murdered seven of
his nine victims and the funeral ser
vices of the unhappy women, two of
whom had at one time been members
of his Sunday school.
crime IN London Is hereditary. he
said He knew of instances where
three and four generations of Grim
1nals had been born and reared in the
same house and with these men
there was but one eXpectation-to die
elther IN the prison cell, or On the
scafold Children of these are train
ed for life of crime as livelihood.
Mr. kean does not tell these things
simply to amuSe his audience nor is
MS lectures without local application
He knows crime at its worst and he
knows its cause, and he hopes to
show, in each city when he lectures.
how certain tendencies in that
city are directly producing crime and
how the conditions of London will
surely become the conditions in every
city where these crime-producine
agencies are permitted unrestricted
play.
This lecture is to be delivered at
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton this afternoon at 4 o'clock and
all men of the city are invited.
At the Salvation ARMY.
Rev Mr.. Kean has also kindly con-
sented to deliver his famous lecture
Life in the Slums of London" at the
Salvation Army hall on West Govern
ment street Monday night at 1885
o'clock. The Army intends making
the meeting an interesting one. Hon.
J. Campbell Avery will preside, and p
number of ministers will be in attend
ance, Max J. Foinberg will render
some excellent violin solos. W. s
Garfield will assist in the musical
program, as will also the Epwortn
League of the Gadsden Street Metho-
dist church.