Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

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Special Correspondence.
r ONDON, Dec. 9.--London Is a city
OF the most violent contrasts.
Upward of 100000 of its in
habltants are on the verge of
starvation; 122,000 of its children at
tend its public institutions iii semi
starved condition; 1t has an unemploy-
nlent problem the like OF which the
world probably never has seen before;
and broken. blasted. desperate men and
women parade it's streets in thousands,
cursing the country that gave them
birth and wildly threatening the pow
crs that stand between them and open
riot and anarchy. d
Yet, London, hard hearted and cruelty.
nnrcsponsve as it may seem at other
times OF the year. is a fairy prince OF
charity at Christmas time. 1t plays the
role Of Santa Claus with more lavish
hand than any other city in the world
and distributes its Yuletide cheer with
a munficence that almost is wicked or
the $50,0Q0,0o0 spent in charity in Eng
land III the course of a year more than
ID per cent is accounted for on Dec
rs; OF he 122000 starving schoolchildren
IN its schools, no one goes without his
feast; OF it's thousands OF poor Tcrpplcs,
hedridden or imprisoned within the
-four walls of their mean homes, II is
thlsfcitY's proud boast that no one goes
unchecred by the almost unlimited
bounty OF Father Christmas. On this
day of days, when London really ner-s
It's soft quoted title of ''thc most gen
crous city in the world" upward OF 5O,-
900 sumptuous dinners arc given publicly
by onefsociety alone. and no one knows
the enormous amount of private giving
More than 100000 destitute children
share in the food. the clothing. the
blankets. the boots and shoes. the coal
and the endless variety of good things
that go to make the pack OF old Santa
Claus the most wonderful, the most
mysterious and the most welcome bag
IN all the world,
POOR .FEASTED AT HOME.
To those who are unable to attend
the innumerable public feasts in per-
son the Christmas dinner actually, is
delivered to the homes. In fact, there
are a number of charitable societies
which make q specially of delivering
free Christmas dinners to the homes
Of the poor who cannot manage to get
to the public -banquels. For weeks pre-
vous to the coming of Christmas day
these societies are busy collecting
money; and few appeals from them
remain unanswered. Several of these
organizations have been in existence
many years. some OF them having been
regularly endowed in the wills of chart
table persons. Even in the warehouses
the dreaded last resort OF the poor
good cheer" prevails. and the poor law
guardians administer RELIEF with q
leniency far beyond what the law usu-
ally allows.
COUNTY COUNCIL PROVIDES.
In London. among the children of tlie
poor. Christmas is the one big event
in their hungry little lives. AT Christ
mas each school gets up feast, EN-
every child receives a substantial "tuck
mat the expense of the local author
ities. Though the London caaai;
council does not give an official bul-
quet 10 children on Christmas day.
sanctions the payment OF Iione3 GU
OF lis funds 10 various sc.ocis for u
purpose OF providing .Chi,is,iIias ta
ners. also protidea for tie dcii5
el: Of thousands OF Giaae.s Sc z:
homes or crippled e,iildyc.l asas.S
attend the public feasts, in some cases \