Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-15

Traps ullNlNli'l hUDl lDl uuiitH ildu-
itation Tho bill of mortality is three
times heavier in this than In any 9TH
err part of Southwark. The people
God bless them are the poorest of
the poor Many are more to be pitied
than to be condemned
Having an intimate knowledge of
the metropolis, at it's worst, | In
cline to tho opinion that Tabard street
for out-and-out wickcdncss is uncx-
celled Evil Is not only present, but
rampant in every street and court.
One street is given over to ill-fame,
while many of the women. whose
faces bear the mark of the sinners
trade, have two or three aliases
Whichever way you turn, the people
have o hand-to-mouth struggle for
existence. To witness the moral polu-
| ton and physical decline of the little
children is sickcning Wee BARNS,
not more than two years old. may he
seen fast asleep on the dOOr-steps of
the drink shops late at night, their
puny arms folded and blue with cold.
and their poor bodies only shielded
! from the pelting rain by garment
little better than rag"
Another report includes the "scav-
cngcrs and mudlarks' In the south
east part of London; East London,
Smithhcld Market, Tottenham, the
factories and warehouses;. Norwood,
and the benlghtcd district" of
Poplar
II takes over ono million and half
sterling To pav the police force Of
the city, working over an ora of 700
square miles. with 1862 policemen,
not including specials
Nearly 10000 arrests were made
last year, and 10000 summonses on
individuals.
/. While tho way of the vchicular
traffic is regulated In London may be
"thc wonder of the world" the worst
sections, the slums and even the bot
ter poorer districts, are inadeGuatcly
/ supplied with policemen Crime and
the lowest forms of wickcdness are
rampant and pass unchallcnged
One of the officers who has been
familiar with the Bcdfordtnwn sec
tion FOR twenty years. says of II:
( There may he localities in the East
; End where the outward aspect Is
more appalling, repellant and de-
pressing, but few can equal Bedford.
: town for bcwildering distress and, the
= forlorn condition of its inhabitants
. Filling up the gap between the Rail
y way Clearing House on the west, ant
9 st, Pancrcas Workhouse on the east
S there are 10 streets. where 1900 fam
ilies find refuge, or roughly speaking
5000 souls. A close acquaintance re.
veals broken palings without. ant
stairways within. The passage wall,
are thinly crusted with accretions o.
= dirt. while the atmosphere is wei
nigh sitting. The APPALLING conse
qucnccs Of subletting and ovcrcrowd
ing are terrible; suffice II to say, tina
In q six-roomed house here the so
ciety's missionary found no fewe
: than 20 persons, mostly adults.
n "Onc particular street, known ~
4 Little He'll has long been the terro
, Of the ncighborhood; soubriGuet o
that terrible Significance, which, alas
, the annals Of the police court--tha
v barometer of crime-amply Justify
. Such tx Bedfordtown with its deplor
4 able conditions that tell their owl
n sad tale. Tho evictions are terrible
n good honest souls are often cast on
" with heartless brutality"
Another speaks of the clean out
k side" and the rotting, filthy section
t where both streets and houses are II
r vile that few. would credit "A truth
@ ful description of them.
n Travellers who come to Londo
. and sec tho condition of some Of IN
Is thoroughfarcs which are kept as
d show compare London with othe
@ cities and praise us for our fin
l. streets
n But while New York and eve
A Rome may shock strangers with IN
condition OF some OF its well travelo
l. streets, neither OF these cities ma
d any section at all comparable wit
= miles and miles of London which ar
d not kept at all, but allowed to festc
l. In their filth This is not to on
NJ credit, but II seems to he the Englis
,s way. Better not have our richie
n sections so clean and our poorer SEE
D tons cleaner, as the localities al
II. well known. and there Is money ia
At their amelioration. II is simply II
a. difference to the condition Of the pee
le pie who reside in these sections"
I Writing of the problems of the NJ
T. employed, Silas Harrington says:
N Before all eyes 1t Is there, starin
us in the face, asking that va d
~ something to alleviate IT, Some OF /
re- say. II has always been with MS.
DO Is no worse today than In other year
IN though more clamorous, and makir
S. Itself more of u public nuisance.
IN Others declare that nothing ~
n II has been known in the metropol
n before II Is cruel for us to igno
- It, Nav more II IL dnnpnrous Tho