The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1911-12-02

thrust out OF the regular channels OF
trade. find here a ready market.
] think that the thing which i'm
pressed me most was not the poverty.
which was evident enough. but the
sombre tone Of the whole proceed
ings. II was not a happy crowd;
there were no bright colors and very
little laughter II was an ill-dressed
crowd. made up of people who had
were. at secondhand. and. in close re-
laticns with the pawnbroker.
In the south II would be hard to
find a colored man who did not make
some change In his appearance on
Sunday. The negro laborer Is never
clean collar or a bright necktie or
something out OF the ordinary out of
respect for the Sabbath. In the midst
OF this busy, pushing throng II was
hard for me to remember that was
In England. and that II was
Sunday. Somehow or other l
had got a very different notion of the
English Sabbatb.
Petticoat Lane is in the midst of the
sweating" district where most of the
cheap clothing In London Is made.
Through Windows and open doors
could see the pale faces of the garment
makers bent over their work. There
is much furniture made In this region.
also. I understand. Looking down into
some OF the cellars as | passed ! saw
men working at the lathes. Down at
the end of the street was bar room,
which was doing a rushing business.
The law In London is, as ! understand.
that travellers may be served at a
public bar on Sunday but not others.
To be a traveller, bona fide" trav.
eler. you must have come from a dis
tance OF at least three miles. There
were great many travellers in Petit.
coat Lane on the Sunday morning that
was there.
This same morning, visited Beth
nal Green. another and n quite differ.
ent quarter Cf the East End. There
are a number of these different quar-.
ters of East End. like. Stephney. Pop
lar. st. George in the East. and so
forth. Each of these has its pecul.
lar type of population and its own pc.
culiar conditions. Whitechapel Is
Jewish, st. Georges in the East is
Jewish at one end and Irish a; the
other but Bethnal Green is English. For
nearly half mile along Bethnal Green
Road found another Sunday market
In full swing, and 1t was. II anything
louder and more picturesque than the
one i'm Petticoat Lane.
IL was about one o'clock in the morn
ing: the housewives of Bethnal Green
were out on the street hunting bar
gains In meat and vegetables for the
Sunday dinner. One OF the most In
teresting groups ! passed was crowd
ed about a pushcart where three sturdy
old women, shouting at the top oi
their lungs. were reeling off bolt after
bolt of cheap cotton cloth to a crowd
OF women gathered about their cart.
At another point a man was knock
ing down" at auction cheap cuts oi
frozen beef from Australia at price,
ranging from four to eight cents q
pound. Another was selling fish. an
other crockery and a third tinware
and so through the whole list o.
household staples.
The market on Bethnal Green roat
extends across street called Bricl
Lane and branches of again from tha
into other and narrower streets. lr
one OF these there is a market exclu
sively for birds, and another for vari
Gus sorts of fancy articles. not OF thu
first necessity. The interesting thin.
about all the traffic was that, although
no one seemed to exercise any sor
Of control over II. somehow the d!ffer
ent classes of trade had managed t'
organize themselves so that all tn,
wares o. one particular sort were dis
played IN one place and all the wares
of another sort In another. everything
In regular and systematic order. Tn,
streets we're SO busy and crowded tina
wondered II there were any people
left in that part OF the town to atten'
the churches.