The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-09-04
FOR LONDON
The Worlds Largest City Is Ever
on the Verge of Famine. (.
COULD BE EASILY STARVED.

For q Few Weeks Death Would
Ravaes the Great and Wealthy Me.
tropoIis-Sourcss Of its Provisions.
London IL u city and a cooD&y. but 1t
is 90 immense and 20 diverse that Il
might almost be said to be 4 country.
One Of the most striking things about
London IL its utter inability to feed
itself. In the matter Of food its very
immensely is the aus Of it's utter de-
pendence. II supplies were cut Oh
from without it would starve to death
in q few weeks.
1t Ia the richest city in the world
1t has palatial shops. thousands Of
stores and countless warehouses. but
it produces practically nothing. in the
shape of foodstuff. 1t is like a great
baby that has to be fed by its mother,
the world, and the produce Of the world
fills the mouths Of it's 100000 inhab-
itants.
BY the rail. the river and the road
all that Londoners eat and drink il
brought to them. and three-quarters of
1t all Is conveyed in ships from abroad,
Until the beginning of the nineteenth,
century London had no docks. Today.
they cover an area Of twenty-five miles,
and wheat from the United States.
Russia. Canada and. the Argentine is
disgorged into their %granaries from the
holds Of ships like 50 much. sand
Many Londoners have never seen the
docks. but two loaves out of every
three that they eat are made from the
grain that comes to them through those
docks.
Most OF the grain ships berth In the
Victoria docks, but since they are 30
necessary to the city's welfare they
have the right to moor at any quay in
the port Of London. a privilege no 9th
er vessels possess.
The London butchers never cease to
sound the praise Of English beef and
mutton. but they sell little that Is real.
" English. All the cattle that are
shipped to London alive pass. ashore
at Deptford into the market which
stands on the site of the dockyard
where Peter the Great learned ship
building. Every animal is inspected
by a government official. and those that
are in any way diseased are killed and
cremated straightway. 70
Cattle come by train from all parts
Of the kingdom to the Metropolitan
cattle market at Islington. travelling
through the night, and on Mondays
and Thursdays the market opens at
dawn and continues TIL 8 O'Clock in
the afternoon. The cattle that are
sold are driven to the slaughter houses
and killed. and the meat is on sale at
Smith6eld early mex morning
At 2 o'clock In the morning this
market is ablaze with light. and the
streets in the vicinity are blocked with
railway vans. At 4 O'Clock the sales.
men are In their places, and NOON aft.
erward the buyers from the big shops
arrive. and the sawdust strewn ave
nues Of red and yellow arcass are
thronged.
smithneId's daily supply Of beet and
mutton II about 1900 tons. but only q
nth Of this meat Ia British. and much
OF the mutton comes from New Zea
land via the Victoria docks.
The county Of Kent In noted for tn
fruits and vegetables. but London
would be unable to satisfy IL craving
for green stun without the aid Of 9th.
n countries. The miscellaneous vege.
tables annually brought into England
from abroad are worth close to 5000.
600
There are several markets In the
metropolis for such wares-Spital6eldA
the Great Northern potato market and
the Farringdon fruit and vegetable
MARKET but the bulk Of the apples.
orangeA lemons. onions. potatoes and
other roots that are brought from
France. Italy. Spain and Algiers lind
their way from the docks OF Covent
Garden In common with the home
grown fruit and vegetables which
reach London from all points OF the
compass in boxes and baskets piled
high on numbering rams
Most Of the market gardener cell
their own wares at the Garden
while the foreign stun is sold at auc:
ton. For 500 years this place has
been the premier market Of London for
vegetables. fruits and 6owers, and
there are 6rme who have traded b.
meath it, glass roof for generations
Some Of the Dish that feeds London
u landed on a floating pontOon at the
river front Of Billingsgate market. and
ut a very early hour in the morning
one may, II be chO0ses. gaze upon dsh.
ing smacks from the North sea-. little
open barges- loaded with ish that have
been Iightered from larger vessels In
the docks and clumsy looking Dutch
galiots loaded with cells which are en-.
titled under q charter granted By
Queen Elizabeth to sail up the Thames
and moor below London bridge.
The railway companies convey 70..
100 tons Of fish from different parts OF
the coast In the course Ut . year. while
the boats convey $1,000 toms. The
t0lllng OF \ big beIl announces the
nnon1nu Nf Aho market NJ Z O.clnck >uA