and physical stamina are broken, and the good
workman, fresh from the soil, becomes in the first
city generation a poor workman; and by the second
city generation, devoid of push and go and initia
tive, and actually unable physically to perform the
labor his father did, he is well on the way to the
shambles at the bottom of the Abyss.

If nothing else, the air he breathes, and from
which he never escapes, is sufficient to weaken him
mentally and physically, so that he becomes unable
to compete with the fresh virile life from the coun
try hastening on to London Town to destroy and
be destroyed.

Leaving out the disease germs that fill the air of
the East End, consider but the one item of smoke.
Sir William Thistle ton Dyer, curator of Kew Gar
dens, has been studying smoke deposits on vegeta
tion, and, according to his calculations, no less than
six tons of solid matter, consisting of soot and tarry
hydrocarbons, are deposited every week on every
quarter of a square mile in and about London.
This is equivalent to twenty-four tons per week to
the square mile, or 1248 tons per year to the square
mile. From the cornice below the dome of St.
Paul s Cathedral was recently taken a solid deposit
of crystallized sulphate of lime. This deposit had
been formed by the action of the sulphuric acid in
the atmosphere upon the carbonate of lime in the

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