this one. For over two hours I had waited outside,
and for over another hour I waited in this packed
courtyard. I had had nothing to eat all night, and
I was weak and faint, while the smell of the soiled
clothes and unwashed bodies, steaming from pent
animal heat, and blocked solidly about me, nearly
turned my stomach. So tightly were we packed,
that a number of the men took advantage of the
opportunity and went soundly asleep standing up.

Now, about the Salvation Army in o-eneral I
know nothing, and whatever criticism I shall make
here is of that particular portion of the Salvation
Army which does business on Blackfriars Road
near the Surrey Theatre. In the first place, this
forcing of men who have been up all night to stand
on their feet for hours longer, is as cruel as it is
needless. We were weak, famished, and exhausted
from our night s hardship and lack of sleep, and yet
there we stood, and stood, and stood, without rhyme
or reason.

Sailors were very plentiful in this crowd. It
seemed to me that one man in four was looking:
for a ship, and I found at least a dozen of them
to be American sailors. In accounting for their
j being on the beach, I received the same story
| from each and all, and from my knowledge of sea
affairs this story rang true. English ships sign
| their sailors for the voyage, which means the round

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