London Labour
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共 337 题- A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings
- OF
- BY
- HENRY MAYHEW
- THE LONDON STREET-FOLK
- COMPRISING
- WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
- VOLUME THREE
- CONTENTS
- OF
- VOLUME III.
- THE STREET-FOLK.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- LONDON LABOUR
- AND
- THE LONDON POOR.
- THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN.
- THE RAT-KILLER.
- RATS.
- A NIGHT AT RAT-KILLING.
- RATTING SPORTS IN REALITY.”
- JIMMY SHAW.
- JACK BLACK.
- Mr. Black’s statement was as follows:--
- The wife, who was standing by, here exclaimed--
- Mrs. Black here interposed, exclaiming,--
- Mr. Black then continued:--
- THE SEWERMAN.
- THE PENNY MOUSE-TRAP MAKER.
- FLIES.
- THE FLY-PAPER MAKER.
- OF BUGS AND FLEAS.
- HER MAJESTY’S BUG-DESTROYER.
- BLACK-BEETLES.
- The following fact we give from Mr. Douglas’s _World of Insects_:--
- BEETLE DESTROYERS.
- CRICKETS.
- OUR STREET FOLK.
- I.--STREET EXHIBITORS.
- PUNCH.
- THE DOMINION OF FANCY,
- PUNCH’S OPERA:
- END OF FIRST ACT.
- THE FANTOCCINI MAN.
- He gave me the following interesting statement:--
- GUY FAWKESES.
- And,--
- GUY FAWKES (MAN).
- GUY FAWKES (BOY).
- AN OLD STREET SHOWMAN.
- THE CHINESE SHADES.
- EXHIBITOR OF MECHANICAL FIGURES.
- THE TELESCOPE EXHIBITOR.
- EXHIBITOR OF THE MICROSCOPE.
- PEEP-SHOWS.
- ACROBAT, OR STREET-POSTURER.
- THE STREET RISLEY.
- THE STRONG MAN.
- THE STREET JUGGLER.
- THE STREET CONJURER.
- STATEMENT OF ANOTHER STREET CONJURER.
- THE STREET FIRE-KING, OR SALAMANDER.
- He gave the following account of himself:--
- THE SNAKE, SWORD, AND KNIFE-SWALLOWER.
- STREET CLOWN.
- I could see the tears start from the man’s eyes as he said this.
- THE PENNY-GAFF CLOWN.
- His statement was as follows:--
- THE CANVAS CLOWN.
- He furnished me with the following particulars of his life:--
- Then he goes on:--
- THE PENNY-CIRCUS JESTER.
- SILLY BILLY.
- BILLY BARLOW.
- STROLLING ACTORS.
- BALLET PERFORMERS.
- THE TIGHT-ROPE DANCERS AND STILT-VAULTERS.
- STREET RECITER.
- In answer to my questions he gave me the following statement:--
- BLIND READER.
- GUN-EXERCISE EXHIBITOR--ONE-LEGGED ITALIAN.
- II.--STREET MUSICIANS.
- BLIND PERFORMER ON THE BELLS.
- BLIND FEMALE VIOLIN PLAYER.
- BLIND SCOTCH VIOLONCELLO PLAYER.
- BLIND IRISH PIPER.
- THE ENGLISH STREET BANDS.
- Concerning these, a respectable man gave me the following details:--
- THE GERMAN STREET BANDS.
- OF THE BAGPIPE PLAYERS.
- SCOTCH PIPER AND DANCING-GIRL.
- ANOTHER BAGPIPE PLAYER.
- FRENCH HURDY-GURDY PLAYER, WITH DANCING CHILDREN.
- POOR HARP PLAYER.
- ORGAN MAN, WITH FLUTE HARMONICON ORGAN.
- ITALIAN PIPERS AND CLARIONET PLAYERS.
- ITALIAN WITH MONKEY.
- THE DANCING DOGS.
- CONCERTINA PLAYER ON THE STEAMBOATS.
- TOM-TOM PLAYERS.
- ANOTHER “TOM-TOM” PLAYER.
- PERFORMER ON DRUM AND PIPES.
- III.--STREET VOCALISTS.
- STREET NEGRO SERENADERS.
- STATEMENT OF ANOTHER ETHIOPIAN SERENADER.
- STREET GLEE-SINGERS.
- STREET BALLAD-SINGERS, OR CHAUNTERS.
- THE WHISTLING MAN.
- WHISTLING AND DANCING BOY.
- The following is the statement he gave me:--
- IV.--STREET ARTISTS.
- STREET PHOTOGRAPHY.
- STATEMENT OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC MAN.
- THE PENNY PROFILE-CUTTER.
- BLIND PROFILE-CUTTER.
- WRITER WITHOUT HANDS.
- CHALKER ON FLAG-STONES.
- V.--EXHIBITORS OF TRAINED ANIMALS.
- THE HAPPY FAMILY EXHIBITOR.
- THE ORIGINAL HAPPY FAMILY.
- EXHIBITOR OF BIRDS AND MICE.
- SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOUR.
- 3 ft. 6 inches of cedar for ends 4_s._ 0_d._
- Veneer for top 1 3
- 5 locks 1 8
- 8 knobs, 1_s._, glue, sprigs, &c. 1 4
- THE DOLL’S-EYE MAKER.
- THE COAL-HEAVERS.
- SECOND ACCOUNT.
- THIRD ACCOUNT.
- THE COALBACKERS.
- COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DRUNKENNESS OF THE DIFFERENT TRADES IN LONDON.
- Hence the statistics of the coal trade will be as follows:--
- THE COALMETERS.
- I will now proceed to speak of
- THE COALPORTERS.
- BALLAST-MEN.
- The number of vessels employed in this service is 69, viz:--
- I must, however, first deal with
- THE BALLAST-GETTERS.
- The second class of ballast-labourers are
- THE BALLAST-LIGHTERMEN.
- I now come in due order to
- THE BALLAST-HEAVERS.
- The first man continued:--
- MEETING OF THE BALLAST-HEAVERS’ WIVES.
- LUMPERS.
- NUMBER OF SHIPS WOOD-LADEN DISCHARGED AT THE DIFFERENT DOCKS IN 1849.
- TIMBER-DOCK LABOURERS.
- THE TIMBER AND DEAL TRADE.
- An older man, in the same employ, said:--
- From a stave-porter at the same dock I had the following account:--
- ACCOUNT OF THE CASUAL LABOURERS.
- THE DOCK-LABOURERS.
- THE LONDON DOCK.
- By piece-work in August 5 5 8
- Total £25 5 9
- THE WEST INDIA DOCKS.
- THE ST. KATHERINE’S DOCK.
- CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES.
- ON THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS.
- THE MERCANTILE MARINE.
- TURNPIKE-ROADS AND STAGE-COACHES.
- THE RAILWAYS.
- TOTAL NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION OF PERSONS EMPLOYED ON RAILWAYS.
- 2 suicide.
- INLAND NAVIGATION.
- LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN.
- THE THAMES WATERMEN.
- THE LIGHTERMEN AND BARGEMEN.
- STEAM NAVIGATION.
- LONDON OMNIBUS DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS.
- ORIGIN OF OMNIBUSES.
- The principal regulations now in force are the following:--
- OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS.
- OMNIBUS DRIVERS.
- OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS.
- OMNIBUS TIMEKEEPERS.
- A timekeeper made the following statement to me:--
- HACKNEY-COACH AND CABMEN.
- HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS.
- INTRODUCTION OF CABS.
- CHARACTER OF CABDRIVERS.
- THE WATERMEN.
- SUGGESTIONS FOR REGULATING THE TRADE.
- ACCOUNT OF CRIME AMONGST CABMEN.
- CARMEN AND PORTERS.
- The horses not charged with duty were in round numbers as under:--
- THE CARRYING TRADE.
- THE LONDON CARMEN
- THE PORTERS, &C.
- For any load or parcel by knot or hand--
- LONDON VAGRANTS.
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF VAGRANTS.
- 2. Bad companions.
- STATEMENTS OF VAGRANTS.
- STATEMENT OF A RETURNED CONVICT.
- LIVES OF THE BOY INMATES OF THE CASUAL WARDS OF THE LONDON WORKHOUSES.
- ESTIMATE OF NUMBERS AND COST OF VAGRANTS.
- In the workhouses 13,547
- ROUTES OF THE VAGRANTS.
- LONDON VAGRANTS’ ASYLUMS FOR THE HOUSELESS.
- I will now proceed to a description of the Refuge itself.
- ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS POOR.
- A letter from his sister, a girl of 18, ran as follows:--
- The other tradesman’s story was as follows:--
- This she produced. It contained the following passage:--
- She concluded:--
- DESCRIPTION OF THE ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS.
- CHARITIES AND SUMS GIVEN TO THE POOR.
- MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN.
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- INDEX.
- Acrobats, or street-performers, 90
- Actors, strolling, 139
- Bagpipe-players, the, 161, 168
- Ballad-singers, street, 195
- Ballast-getters, the, 269
- Ballast-heavers, the, 272
- Ballast-lightermen, the, 271
- Ballast-men, the, 265
- Ballet performers, 144
- Beetle-destroyers, 40
- Billy Barlow, 138
- Birds and mice, exhibitor of, 219
- Black, Jack, statement of, 11
- Black-beetles, natural history of, 39
- Blind reader, the, 154
- Boy inmates of the casual wards of the London workhouses, statements of, 388
- Bug-destroyer, Her Majesty’s, 36
- Bugs and fleas, natural history of, 34
- Cabmen, character of, 351
- Cabs, introduction of, 350
- Carmen and porters, 357
- Carmen, the London, 361
- Carrying trade, the, 361
- Casual wards of London workhouses, statements of boy-inmates, 388
- Catch-’em-alive sellers, 28
- Chalker on flag-stones, 214
- Charities, and sums given to the poor, 429
- Cheap lodging-houses, 312
- Chinese shades, the, 74
- Clown, street, the, 119
- Coal-backers, statements of, 243
- Coal-heavers, the, statements of, 233
- Coal-meters, the, 260
- Coal-porters, the, statements of, 261
- Concertina-player on the steamboats, 182
- Conjuror, street, the, 107
- Crickets, natural history of, 41
- Dancing-dogs, the, 181
- Dock-labourers, the, 300
- Doll’s-eye maker, the, 231
- Dominion of fancy, or Punch’s opera, 53
- Drum and pipes, performers on, 189
- Drunkenness in different trades, table of, 245
- Fantoccini man, the, 60
- Flies, natural history of, 24
- Fly-paper maker, 31
- French hurdy-gurdy players, and dancing-children, 171
- Garret-masters, statements of, 221
- Glee-singers, street, 194
- Gun-exercise exhibitor, one-legged Italian, 155
- Guy Fawkes man, 67
- Guy Fawkeses, 64
- Hackney-coach and cabmen, 347
- Happy family, the, exhibitor, 214
- Harp-player, the poor, 174
- Inland navigation, 326
- Italian with monkey, 179
- Italian pipers and clarionet-players, 177
- Jester, penny circus, the, 131
- Juggler, street, the, 104
- Labourers, timber-dock, 292
- Lightermen and bargemen, the, 332
- London Dock, the, 301
- London omnibus-drivers and conductors, 336
- London vagrants, 368
- London vagrants, asylums for the houseless, 406
- London watermen, lightermen, and steamboat-men, 328
- Lumpers, the, 288
- Mechanical figures, exhibitor of 77
- Mercantile marine, the 318
- Microscope, exhibitor of the 83
- Negro serenaders, street, statements of 190, 191
- Old Sarah 159
- Omnibuses, origin of 339
- Organ-man, the, with flute-harmonium organ 174
- Peep-shows 88
- Penny circus-jester 131
- Penny mouse-trap maker, the 21
- Penny profile-cutter, the 210
- Photographic man, statement of a 206
- Photography, street 204
- Porters, the, classification of 364
- Profile-cutter, penny, the 210
- Profile-cutter, blind, the 213
- Punch 43
- Punchmen at the theatre 48
- Punchmen, scene with two 47
- Railways, the 321
- Rat-killer, the 1
- Rat-killing, night at 5
- Rats, natural history of 3
- Reciter, street, the 152
- Refuge for the homeless, Playhouse Yard, Cripplegate 407, 417
- Returned convict, statement of 428
- Risley, street, the 94
- St. Katherine’s Docks 311
- Sewerman, the, a ratcatcher 20
- Scotch piper and dancing girl 164
- Shaw, Jemmy, statement of 9
- Showman, street, an old 79
- Silly Billy 134
- Snake, sword, and knife swallower, the 117
- Steam navigation 333
- Stilt-vaulters 148
- Street showman, an old 72
- Street photography 204
- Street bands, English 163
- Strolling actors 139
- Strong man, the 98
- Telescope, exhibitor of 79
- Thames watermen, the 328
- Ticket-of-leave men, meeting of 430
- Tight-rope dancers and stilt-vaulters 148
- Timber-dock labourers 292
- Timber and deal trade, the 295
- Tom-tom players, statements of 185, 188
- Turnpike-roads and stage-coaches 319
- Vagrancy, causes of 368
- Vagrants, the London 368
- Watermen, the 353
- West India Docks, the 310
- Whistling man, the 197
- Writer without hands 213
- Transcriber's Note