A NAVVIES' BOARDING HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 79, 3 April 1897, Page 2

A NAVVIES' BOARDING HOUSE.

The new lino to London— tbo Grand Central — has marked a now deparlure ia more ways than one. At Woodford Hiilso, near Byford, the experiment has been tried of a young Indy setting up a boavJiughouse for the neglected class of navvies, living with them, aud managing the house, aud, what is more, making it pay too. Usually, during the constructiou of a line, huts are put up, managed by a married navvy and his wife, whose principal source of *incomo is from tho beer men can be induced to drink. There is little chance of a navvy remaining a teetotaller, however firm his intentions, when the only way to win the smiles of his landjndy and any comfort for himself is through the beer barrel. Iv tho present edsu there are no intoxicants soLi, and lest people should think this is hard ou tho men who want them, Utt it, be said the home has , sheltered 6000 in the course of a ytar, from 30 to 40 being turned away every night for want of room. That tho men appreciate living in physical and moral cleauliuess may be judged from the above, and a most satisfactory part of th« matter is that the payments of the mon enabled a 5 per cent, dividend to be declared on the original capitul. Tho young lady who has i-o well mannged the home it from Yorkshire, and is tlio nicca of a very wealthy aud well- known M.P.