THE LONDON POOR
Dtessed in rags, Miss Eva Booth related to an audience of 4,000 in New York hsr experiences in tee slums of London. Sh© entered the hall playing an accordion. Her recital of the pttaful scenes ihat she witnessed in the London slums, says the 'Tribune's' correspondent, affected the audience to tears, hundreds of persons sobbing, throughout the entire narrative. Towards the end all the lights were extinguished, and then an electrii cal cross on the stage glowed with an intense brilliancy. Miss Booth knelt at. the foot, praying, with arms uplifted, while a choir sang ' Rock of Ages.'
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Evening Star, Issue 12762, 15 March 1906, Page 3
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101THE LONDON POOR Evening Star, Issue 12762, 15 March 1906, Page 3
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