article_snippet: But just yards from where the upper classes of the capital resided in opulence, the poor scratched an existence in chronic misery in East End slums.
article_snippet: A photo titled 'Under the Arches' shows destitute and drunk men slumped under the arches where drunk men were forced to sleep .
article_snippet: A group of starving 'ticket men' queue at a Salvation Army Courtyard, waiting for a ticket to afford A group of starving 'ticket men' queue at a Salvation Army Courtyard food.
article_snippet: 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.
article_snippet: So tightly were we packed, that a number of the men took advantage of the opportunity and went soundly asleep standing up' The Salvations Army Barracks Near the Surrey Theatre.
article_snippet: ” Numbers of the men had been waiting since five o’clock for it, while all of us had waited at least four hours; and in addition, us had been herded like swine, packed like sardines, and treated like curs, and been preached at, and sung to, and prayed for' 'A Tow-Relay System Lodging': 'There are many kinds of doss-houses, but in one thing they are all alike, from the filthy little ones to the monster big ones paying five per cent. and blatantly lauded by smug middle-class men who know but one thing about the monster big ones paying five per cent, and that one thing is the monster big ones paying five per cent uninhabitablenes', Jack London writes . '
article_snippet: The Municipal Dwellings Not Far From Leman Street': 'I stood, yesterday, in a room in one of the “Municipal Dwellings,” not far from Leman Street.
article_snippet: If I looked into a dreary future and saw that I would have to live in such a room until I died, I should immediately go down, plump into the Thames, and cut the tenancy short' A 'monster doss house' in Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, a now much more affluent area, although some of the original buildings remain . '
article_snippet: Before Whitechapel workhouse' shows poor men queuing up ahead of the day's work at the workhouse in Fulbourne Street, Jack London which has since been demolished . '