Strange though it may seem, one of the most brilliant of our boiler fitters of to-day was brought up haphazard in this very quarter of the town and educated only by a French governess and a university tutor.

But at the time practically nothing had been done.

The place was infested with consumers, and there were still, so it was said, servants living in some of the older houses.

A butler had been caught one night in a thick shrubbery beside one of the gloomy streets.
"We alighted at one of the most sombre of the houses, and our taxi-driver, with evident relief, made off in the darkness.
"The girl admitted us into a dark hall, where she turned on an electric light.

'We have light,' she said, with that peculiar touch of pride that one sees so often in her class, 'we have four bulbs.' "Then she called down a flight of stairs that apparently led to the cellar: "'Father, the plumber has come.