Wapping

Great Britain

With ten miles of hose 300 London firemen fought a towering blaze in the dreary slum of Wapping last week while cordons of polite police kept 100,000 spectators at bay.

Fire--though beaten at last--did not exactly lose the fight. Poor though Wapping was, appraisers figured the property loss at "not less than one million pounds" ($4,860,000). Two thousand wretched Wappingites were burnt out of the tenements and hovels they called home.

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