The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-26

NRULlldt1OA I
,ometimes there is a narrow, and
enaIIv a crooked outlet from this
eptre TO this street, three or four
aet wide. called a close. These
no made to run by tenement houses
Usually emit an offensive odor from |
he manner in which they are kept.
Your readers will not be surprised
when | tell them that the houses, both
and dwelling in Glasgow, are
nearly all of stone with slate roof. L
presume | have travelled twenty i've
niles In Glasgow. and in all that route
| did not find a single wooden house,
and only about half dozen brick
houses. 1t is incalculable to estimate
the amount of laborft would require
to construct a great city like this, with /
o capacity to accommodate a half /
million inhabitants, with all the pub
lie buildings, manufactures and 9th /
er business houses with which the |
CITY abounds. The traveller may go |
for days up one street and down
another continually passing almost |
unbroken lines of solid heWn mason
nv. from three to four stories high of
stone houses. Everything is built
on the most massive style. b uses,
carriages and vehicles of all descrip-
tons are made very heavy. Two
wheeled hand wagons for one man or
one woman to pull, are almost as
heavy as one of the carts In the
States. Even the draft horses, which
are of the CkydeSdGte stock, from be-
ing bred on the river Clyde, | am sure
| am safe In saying are one-h half larger
than the generality of draft horses In
the United States. They are very
large and square built and very
heavy; move slowly and are most used
for heavy drawing. They have feet
of enormous size, with an abundance
of long hair growing on the hinder
part of all four of their legs, COM
mencing a little below the knee or
hook joint, and increasing in length
and quantity to the fetlock. This
hair is allowed to remain. The draft
collras are of very peculiar style,
being very large and running up to a
point about one and half or two feet
above the horses neck. The haims
are of iron, made to fit the collar I'M
til they come nearly on level with
the neck, and turn out each
way and running up as high as
the collar, presenting q very singular
appearance. The people here have a
very novel and useful invention for
cleaning the streets, which seems to
work admirably. 1t is cylindrical
broom or rather brush, about 8 or 8
feet in length and Is inches in dame
ter, made of whalebone fastened to a
| central rod or axle, and pointing out
ward. It is placed under two
wheeled vehicle drawn by one horse
One end of this brush points to the
front part of the right wheel, while
the other end points to the hinder
part of the left wheel. 1t is so ar.
ranged with cog-wheels and belts that
the forward motion of the vehicle
gives the brush a contrary revolving
motion, thus cleaning the street very
nicely and very rapidly. 1t viii
readily be seen that the slanting posi-
ton of the brush. while it brushes
the dirt in front, also throws it off thu
left end of the brush, where it leave:
it for the next brush to take and throw
one length farther to the left, and 81
on, one team coming right after an
other until the street is clean and al
the dirt thrown in the left hand gut
ter, from which it is Immediately
taken and put on the gardens. No
more than two minutes are required
to clean the street in front OF block
. enough brushes being placed on tt
reach across the street. The street
! are sprinkled here In much the SAM
! manner as in Evansville, with tanl
and tube, with the addition of an irol
arm reaching from each end of tn
sprinkling tube to the axle, to whicl
! it is fastened by the linch-pin.
The citizens of Glasgow are kind
hearted, frank, courteous, and indus
trious people. The style of dress 70
both male AID female, is much th
j.. same as in the United States, excer
! that the ladies neither wear hoops NO
: trails. Their dresses are made afte
the walking style, and while walkin
, even these are raised so as to expos
: about six INCHES Of beautiful EN-
broidery. Most gentlemen wear tn
tall, black silk hat. Costly dressiD
is not carried to the extent in Glas
: Cow that it is In the United States
!. The people here are, perhaps, rath
. er under medium size, and cannot
called handsome. They are q mixtur
of the Celtic and the Anglo SaxoI
with the former predominating. Thei
faces are large and angular, big
; cheek bones; but they bear the loo
! of honesty, as people, and are quit
: industrious. | refer to the highe
: classes.
While at Sabbath school in Glas
: Cow I made some inquiries about th
poor of the city. The Superintendent
= informed me that there were gre;
! number, and kindly volunteered
g conduct me to some of their lodging
y They are mostly immigrants from 1r'
: land, who occupy the inferior ten
. ments which open on the ma
row closes, and live IN great destltl
: ton. | followed my guide throug
= several of these closes, only to behol
Z one scene after another of destltl
= ton, filth and rags. Stopping at tt
g entrance and looking along one
q these closes, we could see the occl
! pants sitting down in the door vii
4 their bare feet and legs, often bare
!, the knees, projecting out into the pa
y sage, the whole length of the clos
and often as high as two or three
/ each door. This embraced old me
. old women and maids of all ages, b.
a not so many young men. Their chill
u rem, half-clad, play in the cutters al
= roll in the dirt. It is no uncommC
=. thing to see these old men and womt
IL Juggling single handed at one of the
. heavy hand wagons, heavily loade
y in the street; or maid of eighties
~ years, with a basket of fish as lar
y as a common sized wash-tub on b
10 back, held by leather strap lash
- around her forehead, and crying o
~ at the top of her voice, as she pass
o along the street, the name of the ar
4 Gle she has for sale, while the lowe
10 fringe of her garments is full fife
&c inches from the granite paYeme
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