Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-10

.6f business surface seems end.
I'd you can hardly get out Of the
D!5ge Of stores. saw no stores like
Stewards, however, and no business houses
in succession like those on Broadway.
The streets are Of good width general =,
though many of the most important in q
. business point of view, are very crooked
and narrow, and they have . fashion Of
naming short portions Of what ought to be
considered the same street, BY different
names, and it would be almost impossible
to find given locality were It not for the
"cabbies," who, for shilling will take you
rapidly to any place within the area Of .
mile, and drive you almost une,ringly to
the number. The cab system of London
10 an excellent one, and il the least expen.
sive of anything We found there. The no.
tells are generally miserable, and they have,
apparently. no idea Of the comforts and
fuxuries which Americans expect and got
in their hotels. Such thing ~ . bath.
room connected with sleeping rooms are
not heard Of, and indeed, few houses in
London, hear, have bathrooms ct oil.
Then gas is not fond except in the public
rooms of the hotel, and when you 60 70
your room you must needs take . sperma-
Get; candle with you, which makes reading
or writing, If not difficult, certainly uncom.
Portable. Neither is water brought into the
rooms except in pitchers, and It doee not seem
80 free as in the United States. The
rooms are not 90 nicely furnished, either, 81.
though in this respect ours were comforta.
bic enough. Ice is scarce enough, and ice.
water luxury that is only obtained on de.
mand. But there everybody drinks ale,
and l must say that It is 90 good that one
don't care much for water. Some Of the
modern blocks of buildings sre very grand,
with highly ornamented fronts, and reach.
ing mp Eve and six stories. But the
mass Of the old residences about Regents
Park. occupied still By the nobility, are
rather plain on the exterior. although evi.
IDENTIFY roomy and comfortable within. But
about St. James Park and back from
Hyde Park, and throughout Paddineton
and Brompton, and the whole west end Of
London, there is vast region of residen.
ces that are quite handsome, resembling -
to size, the brown.stOne rows Of New York.
They are oil built of brick, however, of .
light color, covered with mastic, and arc
not so handsome ~ brown stone. They
are occurred BY persons having an income
Of . thousand pounds and upwards, - va
are told BY an intelligent English gentle.
man who drove US over the district, and
pointed out to us the many residences Of
the royal family and nobility. Bucking-
ham Palace, the city residence Of the
Queen, is . very fine structure, and very
large ons-of rather modern design and
origin, having been built so or so years
ago. It is surrounded on three sides BY
St. James Park, the Green Park and the
Palace Gardens, but on one side business
comes close up to Il, which 10 the great
fault Of oil the public buildings in London.
The Parliament House fronts on tho
Thames, and is most deliberately embel-
iished Gothic structure, Of brick, faced
with An inferior quality Of stone, which,
like everything else in London, is diseoior-
cd By the smoke Of tho bituminous coal.
We had . quo opportunity to see the Par.