Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-04-28
ImpreaniOna Of London.

Streets crossing each other at all angles
except right angles. Streets built up on
both sides with plain, yellow brick houses
for miles in length. Streets running under
massive viaducts built of granite and iron.
Streets crossing each other on arches of
stone. Streets commencing broad and we'll
built, with magnificent ediices, diminish
ing into dirty lanes, the abode of poverty
and vice. Streets commencing straight and
ending in a curve. Streets curved at both
ends and crooked in the middle. Streets
paved with blocks of granite, others with
asphatum. Exceptional streets laid in
Nicholson. Streets at the west magnificent
beyond description, through which the
rich roll in elegant carriages, attended by
servants in ostentatious liveries.
Streets in the east where honest poverty
aud hideous vice jostle against each other
in the daily struggle for existence. Lanes,
alleys, dark courts, obscure passages, by
ways, deusive roads, intricate paths and
uncertain short cuts, all strangely confused.
Shops in the east where the necessaries of
life are sold in subdivisions at u penny
apiece. Shops at tie west filled TO reple-
tion with silks at guinea yard. A river
spanned by a score of stone bridges, each
as firm and solid as the earth itself. Thou
sands OF public buildings, rare specimens
Of beauty, built by world renowned arch-
tects, long since passed away, monuments,
like index fingers, pointing 10 the sky,
countless factories with slender chimneys,
each one pouring out column of black
smoke to cast a gloomy pail over palace
aud shrine.
Docks built far inland, with narrow gates
opening TO the river; docks crowded with
ships from every quarter of the globe; in
Vulnerable passenger steamers shooting the
arches OF bridges, steamships, ships,
barques, schooners, barges, scows, mud
boats, propellers, tugs, dredges, war ves-
sells, canal boats, the floating hospitals aud
| prisons lying at anchor on the dirty water
below the bridges. Thirty miles Of river
bank, lined with great warehouses and
crowded with merchandise frem the ends
of the earth. Millions of people TO meet ;
| omnibuses, cabs, carts, street cars, drays,
carriages, wagons rushing through the
crowded thoroughfare, or crossing the
bridges from side TO side. Railroads every
where; trains crossing the tops o. houses; /;
engines dragging cars for miles under
| ground trains laundering overhead, while
the steam of unseen engines comes up
through the iron gratings at your feet.
Flaming advertisements plastered against
blank walls. Pate-glass shop windows
brilliantly lighted at night from within, and
more brilliantly lighted from the outside.
Gin palaces so radiant that you must wink
when you look at them; gin palaces in
which the poor, silly working people spend
for beer what their children need for food
and clothes; gin palaces where countless
women 20 with infants in their arms TO
drink gin with ragged, bloated mon.
Churches without equal in the world I;
churches with a gin palace on each side /;
churches filled on Sundays with we'll
dressed, intelligent, contented Christian
people churches which are placed on ex-
hibition during the week for hire.
Galleries of paintings, haunts of vice,
gambling saloons, hotels, theatres, muse
ums, gardens, courts, clubs, banking in
stitutions, breweries, colleges, schools, uni
vers!ties, prisons, markets, stalls, palaces
hustled into obscurity behind dirty brick
walls. Immense wholesale business done
in dark, narrow lanes. Buildings of ev-
cry conceivable size, quality and value,
spread thickly over thirty-five square miles
of area, and thlnly over far more-thaps
London.