Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-19
OUTSIDE OF LONDON.
FavOrite Resorts of Metropolitan
Pleasurs-SeekerB.

FavOrite Resorts of Metropolitan
PIeasure-SeekerS.
J. ]. Jennings in the New York World
LONDON, July 2S.-As one result
of warm weather, there is a great
rush of holiday-makers out Of town.
The facilities for getting a change
of scene and air, either for a long
or a short period, are very much
better here than they are in most
places with which am acquainted,
and they constitute one of the great
advantages Of living in Or near
London. There is the railroad al
most at ones door, and it will take
you anywhere. If a man has only
one day to spare, or say from Satur-
day till Monday, there are scores of
places to which he can 90 with the
certainty of finding good lodgings,
plain but quite eatable food, and
the kind of scenery which suits
him best. AS regards hotels, the
further one goes from London, the
better, as a rule, they are. 1t takes
but one hour to get to Brighton,
and there are cheap trains on Sun.
days and Mondays by which thou
sands of workmen go, taking then
families with them. st. Leonard's
and Hastings can be reached in
three hours, and there are at least
half hundred other seaside places
which are at about the same dis.
tance from London. They are all
good--some rather overcrowded
and some rather dear, but l must
say that the prices are low, com
pared with those which prevail al
Long Branch and Newport. l dc
not, however, know SO good a beach
as there is at Newport, although
some very fine specimens on 9
smaller scale may be seen in the
Isle of Wight. Most of the Eng
lish beaches are covered with stones
and shingle-a good hard sand is
not common except in Devonshire
and the Isle of Wight, ! speak
however, only of places which
have actually visited, although they
are not few in number. Scarbor-
ough has a magnificent beach, but
it is a long journey from London
in a railroad car. In hot. weather
the railroad carriages are intoler.
able-the cushions are full Of dust
and dirt, and there is generally q
big round, greasy mark at the back
to show where the heads of some
scores of passengers have rested
before you. The heavy cloth hang
ings are in a condition, on most
lines, which can only be described
by rather a coarse but expressive
beastly, In this respect, ]
notice a great change in English
railroad carriages. Rails and roll
ing stock have alike gone into a
bad state, and it is a most uncom'
mon thing to find a train keeping
its time, fact which alone goes fal
to explain the shocking frequenct
of accidents here Of late years
If you go by second class, you fine
the carriages so narrow that you
are thrust forward into the knees O.
your yis-a-vis, and so crammed with
people that you are nearly stiflet
WITH bad smells and bad air. Yor
will have the advantage Of travel
inc with all the servants Of thC
| families who happen to be going BY
that train, and FAIRS" they put OIL
are quite marvellous in their way a.
those of their employers. There
will also be a strong detachment o
squalling children, very fat ole
womanZperhaps it is merely my
bad luck, but | am always shoyeC
into carriage with that fat ole
woman-and perhaps soldier, wh'
begins to make love to the servan
girls. Trunks are poked under tn
seats, and bandboxes are nursed OF
, the knee-sometimes | have beel
asked to "hold one, just q minute