The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-08

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Der Of Horrors.
Editorial correspondence u
LONDON, July 22.--When Loh ,, -
told that the new business pu,luings y,
New York are reaching the elevatlon OF
seven TO nine stories, he looks iat you WIN
amazement, as four stories Is allhost 'ns
extreme height here, and the eIevaIlon VI
the upper stories not more tuan s1'.n ~
nine feet. He wants to KNOW wnat use
these upper stories can be put 10, ana wheh
told they are reached by elevators, ne re-
plies that we only use Hts ior ho.cs,
the new depot hotels being all SIX or seven
stories In height. As much OF necessity
az elevators have become to us, they are
not yet used for business purposes In Lon
don. and the main rent OF q building comes
from the lower stories, many tradesmen
living over their places OF business.
SMOKY LONDON.
We expected to find the Strand. Fleet
street, and Ludgate street.-the great btsl-
ness centres--improved and moderniZed;
but with the exception OF the vicinity OF
the Bank OF England there has been but
little change since our visit four years ago.
ST. Paul's and the ancient churches along
the route are more black and gloomy than
ever, and even the new buildings that have
been erected have lost their brightness,
and are gradually becoming sooty and
begrimed. All attempts to beautify Lon
don must necessarily be failures, so long
as its bricks are yellow and its SCOT and
smoke soil everything they light upon. A
new building becomes blackened in little
time, and has a more forbidding aspect
than the ancient structures that bear that
CRIME Of ages. st. PauPs is built OF white
marble, but it is solid black, with some
few whitened spots upon 1t where some
pieces Of ciumbing marble have been cut
out and new pieces inserted in its walls.
The statue OF Queen Elizabeth, with four
female figures on the corners OF the pedes-
tai, in front Of the Cathedral, could scarce
" be more sombre If they had received
a coat Of black paint But, to LoDdoner,
this adds to its beauty, and it would be
considered an act OF sacrilcge to attempt to
clean and renovate them. So also with all
the numerous monuments and statues to be
found in London. All are black, and will
scarcely become more so when an addi-
tioual hundred years OF the smoke and
CRIME OF ages have been added to their
present aspect.
MADAM TUssAUD'S wAX-wORKs.
The first thing to do on reaching Lon
don is to pay visit to "Madam Tussaud's
Wax-Works," which is daily and nightly
thronged, and is good place OF an evening
for Americans to meet Americans. The
great attractions now are the figures OF
Guiteau, Lord Cavendish, and Secretary
Burke. the latter OF whom were recently
assassinated In Dublin. Guiteau is in the
Chamber OF Horrors and several Of our
party having seen him when on trial, pro-
nounced it a most excellent likeness-much
better than most OF his photographs. \
figure Of Garfield was recognized at Il
glance, only the hair was too much
tinged with gray. Alr. Lincoln, General
Grant, and Andy johnson are all poor
likenesses, and would scarcely be re-
cOgnized by those who knew them. The
Queen and the royal family are all pro-
nounced by Enelishmen to be excellent,
and there is always crowd OF spectators
around this extensive group, which en-
braces fifty or sixty figures, all in court
dress. All the great men OF the past CEN
fury was TO be found in the collection,
with other notables OF later age. In the
Chamber OF Horrors there are several hum
dred figures OF all the great criminals OF the
world. Guiteau is fittingly placed by the
side OF Burke, the great Scottish assassin,
who, about fifty years ago, killed twenty
men, women, and children in Edinburgh,
in order to furnish " cadavers" for the
dissecting-room. The great attraction OF
this collection consists in its artistic
excellence, causing spectators, at times, to
DE bewildered. II spectator takes seat
he is apt to find himself stared at to see
whether he is really figure or spectator,
particularly, il sitting still; whilst, on Ia
king seat beside sitting individual,
whom he supposes TO be fcllow-spectator,
starts up in surprise to find that he is add
ing one to the waX-wOrk attractions. All
the royal dignitaries are arrayed in royal
robes, and are so perfect that they appear
to be calmly regarding the procession OF
spectators. All American attempts at wax.
work have been so shocking and unnatural
that they have never proved paying ven-
ture since Powers, who was afterwards re-
garded as the great American sculptor,
abandoned the business at Cincinnati. some
fifty years ago.
THE TOWER OF LONDON.
We visited this morning the Tower of
London, which stands as it has for ages. as
the pride OF London. When the bloody
acts Of tyranny that had been perpetrated
in this ancient structure are reflected upon
one would think that it ought long since to
have been RACED to its foundations, like the
Bastile OF Paris. We passed through the
Bloody Tower, the Bell Tower, to Beau
schamp, Devereaux, Flint, Bowyer, Brick,
Jewell, Constable, Broad, Arrow, Salt, and
Record Towers, all OF which have their
bloody histories and traditions. The
Bloody Tower is the traditional scene OF the
massacre OF the royal princes, the two chill
dren Of Edward ", in 1883. The
Bell Tower was Queen Elizabeths