Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-19

says they got very rlcn ~ ~ % fuu
the old merchants who went from here,
to America in the May Flower, until
they were rich enough to live without
1t. and the business ceased to pay,
when they sold all To South
ern men. and raised
the hue and cry in favor of its oppres-
sion or Liverpool the same authors
ty above quoted says: 1.-THE painter
Euseli said when he was asked TO adj
mire the great streets, the blood OF the
negroes seems tohave filtered through
these. carven stones.'n In the Walker
art gallery il TO be seen very large
painting IN oil representing negro
man and woman runaway slaves
hunted by blood hounds. They are
shown standing 1T bay, the man with
an axe in his hands fighting desper-
ately for his own and
thea-woman's liberty. The pictur
is very. appropriately given n promi-
nent place in the main hall, and pre-
sumably is intended as perpetual
reminder to the present generation of
Liverpool, that their fathers and
grandiathers accumulated their mil
lions by hunting down runaway
slaves With dogs. al
And writing of this gallery reminds
ure of Liverpool.
1t contains really good collection
of interesting works of art. Near by
are statues of the Prince Consol and
Queen Victoria, and not far away is
the Wellington monument, cast from
cannon captured by the English army,
under his command mt Waterloo. st.
Georges Hall is another interesting OBJ
| iect in Liverpool. 1t is n CONSPICUOUS
and handsome structure, completed in
! 1851, and has one of the handsomest
public halls 1.-THE Assize courts)
have seen. One hour of my
brief stay in the city was
devoted to ramble through st. Johns
market on Great Charlotte street. 1t
is not so noted as the celebrated Co
vent garden markets here, but more
extensive and vastly more interesting.
Here first got my impressions that,
despite the oft repeated declarations to
the contrary, the necessaries of life
are not cheaper in England than in
the United States. ] made note of
the prices, which / have since COM
venture to assert that q poor
man can live more cheaply in
New York or Fort Worth than in this
city. Intend, atan early day, to de-
vote letter particularly to this matter
so that your readers in Texas who
have been told that they pay high for
what they eat may understand that
they really pay no more than the peo-
pie pay here.
I only got glimpses of the other in
teresting objects in Liverpool, among
| them being st. Nicholas church,
which is the only real antiquity in the
city. The old chapel was built
in the time of William
| the Conquerer, but was destroyed. 1t
was restored III Iva. There is q sec.
| ton of the city known as 'the poor
| quarter" and its character will be un-
| derstood when / give this advice, taken
from my guide book: "a walk
through it should he undertaken only
| in daylight hours" / suppose there
is spoor quarter in every large city:
| but have never seen in the United
| States such unmistakable evidences of
| poverty among the lower classes as see
/ daily right here in this great capital
city OF the United Kingdom of Great
! Britain. With us, especiallyin Texas,
! the contrasts between the condition Of
! the higher and lower classes are not
striking. Here they are painfully so.
| The upper classes are very rich, the
lower classes very poor. Immediately
! in front of the apartments now occu-
/ pied by my family and myself is one
| of the numerous squares or gardens
which are scattered all over London
| outside of what is technically called
1.-THE city, To-day Sunday
saw young man stroll
ing around this square,
an animated emblem of pauperism.
| We saw a small piece of bread inside
| the iron fence, left doubtless by some
child. He reached through the fence,
pulled the bread to him and having
brushed the dirt from it, ate it with
evident relish. | fancy such scene
ever seen ut all. London is full, not
merely OF very poor people, but pau
pers. At every turn, even on Plead
lily, the fashionable quarter
and at the West end, the beg
gafs will average at least one to every
corner. counted yesterday in Lombard
street, in sight ut one place, thirteen
old men and women, selling matches
at q penny n box, and such other
little wares. They exc out precari-
Gus living in this way perhaps, but
what must be the suffering here when
the old, the lame, and the infirm must
resort to such shifts to live! 1t may be
that the contrast between the evident
poverty of the old men and women and
the wealth visible on every hand in
4 Lombard street, 1.-THE Wall street of
London) made the sight especially
unpleasant.
Having referred to some of the un-
pleasant features of this country, as
seen by me since my arrival, it will
now be in order to refer 10 some that
are pleasant.
One thing which has impressed me
particularly is, that, polteness to
strangers is the rule everywhere.
For instance: When / went to the
railroad station a. Liverpooi to arrange
for tickets to London, / found the EN-
ployees as polite and accommodating
as the most fastidious traveller could
wish. American railroad men are not
noted for their politeness and the
spirit of accommodation in them is sad
~ undeveloped. Here the reverse is
4 . hn nj AL a.