Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-10
"a DOCTOR ABROAD.
What a Chicago Physician Saw Dur
ing His Vacation in Europe.
Good Sewerage and Cleanli-
ness Historical Sights
Worth Seeing.

Rome, and Geneva. Speaking of his expert
ence in London The Tribune says:
He arrived in London, underground, and
| took rooms at the Imperial, on Hoburn via
duct He looked out from his window and
| saw that London throng which, having seen
once no man can ever forget SO long as he is
alive. He saw the church of st. Sepulchre
| hard by, ancient as the town He found the
| tomb of Capt. John Smith, which reminded
him of Pocahontas. He saw Newgate prison;
went to the house of parliament, and stood
| in the old theatre where he was told Shaks-
! peare had once played He loitered about
| the old hotels which he had read of in the
| Pickwick papers, was shown the troughs
! from which the stage horses were watered in
! those times long gone by when stages were
! the only means of locomotion, and actually
! stood in the rooms where some of Dickens
characters had been placed
| He strolled along the strand, in Fleet street,
on Cheapside, went to Westminster, and out
| upon Black Friar's road. He stood upon the
principal London bridge at night, lighted
| with electricity, and watched the countless
multitude on the promenade of the stone en-
! bankments, which ne says are wonderful in
! their construction. Here he saw the obelislS
! erected by one of his own profession, DR..
| Erasmus Wilson. Standing upon this bridge
; his thoughts winged their way back to Chi
| cage. He remembered the bridges here and
! wondered how long man could stand upon
one of them without holding his nose. On
| the London bridge there was no odor from
/ the sweep of the Thames or anywhere around.
| He began to think about sanitation. He
| found that the river beneath him washed it.
| self out twice day; that the sewers did not
empty their filth into the water which the
London people drank; and he could real
| ize then what idiots we are in Chicago who
do just the reverse.
| He examined the street pavenlents and
sidewalks there. The former were of granite
put down with such solidity that even the
| thunder of the great city failed to jar them
There was no wood under foot anywhere to
! rot and decay and poison the atmosphere, 'as
| here.
| He noticed the people. Their eyes were
bright, their step elastic, their checks roseate,
! their lips red Physically, morally, and
mentally they were in advance of any people
he had known. They work later than we DO,
/ but they sleep later. They have no vicious
| habits. They are orderly Sunday. A man
cannot find restaurant or saloon open in
| London Sunday. He cannot buy chew of
! tobacco, hardly, on any day for that matter.
| The people smoke less than Americans, and
! as for drinking coffee and tea, that was some
thing the masses never did, as with Aineri
cans. people in America" he said, can
| get coffee and tea, no matter how poor the
| people may be, and that is why they drink SO
much Of them. They use them for stinu-
| lants when nature demands rest, and when
| they fail they take to something stronger.
| And added to these they have immoral ideas
suggested BY immoral books and immoral
! pictures in the shop windows. | saw none of
! these things in the shop windows and book
/ stores of London"
| He noticed that the people of London had
! good meat to eat; that they lived on an
island over which an ocean was ever blowing,
and that their buildings were ventilated.
| They kept their windows open and let in the
air. Their Easements were dry. There were
| no water closets and water pipes in their
houses, and such thing as sewer-gas was I'M
| heard of. A man in hotel washed his hands
and face in basin or bowl, and the water
and slops were carried out of the building.
! There was no such thing as earthenware pipes
| for drainage.
81 want so say" he remarked, chat the
abominable drainage in Chicago is a curse to
the people. They put in this earthenware
| pipe; it is laid on the sand; the sand settles;
the pipe cracks; the gases escape and cess
pools form under our floor. We inhale the
odor of this filth, and then we wonder why
we get pale in the face, emaciated in the
body, and nervous. Why, I never saw a
nervous man or woman in London. The
equality of temperature, of course, in Lon
don is conducive to good health. That we
cannot have, but we can have the other
things-good house drainage and
plumbing. I never met man or
woman in London who couldn't sleep well.
In Chicago 1 never find one who
can. In London they take rest when the
brain demands it. In Chicago we never
take any. In London they drink stock ales,
and sometimes, of course, something stronger.
In Chicago we drink everything. In Lon
| don they stop their business and take COM
fort We never stop. Our growth is too
rapid. In London they have grown gradu
ally. They are used to metropolitan ways,
and know how to take them. We do not
Did you ever notice how healthy the Jew
was? He is used to city life. He has grown
up with it. He is a metropolitan. So is tie
London man."
The last week he was in London he stopped
| at the Royal hotel One Sunday morning he
awoke, and raising his window he heard
something that was strangely beautiful. 1t
was the ringing of the church bells. He lis
! tened, and their sounds blended and undu
lated. The harmony was not broken. 1t
seemed as if it would never cease, and he
seemed as if he could live in it forever. Il
realzed,n he said, chow innumerable they
were How they were all in tune at once,
and such strange feelings I never experienced
before as | realized that there was in their
midst, in the city which was historical, on
| ground which the Romans invaded"
He went to Windsor and through the cas-
tie, and no one seemed to intercept him as he
wandered about the home of royalty. The
doors were open and so were the gates. and
he was never asked for a shilling by any
guide He stood by the tomb of the poet
Gray, and looking out he was shown the
| ''ivy mantled tower" from which the ''mop
| ing owl to the moon complained" the very
same which, it is said, suggested the thought
to the poet in his "Eegy"
In the chapel of st. George he saw the
statue of the prince imperial, the memorial
erected by Queen Victoria. He was struck
with one thing about the English people, they
were as eager curiosity seekers as we. They
haunted the old places, the churches, the
| places where abbotts are asleep, the ancient