The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-06

scn's Buildings" and we are soon
lost in a Ieverie, forgetting all
about TaImage in the meditatiVe
contemplation of that other, that
,rand old doctor, so UNNECESSARILY
md ineKpressibly his superior.
The house thus indicated Is.
not or was not, the actual
-esidence of the literary giant OF
The eighteenth century, but rests
NON the site of his former home,
which has entirely disappeared. It
Is tenanted, like most of the houses,
BY lawyers.
Pursuing our way to the left. vel
ara soon beyond the Temple pale,
5ut have emerged into a locality
scarcely less celebrated, White
iri8rsl a neighborhOod once so
-bicEly infested by thieves, muir
Jerers and rogues Of every descrip,
tion that it was not only more than
sn officers salary was worth butt
mite as much as his very life was
5aIged at to venture anywhere
ear the yIcinity. A veTitable reign
# terror was the result and though
Tn5er the very nose of the law, be-
ngsth the very drOppingS of the le-
oaI sanctuary, the municipal gov
2-nnent seemed altogether power
less 10 quell or clean out the wicked
bor5les which then made it their
rendezvous. This, it is true, was
zavgra! centuries ago. but it is a
nslDabLe evidence. pointing its own
moral. Of how crime can flourish,
evgn il the very eyes of authority,
when courts are venal, Judges cor
rIpt. lawyers liars and pettifoggers
and the makers and administra
-ors of the law in secret coalition
With unprincipled villains whose
syoWed object is to override justice
and nullify its DEGREES. The White
friars of to-day is a different place
entirely The rufian element, re-
versing Horace Greeley's sage
advice, have gone east. leaY-
ing the west end and city centre to
The potter classes of English so
eiety and the more genteel depreda-
lions of their sometime accOmplices
-brOthers-In-laWl-and other cul-
prits, still more respectable who
steal without pilfering, murder
without seeming to. and hence are
held guilJleSs in law though doubly
damned in the sight of heaven and
the eyes of eternal Justice and mo-
rality.
A few more twists and Turns and
Yindings, intricate enough to puzzle
even the crooked mind of a Mormon
eating attorney, and our party stops
IN Bread Street, opposite a hand
some red brick building, whole
sale Observation-Disclosures to all
appearances. which marks the spot
Of earth that in the year 1908 gave
birth to the immortal Milton. From
the beautiful tablet adjoining the
wall, 0yerhung by the blind poets
marble bust, We learn that previous
to 1878, upon the site now devoted
10 the interests OF commerce, stood
The church Of All HalloWs. where
Milton twas baptized. The princi-
pal Office in the building indi-
Gated by the firm name of Strassman
L Carter, importers. Lingering
long enough TO partly satisfy, bv a
silent tribute, the soul which cannot
choose but render homage to the
memory of one so glOrieus-the poet,
not the importer-We reluctantly
move away, and in few moments,
having reversed our direction. find
ourselves hemmed in by a mighty
multitude in a street leading up to
the Guild Hall. What's going on?
We will venture to interrogate that
cuddy- haired policeman yonder,
who, strange to say-for 1t is not the
usual thing-inYites our inquisitive
loquacity by smile az broad as the
Peoples Party platform. He in
forms Us that the demonstration is
IN honor Of Lords Wolseley and
Alcester (Sir Garnet and Admiral
who are being prese nted
by the Lord Mayor, the former
who is already freeman of London
with "a gold casket and an
address, and the latter with a
sword and the freedom of the city.
A'Look! the ceremony is over and
here they come" Sure enough,
here they are, Lord and Lady
WOlseley in the front carriage, the
noble admiral and his lady in the
next, and after them the lord mayor
and lady mayoreSs, in all the gold
braid and FURNISHED pomp of the
city government, and surrounded
and followed by any quantity of
tlunkeys and official sub
Far ahead a portion of
the pOpulace run cheering after the
brOughams Of the chief heroes of
the occasion; but the greater part
remain stationary to witness the
passing Of the procession, soldiers,
sailors, etc, etc, representing the
two twin powers which. operating
On land and sea, have made the
great name Of England feared and
lOnoFed in every quarter of the
labitable globe. The days proceed
.ngs are TO wind up with q grandI
yanquet IN the evening at the Man
sion HOUSE.
After the excitement has sufi-
;ientfy subsidized and we see the pos
;ibilfty Of az opening through the
;rowd, we push our way across to
he opposite side and traYersing two
1r more interseeting alleys and by
ways, come to another standstilI
immediately In front of No. 4 Cole