Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-01
LONDON LIFE.
An Old wheeling Boy at Ito Derby
Races.
NOW TINE PRINCE OF WALES DRESSED.
His Royal Highness in Drag With Our
Own vanderbilt-The Railroad King
Saubbsd-The Great Fish Mo-
nopoIy = Marwood, the
Great Excutioneer.

/ Special Correspondence OF he Regtaef.
| LONDON, June Perhaps the most
thoroughly English scene in the world
is the Derby race as annually run upon
Epsom Downs, about twenty miles from
London. This year the day was lovely,
the road more crowded than ever, and
every body in apparently the highest
spirits.
The Prince of Wales, dressed in a
white and black checked suit ofclothes
with low crowned round top white
derby hat, and field glass Ia q patent
leather case strung over his shoulders
was on the Downs early and mingled
freely with those about him.
He is undoubtedly
The Most Popular Prince
| in Europe. He was accompanied by
the Princess and his children, but with
out guard, depending upon the love
and royalty of those about him for pro-
lection. Just before the start the Prince
crossed the track amidst the greatest
cheering and mounted the drag Of the
Duke of Westminster. Mr.. VIM. II.
Vanderbilt has been the Dukes guest
for some days past, and barring the
Prince was perhaps the object of more
interest than other gentleman of this
distinguished party, among whom were
the Duke of COnnaught, the Duke of
Cambridge, Sir Thomas and Lady
Brassey, the Dukes of Manchester and
Lady Alice Montague.
The Prince backed st. Blaise freely,
entering his bets in little book which
he carried in his hand.
The Betting
was to I against St. Blaise, but the
Prince had so much faith in the tips"
given him that he was taken OF
all such odds. st. Blaise won the race.
There are some curious rumOr5 in circu-
lation. One is that the Prince is half
owner of st. Blaise, another is that his
personal winnings amounted to over
100000, and still another that Mr.. Van
derbilt sent the Prince his check after
the race for $1,000, to pay a bet which
he supposed the Prince had made with
him, but His Royal Highness returned
it with his compliments saying Mr..
Vanderbilt must be mistaken, as he
had no such bet entered in his book.
Was this q snub? The attendance thi,
year is estimated to have been larger
than ever before and it may be inter-
esting TO give an extract from state
ment made by Willing the contractor
who undertook to keep
The Great English Stomach
satisfied during the day.
There were consumed he says go
dozen of spirits, 40 dozen wine; 1900
dozen bottles of ale; $50 dozen bottles
of steut; 5000 dozen lemonade, ginger
beer, soda water, and settler water; $50
barrels draught ale, 80, 900 cups OF tea
and coffee, II tons of meat, 10000 buns
and cakes, car loads Of salad, D tons OF
potatoes, 1000 loaves of bread, 1900
dinners; $1,000 worth of fruit was sold,
and 81 600 worth of sweetmeats. 1t is
estimated $500 worth ofplates were eth
er broken or lost. The staff in the re-
freshment departments numbered | lao
persons. In the lavatOry $4,000 towels
were used. These figures, of course, do
not include these luncheOns brought to
the Downs.
The great international fisheries eX-
hibitiOn now being held in the south
Kingstown district of London continues
very popular. The miracle which the
projectors of this undertaking particu-
larry wish to work is a cheap supply of
S Ias for tbb cy S sffh her fhen
IA, coo inhabitants had two fish markets,
but great London has to-day but one,
i. e., only one to which fishermen can
bring their fish, that is Billingsgate
market which is monopolized and
operated by the honorable company of
fish managers.
This ring was formed nearly
SIX Hundred Years Ago
while the market was only built
in 1899, about 100 years before the
Revolution: but like any other anti
quated custCm, the one of supporting
these turtle-fed champagne.drinking
city monOpolies, receive religiously the
steady support of the English WHIP love
| to dc as their fathers did, and who be-
lieve that q nation that breaks with its
| old customs will soon die.
Every pound of fish marketed in Lon
don has to filter through Billingsgate
under the supervision Of the Fishmon-
gers Company, whose interest it IS
| never to permit the market to be glutted
enough to depreciate prices. To such
| ridiculous extent is this carried that
there are many days after the catch has
been large, when hundreds of tons of
| fresh fish are refused admission into
| Billingsgate, and which, as conse-
| uuence, has TO be sold as manure, and
all this while thousands OF poor
wretches in London are starving for the
want of food.
To remedy this, the Baroness Burdett
Coutts erected
An Opposition Market
some years ago, and hopes were enter
tanned that cheaper supply Of fish for
| the benefit of the poorer classes would
have been secured, but after struggling
| gallantly through considerable period
| OF dismal failure, the philanthropic at
| tempt was abandoned. 1t is hoped the
present exhibition will revive the at
| lacks upon Billingsgate, and that more
| tangible results may follow.
AT Leeds, in Yorkshire, there Is a
shoemakers shop where cobbler pegs
away at WORKOUT soles almost without
cessation, except when called away upon
| official state business. He is thin,
spare little man, with grizzled gray
hair, whose name is Marwood, the Of
fetal executioner of the United King
P uOIu. he 10 tSISSiophS" ioA ~ @hy
sheriff who has criminal to execute,
aud between Ireland, Scotland and
England his hands of late have been
full. He continues his business of shoe
making because he knows the curious
will patronize him, although there are
times when people are entirely too curl
Gus for his comfort, as was recently the
case in Ireland, where he could not
leave the Jail, except under a strong
escort, and even then he was hooted st
and stoned by the poor wretches who
regard the Phoenix Park murderers mar
tyrs.
in a provincial town he ispressed round
about by such mobs of men, women
and children anxious to see and If pos
sible hear him speak that he not unfre-
auently has recourse to a back door, OF
a private gate to make his escape. Mar
| woods fees are cl0.l0 fifty dollsrs) fol-
each execution. Besides this his travel
ing expenses are paid both ways, and
he claims the,clothes of those who suffer
IS 3 perquisiteof office. When shefittS
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