Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-02-01
IMMENSE LONDON.
the GREAT CITY, WITH ITS DIRT, COARSE.
NESS AND RACKET.

THE GREAT CITY, WITH ITS DIRT, COARSE
NESS AND RACKET.
Tocolprc Child in New York Sun
| do not intend to make any positive
statements, but simply to record some
impressions Of one of those flying visits
that ! have occasion to make to Eng,
land every two or three years. Now
this time | WIS particularly struck by
the want of comfort i'll this country
that has become nevertheless proven
bial for It's comfort Take London,
for instance, with its noise and dirt
and coarseness. its interminable streets
of paltry and ugly houses, its squares
with their splendid trees. its West End
mansions ablaze with brilliant flowers
suspended along the front like the
pcnsile gardens Of Babylon, the Thames
with its hazy charm, the delicious in
dlsiinctncss of the Gothic aud RenaiS-
sance monuments looming through the
bluc-gray mist, the parks with their
ihrong Of well appointed oIuipages -
1t is immense, imposing impressive,
wonderful; but how unsocial how
rcposeless and full of racket! In
London YOU seem to be always in trains
or cabs or omnibusos. In the trains
You breathe sulphurous atmosphere
that chokcs YOU; in tho omnibuses you
are poisoned by the smell of the dirty
straw that is spread on the floor; in
the cabs you are deafcncd by the rat
thing Of the hugh wheels that rcrolve
on each SIDE of you, You are panied by
the inevitable spectacle OF The pony and
haras cl beast that draws You, and
Your sense OF danger is kept constantly
awake 10y the drivers mania for rushing
ut hcadloug speed and cutt!nr Things
IA fine as the feather edge If u razor.
Walking Is out Of the question, owing
To the great distances between point
and point; and when yUu walk IN tho
streets yon are continually worried by
ragged shochllchs, who call public. at
tcntion I" your Invariably dirty boots
with oilers To shine en- The Lon
don street boy is terrible nuisance,
whether hc ollcr to black your boots, to
sell You Us boXc, of matches for penny,
or to provide you with the evening
papers, Tho Globe, The Matrimonial
News or The Mashar, the latter being
the organ OF the London dudes, chap
pcs, Johnnie5, or gommics. For that
matter there seems to he no escape from
the h.yS all over the country. Eyen at
the venerable and respectable Ship
hotel ut Greenwich, 70 sooner do YOU
appear Mt window than Won are rs.
sailed b. "a choru, Of mudlarks who. rs
long - you are visible, dcafen YOU with
erie, of Halo, sir. Chuck down the
coprcrs"
No, really The immensely of the city
renders social lie next to impossible,
cN'opt for tie Privileged few who are
IA socicty, and have their town houses
md carriages ami servants. But, leav-
ing ont Of the N, stion tbs minority,
tale the lie OF hundreds of thousands
# Louloncr>. living at liighgate. koos-
lug'on. Surhitpn or Hampstead. Inn
agino the condition of tie men WHO
begin c,,rv day il the vcch witt the
prescription III catching such mi
-uch train for the city, Il lrcocc,lra-
tom which rturnS within their business
a. over. Tor the women iulH to
come To- town is quite al ati't;r. and
1t t. To theatre, with all tae com
ph'At. pu, ~ GONG and returning. is an
adventure n'i $ 'oH f. he forgotten. OF
course people get uS'd 70 tbs ince.,ant
tram taking. but VIXEN You are not
used - It you feel inclined to donbt
whether LIE b. worth living IN such
condition