Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-01
EDINBURGH LETTER.
4 Texans First Impressions Of ihc
Chief City OF scotland.
lis People and their characteristics
4 Fine Climate.
spscial Correspondence of the ease,,e.

| Edinburgh, February 49, have
been la Edinburgh q month toa and
on aud have devoted all my spare
tine 10 secing what OF interest Is IL he
seen here. But s,lll have seen but a
motety of what Is worth seeing,
In this letter, however, | shall not
go into particulars so far us the
sights" aIe concerned. In future
letters | may do SO, but Just now /
have neither the time nor the inclina.
lion to enter on such work. The fac,
IL, ! want to zee every thing here.
worth describing, with very much
more Particularly than | have been
able to do to this time upon IT, e prin.
ciple, YOU will understand, that "SYhut
Is worth doing at all Is worth doing
we'll" | have seen, though, enough
of he country generally. and OF the
people to Justify ms In writing some
thing about them,
When left Texas for Europe, / had
81 fancy hardly defined, tina, was go
iug Ia find the people over here very
ollie ent in almost every way from our
people. | believe la n letter written
for the GAZETTE from London me
months since, | had occasion toinduige
IN u similar remark. / had expected
/ IL Ell
after the typical John Bull, one sees In
the picture papers at home, bus found
them llOkiug very much like Amell.
caus. so with the scotch; / dnd they
I lorll about like the people IN rrNns
aud elsewhere in the Quilted States,
auSl Ia their manners and modes Of
| thought more Resembling our home
! people than the English The latter
are very SLOW in their business ways
| particularly, while the former are, in
n measure "suappy stu even the
| Scotch are very much slower than the
! Texan, ior instance.
! To illustrate what | mean. In Tex.
as ~ don't take a man month TO de.
termiue whether he wants To make u
purchase or effect n sale In England,
"A man +, lucky II he can get "A business
Transaction though in Six months.
aud here he will not reasonably hope
10 d" sis much in less than three
months.
la another respect do these people
differ very materially from the Eng
| llsh. That Is 10 say, they have for
1 years been investing, in American se-
curities, aud have u practical and cor.
! rect knowledge aud Estimate of Amer.
I lea and Americans In England, on
| the other hand, thu business men
know 81 New York, but with them
| New York j. positively the United
/ States of America
! was quite seven months in Lon
/ don, during which time I met hun
| drtds of business men, but not one of
them who bad ever been in the South,
| Here have met perhaps hulf {. hun
bred in all, and full 70 per cent of
J them have been 10 the states, aud 10
| per cent. of them at least have been in
! the South aud Texas.
| 81 that while in London one must
first so to work To educate the people
he would do business with, rs 10 the
United States, or rexas, here he will
often be surprised tat the extent and nc
curacy of tn. Information as to these
p aces exhibited by Edinburgh men.
| / mentioned this fact to leading
business man here yesterday, and he
explained IL by saying that there ~
hardly q monled man in Edinburgh
hut, in one way az another, has bust
aes- in erests ia Texas
SO that when inuo luce mpsalf, or
am introduced ms from Texas
am never met with
MS oh. indeed! Why, that is i'll Ameri-
ca. isn'l III"
1t used TO be the ease that all roads |
lead 40 Rome In This country II is
sill the case that dikFOuds in business
or otherwise, lead to london. When
Scotland was u kingdom, and Edo
burgh was esp ia city and p,riia.
nirHt town all scotch roads lead 10
AUD R,ekig,n as this place was
called, this designation, translated
being still thai given TO the old town
of EIinboro. Then il WAS pre.emi-
uenly the seat Of fashion, wealth, re-
iiuement and education.
But with the "union,n which re-
suited on the accession OF james VI. of
scotland, who became James |. OF
England as we'll Edinburlh lost her
and with II much of her
fashion though there Is still much
wealth here, and it Is the seat of
great university Now. fashionable
people - to London during 1.-THE sea
-on,p and only those remain here who
have not the ,3iii'ee To London society,
whirl.
Hence IL Il that the tyrannical rules
of fashion which obtain in London are
not 80 much in force here. ! Was
! ruck with this fact when 4 first
walked down Princess street, the FASH
ionable boulevard OF Edinburgh.
In London had felt CONF
pelled 10 wear u silk
hat whenever ! went Into q business
center on bu.iness. a guide-boOk had
Informed me that IL would
be "a necessity and soon discovered
that the gnide-bOok was correct But
Ia Ed ni,urgha gentleman Is as much
pul al fasho. In a st0ye-pipe bat ~ be
/, in Loudpn with q Derby. True,
gentlemen wear Defbies In London,
hu they look little odd In them, just
=, theylwear tie stoye-pipes here aud |
look little odd In them. SO In the I
matter Of dress generally. Here gem
Llemen dress much less, aud seem 10
care less than ia London for appear
lnces
- far though as the ladies are con-
rerned, must he permitted 70 say thai |
the Edinburgh ldiesaTe not only pref
tier, tut really better dressed than (
those saw Ia London.
On the evening OF the 7t1 inst, my ,
wife and ! went to the Qneep-slreet
hall 10 hear Mr.. Oscar Wide deliver
his lecture, IN which he tells OF bis
Impressions in America In Lon
don we frequently went ort TO snct I
public gatherings az the opetas, con.
uert-, thel.ieTs. etc, and saw many
representative London audiences. 80
that we feel quite capable OF Judging
between them and an Edinburgh
audience. Az any rate, We iorlutu