New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-13

AID THE CuILDREN-IAbitS FRESH AIN tN+>D
MONEY ORDER IDEAS.
-, - ,,cc ,sloN Al CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
t' loNpON. AugnSt3O
One of the most curious and interesting features
of this great city of five million people, Is It's
rrovincialism. If any one city can be called the
capital of the world. that one city rs. douotless,
London Ii is not only much the greatest in SIZE
hat i'm finance and in commerce. II is the centre oil
the world The multitude of its people. and the
rrca, extent of the city, are almost ovcrpowermg
rather than Impressive When YOU feel sure after
weeks of sight seeing. and of drifting about the
streets in the study of the crowds, that You have
at least general idea Of the geography OF the CIV
Won arc surprised 10 come upon some large district
which YOU have not had a glimpse of before having
it's largo population, ITS theatres. its newspapers
and what not and YOU are made to reahzc again
the great cxpanse and strange variety OF Lohuoh'
After some months Of STAY aud of active work.
YOU are obliged TO admit that you d. nor KNOW
Iopdon. and can never hope To know 1t. though
vour knowledge is probably more comprehensive
than that of one half the people who have lived IN
~ all their lives An Fugli shman. with good deal
of leisure for knocking about came up To friend
not long ago with a look of great pleasure ON ms
face "rvc made discovery said he ana then
hc described a curious old nook he had Glanced
upop within "a stones throw eft Westminster AhheN'
lie was nearly forty year. old, amt MAD
lived ina London an his litc and yet his hndlng
tins spot amid the intcrmiuahlc tmchet OF the
ondon street. was doubtless a real dls'oN-
CRY for prohahlv very few welt to-do Londoncrs
had .epp IL before him There is tradition that
ord Nacmlav walked through every street m Lon-
dan If hc ,lil n must always he matter ct Non-
dor where he found ihr time besides to write his
history. spend series of years mn India and
still die under sixty.
With an this the visitor soon sees that the city,
great and cosmopolitan 10 is rs. nm large part am
aggregation of villages that have gradually grown
together with this popularity as compared with
many great cities IN which the individuality ot the
sctitons has soon been lost IN the greatness oi the
wholc-,hat thcsc sections have IN London, re-
tained thcir separate characters to a remarkable
cyteuL I'm NcW-Nork Cltv for example the Nil-
lagos OF Greenwich aud Chelsea have been so COM
plctcly submerged that few besides thcodci mhab-
ltants know that such places ever existed lhorr
is little trace of the name of Norkville now, and in
few years II will doubtless disappear entirely
,yl1lc that of Harlem VIII follow 10 In TIME But
in London the names of Ishngton. Chelsea White
chapel Row, Bloomsbury. Brompton, Paddmgton
and many other of the fifty odd villages that have
been swallowed up from time to time, still 1--we ana
are in constant use London omnbuSes OF which
more than l00 lines crowd the Strcets-queer, I'M
comfortable il-ventilated vehicles-a;e studded
all over with INc O4u NduIt7 Vl tl''' N44'''@''
Probably this has been due in part TO the fact that
the local government of London IS largely under
the control of the vestrles of the respective par
ishes thus keeping their interests distinct 80 You
find the great city divided up the different sections
havingthcI town-halls their local politics their
local new papers which give the news OF the dis
t.ict and so II Is said spare the great daihes,
which search the world for news the necessity OF
printing anything worth mentioning about the city
IN which they are published, beyond the court re-
port, and few matters of that sort. As for the
Parliamentary proceedings they can hardly be
cla--cd under local news
Tie sturdy conservation of the English
character helps in 1.-THE preservation of
many of these local characteristics that give the
city contrasts and interest II could never get from
mere cosmopChtanism. Taverns that were once
roadside inns keep their quaint old names, and
sometimes even the same look outside and inside.
when they completely lost II the city.
Streets that were once roads are sull
called roads Churches stick IL their places.
instead Of shifting every ten years with the centre
Of rentecl papuati0n. There are, of course, many
reasons for this Qmot hooks form themse YES IN
Inc midst oil the roaring traffic Of The City-soel-
tered court-yards. where grass rows. and BIRDS
sing and the harsh sounds Of the world outside are
only heard family through some quaint archway;
orod gardens, hemmed in by blackened walls
where Won leave the city behind Won IN m instant
and can hardly believe thar the full tide OF human
lite Is rushing up and down just beyond London
la mauv spots ike these each usually having
some historical or personal associations and max
nrthem0st picturesque contrasts with our ready
made" often mouotouous. cities at home Some
fines Won feel as if You were breathing an almost
MEDIEVAL atmosphere. as when the chiuney-sweeps
on heir yearly holiday, 20 around the streets wild
PAINTED faces and lu gr0fesque dresses ana sing.
dance and beg for money streets keep their names
even if there are dozen other streets of the same
name i'm different parts Of the city. Although great
changes have been made i'm this respect. for the
sake Of avoiding confusion there still. the
map show II King streets - Church streets. l3
streets called John, and thc same number called
James George or William - called Charles and so
on Not long ago there were 1876 New streets, l51
Church. 127 York 119 Johu 10" George streets.
When two Oh more straets have grown together un-
tl tlcy form one thoroughlarc each part viii prob
bis keep it's old name. Thus, one street ha. eight
different names IN less than mile Tins is one
ransom why q OndOu address is usually m two OF
three stories, as "Woburn-place Russell square
or Ward-st Priuces-st.. Lambeth There must
be am explanatory addition TO show near what
square or well-knowu street or iu what section of
the city. he street is. Otherwise even the cab
drivers who know the Chinese puzzle of London
streets as no one else knows II. and who arc put
through a sort of examination on che subject before
they can get their licenses, would never know
where TO lid IL.
one of the pretty sights in Hyde Park is to see
some poldcn-naired baby, richly dressed, taking
her airing not in "perambulator' but on tho
back of handsome horse. She IL securely tied
into "A saddle good deal Ike cradle. There she
sits and surveys the passing world with the serene
dignity of babyhood while Hycrcd footnau
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girls begin TO ride literally when they are babies.
" s,yy one tiny girl who could hardly have been