Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-18
Brussels and Its Divisions Of Language
and PeopIe---The Historical
Buildings.
A Flying visit TO the Famous Field OF
Waterloo Lion Monument and
It's Significance.
Tile Return Voyage to the New world aud
It, Experiences companions
dc Voyage.



on the morning of our departure. "Nuu
are leaving at exactly the right time, -
said French friend, Consollngly. ain "A
week more damp, chilly, miserable sea.
son will set In, and we shall not see sun
light for perhaps six weeksn Paris With
out sunlight TO those who have spent June
or the first exquisite days of September
there, would be an anomoly, and the
prospect almost recOncilcd uS 70 saving
farewell TO our pleasant house in tho
quaint old-iashioned court, TO the pretty
bit of park-likc garden upon which we
looked from our windows, to the high
hoSpitable dining-room with its great Ia
bic and always freshly furnished basket
OF fruit and flowers, to the salon. so hand
some and home-like, so unlike the usual
salon OF the foreign pension, and finally
to the slim young man in the blue blouse
who acted as chambcrmald, and the brisk
active lady who was cashier and mana
| ger
stu it was with a feeling of sadness
That our procession ll!ed ont Of the stone
archway and took places in the carriages
that were To convey It 10 the Care du
-iord
Brussels, with its lcld of Waterloo, is
the point OF greatest interest between
Paris and Antwerp, the latter city being
the point from which we were to embark
for home. Brussels is called Paris in
miniature" but though this title is SUN.
clcntly suggestive of It's brightness and
| 9aycty it does nothing like Justice to the
| individual tiavor, the special interests and
| lively industries that make the pretty
town so'atlactiyc. IL Is true that what
! you can lind in Paris can be found i'm
! Brussels in less degree and built ON
a smaller pattern, rs 1t were: but there Is
| a repose and softness In the historic air
and atmosphere of Brussels which one
does not find in Paris, where scenes of
violence have been too recent for the
! dreadful ColorS to have faded or mcllowcd
| into tints, and where the breath of the
! brilliant night, even more than the light
/ OF day, seems charged with electric and
/ explosive material,
| From whichever direction the traveller
arrives in Brussels he will he pretty sure
to find has resting place In the Place Roy
ale, in the upper and fashionable portion
OF the town. Brussels IL distinctly di-
vided into an upper and lower portion.
The upper dates from the eleventh cen
/ tury when the counts OF Lclge erected
their dwellings on the heights, and sur
| rounded by II rctinuc OF French knights
made French the language of the Burnun-
dian court and arstocracy, while llcnI-
| sh remained the language of the lower or
/ original town, the name of which accord
| Ing to Baedcker, Is derived from brock
marsh, broeksele dwelling on the marsh,
whence Brussels. The characteristics cs.
| tablishcd long ago have always distln-
guishcd IL, and still cling to Il, the lower
| town being still the center of industry and
commerce, with Flemish as the language
of its people, and the upper town the por.
tion which contains the park, the fine ho-
tells, the splendid residences and with the
exception of the guild houses and the
Hotel de VINE, most of the monumental
and other structures of importance.
! We had only one day and part of an
other to spend in Brussels, for our
steamer the Belgenlaud, was to sail on
the afternoon OF the third day--and we
had some final matters to attend to In
Antwerp where, indeed, we should
have been glad TO remain for some time
and repeat our pleasant experiences of
the months previous. Wcfclt, therefore,
that we must make the most OF our time,
and were delighted to obtain rooms in
the Hotel d'pEmopc, overlooking the
Place, and from which the first object
that greeted us was the fluc equestrian
statue of Godfrey dc Buuillun which
stands In the center of the great square
The iigurc Is bronze, and IN full crusaders
armor, the mailed hand of the knight
@rasps firmly the sacred banner, which
is unfnrlcd, and on the massive stone pc
destal is inscribed the names and title,
OF this medieval hero, who was "duke of
Bmbant and King of Jerusalem
The Place Royalc stands at the head of
the Rue Royale, one of the most beaut-
ful streets of the town You can 90 It's
whole length 10 one of the portcs or old
gates by tramway, andsit Is delightful
and compromising ride. The small park
opposite the palace on the Rue Royac,
though small, has shaded avenues aud re-
tired walks, where women bring their
knitting and children truudlc their hoops,
Just rs they do in the garden OF the Tuil-
cries, while the Bots dc la Cambrc in the
enNirous, n beautiful wooded park of
400 or 300 acres, affords drive as charm
ing rs that OF the Bots dc Bouognc The
Palace park contains numerous sculp-
tures-u Diana and Narcissus, figures
representing the various trades and In
duStrcS, u bust OF Peter the Great, and
at the entrance ON the Rue Royalc en-.
blcmatic figures of summer aud spring
The Hungarian band plays every day here
between , and o'clock, and there Is a
! concert every evening during the sum
mer at the "NauXhull,n in the park
where for franc one may hear excel
lent music. The Place du Cougres
and the Colonnc du Congrcs are alsc
upon the Rue KOyalo The monument
commentaries the establishment OF thu
present constitutional monarchy aud Tho
elevation OF Prince LEOPOLD gl SaXc-C o.