Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-18
JENNIE JUNE IN EUROPE.
Brussels and It's Divisions of Lan-
guags and People.
A Visit to the Famous Field of Waterloo
1.-The Return Voyage TO America
and its Experiences.
copyrighted 1851

Spseial COrrespOndescs Of the Sunday Register.
NEW YORK, October l2-HoW bright
an sunny and altogether lovely Paris look
ed on the morning of our departure. You
are leaving at exactly The night lime" said
q French friend eonsolingly. I'm a week
more damp, chilly, miserable season will
BET in and We shall not see the sunlight for
perhaps six weeks" Paris without sunlight
to those who have spent June or the hrst
exquisite days of September there would
be an anomaly, and the prospect almost re-
conciled US to say farewell to our pleasant
house in the quaint old.fashioned court to
the pretty bit of psrk-like garden upon
which we looked from our Windows, to the
high, hospitable dining room with its great
table and always freshly furnished basket
of fruit and flowers, to the salon, so hand
some and home-like, go unlike the usual
salon of the foreign pension, and finally to
the slim young man in the blue blouse who
acted IS chambermaid, and the brisk, &C
tive lady who WAS cashier and manager.
Sill it was with feeling Of sadness that
opr procession fled out of the stone arch
way and took places in the carriages that
were to convey it to the Care du NOrd.
Brussels, with its field 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 miniture," but
though this title is sufficiently suggestive
of its brightness aud gayety it does moth
ing like justice to the individual flavor The
special interests and lively industries that
make the pretty town go attractive. tits
true that what you can find in Paris can be
found in Brussels in less degree and built
On q smaller pattern, US 1t were; but there
is \ repose and sofrness in the historic cir
and atmosphere of Brussels which one Goes
not find il Paris, where scenes OF violence
have been too recent for the dreadful col
ors TO have faded away or mellowed into
,ipts, ard where the breath of the brilliant
night even more than The light OF day,
seems charged with electric and explosive
material. =,
From which ever direction The traveller
arrives in Brussels he will be pretty sure 10
lind bis resting place in toe Place Royale'
in the upper and fashie nable portion OF the
town Brussels is distinctly divided into
an upper and lower portion. The upper
dates from the eleventh century, when the
Counts Of Leige erected their dwellings on
the heights. and surrounded by retnue
of French knights made French the Ian
uusce of the Burgundisn Court and aris-
Iocsacy, while Flemish remained the Ian
ruage of the lower or original town, The
nature Of which, according TO Baedeker, IS
derived from broek-msrsh, broeksele-
dwelling on the marsh, whence Brussels.
The characteristics established long ago
have always distinguished it, and still cling
to il, the lower town berg still the centre
of industry and commeEce, with FLEMISH
as the language of it's people, and the up
per town, the portion which contains the
park, the fioe hotels, the splendid reslden,
cep, and with the exception OF the Guild
houses and the Hotel de Vile, most of the
monumental ard other structures OF I'M
/ porteaCe. c,
We had only one day and part Of another
, TO spend in Brussels, for our steamer the
| Bslgenland, was to sail On the afternoon OF
the third day-and we had some final mat
tsrs to attend to in AntWerp-Where, III
deed, we should have been g lad to remain
/ for some time aud repeat our pleasant ex'
periences of the months previous. We telt,
| therefore, that we must make the most OF
our time, and were delighted to obtain
rooms in the Hotel dr. Europe, overlooking
the Place, and feou which the frat object
that greeted US was the fne equestrian
statue OF Godfrey de Bouillou, which STANDS
in the centre of the crest square. The hg-
ure ia bronze, and in full Crusader 8 armor,
the mailed hand Of the knight grasps firmly
the sacred banter, which IS untuIIed, and
on the massive stone pedestal is inscribed
the names and titles Of this medieval hero,
who was Duke of Bra5out and kIeg OF
Jerusalem"
The Place Royale stands at the head Of
the Rue Royale, ole Of the most beautiful
streets of the town. You can 60 lis whole
length to one of the Portes or old estes by
tram way, and it is delightful and CON-
pensatirg ride. The small park opposite
the palace on the Rue RoYsle. though
small has shaded avenues and retired walks,
where women bring their knitting and
children trundle their hoops, ju,t as they
do in the Garden of the Tuileries, while
the Bots de la Cambre in the euvirous, q
beautiful wooded park OF 400 or 500 acre.,
sffords a drive as charming as that OF the
Bots de Boulogue. The Palace park con
,ains numerous soul ptures-a Diana and
Narcissus,: figures representing the vari,
Gus trades and industries, bust OF
Peter The Great, and at the entrance on
the Rue Roy ale EN- Slematic figures of Sum-
mer and Spring, The Hungarian Band
plays every day here between three and
i've o'clock and there is concert every
! eyenipz durirr the GUNNER at the "Vaux.
hall" IN the park, whore for franc oCe
NAV hear excellent music The Place du
CnHo-As and the Colonue du Congress are
sIso uDon The !Rne Royals. The monu.
ment commentaries the establishment OF
the p-esent Constitutional Monarchy and
the elevation VI PRINCE Leopold OF osXe
Cohnrg Re the throne. The column. about
I5O feet nigh, is surmounted by statue OF
,ba King in bronze BY Geeefs. The hgures
IN relief and the emblsmatic figures rep
rssentipg the freedom Of the press, OF edu'
cation, Of pubic EqrshiP aud Of ass0cIs,
tive bodies are BY Geets and Ginonis' In
the near neighborhood is the beautiful "a
thsdrsl of St. Gudule. This imposing
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