New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-18
WHAT DIR. HITCHCOCK SAW WBILEABRoAD.
hfsTRAvELs IN SPAIN AND NoRwAY-RECETyING
ApFGRTg FRoMTIIR UNIVERSITY or EDINBURGH.

hfsTRAvKis IN SPAIN AND NoRwAY-RECEfyiNG
ADPGRrg FROM Tux UNIVERSITY or EDINBURGH
Among tho passengers arriving yesterday on
the Aurania tie Rev. DIR. and Mrs. Roswell d.
Hitchcock. AS they left NewYork on April 4. they
were nearly months foreign soil Tho passage
home was an exceedingly stormy for this
month and many OF tho passengers were sea
sick. Two storms, each lasting two days, were
encountered delaying the steamer several hours
90 that she did reach the Bar until low-tido OH
Sunday after waiting there for two hours reached
Quarantine late to the city that night No
jcebergs tho trip the route being above the
track whore they supposed TO be-
To TRIBUNE reporter yesterday afternoon President
Hitchcock talked about his trip. Commenting upon tho
oft-dreadcd meeting with tho Custom House officers. he
said: We had trouble with the inspectors The eI
animation thorough and fair but II was conducted
with the greatest courtesy. We have had pleasant
summer have been travelling nearly all tho time and
come back best of health To-day and Tomorrow
we rest n, the city and "Wednesday 20 to farm
near Fall River. Mass. and after few weeks there
nary year scptenber 10 There will DC 10 changes
the coming year in the institution"
eve went first to Edinburgh, where onAprll "a | re.
ceivod the University OF Edinburgh the dcgree OF
D. ID. which granted to at the tcrccnentary the
before IL notcnstOmary confer degree upon
absentee -Four Americans received the degree the Roy
Fisher of Yale Dr. O. A. Briggs and myself of the Union
Theological Seminary. The eonferrns OF tho decree u
went al Grst district then stopped
at several places on my way The that the
disease making arc awful ThSre is panic and poo
pie dying by the thousands every day One eminent
gentleman wnom saw In OF tho towns has fallen
victim 10 the scouge Nearly or quito onc-han Of tile
ITO what 90 you attribute the rapid spread OF the
cboleraf"
"It Is rarity great heat and partly to the
want Of proper sewage " goes up the r"or 'a'o!S
"Wbcro did you ga after leaving Spain r.
"To tugland aud then TO Norway. Spain and
Eorsay both wonderful souuries The Land OF the
Midight SUI must lie seen 20 De appreciated Having
In I,hdcn took run through the northern part Of
vsir. This nearly compietes Europe FOR me nave
Holy Land but doubt shall ever see India or make
to. OaI ss around the wesa aps" .1.ve ls time from
country TO another am too old
rsyccr and Ia too wearying TO stop at every place
OF Interest that would like 10 again"
Dfi you preach while YOU were abr0adi
"Only once: IN glasgow. at an evening service par
psrsfofy 10 The communion"
/" Did you meet many Amorcansi"
mot 40 many as IN former years"
sis ihi. due to the choleraf"
"Pyrly that. no doubt and partly due 70 the hard
ais ~ expensive to travel abroad uowT
~ e more costly than t9rperly ea' must let each
will be TIE effect Of the recent changes ic the
cave very decided opinions regarding this matter.
" DID you meet Mr. Gladsioncp
Mot this tinr. stopped pT train however. at his
dslghil place. at ilawarden. SIX miles from Chester
lie has "a tsVst charming country home"
We're you al the Grant memorial meeting IN west
pninsi er Abbey e.
ayes. although wns not In London when 1t pro-
posed would not have uissc0 IL for great deal IL
was biOst kable service. General Grant resem-
bled Wellington IA many ways; IT Is character that The
FL gsb people love-"
lit Ia needless ask II you viii write a book,
would AK an igIish traveller III America
al male a study 81 tho two countries where spent
most of my time. OF shall sometime tho in
Formation that gathered there bat ehall not put the
retuit IN hook"
Dr. Hitchcock has been recommended emiDehtly
qualified 10 pronounce the Ollinial cuOgy General
CRAM "nen the pullc meeting shai be held for tiat
purpose III this city H. has born said that has
In bigler degree that mastery Of tho relations OF
ktner1t 10 universal history and the ability 10
historic characters into and living relations with
sko.r ENVIRONMENTS than he.