Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-12

first impression of London is almost one G
bewilderment 1t is hardly fair to call $
gigantic an aggregation of buildings a Singl
city. London is more like collection O
cities and large collection at that. Durin
the growth of this vast octopus of brick an
mortOr it has taken in any number Of of su
, burban villages, and as they all retain thei
original names, London is more like yer,
large city, surrounded by any number o
small cities and villages. The streets o
London are a Chinese puzzle to a stranger
The way they wind and twist, and wriggle
and change their names every few hundred
yards il something fearful ard wonderful.
A map of the London streets has the ap-
pearance Of four pounds of fish WORMS hav-
ing fit in milk-pan. A 'labyrinth''
would be very mild word TO express their
intricacies The most distressing thing
about these streets is that they change their
names several times during their courses.
Start down ''Ludgate HILL" which is
known by that name only, and in few
minutes you find that the same
street becomes Fleet street, and further on
without any preliminary notice it is known
a> the Strand. Thus we have three names
il the course of one comparatively short
street. instead of calling the whole thing
Fleet street" To a stranger this exceed
ingly puzzling. You start for ride down
a long street. secure in the possession of the
name, after having learned it from police
man. II may not be four blocks until it is
that street no longer it has become St.
Georges Square, OF Waterloo Place, or
JOhnsOn's Rents, or St Giles, at-the-liorSe-
Ponds. or Leicester Square or something
else. 1t is said that in building the streets
Boston. Mass, the original directions of the
COW paths were followed. Something of
the same kind must have been done in Lon
don. only that in building London the geese
paths" were followed. l have no doubt
that as soon as they see this letter, the Lon
don authorities will have this little matter
changed. The great SttractiOn in London
just at present is the
INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION.
The idea of holding the exhibition was a
happy thought. The exhibition is the
fourth uf a series held in successive years,
the Others being the ''Heatheries, the
FISHERIES" and the inventories. " The
present is known as the ''Colonials." All
the colonies of Great Britain-Canada,
India, Australia and the rest - have
poured forth their treasures to fill the halls
of the exhibition. The Colonial exhibition
is counted the most interesting of the
series Ii is held in several great buildings
at the Kensington Gardens. Its halls are
filled with treasures from the Orient.
Everything that is strange OF beautiful, or
useful in those countries, has been sent, and
il is no wonder that the breast of every En-
glishman swells with pride as he walks
through the halls and sees heaped up the
evidence of England's powers and re-
sources. Days would not suffice to see
everything in this great exhibition, and
volumes would not describe it. The build
ingS and grounds are lighted with the
Brush, Edison incandescent and Thompson
Houston electric lights-all American.
aDtlllC HbllhtllhllN btdutAlul dlN
duced at night in the great gardens with the
Edison incandescent electric lights, with
colOred glass globes. These small colored
glass globes, about the size Of an egg, are
ranged by thousands along the tops
of the buildings and up the pill
lars. Hundreds of them shine
like variegated stars from the trees and
fountains and band stands. They are
everywhere. The water in the fountains
fall over rows of them; they CLEAN from
underneath the moss and rocks in the grOt
tos, and shine in long festOOns from build
ing TO building. When they are first lighted
simultaneously in the evening, the effect is
fdiry-like-a perfect realization of dream
f,ct of huge elm tree breaking into bios
som with hundred cOlored electric lights
p aced in al positions in its branches!
A striking feature of the exposition is
the reproduction of an Indian jungle. There
are the dry canebrakeS and withered leaves
and grasses. Huge stuffed tigers, lions,
elephants and leopards are seen crouching
in different parts of the jungle; tropical
birds fly through the rustling cane; a royal
Bengal tiger (stuffed) is crunching the
trunk of a large Asiatc elephant, also stuff
ed. and the scene is remarkably II alistic.
There are Oriental curios in boundless
prOfuSiOn, and in every exhibit there are
numerous photos of scenes in the colony
they come from and statistics showing its
resources.
In writing a letter from this great
city the tourist feels an almost ire
SStable impulse to break out in
WILD PRONYSM OF STATISTICS.
The first thing that tourist usually writes
is 10 say that London covers 122 square
miles. and that the population is about
4. 800, 900, that the police force numbers
IL, 900 men-enOugh and to spare to pop
ulate Urbana, o., with every man, woman
and child policeman; that 2S miles Of new
yearly, and 1913 perspRS added to the pOpu-
latiun of the city every day; that the water
supply is SO. 900. 0OC gallons daily, and the
annual rental s10J, 900, 900. Then follows
irresistably that old and classic chestnut
about London containing more Jews than
Jerusalem, more Roman Catholics than
Rome, more IriShmen than Dublin, more
Germans than Berlin, more Frenchmen than
Paris. more Spanards than Spain. more
Americans than But it may be better to
stop here, as have always frowned on the
sin of eXageration.