Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-04
IN LONDON TOWN.
"RUhAMAH" TAKES A PEEP At
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

London Dwellings and Their Dingy. stuffy
Interiors-Lookiag Through q Gilded
Lattice at English ststesmen-Duch-
esses in the Psrk-Royalty.
Liverpool never holds the passenger long,
and il was Just as grimy and noisy as it was
eight years ago, when l ate a last matutinal
muffin and marmalade there and sailed away
TO the westward and home. One finds
changes in London, however, in that same
time, and the changes are not in all cases
agreeable Ones old landladies, and in them
old landmarks are swept away, and to find
comfortable quarters is now the greatest diff
fculty. Every American bsrates the build
ing plan of London houses, and in a search
for rooms for expected friends at this
crowded season have seen more dingy, stuffy,
shabby interiors than could have believed
were hidden behind the walls Of city streets.
AL America seems to have rushed to Eu-
rope this year, and from every place on the
continent comes the same word that the Uni
ted States have never been so largely repre-
sented before. At Gillig's American exchange
on the Strand there is mass meeting of com
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stand in line before the little postotiice on the
great mail days The success Of this exchange
makes one wonder however the Americans
got along without it before Mr.. Gillig set up
the flags and eagle and bade his countrymen
welcome The exchange is the general center
and meeting place of Americans, and COM
prises everything within its walls. There is a
bank on one floor, a postoffice on another
there are reading rooms where you find the
latest papers on file, ladies' parlor, tour
lists bureau, where you can buy excursion,
tickets TO the end of the earth, and accom-
panying guidebooks, and a department Of
ocean service, where you arrange with every
transatlantic line.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
I had look at the house of commons on
Thursday, the day before il was prorogued
That brilliant young Irish member, Thomas
Power O'Connor, and one of his shamrock
collee sles were the ones to guarantee that
the group of Mr.. Gilligs friends had no dyna-
mite about them and to effect our entrance.
Since the explosion in Westminster hall no
one Is allowed to enter that wing of the
houses of parliament unless accompanied by
member, and the dynamiters succeeded only
in running some fine old stained glass win
dows, depriving sightseers of great pleas
ure, and giving the lie" VINO 10 gam entrance
uncomfortabie SENSATIONS uurihg ali oi the
time that they are present Accustomed to
the broad corridors, the open galleries and the
free swing of our own Capitol and houses Of
congress, the precautions and passes and
countersigns and checks needed 20 carry US
through seemed almost farcical
We were separated as in a Quaker meet
ing, the men Oh the party oeiig niarcnen OH
ana sho"h inuo one saieiS' anu 'ie iaoieS
led up an endless lot OF oack s'iirs ana INTO
box ABOUT t~ei'e Zee, Squafe whence We
peered tnrough a giidea ia'tice al a, tne mighty
rouse Oh eoiiiiions Id, o~iow' Inc h'.si'iDels
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room a' nome nan VI 'neii mao 'he,r ha's
SET squareiy oo"h On uleir nea''s anu over
their ears IN a good coiiser'ati'e style' ana
the speaker; "ho'li we souil nI' sto iioii our m
screenea saierS' was oes.i 'ou "s IL,
mas ashiiicent :" ois wig anu gown. ihe
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ulises an 'ne "oi'I ~ was out, anu 1t was
M such o.isnt sunny Su,le "ioaliLs Ien a. olns
oiesSss rhe nesus VI 'ne Doii'oh ses'S'h
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iie. me-. m ,ne pan anu u. '"en eni',ts p,,t o,i
pii'ish o'uty anu 'ne a'etae hnsiisn i !
the icily erect women in the endless string Of