Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-05
THE WILD TRTsBs,S
The Fast Train Prom Ions
En- route to Dublin 49,, 'n 70 Hel,

A"' '"St ram Prom I.ona
I'm route to Dublin ana On % aolFi.
The wild Irishman il H.
which carries the Americ,.ll' laN d
l London to Holyhead. en- 70 ~ |. |.
lin and Queenstown. 7, aug S % 4
from Euston to Chester e''e'
forty miles or more an hour r.
ing from that quaint, rabiai
lei1ed city through a G,n N.Y., an
ga walls, il continues on \.
Holyhead along the pie,nr y, 'a'a
of North Wales. 40s
Many Americans trsve, H..
leaving or in JOINING ~ y i
steamer at Queenstown tb.- a
several hours by taking tEi.
Il is usually night when rber
along, and the journey fpi. -f
iug-place in their memories
cipltous cliffs frown dove
meteor-like train; on one Ia 97
stormy waters of the ST Ca,r
mel, and on the other tho
descend without any intervs-..
hills; but by means Of trnra
bankments, and yiaducts even
obstacle IN the route Of the W5 j
man has been overcome. "S
The distance between CL.
Holyhead is accomplished n
two hours; a tubular BRIDGE
Menai Strait, the felrying u
formerly led TO many irsgei.
other bridge is hung over tRs
River, and Penmaenmawr !.
by tunnel, through which IN !
winds like ring through tho j
Il savage.
When the train leaves Chest. |
most Immediately crosses rbe
airy line between Cheshire AMI n
Wales, and for the rest of the HsI
to Holyhead it is in that couptrr
On the other side of the tra: 4,
country ofincreasing hillines,
scape like that of England. NTH
hedge-rows, matched cottaoo. M
solld-looking sculpturesqus M
which is sort Of atonempnt MI
persistent humidity OF the M
Hawarden. Mr.. Gladstone, g.,
about two miles off the line. snl 1,
twenty minutes after leaving d
the train runs close against The
of Flint Castle-a gaunt mass Of N
rock, upon which decay has SET Id
of regret, and age has put no Nd
ing mantle. The castle was brl
Edward l., and Shakespeare hn
its crude ribs and "tatteredH h,
ments one OF his scenes in his IA.
Richard ILL.,
Behind the hills which ,lone
to Flint is Holywell, town wheI
rives its name from a miraculous,
pious spring, of such efficacy 10
ing that the beautiful gothic 4
built over ii, and ascribed to ae
crosby of the mother Of Henry vi
hung with the crutches aud tm,,
those who have been cured by Bal
in it.
The Wild Irishman scarcely shc
its speed at Rhyl, the flat and p
gular little watering-place wh,el
eXcursionists from Lancashire
Yorkshire battle in q yellow mziu
mud washed down from the DEE
the Mcrsey. But presently We ID
river which, flowing down from
tween high hills, empties into the
within sight of the train, at 3
where a massive headland jus
ward, and reaching the farther
we are borne under the shadow
cliil-like wall, We look out ml
and there are towers, battlemelA
parapets, These are SO nigh al
train is so close to the base, ill
have to almost dislocate our aa
order to see the summit Il SS
tie, not cliff; but it seems TO
out Of the rock upon which 81
and when il was built nature and
Joined hands to give 1t q
str, ngth.
Whom Edward l. had conq11Fe
Welsh he built three great ca'I
keep the yanquished down, and y.
| disnautled and despoIled, lg
still very substantial examples
architecture of his time; ONE q.
naryon. another at BeamarI. aa.
third is this at Conway, the con
name of the river we have iu'icf'
the castle, aud the little town
lies under the castle, shut Wa
harp-shaped wall which former!
! twenty-four round towers.
4 minute or two after il'
leaves Conway the mountains oe-
crowd down upon the WA lT I
and threaten to shove the line ia'
sea. 1t is these that the tTaYrI'.
America sees from the deeA u
ocean steamer as she passes D Z"
| Georges Channel to Liverpool
are a northern spur Of the Sny
range, and among the hudditu y
rises one, very Gibraltar Of .
higher than all the rest.
Once again we are in daFAn'9
! this time the reyerber4iion, "'
| those of a tunnel. TIE sounds r.
! low and metallic; we are eI9 ,..
strait by the vast tubular ofl1 WA
Stephenson built between
1856, and which put an eha " i
ouent accidents that had pre'l'Jt'
Cured to passengers crossla-
ferry. The Britannia brI4-' 70
! called, consists of eight ti'a'' IAN.
| on three towers, and IL
stream at a height Of lO4 rev.
/ 1.84l feet long, and the tuor'
to contain II 400 tons Of iFor
fellow-passenger is sure to p
possession of these dimeu,.2. r