The morning news., 1889-05-30
JAUNTINe IN LONDON.
DRINKING ADVANTAGES IN ENG
LANDS METROPOLIS.
You May Kick a tan to Pieces for all
the English Co.'S Care, but You
Mustn't Strike Hn with Stick.


the English Co.'S Care, but You
Mustn't Strike Hn with a Stick.
From the Me-, York Press.
The majority of americans gain their
srst impression of Egland in Liverpool.
They call it Liverpool Necause the passage
across the Atlantic as SO thoroughly
.tirred up the bile tina for the first few
days after landing thttraveler can think
of nothing but his live. To be sure, the
English give a different xplanation Of the
meaning of the name.
They claim that it is drived from an ex-
+inct variety of crane calkd the liver, which
was accustomed to stan on one leg in a
nooI near the site of the present city, and
thew show the curious or coffing American
the arms of the city in coroboration of the
statement.
1t sounds too much like Punch joke to be
accepted, however, and tie Englishman 10 t
having come to England by the same route,
does not appreciate the appropriateness of
this derivation. Let i'm once land in
England after ten day on the wobbly
ocean and he will see thI full significance of
it. And yet people tale sea voyages for
their health!
1t is popular fallacJ that there is some
wonderful recuperativ( power in an ocean
trip, and the effect is generally ascribed to
sea air." You can get just as good sea
air and as much of it onthe piazza of sea-
shore hotel. The secret of the efficacy of
an ocean trip is that it compels complete
mental rest. You can't g,t newspaper nor
a letter nor telegram for eight or ten
days, and the. chances are that after the
Il f,ak1 k1,oa
YOU can or mot All hat you will want
will be a speedy and painless death.
But" say the advocate of ocean trips,
"it is so peasant afta' you get over your
seasickness.n I If you do get oyer it. 1t may
be amusing to some naiures, when the ship
is rolling over and ovtr, making more re-
voutions per minute than South American
republic, to hear tht captain assert with
cheerful n.endacitt mat it is beautiful
day and that the tt5p is as steady as q
church. Some peoIb may like to prepare
Tor retiring in a cupboard hardly larger
than Saratoga tnnk, while the boat is
spinning around so that one feels like a
squirrel in a wheel.
PECULIARLi ENGLISH IDEA.
But to get back frm mid ocean to Liver
pool Nobody butin Epglishman would
think of keeping as a port of entry for
the steamers from america. 1t has abso-
htely no natural advantages to commend
it. The landing stge IS sixteen miles up
the river from the bar, aid unless the tide
ju.t happens to suit, passengers have to be
sent up IN a tender. That was the writer's
fate, sixteen miles against a strong tide in
the toughest little To- der ever seen.
How that party did growl! 1t seemed
strange for lot of Americans to make
such fuss, ovr getting around a bar, but
it was cold AM they were tired, and it took
nearly threehours to get up the Mersey
And then afer they were hitched along
SIDE of the anding stage they were de
tained nearF balf an hour longer while
mes essenCers we're dispatched to fish the
British customs Official out Of tie conSomme
where he a lurking.
But he waaa Lustler after he got there. He
do not look or anything but tobacco and
whisky, bu he could smell a single cigar
even # it Nfe wrapped III the innermost
T6CeSseS Of q evening suit. 1t is not to be
wondered auhat The Engl Sh levy duty on
Americ n Whisky and tobacco, for their
variety Of bth articles is so mean that it
could not sbnd competition.
Even aftr one gets through the custom
house no ole wants to stay in Liverpool.
1t is only 4 landing station. There is a
place calledMi!ford Haven, which is some
six hours carer to New York and two
hours nearC London. 1t has magnificent
Some lrs day some steamship line, with
some ''Sinsern IN its composition, will carry
out the old projects of running from Mon
tauk PolIt to Milford Haven. 1t would
shorten tht trip by from ten to fifteen hours,
and avoid Ill nuisance OF waiting for tides
or oppingover night in Liverpool upon
arrival or departure.
With tae uew line we may look for some
system Of clecklng baggage, SO that the
fDl!TEf will he Onllpad tn Oh "a "a
his trunks around the railway station and
distribute a pound avoirdupois) or more of
pennies in order 70 get them transferred
from the baggage van to the top of his cab.
BRITIiH HONESTY.
1t is beautiful system, and speaks vol
umes for British tonesty, for their is moth
ing, so far as cn be seen, to prevent the
voyagers from picking out the best trunk
in the lot and e9ing off with it. 1t seems
that this SeldonS occur, but baggage is
frequently lost and the trail of a large
English family travelling with multitude
OF boxes" is %arked by stray luggage all
along the route.
The tip system strikes the American as
decidedly queT. He has to tip everybody,
but thrlppeuoe (6 cents is the proper amount,
and the manwho gives more Is looked upon
not as peron of unusual generosity, but
lunatic who does not know the value of
mo ey.
London S great city. The season has
noe falrIybegun yet, SO chat the real sweiis
are still cat Of town, but there are several
people here to make tllug gs interesting The
writer rode down RegenC street on the top
OF bug tue otner morning, and having
tipped tie driver the cuatomary thrippencs,
got himto point out the equlpages OF prom
menJ people as they passed. He was de-
termined TO earn his money, and in twenty
minutes were seen more earls, dukes and
counts thancould be counted. This was
ace e.rding TO the driver His veracity was
ooubted, however, as when a nobby pri-
Vate hansom was passed, he remarked;
fnat is Sir hedN ard Percy of Percy
Io"ers. ELS a Member hof Parliament
and His DESCRIPTION was cut short by
the hdonde-bearded occupant Of the hanson
lowing 10 the writer
You are Mistaken was the latter's
c2mment. ''That is Townsend Percy. Earl
q C2hoes. He Is an American nobleman."
q. III knew it was the Percy lion on the
zen, sir. Hit is the honly hauimal in
aaidy With as tail stickink hout," explained
tie driver.
PARADISE FOR CHEAP BOOKING.
For man whois addicted to the hvelier
I2rms OF sport london as a perfect paradise
me genial costerm nger and gentle navy
can nave moro fun in London for 10 shIl-
,hgs tuan Que free aud equain American
noOdIum can have In New York for $40
lbe writer spent several morning simply
slecta or--in The Bow street pulce
court. and txae 10th oh a al .Tali,,l,f. Il