Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-27
A TRIP THROUGH LONDON.


How 10 May he Done.
Especial Corespoudepcel
Sac HARBoR. April e5.-Made trim
through the city Of London. Followed
tie spirit In other words, followed
my nose. Turned out Of Holbom into
Chancery lane. Went down ii be-
cause II was Chancery lane. Looked
chancery. Law shop windows full Of
law books. Law signs everywhere. Law
everywhere. Great dingy houses full Of
law. Law oozing out Of every crevice.
More windows full Of lawyers wigs.
Saw at last real lawyer on sidewalk un-
der full sail in wig and gown. carrying
satchel Followed him until disappear.
ance In dingy doorway. Could hardly
believe my eyes. Real British lawyer
Same as ON American stage.
Wandered from Chancery into the
Strand. Thence, somehow or other into
Fleet street Next Parliament street.
Saw very long building bristling with
turrets. Dig church close by. Asked
names. Houses of Parliament and West
minister Abbeyi Kept going Got in n
park. Found ugly big house In It. No
end Of carriages rolling up to il. Red
coats. chapeaus and feathers inside of
carriages, on men. Silk stockings, plush
coats on more men outside of carriages:
on more men clinging on behind. Two,
sometimes three, holding on to each
other. Footmen. Found myself looking
at outside of queens drawing room.
Queen, Victoria; palace, Buckingham;
park, st. James. Good as q circus Bet
ter Stared at aiistocracy's show bal
aDce of afternoon. Never dreamt such
things could be outside of an English
novel.
Saw all this inside of seven hours.
Found all at once my legs very tired.
Stomach very hungry. Had forgotten
all about these useful accessories, which
had done long days work for me.
Took them to cheap tavern. Filled stom-
ach for one shilling. Tea, toast eggs
and ham. Rested legs. Bed one shil-
ling Ditto for breakfast. Started out
uext morning on same mission Wan
dered. Saw. Wondered. Came on
places without warning had heard of all
my life. No guide. No guide book.
Sudden and self discovery adds to inter.
est. Temple Bar. St. Martins Lane.
Seven Dials. The Monument. The
Tower. The Tunnel. Hyde Park. Re-
gents ditto. Kept going in this way for
three days. Slept in tavern where night
overlook me. Came out at last where
started from. Euston Square station.
Month May. Best time for sight seeing
on this plan.
Sixteen hours Of daylight. No dark
ness till Gin the evening. And even 9:30.
Queer to see people going to theatre at Z
p. m. Two hours before candle light. Re-
verse in November. Sixteen hours of
darkness then. The rest fog and rain
Sky about one hundred feet overhead.
Color lead. Monuments and steeples lost
in fog. Rain perpetually intermittent.
Any sort of day called fine" il no rain.
Rains easy; without warning. Rains
without notice or proyocation Clears
up only to rain IA hard as ever ten min.
utes afterward. Rains one minute in
mist. Then in fine drops Then in driz-
zlc. Then in great coarse drops. Then
in mist again. and programme as before.
RAIN or shine, no one goes out without an
umbrella. As soon 60 out without hat.
Rains SO much that Londoner forgets all
about it. People there don't remark "it
rains" as we do.
Expect 1t will rain anyway. AS soon
think Of saying There's air to breathe
this morning." High class young lady
rides horseback in Rotten Row. Shower
comes on. Doesn't mind il. Rides un.
der tree. Rain pours through. Gets
drenched. Doesn't mind it. Matter of
course. Weather clears Rides on, even
if wet to skin. No waterproof. No um.
brella. London in November all rain,
smoke, fog and umbrellas. Universal
color lead. No red brick. Houses two
thirds mud color. One-sixth charcoal
color. Smoke Of centuries Dome of
st. Paul's black as your hat. Traces of
smoke everywhere. On outer walls.
Inner walls dingy cream color Bed
sheets and pillow cases smoky yellow.
Smoke gets in suds. Collars and cuffs
same color. American whiteness Of same
wonder to London laundry woman.
Never resume American whiteness after
first washing.
n. B.-Reader will excuse this STYLE,
Not elegant But docs away with words
that tell nothing Desire to tell as much
as possible without waste of words, time,
ink, paper and space. Too many useless
words in our language. Make a show
but do nothing Verbal tramps. Lin.
gual loafers. Language needs wedding.
PRENTICE MULFoRD.