The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-08-24

ing compared to my YOrkshireman'i
French. AS the boys say. however, W,
got there all the same" and after get
ting through really good dinner, VIZ
paid for our experience and on Monday
hunted cheaper hotel, where plain
English was spoken with a slight Hiber
MAN accent. Seriously, it is about al
| difficult generally for me to understand
the pure Scotchman as the native French
man. After dinner, which concluded
about balf-past seven. l started to find
my friends, the Rev. MIR. Conway and
wife, of Port Deposit, who had come to
Glasgow by an earlier steamer of the
same line that had come on. His ad
dress was on Paisley Road. 1t was my
first experience on a passenger railway in
foreign city. The tramway cars, as
they are called in Scotland, are double
deckers, the upper or outside seats being
reached by winding stairways at either
end of the car. The fare is penny, an
English one, equal to two of our Ameri.
Can cents. Although this seems cheaper
than at home. yet it is really not SO, as
you pay by instalments of distance, it
requiring several, say three or even more,
to travel as far as you would in an Amer
lean city on five cent fare. had no
difficulty in finding the car that ran out
Paisley Road West and rode to the ter
minus of the line. | still had several
blocks to walk. l hadn't gone one square
before found myself surrounded by just
thirteen small Scotch boys. They were
not rude or rough urchins, but appar-
emily the sons of the small shop keepers
whose places of business abounded in the
neighborhood. They had, of course,
spotted" me as stranger in those parts
and with the keen eye to business which
characterizes SANDY" whether infant or
full grown, were bent on turning an hon.
est ha' penny by directing me to the ad-
dress was evidently seeking. Taking in
the situation at glance l selected the
smallest boy of the company, and hand
ing him his coveted penny asked him to
knew it we'll and had me there in trice.
L was sorry to learn that Mr.. Conway
was not in Glasgow, he being on visit
TO Prestwick down in Ayrshire. Mrs.
ConwaYs neice, Mrs. Buchanan, received
me with the usual Scotch hospitality, and
l spent few moments very agreeably
chatting with her and her husband. TAX
ing the car to return TO the hotel l took
my seat outside and enjoyed the sight of
the busy bustling crowds which lined the
sidewalks. City cars are not the institu-
tions here they are with us. The average
Scotchman is thrifty and economical. If
he has long distance to go he will use
the cars. But only then. There is no
jumping on and off after short rides as
in America. SANDY" is good walker,
he has good legs and wears stout shoes,
and when the walk is done he has his
pennies where good Scotchman likes to
have them-in his pockets. Later in the
evening dropped into the Cathedral 1t
is not large building, in fact one of the
smallest in the United Kingdom. 1t be-
ing the first specimen of foreign church
had seen, was more i'm
pressed possibly than otherwise would
have been. In order of architecture it is
believe of the early undecorated Eng
lish gothic. Some competent judges have
pronounced it among the finest speci-
mems of it's order. Of course it has his
tory which have not the space to repro
duce. Glasgow impressed me very favor
ably as live busy commercial city. i
thought saw in it much to remind me
Of Boston in the substantial and thor
oughly respectable air it wears. 1t is
ScOtland's commercial metropolis only,
the proud distinction claimed by Boston
Of being the Athens of America is gener-
the literary center of Scot
land. l was taken with two things par
in Glasgow, as l walked with
(stesmer) friend from the quay (pro-
nounced key to the hotel-the elegant
pavements, both side and roadway, and
the innumerable chimney pots which top
the chimneys. Of course the buildings
are all of stone, wood being unknown
here as material for buildings. If the |
pots were not as substantially
set as the CITY is built, the winds would |
shower them as thick as leaves in autumn
upon the streets, for they are numberless
and of all shapes and heights. l have
as high as II on one chimney.
The reason for their use is easily ascer-
tanned. The Scotch think every room 10
the house should have its fire-p place, and
hence It's f1ue. To give it ample vent Gas
they say) they heighten or shorten the
pot on the chimney. just as the location
Of the Fireplace is high or low in the
building. The metropolis opened In 1888
for time the Ptre 10 Chaiss or burial
place of this city, the Royal Exchange,
the University of Glasgow, George Square
and the new municipal buildings are all
points OF interest which hurriedly took
in" but cannot describe. 1t is fine pro-
vincal city, its population now being
about three quarters of a million or about
the size of Brooklyn. After spending a
very agreeable day in Glasgow on Mon
day afternoon tnrned my steps towards
the mecca Of all true Scotohmen the land
o. Burns. In company with an agreeable
party OF ten We took the train fer the
old town Ayr, an hours ride from Glas-
gov. The town is the county seat Of
Ayrshire, and is delightfully."- located on
the west coast and has come to be a pop
ular seaside resort. AS the VISITORS
books show, the pilgrims to the land
O. Burns hail from every land under the
sun, but it is a matter of observation
that large majority of those who come
from abroad are Americans. The town is
very old, antidating the period of the Ro-
mans, and the Aud Brig o'Ayr. ponder
Gus. and old fashioned, now over 600
years old, is still in good state of preser-
vatior. 1t is difficult to speak of the
town without recalling Burns oft re-
! o ,ted couplet:
"Auld Ayr wham meier tosn surpasses,
For honest men and bonnie lasses.''
Taking wagonette in company with
FIVE others, we drove over lovely road
lined on either side by rows of stone cot
tages of the most attractive description,
about two miles to the Burns cottage. 1t