The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-04

WE WOULD MOUNT To THE TOP OF IN on
NIBUS.
| born and all the rest of that set in the
| court Of sessions, and when | passed out,
and little Miss Elite at the door begged me
in thin, quavering voice to buy bouton-
Mere, it give me quite Il turn, don't you
know"
went then to st. Giles and the Seven
Dials, Covent Garden market and Blooms
bury square, Bow street police court and
Piccadilly Circus, to Whitechapel, Charing
Cross, the West end the famous docks
and more places of minor note than could
be named in this column. Every morning
l rose fresh as the lark that scars and
sings, and shakes the dewdrop from his
wings, as the poets say, and every night
L went to bed as tired as a Covent mark ct
donkey and swearing | would be more
moderate next day, but next morning re-
membered fifty more places | really must
see. Work was out of the Question.
Taking notes" would have been weari-
ness, and as to having any System" the
very thought was abhorrent. | couldn't
go amiss, and the more / ran at random
the more delightful surprises did | enjoy.
Finally, however, / found at the Victoria
hotel the rest of the "gang''-1neaning the
temporarily ''single gentlemen who had
formed such pleasant group on the steam
er coming Overland thereafter we took ii
more Systematically and with less walking
as we learned the omnibus routes. One
time we would mount to the top of bus
AMI go out the Great Western road, by St.
James park, Hyde park and Buckingham
palace (in the distance, through the ele-
CANT squares beyond the parks, along
Hammersmith road and across the upper
Thames to South kensington; at another
as far in the opposite direction, through
the swarming alleys and streets of White
chapel, and then to Greenwich and all the
noted parks in turn.
Our favorite walk, however, in the few
hours of sunshine was along the Thames
Embankment, so called, that beautiful
promenade where the stream is walled by
solid white masonry. Through all the up
per part OF the city the Thames at low tide
is surprisingly narrow, but at high tide
it spreads over considerably more mud,
gave in the middle section, where it is
walled in as aforesaid Below the Tower
1t widens and deepens into regular estu-
airy, and there are the famous docks In
the natural order of things London, like
most early cities, was located at the head
OF navigation, and hence the rather odd eff
feet that above the city the Thames is only
clear, swiftly flowing ard picturesque
country creek; in part Of the city it is a
deep and narrow channel, while below that
it is an arm of the sea. Above it is clear
as spring water; below Westminster
bridge as dirty as sewer. Just westward
Of cIt nd H.,
make q scene of remarkable beauty, and
one hates to think of the day when Macau-
lays oft quoted New Zealander shall ''sit
on the ruins of London bridge, and muse
on the decline and fall of the British en-
pire"
But this is a depression. Our hilarious
Americans are not in the mood to ''muse'
ON anything, but those who try to find
their own way in hurry are greatly
tempted to swear at the peculiar system of
numbering the houses on a street and the
ingeniously complex want of system in the
courses and names Of the streets. The
numbers begin at the foot of street and
run continuously on one side to the head
of the same. then cross over and run back
as continuously on the other side. Thus
No. % On the Strand is opposite No. $40,
and similarly all over the city; so you must
know something of the length of street
end calculate closely, if you are near the
middle, to know which way to 60 In a
very long street this would make intoler-
able confusion; but they avoid that by the
simple and truly British process of fire.
quently changing the names. No matter
how continuously a thoroughfare may run
they have new name for it every time it