The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-12-03

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Liverpool occupies central position.
geographically. between Ireland and
England. Passengers. 70 and from
America depart and discmbArk at
Princes Landing stage, . floating dock
three times IS large Is our ''carshed,
and apparently as steady as II built
upon solid ground. II Is said that
nearly one-half Of the trade Of the
port is with the United States The
city possesses one-t tenth Of the shipping
OF Great Britain; one-third Of the for
eign trade; onc-sixth Of the general
commerce.
In 1861 Liverpool was q simple
hamlet; now she is a great city
of nearly SIX hundred thousand inhabit-
ants, and is the second seaport in the
United Kingdom. The docks are the
largest in the world. and are grand in
the solidity of masonry, system of
canals, and ali of the features of con-
venience. The public buildings are as
new as those in America
The Importance of Liverpool began
with the cotton manufacture in En-
gland. Slave trade added wealth to
her merchants, am told. The city Is
built upon reclaimed land, and even
until late years the river Mersey en-
|croached upon the ground where the
city now Is Liverpool gets its name
from the liver bird and pool. Those
birds inhabited the pools or marshes
upon which the town was built
As great commercial and industrial
metropolis Glasgow, with its $50, 900 in
habitants, is Of great Importance to
Scotland 1t is Livcrpoops rival in
shipping, Newcastle's in coal, and Nam
chester's In cotton spinning This is
the Lanarkshire black coal district,
with its great coal fields and rich seams
in iron stone Iron furnaces are within
the bounds of the city. Their mighty
glare and glow reminded me of my first
visit to the Birmingham, Ala, furnaces.
The great prosperity, wealth and
marvellous growth Of Glasgow. which
had only aboute lightly thousand inhabit-
ants at the beginning of this century,
speaks with encouraging prophesy to
our own new cities am bilious for man
nfactories to develop the wonderful re-
sources of the country around them
as rich in coal and iron as Glasgow's
ssneighborhood." / believe it was near
here where the first experiment with
Nelson's hot biast=iren furnaces was
made, which brought about the econ
omy which so developed the iron indus
tries in Scotland.
Glasgow is sixty miles from the sea,
but with an energy and enterprise
which win admiration. her citizens
have converted the river Clyde into a
vast harbor. at cost of S42, SOC, 900.
Artificial deepening by dredging the
river from the navigablc depth of only
three feet at high water in ITO, now
enables vessels drawing twentv-four
feet of water to float The great armor-
plated vessels of the royal navy sail
freely here. The harbor possesses
nearly twenty five acres of accommo-
dation for the storage of goods, which
can be approached by railway lines.
In his the first ship, little craft of
sixty tons, left Glasgow for the new
world On the Clyde are some of the
Iargestship- yards in the world.
Nearly all the fastest and largest ocean
| liners and many war vessels for the
British and foreign nayies have been
built in these gigantic yards, which lie
on these river banks for miles. How
much they mean to the world. and
what monuments to mans brain and
skill they send out for our use! How
often we have read of the illustrious
James Watts series of experiments in
1868 with the result in the success of
applying steam as a wonderful motive
power. The Comet, with its engine OF
three-horse power, was launched on
the Clyde in 1872 1t was Mr.. Henry
Bells first steam vessel-in fact, it was
the first steamer in Europe.
The improvements OF modern times
are more interesting than the relics in
this great city. 1t strikes you as being
so1idly built and very clean Blu
chanan. st. Vincent West George and
Gordon streets, serving such CONNER
| cial interests, are full of architectural
wealth The stock exchange, faculty
library, Clydesdale bank, the offices of
the Herald and Times, the We tern
club and other buildings are of Vene-
tan, Gothic type or ornate Italian
renaissance, or successful Venetian de-
signs, forid Corinthian style, or per-
haps original in character with so
much dignity and handsomeness. In
St Georges church can be seen many
classical details in happy appropriate
ness to architecture SO ecclesiastical.
Architecture is valued as high art in
the old world, and it is not uncommon
to see splendid statue erected by an
appreciative people to an architect who
has displayed love of art in his work
The municipal building is magniti-
cent. The salons are in amber wood,
mahogany and satin woad; the council
chambers IN mahogany. Onyx, carara
| marble, alabaster and black marble
are used in the columns and wainscot-
| ing. The floor is inlaid in pretty de-
| signs of thing; the ceiling is groined
and deliberately decorated in Venetian
mosaic. There are columns round and
square and carved. Some of them have
| figures representing the torch of light
and learning; the ball, symbolical of the
| world; strength and purity with lily
in her hand, and horns with plenty. l
notice that every design everywhere on
column, ceiling, window, floor, on the
outside of building, and the easing
around every statue is not only intend
ed to be beautiful, but has meaning
and is a study.
| The old cathedral with its history,
pure Gothic arches, vaulted columns,
groined ceilings wide lance windows,
weird crypts with exquisite-stained
glass windows by real artists, is a
place of deep interest. Several frag-
ment Of architectural remains of a
crypt erected towards the close of the
twelfth century are held In sacred cor
ners or worked in as decorations in the
solid stone walls
This fine old cathedral is dedicated
to St Kentigeru or3St Mungps who, it
Is said, was the founder of Glasgow
| We saw St Mungo's we'll in one Of the