Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-10-17
CONNIE SCOTLAND.
4 Georgia Lsdy's Visit Among Histoff
Scenes.

Scenes.
Liverpool occupies q central position,
geographically, between Ireland and
England. Passengers TO and from
America depart and disembark at
Princes Landing stage, q floating dock
three times as large rs our ''carshed."
and apparently IS steady as If built
nearly one-half of the trade Of the
port is with the United States The
city possesses one.tenth of the shipping
of Great Britain; one.third Of the for
eign trade; one-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 all of the features of con-
venience. The public buildings are as
new ns those in America
The importance of Liverpool began
with the cotton manufacture in En-
gland. Slave trade added wealth to
her merchants. I 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 inha bited the pools or marshes
upon which the town was built.
AS q great commercial and industrial
hnbitants, is of great Importance to
Scotland 1t is Liverpoors rival in
shipping, Newcastle's in coal, ard Man
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 inha Bit
ants at the beginning OF this century.
speaks with encouraging prophesy to
our own new cities am bilious for man
ufactories to develop the wonderful re-
sources of the country around them
as rich in coal and iron as Glasgow's
''neighborhood." l believe it was near
here where the first experiment with
Nelson's hot-blast iron furnaces was
made, which brought about the econ
omy which SO developed the iron indus<
tfleS IN scotland.
Glasgow is sixty miles from the sea-
but with an energy and enterprise
! which win admiration. her citizeds
have converted the river Clyde into a
vast harbor, at cost of S42, 500, 900.
Artificial deepening by dredging the
river from the navigable depth of only
three feet at high water in 1870, now
enables vessels drawing twenty-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 stordse Of goods. which
can be approached by railway lines.
| In 171s the first ship, little craft of
sixty tons, left Glasgow for the new
| world. On the Clyde are some of the
! largest ship building yards in the world.
Nearly all the fastest and largest ocean
/ liners and many war vessels for the
! British and foreign navies 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
! 1863 with the result in the success of
applying steaIn as q wonderful motive
| power. The Comet, with it's engine OF
! threr-horse power, was launched on
the Clyde in 1912. 1t was Mr.. Henry
! Bells first steam vessel-in fact it was
| tie tirst steamer in Europe.
The improvements of modern times
are more interesting than the relics in
this great city. 1t strikes yau as being
sol;dly built and very clean Bu-
|
Gordon streets, serving such CONNER
ciaI interests, are full of architectural
wealth. The stock exchange, faculty
library, Clydesdale bank, the offices of
the Herald and Times, the Yves tern
club and other buildings are of Venc-
tian, Gothic type or ornate Italian
! renaissance. or successful Venetian de-
signs, fiord Corinthiau style, or per-
| maps original in character with So
much dignity and handsomeness- In
st. Georges church can he seen many
classical details in happy appropriate
J 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 magnifi-
| cent, The salons are in amber wood
! mahogany and satin wood: the council
cham bers 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 tilingi The ceiling il groinea
and elaborately decorated in Venetian
mosaic. There are columns round and
! square and carved. Some of them have
| figures representing the torch of light
/ and lie arning: the ball, symbolicai of the
world; strength and purity with n lily
in her hand. and horns with plenty. 1
notice that every design everywhere on
column. ceiling, window, floor. on the
outside Of building, and the casing
around every statue is not only intend
ed to be beautiful, but has meaning
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