Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-09

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pughfsrcs. sitting bent and silent on sunny
benches, leaning against wlmpllug foun.
,ains OF vases aud statues, resting rs com
posedly rs house owners on steps and In
vestibulcs, or stumping gravely along with
orders To this or that servant rs N long
habit had given them supervisory rights
over the daily Affairs Of residents, they ir.
resistlbly suggest bevies Of croaklng cock.
atoos turned loose In park and garden,
each one ENORMOUSLY harplng upon some
fnncicd grievance or delight.
At tho western aide Of the hospital still
stands Sir Robert Walpolc's house. almost
precisely "a It stood when he all but ruled
England through the two Georges, First
and Second. II is now u portion Of the hos.
pltal inilrmary. It was TO this old red brick
mansion that Walpole's rival, Bolingbroke.
came to dine and half choked for his cholcr;
where Swift and Gay came to get material
for satire, and where Pope came with scan
dial OF his past amonrs aud probably to beg
for assistance In others.
Not far from the Hospital, over In the
northeast corner Of Chelsea, Is little
green oval like a pretty emerald lozengc,
around which crowd some very ancient
two story brick houses The windows are
little the pnnes are little, the steps, scraper.
and clean, and Il seems that every face you
sec at the tiny panes il little and snappy
and old. like all else In this venerable Hans
Place Al one OF these bits Of habltations,
precisely like all tho rest. was born tho
poctcss l.. l.. l.. But two doors away, In
another box Of q house, she went to school,
Her schooliclows were the East Indian
writer. Miss Roberts, and Lady Caroline
Lamb. Years after here were also cdu-
Gated other famous women-I.ady liulwer,
Miss Milford and that best and tendorcst
Of all writers upon Ireland, Mrs. 5. q.
Hall
Tho one time famous Cremornc Gardens
NJ the western edge Of Chelsea have special
Interest TO Americans. A granddaughter
NJ William Penn, named Philadelphia
from the city Of her birth. became the sec
ond wife OF Niscount Crcmornc. Outliy-
ing her husband. she Inherited the bcauti-
ful grounds once known M Chelsea Fnrm.n
Granville Penn, once lord u the Stoke
Poges Manor. where Gray lived and wrote
the "Elcgy," fell heir 20 the property and
sold Il TO the Crcmorno Gardens corporation
Wicked enough II grow In time. Dccorous
associations retrieved IL, and an innocent
nursery garden now wells Its unhallowed
site and memories.
At least three ancient taverns in the
neighborhood have peculiar old time inter
est. Two. one at the western and one Mt
the eastern edge Of the parish. are directly
associated with Nell Gwynne. That TO the
west was built by Charles II M home
for bis fayoritc. IL was from tho windows
Of this house. now n resort Of Chelsea pen
Sioners, that Nell's eyes looked In upon the
then fine meadows OF King james college,
In her dream when she saw tho beautiful
palace rise with It's thousand chambers
out Of which divers many old and worn.
out soldier men" came and cried, God
bless King Chnrlcsp' which led to the
merciful founding OF the splendid Hospital,
The other associated with the fame OF
the pretty orange girl Is sednte old rock.
cry Mt the western side Of Chelsea. IL Is
called tho "Ncll Gwynne Tavern" and
many rare tradition Of Charles compan.
ion fingers about the mellow old place.
Another curious tavern still In existence
IA tho Prince Of Wales, Mt tho corner OF
Lawrence street aud Justice Walk. but u
squares distance from the old Carlyle
home In Great Chcyne Row. Chelsea was
once made known through the artistic
world for its famous china. For the forty
years from l1s5 Its china works, which
stood on tho site Of the Prince OF Wales,
turned out product equal TO that OF
Shvres In tho cellars OF the Inn you can
see the remains OF the ovens and baking
rooms Just ~ they were abandoned. DIR.
Samuel johnson was suddenly possessed
Of the idea that he could rs easily make
china rs dictionary, and the doughty
old scholar. but unskilled native workman,
for long time came here daily to spoil
good material, his faithful housekeepcr
trudging after him with a huge basket
containing his daily food.
In Great Cheyne Row Smollctt lived,
long before Carlyle came, and here he wrote
Ferdinand Count Fathom" and finished
Hume's History Of England" while
George Eliot died In u house near Carlyle's
In the same modest little thoroughfarc.
Chelsea Old Church, one Of the sweetest
old places in London, oyerlooks the Thames
but u few rods distant. Here you will find
the black memorial slab OF Sir Thomas
More. Lady Dacre, Lady Jane Choync
and tho Duchess Of Northumberland, three
OF Chelsea's former grand ladies', lie he.
meath monuments within the church, while
Charles, George aud Henry Kingsley once
lived In It's rcctory with their father. who
had received the living" from Lord Cado-
gan.
ih Nh'shr WAN Nlouk tnc flNtf sue
| lived Turner, the painter. Rcsettl lived
and sang here among his birds and now.
ers. Leigh Hunts Gipsyliko home, OF
which Carlyle has left inmitable descrlp,
ton, was Just around the corner from
Great Cheyne Row. Queen Elizabeth used
To visit the Earl OF Shrewsbury at Shrews.
bury House, just back OF Cheyne Walk.
The poet George Herbert dwclt In thu
same nelghborhood. and Mt little barber
shop, coffee house and quaint museum
called "Don Saltero's" by the wits " the
time In honor OF It's grave nobody proprio.
tor, one Salt. who "brewed divine coffee
and shaved with equal terror" Richard
Cromwell, Steele and Addison aud Benia.
min Franklin, who worked In u painting
shop In bartholomew Close near by, came
to get shaved and to loitcr over their cot.
fee, where che l.iterati then sat in coun.
cil.n
Long and pleasant IN ones lettering here.
II you come many days or but one, N end
less host OF wraiths Of worthless start up
unbidden in your wanderlngs. II once or
many times you depart you will ever In.
sensibly be drawn at parting 10 the gray
old habitations OF Great Cheync Row. The
windows OF all overlook the turbulent
river, darkening Battesea ut It's farther
shore, and the pleasant villages upon the
hills OF Surrey beyond. At window OF
ono--it matters not who lives there now
your fancy cannot but see q shaggy, sturdy,
kAggard face It's gray, defiant but sor.
rowful eyes are lifted across the turbulent