Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-27


which MS headman's axe severed onl
july morning little later on.
Lying along the northern banl, nj tbo
Thames, to the west OF the eli. rhal-
sea proper may be said &c neein on No
east at the famous Chelsea hosnital To-.
British pensioners. The na6ni6car,
Thames embankment forms ia eho,,e
edge here, and near the botanic ,ya,.-
dens becomes Cheyne walk, which Con.
tinues mile or so to Bettersoa hri6ga
In this two or three miles dis,aneo
about the centre Of which Is tho Car'
lyle neighborhood, and extending hori,
from the river to the depth of n ,,ila az.
more, there are wondrouslv oneint oid
structures, clumps OF ancient cnttagss
covered with vines and embedded in
greenery. Elizabethan mansions BIZ tba
score with monstrous chimneys and
gray old gables. winding lanes
leading from the Thames. where nnce
We're line water stairs und nieinresn,,e
fisher huts. bits Of venerable narls and
mouldy gardens overshadowed by prim
modern rows, where the aristocrary
have crowded in upon the older haunfs
OF literature and art, and cobwebbcd
inns innumerable.
Chelsea Hospital itself is world OF
memories not only of British history
a-tield, but of the time Of Charles IL. Of
old King James College, OF Sir Stephen
Fox, and of hayward though kind-heart-
cd Nell Gwynne. And as to the pen
sioners themselves Chelsea would
hardly be Chelsia without
them. Struggling along its
shady thoroughfares, sitting bent
and silent on sunny benches, leaning
against whipping fountains or vases
and statues, resting as composedly as
house owners on steps and in vestibules,
or stumping gravely along with orders
to this or that servant, as II long habit
head given them supervisory rights over
the daily affairs presidents, they iris
tibly suggest bevies of crOaking cocSa-
toos turned loose in park and garden.
each one querulously harping upon
some fancied grievance or delight.
At the western side OF the hospital
still stands Sir Robert Walpole's house,
almost precisely as II stood when he all
but ruled England through the two
Georges, first and second. 1t is now q
portion of the hospital infrmary. 1t
was TO this old red brick mansion that
Walpole's rival, Bolmgbroke, came to
dine, and half choked for his choler;
where Swift and Gay came TO get ma
lerial for satire. and where Pope came
with scandal of his past amours, and
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 loz-
enge, around which crowd some very
ancient two-story brick houses. The
windows are little, the pancs are little,
the steps, scrapers and knockers are
little, but always bright and clean, and
| il seems that every face you see at the
tiny panes is little and snappy and old,
| like all else in this venerable Hans
| Place. At one of these bits Of habita-
| tions, precisely like all the rest, was
| born the poetess, l.. h. L. But two
| doors away in another box OF house,
she went to school. Her school fellows
were the East Indian writer Miss
Roberts, and Lady Caroline Lamb.
| Years after here were also educated
other famous women: Lady Bulwer,
Miss Milford, aud that best and tender
| est OF all writers upon ireland, Mrs. 5.
| G. Hall
The one time famous Cremorne Gar
dens, at the western edge OF Chelsea,
has special interest to Americans. a
granddaughter of William Penn named
Philadelphia from the city Of her birth,
became the second wife of Viscount
Cremorne. OUTLYING her husband she
inherited the beautiful grounds once
known as "Chelsea Farm Granville
Penn, once lord of the Stoke Poges
Manor. where Grey livedand wrote the
"Elogy.n fell heir to the property and
sold ii To the Cremorne Garden corpo'
ration. Wicked enough 1t grew in
time. Decorous associations retrlVed
IL. and an innocent nursery garden now
wells its unhallowed site and memories
At least three ancient taverns in the
neighborhood have peculiar old-tlme
interest. Two. one at the western and
the other at the eastern edge OF the
narish. are directly associated with
Nell Gwynne. That TO the west, il
which I found u noble sort OF publican,
and. oddly enough. a cousin OF thai
rampant little pugelist whose skill o
ton,rt,o has never been defeated
Charley Mitchell. was built by Charles
II nd a home for his iayorite. IL wa'
frrm the windows Of this house, now
n resort of Chelsea pensioners, thul
Nell's eyes looked in upon the ther
iine meadows of King James college, II
her, dream, when she saw the beautiful
palace rise with its thousand chambers
out of which divers many old an'
worn out soldiermen' came and cried
God bless King Charles! which lee
10 the merciful founding OF the splen
did hospital. =, - t
The other associated with the FAM
of the pretty orange-girl Is sedate OLE
rookery at the western side OF Chelsea
il ia called the "Nell Gwynne Tavern
and many rare tradition oI CharieS
COMPANION fingers about the mellow
aid Mace. Another curious inn still Il
existence is the prince OF Wales a
The corne, Of Lawrence street and Jus
tice walk, but d squares distance non
the old Carlyle home in Great Cheyn
Row chelsea was once made know
throuoh the artistic world Tor Nc IA
mous china. For the forty years are
iTl5 its china works, which stood o
. ibe sita of the prince ol Wales,
t,irned out n product equal 70 that
Seyres. In the cellars 81. the nm 70
I can see the remains Of the ovens ah
baking rooms Just as they were aDaL
5oneS Dr.. Samuel johnson was snu
denlv possessed OF the idea that D
, could as easily make china a. nv
,fnns,r- and the doughty Old scholA
$500 -filod native workman Tor ION