The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-13
In HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY
Singular Revelations of Recent Visit to
Resort Of the English People.
Spot Where the Widest Liberty Of Speech
Prevails and All Sorts of Caiehpenny De-
vices Are in Operation on the Sabbath.

Correspondence of the Sunday Journal
LONDON, Nov. 1.-The visitor to England
who would inform himself by o practical
object lesson of the extent to which free
speech is allowed In this country, should
make the rounds of Hyde Park some Sun
day afternoon. Many of the things OBJ
served will not ct all comport with the
idea of sanctity which usually attaches to
the Sabbath; but our conscience, We must
suppose. will have been fortified against
the shook awaiting it by your attendance
at church IN the morning, and If any addi-
tional palliative Is needed, you can per-
shade yourself that it is the preaching you
are going 20 hear primarily, and that the
other sights and sounds of this popular
Sunday resort are only TO be taken in en-
route Besides, you will sec lots of human
nature here, and on the assumption that
the highest study of mankind is man. you
will be quite in the path of duty; especially
If, like the writer, you observe and listen
for the purpose of moralizing and profiting
thereby.
You will enter probably from Hyde Park
corner, and If you are an American. with
fair detective instincts you will not feel
in the least lonely. You will miss in Rot
ten Row the stream of elegantly appointed
carriages which sweeps through that IA
nous drive on other days. but in the walks
adjacent you will find mighty tide of
well-dressed promenaders. Mostly Eng
lish. they will be, and mostly. therefore.
held MP by walking sticks and topped off
with silk hats. SO it wiz be, at least. with
the tTousered species about you, and you
wilfbe helped IN picking out your tree
going compatriots by remembering that for
the most part these will not disdain the
humble felt as Sunday head gear, and in
helping themselves along with the sort Of
walking-stick that can be utilized In o
shower. But this crowd you will soon
Leave with that also which surrounds the
band-stand. In your eagerness to lind Thea
well, as we remarked at first, the preach
ing.
The first group Of auditors is small. and
she man TO whom their attention is turned
10 just placing his hat where il Is likely to
do most good; that 10. In full view of those
listening. with the hollow end turned ap-
peallngly upwards. This looks like q col
lection, and for that reason. no less than
from the intellectual phizog Of the speaker
you might imagine yourself at an orthodox
meeting. But you are soon disillusioned
for the fellow announces himself as q Music
Hall artist out of q job, and. of course. he
says he Is from America. This American
bus business ss 10 regular Sasch.penny In Lon
many that are not good, with SO many
others which are in every way extraordi-
nary. are always coming over here from
America and walking of with the blue rib
bon of popular favor that EDglishmen
themselves find It to their advantage to
come over" and this was the sort of Gus
toner who was now appealing to the cop
pers IN our pockets and fairly making them
L. - - h
of George X. Simss Man Hunt" What
made the fraud in this case all the more
hateful TO American sensibilitles was that
the man perpetrating it sought to palm
himself OF as an American in language
which played hide and seek with the letter
b and was seasoned so palpably with the
brogue OF downright cockney.
REAL PREACHING.
Our next stand is more promising. Here
we really find preachIng-such as it Is. A
man is telling an interested group of
hearers that he has quit the churches and
gone to-here he mentioned the name of
the worlds Redeemer. The churches
could do him no good; his hearers should
beware of churches especially of the
Catholic Church. which, no said prohibit
ed its members from reading the Bible.
This was the substance of what he
was saying. but the chief interest
lay in the interruptions he met. The
congregations In Hyde Park are
know what Christianity u.s." He
never seed q Christian. that bloke never
did," Who owns the land but the Protest
ants-a set of land-theves. they bin:" LEI
Churruch is. come ana hear Father Ben
nett tonight" Such were some of the
gentle hints thrown out Ly various hearers
on this occasion-some of them. as the
reader will see. coming from those who
ought to know o good deal about the Cath
Ollie Churcb-and it Was not long until one
of those Intermediates divided honors
with the preacher by haranguinR In any
thing but reIgious language. o jeering
Near by, young fellow whose shaven
upper lip and trim side whiskers would
suggest that be might be an English cler-
gyman-that being the facial style of
clerics over here-is addressing q crowd in
the interests of the Domestic Servants
Union. He Is one of them himself. Gen.
tlemen OF the cloth can have no just
ground for otfense in the fact that we mis-
took HIM at first for one of their order, for
the style OF lace IN question Is as generally
affected By the English footman as By the
English divine; nor have We seen yet any
decision as TO which can lay prior claim to
shis fashion. What this gentleman said In
the few moments we tarrled within hear
Ing was that domestic service was
not what IL was cracked mp to be:
that those following 1t got to know
. lot of bad things about their masters
and mlstresscs and that if he were to tell
the sort of lives being lived by judges on
the bench. and others high in power, the
hair on the heads of those before him would
take such q sudden Upward bound that
every hat would be dozen feet high In no
lime. The last remark Is gwen, think.
verbatim. but his reply to some one no
told him to shut MP and come down we
cannot give so accurately. As ID usu al,
however. with such retorts in HYDE Park.
&c had something in it about the man not
knowing enough 60 brush his hat the right
way, aud also about his inordinate desire
20 talk having its basis in the fact that he
wanted TO exhibit mis- false teeth as much
as possible.
But we are seeking a religious service,
and sure enough. as We turn from the plat
form OF the Domestic Servants UniGn. we
find one that gladdeus our eyes and does
our hearts good; for we fall npon one of the
old-fashionedest of old-fashioned darkies;
veritable old Virginia uncle. the sort
which We could have imagined lad
dropped down on the spot out of Uncle
Toms cabin, or from one OF Tom Pages
novels: and there he was with white
choker big enough for a sheet and with a
pair OF understandings which bore such a
mark OK commences that. as an American
with Southern attachments. we were made
homesick by LOOKING at them. Dear. good
Did soul. he could only tell tho old. old
story; he wasn't at all mp to the polemica
standard OF the usnai Hyde Park preacher
But what he said that ode w0ef ala a.