Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-18
COvENT GARDEN
NJ Joyous Neighborhocd
with Famous Inns.
.srGgS WANDERlNGS.
,.,,,ls Of To-Day Rich and Esllog
k,rol- charmiH5Y EacAlled The
KarEsi in early 1orning
H9Ws-Seenss.

nigh, lN@i ~ 49,
.s,x SEPT. 8, lS82.-Of all the
tondon tayerns OF bygone
And looking IN upon Covent
m Immediately around ubout
N retaiu that flavor which has
rnelish ictioual literature i0r the
N wears one Of It's most vim
s6d lasting charms.
" 10 haunt tine apartment houses
a Am. up bloomsbury way. and
b with their saG-cyed, funefal-
widoWedT uimble-iingered
x in dismay and desperation or
IN energies upon the austorites
rra, hotels along The Strand.
. ~ diy OF grace succor came, and
II IA saint Mathews, the London
aid: My dear boy don't be Is
n ID longer and waste your gold
n ths hotol b douins OF London.
fIsea gentleman Of he old school
n N the mOney. and take your eass
n .roaii inn In the very heart %
"a prseinct where all our literature
reading was made. Go to any Of
Hoiet old inns about COvent Gar-
n N be always at rest, even ia the
n 4 0ndOn.n
aye newer b5en 50 greqteful for id
ri all my life. Here are half
Il Il inns. gcnuin old tGyerns. most
81 m built long before the century
II In. and every one OF modern make
q ructed and conducted on The old
+ med plan, They are taverns at
the feplaces are huge, Cavern
and gel table; the Bedrooms
and cosy; the halls low coilinged,
fua and full Of real olden settles
4 M; the smoking rooms snug and
and with plenty Of papers and
Tho pictures yellow ana old anil
and hung in great broad. odd
which show they We're,
long beiore you were born
Mining rooms ample and quiet and
N broyned.n the ports. clarats
berries with the cobwebs OF the
ates and thirties upon thum: the
wholesome, fine and good; the por-
* lrlendly and "talky when you
ra little humauizing patter; and
Y the miss in the office aud bar
osy.iacad chumbermaids ara not
rse on occasion TO bit OF innocent
h. which after an ANYBODY but
hermit on II hypOcrite at
n huly enjoys
a 10 from coming and going often
4 old COyent garden inns have be-
sort Of home to me. Their ASSOC
h., rich aud mellow as the very
they serve, have taken their
one by one in my heart, while the
into which the windows of
all OF then look, like Silas
4 "Our House" in Mutual
81 4 has become MY market. Scores
(. iolk are my intimato friends; for
lst know that most Of them have
+ all NIGHT ways with them, and
elulfs no Introduction whatever
upor eating and drinking terms
r Vows Of lifelong intimacy with
eoster porter, and / was almost
II 10 saw the Prince of Wales HIM
n h really human and clover man of
H ,world often comes TO "3ule's,
stones throw from the market,
r he makes u night Of IL peacnbly
+ Ike a gentleman with the wits Of
Nn, ending his litte forgiyable d.
Il On BY q rousing jostling among the
Il porters. costor5 and green-gro-
and taking the badinage given all
colnc with ROYAL philosophy and
IN good win. This large human
lng inHuouce has always been pc
10 the Covont garden district.
Am here as one of the bost lcga-
4 q the mellow olden time. And
Is the only place ia London or in
England where Won can find IL
geless to enjoy
5lat a host of rich associations
"A within this little Covont Garden
u oN Thaekerav called IL the "ioy-
ighhorhood 0f. Covent Garden,
n il was scarcely known at The he
y ng Of the Seventeenth century.
+ the middle OF the seventeenth
# nv to The middle OF the Nineteenth
i ry It was the best known rem
fellows generally aud substantial
8fy sources and gentlemen visiting
i own in [.ond n. In Russell street,
4 rhieay given over 10 prsen-arocars
ruiterais. was the then social cX-
ga oi tho English capital. the mart
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