The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-14
WAkEMAN'S TRAVELS.
Tho Poot Traveller Again Is In
qroat Britain.
SOME OLD CATHEDRAL TOWNS
Something About Glouccstcr...Fnr
From Worn Ways Of Travel, It is
Rich IN History. Mellow Traditions
[ and Quaint Old Architecture OF
Long Aso-..Its Noble Cathedral.
IcorynloIrr. 1897, ny rDoAn I. wAKrnAy.l

GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND, April ST.
From among tho Costwell Hills had
for days caught enticing gimpses OF tho
spires and roofs OF ancient Gloucester
grouped about tho hugo tower OF lis
splendid cathedral, all Struggled amid
rich vorduro beside tho cleaning waters
OF the. Severn. Tho old cathedral town,
far from the worn ways Of travel, rich
in history, legends and quaint old
architecture OF long ago and still
peaceful and ample in it's provincial
coloring dnd ways, ut last won me
from the mountains through winding
beech.lincd roads and blossoming haw.
thorn lanes.
Besides, there was personal interest
in the gray old town. All OF us, title.
hators that we Americans tlcrcely assure
the rest OF tho world VIC are, love 10
know, II VIC arc honest enough to con.
Tess 1t, that, away back somewhere
along the blood line behind US, there
has been one OF our kin who was some.
body, who really did something, ind
who was man enough, good or bad, to
have LEI. an impress and record upon
tho affairs OF his time. Without pride
or. envy could contemplate those OF
my family and name who as the ''cldcst
sons OF eldest sons" Ind for nearly
thousand years enjoyed their titles, es.
tntes and castles over in Shropshire and
Wales.
But I know that another relative,
John Wakeman, the last abbot OF Tow
kesbury, chaplain to Henry VIII, had
not only been made tho first bishop Of
the SEQ Of Gloucester on its erection in.
TO diocese, the Sd OF September, l54l,
but had also been one OF the translators
of the New Testament, the Revelations
OF St. John having been assigned to him
was something to quicken the pace and
send along the veins pleasant thrill Of
fine satisfaction and pride.
Something after tho manner OF the
ownership feeling OF Silas Wcgg in his
innocent dclusion regarding sour
House" and its "Miss Elizabeth. '"Nlas-
ter George" "Aunt Jane" and "Uncle
Parker" l found myself basking in the
pleasant mysticisms OF tolerative rcla-
tionship. The very wraiths OF history
that haunt the valley seemed to come
closer and clearer than though my re-
lative had not been tho first prelate OF
this important see. The Isle OF Alney,
there in the Severn, where Edmund
1ronside and Canute the Dane in 10l6
decided great war by single combat,
was tinted with the interest OF remote
family incident. Tewkesbury across
the valley youder where the house OF
York crushed the house OF Lancaster,
and the aisles OF the old abbey ran with
blood in the butchery Of tho adherent4
OF Inflated Margaret and her murdered
boy-prince, came dreamily within the
same gorgeous setting.
IN GLOUCESTER.
Even the mad antics OF Richard Plan
tagenet, who was Duke OF Gloucester,
(Gloster), and who conferred many hon
ors and benefits upon the fine city and
shire, took on n more favorable gllise.
The burning OF Bishop Cooper hard by
the cathedral gates paled behind the
tilmy veil OF his troublous times. There
was a personal and mournful interest in
the cortegc which bore the body OF
murdered Edward II. to its resting place
in the mighty cathedral. And, from the
latter days, there waited spell OF per-
sonal qualification that IN archbishop
OF Canterbury and man like Robert
Raikes, founder OF Sunday schools, had
grown into the great stature OF iamo
from out OF the environment OF this
slunbrous. messy town.
Self graduation is such wantou indie
and intoXicant that tramped from the
hills into the old cathedral city in clated
eXultance, almost meeting the gaze Of
honest Gloucester folk with the exuber-
ance OF cxpectant recognition. There
must have been SO easy m air OF ia,nil-
lnrity i'll my aspect and manner, con-
sideriag that the mud OF the mountain
shecp-wulks was still on my huge-solcd
shoes. 1t seemed, in my pleasant frame
OF mind, as though the landlord of tho
humble inn where came to lodge ought
to haze called mo by name and come to
the door 10 receive me. Perhaps he had
never heard OF my relative, the bishop.
But he merely glanced at my trousers
and shoes. Then boots showed me to
aroom in the caves. Returning shortly,
he presented bill, in advance, rs ioI.
lows, Lodging, one and sixpence; at
tendance, siXpcnCo; candle, three pence;
boots. three pence. Total, two and six.
pence. Paid. with thanks"
i don't think tho landlord expected
boots" to return with the money. But
he did, and alive besides. For rs l de-
scended into the little vine-hung inn
yard l noticed with pain that the coffee.
room maid was gathering together rs
if from 'hasty order, the remnants of
some other travellers recent meal, one
who probably hud luggage if no groat
relatives; and rs passed out into the
+ pleasant streets OF The lcaiy old city
WIS soroly haunted by the reflective
query whether, had that landlord known
Z Of the prelate and Of tho titled folk over
in shropshire and Wales, he would have
let mo lodge at tho little inn at all.
OLD LANDMARKS. 1,
In every other English cathedral
town have visited, l have always
found a "IIigh Street" tho principal
thorouGhiare into which all others
lead, and from which some picturesque
wynd or court brings you direct to tho
cathedral close. It is different in
5 Gloucester. There was once famous
cross at the. very center OF the city. Tho
two main streets Of tho town interscct
each other here. Ono running north
and south, is Northsate and Southgato
tound from tho place still called "thc
Cross. ~ The other is Eastgato and
Westsatc to and from tho same spot. .
AL that. which is picturesque and
charming from its ANTIQUITY. and thatis