Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-06
DIR. LANDRUM'S TRIP.
HIS TRAVELS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE,
SWITZERLAND, ITALY, SCOTLAND
HIS Experience mt 0uarantlne--Just MISS
ed Two Case. of cholers-GIadstones
Majority

again. After delightful TWO mon'"'
tour Of Great Britain. France. SwitSer'
land, and Italy be returned to Richmond
Sunday afternoon on the fast-mail. Dr'
l.. NJ. Cowardin and wife, who were DIS
travelling companions abroad, stopped
over in Washington and will make snor'
visit TO Orange county before coming 70
the city. =, ,
A representative Of the DISPATCH called
az DIR. Landrum's residence yesterday az
ternoon and mad n very pleasant chat WIN
him about his trip and especially ABOUT
his experience with the New YORK quaran-
tine officers.
ITO start at the beginning" said the
popular pastor Of tho Second Baptist
church, "our trip began on the steamship
City OF Rome. which left New YORK I Ior
Glasgow, Scotland, on the % or july We
touched at Neville, Ireland, on the early
morning Of Sunday the 10th, and reached
Glasgow OF 10 o'clock the same evening.
As | had formerly paid visit 70 scot
land aud England hurried rom
Glasgow to London and thence 10
Paris. IL was my good fortune TO be
in the latter city on the 18th OF July,
the anniversary of the destruction OF the
Bastie, corresponding 10 our lndepend-
ence-Day, the Fourth of July. All Paris
was vocalled with martial music, gay
with bunting. and alive with the move
ment of troops. French flags hoated rom
almost every building, while the ensign OF
the American Union was almost as COM
mon O sight. / saw in the afternoon IN
the Bots De BoiiOgne a review OF 40,gOO
French troops by President Carnot. The
inspiring spectacle was made ineligible
TO me by an officer OF the artillery who
spoke English almost faultlessly.
UNLIKE EAPoLEoN's BATTALIoNs.
HE called my attention to the fact that
the troops whose man9uvres | had wit
messed. unlike the battalions which
Napoleon the Little led to disaster at
Sedan, we're trained and equipped for
service and not for show. The fireworks
and Examinations at night on the Plas DE
La Concorde and the Champs Elysees were
almost miracle OF brilliancy. All during
these demonstrations of national JOY the
statue 10 Alsace Lorraine was draped In
mourning, significant object lesson. IL
seemed to keep warm IN the French heart
a purpose to reclaim those provinces from
Germany.
while the republic has many enemies,
chiefly in the head and foot Of society,
DIR. Landrum continued, the heart OF
the French nation Is loyal to its present
form of government. 1t may be interest
ing for Richmond protestants to know
that the founder Of the McAll missions IN
Paris has received tattering recognition
by the government and been dubbed a
member of the Legion Of Honor.
" We left Paris tor Genoa, Italy, where
Columbus exhibition was in full
blast, and from that point we went to
Pisa, Rome, Naples, Vesuvlus, Pompen
and the surroundings, and to Florence,
Venice. Milan, Lake Como, Lugao. and
into Switzerland. After some days in this
picturesque and romantic country. we
hastened back to Paris and thence to Lon
don.
PLEASED WITH THE SALVATION ARMY.
What interested me most in London"
said the popular Baptist pastor. was the
philanthrOpic work being done by the
Salvation Army in what General Booth
calls Darkest England Inspected the
elevators manufactures, anG barracks q
the army, and ] became thoroughly per
shaded that whatever may be our sober
Judgment in regard to some OF the methods
of the Salvation Army, they are doing the
work of Christ for the Submerged Tenth
in the east of London. J his. It will be re-
membered, is the Whitecnapel District,
where Jack the Ripper committed bis
murders.
Il mad the pleasure Of visit to Rev:
Charles Sturgeon, IT., son OF the deceased
famous English minister, and was graft
fed 10 learn from HIM that the audiences
az the Metropolitan Tabernacle are az
large now under the preaching of bus
brother Thomas as they were during the
lifetime of his father.
The last ten DAYS OF nv vacation were
spent in the highlands of Scotland az the
town OF Rothesay, on tho island Of Butte.
Ny travelling compani )ns, DR.. i. NJ;
Cowardin. of this city. and his wife, and
myself went there 10 see the PLEASURES OF q
Scotch watering-place aad take a few hsh
out OF the bay.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS NOT KNOWN.
1--WE sailed from Glasgow on the City OF
Rome on the 25th Of August" DIR. Ian
drum said further on when asked about ms
experience at the New York quarantine
station. "While we had read account.
OF the cholera IN Hamburg, we had heard
nothing of quarantine regulations AT
American ports. When we were about 45C
miles out at sea on Thursday the LIST OF
September We took aboard our pilot. The
captain of our ship at that time gave u-
hope 10 believe that we would reach
the dock at New York at
o'clock the day following. Imagine oul
disappointment at not reaching the qua
rantine station until Friday night after >
o'clock. There we were forced 10 remain
until 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
quarantine officer came aboard at III
O'clock A. n. and caused every passenger
on the City of Rome to appear personally
before HIM for examination. There were
400 saloon passengers. who, together with
the second cabin. steerage, and crew
brought up the grand total TO about LOO
persons. Fortunately there was not O
single sick person on board nor one who hac
been within the borders of Germany during
ten days preceding the time OF departure
Two men, however. from Hamburg, VINO
registered for passage on the CITY OF Rome
we were taken sick with cholera Ia etlasgo"
the day before we sailed and died two
DAYS after we left. II these two pessen
gers had gotten aboard the City OF Rome
would now be in quarantine along Will
the Normannia and Rugia, which ship'
reached quarantine about the time o.
our arrival. As each OF these vessels hac
deaths from cholera on board the pas
sengers must be detained for twenty days
in sight of the spires OF New York on
ship of which the passengers are heartily
sick and where every day must seem tC
them a pocket edition of eternity. Hap
pily we got through the custom-house be
fore 9 o'clock Saturday night and l wa
enabled to catch the 1915 train Sunday
morning tor Richmond.
CHOLERA WILL NOT REACH HERE.
CONTRARY to my principles, L had to
travel on Sunday for several hours, but be
Iieye that the Lord will yield me pardon
on the ground that my travelling might b'
construed either as a deed of necessity Of
one of mercy. At all events, am pro
foundy grateful that | was not detained
at quarantine. Personally, / may say
though only physician IS an expert IL
such matters, that 1 hardly expect that
there will be any cholera in New York
city this season: nor do ! believe that ap
prehension as to its coming next year will
lessen the number of visitors TO the Co
lumbar Exposition at Chicago. The ex'
position is wonderfully we'll advertised II
Europe aud thereis every prospect for the
peaceful invasion of our shores by thou
sands upon thousands of curious foreign
ers.
DEALS WITH ENGLISH POLITICS.
"Just one word in conclusion, and po
litical word at that. even though preacher.
in the South are never politicians" said
the GENIAL minister as the reporter wa
about 10 withdraw, the government o.
the grand old man. Mr.. Gladstone, who
has millions of admirers IN America, un.
less all signs fail. Will go to the wall about
next February CT March. Even so mas
terful an organizer as he can neyel
hold In union the Heterogeneous
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