Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-19

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I about the Forest, followed by hundreds
| Of London quasi-huntsmen, lot Of
happy friendly ours and perhaps ten
/ thousand East End ragamuliins who fall
| over each other merrily and mldly IN
! the general scramble through the shad.
owy forest glades.
Henry the Third was the first severe.
/ ign to give the mayor and citizens Of
London the privilege Of sporting IN the
| royal forest, and thus Il gradually grew
/ into vast common. But there were no
/ legally defined rights. By 1874 subur.
| ban encroachments and enclosures had
extended so rapidly that less than 1000
acres OF Epping Forest remained. a
I great popular agitation against is dmin.
/ ution followed. This resulted IN the
| corporation Of London, under authority
I Of an act OF parliament, and at an eX-
/ pcnsc TO the present time OF about three
/ quarters of million pounds, by pur-
chase Of immortal rights and other pro.
/ cedurcs. recovering several thousand
acres which had been enclosed.
The entire area, amounting to about
I Coco acres. which stretches away to the
| northeast Of London on the western
border Of Essex, rom Wanstcad to the
] town Of Epping, a distance Of about
I twelve miles, was publicly declared
forever free to the people" by the
/ Queen, who appeared at the Forest In
person, before concouue Of fully ZOO
/ 600 Londoners. on May o, 1881. Since
| that time portions Of the tract have been
/ measumhly benuuhed and improved,
but the chief glory Of Epping Forest is
| IN It's actual primeyal character. Scarce
/ ~ an acre Of It's surface has ever been
touched by q spade Or pillow. Old Roman
/ camps are within Il shaded by the self
same trees which clustered about them
nearly 1000 years ago, and the turf upon
the earthwork where Boadicea, Queen
| Of the lccni, was defeated by Suetuuus,
with 5000 Btituns slain, since II rcccv'
/ ed that mighty feast Of bloc save for
the prodding OF autiquarans, has never
been disturbed.
AZ Chingiord, on the western slope OF
/ the Forest, we gave Bolivar as famous
siabling as could be found. left Sprat to
bring on the hampers al q seasonablc
| hour TO the woods between Queen Eliza.
| bcth's lodge and Connaugn lake, and
/ set out for genuine coster's enjoyment Of
the Forest Back towards London for
several miles we had only seen patches
Of woods and coppices to our right.
Here NJ Chinglord the real Forest
begins
jem and Becky, already within It's nc.
cusiomed spell, pressed forward TO It's
heights with increasing speed, out
stretched hands and radiant iaces;and as
/ saw them Tar IN advance, ! could not
but think OF the old prints OF Pilgrim
when his burden fell.
We were nj once In the thickest OF Il,
not OF the Forest, but OF the mighty
| throng. Avenues upon avenues OF East
cnders stretched in every direction. II
was now after noon, the Saturday half
holiday, a Joyous, glorious day withal.
and II seemed that from all ways leading
from London aud near outlying towns
great tides OF humanity came sweeping
on, each one greater than the one before
il. and all finally merging AZ the edge OF
the woods and over the open spaces In
scething masses OF motion and color II
was like the action Of incoming sca-tides
breaking upon shallow, shingly beach.
No one can understand the completely,
the irrepressibiIity, the vasiness OF a
London holiday crowd until the greater
portion OF these 10000 or $50, 900 souls
can be seen here at a glance moving
upon and almost storming this ancient
Epping Forest en- masse. Ear back as
the eye can reach hundreds upon hun.
dreds Of outlandish Essex shandrydans,
as many traps and gigs. Whitechapel
omnibuscs, millers and butchers, carts
brewers vans and coster's carts are
moving towards you, around and be
tween which countless thousands Of folk
afoot, concentrating from highways, from
lanes and from ioolpaihs across the
fields, fare masscd IN seemingly ineNlri'
] 4 Q. L.. ~
something like terror In such scene
cannot tell why, but in Il and through
u again saw what ! looked upon al
but thirty years ago, when Sherman
cruel cdict empticd Atlanta Of all iu
people, and LETT their homes in flames.
But those were faces set and white
these, bright and ubicund and broac
with endless smiles. Aud in this respect
your London "outcr" differs from al
other folk on earth. No matter whether
he be great or humble, the moment hi,
face is turned toward the fields or IN,
sea he Is bundle OF quivering sym
pathies, responsive In kind to even
form Of ninth, to the most vagarou,
incident or accident Of situation or con
dtion, and gives back a hundred iolC
every kindly look that nature can be
stow, lie may be rough and unCoutl
in what he says and does, but he has
len all care behind, and makes In every
moment OF his holiday hours, even II
unloward eNigency and defeat plac,
for uuctous mirth and hearty cheer.
What are the amusements OF this vas
army OF men and women and lads ant
lasses1 Chiefly in wallowing, and / us,
the expression literally, In the sun anC
shade OF Epping Forest Thousand.
upon thousands have brought thei
hampers or basket, as we have done
Then, IN great splatchcs OF color, they
group aud heap themselves In wrlggling
punches OF enjoyment over field, upor
brae. IN cool recess, in shady avenue
upon grassy meadow, IN deep wooI
glade, and actually walloW in the ancIen
Forest turf and soil. They wander anC
stroll and leap and race. and shout ant
sing and dance, and turn handspring
and somersaults, and cavon and pir
ouette aud act like half mad folk, Just a.
they do at Hampstead Heath, while tn,
bands roar and the crowds halloa, anC
mounted police and Forest vcfderer
look on with benign smiles at the unres
trained and understandable enjoyment
Turn where you may, from ellington,
six miles north 10 Epping, or from Beal
Hin three miles cas-, to loughtuu, ihi
same wild scenes OF physical aud mena
I abandon ana citation are repeated, Tel
thousand children are chasing butterllie'
like exultant naturdlists. More than ten
thousand lads are swinging from haw
thorn limbs, shouting from the cumpeS
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