Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-27

sales stables and old inns which still have
attraction for the farmers, and make dick
erinp In horses and other live stock possi-
BILE and profitable Probably the richest
of all British gipsies, one Smith, lives at
Nuneaton. BE owns nearly all the houses
and land In one entire street; has money
In considerable sums loaned TO speculative
travelling gipsies; and is also the owner Of
bank stock and blocks Of shares In the
London and Northwestern railway. Alto
gether bis holdings are computed to ex-
ceed q quarter of q million dollars
On one occasion while visiting the old
cathedral city of Gloucester, England, and
wandering In st. GATHERINGS street whers
the Sunday school was srst established BY
Robert Raikes, / came, at the head of the
street, to O little old inn much freeuented
by farmers. / entered and sat down to
rest. A half dozen country folk were
Just closing SONS sort of commercial tran
sactSon, and one of the men had counted
out thres hundred pounds In gold sover-
eigns. He took Q receipt and shortly left.
I asked the bsrmaid If that was not an odd
place for 30 much money, and she replied
that 1t was not, for "Oil-cloth Dick" and
such ss he frequented the place: and "gip-
sies seemed to have all the ready money in
England these days." ellis van is Just
over there she added, land it's worth
70 LQe lhQt lQQlckteQ i
found "Olcloth Dick, his van and some
half dozen gypsy families. The latter had
for years peddled oilcloth, which they Sc
cure from Yorkshire factories, through
out England, Scotland and Wales They
are several hundred in number. Their
vans are beautiful specimens of the wAg-
onmsker's art; and all these gipsies are
practically travelling merchants of large
means and long established trade.
In no city In the world can be found
finer draught horses than in Liverpool.
The floats or four-wbeeled trucks are
called '1orries," thsir drivers ''lorrymen,"
and the huge horses which, two and three
tandem, pull from four TO six tons of cot
ton or iron over the streets with diguihed
ease, are consequently l0rFy cattle Tssy
are chiefly bred in Wales, Lancashire and
Clydesdsle, Scotland. Having b=en much
among these lorrymen and their 'nippers"
or apprentice helpers, soon discovered
that the trade in these valuable horses Was
not altogether confined to English horse
dealers Two Qipsies purchase Scottish
and Lancashire horses TOR the Liverpool,
Birmingham and Manchester markets, and
one gypsy is the largest trader from Wales
IL is not seldom that these RomAny horss-
merchants have from two to I'VE thousand
pounds invested In single shipments, and,
very different than with the Gorgio OF
Gentle brethren, every penny of these
amounts is their own aud not borrowed
money These instances could be. from
personal knowledge, indefinitsly multi
piled. There is but one conclusion from
them The 'gipsy question" on this side
of the ocean will coon cease TO occupy the
attention of even the missionaries; for the
British gypsy Is becoming q British bust
ness man, even though &c yet in a small
way; and in csnniness and thrift In trade
and economy In living no human being
can surpsss this outcsst Romsny race.
EDGAR L WAEKNAN.