The evening world., 1894-08-02

was away for four months. visited
all the cities OF England and Scotland
London, Liverpool Manchester. New
DastIe. Glasgow. Edinburgh. In Ireland
I rave performances at Dublin and Bel
fast and other cities. and benefit at
the town where my father was born.
was In Paris a week. That was the
only place went on the Continent
They wanted me in st. Petersburg and
Antwerp and Berlin. But they did not
, want my company because they could
: not speak the language. SO didn't CO.
because 1t would hardly have been
square to take the company away over
! there from here and disband them.
The best time had was in Ireland
| 1t was great the way the people received
z me. My mother was born in Dublin,
! and when went to the hotel there late
, at night tremendous crowd got
! around the hotel, and had to get UP at
midnight and make a speech on the
balcony. But the best Of all was in
Ballinroe, where my father was born
! i saw the room he was born in. My
uncle had made arrangements to take
me OF the train at little station to
one side. but the people got on to it
twelve hundred of them. 1t was at
night and they carried torches made Of
sticks with pieces Of peat on the end. 1
had TO make a speech. and then they
played and sang and danced. Every
body danced. A lot of the little girls
were bsrefooted and ragged, but they
danced, too.
gave q beneht for the poor, and 1t
TO my uncle, who is a priest there.
When I left the streets were arched
with green arches, and the poor people
even had illuminated their houses with
little candles. They took the horses
from my carriage ard pulled 1t along.
Everybody kissed me. men. women,
girls, children. everybody. l never was
80 touched in my life.
There is a lot of pretty girls in Ire
land, such fine compilations, such bright
eyes But then, that's noted the world
over
liked London in a way, and in a way
didn't. They don't treat a man right
there, that is. the upper classes. They
put two prize-fghters in the ring like
rats, and if they don't go at each other
they shout and urge them on. The best
thing In London was the music halls.
"HThey are great. But in most ways Lon
don 10 not in It With New York. l don't
think mucn OF the English girls They
can't talk TO YOU like the American girls
can. Give me the American girls every
time.
There wasn't much in London that
Impressed me. l went to see Westmins-
Ter Abbey. But 1 left the sightseeing
90 my wife. don't think much of this
thing OF chasing around looking at
things. ] passed Edinburgh Castle
every day for a week. but l didn't care
TO 70 in, and didn't go in. The House
Of Commons is a big building, OF course.
But London is a slow town.
The way they serve drinks there Is
rotten. Why, such a thing as ice is
out OF the question. In some places, Ii
Sou ask for ice they think you are
crazy. There wasn't anything ut tc
drink and didn't care much for what
they had to eat. They didn't have any
fruits, and that and the ice worried ms
all the time. don't care much for the
English hotels, They don't seem TO me
to Be run right. They are all so slow
If you want sandwich, why, they BRING
you In forty courses before you get the
sandwich. 1t takes them three hours te
quarters Of an hour or an hour at most
i didn't get on with them at all Welt
My ideas of things were SO different aAo
they and couldn't tax log, ioSethehr nt the,
didn't strike me as being anything on
of the ordinary. The best treatmeRt
got was from Clarence Mackey. 70,
see started in life in his fathers bant
in San Francisco and the way he treatet
me was out of sight. But will say tht
English audiences treated me wei
10 say line and make my exit. they
applaud as II they were glad to have
me on the stage.
Another thins liked in London wa
the cabs. They do get you about IN ;
hurry. You jump in and those littl'
t%o-wheelers whiri you over the ground
: They dart In and out and abound cor
90 in no time. They did everything
they could for me in London, but some
how ] didn't seem, 10 be satisfied
DON'T see exactly where London come
in with New York. They have no ele
waited roads, no cable cars. no trolleys
nothing but a lot of things as big as
mouse that go plugging along and neve
Then there are the cities in the PROV
inSseas:: They are mighty dull, | ddn'
made my people sit up with me TO kee
me from falling asleep too early. /
VAS awful And Edinburc,h on Sunda!
was the worst OF all, | got on prett,
could drive, and then there was IN
prince o. Wales's club in the evening
while. They wouldn't let YOU play poo
oI billiards any night after II or !
clock, and you couldn't get anythIn
70 eat after midnight, to save your soul
N, ne hottest place / ever struck. Why
ne IS one long holiday. Nobody seem
oe working. Nobody seems TO 4
themselves. And. say. the boulevard
49, the Bots and the Champs Elysee
shd the cafes With the pretty gill