The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-07
ALL ABOUT EDINBURGH
The Ramblers Spend a Delight
full Afternoon in Seotland's
Capital.

full Afternoon in Scotland,S
Capital.
The Rambler Club met in Hasbrouck In
stitute yesterday afternoon to study Edin-
burgh. Miss Julia Reid read an essay on
the Highways and Byways of Edinburgh"
She said:-"Edinburgh is very odd looking
in many ways, and is. no doubt, unlike any
other city in the world, though it has at times
been called the modern Athens. 1t is built
principally on three parallel bridges rum
ming east and west, the central one termi-
mated on the west by a mass of rock which
is seven acres in extent at the top. Upon
this central ridge the old town was built,
and at one end stands Edinburgh Castle,
while at the other is Holyrood Castle, both
historic old buildings. Along the top of the
ridge runs High street, the principal street
of tie old town. On another ridge the new
town is built, and is separated from the old
by a deep ravine or valley. Prince street
in the new town runs parallel with High
street. and is considered one of the most
beautiful streets in the world and the finest
in Great Britain. In the park between the
old and new town stands SCOTS monument,
a grand structure of Gothic arches and pin
nacles. 1t is two hundred feet high and in
its centre is a statue of Sir Walter. Two of
the principal sights of Edinburgh are the
National Gallery and the Royal Institution.
Edinburgh Castle is now used for infantry
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Edinburgh Castle the tourist goes to the ia
nous John Knox house and st. Giles Church,
where he preached.
REVERSE OF THE MEDAL.
"We have seen SO far only the beauties OF
Edinburgh. But among all these there are
other things not SO pleasing to the eye. If
we walk but a few steps from the beautiful
street we find ourselves in the marrow lanes
called closes. The houses in them are some
times eleven stories high. The children are
unkempt, barefoot, the women, big-mouthed,
robust, clad in a sort of uniform of striped
flannel petticoats and short tartan shawls.
However, we must not carry away with
us an unpleasant picture Of Edinburgh, for
no other city in the world is better situated
or has more to interest us. 1t well deserves
the eulogy given it by Mrs. Oliphant, who
tells us that $50 long as the Castle Rock
springs out of the green valley below, and
the great sleeping lion in his green mantle
lies at our door, so long will Edinburgh be
unique among the royal cities of the world"
Mrs. Kate N. Randall discussed sJohn
knox, She said.-sIn a plain yeoman's
family at Lothian John Knox was born in
1905. during his college career he had
imbibed two dangerous principles, one relat-
ing to the Church, the other to the State
Knox lived forty years before he became
conspicuous. He found that the work OF
establishing religious freedom devolved upon
him. Soon after Wishart's death Knox is
found with a small body of reformers stand
ing seige at st. Andrews Castle" Mrs
Randall followed the several steps in the
career of Knox. showing his fearlessness in
the right. In conclusion she said:-"Hls
grave is marked by a small fiat stone, over
which Regent Morton pronounced the
memorable eulogium, Here lies he who
never feared the face of man."
The subject of Miss Pearl Brooks essay
was MARY Stuart at Edinburgh Castle and
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the luckless Mary from the cradle to the
grave. and told of the forces at work which
Influenced her life.
SCOTTISH CORENANTERS.
Miss Bessie G. Van Horne had as her
subject 1.-The Scottish C~oyenanters-" She
told Of the events which led up to the or
ganization of the Co~venanters and OF the
covenant adopted whereby each swore to
preserve the reform religion IN Scotland
and work for it in England and Ireland, and
to be true to one another. she spoke OF
their f~aithfulness wen through the tortures
to which they were subjected until the time
of William OF Orange.
Miss PARK, who presided at the meeting,
took as her subject "Greyfriars." She said
She would take the Ramblers to Greyfriars
by as circuitous, a route as that taken by
Jonah when going to Nineveh. Accord
| ingly she visited Tabard Inn, Hollywood. The
John Knox House, Iron Church where
Annie Laurie fulfilled the promise made by
the braes of Maxwelton, st. Giles Church,
| the Grassmarket, and finally Greyfriars.
She said:-a Greyfriars we find was once
the site of an old Franciscan monastery. 1t
was DESTROYED during the life OF Queen
| Mary, and the ground was afterwards
granted by her to be constituted a city ceme-
tery. A church was afterwards built on q
mart of the land, and within its walls in 1858
was signed the Solemn League and Coven-
ant.
w now walk around to a deSolate cor
ner on the south side of the yard. Before
us is a stone gateway. Between the iron
rails of it's gate we look at an enclosure
which tells us one OF the many terrible
chapters in the history of the Covellanters.
The prisoners, after the battle OF Boutwell,
Bridge, twelve hundred i'll number, were
tied two and two and Nbrought to Greyfriars,
where they were kept without shelter for
| five months. Four ounces of bread with
water was their daily portion. The monu-
menU to these and other martyrs bears a
long poetical description, and under 1t an
open Bible.
SCOTS FAMILY.
ssIn this same cnurchyard were buried the
father and other members of the family of
| Sir Walter Scott. Before starting for Grey
friars we were told to be sure to see the
gave of Greyfriar's Bobby. Here it is;
Enough if we were not told we might have
PASSED it by as a mere flower bed" Mrs.
| Park then told the story OF the little dog
who for nine years remained faithful to the
charge of his dead master. She sald:-"lt
was considered uniting the sanctlty OF the
| Mace that a monument should be erected to
bobby within the sacred precincts; but just
outside the gate we find a lie sized hgure OF
him in bronco Mrs. Park spoke OF the
beautiful twilight of Great Britain, and
said in closing:-ssWe bid farewell TO Edin-
burgh; Edinburgh the picturesque, the
beautiful, the historic; few places can equal
tbis aueen city of the North i'll its power TO
| awaken in the minds of those that come to