The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-03
DnLLGHrrnL EIDE.
The Run From London to Essex is q Most
 Beautiful One--scenery is Charming.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Eastbourne is sixty-fve miles due south from London, and is situated at the extreme point of the county of Sus- sex, close by Beachey Head, and four teen miles from Hastings and Saint Leonards om the sea east, and ten miles east of New Haven, and fourteen miles east of Brighton. Portsmouth, South ampton and the Isle of Wight are but a short distance by coast steamer or by railroad.
 The ride in the cars from London was a delightful one through a highly culti- vated country; there is no high land in southern England, or rather in the counties of Surrey and Sussex but broad plains smiling with their bright waving crops of grain (corn, oats and wheaD and green pastures covered with south-doWn sheep and fine cattle was charming sight. We flew rapidly past giant oaks and wide spreading beeches, and 1t seemed like travelling through New England In one respect, for the old Nlean-to" houses aresoften to be seen; these are the houses which were origi- nally copied by our New England set tiers in the seventeenth century, for those hardy pioneers built their homes after the similitude of their former abodes in Old England. We also dis cover here the old-fashioned well sweep
 and this old style of we'll, too, was car ried by those same settlers in new country from their old home to the dark, bleak wilderness in strong New
 England. Where did the well sweep come from? As long ago as Herodotus
 wrote his sixth book of travels, over | ItWenty-two hundred years since he de- scribed an oil or petroleum we'll at a lit tie Persian village on the east coast of Arabia, and from his description of this well we learn that the old New Eng
 land well sweep was no new contri-
 vance in that very remote period.
 | However that may be, let us get on to
 Eastbourne. This charming English
 summer resort is situated right along
 the rough waters of the English chan
 mel and ranks with Scarboro, Brighton
 and Bournemouth as being the most
 popular of all watering places along the
 coast of England. Most of the land
 about Eastbourne is the property of the
 rich Duke of Devonshire, who has rent ed out large portions of the same to
 householders who have put up many
 hotels of the first order, and these with 1 boarding houses and houses in which departments are let out are almost too
 numerous to be counted. A vast
 amount of money has been laid out
 here within the past fifty years and the
 old duke and his son, the present duke, have been the chief developers of East
 bourne. A sea wall over ten miles in length has been constructed with a heavy stone facing and paved with ce- mented bricks, forming a walk as smooth as pine floor; right above this fine sea wall is a terrace which forms a grand parade, or, as we would style it., la promenade. and 1t is literally thronged with thousands of visitors who resort to this popular seaside re- 1 treat to enjoy the fresh air laden with pure ozone, born of the briny salt sea
 waves.
 | IIe III Sl OOJCNl MIlSl 5lduoSlAGd ny Ieyes as I walked along the grand espla-
 made along the beach was a glorious panorama made up of sea, sky, hills and steamships and sailing craft ga-
 lore; in the offing a perfect procession of steamers and ships of all rigs de-
 lighted my eyes. The two glass band
 stands were occupied with many musi- clans, and strange to relate, from one of
 these pretty glass houses hoated a we'll
 known air; quietly asked a by-stander
 if he could tell me the name of the piece
 which sounded so sweetly. The vandal
 replied he did not know the air; vandal
 he must have been, for the tune was
 Hail Columbia" tune which is ia mliar to sixty million people across the
 broad Atlantic.
 The league long rollers came thun. dering on the beach," and the great : waves were flashing themselves to fury : and altogether the picture was a mos : animated one. All the steamers whicl enter and leave that great estuary known to Englishmen as the Thames
 pass Eastbourne, and they can hardly be numbered. Most of the steamers , which trade to the Baltic, Scandinavian ports, the North German Confederation and Holland pass by us, and then, too the sailing craft which come and @ through these waters are legion. picked out one leviathan of the deer when I first walked along the beach she was forging her path through tht sea in fine style, pushing tons of greer waters before her great iron prow.I eX
 claimed there is the Hamburg -Ameri can packet which left New York las : Thursday; sure enough, it was tn "Furst Bismarck" two hours out iron l Southampton, bound across to Ham burg. I am daily surprised to see s' l many steamships and sailing vessels and as many, or most of them, are Brit l ish craft trading to every part of tn globe one can readily form some idet of the incomparable commercial great ness of the English nation. Commerc has developed England and made her 3 mighty power indeed. There are sol !, diers here, and Martello towers stretcl = all along the coast like the Moorish tow g CTS, which loom sentinel-like on tn e Spanish coast near Gibraltar, and Q fleet of English cruisers and torped g boats swarm over the English waters = and she is wide-awake, and depen e upon it she will never be caught nap 3 ping should trouble come. England be e ing a small island, must maintain @ praa+ navy and Ei large army: she mus