Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-05

Another equally important historical fact
in connection with Southampton is that the
Mayf1ower sailed from here 1920 whether
b. G. or A. D. not given In the records(
with the Massachusetts people who had
heard of the unlimited opportunities for
land speculation and the growing demand
for Bible classes at Plymouth, Mass, where
the rock is. Trey really started from Bris-
tol, where the board comes from, but the
Southamptoners say the Bristol people
don't know where they are talking at.
Pretty near all the kings England ever
had had their fingers in the Southampton
pie and dabbled in the adjoining real estate
which mostly belonged to the crown. The
castle. and the walls and the great gates of
the city are all works of the engineers of
the monarchs Of early England. The men
who worked for a living received only
penny a day in those times and walking
delegates received their pay in stocks.
There Is a pair on exhibition at Shanklin on
the Isle of Wight.
Many evidences of the grandeur Of these
edifces and the fact that the rulers Of the
dark ages had money to burn, even If labor
within few minutes walk of where these
lines are written. The poor people of those
days paid the freight just as they do to-
day.
Further down Southampton is Netley Alb
hey, which was built early in the thirteenth
century. 1t is now in ruins and must have
been In that interesting condition for CEN
turtles, If it is true that the fort at Netley
was built from the stones taken from the
abbey. And the Netley fort Is no young
ster. Nor Is Calshot Castle on the other
side Of the estuary, which was built in
Henry the Eighths time, and is, therefore,
over three hundred and fifty years old, and
never has worn spectacles or rode on a
railway train. There is a house here where
Henry VIII ard Anne Boleyn are said to
have taken apartments together when on a
visit-atteDdance only sixpence extra. In
stead of being ashamed of It, the present
proprietor. who rents the same rooms to
lodgers-attendance only sixpence extra
has sign outside the house stating the al
legged facts of Henry and Annes visit
Scandalous! Other more or less royal per-
sonages have visited Southampton since.
The Bar Gate marks one of the entrances
to the old town. when 1t was fortified clean
around the city limits. and the people in
the suburbs had to take chances against
raids by the Danes and Norwegians, who,
before they commenced to emigrate to
America-it was long before, from 1877 to
99f-were content to ravage England under
their leaders Svein and Olaf. 1t was in the
settled time of old King Canute when the
bar" The Forewater is a pleasant walk
along the sea wall, and where the town
flirting Is done. Back of the Walls is the
name of the street; it is full of ancient
fishy history and modern fishy smells, but
1t Is adjacent to the old walls of the city
and extremely interesting to the visitor.
There are dead loads of houses dating
back to the thirteenth and fourteenth CEN
turtles. and job lot of drinking fountains
and statues to distinguished people, who
couldn't all get into Westminster Abbey,
and have to be contented with combina-
ton OF heaven and Southampton. If had
to be buried. I think I would like to be
planted In the back yard of Nos. q and q,
on the right-hand side of French street
southampton. There stands Watts House.
the birthplace of Doctor Watts. It is a QUIET
In fair repair, but needs new plumbing in
spots CHARLES LEDERER