Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-30
GsstS County Atrala.
Island Pond. VT, August 30.
Special correspondents n the HEgAI
Notes Of Foreign Trael


VII.
Are you anxious To- know MY impress
ions of London, and do YOU wonder how
the first feeling of being actually and
vertically in London came upon me /:
Well, then, truly do not think realized
Vt ~ all. think must explain to you
that the railways are built in England
with a little grading So many overhead
crossings, no level crossings, and So many
tunnels, that except one Is travelling on
them there is really very little sense ot
their presence in the country. The ugly
dumps that disguise America are no
where seen, and in most places one only
realizes their presence by the white smoke
that flashes swiftly aloag, the train itself
being almost completely hidden Ivy the
land on both sides. When we came TO
preaching the hour that We were due III
Euston Station, and ! knew that with
the shrubbcry which showed itself over
the hedgerows on both sides of us there
were chimneys, and | supposed suburban
dwellings; but when the train came to a
sudden halt as it does every few moments
in its headlong speed of sixty miles an
hour where large towns and Cathedral
cities appear every five or six miles; and
when all the platforms, and benches
and lamps showed the word "Euston,
then, and then only, did the fact OF our
presence in London assert itself; and
when a few yards outside the station,
Euston Square showed itself, square OF
park instead of square of brick and
mortar, prepared myself for the over.
turn of all my preconceivcd ideas, which
has now actually taken place. Firstly
the mmensity of the city does not i'm
press itself upon you, it only grows upon
you after days of travel IN one direction
and another. through miles, and miles
and niles OF city like surroundings; and
i'll tie second place, there appears non(
of that crowd,ng and crushing, and over
population as apparent in our American
cities; and which we naturally expect III
those 50 much older. ! have now beer
three weeks in London, out from early
morning until late at night. and have
never seen, for five seconds, such block
i'll the streets, as may be seen every five
minutes OF every afternoon in Broadway
or Washington Street. The reasons are
obvious. There are at least twenty cnOr
lnously wide thoroughfares, running
from east to west under changed namc
through the whole OF this vast city
crossed every few streets by those equally
broad running north and south. In tn
blocks thus formed is confined TIN
greater part of local business, loading
and unloading of drays, etc,
The London Police Force is an enor
nous body, numbering over twenty
thousand of splendidly built, perfectly
trained, thoroughly equipped men, who
carry out their duties with precision
and success, and withal kindness which
almost leads one to feel as though thei
monotonous, and arduous duties were
really labors of love. At every broac
street intersection, and at many of tn,
narrow ones, may be seen an adequate
staff of policemen to keep the traffic in it!
ordinary course. Sometimes only on,
man stands in the centre of the road
and by the slightest motion of hnge
direction; sometimes as many as egh
or ten may be found controlling the in
gress and egress OF loaded draws an,
vans, the passing and stopping of riva
omnibus lines, the reckless impetuositv O
'hanSom' drivers and superciliou
"Jameses," and supporting and encourag
ing the timid foot passenger, Orrestrainin,
theimpetuous one, with special care owe
youth, age and infrnity. Ihave watche
with calm pleasure and keen interes
from my elevation on top of a bus" thi
commOtion in the street below, and hay
never seen the slightest disregard of tn
talntest motion of these "Guardians O
the Peace, whom when walking | con
slider my best friends, they are all s.
efficient in their knowledge of locality
and so DESTROYS of helping you to reach
destination by the easiest way.
We went three or four days ago
journey of about fifteen miles, by omni
bus, through the city to the east enc
We are very centrally situated ourselves
and write the letters W. c. West Centre
after the name Of our hotel, but we ha
no sense from first to last of pettin
away from the city, though we passe
many beautiful parks and public gardens
Indeed these are scattered so freely abou
and seem always the resting place of S
many happy healthy children, and the
mothers, nurses, and elder sisters, an
the air is so cool and fresh that | see II
reason for any one to leave London i
summer except in obedience to that edit
OF that great and autocratic ruler "Fasl
ion.' Our drive took us past the 'Pe,
pies Palace" In fact that was original
the objective point of the pilgrimage, b,
we wendell our way many miles beyon
before turning.
The palace" itself fulfIs the poet
dream of the heroine of Besant's "A
Sorts and Conditions of Men, being III
reared i'll the most popuous distric
where the poverty of the vast metropol