The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-19
A JBRSHYMAN ABROAD.
John A. Walker Writes Inter-
restingly Of His Trip to Eng
Land and Scotland.

Mr.. John L.. Walker. vice-president of
the Dixon Crucible Company, has writ
ten for Geyer's stationer of New York
an interesting letter on his recent tour
in Europe. Among other things, Mr..
Walker wrote:
We sha never forget Ilfracombe and
Cloyelley and the parts of three days
spent there. These two quaint old towns
belong to the North Devon English
coast, and are full of Charles Kings
ley references.
The weather was ideal. Here is a veri-
table r~ock-bound coast. The rocky crags
| that face the sea are called TORS" and
the TORS walk as it Isl called, took US
upward seven hundred feet. when the
crags and the sea in most fascinating
| shapes lay before us. The gulls flew in
mid-air far below the blue, blue sea
stretched unbroken to the Welsh coast
just visible in dim distance, with Lundy
Island to the left. The surf, the caves,
the high and low tide, alternately COW
cred and uncovered hundreds OF gigantic
rocks around. all of which at half tide
the sea swirled in white, flashing foam.
The sentiment of the hour was of SUI
preme content. of living, thrilling, active
life and the repose of mighty strength,
all so near London and yet so far, so
"far from the madding crowd."
Another excursion took us to 1nver-
ness, in North Scotland, not far from
John O'Groat's.
Here we found a competitor for the
land of the Midnight Sun, for on two
days, June q and %. he sun at In
verness does not go below the horizon.
1t was 1915 p. M. when our train pulled
into the station, and it was as broad
daylight as at 6 P. M. at home.
AT Dundee, a little farther to the
south, on the same two longest days
of the year, the sun sets at 2 A. M. and
rises at 2:O2 A. M. remaining only two
minutes out of sight.
We found-June H-snow or the
North Scottish mountain tops, with the
mercury in the forties and a vitality in
the air which forbade the suggestion of
one ever being faded or weary. The Gulf
Stream gives North Great Britain an
ideal summer climate. and makes every
thing a lovely green in a latitude only
a half degree south of ~uninhabitable Ice
land.
Returning to Glasgow, WE took the
famous Trossachs detour. using this one
day from s A. NJ. to 8 P. M. You ap-
proach by railway, take the steamer to
Ballach on Loeb Lomond, thence by
coach to o Katrine. boat on Loch
Katrine and coach once more through
the Trossachs. and over the mountains
eleven miles to Aberfoyle, then again
train for Glasgow.
The Walter Scott necromancy broods
with eternal power over the spot. We
saw the painting stag,-Fitz James, IN
hot chase. Roderick Dhu. at Coilantan-
gleford.-the Minstrel and Ellen on the
famous Ellen's Isle. and as we rode
away in the glowing afternoon sun. the
last sight was "Brigg Of Turk" where
the 'headmost horseman rode alone"
day was spent at Ayr. We paid a wan.
at the "bTigg Of Boone. We ascended
Burns and ..Souter Johnny both took
too much Of the rosy, and 1t was pa
tLsdi to to d rep into ston the e Burns 81 o9 fba sm AMI
room and see there stih the bedstead on
which the poet was born. Here in this
scarcely habitable-was born of peasant
parents the most natural and sweetest
singer of the century. !.
Yet again in the same mood we went
another way and came to the haunts Of
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, sail
ing over the chain of English lakes and
COAAlPdolH6 LIZ 4 a III L Eli ~
Windemere: We passed thus by boat, by
Keswick. Penrith, Bowness. Windermere
ahiirlmereI Rydal Wafer, D-erwentwate eF
K saa Penrith, Bsowness,a Windemere
and Ambleside- all sweet, all snpremely
b best # an s fanl a, an9 81 stoS day pam ana ne tne
Windsor Castle, where is the, country
church yard where was written
Was immoral a .haunt er 81 ane e,sEy' pea asrs
sapearl Al beauty; The 9id yew tTss
Weathe er contains the tnI poets Ssf ot tomb,
and on the green hard by is his memo
rial. Had one familiar with the elegy,
miles away. been dropped here as by
magic, he would have known the place.
It was redolent of the poem, and quite
our cathedral tour. Into Salisbury our
lot took us one afternoon just as the
organ was touched by some master,
and an almost ineffable tenor voice
filed the choir, and it became enchanted
pictured windows. then, seeking the
lawn from the ~cloister Side. the glorious
spire, the highest in England, lifted its
beautiful form to the very clouds.
How shall We describe Ely-old, cid
Ely-its giant cathedral, it's old. old
dea / 2 Of . our onr'' Worksal day world. We
wandered among the narrow streets for
hours as the courts of another planet
brought, as its dreamy hours passed,
to abrupt.c close by a Yarmouth fisherman
CRYING Yarmouth bloaters.o Durham,
too, deserves mention, as it fills the sky
for a long distance either way. York
and Lincoln are not far away, both
giants. both unlike each other, and I'M
like anything else. These big cathed-
rails all date back to HOO or 1900 A., D:
They seem to be a Simultaneous product
of a powerful sentiment now a mood
of the past.
No suitable audience ever filed these
walls; so vast are they that thousands
can easily gather under each roof. Mill
lions of money would not today construct
one of such in New York, # indeed, the
talent even exists to patiently work
siuIch miracles Of sacred STRUCTURE. Our
days are those of progress. We pity the
slow past, but in this cathedral past
men lived who reared structures such as
today can be possibly copied, but rivaled
never.
c0TTAGERs AGAINST TROLLEY.
RED BANK, Aug. 10, 1s95.-A public
hearing was held here Saturday before the
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