Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-03

| Dearble, and the trustees or the
library have been obliged to arrange
to have young colored man set up
shoe blacking chair there, in order to
watch the room, and he will here
after, for a nickel, provide such as
wish to wash with the conveniences
for doing So
Those who visited the Worlds Fair
will remember the same convenient
arrangement there, and in travelling
in England, last year, I found it very
commonly in use in that country All
over London, at intervals of few
blocks, and this is equally true of
nearly all the cities of the kingdom,
there are neat, commodious toilet
rooms, underground, with an attend
ant in charge, where for two pence
! four cents of our money }, one can
get all the conveniences for refresh
ing cleaning up. These rooms are
built directly under the street, and
| lighted by electricity unless sufficient
light can be brought through sky
light, and the ceiling, walls and floor
are covered with white, glazed tiles,
which are easily kept clean. Entrance
to these rooms is by means of an iron
stairway going down from an open
ing directly in the middle of the
street, protected by an iron railing.
This is made possible from the fact
that there exist there, at frequent in
tervals in the streets, what [ used to
call " islands of refuge" These are
places four or five feet wide aud three
times as many long, directly in the
middle of the streets, upon which,
since they are raised a few inches,
and curbed, the teams cannot come,
provided for the convenience and
safety of pedestrians who wish to
cross the dangerously crowded
streets.
Speaking of crowded streets, if one
has a sense of humor and his eyes
open he cannot go across any large
city without finding plenty of enter
tainment.
was coming down one of the streets
which leads to the Union Station, re-
Gently, when a heavily loaded express
team tore down the street, rushing,
suppose, to catch some train. just as
it ratified over crossing in front of
me, an extra jolt dislodged box OF
eggs, ( thirty dozen } and they came
down, "crash'', on the paving stones
with a force which tore out the bot
70 off Ioo
most Of the eggs flying out of their
paste board packing. Either the
driver did not see the accident, or had
not time to stop, but several other
people had, and I stepped into the
door of a saloon to watch the fun.
First, to improve matters, two cleo
trio cars, which never stop for any
thing, ran directly over the debris.
Then some boys investigated, and an
old Irish woman began to stow away
somewhere in her clothing as many
whole eggs as she could find. Two
unwashed, and apparently unfed,
tramps, seeming free food like vul-
lures, arrived, and began sliding the
raw contents Of the cracked shells
down their threats. At last police
man appeared, who ended their meal,
drove off the boys, and began heated
argument with the old woman, order
ing her to restore her spoil, which
finally ended in her evolving, one
by one, with vehement remOnstrance,
about quarter of the number of eggs
she had but away. When I came
away the officer was bravely stand
ing on guard, holding off four electric
cars, I forgot they do stop for
policemen the boys, the tramps,
and the woman, and had four by
ISLANDERS hustling round trying to find
a box or basket.
notice in the program just pub
lished of the fourth annual summer
session of the School of Applied Eth
les, to be held in Plymouth, July 8th.,
to Aug. 9th, among the lecturers
announced is Prof. L. J. Huff, of the
University of Vermont, who is to con-
slider the C Religious Tendencies in
French Literature" 1t is a high COM
pliment to Prof. Huff, and to the
University, that he is to do this, for
this school is now the greatest gather
ing of thinkers, or more properly the
gathering of greatest thinkers which
convenes in America.
You will remember that predicted
in my last letter that the Unitarian
open air meetings just started on the
Common would be largely attended,
although at the first meeting there
was an audience of only one hundred