Evening journal., 1896-08-22
AWHEEL IN DUTCHLAND.
INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE
LAND OF MYNHEER.

Wilmington wbeelmen Visit tho Battle
neld of waterloo and other Interest
isK Points In the NetherIands-what
They Saw and Did.
Principal Isaac 7. johnson aud Profes.
sor Olemsnt, OF the Friends School fac
ulty, and Hugh A Garland. a friend and
student. are doing western Europe, In
thorough style, on their bicycles They
have visited many pionts of interest to
scholars and tourists. and their lettsrs
home express boundles enjoyment OF the
novel tour.
Oae Of tho party writes as follows
from Rotterdam under date of August
IA:
1--WE are now In the land Of wind
mills and canals. aud expect to push on
to Delft and the Hague this afternoon,
probably by boat or train, because IL has
been raining all the morning.
I'VE reached here last night from
Antwerp. where we spent night before
last. We rode all the way from Brussels
to Antwerp on wednesday, and had
awful rOsdss all through Belgium, they
being paved With Belgian blocks, and be-
Ing sometimes like our cobble stone
streets all through the country.
1t threatened rain yesterday SO we
went to tire Belgian froHtier by train.
We went througn custom house and got
the lead taken of our wheels and the
duty returned. The weather had by
that tlms cared, so we started out
through Holland awhsel. aud soon struck
| good roads. We went on As far as NE
could go and had to cross q body Of
water by train. and rode on here by
train We rode around to the hotel and
spent the night there. From the hotel
We have an outlook upon the main bar-
Dor.
Almost the whole town is one harbor,
and the streets are really dlkes between
the canals We walked around the
town last night aud along the wharves
this morning. and we're very much sur
prissd at the amount OF shipping
"While in Brussels we rode to Water
loo and back by wheel aud We went up
the Lion Mountain, which Is an immense
mound with the British Lion on top. We
had q description of the battle given
by guide and were very much
Interested In the historical place. We
than rode on into the town OF Waterloo O
and had dinner In the house IL which the
Duke OF Wellington slept after the
battle Of Waterloo. We thought that
what was good enough for tie duke wal
good enough for us. although some OF
our party claim that We had horse hest
for bsefsteak We went up into a room
and saw the chair In which Wellington
sat while writing bis dispatches
and also the bed In which
be slept and the bed In whiel
General Gordon was brought to thu
same house when mortally wounded
They bad an nrmory OF arms used a
/ Waterloo, aud balls and bullets. got .
bullet which they said was genuins.
I'VE rode erouDd Brussels a good
deal and enjoyed the city very much.
/ Between Brussels and Antwerp "
passed through Malines, where We saV
The Cruci6xioD, by. VsnDyck, In tn
I cathedral Ia Antwerp No saw
I and VAnDJck In the cathedrAl AM
museum. We saw the famous 'Desesn
From the. Cross and also the 'Ascen
Upon the Cross IN the OAthedral, an
the Christ Cruciied Bstwetn TW
? Thieves At the museum.
We will 90 The Hague and Amater
dam and may 60 from there to London b
q boat, aud thence to Cambridge aud Or
ford by London, Instead OF by Hsrwioh
When we stop 10 q village We ars
Irregular circus and are surrounded BY
4 crowd. We are undoubtedly % much o
II a curiosity to them as they are to III
!. Almost every intelligent person her
n speak English, so we seem more vt HON
, than we thought to In Dutchland.
Is "Sometime ago Mr.. Clement and Nj
johnson went into a house In villaR
and asked for 'milche warme Tn
people went out and MIXED
;. COW and brought them what the
/ asked for. They couldn't drin
= the warm milk and conAidsr 1t goc
= Joke upon themselves. They shoul
\ have said 'Hische milche
I'VE like the Netherlands, IS much
we have seen of 1t. quite well