The Portland daily press., 1897-07-10

patent meQlclneS. Ihe place SWarmed
with people. On the edge. of the sidewalk
small boy was struggling to get on a
pair of old boots; little farther on a.
man was critically scanning himself in a
hand glass, undecided as to the becom-
ingness of different second hand derbys.
Everyone was intent on his or her bust
ness, and not the slightest notice was
taken OF us. Men were crying their
wares in loud tones, but the buyers were
quiet and orderly. We did not hear pro-
fame word or see one intoxicated person
throughout the entire trip; undoubtedly
the many policemen stationed at short
intervals had a wholesome effect upon the
crowds. Somewhat to our disappoint-
ment we did not meet with single ad-
venture. We saw endless miserable alley
ways, where slatternly women and sickly
children were sitting on the doorsteps.
Men with cunning, wicked, faces were all
about us but we were unmolested. After
we had inspected a side street where
white rabbits and birds of all kinds were
sold, we reached Mitre Square, filled with
donkeys and small carts; this is the Lon
don wholesale nut market. "On this
very spot, right on that corner ladies,
said our strong guardian of the law, the
most atrocious of all the Whitechapel
murders was committed. When that hap
pened, there was nothing about here but
miserable shanJies, but they have all been
torn down and these large warehouses
built, but that one old house is the same;
in that very place about half past one in
the morning was found the mutillated
body of a woman" We conauied we
had seen enough and turned avg thank
ful that our home was not in White
chapel.
On one of our visits to Guildhall,
OF paintings ever shown, we noticed quite
q crowd of. people, and enquiring as to
the cause were told that the Lord Mayor
was attending court, and would soon
leave. Almost Immediately up drove ex-
actly such coach as the fairy godmother
manufactured from the pumpkin, for
Cinderella use; drawn by four prancing
steeds with outriders and precise facsimi-
Les OF the fat coachman and powdered
footmen we have so often seen pictured.
Now cried the girls 1--WE shall see
true fairy prince and dropping into
poetry" as naturally as Silas Wegg. ad-
ded I'VE should like him handsome, we
should like him gay We stood near the
old church tower, and heard the clock
weary hours, to see, what? A puny
specimen of manhood, ill-featured, dressed
like fantastic, adorned (?) with an i'm
mense pulled white wig His lackeys.
two en- each side, lowered above him and
were quite the best feature of the show,
but we felt we had wasted valuable time,
our only consolation being that we had
seen the Lord Mayor of London Town.
To indemnify ourselves, we went to hear
Marie Tempest in 1.-THE Geisha.' We
haven't adjectives enough to tell how
much we enjoyed it of course it naturally
recalls 1.-The Mikado'' though by no
means an imitation. 1t is truly ga gar
little Japs, sparkling melodies; our high
est praise is to urge every one to see it
whenever an opportunity offers. Almost
as amusing and fully as pleasing music
we found in Audran's La Poupee The
character of an animated doll is a novel
one and very difficult to carry through
consistently. 1t was admirably done by
Miss Alice Favier; her expression, ges-
lures, singing and dancing, were as per-
feet an imitation of q waxen image, as
one could conceive.
The crowning enjoyment of the week
was piano recital by the young Russian
pianist Gabrielowitch who is but 10 and
plays most artlstically. In appearance he
is about medium height with the pallor
student. In compositions like Men
delssohn' IS Wedding March, arranged by
Liszt, his technic is ample every note
clear and telling and the tempo at which
it was played, almost equal to that of
Paderewski. In Chopin's Nocturne and
Il.
He undoubtedly has great future before
him if he continues as he has begun. We
are eagerly looking forward to q recital
June 10Th by Paderewski, and on the fol-
lowing Saturday he plays with the Phil
harmonic orchestra; the only perform
ances in London for the season How
much they mean to lovers of PadereWski's
genius
We have achieved one bit of sight seeing
of which We feel justly proud one me-
mOrable Saturday morning "Dot'' and
"We" walked with the lark, also with a
neighboring rooster, after making a
toilette in a twinkling, and partaking of
barmecide breakfast. we started at
40 a. m. for Covent Garden Market.
How still the great city was how bust
ling the market place Our goal was the
flower section, in gaining which we-passed
immense wagons packed solid with rad
ishes, rounded high up. mass Of rosy
red: other carts were similarly filled with
turnips in even rows, the green tops alter
mating with the glistening white of the
vegetables; baskets six feet high lined
with water cress and countless pyramids
Of caulifioWers and every known vegeta-
BILE. But the flowers made us Speechless
With delight. There were actually bushel
baskets filed with forgetme- nots, lilies
of the valley, carnations and roses; mig
nonette in rows as far as our eyes could
contrasted with golden yellow, and pure
white, we could well believe it to be the
largest flower market in the world.
Flower girls jostled us, with baskets five
| deep filed with flowers, which they were
| carrying on their heads from carts to
| stalls, and not one was dropped. The
| fragrance of that morning fingered with
| us for days.
| 1t was in the vicinity of Covent Gar
| den that we discovered what was formerly
the pauper burial ground the most
| wretched, forsaken place we have yet seen
Here was the old gateway, where Lady
| DedIock, in Dickens Bleak House, was
found dead; and close by, the same miser-
| able novels where "poor joe sometimes
| fingered till told to "move on" We have
spent days walking through Dickens s
London, days filled with a pleasure never
| before imagined. True. we have often
met with disappointments, as when we
| were told we could surely see the identical
house belonging to Sampson Brass and
! his charming sister tn fair Sally After
| hunting for hours and finding the very
! spot, we saw-only new handsome struc-
lures in place of the building so intimate
" associated with Dick Swiveller and the