Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-02

ner." oh those newspaper haWkeIS
they are tribe in themselves an thelr
name is legion Extra bloody Editors
murder" and other unntelligable cTlss
they utter the livelong day and night
Fleet street is newspaper town
There are published all those magazines
papers serio comic and daily, that are
household words the world over. Aiter
Printers Square, New York, with us
fifteen story. World, Journal, Sun, ana
all, Offices, the less said the beller'
Punch's alleged jokes can forgive ailef
seeing how heavily 1t is handicapped
A man who would perpetrate a pun IN
his ancestral sepulcher would slanu
aghast at the prospec; OF sacfileglous
jocundity in the sclntimonious pTeclnGts
OF PunCh's dismal corner abode. Dally
News, Graphic Illustrated News, Review
OF Reviews, all are there-old iriendss
that one would imagine occupied palaual
abodes. But then that is one little
peculiarly OF England. There are less
irills and gilt paint over here than Uncle
Sam INDUCES in. The bon tons,
upper ten, or whatever they
may call them, when they want
a bonnet or suit OF clothes do not 20
to the big West End plate glass estao
lishmentS, so am informed, but ~ | SO
to a seemingly obscure little establish
ment in some by street around Bono
street. Picadilly. etc, and there get what
they want and pay big price too, and
wonder OF wonders, these tailors, MILL
ners, bootmokers, etc, never advertise
and don't cater 10 the common herd-ln
fact it almost appears that they have
prohibited tax on their goods, so that
there is not much chance OF Tommy The
clerk patronlzing the same tailor as the
Duke of Marlborough, or his grace the
etc.
1t is striking seven as you pass the
Law Courts and the site where Temple
Bar stood fifteen years ago and enter.
The strand here is the same endless line
OF brilliantly lighted jewellers shops,
picture and print shops, and
the same crowded sidewalks. After
you have passed double file oil well.
dressed people standing motionless up
on the sidewalk and kept in line by
couple OF policemen for one hundred
yards or more you wonder why thus!
But you soon get used to this. It is the
people waiting in turn for the theater
doors to open, and you can come any
night except Sunday, of course, and it is
always the same. Charley's Aunt has
been running four years now, and still
the rush. About the most popular and
production in London at the
present time is Wilson Barrett's Sign
OF the Cross" which is doing 4 grand
word for the cause OF Christianity. At
the Savory the Mikado has been revived
with all the old enthusiasm,
But the style OF entertainment dear to
the average Londoner's heart is the
music hall, where he can 90 and have
his cigar and champagne or pipe and
beer according to his status. Ire en-
pre music ball on Leicester square pro.
badly furnishes the finest entertainment
in the world OF its class, while not being
quite so elaborh tely upholstered as Kos
ter and Bials--New York, it is very
fine place. Outside here OF night be-
fore the doors open one sees more OF
human lie than can be imagined, The
double throng extends around the cor.
ner ior yards up back street. Every.
one is in good spirits chatting. Peddlers
rush up and down the line with their
wares. Street musicians and broken
down comic singers amuse the crow d
with their efforts, and incidentally pass
the hat in a seductive manner, that
makes man feel he is a stony hearted
fraud il he refuses them.
Ere long the line moves and you
follow the throng. For a shilling la
centsl one gets a comfortable up.
holstered seat in the pit which occupies
about the same place as the dress circle
in the Salt Lake theatre. Everybody
smokes until the atmosphere gets hazy,
and the performance proceeds amidst
fusillade oil popping corks. The bill
is of the usual vaudeville style of an
extra excellent order entirely free from
yelled obsCurity SO prevalent in the
larger cities OF the states. A bullet is
seen sandwichedin; the one at present on
the bill being Monte Christie, the story
being acted in pantomine throughout
four acts, some OF the scenes being
highly gorgeous, in which some 400
girls, electricity, beautiful tinting and
blending OF costumes play an important
part.
London like New York, is undergoing
a severe seige OF the cincenatoscope or
animated photographs thrown upon a
sheet every, subject under the sun being
reproduced including horse races,
cavalry charges, ETC., etc. Not only do
the music halls include them in their
programs, but the leading dry goods
firms like Swan and Edgar's, Regent
street, amuse their customers with
them.
As the heaters disgorge their
audiences the amy side OF lite becomes
more apparent, and truly London is
rightly called the modern Babylon.
For thirty minutes the streets are I'M
passible and from cabbies darling to
and fro in search of fares. Should you
attempt TO cross and get over alive,
every cabbie who misses you and has TO
pull up curses you with a deep compre-
hensive curse that extends back 10 your
ancestors. Then as II by magic the cabs
seem to thin out and vanish, leaving a
few still palTolling the streets. But il is
time TO be getting home, Tor If You miss
the last bus, > O'Clock, you have to
walk to your lodgiugs-an hours tramp
that IS not the most delightful expert
ence, for the pubs ana dram shops close
their doors aud turn out the drunken
hordes OF both sexes into the streets,
who fight swear and yell and ultimately
stagger oil to their wretched garrets or
sneaksinto some doorway, homeless, 10
escape the ever Ngilant eye Of the
bobby"
a sight strange to western eyes is
Chapel street, Ellington, within stones
throw from Penton street.-the Lon
don conference house-The.e until
the wee sma hours Especially
Saturday ghD is held a market,
the street beng lined with a
double row Of barrows and stalls, each
with It's swinging fiaring Naptba lamp.