St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-10-05


wide open all Sunday evenings and
good many all Sunday afternoon as
well. Certainly there is great
chance to develop taste for alco-
holics, whether the taste be natural
or acquired. Burlington. Rutland,
and several Vermont towns are
away behind in this respect.
The servants everywhere expect
"tip" for everything they do and sin.
gularly enough seem to have higher
regard for a silver coin than for one
OF copper. Upon the steamer, when
we went down in the engine room
and fire hole, the stokers drew line
on the iron floor with piece of chalk
and said Beer" Walters in the res
taurants have a panied expression
unless one leaves some cash on the
table. Everywhere it is the same.
The streets, so far as we have seen,
seem wonderfully clean. We expected
more dirt. The pavements arelarge-
ly asphalt and wood. The wooden
blocks are the size of brick, set on
the side, which is cut across the
grain, and are laid on bed OF
cement and stone, eighteen inches
thick. The cement is also worked
into the interstices and the cement
bed is arched. 1t makes fine pave
ment and is not nearly as noisy as
stone. 1t would not do for grades
as it is too smooth. These blocks
are said to cost one cent each. 1t
seems incredible for they appear to
be made OF spruce, but | am informed
that the wood comes from Australia.
What kind of wood it is | was unable
to learn. have seen no street sweep
ing machines but the hand brooms
are very effective upon the smooth
pavements.
The system of transit in the city
would hardly be tolerated in any
American city. The omnibus lines
on crowded streets are often held up
for one or two minutes awaiting the
solution of a jam ahead. They look
exceedingly odd with the seats on
top, but these upper seats are very
pleasant and good point from
which to see the streets and the
crowd. The interior is very close,
with no windows open, and it is in
tensely disagreeable to ride any dis
tance therein. They stop when they
please, but you are allowed the lib
erty of jumping off when you wish.
The system OF medical instruction
here differs greatly from ours. A
man, to enter for medical study,
passes an examination and ii sue
cessful registers at one of the hospi-
tails. The staff OF each of the larger
hospitals thus constitute medical
faculty. At certain periods the stu.
dent is examined and at the end OF
all the courses before he can enter
practice must pass the "conjoint
board" which gives him the degree
of Fellow of the Royal College OF
Physicians and Surgeons" The sys-
TEN of Postgraduate instruction
consists in the payment of moder-
ate fee which entities the student to
enter all the hospitals in London
with the exception OF two. He has
access to all the wards, museums,
clinics, operations, and out.patient
departments, in which latter are
treated an immense number oil
working cases." The instruction is
all given by competent men and the
examinations are made under their
direction. The work differs some.
what from that in our hospitals, es-
peciallv in the surgical departments.
The difference in ideas tells the whole
story, and that is what we came
after, not as Mr.. Chase announced
in the Union, to find everything so
far ahead Of what it is in our medical
centers." There is operating to be
| witnessed in some one OF the hospi.
tails every day in the week except
Sunday. Yesterday we saw boy
operated upon who was run over by
a street bus, and whose spine was
injured, causing complete paralysis
below the injury. Sections of three
vertebra, which were pressing upon
the spinal cord, were removed, q
plaster of paris jacket applied and he
was put in bed to get well, The sur
geon, Mr.. Balance, told me that
most of the cases did very well and
he expected a complete recovery in
this particular case. The physicians
and surgeons are very kind and cour
teous and do all in their power tc
have a man get all the benefit posi-
BILE from witnessing and assisting ii
their work.
1t has been very warm since Oul
arrival, the warmest September fol
several years. They consume very
little ice, drink the water as it is
very warm. What they use for eme
tics have not learned. Surely warn
water would not produce emesis in {
native Londoner.
We have visited several of the mos
noted places Of interest, including
the National Gallery of Art, the Brit
ish Museum, Westminster Abbey
st. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower o
London, etc. These are entirely be
You'd my powers of description. A
Westminster Abbey the simplicity o
Mr.. Gladstone's tomb was to me TIL
most striking feature. A plain mar
BILE slab in one OF the main aisles