Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-15
WONDERFUL CITY THAT
Is TO BE BORN AGAIN.
HOW LOndOn'S Ancient Rival. the City OF WeSf-
minister, Is Soon to Be Carved Out of
the He0rf of the Metropolis.

emily Twins" fame and some Of the 9TH
er spokeswomen subsequently told the
Lords what they thought of them.
HAS THE UPPER HAND OF LON
DON.
The new city of Westminster will
have the advantage of its old-time ri
val, the city of London, in almost eV-
cry respect. Even its rateable value
will be $2,000,000 more, and its popula-
ton will be far in excess, for the old
city has an actual resident population
of less than 10000, mostly janitors,
clerks and care takers Tor the time
stained, fog begrimed buildings that
form the compact financial center of the
world Westminster will have an
area of 2,545 acres, as compared with
the other city's $50 acres.
AS of old Temple Bar will be the
dividing line between the two rivals.
but Westminster boundary will curve
eastward from Temple Bar to take in
the magnificent courts of Estice. en-
folding DruTy Lane Theatre in the
same sweep, and likewise Covent Gar
den and the Royal Opera House, thence
from Charing Cross road westward
along Oxford street, through which the
convfcts used to travel from Newgate
to be hanged at Tyburn, where the
Marble Arch now stands. For some
mysterious reason a jog will be left out
of Kensington Gardens, whence the
boundary line moves erratically in and
out, ruthlessly cutting the great In
perial Institute through in the middle,
and then dives south to the Thames,
going back to the stairs of the Temple.
NEW CITY TREASURER.
The district thus circumscribed con-
tains two-thirds of all that makes the
worlds metropolis beloved of the
American tourist who has been more
plentiful there this last summer than
ever before. 1t holds three roal pal
aces: Kensington, where the Queen
was born; quaint old st. James, and
the vast, dull pile of Buckingham.
Westminster Abbey and the House of
Parliament are therein, sud the tsor-
NOUS Westminster Cathedral is being
built there. All Of the leading theatres.
art galleries and clubs are there, most
OF the fashionable shopping streets.
and practically all of the aristocratic
residence Observation-Disclosures. st. James.
Belgravia and part of Kensington. It
contains four royal parks-Hyde Park
St. James, Green Park and all but a
corner of Kensington Gardens. besides
the Thames Embankment and Gordens
more than quarter of the city's four
square miles is open space.
All of the important government Of
noes are there except the Custom House
and Postofice. Like every complete
city, it has slums, too, as may be Judged
from the fact that the death rate III
the Strand distric las year was 22.9.
compared with 1872 in Hanover Square.
ANCIENT WESTMINSTER.
OF course, Westminster Abbey is the
germlnal point of the new-old CITY of
westminster. There is a story Git isn't
IN Baedeker) that st. Peter himself
came to Britain and appeared one mid
night to Saxon fisherman named
Edrlc, calling upon him to ferry him
over from the Lambeth shore. The
saint had no money, but he rewarded
hdrlc with miraculous draught of
fishes, and then called down an angel
host to consecrate a spot. whereon a
small oratory was afterward built and
where now stands the noble Abbey. At
any rate a church dedicated to ST.
Peter and built by Sebert, King of the
East Saxons, was standing there in the
seventh century, and in the following
century good part of the land on
which the present city stands was
granted to the Abbey church.
The Danish kings afterward bniIt
palace near by, and it was here that
Canute commanded the tide in the
Thames to stop rising, and stood on the
bank till the water came I'D to his
knees, whereupon he concluded that the