The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-12-07
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Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerto0, - Wisconsin.
TOURING IN THE OLD WORLD.
j. T. Pomeroy Writes of Trip Through
France. Holland and England.

France, Holland and England.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, Nov. q, 1900.
Ed. REPORTER Since my last we
have done considerable travelling and it
is hard work What little | write is
first thoughts and has to be done on
the run. We landed ON French soil at
Dieppe and went by ra Il to Rouen on
the Sein, then followed the river to
Paris. The country IS very beautiful,
the forests are clothed in their autumn
robes. the grass is green and flowers still
in bloom: the weather is fine and warm
and everything favorable for obtaining
fair look at country and cities. The
French people are very industrious, par
ticularly so on Sunday. Nearly all
places of business are open on that day,
including the Exposition and on the
boulevard in front of our hotel was
large market extending several blocks
Their din awoke us in the morning and
it was late at night before they quit. Of
course we had good sight at their veg
etables and fruits. From Paris we went
north across the country to Brussels, the
capital of Belgium. The staple crop of
northern France and Belgium is the
sugar beet; we saw piles of them cover
ing acres and about eight feet deep;
these piles lay along canals awaiting
shipment. Belgium is very similar to
France in it's people, customs and money,
the latter however bears the Belgium
stamp, Brussels Is very large city and
on the whole is Il very fine city. 1t was
there we first saw draft dogs and Bel
GUM is famous on account Of them. 1t
was "a novel sight to US to see maid
driving her dog team hitched to a cart
i /, H. H. Ia ~
ping here we made side trip out to the
famous battle field of Waterloo. 1t is
now beautiful rolling prairie dotted
who till the soil of this illustriouS spot.
northeast and through which the Prus.
slams came and turned the battles tide,
has long since been felled. Special places
of interest of this memorable battle field
are fundamentally marked, and the larg-
est is of earth, two hundred feet high
surmounted by huge lion cast in iron.
From Brussels our journey continued
northward into Holland, which is low
and fat, much of it lower than the sea,
and yet there is very little marsh land.
Canal, bitches and windmills are seen
everywhere. The windmills are quite
surprise to US; we visited several and one
bore the date 1778 The tower is of
brick about forty feet in diameter at the
base and about seventy feet high, and
the arms of the wheel thirty feet in
length. These mills are very powerful
and do a great variety of work. Our
stops were at Rotterdam and suburban
town. Rotterdam is most curious and
interesting city. 1t contains many canal
streets and thousands of boats, much Of
the city traffic being carried by them.
The city has fine and su bstantial build
ings, differing much from England,
France or Belgium. In our travels we
have learped that there is one languages
that all people can speak, and while on
the continent we talked in pantomine.
, The moneys of the countries through
which we have pas ed have troubled us
but little. 7 We soon learned how to
countdt and were never sWindled. (.
Wedeft the continent by way of the
hook of Holland and crossed the North
Sea to ~Harwicf. 1t was a night trip"
and avery rough voyage. The ship was
not very large and we got all there was
in it. Nearly all of the passengers were
sick, some. very sick, and twice during
the trip the engines were all but stopped
to give the sufferers a rest. The gale
blew US far north and in the morning
we coasted down to Harwick, glad to
get on land again. A train was waiting
for us and we reached London at 10 a..
NJ. London is a wilderness of houses
and deluged with mighty flood of hui
mainly. But with map of the city i'll
hand we were able to get about without
any trouble. Hyde Park was disap-
pointment to us and the geological gar
den in Regents Park was very rich
surprise and greatly appreciated. We
visited the Crystal Palace, the Tower of
London, Hensington Garden and at
tended services at Westminster Abbey
and st. Paul cathedral. These places of
worship are built in the form of a cross.
They are black as dirt outside and dark
and gloomy within. We have also seen
much of the city by bus and steam cars.
Haye arrived and departed by no less
than six different railway stations A
side trip was made out to TOtnes and
Plymouth in the county of Devon, a dis
lance Of more than two hundred miles,
passing through the cities of Bristol and
Bath. The object of this tour was to
visit the ruins of the Pomeroy Castle,
supposed to have been built in the year
1856 Much of the walls are still stand
ing ana some WIN the plaSCor cIlnsluS
to them. The gateway, with its towers
is in good preservation. The front wall
covered with ivy is two hundred feet in
length and twenty feet high. The castle
is four stories high and nicely adorned
with ivy. 1t is beautifully situated in
the depths of a grand old forest. One
of the trees beech nut-called the
wishing tree" is nearly six feet in
diamater. This forest covers the steep
sides of miniature canon, and the cas-
tie stands upon shelf some two hun
dred feet above the little brook that
turns the castles mill wheels. How
grand it must have been insits prime:
for it is truly grand in ruins today. l
sat down beside the gateway and thought
how much would give for its full his
tory, and the history of our Pilgrim
fathers who sailed from Plymouth for
America in 1919. spent the whole day
there the 18th of November i and would
have liked to stay week. [ strolled
about beneath the shade of the grand
sold trees and viewed the castle from
ovnrv side