The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-08

he me for season. Next to Bristol to see
the family of our friends. the Ovendens.
On the way we stayed for few hours al
Plymouth and made the best use OF the
time in viewing the principal FEATURES OF
this historic town. We stood on the Hoe,
where Sir Walter Raleigh. Drake, Haw-
kins Frobisher and other naval heroes
We're playing bowls when the approach
OF the Spanish Armada was announced.
Some were hurrying at once for their
We ssels when Sir Walter cried out, Lets
finish our game first" Our coachman got
off a good joke on us. He said You
can stand on the Hoe. hear the bells of
Torouay and see the Sound" Plymouth
Sound, he meant.
The new Town Hall, with its fine organ
and beautiful windows. is great and
useful ornament to the town. The only
stained glass window containing mod
ern dress-coat and uniforms of today, is
in this hall At the Bristol station Mr..
Ovenden met us and took us to his house,
where we received a most cordial greet
ing from his wife and several members
of his family. OF course the one topic
was Honolulu, and the inhabitants they
were mostly interested in, and We We're
glad to give a good account of them. 1t
would take long to describe my visit TO
this singularly interesting family every
me mber of which vas remarkable for
me accomplishment. Mr.. Ovenden him
self is an artist of renown. He is also
a skilled photographer and a mechanic of
no mean ability. He is greatly interested
II, the Christian Endeavor movement and
his children join him in many philan-
thropic acts. One daughter is scientific
in taste and will shortly take her B. Sc.
degree at London University. Under Mr..
Oyenden's guidance I saw the prominent
I features of this huge and busting city;
stood on Clifton suspension bridge, after
mounting the neutrality-suspicious. rail-
md nf he
river Avon. and wandered through the
understanding woods CT Leigh. One
church, called the Temple from it's being
fame of the Knights Templar. had a
leaning tower almost as much out of per-
De molecular as that of Pisa. It's founda-
items sank two hundred years ago and
lef' it in its present position. ST. Marys,
Radcliffe, is without doubt the noblest
parish church in England Queen Eliza
beth said this about it when she visited
it. It's glories will never sink from our
memory. At Bristol I had my first Sioyd
les son. I saw through the Merchant
lVcnturer's Technical College. and studied
the machinery under Mr.. Charles Hill, the
instr uctor. He was especially proud of
ALI American lathe, which was labor-sav-
ing to a. high degree 1t did It's work
with three fixed wheels, while an Eng
Iish one required many movable wheels
which often were lost or mislaid. Here
return for future lessons later in the
year.
| The Cathedral Of Bristol won my affec-
ton by one thing above all others. There
is no organ screen and loft to hide the
altar and choir from the nave. In the
ambulatory lies the body of the great DIR.
Butler, author of the Analogy. He was
formerly Bishop of Bristol Another
pleasant and musical evening spent with
this estimable family and the next day I
left for London. Arthur had preceded me
there, but my postal card not being de-
livered to him, he did not see me until I
was comfortably enSconced in my room
AT the Howard Hotel, on the Thames en-
hankment. If any one desires homeiike
hogtelry where on most economical terms
he can stay in London, he cannot do bet
ter than make this hotel his abode. 1t
/ Is central to everything that is going on.
Two minutes from the Strand, and fifteen
from Westminster Abbey. Food and SER
vice are excellent. 1t is certainly very
exciting to be in the whirl of London. The
huge population, when people say there's
no one at home! What viii 1t be when
people return? We went to the Hippo
ali performances. The plunging horses in
the Siberian act draw crashing applause
fro m the vast audience. 1t Is quite singu-
: lar how in this vast throng we come
across persons we know. We have met
dozen of our fellow passengers in the
streets.
| On Sunday morning we went to st. AL
bans. Holborn, and in the afternoon and
evening to Westminster Abbey. Here we
had the satisfaction of hearing Canon
Gore preach powerful sermon But
more about these services in my next.
ALEX MACINTOSH.