The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-01-02

party we joined and for ore hour
md half we were deeply Interest,"
n what we saw in the various rooms
and departments. Everything was
scrupulou>ly clean and every
where was evidence of care for
health and good sanitary conditions,
We went through girls and boys
dormitories, class-rooms, wash
rooms, working rooms bakery. store
rooms. and watched the children
1T play and in the school-rooms.
We listened to recitations in read
ing, geography, arithmetic. We
noticed among them some very
bright children. In the laundry we
saw at work several girls who were
ready to leave for service and Judging
from their appearances and the way
they were working they would give
d good account of themselves and
render valuable services to their
employers. These orphan homes
are a gleaG object lesson to the
value Of the religion of Jesus Christ.
Infdfity can furnish no such
charitable institutions.
Thursday morning we spent in the
heart of the city visiting the great
stores and purchasing some SOU
venirs. At noon we boarded the
Great Western train for Newport,
Cardiff and South Wales.
Soon we leave the ancient, i'm
portant, prosper Gus, and interesting
city of Bristol behind US, and we are
now passing the Orphan Homes on
Ashley Downs, and on we travel
rapidly through rich farming
country for few miles. Now we
come to the approach to the tunnel
beneath the river Severn, and now
we are in it, and in seven minutes
after we enter we rush out into the
approach on the Gloster and South
Wales Side. This Severn tunnel is
one of the greatest engineering feats
in England Great difficulties had
to be overcome. It seemed just as
pleasant riding through this tunnel
beneath the great tidal liver as out
in the open country. The tunnel
and approaches are about seven
miles in length. In cutting they
worked relays of men on either end
and so accurately was the work
planned that they were not more
one-eighth of an inch apart when
they met. It is far pleasenter
travelling from Bristol to Newport
than twenty years ago, when we had
to load and unload and cross the
river on the ferry boat. You make
the run in about half the time, with
out break or the sickness that many
suffered in ferrying across the river
in the old days. Newport has
grown much since we last saw it and
is manifestly very prosperous, but
we cannot stop here, on we dash at
a quick speed from Newport to Car
diff eleven miles. Cardiff and New
dort are the two great places Of ex-
ports for coal and iron for the bnsy
hives of industry of the hills and
valleys of South Wales. Cardiff has
grown continually for the past
thirty or forty years until today it
is large and thrifty port doing
great business.
We halt at Caprdiff to see an old
ministerial friend and colleague in
two fields of labor, the Rev. John p.
Bellingham, He is now super
anuated after a very happy and use
full ministry, being through many
years one of the most popular men
in his denomination, man of power
in many years. He entered into our
family more than any other man has
ever done. He married us and we
saved our children until it was con-
ye1ient for MIN to baptize them, he
babtizing all the six, ond one of
them Percy taking bis surname Of
course we were glad to see him and
to find him SO well. He presented
US with a copy of his latest book the
life of our old friend Rev G. T.
Harris