The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
AMER1CANIzED ENGLAND.
A British Journal Takes Look In
 to the Future.

London Punch.
 Now that Great Britain in general, and London in particular is becoming rapidly Yankeefied, we hasten to ap- prise our readers of the following poli- tical and social developments:
 On June 12 a Tammany meetingfor the appointment of ward bosses and captains will be held in the Guildhall to fill the vacancies caused yvthe re- tirement of the Lord Mayor and Cor poration. .-s
 During the sitting of Congress at
 Westminster the Stars and Stripes will
 be displayed at the Victoria Tower.
 In the event of MT. Pierpont Nor gan securing the plurality of votes of the British Electoral College on the Republican ticket it is expected that
 Senators Salisbury, Balfour and Cham
 berlain will retain their portfolios; but
 If the Democratic and free-silver plat form wins we shall have Cabinet of Holloway hoboes and Battersea toughs.
 The national hymn. "My Country. 'Tis of Thee" is now sung at the close of work in every school throughout the ex-kingdom. ...-.
 The Frohman-Lederer Dramatic Trust has lately acquired the whole of the West End theatres and roof gar-
 dens, where in future only American
 talent will be employed, with the ex-
 ception of Historians Irving and Tree,
 who are engaged to do a cakewalk in
 a rag-time vaudeville at Roster X Bial's on Piccadilly.,
 The elevated railroad running from East Twenty third Stret to Vest minister Abbey has caught sn terrifical- ly, the fare being only ? cents all the way. while for a quarter one can be jerked around London in the vestibule cars of the regenerated underground.
 Folk VITO formerly travelled any of the
 city will rejoice at the extinction of
 hansoms and busses. If you want to
 go block or two. there is the moving
 sidewalk, with the motor track down the centre of the Strand.
 The new county abbrevations' are
 quite popular. It is 80 much smarter
 to write Ke. Sy., Che, Shro., Wi. Du..
 and so on. that we wonder how the
 old time addresses were tolerated. Nothing could well be chicker than
 the summer girls at church parade. We hear that the Park lane four hundred have taken to bathing in the Sepern- tine, to the exclusion of the disgusted deadbeat.
 All suburbia has gone mad over the | Flipfiap railway at Earls Court, where | the Coney Island dude nightly turns a | cartwheel in company with his best Bowery girl. '''s ,.'s.-, = se | On and after Thursday "'next The | Times will appear as 1-cent yellow | journal. with an illustrated Sunday edition.
 We like the new double -decked stern
 wheel ferryboats that have just de- | buted on the Thames. which is now a businesslke river at last, with Its | fringe Of thirty-story sky-scrapers. | grain elevators and aerial gangways | in place of the obsolete bridges. The baggage check system Is work ing well on all the lines. though there are complaints of the customs regula- | tions at the ports of entry.
 Free lunches are to be obtained at | all the stores and notion counters on l Regent Street and English breakfast | tea" can be had at any Bond Street | temperance joint. The Embankment | will shortly be converted into a row | of dives and dime museums.
 We give. with no reserve. the menu at the Tenniel banquet: Rockaways | claims, bluefish, terrapin, canvass back | duck, canteloupe on ice, popcorn, ice cream soda, and Huggins punch.