Evening star., 1901-06-08
BIG HOLIDAY CROWDS
All London Went for an Outing on
Whit Monday.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION NEEDED
Historic Churchyards in British
Metropolis Are Disappearing.
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP
special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON. May ., 1901.
Whitsuntide Monday, one Of the four
great bank holidays of England, was eel
ebrated in magnificent weather this year.
and there was a great exodus from central
London.
Places Of popular resort like the Crystal
Palace, Epping Forest. the Alexandria Pal
ace. Kew Gardens-now in their most gio-
rious dress-and Richmond Park were re-
ceiving fresh crowds, almost overwhelm-
ingly large, every hour. The trains on the
underground and suburban railways were
ali overpacked, but they were good-tem-
pered holiday makers. Seventeen Of them
In one railway carriage made for ten read
lily compressed themselves into smaller
space when they were requested to make
room for '1ydy and a byby.'
In the London parks every provision had
been made for a great influx of visitors.
and 1t was specially arranged that bands
should play in the evening. The parks are
never seen to greater advantage than at
this holiday, when the new leaves are not
laden with smoke and dust and the bios
SONS Of the red and white chestnuts. the
laburnum and the lilac have not disap-
peared.
One of the chief lessons taught by these
bank holidays is that a fortune awaits the
providers of cheap, easy and quick transit
to the outlying districts or the country.
There is great future for American rail,
way projectors if they will come here and
get powers to give the people the facilities
which they ought to have.
The older railway companies either can
not or will not do it. The 'twopenny
tube" although on a very small scale as
yet, does it well. The result is that
throughout the day money poured into
their Golfers and their patrons We're car
,;11 1i,r d., IT,,
little time as they were wont to spend in
examining time tables and waiting for
trains on the ordinary railway lines.
Favorable Outing Weather.
Regents Park was more crowded than Is
usual, even on Whit Monday. The splen-
did weather was favorable to picnfcking,
and hundreds of the men who took their
teams to the sixteenth parade of the Lon
don Cart Horse Society had among the
spectators their wives. families. relatives
and friends. In all over 500 horses were
on parade, and prizes to the value OF f400
were distributed. The show as a whole
was highly creditable to the carriers of
London. Early in the afternoon there vas
a general march past, and the Countess of
Jersey distributed the prizes and diplo-
mas. The parade was powerful object
lesson to the owners of the ill-groomed
and badly-treated horses which are every
day unfortunately still to be seen in Lon
don The good humor and splendid be-
havior Of the enormous crowd were most
striking.
There were other ways besides staying
in town in which the holiday-makers
lively near the sea, and special trains
We're run to the seaside resorts on the
southern coast, and these were crammed
to their fullest capacity. Brighton, which
is often designated London-by -the-Sea, was
perhaps the most popular of all the places,
Judging by the number of people who
crowded the various stations from an ear
ly hour. 1t is estimated that at least 10000
trppers went to Brighton, while many
more journeyed to Eastbourne,. Margate,
Ramsgate and Hastings. Another place
of popular resort Is Windsor, and visitors
to the royal borough were permitted by
the king to walk on the East Terrace and
to inspect the state rooms of the castle.
Opportunities for Art study.
If the English do not become an artistic
people it will be their own fault. The op-
portunities for studying the works Of the
great masters, both medieval and modern,
are increasing. and, like most things else
in this world really worth having, these op-
portunites for the most part can be had
without money and without price.
The treasures Of the print room of the
British Museum. which have hitherto been
known only to the art student or collector
are to be thrown open to the public this
week.
About so per cent of the great collection
now ON view in the print room and draw
Ing galleries of the British Museum have
been either left given to the trustees of
the national art treasures. The latest I'M
portant addition to the collection has been
made under the will of Mr.. Henry
Vaughan, who died about year and
half ago.
The prints are arranged in chronological
order and grouped according to nationality
Almost every school and every country are
represented. There are several Michael
Angeles. Leonardes Tintorettos Campag-
nolas, Carpaccios and Andrea del Santos
One of the most important known drawings
of Goya is also here. with excellent ex-
amples of the Dutch and Flemish masters,
including Rembrandt Rubens and Van
Dyck, to say nothing of fine examples of
the French and English schools
Perhaps the gem of the collection is the
"Preta," by Michael Angelo, bought at the
sale of the Earl of Warwick's drawings
Mr.. Colvin the keeper, seems to have oc-
casionally had some very good luck in his
purchases. for it is said that a very fine
drawing by Gainsborough, which is also
one of the gems of the exhibition, was
bought for only f2.
He has also had the good fortune to be
able to restore three missing leaves Of the
picture "Chronicle' of Maso Finiguara
generous motive, had taken out before he
sold the work to the museum. 1t Is well
known that Mr.. Ruskin sometimes spoilt
the value of some of his treasures by TAX
ing out leaves to present them to his draw
ing school at Oxford. or the Sheffield Mu-
scum, other institutions in which he
took a lively interest. Fortunately, the
missing leaves of the Picture Chronicle"
were found among Mr.. Ruskin's papers
after his death.
Historic Churchyard to Go.
Another historic London churchyard Is
about to disappear. AS a new street is to
be made from the Borough High street to
Long Lane, and the direct line crosses the
churchyard Of st. George the Martyr, Lit
tie Dorrit's Church, the order has been
made for the removal of all human remains
deposited there, with view to their Ie-
interment out of town. The church yard
for very many generations received the
bones of the "unfortupate debtors who died
in the Marshalsea and Kings Bench pris-
ons, which were hard by. But several
celebrated Englishmen are known also to
have been buried there. Cocker, the over
rated arithmetician whose name lives in
household expression, was buried In the
church. Edmund Bonner. Bishop of Lon
don, the agent of Queen Mary, died in the
Marshalsea, after ten years of :mprisou-
ment in 1869, and he is buried here, too.
HeEarth's House to BE Preserved,
There is a probability that Hogarth's