Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-11
KIMBERLEY, SOUTH ARR
Ca, TO MO. VALLEY, la.
An Interesting Letter by a
j Laurie

j Laurie
The street cars are still run by
horses but they are putting in electric
cars. La this Item Lisbon is behind
Naples and Marsacilles which both
have fine electric railroads, but Lisbon
streets are far superior to Naples and
equal ii not better than Msrsacilles.
The people in Lisbon seem to have
more regard for the Sabbath than the
people in Naples. We arrived in both
places on Sunday. In Naples all
places OF business were in full swing
but in Lisbon business houses were
closed with few exceptions. In Ma
pies there seems to be an utter disre
gard for the Sabbath. Lisbon in
stead of being on the coast as it
appears on the map is about ten
miles up the river Tago. This is a
very large river. AT Lisbon we loaded
about 200 tons of cork in its raw state
The cork industry seems to be one of
the greatest industries of the country.
Lisbon was our last stop between
Durham and Rotterdam but still the
worst and most dangerous part of our
journey is yet TO come, which is the
Icruel bay of Biscay, but contrary to
expectations the bay was quite smooth
to what it usually is. 1t is easily
known when ever you get into the bay
as 1T is always much rougher than
other waters. This time 1T was just
trough enough to make it interesting.
After leaving the bay we passed
| through the English channel into the
NORTH sea. llera we had few honls
rough weather but nothing to worry
anyone. One or two of our passengers
felt a little sea sick We arrived at
| Rotterdam on the 25th where we
| changed boats for lIarwich on the
English coast; but we stopped in
| Rotterdam all day SO had chance 20
| look around the city and compare it
with other places we had seen. Well,
/ Rotterdam is a large and busting
Iplace but seems wonderfully out of
thine with cities CT its class: the old
| fcgy ideas in business ways, etc. They
|still run horse cars of the oldest pat
tern. Everything is very cheap, too
cheap to be good one would almost
think, but suppose they are dear
enough when you earn the money i'm
Holland to pay for them. We arrived
at llarwich on the Goth and London
the same day. We left the boat at
llarwich and went by rail to London.
This route brought MS through the
eastern portion of England which rs
very grand but we were travelling by
the continental express which did not
stop between lIarwich and London sc
our chances of taking a good look at
the country were limited.
| Well, here we are i'm London again
but in much different conditions thar
when here last. Now we have two
4 children to look after. | should like
j, to say that looking after children il
4 the busy streets of London is far iron
being pleasant duty. 1t takes ore
the time to keep himself out of the
crush of people, omnibuses, carriages
hacks and wagons, because nothing OF
ITO one stops in London by the ale
of a few personal friends we had Will
Us and policeman occasionally, We
performed this momentuus task, bu
we soon came to the conclusion tina
the city was not what we we're lookin,
for so we hied ourselves forth to
suburban village called Chingford, ONT
of the most beautiful places that
have ever had the pleasure of seeing
1. is half hour ride by tram from
Liverpool street railroad station Whcl
is in the city. Trains run every hal
! hour, day and night.
This village is surrounded by larg,
natural forests. Their forests wer,
bequeathed to the city of London an,
were made public property. Place
for the poor people of London to hav,
their holiday picnicks, etc. They wer
opened and dedicated as such by he
Majesty Qneen Victoria. This is IL,
small park but place of thousands o
acres of land, covered with large tree
in places. Other places open, witt
: nice green grass. On ths open space
, there are swings, merry go-rounds, etc
There is also lake where boats cal
be procured for trille.
ITO be continued \