The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-10


 the feeling of the one who has under , taken in this correspondence to giv
 American readers the latest and newes
 developments in charitable and reform
 work over here: and the fact of tn,
 annual meeting of the Charity Organi
 zatlon Societies of Great Britain being
 held this month in the University towI
 of Cambridge, situate as that town is
 in the midst of charming English seen.
 cry, with no end of characteristic Eng. fish villages all about it, afforded just the opportunity l craved, and made il possible for me, while enjoying pleas
 ure, to still attend to business.
 Cambridge itself, the cap and gown
 part of it. was in a fiutter of appre- l henson. Over the rival University of Oxford there has recently passed one of those periodic waves. of social and moral stringsncy, resembling on a
 small scale the reform spasms which occasionally attack New York city. l Certain rules are to be enforced which
 of late, it appears, have fallen into fin ocuous desuetude" The undergrad" | must now always wear his cap and gown when he appears on the streets in the forenoon, and woe betide him if hereafter he shall dare to dispense with this tell-tale paraphanalia in any walks
 he may take after his evening dinner The point of this is that Oxford is de- termfned to keep it's students out of taverns, billiard rooms, and even res
 taurants, and that the cap and gown
 rule, rigidly enforced, will materially
 aid the Proctor and his spotters, or
 bull dogs" as they are called, in
 bringing this reform to pass. So it is
 at Oxford, and at Cambridge tremors
 of apprehension were felt by tavern
 keepers and others lest a regime of
 equal strictness should be inaugurated
 there. But at any rate the Cambridge
 Spinning House" has had it's day. This was the University Bastile in
 which formerly, without any legal pro- cess, any girl, god or bad, might be incarcerated for the simple offense of being found conversing on the streets with a University man after acertain hour in the evening. What gave this woman's prison it's moral death blow was that some years ago there was im- mured in 1t a girl who, tho a little ven- turesome, was still perfect in virtue and belonged to one of the best families and now in the march of Improvements has the building itself been demolished.
 Incidental to this Cambridge visit was that coveted view of English rural life, with its quaint villages, trim and enrapturing bird songs. But the city followed me even into the country, and the way, in which this was done is so typical of Old Eng land, and will serve so well to intro duce the proceedings of that great | Conference on charities, | that should be culpable if I failed to describe it. In saying that the city | I mean merely that the cor | poration of the city took its way that ! into the country. The Mayor | of Cambridge we.s in his scarlet robes, and the mace bearerfmore gaudy still, was in front of him, while In other car riages were lesser dignitaries. Twelve niles did they journey in this state to he little village of Roach. This set dement, dates back to King John, and, ho' 1t is little more than hamlet now, t was known some hundreds of years lgo as The City of the Seven Church. S." It was, however, no church busi- less that was on foot that day, nor lnything relating to King Johns Mag Ia Charta. It was a simple Horse Fair hat had to be opened and before the hing could start in due form there must be a proclamation of it, with it's precedent 70 Yez" by the Mayor of the
 eighboring University town. This is ecause Cambridge still enjoys, in | a,,I,e rights over that village. In this occurrence there were distinct lggestions of what you meet here
 herever you go-the mustiness eff age, Dt only, but the love of pomp, and t lat attachment of the people to old lstoms which sentimentality is one of 2 ,eir greatest charms, but which in it's s ractiea.l effects, particularly as ap- s fed to trade and commerce, is their | eat national misfortune and is grad 0 ally losing them the markets of the s orld. But over this last named trait o hy should an American shed any p ars, when what is their loss is our b tin? This American didn't. He s arcely, in fact, thought of it when S is antiquated formality first came to tl s notice, so occupied was he with re- s ctions it aroused bearing directly W ,on the object of his visit. b This cavaIcade of dignitaries, having n operly performed its office, was then h
 the return journey toward Cam n idge. The villagers were out in force pl tn all their many children, and te ese interested spectators, l soon b' md, were as much bent on business ol
 on pleasure; for from time inme- To ,rlal the Cambridge corporation in W
 annual visits to Reach has been in ct habit of throwing out newly-coined al mics and ha'pennies as a sort of
 gess to make it's progress. One tf br ,se I got myself; l couldn't help cf king it up, it was thrown so near. az w fortunate I was, for they tell me pr t this is the last coinage that will dy 1T the image of Queen Victoria, and of t if l keep it hundred years or SO on l am still in England I may perhaps ad
 it for a thousand dollars or rlore, la1 | thoughts of personal gain did not ho he least blind me to the significa"ae | WI this proceeding, and it seemed as mf ugh, In the matter or course way IT. stl oh those coins were thrown out and all he eager scramble of the boys and | thi S to get them I had before me as in; } an explanation of why pauperism eff O common in England as any that WI