The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
HOLIDAY FOR ALL ENGLAND.
In These Days Every One Is Travelling
and FrOlicking.

Brooklyn Eagle.
From now until the end of September
this country will be given over almost en-
tirely to the task of holiday making. The
season begins late, ends late, and the whole
Nation takes a hand. The statesman, the
merchant, the manufacturer, the small
shopkeeper. the artisan, the mill hand, the
laborer. all throw off the duties of the day
and loaf, each in his own way and accord
ing to the means at his disposal. Business
is practically dormant. You cannot do
anything out of the ordinary in a business
way, particularly in London, for most of
the principals of the business houses are
away, forgetful of such things as pounds,
shillings and pence. and the affairs of COM
merce are left to drift for a month or six
weeks.
But it is to the north of England where
one must go to see the annual holiday in
full blast. There they prepare for the vaca-
ton in the most methodical and business
like manner. Blackpool, for instance, is
seaside resort in Lancashire, with a nomi-
nal population of 1900, but every day dur
ing the season it contains fully $4,000 peo-
pie. They have an Eiffel tower. a great
Ferris wheel, an aquarium and endless the
shackle affairs which are to be seen at
COney island, but strong, permanent struc-
lures designed to last great many gen.
erations. BlackpOol is the great center of
attraction for the factory hands of the
huge manufacturing districts in the neigh
borhood of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds,
Bradford and Sheffield. The people crowd
there in special trains every day in the
week. A northern factory hand will starve
and pinch and scheme for many months in
order tc be able to go to Blackpool for a
of alc CT 1I1nr
1t is the one delight of those poor, sunless,
underpaid and unhappy wretches who pass
the rest of the year among the dingy, sod
den surroundings OF a northern manufac-
turing town.
In many parts of the Midlands they have
holiday clubs to which thousands of people
subscribe during the greater part of the
year. Then, when the holiday season ar
rives, the officials of the club hire two or
three or four special transit depends
upon the number of members-and off they
go to the seaside. 1t is either Blackpool or
the Isle of Man, the latter an immensely
popular objective point of the Lancashire
''tripper.' The steamers that go to the
Isle Of Man are the fastest in the world.
They do the ninety miles from Liverpool
pier to the landing Stage at Douglas in
something less than three hours. Each
steamer vomits forth it's thousands of ex-
cursionists. nearly all of whom are booked
for the regulation two weeks, and, having
landed them, ohurns back to Liverpool for
more, until finally the hapless little island
of tailless cats is simply overrun with the
population of Lancashire, with its queer
jargon and it's too obvious store clothes.
Expense is no object. Money flows more
freely in the Isle of Man at this time than
it does in a new mining camp. There is
an air of observation-disclosures about
it's three or four towns, which quickly
| takes hold Of the newcomer. Brass bands,
endless, raucous, fiendish brass bands, line
| the beach within sound of each other S
| false harmonies; electric cars ciang noisily
| up and down the parade, thousands-liter-
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| ladies and lassies packed like political
procession parade in close embrace up and
down the streets facing the sea, arms
| about waists and necks in the most unpre-
| tentious manner. AT night the huge bar
rack-like dance halls send forth the bright
| rays of myriads of electric lights to attract
| the dancers, and gayety continues into the
| early dawn. Such is the daily and nightly
programme of the Isle of Man.