The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-31
BROADWAY An)
IN EEaBHAAN
Difference in 1t and the Ave-
nueS Of London.
BIG LOT OF DRUG STORES
One of the First Things That
Strike the Foreigner.
BIG LOT OF DRUG STORES

london has no Broadway like that OF
New york. The streets Of the English
capital are generally Of no great length
and the longest one is broken up by
several names. being known as Uxbridse
Road. oxford Street. Newgate Street
High Holborn. Hoiborn, .Newgate Street
and -Cheapside. IN order to institute a
comparison with Broadway one might
take Piecadilly. Regent Street Fleet
Street, and the Strand, although these
streets do not form q coutAuous thor
oughfare.
The first ride down the entire length
of Broadway is quite impressive to the
Fnglishman. He feels that New YORK
has been made that London has grown
Broadway appears TO him above all things
commercial. constructed for the further
ance of trade and the making of money
To his eyes from this standpoint New
York SENS young and fresh, with its
buildings new and clean. and with no
past-only vigorous present and the
hope OF the future. Tne neight Of the
buildings does not particularly strike hlrl-
for where so many of the buildings are
high none are remarkable. But If he
found Park Row buildings in London he
would indeed be startled.
He finds the traffic along Broadway
very different from that of Picadilly, or
indeed of any street in London The
great difference. of course. lies in the
substitution of electric cars for omnl-
buses. The cars are essentially modern
while the omnibuses of London are sub
stantially the same IS when they We're
first put on the streets some sixty years
ago. save that the roof row has garden
seats facing tbe front of the 'bas, in
stead Of what used to be called the
knife-board two long narrow seats fac
ing outward. Then. too, the motorman
will scof at the Englishman who halls
the car in the middle of the block. while
q bus viii stop anywhere Sometimes
even it VIII wait for a passenger who
halls it fro1n a long distance This gave
rise to the well-kBOwn Punch JOKE,
where a gentleman boarded bus and
announced TO the great amusement of
the passengers, wait a minute, there 5
another lady coming" OF late years,
however. the stopping has become a
theory. as an American who had just
returned from England was complaining
the other day. The bus driver very. ofteo
slows down but does not stop, 50 that nc
who would board the vehicle must catch
held of the rail and spring on the foot
board. old gentlemen and stout ladies
complain bitterly of this But then the
buses are not so generally used as the
cars of New York. Well-dressed men
and women are not SO commonly seen
in 2 bus. They take cabs, and the cabs
are very much cheaper in London than
IN New York; one can ride distance
o. two miles for i SUM equal to twenty
hve cents.
Further contrasting London and New
York the visiting Engiishman notes thai
the streets of the former city are much
more crowded with traffic than are those
Of New York Street-hawkers do rot plA
their trade on Broadway. as they do il
Fleet street and Cheapside, in both OF
which thoroughfares one is petidoned Il
buy roses or violets. cheap songs. boot
laces. mechanical toys, and hundreds OF
other small articles
At first the Londoner on Broadway i:
IL imminent danger OF being run over
It never occurs to him that the rule q
the road could be different. lie waits
Tor the cars on the left-hand side of tht
laid instead of the right ana is ofte5
shouldered oat Of the way by the ener
getie native. He finds. too. a very mark
ed difference between the shops of ReGen
street and those OF Broadway. IN New
York the fashionable shops seem to b
much scat;ered-her "a large. handsom
shop and next door little tobacco store
or there a swell restaurant ana near-h.
little eating-house In London tn
shops are better grouped Regent Street
where are such well-knoWn firms 81
Peter Robinson. Liberty. Robinson