Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-26

This Turkish bath will be operated by the
city at a little more than cost price for the
benefit of the public Liverpool already has
public baths, where for few cents you can
have a swim or a steam, first, second and
third-class, according to your pocket.
The city owns many of the warehouses;
1t owns the street cars, and charges from
cents to cents ride, according to dis
lance. 1t has technical schools, public
wash houses, where poor women can go to
laundry their clothes, and it has built a
number of wOrkingmens dwellings, which
ii rents out at little more than cost to the
poor. The ferries crossing the Mersey are
owned by the town of Birkenhead, on the
opposite side. They are well managed, and
at penny fares are making money.
Liverpool Horses.
The business of Liverpool can be best seen
along the wharves. The enormous cargoes
brought here every day are carried through
the city in wagons pulled by draft horses
which have not their equals anywhere.
These are Clydesdales or Shire horses.
They are not so heavy as the largest
Percheron or Norman, but seem much
stronger than either. 1 have never seen
such loads. A single horse will walk off
with from two to five tons with apparent
ease. The one-horse wagons look like bill
lard tables on wheels, and the twO-hOrse
wagons are much larger, some weighing
as much as two tons. The ordinary load
for two horses is seven or eight tons, and,
with the wagon, a team sometimes carries
as much as ten tons through these streets.
l know these statements will be looked
upon as exaggerations in the United States,
but they are true. The ordinary bale of
cotton weighs 400 or $50 pounds. I saw
team carrying thirty bales as one load this
morning, or from six to seven tons. The
bales were piled up to the height of our
hay wagons when in full load at harvest
time. I saw equally large loads of mer-
chandise, tobacco and lumber. The horses
apparently had no trouble in pulling them,
and walked contentedly along. directed by
their drivers, who moved on foot beside
them.
These Shire horses are costly. The price
for the average work animal is from 30 to
100 guineas, from $50 to $500. Some sell
as high as $50 guineas, there being one man
in Liverpool who uses horses only of this
class.
The cart drivers are noted for their care
of their horses. Indeed, it is said, they
treat them much better than they do their
wives. The harness is kept shining, the
skins of the animals are like satin and
their names and tails are often braided.
The hoofs are kept oiled and BACKED and
the legs are washed down several times
daily. The horses are not pushed and
they look uniformly well. On the list Of
May, the time of the draft-horss parade,
the carriers decorate their horses with flow
best team.
The streets of Liverpool leading up from
the docks have tracks of fiagstoneS about
foot wide for the heavier wagons but much
of the hauling is done on streets as rough
as those of New York.
Liverpool in 1902.
I am delighted with Liverpool. 1t is one
of the best built of the English cities and
is more like an American town than many
of the others. Its business blocks are of
three and four stories, made of stone or
brick. One of the finest Office structures is
the White Star buildings, now owned by
the American shipping trust. 1t is a COM
bination of red brick and sandstone sit
uated not far from the docks.
The city post Office of Liverpool is next
to the London post office, the largest in
Great Britain, having cost about a mil
lion dollars to build. 1t is the government
1t there is a government telegraph school.
The telegraphs here belong to the govern
ment, and in this post office the telegra-
piers have their own dining room, with a
kitchen, a scullery and a grocery store
There are pneumatic tubes running from
the telegraph department to the post Of
nee, the different newspaper offices, and
thousands of kilograms which come to the
press daily are thus transmitted more
quickly than by messengers.
Among the other great buildings of Liver
poor are the cotton exchange. where the
brokers meet to buy and sell American and
other cottonS, and st. Georges Hail. which
Is used partly as a court room and partly
for public meetings and concerts In this
hall Is one of the largest organs of the
world. 1t belongs to the city and is PLAYED
twice week for the benefit Of the public
at pence per head. The organ cost $50
600: and 1t has 5000 pipes and los stops,
and 1t is worked by a steam engine in the
vault below the hall
John Bulls Shipping.
have yet to meet a single Englishman
who is plased with the shipping combina-
ton. 1 have talked with people of all
classes and they all look upon 1t as a very
serious thing for Great Britain, and feel
that 1t may mean the loss Of her supremacy