Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-07-24
LETTER FROM ABROAD.


LETTER FROM ABROAD.
One of Langdon Party of European Travel
ers Writes, Telling of Life in England
As Viewed by an American-They Saw
King Edward at Windsor Castle-Win
Return Home Poorly Impressed With the
Jingoism of johnnie Bulls Subjects.
Space taken In the news columns Of
the DEMOCRAT last week by the official
proceedings of the county board, crowd
ed out the following descriptive letter
received on the 18th by Mr.. Neil
McKechnie from John Mahon, who
in company with dozen or more
Langdon folks is touring the British
Isles and Europe. The letter is of
considerable length but every word
makes good reading, as will be found by
perusal.
LAKE W1NDMERE. Eng. June %.
This is Sunday morning, the 10Th Of
June. Perhaps I should not be writing
letters, but ever since we landed it has
seemed impossible to get chance to
write. Today we are at Windemere. a
small town in the county OF Westmorland
up in the northwestern part OF England.
ton of West Moore land and is a fair 10
county. 1t Is billy and stony. Away to
r., ho et0 rOoly
comes to the surface giving the hills a
bare and bleak appearance. Down II
the valley and up the hill sides are to be
seen little farms quite picturesque fenced
off with limestone into fields no larger
than garden in North Dakota. Here
the farmer struggles to pay a rent of from
ten shil!ings to two pounds per acre.
We arrived at Windemere last night
and decided to stay over and rest DAP:
l have wandered out here to a little park
/ on the hill and am writing under an old
oak, by the side of little brook that rip
pies over the limestone at my feet. This
is the Lake district and we will stay here
a couple of days and take in as much
scenery as possible, then go on to Scot-
land, where we expect to meet Mr.. Doug
an III Glasgow about theisecond of July.
Mrs. Messler and the HeYwards are with
us an>. so far we have had Il nice time,
From Glasgow we 90 to Edinbnrg, where
We stay for awhile and &C out to liver
ness, over the battle field of Collodan and
down TO Ayr. the Bonrie Doom, ana rs
much OF Burns country us possible. 1t
is just ten days since we landed at Liver
pool and we have seen SO much of inter
est that it Is utterly impossible to tell you
OF it. However, here is an outline OF
what We have been doing To begin with
as we sailed around the south coast ci
ireland, which has a rock bound anG
bleak appearance, our ship came to {
etandstlll and small tug came along
side to take aboard passengers and mail
for Queenstown. Il was here that ]
mailed my first letter to Langdon. Here
we had to say goodbye to our Irish friends
who by the way were jolly lot. W.
stayed but one day in Liverpool, visited
the parks and twelve miles of docks. the
, finest in the world The docks of Liver
pool are allf1oatlpg and rise full ftteer
feet with the tide. We went through
direct to London and we're met by Harr,
Atkinson. He had pleasant places select
; ed for US to stay, only block from Hyde
Park and KensinRtson Gardens. Th,
palace in which Queen Victoria was borr
!, is situated in these gardens and toda!
It's quite modest looking place. Th'
famous Rotten Row is a drive of tw,
miles, between Hyde Park and Kenslng
ton Gardens, where kings and queens
9 lords, dukes and devils ride horseback
There were three or four hundred o
them galloping up and down the ros
D the day we were there. Here we ais
= visited Prince Albert's monumental mag
nifcent memorial. Just across the boule
J. ward is St. James Park and Buckingham
. Palace the present home of King Edwar'
. VII is in this park. He had been up s
i Buckingham Palace and was eapecte
. home the morning we we're there and W
waited au hour to BEE him arrive. Their
p we're lot of blue bloods around to at
tend the coronation and [ noticed whe
> his kingship arrived he had on his bee
clothes and looked fine, bowling and smi
t ing to the cheering crowds, as he passe
~ by accompanied by the queen and nun
Der of foreign representatives. Beside
8 these there was an escort Of guards an
n doctors who rode in front and behlnt
decorated in heavy plated arnor. Hi
b sickness has been an awful disappoin>
e lnent to the people. They had been at
= heavy expense in making preparation fc
q feeding, seating and caring for tho,
y. sands of visitors. London. and in fac
. the whole of England, had been eIabo
D. ateIy decorated aud ready for grand j
n lumlnations. In this part where th
country is billy, preparations had bee
q made for beacon lights on every hi
# top. You can imagine their djsappoin
:, ment when everything was ordered sto]
Il ped, except the dinners the king had pr
j. pared for the poor.
:, We took bus from BuckinghBI
IL Palace to the center of the city, up Pic
h dillay. think it was the greatest ia,
of people ever saw. We visited tt
l. Royal Exchange, the Bank Of England
II the Lord Mayors city residence, the Lol
;, don museum and last, but by no meal
q least, Madam Toussaud's wax works g,
!. hibition. This is one of the finest thing
we have seen in London. Here they hay
n the men and women of note as natural {
e life, though made of wax. They we're s
natural in fact that you would hardl