The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-30

in London does not mean a tented
show but simply the intersection of a
number of streets with a little space
for elbow room and a statue or
drinking fountain.
At these circuses too are often found
toilet rooms and lavatories. under
ground places of public comfort to
which the foreign city gives careful
and sanitary provision. We have much
to learn from Europe in this respect.
New York is only beginning to adopt
these public conveniences. Chicago and
Topeka only think of them.
There are no street cars in the heart
of London; not a track mars the drive
way. In fact. strange as it may seem,
while we were daily riding over miles
of streets and avenues, it was not until
our fourth or fifth day in the city that
we even saw a surface street car; this
was out several miles from our hotel.
The street cars, like the buses. are
double-decked. and the fares adjusted
by limits. We used the underground
railways to some extent. The old one
makes a belt line in and around the
city and even under the Thames. The
cars were rather old. dark and dingy,
the trip not particularly pleasant, al
though time was saved
The new underground railway in Lon
don. however, is quite different. The
name of the new road is the Central
Railway of London, but everybody
calls it the "Tuopenny Tube because
one can go anywhere through it for
four cents.
To reach the track one goes down
stairways into a large chamber. all the
corridors and areaWays lined with
White porcelain brick. At the foot of
the steps are several elevators as large
as ROOM They take you down, in
stead of UP, to the level Of the track.
Inc tube itself contains two tracks.
The platform at the side is of ample
proportions. The cars are clean, well
lighted and run at rapid speed.
We got off the bus to call on ]. J.
clause. who is the foreign representa-
tive of the Goss Printing company,
which made the State Journals new
press. l had known Mr.. Clause many
years; he had built and sold me the
fast press used in this office until last
year. 1 had found that whatever he
told me about presses was absolutely
true. | had not seen him for many
years and wanted to pay my respects.
intending to surprise him. We three
all knew him. Walking into his office
we We're the surprised ones. He seemed
10 be expecting US. He had Just re-
celVed letter that morning from his
people in New York, who had written
MIN that we were en- route. The letter
mad evidently been on our steamer. He
arranged to spend the next day with
US; gave us few pointers We start
ed again. alone in London
1t was a short walk to ST Pauls. one
OF the six great cathedrals of the
world. We were an hour or more here.
Interested every minute. This struc-
tuTe, by taking down the encyclopedia
but L VIII save you the trouble, you
Will find is over two hundred years old
and was fifty years in building. The
present church was commenced in 1865
Just after the great fire, which limited
many of the oldest buildings of Lon
don that date After the fire. whether
in revenge or not is not recorded, a tax
was placed on fuel for flames The rate
on coal raised nearly four million dol
lars, which built the cathedral. The
way coal is going up in Topeka now
why can't we tax the barons and have
cathedral to beat st. Pauls and at
tract tourists.
The architect wassthe famous Chris
topher Wren, who received only 81, 900 a
year for his services. a fee which the
designer of an ordinary American
church would look upon with Scorn.
On the interior walls were tablets
with the names of hundreds of Britain's
fallen heroes of land and sea. Here
was the statue and tomb of Lord Mel
son, who said England expects every
man will do his duty and was not
disappointed. Here also, preserved in
marble, was Lord CORVALLIS, who on
one occasion presented a famous Eng
lish sword to General Washington,
which we still preserve with Republic
can gratitude. General Gordon also lies
here in these sacred precincts and near
by the bones of Wellington, whose
grave is commonplace compared with
the magnificent tomb of the Napoleon
whom he crushed.
Next to the church came st. Paurs
Churchyard. a narrow street of shops.
book stalls and cafes. We walked along
Cheapside, took in the store windows
and some of the stores themselves,
which extend along for several blocks
until the street without warning runs
into Newgate. which at the. corner of
Old Bailey. brings up the memory OF
those famous prisons. These names
were used alike both for streets and
tails. Workmen were busy taking down
"Old Bailey" preparing the site for new
business.
The bus took us over the viaduct,
solid street crossing above another,
along Holburn, High Holborn and Ok
ford streets, past a handsome block
lust completed by the Prudential Lie
Insurance company of New Jersey ana
bearing that name.
we got QOWH dl INCsCAi~ - 60
passed by all and into some of the beau
tiful shops. which are stores, in that
part of London.
This brought as to PiccaGilly, an ave-
nue of which every one has heard.
Down the Haymarket. a street not
market place, we noticed the famous
theater of that name. Here was the
Carleton hotel where Chauncey Depew
and other American millionaires We're
stopping. Other thoroughfares, Cock
snur and Charins Cross and Coventry.
seemed like old friends but which we
had traversed before only in print.
Later we went by the Mansion house,
which is not one of the five hundred
hotels. but the splendid office of the
lord mayor, his councilmen. and street
commissioner 1t is large enough for
even Topekas city physician
In the evening we strolled along the